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HomeMy Public PortalAbout20210809plCC701-32 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: 08/09/2021 Document dates: 06/23/2021 – 07/28/2021 Council Summer Break Set 1 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 30, 2021 10:48 AM To:Council, City Subject:Tesla subsidy CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    On page 5 of the staff report it says We The People are buying for Tesla a $200,000 transformer and then collecting  $2,100 per month in rent.  So we are subsidizing a private company with a $659 BILLION market cap.  Meanwhile, because we don’t tax companies like Tesla, Palantir, Hippo or Amazon — as every other city would do or  does do — we lay off civil servants at Mitchell Park, Lucie Stern and The Art Center such that, for example we won’t rent  out Art Center facilities past 2 pm Saturday or on Sunday because we have no staff to work those events.    Mark Weiss  Sold Chevy  Rides a bike  On Bryant    Sent from my iPhone  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 30, 2021 12:07 AM To:Honky Subject:LINKS CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dr. Simone Gold - The truth about the CV-19 Vaccine     Dr. Simone Gold - The truth about the CV-19 Vaccine Dr. Simone Gold - The truth about the CV-19 Vaccine Click on the link to learn more https://www.bakersfield....    https://www.messenger.com/messenger_media?thread_id=603091960&attachment_id=397251275014635&message_id= mid.%24cAAAAACPyc_iAjPFGq16W6v49T-Zl   3 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 29, 2021 9:41 PM To:Gail Price; Binder, Andrew; Planning Commission; chuck jagoda; Human Relations Commission; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Rebecca Eisenberg; Greer Stone; Council, City; Tanaka, Greg; Raj; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Jonsen, Robert; Betsy Nash; Cecilia; city.council@menlopark.org; GRP-City Council; Joe Simitian; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org Subject:U.N Commission on human rights calls for sweeping action to root out systemic racism CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/world/united‐nations‐human‐rights.amp.html      Sent from my iPhone  4 Baumb, Nelly From:nanci thomander <nanthomander@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 29, 2021 5:14 PM To:Council, City Cc:cinearts@sonic.net Subject:Closing Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    We have received information that Centura Theatres might be closing CineArts Palo Alto Square and wondering what we  can DO to KEEP IT OPEN.  That theater means a lot to us.  With the closure of other Indie theaters, it has been  increasingly hard to find good movies, other than blockbusters, in Palo Alto.  We LOVE going to that theater.  Always  easy parking, close to residential.  It’s a great service to our community.  PLEASE honor the Planned Community zoning  condition and DO WHAT YOU CAN to preserve this theater in this location.    Thank you!  Nanci and Darryl Thomander  La Selva Street  Palo Alto  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Graciela Suarez B. <gracielas@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 29, 2021 1:57 PM To:metambassador.paloalto@gmail.com; Council, City Cc:letters@paweekly.com Subject:Re: Save the Palo Alto Square CinéArts Movie Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear all Is with hope that I write you to save CineArts Movie Theater in Palo Alto. This is almost our last source of excellent programing of good movies and Opera showings direct from The Met. Not saving the Theater that for a very long time has serviced the community and that it is of extreme convenience for us in the retirement group will create a cultural void. I even drive all the way from San Jose with three other people to watch the very special programming they provide.    I urge you to save the Palo Alto Cine Arts, please consider the impact that this closure will have. We need more places like this to enjoy in a safe space the arts we love to watch!    Thanks for listening  Hope you save the Theater    Graciela Zadrozny    6 Baumb, Nelly From:Jo Ann Mandinach <joann@needtoknow.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 29, 2021 12:50 PM To:Council, City; Kou, Lydia; Burt, Patrick; Tanaka, Greg; Stone, Greer; DuBois, Tom; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Cormack, Alison Subject:Save CineArts Theater! A Theater is REQUIRED THERE! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council, It's my understanding -- that of many others -- that a theater is required in the space now occupied by CineArts. Having a theater there even though it "doesn't pencil out" was a condition under which the landlords were granted the right to put in more profitable office space. PLEASE do your job and require them to keep the CineArts theater as first choice or another theater as second choice. WHY must the residents constantly pressure Council to pressure City Staff to do their jobs? How long did it take before they began imposing fines on the Edgewood landlords until they FINALLY honored their promise to put in a grocery?? Stop turning Palo Alto into a sterile office park with the same mass stuff you find elsewhere for 1/10th the price. We value independent cinemas like Cine Arts. Most sincerely, Jo Ann Mandinach Palo Alto, CA 94301 7 Baumb, Nelly From:L J <lynnanjohnson@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 29, 2021 12:13 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: Charleston-Arastradero Corridor - Thank you! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members,     We live in BP II, and want to thank you very much for funding for the final phase of the Charleston‐Arastradero Corridor  project. Especially last year during Covid, we appreciated having safer bike lanes to use, and will be grateful when the  project is extended to include the crossing at El Camino. The whole corridor is SO much better than it was several years  ago.    Now that school is in session, we see lots of students biking to school (hopefully the numbers have gone up!) which is  great!    Thank you!!      Lynn A. Johnson  Willmar Drive  8 Baumb, Nelly From:Winter Dellenbach <wintergery@earthlink.net> Sent:Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:55 AM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Square Theater Article CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Who is leading the talks with Hudson on Council and staff? The theater must remain with a different operator as has  been achieved before with the City’s intervention.   Thanks ‐   Winter Dellenbach    https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/06/29/cinarts‐a‐haven‐for‐local‐cinephiles‐permanently‐ shutters#comment_form    Shared via the Google app  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Palo Alto Renters Association <paloaltorenters@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 9:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:Eviction Moratorium Extended!! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Thank you to everyone who wrote emails, made phone calls, and reached out to neighbors and friends about extending the eviction moratorium! As of tonight, the State Assembly and State Senate have passed the extension. All that's left now is for Gavin Newsom to sign the bill, which are confident he will do. This bill extends the eviction moratorium and adjusts the rent relief program for all Californians! Click here to learn more about what's in the bill and what it means. If you're one of the 1.4 Million renters in California who aren't caught up on rent, get to housing housingiskey.com to learn how to get help. And while we can't help distribute the rent relief funds, please email us if you're not sure what to do next. As neighbors, we're here!   ‐‐   Palo Alto Renters Association   *All Emails monitored by Steering Committee Members*  Not interested in renters stuff? Unsubscribe here    Facebook.com/RentersofPA  twitter.com/RentersofPA  And the web: https://bit.ly/PARAweb    10 Baumb, Nelly From:Alice Smith <alice.smith@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 5:04 PM To:Council, City Subject:Library hours CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    I urge you to open the library full‐time again. It’s time to have normalcy returned to Palo Alto. The public library is a  major asset and it’s not being fully utilized.    This is for the benefit of all Palo Alto residents .  11 Baumb, Nelly From:jason strubing <skateworkslosaltos@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 4:26 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: Greer Skatepark Planning CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,     Just following up here to see if anyone got a chance to take a look at this yet.    Regards,  ‐Taylor    On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 10:00 AM jason strubing <skateworkslosaltos@gmail.com> wrote:  Hello Palo Alto City Council,    This is Taylor Smith, manager of Skateworks Skateboard Shop in Los Altos and 30 year resident of Palo Alto.    It has recently come to my attention that the plans for a new skatepark in Palo Alto would potentially include partial or  full demolition of the historic Greer Bowl.     Greer Bowl is what put Palo Alto "on the map" in the greater skateboard world and holds a special place in the hearts  of Bay Area skateboarders. It has been featured in hundreds of skateboard magazines and videos, and is a global  destination due to it being one of the last remaining historic "second generation" parks.    As someone who learned to skate in Greer Park 22 years ago and continues to use the park 3‐4 times a week, I would  hope that the significance of Greer Bowl and the thoughts of residents and current users would be included in any  future plans.    I am a current Palo Alto resident/voter/taxpayer and manager of the closest skateboard business in proximity to Greer  Park. I would love to be included in any ad hoc planning committees and further meetings in regards to the new  skatepark.    There are plenty of other ways to achieve the goals of the proposed new skatepark without destroying a historic and  beloved site, and I would like to help in figuring out the best way to achieve that.    Please let me know what next steps I should take!    Regards,  ‐Taylor  12 Baumb, Nelly From:lchiapella@juno.com Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 3:52 PM To:Council, City Cc:mimi.wolf@gmail.com; Glanckopf, Annette; Furman, Sheri Subject:East Palo Alto or Midtown Palo Alto CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Council Members:    Are we in East Palo Alto asked an acquaintance from Los Altos Hills when we crossed Oregon Expressway at Middlefield  Road?      No wonder!   The tree lined street disappears, weeds often abound in Midtown commercial area and city park strips,  trash litters the city park strip, and a gross overflowing garbage can with weeks of trash stands at the corner of  Middlefield and Colorado Avenue.    Do none of you notice the distinct change of streetscape  in this area?    I feel sorry for the businesses on the four corners of Middlefield and Colorado Avenue who have done such a good job of  improving the appearance along Middlefield Road.   Meanwhile, some of their adjacent scofflaw neighbors remove  trees, landscape, and irrigation.    Enforcement and/or responsiveness by the City has been fruitless.    Apparently Chase Bank and Safeway‐Albertsons do  not have the money to pay the water bill and maintain trees and landscape.  The City of Palo Alto appears not to have  the money or will for effective enforcement.   Midtown residents formed a cleanup crew to remove trash and weeds and  to replant City planters.      I want to thank Alison Cormack for her effort to help Midtown residents clean up the area, and I also  thank Midtown  Residents Association, Mimi Wolfe, and TBK for their efforts in the cleanup and pickup of garbage in the area.    Sincerely,    Lynn Chiapella    P. S.  A BIG thank‐you to whomever organized the major cleanup for the grand opening of the Teen Center on June 26,  2021.  13 Baumb, Nelly From:Mickey McCauley <mickey.mccauley@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 3:48 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep California Avenue Car-Free! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto City Council,     I am writing as a neighborhood resident to exhort you to preserve the barricades around California Avenue. Keeping this  street restricted to pedestrian use has been a massive boon for individuals and local business alike. It offers a walkable  oasis to restaurant goers with ample nearby parking. It provides businesses the opportunity to expand their dining  options and offer increased outdoor seating. Reopening the street to cars would destroy the wonderful ambience that  has emerged over the past few months. As the council is sensitive to the harmful effects of pollution and climate change,  it should take steps toward walkability and bikeability like this street closure (I am also very much in favor of installing a  protected bike line on El Camino Real, to the extent the Palo Alto City Council has jurisdiction over such matters).    Thanks very much for your consideration,  John ("Mickey") McCauley   14 Baumb, Nelly From:Erik Gutfeldt <gutfeldt@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 1:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:Love the closed sections of California Ave and University Ave. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    City Council,    I want to let City Council know how much I enjoy the closed section of California Ave. It feels more like a place to  accommodate humans, rather than a car centric development that happens to support people. It feels so much more  vibrant and inviting. Since Cal Ave stops at the tracks, and new parking structures behind the south side businesses, not  to mention the existing structures on the north side, there isn't really a need for cars to go down Cal Ave.    I haven't spent as much time on the closed section of University. The times I've headed downtown, I see the same sort  of inviting vibrancy that was not the case before. It's a bit more complicated, since it is a through street, but cars seem  to be making do with Litton and Hamilton. Even when University was open, it was often more efficient to drive on  parallel streets.    I know the businesses have seen a decline in customer foot‐fall, but I suspect that is pandemic related. I know personally  I have reduced my in‐person shopping to protect myself and my family. That will change with vaccination and general  reduction of Covid cases.    I would love to see these changes become permanent. Please consider it.    Sincerely,    Erik Gutfeldt  2130 Birch St  Palo Alto, CA  resident since 1985  15 Baumb, Nelly From:Nancy Moss <nancymoss@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 1:35 PM To:Council, City Subject:Police Department contracting out of alarm services CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  City Council: I understand from the contracted vendor, CryWolfServices, that you, as City Council members, have collectively personally approved the language of the threatening letter dated June 23, 2021, concerning late fees ($20) and failure to renew fees ($250), along with a complicated formula for increased fees for non-payment over time. I received my letter in today’s mail (June 28). I canceled my City of Palo Alto alarm permit when I received the original notice that the service had been contracted out ((March 2021, I believe), and disconnected alarm forwarding through my own vendor, Simplisafe. There is no excuse for the threatening tone of this notice of Alarm Program Changes. My guess is that many recipients are seniors like me, some of whom will have trouble decoding the legalese. Using alarming language to alert people about payments due for alarm services is no way to proceed in a civilized community. Please address this citizen-unfriendly process. Sincerely, Nancy Moss Palo Alto resident  16 Baumb, Nelly From:Audrey Gold <audreygold@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 10:09 AM To:Council, City Subject:Thank you for funding the C-A Plan CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear City Council,    Thank you so much for funding Phase 3 for the Charleston / Arastradero complete streets improvements.       This will benefit many students that bike and walk to Fletcher, Gunn and the Mitchell Park Library,  park and community  center.       This project has been in the works for many years and it will be exciting to see this important section completed.      Regards,  Audrey Gold  PTA volunteer               17 Baumb, Nelly From:Ann Balin <alafargue@mac.com> Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 8:56 AM To:Council, City Subject:Why is this not enforced in Palo Alto? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Bay Area cities prepare to restrict gas leaf blowers. A statewide ban could be next  https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/These‐Bay‐Area‐cities‐are‐preparing‐to‐restrict‐16274563.php      Sent from my iPhone  18 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 8:30 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Marin school board backs ethnic studies resolution CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>  Date: Mon, Jun 28, 2021   Subject: Marin school board backs ethnic studies resolution  Dear Neibors and Friends,    Ethnic studies opportunities in k‐12 schools and Ethnic Studies Departments in colleges/universities  are essential building blocks to end systemic racism and social inequlities in our society.  Allan            https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/27/marin‐school‐board‐backs‐ethnic‐studies‐ resolution/?utm_email=5471747C047CF4F134FEE503FE&g2i_eui=sqnKQBf51kRyOuCrHJAwNHEFBT0Trr OE&g2i_source=newsletter&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fww w.mercurynews.com%2f2021%2f06%2f27%2fmarin‐school‐board‐backs‐ethnic‐studies‐ resolution%2f&utm_campaign=bang‐mult‐nl‐pm‐report‐nl&utm_content=curated  Marin school board backs ethnic studies resolution Keri BrennerJune 27, 2021 at 2:52 p.m. To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the InLogan Miroon to keepoff during graduationNovato HigNovato on2021. (SherLaVars/MarJournal) Logan Miro holds his cap on to keep it from blowing off during Novato High’s graduation ceremony at Novato High School in Novato on Friday, June 11, 2021. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal) Marin education officials have moved a step closer to affirming the value of offering ethnic studies programs in local high schools. 19 The Marin County Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a resolution supporting the concept — both at the state level and in Marin. The state model ethnic studies curriculum was approved in March; the county’s version is still in the draft stages. “It is crucial that the lessons taught in all high schools are indicative of the experiences and stories of all students and more specifically reflective of the racial and cultural diversity present in Marin County,” the resolution says. Board members Felicia Agrelius, Curtis Robinson, Marilyn Nemzer, Patricia Warren, Patricia Garbarino and David Hellman voted to approve the resolution. Clairette Wilson was absent. The vote came after trustees agreed to an amendment to “encourage the involvement of students and area youth” in developing Marin’s model ethnic studies curriculum. The amendment followed public comments from Marin youth leader Samantha Ramirez. “Students of color need to be able to dictate what they need to see in Marin’s ethnic studies classes, because they’re the ones impacted by the inequities in our education system,” Agrelius said after the meeting. “Students and teachers of color should lead the way in developing ethnic studies programs.” Statewide, the curriculum includes model programs in four main ethnic groups: Native Americans, African Americans, Latino Americans and Asian Americans. There are also specific lesson plans addressing the experiences of four other groups: Jewish Americans, Sikh Americans, Arab Americans and Armenian Americans. While its use is not mandated, the model curriculum is intended to supply local school districts with the background, ideas and examples to begin local discussions on expanding ethnic studies offerings, state Superintendent Tony Thurmond said when it was approved in March. “California’s students have been telling us for years that they need to see themselves and their stories represented in the classroom,” Thurmond said. “Today’s historic action gives schools the opportunity to uplift the histories and voices of marginalized communities in ways that help our state and nation achieve racial justice and create lasting change.” The draft Marin version, which is still being constructed, includes the same main four ethnic groups as the state. In addition, the Marin model draft includes a 20 separate lesson plan program to combat anti-Semitism. The anti-Semitism focus has been a strong issue of concern in Marin because a number of Jewish students were targeted in a series of Instagram postings last year. Jan La Torre-Derby, a veteran Marin educator who was just named interim superintendent at Novato Unified School District, and Amie Carter, assistant superintendent in the Marin County Office of Education, have been working on the Marin draft model, which was not available for Tuesday’s board meeting. Agrelius said the county should consider adding sample lesson plans on Islamophobia to help any Marin Muslim students who might also feel targeted by hate groups. “It is necessary to teach students about the oppression that Muslim people face in Marin County and around the world,” she said. Ken Lippi, an assistant superintendent in the Marin County Office of Education, said any school district that wishes to add content already approved by the state — such as lesson plans for Arab Americans, for example — will be free to do so. Both the state and Marin ethnic studies efforts come as the state Legislature is debating a law that would make such programs a mandatory high school graduation requirement by 2029-30. If approved, high schools would need to add some version of the programs by 2025- 26 in order to offer them to ninth-graders who will graduate by 2029-30. The bill to mandate ethnic studies for high school graduation is still being considered in committee in the state Senate. 21 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Monday, June 28, 2021 2:08 AM To:esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; Mayor; Mark Standriff; Council, City; grinellelake@yahoo.com; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; Cathy Lewis; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; leager; margaret-sasaki@live.com; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Big report: Neighborhoods becoming MORE segregated. Kill single fam.zoning CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 1:59 AM  Subject: Fwd: Big report: Neighborhoods becoming MORE segregated. Kill single fam.zoning  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 4:59 PM  Subject: Big report: Neighborhoods becoming MORE segregated. Kill single fam.zoning  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                                   Sun, June 27, 2021                    Doug‐  Not to upset you, but listen to this.  This is now a BIG movement across the US.                  https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/podcasts/kcbs‐in‐depth‐288/whats‐making‐the‐bay‐area‐more‐segregated‐ 493881390           They say that after CCs and County Boards of Sups kill the single family zoning laws, that then the market would take  over.                   What does that mean? It means that money talks.  A big developer with billions would come into a  neighborhood of single family homes in Fresno and pay $100,000 over the market value of four houses on the end of a  block. Demolish them and put up a six‐story apt. building with 12 units per floor. 72 units. The rent would soon allow  them to recoup the $400,000 they over paid to get the property.     22                 I will resist this. I think that the millions of people who B a home in a single family neighborhood should start  serving notice on Mayors, members of CCs, members of Bds. of Sups, members of legislatures, Governors and Presidents  that we have the ballot and we will replace them if they do this.                     L. William Harding                  Fresno, Ca.  23 Baumb, Nelly From:Stephen Rock <ser84@caa.columbia.edu> Sent:Sunday, June 27, 2021 6:08 PM To:Council, City Cc:Judy Rock Subject:Palo Alto Square Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please do all you can to keep the Palo Alto Square Movie Theaters Open.  They show films not seen in other theaters  nearby.  The Icon theaters in Mountain View are horrible places to watch a film since most of the seats are much too  close to the screen.    Steve Rock    Palo Alto    24 Baumb, Nelly From:Kathleen Joynes <kathjoynes@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 27, 2021 4:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:CineArts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  What can be done to save our favorite theater?   25 Baumb, Nelly From:Arnout Boelens <a.m.p.boelens@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 27, 2021 11:48 AM To:Council, City Subject:Thanks for approving Charleston-Arastradero construction CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council members,    We would like to thank you for approving the construction of the final phase of the Charleston‐Arastradero corridor  project. We use this street often and are happy we'll finally be able to safely cross Middlefield Rd and El Camino Real on  our bikes with our daughter.    Kind regards,    Nicole, Arnout, and Ava Zoeller Boelens  26 Baumb, Nelly From:Judy McCarthy <jcmbiker@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 27, 2021 11:27 AM To:Council, City Cc:cinearts@sonic.net Subject:CineArts Theater at Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    To Whom It May Concern,    I have long enjoyed hearing/seeing/feeling  the wonderful Metropolitan Opera HD Presentations on both Wednesday  and Saturdays  at the CineArts of Palo Alto Square.  I hope there is some way to continue this offering.  It has been a glorious outing for many ‐especially!‐elderly opera enthusiasts over the years.  I pledge my attendance.    Thank you,  Judy McCarthy  Palo Alto Resident  27 Baumb, Nelly From:Carol Ach <carol@carolachcpa.com> Sent:Sunday, June 27, 2021 10:42 AM To:Council, City Subject:How can Cinearts theater be saved ? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    For years and years, I’ve enjoyed interesting movies and fabulous Met operas at this theater. It’s closing has left a real  hole in my life.    Could we find out what the « break‐ even » # of patrons would be and find a way of getting a commitment of ticket  purchases to achieve that # so the theater could remain open?    Sincerely,  Carol Ach    Sent from Carol Ach's iPhone  28 Baumb, Nelly From:eswent@sbcglobal.net Sent:Sunday, June 27, 2021 8:43 AM To:Council, City Cc:Eleanor Swent Subject:cine-arts theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  PLEASE save the Cine Arts theater at Palo Alto Square. Eleanor Swent  620 Sand Hill Road #200 G  Palo Alto, CA  94304‐2625  650‐323‐1017    29 Baumb, Nelly From:Bruce Adornato <adornato@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 27, 2021 3:48 AM To:Council, City; cinearts@sonic.net Subject:Save Cinearts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council, Save Cinearts theater. It is well attended and an important community resource, especially for seniors.   ‐‐   bruce adornato md    30 Baumb, Nelly From:Keri Wagner <keriwagner@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 27, 2021 1:24 AM To:Council, City; City Mgr Cc:Keri Wagner Subject:Thank you for approving Charleston/Arastradero! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Members and Mr Shikada — Thank you so much for approving and funding the construction of the  final phase of the Charleston/Arastradero project!  As you know, the improvements for bikes and pedestrians at the  intersection of El Camino are critically important to the safety of this heavily‐used bike/ped corridor. I’m so grateful  because these improvements will allow many reluctant cyclists and pedestrians to use this route, and many parents will  feel more comfortable allowing their children to walk and bike.    — Keri Wagner    311 Edlee Ave  650‐740‐7964  31 Baumb, Nelly From:Estee greif <eng94305@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 8:19 PM To:Council, City Cc:cinearts@sonic.net Subject:How to save CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    To the City council members,    Please share with us a way we can save ‐ prevent the closing of CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square.    There are very few places in our community the unite us with a common place to be seen and visit friends and  community members. It provide us of some relieve of daily life and entertainment, near home especially for elderly that  driving far is difficult to do.    We love the quality of movies and events this place provide us, please let us know how not to close it, and how you can  help us doing so.    Best regards, a community member  Estee Neman Greif‐ Stanford  32 Baumb, Nelly From:Clint Luna <clintjluna@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 7:24 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    ‐Clint      Sent from my iPhone  33 Baumb, Nelly From:bill Powar <bill@thepowars.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 5:23 PM To:City Mgr; Council, City Subject:Solar installation permits CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  It was with a great deal of consternation that I read the recent report in the Palo Alto Weekly concerning the  problems with solar installation permits. I have been considering putting in solar for our house in light of the 3  major power outages we have experienced this year at our house. I have attempted to get bids but have not  had much success as many contractors refuse to do business in Palo Alto.  Then I read about the council's  interest in installing a fiber‐optic backbone. I think the city should fix existing problems before spending  money on new developments that are bound to have their own problems given the city's inability to deal with  the problems of the existing systems not to mention the bureaucratic nightmares caused by many members of  city staff as evidenced by the problems with getting solar permits.    Bill Powar  1310 Emerson Street  34 Baumb, Nelly From:Virginia Smedberg <virgviolin@hotmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 4:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:CineArts theater threatened closure CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members:    I am writing because I am concerned that Century Theaters has decided to close the CinéArts Theater at Palo  Alto Square, in spite of the fact that having a theater at this location was a condition of the Planned  Community zoning.  I don't know what the contract with Century contains, but somehow we need to ensure  that when we make rules, they get followed.    And we need a theater like that!    Sincerely,  Virginia Smedberg  441 Washington Ave  Palo Alto            35 Baumb, Nelly From:Betsy Franco <franco.betsy@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 4:40 PM To:Council, City Cc:greg@gregtanaka.org; cinearts@sonic.net Subject:Cinearts Theater at Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To the Palo Alto City Council, I am writing to ask you to do everything you can to keep The Cinearts Theater at Palo Alto Square open. This city needs a balance of the arts and technology with all the space tech takes up these days. We need to keep the artistic vestiges that are part of the heritage of Palo Alto. In addition, very importantly, having a theater at this location was a condition of the Planned Community zoning. This theater has been very important to me and my family and friends. The movies there provide entertainment, education, solace, and inspiration for us. The theater shows first run features and independent movies that are not shown other places. It’s in a central location with good parking. Let's keep Cinearts Theater at Palo Alto Square, an iconic theatre at the heart of the cultural scene in Palo Alto. Sincerely, Betsy Franco   ‐‐   www.betsyfranco.com  www.twitter.com/francosmom  Naked (Gallery Books, Simon & Schuster), illustrated by Tom Franco  Metamorphosis, Junior Year (Candlewick) audiobook James & Dave Franco, drawings Tom Franco, an EB Studios film   A Spectacular Selection of Sea Critters (Millbrook Press)  To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   36 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 3:10 PM To:Joe Simitian; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Planning Commission; Jeff Rosen; Council, City; Jeff Moore; chuck jagoda; Human Relations Commission; city.council@menlopark.org; rebecca@winwithrebecca.com; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Cecilia; Raj; DuBois, Tom; Greer Stone; Tanaka, Greg; ParkRec Commission Subject:San Jose Police Try To Rein In Violent Encounters | The Marshall Project CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    FYI:  https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/23/violent‐encounters‐with‐police‐send‐thousands‐of‐people‐to‐the‐er‐ every‐year      Sent from my iPhone  37 Baumb, Nelly From:Ken Joye <kmjoye@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 3:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:thank you CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    This week, the Charleston/Arastradero project moved forward.  I recognize that this budget cycle required a lot of  contortions on the part of staff and the Council, simply wish to say thank you for bringing the project one step closer to  completion.    appreciatively,  Ken Joye  Ventura neighborhood    Sent from a device which thinks it types better than I do  38 Baumb, Nelly From:Mary Anne Deierlein <maryannedeier@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 2:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Thank you! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council members,     Thank you so very much for  your approval and support of the completion of the Charleston ‐ Arastradero school  corridor traffic calming plan and implementation of all phases.    It is a project near and dear to my heart as I have been involved since our earliest talks with Joe Kott around the turn of  the century (!!). Long time coming, whew, much like the new pedestrian bridge to the bay lands which I brought up in  our earliest new JCC building and traffic planning meetings in 2001.     It takes a village and decades of stewardship to get things done here. Kudos to all residents, present and past, who have  worked so tirelessly with you all over the decades to reach the finish line.    Thank you for you all you time and consideration on thus and all matters.    Mary Anne Deierlein   318 Parkside Dr  Palo Alto, CA 94306  659‐387‐4630  ‐‐   Sent from my iPhone  39 Baumb, Nelly From:pennyellson12@gmail.com Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 2:24 PM To:Council, City Subject:Thank you. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Honorable City Council,    I am writing with gratitude for your votes earlier this week to approve funding for the Charleston‐Arastradero Plan  funding and construction contract last week.  The completion of this important project improves safety and operations  for all street users:  people who walk, bike, drive and use transit.      With these changes,  Charleston‐Arastradero, a CoPA designated School Commute Corridor serving eleven public and  private K‐12 schools and the only direct east/west route connecting the bay trails to SRP and biking destinations in the  foothills south of Oregon Expressway, will finally work better for us all.     Thank you.     Very Gratefully,    Penny Ellson    To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.AVG logo   This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software.  www.avg.com       ~ -- 40 Baumb, Nelly From:NTB <aarmatt@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 2:05 PM To:Council, City Subject:Approval for the completion of Charleston- Arastradero Corridor Project CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To the City Council,     With tears in my eyes, I write to thank you for approving completion of the Charleston‐Arastradero Corridor Project. As  a member of the Stakeholders Committee from the very beginning, I never thought I’d see this day.     A simple “Thank you” doesn’t seem enough, but please know how heartfelt it is. Just wish Betsy Allyn, a fellow  Stakeholder who represented Greenacres 2, was here to mark this day. Sadly she died before the project was  completed. I know she would have been pleased.     Again, thank you.     Sincerely,    Nina Bell  Greenacres 1  41 Baumb, Nelly From:Nancy <ngkrop@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 1:35 PM To:Council, City Subject:Thank you! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council     Thank you so much for approving the C‐A Plan Construction (FY2022  budgeted funding and construction contract)!!!     I do think you are saving lives by approving this project final phase.     Nancy Krop  Barron Park resident    42 Baumb, Nelly From:Tamar Ravid <travid@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 12:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: FW: [Save PA Square CinéArts] Save the Palo Alto Square CinéArts Movie Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Good Morning  I'm also very upset to hear about the theater closure. It is my favorite cinema and I have many good memories going  there. I hope the city will be able to help in keeping it open.  Many thanks  Tamar Ravid       From: Arthur Keller <cinearts@sonic.net>  Subject: [Save PA Square CinéArts] Save the Palo Alto Square CinéArts Movie Theater  Date: June 23, 2021      Century Theatres made the decision to close CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square.  We remind the City  that having a theater at this location was a condition of the Planned Community zoning.      Send a message to city.council@cityofpaloalto.org asking how the theater can be saved.  Bcc  cinearts@sonic.net on your message.     Write letters to the editor.  The Palo Alto Weekly’s email address is letters@paweekly.com and letters  should be under 300 words.  The Palo Alto Daily Post’s email address is letters@padailypost.com and  letters should be under 250 words.  The papers ask you to include your name, address and phone  number in your message.  Please forward or bcc cinearts@sonic.net your message.     Now is the time to act!     Best regards,  43 Arthur Keller  on behalf of the Committee to Save the Palo Alto Square CinéArts Movie Theater     _______________________________________________  SaveCineArts mailing list  SaveCineArts@lists.sonic.net  https://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/savecinearts     44 Baumb, Nelly From:Kirsten Flynn <kir@declan.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 12:49 PM To:Council, City Subject:Arastradero Charleston Corridor Improvement CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Honorable City Council,    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.      I so appreciate your vote to approve the budget with the final phase of this project funded!  Thank you also for  approving the contract to start construction on the final phase.      I have been working for bike safety since my son entered Barron Park School, the first year it was open as a  neighborhood school, 1998.  I have attended Safe Routes to School meetings, volunteered at Bike Rodeos, participated  in City/School Traffic committee meetings, tabulated data for bike counts, handed out raffle tickets for Pedaling for  Prizes.      My son is now 30, and still bikes for transportation to and from work, and uses that corridor.    You have heard from me on the topic above on more than one occasion ;‐)    I am delighted by your vote.  Our children thank you, adult commuters thank you, and our planet thanks you for making  low carbon commuting a priority.    Sincerely,  Kirsten A Flynn    home/land- 650-855-9464 cell- 650-387-3329 kir@declan.com     45 Baumb, Nelly From:Jacqueline Johnson <jj2johnson@hotmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 11:48 AM To:Council, City Subject:PA Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council‐‐Please. . . .let's figure out a way to save P.A. Square Theatre‐‐we love it  and regularly attend.   Jacqueline Johnson  46 Baumb, Nelly From:Tracy Van Ligten <tracyvl@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 8:27 AM To:Council, City Cc:cinearts@sonic.net Subject:Save the Cinearts Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please save the Cinearts Theater in Palo Alto Square. The City council had agreed to help save this in the past and we  need this community treasure more than ever. It shows many independent films for adults. If it  closes there won’t be a  place to see these kind of films on the mid‐peninsula (a place with many empty nesters and retired people with ample  means to go to the movies!) Sincerely Tracy Van Ligten    Sent from my iPhone  47 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 9:41 PM To:chuck jagoda; Roberta Ahlquist; Binder, Andrew; Planning Commission; Jeff Moore; Council, City; rebecca@winwithrebecca.com; Jeff Rosen; city.council@menlopark.org; Tony Dixon; Human Relations Commission; Greer Stone; DuBois, Tom; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Stump, Molly; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Tanaka, Greg; Raj; Joe Simitian; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; ParkRec Commission; Cecilia Taylor; Jay Boyarsky Subject:Sf Crisis intervention teams -why not reallocated police funds in Palo Alto for several crisis intervention teams CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://www.kron4.com/news/bay‐area/heres‐how‐sfs‐crisis‐team‐responds‐to‐mental‐health‐calls      Sent from my iPhone  48 Baumb, Nelly From:Michael Morganstern <m_morgan@pacbell.net> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 2:36 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr Subject:Vaccination Requirement for all City Employees CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I would suggest that for public safety, that the City of Palo Alto follow San Francisco's lead by requiring all city employees to be vaccinated. This would be a great service to the people of our city and the safety of the residents and employees.     Sincerely,  Michael Morganstern  567 Lincoln Ave  Palo Alto, CA 94301  49 Baumb, Nelly From:sandie anderson <sandieandy@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 12:07 PM To:Council, City Subject:Opening of University Avenue on July 3rd - close on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays - thanks CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear esteemed City Council Members, I appreciate all you do. As an active customer of many business establishments on University Avenue, Palo Alto, I understand the issues faced by many of the businesses if University Avenue were to be re-opened. As such, I think a compromise to close University Avenue only on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays would enable more families to stroll with their children and pets, and enjoy street dining, shopping, etc. Those who prefer only shopping and want to avoid the crowds can enjoy having the open street and more available parking on Mondays through Thursdays. Thanks and warmest regards, Sandie Anderson 50 Baumb, Nelly From:Michelle Doan <michelledn1005@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 11:44 AM To:Council, City Subject:Keep University ave. open please CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,      I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. It’s truly essential because it provides more walking space and this is so important to mental health.     Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Sincerely,     Michelle Doan‐Marinov   51 Baumb, Nelly From:ellen snider <evsnider@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 11:28 AM To:Council, City Subject:Save the theatre CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    What can we do as theatre goers to help save this theatre.  We are seniors and love that it is easy for us to get to it and  park.    Sent from my iPad  52 Baumb, Nelly From:ellen snider <evsnider@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 11:27 AM To:Council, City Subject:CineArts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    We support keeping this neighborhood theatre open.   We hope you will see how it is the only theatre in this area.    Sent from my iPad  53 Baumb, Nelly From:Palo Alto Renters <paloaltorenters@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 10:25 AM To:Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Burt, Patrick; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Kou, Lydia; Stone, Greer; Cormack, Alison; Tanaka, Greg Subject:Re: Extend the Eviction Moratorium CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Thanks so much for considering a special meeting for next week. We are very happy to see that the State has extended  the Moratorium through September: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/06/25/governor‐newsom‐legislative‐leaders‐ announce‐eviction‐moratorium‐extension‐increased‐compensation‐for‐rent‐ relief/?fbclid=IwAR2xv6x2N5S1RLowGh3Pd0F_7x1RxpwVNoeY_Y‐mZIj0VYy‐nTfAAZBU‐tQ         On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 5:19 PM Palo Alto Renters <paloaltorenters@gmail.com> wrote:  Dear Palo Alto City Council,      The Palo Alto Renters Association is a volunteer‐led group of renters who aim to support renter protections and  increase renter voices in the civic landscape. We're glad to see that you have included a discussion around the Eviction  Moratorium in the agenda item around lifting the state of emergency.     First, we were disappointed to see that staff had not included the Law Foundation's letter, recognizing that local  jurisdictions can legally apply local protections in some situations. This was part of the Santa Clara County Board of  Supervisors agenda when they discussed the moratorium extension in their meeting this morning. We would have  preferred to see the county include all cities in their extension but unfortunately they have chosen only to cover  unincorporated areas of the County. They have said that their Counsel will work with cities that choose to move  forward though.     The state has only distributed 2% of their rent relief funds so we know that renters need more time. Just this week we  spoke with yet another renter who lost their job during the pandemic and is expecting an eviction notice on July 1st, if  the moratorium isn't extended. Please give renters more time by added a Special Meeting next week to discuss an  urgency ordinance. Palo Alto was a leader in this last year, please be a leader again!     Thanks so much for considering this.     Best,   Angie Evans, PARA Steering Committee member     ‐‐   Palo Alto Renters Association   *All Emails monitored by Steering Committee Members*    Facebook.com/RentersofPA  twitter.com/RentersofPA  And the web: https://bit.ly/PARAweb  54 Baumb, Nelly From:Melanie Bieder <mbb@mbieder.com> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 10:06 AM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto CineArts at Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    To City Council,  With so few theatres in Palo Alto and the area that show independent and wonderful films from around the world, it  would be a tragedy for this theatre to close.  We are just about to be safe to go back into the theatres; I miss this  experience most at Palo Alto Square.  Please think of creative ways of saving this institution in Palo Alto.  We have lost so  many small local theatres that provided us with a unique experience.  Going forward into the future doesn't have to  mean we lose everything from the past I hope..  Melanie Bieder    55 Baumb, Nelly From:Patti Kahn <patti@kornfeld.com> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 9:05 AM To:Council, City Subject:CineArts Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council Members,    As a [pre‐pandemic] frequent visitor to CineArts Theater, I would like to urge you to support its remaining open.  There  are far too few neighborhood theaters in  Palo Alto these days, and there are also far too few theaters that are not part  of a huge mega‐theater complex.       I imagine that there must be a strong profit motive for those who would like to see the theater closed down.  But  focusing on revenue should not trump quality of life issues.    Please support keeping this little theater open.    Thank you,    Patti Kahn  Barron Park resident  56 Baumb, Nelly From:Marc Wimmershoff <marc.wi@icloud.com> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 7:20 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep California Ave blocked off for traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City of Palo Alto friends,  Our family goes regularly to California Ave for lunch and/or dinner. I cannot express how much we LOVE that the street  is blocked off for traffic since it makes walking with 2 strollers a pleasure. The atmosphere is fantastic with the tables on  the street, it literally puts the whole family in a good mood.  Please do not allow traffic again on this street. Traffic can easily use parallel streets.    Feel free to reach out if you have further questions.    Best regards,  Marc Wimmershoff and family    *sent via iPhone*  57 Baumb, Nelly From:Mj Wolf <mimi.wolf@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 12:14 AM To:Council, City Subject:CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Now that we are returning to normal and socializing, I was so looking forward to being able to go to a movie. My favorite theatre is CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square. But is it true that CinéArts is closed permanently? I understand that a condition of the Planned Community zoning was to include a movie theatre on the property. What can be done to save CinéArts from closing? Mimi Wolf 745 San Carlos Court Palo Alto 650.2456434 58 Baumb, Nelly From:David Boxerman <dboxerman@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:SAVE CINEARTS THEATRE in Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council members, This is the time to speak up and speak out in support of keeping the CineArts Theatre where it is--in Palo Alto Square. Although I'm sure that the current property manager of PAS would argue that there is no requirement to have a theatre there, it can equally be argued by the City that the theatre is truly an integral part of the site, the neighborhood, the greater community and the cultural scene. And there is a legal understanding that the theatre is a condition of PAS's zoning status. The City argued successfully from this position in the past and there's no reason to veer from this stance now. The Palo Alto Weekly newspaper wrote extensively about past negotiations. A majority of Council members or your predecessors have given much to developers in recent years. These developers are eroding our quality of life via increased traffic, noise, and walled canyons. Give us some relief from this. Don't keep taking things away. Palo Alto Square is an easy place to begin, but only if you act now. I urge you to stand up for the residents of Palo Alto by insisting that THE THEATRE MUST REMAIN! David Boxerman Tippawingo St. Palo Alto 59 Baumb, Nelly From:Aliza Peleg <aliza.peleg@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:58 PM To:cinearts@sonic.net Subject:CineArts Theater at Palo Alto Square. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council members,     We were very saddened and disappointed to hear of the decision to close the theater down.    Not only is it a fabulous venue, providing high quality cinema to a close‐knit community, it was also a condition of the  Planned Community zoning.    What is the justification for this decision?    Thank you,  Aliza Peleg  60 Baumb, Nelly From:Annamaria Konya <annamaria.konya@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 6:16 PM To:Council, City Subject:Save CinéArts Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Century Theatres made the decision to close CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square.  I want to  remind the City leadership  and planning committee that having a theater at this location was a condition of the Planned Community zoning. In  addition, CinéArts Theater is an institution. When I moved to Palo Alto two decades ago the town had this European  artsy vibe. I loved it! I fear that the town will become “just another nothing special” town soon with all the new  developments. Please keep its charm and character and save CinéArts Theater.         Sincerely,  Annamaria Konya Tannon    @AnnamariaKonya    Sent from my iPhone    To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 61 Baumb, Nelly From:stephanie schubert <sschuber99@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 6:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:PLEASE SAVE PALO ALTO CINEARTS!!!! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  62 Baumb, Nelly From:John Dawson <dawsonjohnp@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:57 PM To:Council, City Cc:dawsonjohnp@gmail.com Subject:California Avenue and University Avenue street closures CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi council members,    Stanford was founded before the invention of the automobile, and the general layout of streets around Stanford is quite  appropriate for horse‐drawn vehicles.    In the 1960's Stanford pressured Palo alto into cutting through one of its nicer neighborhoods to put in Oregon  Expressway, for better access to that side of campus and the Stanford Industrial Park.    Now, it is not reasonable to use Palo Alto's central shopping district as an arterial feeder to Stanford.  Stanford has two  much better access roads on the East side of campus, namely Oregon Expressway and Embarcadero.    Rather than facilitating Stanford's through traffic, Palo Alto should seek to reduce and slow it so that it will go from 101  to Stanford via Embarcadero and Oregon/El Camino.    The time to drive from 101 to Palm Drive, by the way, is not much longer via Oregon/El Camino than via University  Avenue, and those roads are much better suited to the heavy traffic burden that Stanford places on its neighbor.    Regards, John Dawson    63 Baumb, Nelly From:Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:31 PM To:WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; chuck jagoda; Mary Gallagher; rebecca; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Council, City; Planning Commission Subject:Fwd: 📊Poll shows a majority of registered voters in San Jose support Opportunity Housing CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Leslye Corsiglia <leslye@siliconvalleyathome.org>  Date: Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 3:50 PM  Subject: ݓݔݕݖݗݘPoll shows a majority of registered voters in San Jose support Opportunity Housing  To: roberta ahlquisst <Roberta.Ahlquist@sjsu.edu>    Dozens of local organizations endorse growing campaign!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             No images? Click here To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Poll shows a majority of registered voters in San Jose support   Opportunity Housing as dozens of local organizations endorse growing campaign*  A recent poll of registered voters in San Jose found that a majority (56%) support changing the zoning to allow  duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes in single family neighborhoods ‐ known in San Jose as “Opportunity Housing”.   Attention to the issue is picking up locally as cities around the country and the northern California region, the California  Legislature, and the Biden Administration all take steps to reconsider restrictive single‐family zoning laws.   The poll results come as over two dozen major housing advocacy, environmental, and social and racial justice  organizations (logos below) have signed on to the endorsement statement (see here) of the growing San Jose  Neighborhoods for All campaign* to expand housing opportunity through zoning reform in the City.    To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   64 The survey found that 81% of respondents said they were concerned about friends and family being able to find an  affordable place to live. “Allowing a greater variety of housing in our neighborhoods can help ensure our children and  the next generation can afford to stay and live in San Jose where they were raised,” said Fred Buzo, San Jose Director,  SPUR. “Citywide Opportunity Housing is an important tool, along with high density development in transit areas, in our  response to the multidimensional housing crisis,”   Currently, 94% of San Jose’s residential land is zoned only for single‐family housing, and does not allow duplexes,  triplexes, or fourplexes. According to the US Census Bureau, only 50% of San Jose residents live in a single‐family home,  meaning that roughly 50% of the city’s residents are concentrated in 6% of the available land.   “Home prices are making most of the city out of reach to most people,” commented Aaron Eckhouse of California  YIMBY, a pro‐housing organization. “When less than a third of your city’s population can afford a home in these  neighborhoods ‐‐ most of the city ‐‐ you are pushing people out.   Opportunity Housing means access to more  affordable homes in more places, where young families and first time homebuyers can get a foot in the door and start  building intergenerational wealth.”     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Many endorsing the campaign for zoning reform point to the fact that restrictive single family zoning is exclusionary by  design. "Every day, we hear from residents who face displacement from San Jose,” shared Alison Brunner, CEO, Law  Foundation of Silicon Valley. “We are proud to support citywide opportunity housing as a means to uphold the Fair  Housing Act, by dismantling systemic inequities that segregate and divide our community.”   “Increasing density within the existing development footprint of the city — where housing already exists,” explains  Justin Wang, Advocacy Manager, of Greenbelt Alliance, “means that San José can protect nearby open spaces like  Coyote Valley, which are crucial for our region’s climate resilience, biodiversity, and water supply, and limit the massive  emissions of mega commuters from sprawling development outside the Bay Area.”  To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   "Our housing should reflect, accommodate, and support the diverse communities that make up our incredible region.  Opportunity Housing allows us to move away from the legacy of racist housing policies that undermined economic  equity and instead, create a Bay Area that is open to all."  Kevin Zwick, Board Chair, SV@Home & CEO, United Way Bay  Area.   In October the San Jose City Council will consider a recommendation from The General Plan Four‐Year Review Task  Force to explore “opportunity housing” city wide beginning with robust community outreach, and including ways of  protecting historic homes, mitigating risks of displacement, considering incentives to make more homes affordable to  lower income residents, and a thorough environmental review.  Methodology:  The direct language presented in the survey was: “Thinking specifically about housing in the Bay Area, do you support or oppose changing  65 the zoning in single family home neighborhoods to allow duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes?” 56% of those surveyed reported support, 42%  of those surveyed reported opposition, and 3% reported that they didn’t know.  Endorse Opportunity Housing Now!   Read and Share Spotlight Article on Poll         350 W Julian St. #5, San José, CA 95110  •  408.780.8411  •  siliconvalleyathome.org                 Share      Tweet      Share      Forward    350 W. Julian St., #5 San José, CA 95110  You're receiving this email because you're signed  up to receive emails from SV@Home.  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe        £1 £1 £1 £1 66 Baumb, Nelly From:Martha McLaughlin <martmc33@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:28 PM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Square movie theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    I hope you change your mind about the fine arts Movie theater. Such great movies and great location. Martha  McLaughlin    Sent from my iPhone  67 Baumb, Nelly From:Mary Ruth Leen <mrleen@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: Save Cinearts at PA Square! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please hear a long time resident of Palo Alto who attended CineArts regularly prior to the pandemic. Do everything you can to save this theater! It is the only one that shows movies that are always in the running for awards due to their excellent content, great writing and wonderful acting. Do it for Palo Alto and yourselves! You might get some good press from the Weekly if you do!! Take care,  Mary Ruth Leen  Midtown Neighborhod  68 Baumb, Nelly From:Meredith Phillips <mphillips0743@comcast.net> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:CineArts Theatre CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council,    This is a strange time to close a movie theatre, when it hasn’t been allowed to open for 15 months. Please remind the  parent company that they have an obligation under their lease.    Thanks,  Meredith Phillips  Palo Alto  69 Baumb, Nelly From:Beth Taylor <drbtmd@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:25 PM To:Council, City Subject:Save CineArts Theater, please!! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  This is to request, please, that you do whatever is possible to save the CineArts movie theater from closing!! It is the  closest theater to many of us in Palo Alto, Portola Valley, Los Altos Hills and Los Altos!! Over the years, it has consistently  had the best programming for thoughtful adults of any of the now very few local movie theaters. It is a gem of our  community, and I believe it’s continued use as a place to see films together was a part of the original use permit for that  set of buildings. It should continue to be a local cultural asset, gathering place, and place to screen films and provide  refreshments. We have too few such art venues and a community that craves them!     Thank you!  Beth Taylor   drbtmd@gmail.com  ‐‐   Beth Taylor MD  (650) 799‐4893  drbtmd@gmail.com  70 Baumb, Nelly From:John Janetzko <jjanetzk@stanford.edu> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:25 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the car‐free environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Best wishes,     John Janetzko      John Janetzko, Ph.D. Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow Kobilka Lab Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Stanford University School of Medicine Beckman Center, Room B161 279 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 71 Baumb, Nelly From:Davina Brown <browntow@pacbell.net> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 2:43 PM To:Council, City Subject:Saving Palo Alto Square Movie Theaters CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please keep the theaters open. We, as a community need this resource. I personnel’s like going locally a lot.  Davina Brown  3525 Greer Road  Palo Alto    Sent from my iPhone  72 Baumb, Nelly From:Elizabeth Grover <elizgrover@me.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 1:48 PM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Square theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    I am very disappointed that Century has decided to close the Palo Alto Square theater.  This is a theater that I patronize  frequently—it is my favorite theater in the area.  It shows many films that are not shown at the larger theater  complexes.  I hope the decision to close the theater will be reconsidered.    Elizabeth Grover  3867 La Donna Avenue  Palo Alto  73 Baumb, Nelly From:Kathleen M Eisenhardt <kme@stanford.edu> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 1:40 PM To:Council, City Subject:Saving CineArts at Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    City council members    I am writing to ask strongly to explore the ways in which the CineArts movie theatre at Palo Alto Square can remain  open.    The theatre is a very valuable community asset that many residents use....and it is becoming more valuable as El Camino  and the California Ave areas are further developed and as we all endeavor to drive less. Its staying open is (as I  understand it) a condition of the Planned Community zoning.    Thanks so much.    Kathleen Eisenhardt  4184 Donald Drive  PA  74 Baumb, Nelly From:Joan Norton <violady5@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 11:38 AM To:Alice Smith Cc:Council, City Subject:Channing House Online Bulletin Board Posting: "PA HISTORICAL MUSEUM FINALLY FUNDED" - AT LAAAAST!!! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  GREAT NEWS. Would be a shame to let that special building deteriorate (I went to it from the time I was 2 weeks old to  see my doc’s!). Glad to hear they are considering using spaces for various community functions besides a museum ‐  which may bring about more funding support ‐ +  contribution requests which seem to have gone strangely silent…   Joan Norton      On Jun 23, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Alice Smith <alice.smith@gmail.com> wrote:    Article from: The Mercury News ‐ June 23, 2021    Historic  site will house city museum     Follow the link below to view the article.  https://enewspaper.mercurynews.com?publink=17330a313_1345de3  75 Baumb, Nelly From:Winter Dellenbach <wintergery@earthlink.net> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 11:16 AM To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed; Stump, Molly Subject:Is a Palo Alto Square Theater required? - excellent 2016 article a primer on zoning issues, etc. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2016/07/27/city‐hopes‐to‐preserve‐palo‐alto‐square‐theater     Quotes by City Attorney, former Director of Planning, etc, clarifying situation.     winter  76 Baumb, Nelly From:Ken Novak <krnovak@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 11:14 AM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Square Movie Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,    I have heard that the Palo Alto Square CinéArts Movie Theater may close soon.  I think this is a valuable and important  community resource, and one which was required in the zoning for the building.      Can anything be done to save the theater?      I recall how we saved the grocery store at Edgewood Plaza, but it required diligent work by the council.  I hope we can  get a similarly good result here.    Thanks,      Ken Novak  krnovak@gmail.com  1644 Channing Ave, Palo Alto, Ca 94303  77 Baumb, Nelly From:Cynthia Keely <keelyz@comcast.net> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:49 AM To:Council, City Subject:pleeeeese keep Cine Arts alive! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    78 Baumb, Nelly From:Paul Snider <paul.snider@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:34 AM To:Council, City Subject:cinearts closure CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please keep this theater open if at all possible as it is an important part of our community. Thanks. Paul Snider 79 Baumb, Nelly From:Elizabeth Wolf <wolf.elizabethb@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:28 AM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alro CinéArts Theatre CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    June 24, 2021    To:     Palo Alto City Council  From:  Elizabeth B. Wolf  Re:    Saving CinéArts Theatre    Dear Palo Alto City Council Members:    What do we need to do to save the CinéArts Movie Theatre at Palo Alto Square in Palo Alto?  I would like the Council to put this important issue on your next agenda.  Palo Alto citizens and surrounding neighbors have been patient throughout the pandemic to have this theatre opened.  I believe it’s critical to have it opened up again rather than to close it permanently.  It would be a huge loss to our city and neighboring cities.    Concerned Palo Alto Citizen for 46 years, Elizabeth B. Wolf  80 Baumb, Nelly From:Tom Carroux <tcarroux@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:40 AM To:Council, City Subject:PA Square CineArts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello Palo Alto City Council, I'm sad to learn that Palo Alto Square CineArts is closing. My family and I have been eager to return to the best theater in the Bay Area, now that we've been vaccinated and the pandemic is fading away. Hopefully this superb theater space will continue to exhibit movies. Tom Carroux tcarroux@yahoo.com 81 Baumb, Nelly From:Fang Tian <fangatian@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:29 AM To:Council, City Subject:Save CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    It is part of our life . Please save CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square. !    Sent from my iPhone  82 Baumb, Nelly From:tjfiene@aol.com Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:18 AM To:Council, City Subject:cinearts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please save the Cinearts! It is a valuable community resource. Tom & Nancy Fiene 850 Webster st Pallo Alto, CA 83 Baumb, Nelly From:Patricia Mccarthy <pmccar1@comcast.net> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:08 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please Save Palo Alto Square Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Its a fantastic theater. Please save. 84 Baumb, Nelly From:Silicon Valley Community Foundation <info@siliconvalleycf.org> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:01 AM To:Council, City Subject:SVCF eNews — Why Juneteenth matters CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   87   Copyright © 2021 Silicon Valley Community Foundation   View in browser | Unsubscribe         88 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Moss Keller <bmosskeller@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 8:52 AM To:Council, City Subject:Don’t close CineArts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hello, ‘  Please do not close the movie theater. We went all the time. Palo Alto has lost many recreational businesses please do  not contribute to this Trent.  Thank you.    Barbara Moss Keller  Resident Bryant St Palo Alto    89 Baumb, Nelly From:DIANE WIEDER <dmenerbes@aol.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 8:50 AM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Square Movie Theatre CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    How can this theater be saved?   It is a community treasure.    Diane Wieder    90 Baumb, Nelly From:Marjorie Bernknopf <mlbernknopf@aol.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 8:37 AM To:Council, City Subject:CineArts Palo Alto CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I would like the theaters at this location to be saved.  It was my favorite and usually only theater that I used.      Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS  91 Baumb, Nelly From:Joyce Kellner <kellnerjoyce@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 8:28 AM To:Council, City Subject:Saving Cine Arts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  What can be done to prevent this beloved, comfortable theater from being torn down?   And how can you get away with  this?  Shame!     Joyce Kellner  373 Pine Lane, A201  los altos, Ca 94022  92 Baumb, Nelly From:Oleg Aravin <aravinoleg@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 8:25 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment forever.     Let people walk, not the cars drive. I feel so much more secure with my kid on a street now.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   93 Baumb, Nelly From:Stl Lorant <stlorant@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 8:05 AM To:Council, City Subject:Cinéarts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    SAVE CINÉARTS at Palo Alto Square!  94 Baumb, Nelly From:Jan <rajan62588@aol.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 7:55 AM To:Council, City Subject:CineArts thetare CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    To Palo Alto City City Council,    Please I wish there is some way you can keep the Palo Alto CineArts Theatre Square open. What can you do to save it?  I  love this theatre and alway have.  Many good memories of seeing movies there and I always think of it when I drive by  that location.  I hope it can be saved.    Sincerely,    Janet D. Ague‐Kennedy    813 Runningwood Circle  Mountain View, CA 94040  95 Baumb, Nelly From:Ed Doody <chezder@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 7:40 AM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Square Cine CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please save this theater!  It is a cultural oasis in an ever changing landscape that too often favors the quick turnaround in  commercial space that does little for our community.  Thanks,  Ed Doody    Sent from my iPad  96 Baumb, Nelly From:Marlene Strauss <marlene.strauss@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 7:09 AM To:Council, City Subject:Save Palo Alto Only First-Run Movie Theatre! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  We are writing to object to the decision to permanently close Palo Alto Square’s CineArts movie theatre, currently PA’s  only venue for first‐run feature films. This is not the first time Palo Alto Square has forgotten that maintaining the  theatre is required by their city permit. Evidently, their management needs periodic reminders that this is the case as  past threats to close the theatre have been narrowly averted. Without the CineArts, Palo Alto loses a cultural asset of  intangible value.      Please make sure the CineArts reopens!! Please contact us if there is any way we can help!    Sincerely,  Marlene and Barry Strauss  2885 South Ct  Palo Alto  97 Baumb, Nelly From:Bob Stefanski <stefanski81@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 7:02 AM To:Council, City Cc:cinearts@sonic.net Subject:Save CineArts at Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    It was with dismay and sadness that I read today about the decision to close the theater at Palo Alto Square. It has been  a local institution, airing great independent movies and serving thousands of loyal Palo Alto patrons for decades. I am  confident even more will return as we come out of the COVID pandemic  I sincerely hope it possible to reverse this  decision, preserve the Planned Community Zoning requirement of having a theater there, and save the theater.    Bob Stefanski    Sent from my iPhone  650.269.0919  98 Baumb, Nelly From:Karen Damian <karenswansondamian@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 6:58 AM To:Council, City Subject:Cine' Arts closure CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City council members  i am heartbroken to read that the theater at PA Square is closed. It was  great to have a theater that i could walk to. What can i do? and isn't a  theater part of the planned community zoning?  Thanks, Karen Damian                870 College Avenue                Palo Alto, CA 94306                650.424.1480  99 Baumb, Nelly From:Richard Stolee <rstolee@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 6:22 AM To:Council, City Subject:Cinearts Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     Please save our theater at Palo Alto Square.  Can we get Landmark Theaters to take over that location?    Richard Stolee  100 Baumb, Nelly From:Marty Keller <martyk@sonic.net> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:49 AM To:Council, City Cc:cinearts@sonic.net Subject:PA Square theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Council    SAVE IT!    Thank you,    Marty Keller  3233 Bryant St  Palo Alto  101 Baumb, Nelly From:lowys@jps.net Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:46 PM To:Council, City Cc:lowys@jps.net; Michael Lowy Esq Subject:Save CineArts movie theatre!! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,  The theater MUST be saved at this location. It was a condition of the Planned Community zoning.   The CineArts theatre is a focus of our community and as we remember one of two remaining movie houses in Palo Alto. CineArts shows intelligent films, has film festivals and the seating capacity makes it possible to have other private and public functions. Taking it off-line like closing it down,  would be a terrible entertainment and cultural loss to our Palo Alto and neighboring communities.   We restate, it was a condition of the Planned Community zoning.  Thank you,   Ruth and Michael Lowy      102 Baumb, Nelly From:Avi Shai <shai.avi@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:33 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square open CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please keep the CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square open. It was a condition of the Planned Community zoning.      On behalf of our family, who lives in college terrace, and goes to this theatre several times a year.      103 Baumb, Nelly From:Judy Buttrill <jbuttrill@mindspring.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Closure of Cinearts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    City Council:  PA Square is required to maintain a theater there. What can we do to save Cinearts?    Sent from my iPhone  104 Baumb, Nelly From:Kathleen <vz22@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Theatre at Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi all, Once again, the existence of a theatre at Palo Alto Square is endangered. As has happened at least 3 times before, the owners of Palo Alto Square are trying to breach their agreement to provide a theater at this location which was a condition of the original Planned Community zoning. Once again, it is the citizens of Palo Alto who must remind the council of this obligation as the city administration seems to have no institutional memory of public benefits agreed to in the past by developers in order to get favorable zoning. There is construction going on adjacent to the theatre. Has the city manager again tried to allow Palo Alto Square to breach this requirement with no notice to the council or the public? This is an example of the dangers of zoning exceptions based on public benefits which as time passes, are then dropped with no consequences. Look at Caffe Riace which has occupied what was supposed to be an open plaza as a public benefit but is now used as outside dining for a private restaurant, Caffe Riace. The list goes on.... I highly recommend that the city administration be required to list all public benefits that are conditions of zoning, particularly Planned Community Zoning, on the Palo Alto website, so the council and citizens of Palo Alto can track the compliance of developers. We certainly cannot rely on the city administration to do so. Please do not allow Palo Alto Square to close the theatre and/or redevelop that area for other commercial purposes. Kathleen Goldfein Resident of Palo Alto since 1989 105 Baumb, Nelly From:cindy jacobson <crjacobson@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:55 PM To:Council, City Subject:Theater Palo Alto Square CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     I remember when Palo Alto Square office high rises were proposed. The proposal caused a huge uproar as the land was  a bucolic pasture with animals. The stalemate between citizens and the developer was broken when the developer  contractually obligated the entity to provide, in perpetuity, a movie theater for the community. This iron clad contract  went with the property, not the owner. When the property passes to a new owner, the contract to maintain the movie  theater is a non negotiable, legally binding obligation of the new owner. In perpetuity.     I cannot believe this issue has emerged once again. Do contracts exist only as long as people are alive who remember  them. I think not.     Cindy Jacobson                    Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone  106 Baumb, Nelly From:Harvey Alcabes <harvey@alcabes.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:49 PM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Square movie theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I understand that the CinéArts Theater at Palo Alto Square will be closing.     Wasn't having a theater at this location a condition of the Planned Community zoning?    How can the theater be saved?    Thanks!      --Harvey Alcabes 3766 Cass Way Palo Alto, CA 94306 harvey@alcabes.com 107 Baumb, Nelly From:Jess <jessicasadee@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:50 PM To:Council, City Subject:California Avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________     Dear Council,  Thank you for your time. I had a rather frustrating time with my computer during the council meeting and was unable to  participate.   I wanted you to all know my stance on the street closure. It’s actually a rather complicated issue for me. I hear on a  daily basis how much the community enjoys the closure and how nice it feels out there when the street is busy. I feel  like we can have a nice downtown open vibe and get people back onto the sidewalks. People are often surprised that I  would prefer the car traffic just to get people back on the sidewalk. Without pedestrian traffic, people don’t see my  shop and all my cute displays I work so hard on. Please encourage city staff to try new configurations to accomplish this.  We also need to reclaim our sidewalks to make all businesses accessible. I think it is time to bring back the distance rule,  was it 8 ft? Remember the restaurants have indoor seating now.    During the day the street is still a ghost town, it only starts to really become alive around 5:30 pm and on the weekends.  Pease come visit sometime during the week, it’s so quiet other then Joanies and a small lunch rush. There are so many  closed restaurants Sundays, Mondays, and  during the week at lunch. It definitely effects the vibrancy on California  Avenue. Also, what happens in the winter months when it’s colder and rainy? Even though we were in a drought this  year we had plenty of cold evenings and the restaurants were dead. Even a few weeks ago when it was windy the  restaurants were super slow.    Please consider these options for California Ave, *leave it how it is (pre pandemic) *one way onto California Ave. With  possible center of street closure. (between Ash and Birch) As designed by the streetscape project a few years ago. This  would also direct traffic to the new garage.  *Bike traffic Only with extended Parklets.    There are 14 empty spots on the street right now and the rumor Bank of The West is leaving. That’s crazy, my whole life  it’s never been more then 3 or 4 empty locations. How can this not be effecting the businesses?    I would love for Cal Ave to become a vibrant street with amazing restaurants, a ton of public art, and live entertainment.  Making it a great destination for people from all over the Bay Area to come and experience. We have the train at our  doorstep to attract these people from so many different cities. We are in dire need of an economic developer for our  street. Someone to find community serving businesses to balance and enhance the street. We have a Fine Arts Building  that is vacant. Let’s take advantage of its iconic facade. Can you imagine how many people a theater/venue could bring  to the street. Remember you make the rules. We can have better signage for businesses along El Camino, and make  permitting easy for new small businesses. Is the parking/zoning limitations hindering new businesses from coming to the  street? Do we need to reassess??     We need a better maintained street and someone to asses the landscaping  (we have giant cactuses with spikes at a kids  eye level, it’s concerning). I don’t understand how our downtown can look so poor. Especially since we just had the  street renovated not more than 6 years ago. And let’s not forget what that project put the businesses through, not to  108 mention the parking garage construction and now the public safety building and it doesn’t look like building in the area  is slowing anytime soon.    I have been asking for months for better visibility to my shop there is 4 foot over grown bushes that hinder the view and  like I said visibility is key. So I ask, since you are keeping the street closed till October, please help me get the much  needed pedestrian traffic on the sidewalks and clean up the landscaping.    I love California Avenue and it’s community. I think we can come up with something that works for everyone.    Who do I talk to about getting some turf and chairs in the street now that we have 3+ months of street closure we need  some color out there.    Best  Jessica Roth  The Cobblery    Sent from my iPhone  109 Baumb, Nelly From:Bob Bauer <rbauer@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:48 PM To:Council, City Cc:cinearts@sonic.net Subject:How can CineArts Palo Alto Square be saved? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Council members,    CineArts movie theater at Palo Alto Square is so valuable to our community. Please let us know what can be done to  maintain the this theater.  We understand that a movie theater  is a condition of the Palo Alto Square use  permit; is this  a source of negotiation with the developer and Century Theaters?  What can the public do the assist in this matter?    Thanks.  Dr. Bob and Rosyland Bauer  110 Baumb, Nelly From:Meg Peterson <meg@charm.org> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please SAVE PALO ALTO SQUARE Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Palo Alto City Council,  We need to keep an art house theater in Palo Alto square. This is a fantastic location for a movie theater and it has  parking! It’s an incredible location and an incredible asset to the community. I am so sorry to see that CineArts is closing.  Please do everything in your power to bring in a new theater to this invaluable location — M Peterson  111 Baumb, Nelly From:Shirley Finfrock1 <samfinf@comcast.net> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:27 PM To:Council, City Cc:cinearts@sonic.net Subject:Cine Arts Theatre CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please stop plans for closing the Cine Arts Theatre.  The ownership did a nasty and proceeded with closing and  redeveloping during the CA shutdown.    This problem was resolved a few years ago, keeping a theatre in this location was a condition of the Planned Community  zoning.   We don’t want to lose this nice theatre complex.  Be conscious of Palo Alto residents that live South of Embarcadero  and Oregon Expressway.    Shirley and Carl Finfrock  841 ILIMA Court  Palo Alto, CA 94306  112 Baumb, Nelly From:Luce, Gwen <GLuce@cbnorcal.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:11 PM To:cinearts@sonic.net Cc:Council, City Subject:Save PA Square CinéArts! Save the Palo Alto Square CinéArts Movie Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Having a theatre at this location was a condition of the Planned Community Zoning   Gwen Luce  4065 Laguna Way   Palo Alto  94306         *Wire Fraud is Real*.  Before wiring any money, call the intended recipient at a number you know is valid  to confirm the instructions. Additionally, please note that the sender does not have authority to bind a party  to a real estate contract via written or verbal communication.  To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 113 Baumb, Nelly From:Kenneth Fields <kwaynefields@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:06 PM To:Council, City Subject:cine arts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please save Cine Arts movie theater. It's been a part of Palo Alto culture for a long time. I came here nearly 60 years ago and taught at Stanford for 52. It pains me to see the decline of the arts of film. Kenneth Fields, Emeritus Dept of English Stanford   ‐‐   Ken Fields     114 Baumb, Nelly From:Stephanie Kelmar <stephanie.kelmar@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:CineArts Movie Theater CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I am a 15 year resident of Palo Alto and I don't want to lose this theater that adds so much depth to our community.  We've already lost too many venues that make Palo Alto special. What can we do to save it?     Stephanie Kelmar  115 Baumb, Nelly From:Jessica Kogan <jesskogan@fb.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 9:16 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Jessica Kogan    116 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 8:56 PM To:Binder, Andrew Cc:Stump, Molly; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Raj; Joe Simitian; Josh Becker; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Scheff, Lisa; Council, City; paloaltoresident@paloaltocalifornia.us; Planning Commission; Jonsen, Robert; Roberta Ahlquist; Joe Simitian; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; Cecilia; Betsy Nash Subject:NYTimes: Emory Apologizes to Medical School Applicant Rejected Because He Was Black ( CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    California Public Records Act request.    PAPD: Dear assistant police chief Andrew Binder:    I’m told in 2021 Palo Alto PD now has only one active African American officer. Is this accurate?     Pursuant to the California Public Records Act please provide me with any and all public records reflecting the number of  African American officers currently employed by your department. Thanks so very much.    Aram James    415‐370‐5056      Emory Apologizes to Medical School Applicant Rejected Because He Was Black  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/us/emory‐university‐apology‐marion‐hood.html?referringSource=articleShare      Sent from my iPhone  117 Baumb, Nelly From:Gabriel Jager-Sumner <gabe.jager.sumner@icloud.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 8:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Thanks so much!  Sent from my iPhone  118 Baumb, Nelly From:Greg Bennett <gregorydbennett@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 7:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:California Avenue Outdoor Dining CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     My name is Greg Bennett, and I just moved into 2510 Waverley Street in Midtown. Going out in Palo Alto, our new  home, has been an absolute high point of this pandemic. Seeing our new neighbors out and about on California Avenue  in the evening has been lovely, and has really helped us feel welcome in our new community.      The outdoor dining aspect of California Avenue is really key to how this new local culture came to be over the past  fifteen months. It’s been really lovely, and I would want all future new residents of Palo Alto feel just as welcomed as I  was.     Therefore, I think we should keep outdoor dining open. It helps remind us of who we live next to, which is really nice and  important in a world where it’s often too easy to stay walled off from your neighbors.    A concerned citizen,  Greg Bennett  ‐‐   Gregory Bennett US Phone: 773.575.1366 gregorydbennett@gmail.com 119 Baumb, Nelly From:Akesha Sanjay <akesha1994@hotmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 7:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  120 Baumb, Nelly From:Preksha Bhagchandani <prekshab17@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 7:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  121 Baumb, Nelly From:Shaun Datta <idatta@stanford.edu> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 7:51 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  ‐‐   Shaun Datta   Stanford University | ICME | Ph.D. Candidate  idatta@stanford.edu     122 Baumb, Nelly From:ML <mlb95@mac.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 5:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep University Ave closed for pedestrians and shoppers CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear City Council,    Please keep University Ave closed to pedestrians for the foreseeable future. At a minimum, keep it as a test  program for a full non‐Covid year.     I have lived here 30 years and have hoped for this for as long. Wouldn’t it be fabulous for Palo Alto to develop  that flavor of France with the passerbys? Once out‐of‐towners know we have such a lovely area to stroll  around, they will start to notice our other shops, and not just the restaurants. Not only will they walk down  University, but they will notice shops on other streets because they will need to park in our parking garages.     Our community is just getting back together after a long period of isolation, and a downtown welcome to  pedestrians and outdoor dining will be an important way for our community to regather and heal.     Thank you for supporting our community and the restaurants and shops who serve us!    Frankly, I find University Avenue dangerous when I park on the street and I back out. I hold up traffic because I  am a cautious driver and other drivers become impatient.     ML Boyd  1151 Webster Street  123 Baumb, Nelly From:Vanessa Eng <vanessa.eng@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 5:51 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter! Vanessa 124 Baumb, Nelly From:David Sacerdote <das33@cornell.edu> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 5:47 PM To:Council, City Subject:Mandate vaccination for city employees CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I urge the Palo Alto City Council to follow the lead of San Francisco and mandate vaccination for all city employees ‐ both  for COVID and other transmissible diseases that we already require our children to be vaccinated for in order to attend  school.  Doing this will meaningfully improve the safety of Palo Alto residents at minimal cost.     Thank you    News coverage of San Francisco doing this:  https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/S‐F‐will‐require‐all‐city‐workers‐to‐be‐16269840.php    125 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 5:34 PM To:Binder, Andrew Cc:Jonsen, Robert; winter dellenbach; Joe Simitian; Jeff Rosen; Jeff Moore; Jay Boyarsky; Cecilia; Betsy Nash; city.council@menlopark.org; Planning Commission; Rebecca Eisenberg; chuck jagoda; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; Miguel; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Lewis. james; Anna Griffin Subject:Police Dogs Can Be Trained to Be Anti-Black: a documentary CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Sent from my iPhone    Begin forwarded message:  From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>  Date: June 23, 2021 at 3:19:18 PM PDT  To: Richard Konda <rkonda@asianlawalliance.org>  Subject: Fwd: Police Dogs Can Be Trained to Be Anti‐Black: a documentary             Hi Andrew et al:    Here is the 15 minute documentary re  Police Dogs Can Be Trained to Be Anti‐Black: a documentary  excerpted and inspired from the 12 part police canine Mauling series which is linked to in the intro to  the short film.     Best, Aram    p.s. The mauling series recently received the Pulitzer Prize.       https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/23/a‐dog‐can‐be‐trained‐to‐be‐anti‐ black?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=opening‐ statement&utm_term=newsletter‐20210623‐2501   126 Baumb, Nelly From:Ofer Ben-Shachar <oferbens@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 3:50 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment for good. Thank you for your support  in this quality of life matter!    Any member not supporting this will not receive my vote.    Regards,    Ofer  ‐‐     Ofer Ben‐Shachar, CEO  www.healthoutcome.org  650 678 4901  127 Baumb, Nelly From:Alison Reid <alisonr5201@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 2:17 PM To:Council, City Subject:ROI on Electric Construction Equipment CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Electric Construction Equipment ‐ maybe an idea for some of the federal funding grant for some of palo alto cities'  construction projects ‐  99% electric, long‐term savings.    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210622‐the‐scandinavian‐way‐to‐zero‐carbon‐construction      On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:00 AM, Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  Thank you for your comments to the City Council. Your e‐mail will be forwarded to all seven Council Members and a  printout of your correspondence will also be included in the next available Council packet.     If your comments are about an item that is already scheduled for a City Council agenda, you can call (650) 329‐2571 to  confirm that the item is still on the agenda for the next meeting.     If your letter mentions a specific complaint or a request for service, we'll either reply with an explanation or else send it  on to the appropriate department for clarification.     We appreciate hearing from you.  128 Baumb, Nelly From:tim pham <timphamecontact@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 1:44 PM To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Apple, Kara Cc:Nancy Coupal; Steve Sinchek; Greg St.Claire; Giuseppe Carrubba Subject:THANK YOU FROM TEA TIME , 542 RAMONA STREEET, PALO ALTO, CA-94301 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Nancy Coupal has stayed up late to inform me of the joyous news that you have voted to keep our street closed for fresco dining. Our store is very grateful for this decision. You have kept your primary goal: "to help very small businesses like us because people are not ready for dining-in yet". We have a fighting chance to survive and keeping six part-timers on the payroll. You now have more time to study the possibility to keep the Ramona bloc permanently closed. All of our customers would see this bloc permanently closed for fresco dining. They all say it reminds them of Europe... Our bloc, from Coupa/Nola to the West to Osteria/Sweet Green on the East, has seven restaurants, one barber, and one retail. This is a unique concentration of restaurants...You don't want to lose the momentum to redesign and make Palo Alto a destination for all visitors. BEST GREETINGS FROM TEA TIME and GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Tim Pham Tea Time Managing Partner. 129 Baumb, Nelly From:Cristy Barnes <bassobarnes@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 1:23 PM To:Council, City; city.council@menlopark.org Subject:Fireworks CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    I'm writing about the persistent, daily fireworks that now seem to be part of evening life in Menlo Park.  I'd like to know  what measures are being done to address this problem, as it seems to only be getting worse.  Besides keeping our  children awake some evenings, our dogs are now starting to cower anytime they hear loud noises.  These are dogs that  NEVER used to care about fireworks on the 4th of July.  What is being done by police or other authorities with regards to  this issue? Thanks, Cristy Barnes  547 Channing Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 June 4, 2021 Dear Honorable Palo Alto City Council, I urge you to vote against any Palo Alto Utility rate increases. Some of Palo Alto's residents are still burdened financially by the Pandemic and owe money on our utility bills. This is not the right time for a rate increases. The Utility department needs to be better stewards of its current income. Palo Alto Resident 701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 08/09/2021 Document dates: 06/23/2021 – 07/28/2021 Council Summer Break Set 2 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Alice Smith <alice.smith@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 9:25 PM Subject:Could you help get the XGen and others to understand about the need for new laws re voting rights? Attachments:Pass SB1 - June21 .pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I have this simple slide presentation which I think should be received by every voter and student to consider. If not this  message, please construct your own. I attach an easy slide show that educates voters. (Pass SB1) and a more detailed  slide show I use to educate voters on the history of voting in America. Both can be looked at in 10 minutes and I  promise you will have learned something you didn't know before.      Simple message:  We need one set of rules for voting across the United States to help every citizen to be able to vote. Everyone can  register with only one set of rules. Why should WV, NV, CT, CA have different rules for voting for the same President,  Senator and Congressional Representative.  Every other democracy has one set of rules that apply to its citizens for  voting. Why not the USA for federal elections?  To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. NVC_VotingRights AAUW.5.11.2021.pdf Every city council in every town should adopt a resolution supporting the unfettered right to vote. Every school district  should adopt civics and facts about voting rights as part of their mission as educators.  Every Human Rights Commission  should adopt the unfettered right to vote as part of its mission.    And I would like the ABA to support a uniform code for elections in America.      Please take some positive action to end voter suppression in the USA today.       Thanks,     Alice Schaffer Smith  Executive Director  National Voter Corps  www.nationalvotercorps.org  FIGHT FOR EVERYONE’S RIGHT TO VOTE WHY we need Senate Bill 1 © National Voter Corps, 2021. June19,2021 The Right to Vote •Individual State legislatures determine the requirements to cast your ballot unless Congress otherwise provides: •Time •Place •Manner •Federal Law already determines how everyone registers to vote in every State (National Voter Registration Act of 1993). Source: US Constitution, Article 1.4, https://www.justice.gov/crt/national-voter- registration-act-1993-nvra 2 States Where Efforts to Restrict Voting Have Escalated 3https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-states-where-efforts-to-restrict-voting-are-escalating/ KEY FEATURES OF Senate Bill 1 •Voter ID rules •Automatic Voter Registration •Same Day Registration •Rules For Automatic Removal/Crosschecks •Access For Individuals With Disabilities •Prohibits Deceptive Practices And Prevents Intimidation •Democracy Restoration (Rights Of Felons) •Promoting Accuracy, Integrity And Security: Voter-verified Paper Ballot •Rules On Provisional Ballots •Early Voting •Vote By Mail •Absent Uniformed Services And Overseas Voters •Poll Worker Enforcement •Federal Election Integrity And Enforcement •Money in Politics 4 Examples of State laws being enacted in 2021 to suppress access to voting •Purging inactive voters for not voting •Requiring “Approved” Identification often tough to acquire •Requiring Photo ID but excluding student ID cards •Barring no excuse Absentee Voting Applications •Reducing the Times for obtaining an Absentee Ballot •Restricting the Numbers and Locations of Ballot Boxes •Reducing the Number of Hours for Early Voting •Prohibiting giving Water or Snacks to People waiting in line to vote •Empowering themselves to determine validity of votes 5 GERRYMANDERING State and Congressional legislative districts. 6 Voter Suppression on Film To understand the what and how of vote suppression: All In: The Fight for Democracy -2020 Film on Prime –Link Below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6jVGswLPd8 SUPPRESSED: the Right to Vote a 2019 film by Brave New Films RIGGED: The Vote Suppression Playbook a 2018 film by American Issues Initiative DARK MONEY a 2018 film by Big Sky Film Productions 7Send comments to:Proposed: National Voter Election Code 2 Baumb, Nelly From:Joanne Price <jprice@lifemoves.org> Sent:Saturday, June 26, 2021 11:21 AM To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Gaines, Chantal; Van Der Zwaag, Minka; Tanner, Rachael Subject:Governor Newsom Visits LifeMoves|Mountain View! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  We were thrilled and honored to host Governor Newsom’s press conference at LifeMoves|Mountain View yesterday.  The Governor spent almost two hours touring our project, talking with staff and meeting our clients to hear firsthand  how it’s changing lives. The State’s $12 Billion commitment towards homelessness is unprecedented and it was awe  inspiring to hear our model being touted as the “radical new template.”  You can listen to the full press conference here  and read the news article here.  We’re simply chuffed to bits সহ঺঻      Our doors are always open if any of you wish to tour in person. I know some have already toured or plan to tour soon,  but if you haven’t please reach out to get something scheduled.     All the very best,   Joanne     Joanne Price | Vice President, Real Estate & Operations  ph: (650) 685-5880 ext. 199  cell: (415) 632-6530     Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness  181 Constitution Drive | Menlo Park, CA 94025                3 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 25, 2021 10:08 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Flyer for the REPEAT of Dr. Seid's Presentation Attachments:Dr. Seid Repeat Performance.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>  Date: Fri., Jun 25, 2021   Subject:: Flyer for the REPEAT of Dr. Allan Seid's Presentation  Dear Neighbors and Friends,    I am delighted to invite you, your friends, and  your colleagues to my presentation this Saturday at 10 am.        Attached is a flyer with the announcement of my repeat  presentation. The  question and answer section after the  talk  will be longer   this time around. The Zoom ID  and passcode for this meeting is the same as the one last week.     Here is the live link again https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87208172815?pwd=MUR1NnZ2czNGbVp6amlPOEZCV0dodz09    Here is the meeting ID  872 0817 2815    Passcode 850    Best  regards,    Allan Seid,M.D.  (650) 324‐ 7433    REPEAT OF DR. ALLAN SEID’S ZOOM PRESENTATION ON REFLECTIONS on ANTI-ASIAN DISCRIMINATION and VIOLENCE: 1850s to the PRESENT Because our Zoom link could only accommodate 100 participants, many people were unable to access Allan Seid’s talk. Fortunately, the talk was recorded and will be replayed with a question- and-answer session followed with Allan “live and in person.” REFLECTIONS on ANTI-ASIAN DISCRIMINATION and VIOLENCE: 1850s TO THE PRESENT New Date: Saturday, June 26, 10:00 AM Zoom ID: 872 0817 2815 Pass Code: 850 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87208172815?pwd=MUR1NnZ2czNGbVp6amlPOEZCV0dodz09 Dr. Allan Seid Among the many contributions to our community by Allan and Mary Seid, residents on Channing House’s 7th Floor, is the founding in 1973 of the Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI). This vital organization is even more pertinent today. Co-sponsored by the Channing House Speakers’ and Racial & Social Justice Committees 4 Baumb, Nelly From:mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:26 AM To:Council, City Cc:Tom DuBois tom.dubois@gmail.com; Rebecca Eisenberg; Becky Sanders; leohochberg@gmail.com; William Riggs; David Moss; Alison Cormack Subject:Ventura green party CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Maybe rather than dense housing or mixed use office space, the 60‐acre Ventura Garden District can feature a right  sized public amenity modeled after Austin’s new soccer‐ music venue.   I would personally put the first $26,000 towards a $260m greenlit project.   Maybe tied in with Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a Musicians Village.     Here’s more info on Austin:      Keep Austin Weird” is a slogan that folks in the capital of Texas wear on their sleeve, and the city’s thriving music scene,  spread across a wide variety of concert venues, makes up a big part of that independent feel and culture.  Q2 Stadium, the new home of Major League Soccer’s Austin FC, is joining the mix of live music facilities in town. The  $260 million stadium has multiple event spaces to set up small shows apart from the main seating bowl.  The U.S. women’s national soccer team opened the stadium with a 2‐0 victory over Nigeria on Wednesday, and Austin  FC will play its first game there Saturday.  Andy Loughnane, president of Austin FC, said the team envisions holding three to seven on‐field concerts annually,  pending the MLS schedule. The organization invested a significant amount of money for concert infrastructure,  Loughnane said, although he did not specify how much.    A permanent concert stage sits underneath the 4,000‐space supporters section on the south end, which stands among  the biggest in MLS. The rigging capacity of 150,000 pounds can accommodate most major tours.   In addition, Austin FC invested in a multicolored LED sport lighting system produced by local firm Sportsbeams  Lighting that can be used for concerts. It’s the first newly constructed stadium in the world to feature that product as a  point of differentiation, Loughnane said.  “From day one, having a multifunctional stadium was part of our core design principles,” he said. “Austin is a live  entertainment destination, and the city is accustomed to hosting large‐scale events. We can be a perfect complement. It  is a soccer stadium, but we want it to be active year round.”   5 6 The Captain Morgan Club looks out on a 2,500‐capacity amphitheater outside the stadium. (Ryan Gobuty / Gensler)  Several MLS stadiums play host to concerts on the field. Some of the league’s early soccer‐specific venues such as  SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois, were built with concrete pads and rigging systems in the end zones to support  live music productions.   Most recently, Banc of California Stadium, which opened in 2018 in Los Angeles, has booked festival‐style shows on the  field.  In Austin, Q2 Stadium takes the live music element to a higher level with added versatility for those productions.  The team, in conjunction with architect Gensler, general contractor Austin Commercial and owner’s representative CAA  Icon, developed a 2,500‐capacity amphitheater on the east side next to the stadium.  It’s a terraced lawn setting with six levels and is equipped with a stage, sound and lighting. Patrons can sit on those seat  walls or bring their lawn chairs and blankets, said Jonathan Emmett, Gensler’s principal and design director.   The Captain Morgan Club on the east side, an indoor‐outdoor space with capacity for 700, spills out to the back of the  amphitheater, adding value for those club seat buyers in terms of the concert experience.  “It’s a venue within a venue,” Emmett said. “It’s all about scalability. The idea that you can bring a music event in here  that’s playing to 300 people or 2,000 or 25,000 in the seating bowl is a very intentional piece of this project. It’s going to  be one of those things that gives it an Austin feel.”  As it stands now, the amphitheater is a pretty basic setup, but it will evolve as Austin FC becomes more familiar with the  space and its operations expand. There’s room to create a seated pavilion with greater production elements and back‐ of‐house structure, Loughnane said.  Dan Vaillant, senior vice president of CAA Icon, the owner’s representative for Austin FC, has been involved with the Q2  Stadium project since late 2016. It’s his third MLS development, which extends to the expansion of BMO Field in Toronto  and Nashville SC’s new stadium, opening in 2022. Austin FC’s ownership group stood out with its commitment to  embrace all events, Vaillant said.  “A lot of these owners get into these buildings and don’t want to mess up the pitch by putting a concert in there,” he  said. “They go in with grand plans and then hardly do any shows. This owner sees an opportunity to do concerts in  Austin and they’re going to aggressively chase it by doing as many as they can. It’s definitely in their pro forma.”  The stadium’s roof canopy is a key piece for all events, including soccer, Vaillant said. The canopy covers all 20,500 seats,  which is critical in the heat of Texas summers. That’s not the case for older MLS venues in Dallas and Houston, Emmett  said.  “The upcost for doing that wasn’t as significant as if we had to build a canopy for concerts,” Vaillant said. “We were  building it anyway. We added the rigging grid and retractable seats on the south end and the stage (underneath the  stands), which helps with changeovers because you’re not pulling the stage off the pitch. All of that was done purposely  so we can maximize events.”  The parking lot on the stadium’s north side can also be programmed for live music as secondary stages tied to a festival’s  main stage in the seating bowl The parking lot is made up of grass pavers, which is a plastic grid system installed  underneath the grass itself. It’s more durable than just laying sod down on its own over bare ground, Vaillant said.  For Austin FC, the festivals would fall into the small to midsize category compared with some MLS stadiums that have  held rock festivals with up to 40,000 people, Loughnane said.  “We anticipate being in the festival business with the interior of the stadium built to accommodate headliner acts,” he  said. “The parking lots can be used as part of the festival structure. We built an attractive (complex) for artists to  consider not only for a first visit to Q2 Stadium, but make it much easier to have a return visit.”     In terms of Sobrato, CEO Matt Sonsini was a schoolmate of mine at both Gunn and Dartmouth. Another Sobrato honcho,  D. Kemp Valentine is a former Dartmouth Alpha Chi and rugby player.     This is no pipe dream, but it would take some big green, feel me?    Mark Weiss   For those who love to rock (we salute you)  Palo Alto      8 Baumb, Nelly From:Anthony Spaelti <aspaelti@stanford.edu> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:53 AM To:Council, City Cc:Will Scott Subject:Ask for input for Palo Alto-based civic engagement platform Attachments:CivicBell Teaser vLocal.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Mayor DuBois, Vice Mayor Burt, Council Members Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,    Research indicates that as local government officials, it is getting harder to easily stay connected with the people you  serve. Many citizens feel similar, yet most of them would like to be more engaged.    Will Scott (cc'd) and I, both residents of Palo Alto, are currently developing CivicBell to mitigate this. CivicBell is an online  civic engagement platform aimed at connecting citizens with their government officials in a nonpartisan manner. Our  goal is to make it super‐easy for citizens to understand who their government officials are and what they are up to. All  while giving those officials an easy way to engage with their constituents. No communication overflow or  unconstructive bantering!     As we develop this platform, we want to ensure the value‐add for officials and get their views in as early as possible. At  this point, we have secured enough funding to develop the platform. This is why we are reaching out to you — we would  be excited if we could elaborate on our approach with each of you individually and gather your feedback before we kick‐ off the development process. We attached a short primer PDF to this email for your information as well.    Please let us know if this is feasible — we will happily accommodate your schedule!    Thank you!    Respectfully,  Anthony      Anthony Spaelti  Co‐founder  (650) 732‐6702 | anthony@civicbell.com    CivicBell, LLC  112 Seale Ave  Palo Alto, CA‐94301  The contents of this document are confidential and proprietary.Any use of this material without specific permission of CivicBell, LLC is strictly prohibited Enabling a Civically Informed and Engaged America Teaser June 2021 Meet us 2 Will Scott Served 10 years in the USMC as a Marine Special Operations Officer and a Marine Aviator. B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy Currently pursuing an MBA at Stanford Anthony Spaelti Worked at McKinsey & Company for over 4 years as a digital and public sector consultant. B.A. in International Affairs from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Currently pursuing an MBA at Stanford Co-founder Co-founder 3 Our research indicates a feeling of disconnect between the American people and their elected officials of Americans would like to be more informed about what their elected officials are up to 77% of Americans think it is relatively or extremely difficult to reach out to their elected officials 55% of Americans think none or only a subgroup1 of their elected officials understand their opinion on issues important to them 71% 1 32% answered “none”, 17% answered “only state/federal”, 22% answered “only local” elected officials understand their opinion on issues important to them N=553; age and gender census-balanced sample of citizens across the US. Confidence interval 95% with margin of error +/-4% . 4 At CivicBell we picture a world where… 1 CivicBell is not associated with Facebook, Inc. or any of its subsidiaries …staying politically informed is as easy as scrolling through a Facebook1 feed. …government officials can understand their constituency at the click of a button. …citizens can make their voices heard without flooding government officials’ inboxes. CivicBell is a nonpartisan civic engagement platform that connects citizens with the government officials representing them 5 For government officialsFor citizens Your Civic Feed Show discussion board Publish poll Discard poll Are you in favor of a $15 minimum wage? Yea Nay Enable discussion board for this post ▸Get instant access to your 50-100 directly representing government officials ▸Easily share your sentiment and opinion with your government officials ▸Easily engage with your actual constituency and receive 100% relevant voter-only feedback ▸Be in control how and when to engage with your constituency We are working on a bill that will bring more transparency to what happens to your tax dollars (read more) Only your actual constituency has access to CivicBell, thus bringing you invaluable insights 6 Customer journey for Government Officials Easily reach out to your constituency with posts and polls Quickly foster true civic engagement by enabling discussions Receive valuable analytics on citizens’ sentiment ▸You decide how you want to reach out: Private post or poll, or a public post ▸Your private posts and polls will only reach your constituency –truly only the people who can vote for you or whom you directly represent ▸Citizens will see your post while browsing through their Civic Feed, the news feed containing all posts from their government officials ▸If you activate your post’s discussion board, you can actively engage with your constituents and hear their opinions ▸You can always check demographics on who answered polls, participated in discussions, etc. ▸Our sentiment analysis will help you understand what topics are priority for your constituency based on your posts and how your constituency reacted to them Publish poll Discard poll Are you in favor of a $15 minimum wage? Yea Nay Your Civic Feed Yea Nay Insights into your “$15 minimum wage” poll Your poll was answered by 85%of your constituency. Breakdown Representative? etc. Gender AgeEnable discussion board for this post Show discussion board24 messages in 3 threads Unlike past platforms, our platform is created with government officials in mind 7 Only government officials can create content for the main feed (“Civic Feed”), citizens can’t directly post there Only actual constituents have direct engagement access to government officials Government officials control the means of communication, e.g., surveys, discussion boards, private messages Government officials decide how far their posts are reachable, i.e., private (“for constituents only”) or public 8 Americans are willing to use a dedicated online platform to satisfy their appetite for civic engagement Never 10% Occasionally 13% 34% 43% During elections Regularly Q: Would you use an easy-to-use app/webpage that allows you to stay informed and connected to your local government and elected officials? might use such a platform regularly or occasionally 76% N=553; age and gender census-balanced sample of citizens across the US. Confidence interval 95% with margin of error +/-4% . Thank you! ▸Will Scott will@civicbell.com (484) 716-9133 ▸Anthony Spaelti anthony@civicbell.com (650) 732-6702 We are excited to hear your thoughts 9 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:14 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: of interest NEJM article Attachments:Anti asian sentiment.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Lawrence Basso <basso@stanford.edu>  Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 10:23 PM  Subject:  New England Journal of Medicine article.  Dear Neighbors and Friends,    An insightful and helpful article from Larry Basso, M.D. on clinicians treating AAPI   victims of hate violence.    Allan  PERSPECTIVE 2367 Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorders n engl j med 384;25 nejm.org June 24, 2021 that treat prenatal substance use as child abuse or neglect fail to achieve their intend- ed goals. Health Aff (Millwood) 2020; 39: 756-63. 5. Admon LK, Dalton VK, Kolenic GE, et al. Trends in suicidality 1 year before and after birth among commercially insured child- bearing individuals in the United States, 2006-2017. JAMA Psychiatry 2021; 78: 171- 6. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2101051 Copyright © 2021 Massachusetts Medical Society.Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorders Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment — A Practical Guide for Clinicians James H. Lee, M.D. Since March 2020, Asian Amer- icans have experienced an alarming increase in racial dis- crimination and racially motivat- ed violence.1 Commentators have attributed this distressing fact to the blame placed on China for causing the Covid-19 pandemic, given that the virus was initially discovered in Wuhan. Some top U.S. government officials perpet- uated this attitude by referring to Covid-19 as the “China Virus” and “Kung Flu.” Because non- Asian people in the United States often conflate Asian subgroups, many people have directed their anti-Chinese sentiment toward people of other Asian heritage. Violence against Asian Ameri- cans has persisted at high rates throughout the pandemic, most recently involving the shootings of multiple women, leading to their deaths. But anti-Asian racism is not limited to the Covid-19 pandem- ic. The 2003 SARS outbreak was similarly racialized, with Asian- American people depicted as uniquely potent vectors. Indeed, the United States has a long his- tory of anti-Asian racism ground- ed in xenophobia, even during periods without a new infectious disease burden; such racism af- fects every age group and plays out across myriad settings.2 This discrimination has escalated in the face of the continued racial- ization of Covid-19. Over the past 12 months, 31% of Asian-Ameri- can people have reported being subjected to slurs or racist jokes, 26% have feared that someone might threaten or physically at- tack them, and 58% believe that anti-Asian racism has increased since the beginning of the pan- demic.3 The current growing antiracism movement in the United States has largely centered on anti-Black- ness, which has been recognized as embedded in institutions such as law enforcement, the prison– industrial complex, and the health care system. Some scholars theo- rize that race and racism in the United States operate along a Black/White binary, so that non- Black people of color and the racism they experience are per- ceived in relation to Blackness and anti-Blackness.4 Given that the recent increase in anti-Asian sentiment occurred alongside the highly publicized and protested murders of Black people, the Black/White binary may help explain why the recent surge in racism against Asian Americans has remained under- reported. Though the relative in- visibility of Asian Americans that results from this racial dichoto- mization is a long-standing issue, underreporting over the past year has been particularly egregious. Public awareness of crimes against Asian Americans increased in February 2021 only because of a boost from social media and subsequent attention by national news outlets. This increased ex- posure has highlighted the vi- cious nature of these crimes, and Asian Americans are left anxious about the lives of their loved ones and fearful for their own. During the pandemic, clini- cians have been treating many patients experiencing the social isolation, financial hardship, and sometimes overwhelming ennui imposed by quarantining. On top of these common conditions, many Asian Americans are feel- ing the stress of increased anti- Asian sentiment; they may have emotional distress after a verbal assault or anxiety regarding their physical well-being. Physicians can tailor their practices to meet this moment by creating a wel- coming environment for Asian- American patients and identify- ing symptoms that stem from living in a racist environment (see table). Physicians can then address these symptoms by pro- viding patients with treatments and resources to help reduce this increased psychological strain. Hate crimes have occurred in a wide variety of locations, poten- tially causing Asian-American pa- tients to feel unsafe in spaces they previously deemed safe, in- cluding hospitals and clinics. To alleviate this discomfort, health care providers can make some changes in their offices to ease The New England Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org by Lawrence Basso on June 23, 2021. For personal use only. No other uses without permission. Copyright © 2021 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. PERSPECTIVE 2368 Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment n engl j med 384;25 nejm.org June 24, 2021 patients into clinical settings. Outpatient practices can make Asian-American patients feel wel- come by having brochures trans- lated into languages commonly spoken in the surrounding com- munities of color and displaying them openly. In addition, signs in office lobbies or exam rooms indicating that translators are available can make patients aware of such services. Though inpa- tient spaces may be less flexible than outpatient clinics, hospitals can take some actions to pro- mote patient comfort; for exam- ple, they can accommodate patient requests to move a roommate who has made discriminatory remarks. Creating a safe space for Asian Americans includes protecting Asian-American health care work- ers. Many Asian employees, espe- cially those who work closely with patients, such as nursing staff and social workers, experi- ence anti-Asian racism on the job. Most health care workers have undergone some level of cultural competency training, which can be augmented with more target- ed techniques such as bystander intervention and crisis de-escala- tion. Training in these techniques will allow health care workers to more effectively and immediately respond to discrimination against a patient or colleague. By instituting the aforemen- tioned changes, physicians can cre- ate a welcoming milieu that allows for directly addressing race in pa- tient visits. I believe physicians should become comfortable asking whether patients have experienced Practices for Combating Anti-Asian Racism. General Approach and Specific Practices Examples Creating a safe space in outpatient settings Hanging welcoming signage in lobbies or waiting areas Include flags from the Asian countries most heavily represented in the lo- cal community Displaying welcoming images and literature Ensure racial diversity of depiction of patients and clinicians in pam- phlets, brochures, and posters around the office Creating a safe space in inpatient settings Making rooming accommodations Provide separate rooms for patients of color and patients who make discriminatory remarks Creating a safe space for staff Augmenting cultural competency training Teach bystander intervention, crisis de-escalation Consider further training in culturally adapted cognitive behavioral therapy to gain further expertise in discussing race with patients and colleagues5 Offering institutional support after staff member experiences a hate crime Provide access to counseling Permit medical leaves for recovery from discrimination History taking Specifically mentioning racism when acquiring patient history Ask “Have you found yourself more anxious in light of the recent hate crimes against Asians?” Ask “Do you avoid certain locations due to fear of being discriminated against?” Screening for depression, anxiety, substance use, elder abuse (especially if patient lives in nursing home), bullying or cyberbullying (especially in adolescents), post-traumatic stress disorder Use relevant screening questions and instruments Physical exam Skin exam Evaluate for TEARS (tears in skin, ecchymoses, abrasions, redness, swelling) Musculoskeletal exam Evaluate for abnormal gait, pain with movement or on palpation Documentation Consider photographing lesions to document how injuries change over time Document a thorough “head-to-toe” physical exam, or consider further imaging Resources Providing resources specifically addressing anti- Asian sentiment Stop AAPI Hate https://stopaapihate . org/ Asian Americans Advancing Justice https://www . advancingjustice - aajc . org/ Organization of Chinese Americans https://www . ocanational . org/ Asian Counseling and Referral Services https://acrs . org/ The New England Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org by Lawrence Basso on June 23, 2021. For personal use only. No other uses without permission. Copyright © 2021 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. PERSPECTIVE 2369 Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment n engl j med 384;25 nejm.org June 24, 2021 racism — a question that could both signal that the physician is open to discussing race and re- frame a conversation to permit consideration of the effects of rac- ism on health. Assessing whether Asian-American patients feel safe in their homes, in their neighbor- hoods, or on public transit could be a way of introducing the top- ic gently. Undertaking targeted screen ing for depression, anxiety, and substance use with racism in mind can reveal symptoms that patients may have previously dismissed. Special consideration should be given to the patient’s age, so that, for instance, clinicians screen for elder abuse in nursing home settings and for (in person and online) bullying in children. If a patient reports having ex- perienced a hate crime, it is ap- propriate to treat the incident as a traumatic experience. Doing so would require taking a more thorough history of the incident and using a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) screening instru- ment to assess the patient for psychological distress and loss in function. Broader screening ques- tions allow physicians to capture information about both recent and remote events, such as racial trauma patients may have experi- enced before the pandemic. Though physical findings will be rarer than psychological ones, a physical exam including thor- ough skin and musculoskeletal exams should be done regardless of whether the patient has dis- closed a hate crime. Such an exam could reveal some signs of an al- tercation that a patient may not have disclosed. If there are such physical findings, the physician should consider racially motivated assault in the differential diag- nosis, alongside more common occurrences such as domestic abuse and accidental trauma. Thorough documentation of the physical exam is critical, and wounds or injuries that are not healing appropriately should be investigated further. Clinicians have access to a wide variety of resources, includ- ing organizations such as STOP AAPI Hate and Asian Americans Advancing Justice and colleagues in social work, case manage- ment, and psychiatry. Physicians can prophylactically address harms from anti-Asian sentiment in part by connecting patients with re- sources that might not have been considered if the conversation were not directed toward race. The long history of racist abuse of Asian Americans has caused substantial distress in Asian- American communities. Even if the recent increase in media at- tention to anti-Asian hate crimes prompts action to curb this vio- lence, the effects of racism will remain. Physicians should act to address anti-Asian sentiment by tailoring their practice both in- side and outside patient rooms to make Asian-American patients and colleagues feel safe. These small changes will allow clini- cians to capture diagnoses they might otherwise miss and to connect Asian-American patients with resources essential to their well-being, thereby providing ho- listic care that accounts for pa- tients’ lived experience of race. Disclosure forms provided by the author are available at NEJM.org. From the Department of Psychiatry and Psy- chology, University of Washington, Seattle. This article was published on March 24, 2021, at NEJM.org. 1. Le TK, Cha L, Han HR, Tseng W. Anti- Asian xenophobia and Asian American COVID-19 disparities. Am J Public Health 2020; 110: 1371-3. 2. Stop AAPI hate national report 3.19.20– 8.5.20 (https://secureservercdn . net/ 104 . 238 . 69 . 231/ a1w . 90d . myftpupload . com/ wp - content/ uploads/ 2020/ 10/ Stop_AAPI_Hate _National_Report_200805 . pdf). 3. Pew Research Center. Many Black and Asian Americans say they have experienced discrimination amid the COVID-19 outbreak (https://www . pewresearch . org/ social - trends/ 2020/ 07/ 01/ many - black - and - asian - americans - say - they - have - experienced - discrimination - amid - the - covid - 19 - outbreak/ ). 4. Delgado R, Stefancic J. Critical race the- ory: the cutting edge. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. 5. Naz S, Gregory R, Bahu M. Addressing issues of race, ethnicity and culture in CBT to support therapists and service managers to deliver culturally competent therapy and reduce inequalities in mental health provi- sion for BAME service users. Cogn Behav Ther 2019; 12: 22. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2102656 Copyright © 2021 Massachusetts Medical Society.Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment Escape from Covid World! Enter the first-ever NEJM Medical Fiction Contest and release your inner storyteller. Judged by a panel of Medical Fiction All Stars: Perri Klass, M.D., author of The Mercy Rule Daniel Mason, M.D., author of The Winter Soldier Abraham Verghese, M.D., author of Cutting for Stone Entries welcome from June 15 through July 15, 2021. For essential information, see NEJM.org/medicine-and-society. The New England Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org by Lawrence Basso on June 23, 2021. For personal use only. No other uses without permission. Copyright © 2021 Massachusetts Medical Society. 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Cc: <cmoffice@cityofepa.org>, <jfontes@cityofepa.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>  Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 12:16 PM  Subject: Re: PGA golfer Tiger Woods designed coloring books..does it sing Blues? plagiarism stop Calling Efferan Efferan  Efferan Milwaukee Moroccan Oregon Chai tea... who's in Diva's therapy classes? Attend By email or in person.  To: <info@excelsm.com>    Did Bill De Blasio..play drinking games games with alcoholic beverages in the 1980's in Alameda County California? What  was then better not be now. Did Bill De Blasio force drivers to drive drunk from any golf courses....near Pleasanton CA to  San Jose,CA? Made a stop for food stamps at Santa Clara social Services for food stamps in the 1980's?      Yes.Yes. yes.   11   Name those drunk drivers now? Name those men whom abuse food stamp cards. Ronald Coleman an African Thailand  this n that..man..man he ain't my dad..his wife Elaine ain't my mother..they..live in Sacramento CA.    So what..bkah blah..which cars they drove? Did .i talk about the 1980's whereas Olympian Bruce Jenner..his style of  having sex with boys..his abuse with girls who like the boys he sexually abused and spreaded STD'S..Bruce held BBQ's  with Cannibals..hello, what's up..Bruce gangster mentally prepared food for Cannibals...is Bruce a Latin King gangster?  Stop being mean to Jeremiah Farmer..ain't no way he killed in 1999. Jeremiah Farmer..who he like women..the women  whom were beaten up by Bruce Jenner for liking the boys he molested.     How many drunk drivers..did Diva Jobs prevented crashes on the freeway between Pleasanton CA to San Jose,CA? Was  Bruce Jenner aka Caitlyn Jenner an Hwy 5 serial killer based on the novel "Rules". Now it's time to arrest those hwy 5  serial killers.  Hello everyone my name is Diva Jobs aka Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman.shut up shut up..no no no Caitlyn  Jenner may not become a California Governor because of his previous name Bruce Jenner.      Was that to stir up donor Transplant storage unit? Bill De Blasio was in a colma..Los Gatos Police in the 1980's..got sick  from Bruce Jenner aka Caitlyn Jenner's breakfast.. remember the fights with ketchup and hotsauce.. remember the big  big closets the dinning rooms whereas Bruce Jenner and Bill Marriott hotel owner had hunger strikes..they had extreme  sports.. tooth for a tooth eye for an eye. Only pankcake breakfast being served..one pat of butter one drop of Agave  syrup..one spoon not one beer, one shot of Whiskey. Nowadays Mexican drink whiskey and run n coke they sing  Reggaeton..diva a negro women sings "Remember Me from Disney movie "Coco". I tired of being Miguel..that charector  analysis..I see too many ghosts ..where is papa? It was Father's day.. weekend..     Bill De Blasio the New York Mayor his way of being.. competitive East Coast to the West Coast. Blah blah bolonge..Bill De  Blasio..needs to remember SF Civil rights leader Jack Berman...what did Jack Berman die from? Blongeoned in the  head..his attackers applied a wig cap which exploded inside the cremation hot..oven in 1991.     I said it..and I say it again. Caitlyn Jenner may not become a California Governor based on his name Bruce the hwy 5  serial killer. Stop plagiarism.    In Newark CA in the 1980's..Bruce Jenner molested boys and beaten up girls whom played with boys that he molested.  His wife Kris Jenner applied crystal red hot sauce n ketchup on those girls whom were beaten up...they totally kept  inviting kids they abused into their car for a ride to the grocery stores.. that's what you see..is blood, hot sauce  ketchup..Bruce Jenner aka Caitlyn Jenner and his wife Kris Jenner..prepared for the Cannibals lunch. Martha Stewart  stole Peggy Ryen's cookbook journals..in Chino hills CA in 1983..that cold case..that Chino hills CA massacre..this n that  Kim Kardashian braids hair,does pedicures, manicures..burnt hair..she is an professional arsonist.she burnt up a Valley  Fair nail salon..Kim..is a. commercial building developer..not a lawyer at all. ..it was Kim Kardashian who burnt up Napa  to Oregon..with a Hennessy fires in Fairfield CA. Blah blah blah bolonge. U ain't never seen a Filipino braid horse hair.  The Samoan hair extensions are piled up on their head instead of fruits.. a Korean store online on top of Samoans not  Filipino Spaghetti No Jollibee Boo Boo No. Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Jobs aka Diva Lee.       On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 11:15 AM Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com> wrote:  Hello, Excel Sports manager this n that. Fly me to the Moon so I could be among the stars.. Shenandoah Virginia..what  what California knows how to party..New York New York..I want to be a part of it. Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs braids..wants  a new phone number and title Diva California Governor. Like like like like I scare. Plagiarism stop calling..A San Jose,CA  thumbsucker charector analysis of Oak Hill Cemetery in San Jose CA a golf course.  Dignity golf coursework. Tiger  Woods's homework is due. Send payment to P.O.Box 3414 Fairfield CA. This is an email class not online classes. Math  Sequences of boxes n boxes of hair extensions..no horse hair mane n tail shampoo. Check it out..it's not Wheel of  Fortune TV shows. It's Diva Jobs aka Diva Lee aka Hadley Lee remember the identical twin Jamacian girls.Jamacian  Asian male Errol Lee's sisters or cousins. Bunny Striker Edward Lee's daughter or niece.   12 This email is either going to Tiger Woods aka Eldrick Tony or Tiger Woods aka Bob Woods or aka Office space. What.  what. what. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY.     Key words: Payless Shoes Source. Year 1980's. Picnics near Saratoga,CA.. whereas Tiger Woods's father had to remove  his sandles place his foot into a women's shoe it's a ..102 degrees ...it's father's day weekend. Men/boys must walk  across the hot pavement of the school's parking lot..in a women's shoe.    Is PGA golfer Tiger Woods designed for his real father a transexual living as a pack rat with lots of plants in the front  yard 2‐3 lizzards minus 2 to the power of 3. Located at 250 "proof" Palo Alto CA.   Charlie's Angels that's nice.. Disney's grandson Brad Lund.. didn't rewind the blockbuster movie "Coco". Diva is  alive..tired of being Miguel charector analysis for the Mexican heritage Ofendas.. GHOSTS type who's the most recent  ghost sightings..it's Eartha Kitt. Eartha Kitt she supposed to be dead. Eartha Kitt's afterlife..I gonna leave my phone  battery is at 87percent. I don't want to say that Jazz singer/actress Eartha Kitt is very haunted. Haunting Diva Jobs.  Eartha Kitt her ghosts friendly?   Someone from Excel Sports manager tap out..grab LMNOP is our song..but you sung about STD'S. All them pantyhose  that Jazz singer Eartha Kitt wore in the 1980's‐1990's..ended up in a closet..a closet where instruments are stored in  cool temperature.. Cabrillo College Aptos CA.. that is it.    I advise for Excel Sports manager this n that to have a suitcase with deordrant degree is good.     If Tiger Woods only has one foot..and the other foot is a mechanical pencil..make loud fart sounds..peas farts..clean up  and down inside and out of trombone, trumpet,clarinet..cut off that pantyhose.make it into a knee high. I forgot to  floss my teeth..is it Violin strings or string cheese?     Attachment#1 is it plagiarism..on a coloring book?     Diva Jobs aka Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman has really tried..to make a coloring book.     Diva living inside San Jose CA Little Orchard homeless shelter..3 blocks from a Cemetery burial grounds.   Needs letters for Alphabet soups send  poster vision board..as an attachment.    Why can't you just relocate Diva to SF Diva hotels and other details are as such: X‐Men apocalypse movies..sucks..dog  tv British backyard blues. I need tofu..I tired of being the charector Miguel in Disney movie "Coco". I ain't got a guitar..I  ain't got a dad. I ain't got downsyndrome.     What else am I? Tiger Woods today for yesterday's homework is due.         Dear Mayor DuBois and Councilmembers: lQZI JI'".! 2 I M1 12: 2 I I am writing to urge you to pass a safe storage ordinance. As we recover rfrom the recent qiass . -.JI I ' r shooting in San Jose, and the mass shootings that have been occurring all over our country, the time for action on gun violence prevention is now. We cannot afford to wait to pass common sense gun policies that keep our communities safe. Last December, the City Council directed city staff to draft an ordinance requiring the safe storage of firearms at home. This is an urgent matter of public safety. A safe storage ordinance would require firearms at home to be stored unloaded and locked when unattended. California law does not currently require these specific steps. Many California cities and counties have enacted safe storage laws. Palo Alto has a chance to join these cities in showing that keeping their communities safe from gun violence is a priority. Gun ownership is at epidemic proportions and it ts our responsibility to keep our children safe. It has been nearly six months since the City Council directed the writing of the ordinance. Our community cannot wait any longer for change. I write today to urge you to make the adoption of a safe storage of firearms ordinance a priority and pass the safe storage ordinance immediately, for the sake of our children. Thank you for your work on this issue so far. Sincerely, . ~\ Caroleann and Stephen Eittreim~ 1975 Ivy Lane Palo Alto, CA 94303 650-856-6977 N ("")~ --1 -1-< C--< C: (7~ :z: r N ~"' ,&:'" ::o ► ::,::r :i:a vie: ::x OJ;:> -,,r --, .. ~c c...> c,("") N) r,,J::> ---- o~ u1 c-c:I )1-4-~) Sl VJ'<f ~ +> ~ * ~ uft-/v-4r•7 /iv-e_ ~ Ro..,,,,. -"' S-r ~ ~ ~1~ a,,,.) b,·; ~ /4. 0%1 J"1,) .. ~. _p .t.we /: ... J -e,ot~)~ ~<941 ~·J d ~~. ? Le, flllf' 1 ~ ~vv:~.I ~ ~ s~,JJ ~ 1 r--kj >r~ -lo k ,\ (#.~~·,.P_ 701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 08/09/2021 Document dates: 06/23/2021 – 07/28/2021 Council Summer Break Set 4 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, July 3, 2021 2:55 PM To:Council, City; nationofislam27@gmail.com Cc:diversity@chanzuckerberg.com; 60amw.actionline@us.af.mil Subject:Fwd: Gang violence situation domestic abuser Narcissistic Roberto..a Homefirst homeless shelter employee..his charector analysis..since the 1980's... escalated..into bullying, narcissist behaviors in 2021. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>  Date: Sat, Jul 3, 2021, 2:42 PM  Subject: Fwd: Gang violence situation domestic abuser Narcissistic Roberto..a Homefirst homeless shelter employee..his  charector analysis..since the 1980's... escalated..into bullying, narcissist behaviors in 2021.  To: <sfpdbayviewstation@sfgov.org>, <sfpdinglesidestation@sfgov.org>  Cc: <districtattorney@sfgov.org>, <vera@rubysplace.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>  Date: Sat, Jul 3, 2021, 1:55 PM  Subject: Fwd: Gang violence situation domestic abuser Narcissistic Roberto..a Homefirst homeless shelter employee..his  charector analysis..since the 1980's... escalated..into bullying, narcissist behaviors in 2021.  To: <kindon.meik@cityofcorcoran.com>  Cc: <kleincouncil@sunnyvale.ca.gov>, <robert.mcconnell@cityofvallejo.net>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>  Date: Sat, Jul 3, 2021, 1:53 PM  Subject: Fwd: Gang violence situation domestic abuser Narcissistic Roberto..a Homefirst homeless shelter employee..his  charector analysis..since the 1980's... escalated..into bullying, narcissist behaviors in 2021.  To: <info@catholiccharitiesscc.org>, <sfpdinglesidestation@sfgov.org>  Cc: Family Law Facilitators <FLF@solano.courts.ca.gov>, <tricia.wade@marriott.com>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>  Date: Sat, Jul 3, 2021, 1:50 PM  Subject: Fwd: Gang violence situation domestic abuser Narcissistic Roberto..a Homefirst homeless shelter employee..his  charector analysis..since the 1980's... escalated..into bullying, narcissist behaviors in 2021.  2 To: <hprice@fairfield.ca.gov>, <Reuben.Shortnacy@corcoranpd.com>  Cc: <jfontes@cityofepa.org>, <police@newark.org>    Little Orchard homeless guests..Dilma Coleman explain how much she is a Psychic medium empath paranormal  hypochondriac think tank..her task to make  resumes and charector analysis of the people around her.. their behavioral..  charectoristics.. she trying to recover from Trashy drug addicts alcoholic who work in Santa Clara county.     Dilma is a good former Dept of rehabilitation counselor no no she was a medic/ Psychiatric nurse assistance..in Santa  Rita jail, Brooklyn NY Prison, All the BOP's..former San Quentin fire fighter medic..who deals with..it's called suicidal  Prevention..but Santa Clara county DA Jeff Rosen and his evil cohorts such as Roberto and others.in Psychiatric  care...just keep a vicious cycle of Dilma Coleman is mentally ill and 5150.. delusional this n that has no children...what  they do with her children? Oooh they are Exploited..with a foster parent..or something like that.     .Dilma Coleman only‐begotten patient an outpatient..with Enborg Psychiatric doctors those medical records..never said  anything about Dilma a psychiatrist assistance..or nurse..or mother who has Children. . Work history.. Airforce military  combat..all them pantyhose wrapped up and down inside and out..how is Dilma Coleman supposed to be Rehabilitated  back to work as a lawyer.plastic surgeon primary care physician..neuosurgeon...whatever..u want stop it. Who pretends  to be haunted by Eartha Kitt..SF Civil Rights attorney Jack Berman, Bill Gates mother Mary Maxwell..at little Orchard  homeless shelter in San Jose CA. Ding.     Rosen plugged Dilma an opportunity to work in the DA's office. Dilma ran away..why why why..is it haunted..or  something like Rosen is a serial killer attorney his leadership..those under his leadership..really appreciate..they all act  like Santa Clara county judge Manley..his mental health court.. that's trash.. Exploited addicts pretend that their court  case never repeats like a Budweiser's commercial during World Series..I care. Retire judge Manley and his sorcerery  courtroom. Stop that revolving door..    Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee a family therapist yeah she was one. A.A. counselor..yeah she was..one.CPS social  worker..yes she was.. narcotics tobacco firearms agent..yes she was. Everytime Dilma sees Rosen and his evil  cohorts..Dilma runs away like a pyscho..thru the Hypnosis of Rosen..the scene is packets of ketchup..at the bus  stop..then one packet inside Rosen's mouth..Rosen eats fried chicken with ketchup..Rosen eats taco bell's tacos with  ketchup. Baskin Robbins ice cream..he eats it..places ketchup packets down near..the Baskin Robbins..move down  there..why ketchup packets near laundry.. Yvette Pena had fork knifes..in her backside.yvette Pena was not killed by  Jaime Osuna..in a.. Bakersfield CA hotel..room whereas Cannibals with N.A.M.B.L.A..protested..there..their events..go  around those prison guards at Cocoran prison.. Cocoran police.their laundry had packets of ketchup...backup towards  the hwy 5 car accidents...in the 1980's‐1990's whereas Rosen his Cohorts include Cannibals..either they hungry or  not..their campers with boiling hot water..look at Luis Romero..his charector analysis..his victimized situation of how he  was transferred from Mule Creek prison to Corcoran State Prison..explain the way Luis Romero's body parts to be cut  was reshearsed..inside a Santa Clara CA apartment but performed at Cocoran state Prison. Jaime Osuna ain't the  killer..in fact the instruments used to cut  Corcoran State Prison inmate..was inside a medical clinic in San Jose CA near  Sacred Heart food pantry. Little Orchard homeless shelter was always a go to place for Rosen to date men in his boy  club..he used it as a drunk tank for himself..and for those men over age 18..freshly recruits into his boy club.     Santa Clara county need to move Dilma Coleman to an extended stay hotel..or something like that...do it now..Solano  County could relocate Dilma Coleman from Santa Clara county back to Solano county to deal with their corruption..and  their mistakes..place Dilma in a housing situation.. compensation package..right away.. do it..let Dilma Coleman recover  her children..let Dilma gain employment..let Dilma be a mother.. Fairfield CA Police..need to document how Roberto and  Sacred Heart Catholic Church clergy dragged Dilma down the hallway at Marriott hotel in Fairfield CA..in 2020..&  2021.  Dilma was incoherent.sexually abused..she sees whom abused her they work at little orchard..homefirst  Homeless shelter..get a police report of the sexual abuse..maybe Dilma is pregnant thru sexual assualt.. Covid test  continue Covid vaccine continues..stop Sexual assualt..stop Rosen's cohorts..arrest The GM of Marriott hotels in Fairfield  3 CA...do it now....suspend the licenses of David Haet Dept 20 and yes yes..follow thru with family law facilitators..and  CPS..in Solano County. Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee.   ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>  Date: Sat, Jul 3, 2021, 12:49 PM  Subject: Fwd: Gang violence situation domestic abuser Narcissistic Roberto..a Homefirst homeless shelter employee..his  charector analysis..since the 1980's... escalated..into bullying, narcissist behaviors in 2021.  To: <jliu@cityofepa.org>, <police@newark.org>  Cc: <police@santaclaraca.gov>, <districtattorney@sfgov.org>    Hello, Diva lee aka Dilma Coleman..is a professional empath, Psychic medium paranormal think tank...why don't u shut  up..   No no no no.. humantrafficking labor trafficking sex trafficking ur police reform..is started now..bust the narcissistic  Hispanics...stop blaming hillbillies white, Samoan, ..God formed everything in the dark.. diva Lee became diva Jobs thru  adoption how did her name change to Dilma Coleman. Who cares..down syndrome people call her Allison.. that's  nice..pretend to be down syndrome..my name is Allison.     Get an understanding of what Newark gang unit should do about that bammer weed..don't know.. about that bammer  weed song..look how they use melatonin..and herorin. It's a weapon..to get women naked..make them look like zombie  and something like medicated by too much psych drugs..    Roberto attachment#1 Roberto on the left..2011 little orchard St.. Home First Homeless shelter..on July 3,2021.    Roberto attachment #2 Roberto protrayed himself as a trashman.. what's up with that trash. Maybe it's cash..like the  trash at Milpitas CA Walmart. Throw cash in trash go to jar. What's happening? Used things..values..it.    Roberto attachment #3 Hispanic man desperados..gang member whom abuses negro Jamacian Afghan  Amer  women..this is Roberto's slavery..is santa Clara CA DA Jeff Rosen his mentor?     Roberto did harrass stalk Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee at UC Berkeley.in the 1990's...she dropped out of her  classes..forced to drop out.again n again..went to too many college applications. Too much..pressure on jealousies  from..u got money..give it up..u don't need educated..this or that..school...was it fascinating racist Roberto..his narcissist  behaviors..of steal from the negro women give to Hispanic businesses.. Negros braid hair.     Attachment #4  Newark, CA police gang units..what to charge Roberto.?.get an arrest warrant for San Jose CA Homefirst homeless  shelter little orchard employee Roberto.   Roberto is Narcissist gang member..whom has victimized abused women..roberto is Organized mafia.. who's greed in  real estate properties..and businesses have escalated quickly into Violent verbal communication. If I know my job..I  know what I do..be quiet..or something like. ..ur not the boss of my life.    Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman is a victim victimized since the 1980's. ..       identity theif,slavery.. forced marriage docs, Sexual assualt, home invasions, real estate fraud,bully.and violation of  privacy..those are the descriptive..    what happened in Newark CA.. Roberto's style of diva is my wife..i can do my job..trapped Jamacian Afghan Amer Asian  women limited..in where to start over..because narcissist individuals use their resources..black mailed negro women has  been ..forced in  marriage to Roberto..victim doesn't have marriage certificate..in the past...justify..how Roberto ruined  Diva Lee education at UC Berkeley and University of Bath...and elsewhere.other Narcissist form a group to gather more  4 resources and the work load is distributed. ..drugs or alcohol and food is a distraction..but required to have for  pleasurable comforting needs.     Roberto's crimes didn't stay in Newark CA.. Roberto protrayed himself as a Gardener.in the 1980's...he went around the  backyard..at 36025 Tozier St. Newark,CA..roberto stared thru the windows..yes..yes  ..he went thru the mail  box...roberto's 1980's charector analysis. Roberto wrestling skills..he is the prowler, aggressive physical  masterbation..type..his physical aggressive attacks on Dilma..in Newark CA..women don't want hugs..when laid flat on  the ground. Narcissistic Roberto protrayed himself as a rescuer of women in distresses..but Roberto is a serial organizer  for women to be Exploited and trapped..in a cycle of abuse.     Roberto a current San Jose CA Homefirst homeless shelter..little orchard.. employee.    knock knock. Who's there? Describe the other women victimized by Roberto?   Bakersfield CA women Yvette Pena..UK women Amy Winehouse.     Show examples of Roberto protrayed himself as a pimp..or something like..it.     Roberto Solicited women whom needs resources..then he abandon the women on religious Organization..whereas it's a  church with music..but illegal marriages..with women whom are drugged with melatonin or something like herorin..are  trapped in the church. No no no sleepy brides sit her up..sit her up..I said she is here..sit her up..no no no  hypotized..women,drugged up with melatonin.. that's nice describes how much Narcissist Roberto has done to Dilma  Coleman aka Diva Lee. ..  ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>  Date: Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 1:42 PM  Subject: Gang violence situation domestic abuser Narcissistic Roberto..a Homefirst homeless shelter employee..his  charector analysis..since the 1980's... escalated..into bullying, narcissist behaviors in 2021.  To: David Isidro <disidro@homefirstscc.org>    Documented grievance topics.. Roberto's past..the corrupt behaviors he has with his involvement with gangs..the  different cities Roberto abused Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman..the desperados..of his scandalous..ways to separate Diva  aka Dilma Coleman from her family members,friends and real estates Properties. Roberto is controlling physical..violent  men whom oppressed Dilma Coleman aka Diva..since the 1980's.     Roberto protrayed himself as a normal man but he does Slavery..with Negro women Dilma and other Narcissistic  individuals in the Hispanic communities. Dilma believes that Roberto used forceful Narcissistic behaviors at U.C  Berkeley..in 1994‐1995 and has followed Dilma trapping her emotionally and physically mentally uses her resources.as  an organized mafia narcissist. Roberto would bring systematic emotional distresses to Dilma's college classes..When his  hands touch my body..I am subjected to physical abuse. ..I complained to Professors they claimed that Roberto  produced documents as a marriage certificate..claiming that Dilma is his wife mentally ill..with delusional thinking  amnesia. Dilma explained that she was never married to Roberto. ..never attracted to him and can't flee from his  abusive patterns.    The recent violent situation Dilma Experienced with Roberto was in 2020‐2021 and inside Little Orchard homeless  shelter dining hall.  My goal is to give detailed geographic locations whereas Roberto's physical abuse and verbal abuse  has caused harm to Dilma financial situation..with his fraudulent real estate.. endeavors and his affiliated Narcissistic  gang related friends in gang activity with Ray Jackson etc.         Yes..yes..I am pressured and don't know how to flee..from domestic abuser Narcissistic Roberto..A Homefirst homeless  shelter employee... especially those whom protected Dilma are attacked..or with no resources.  5    Roberto is a trashy serial gangster whom has stole from negro women and given to Hispanic businesses in E.Palo  Alto,CA. And other places. His family church are all corrupt..with Narcissistic behaviors..and corruption.     Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee  6 Baumb, Nelly From:David Schorow <dschorow@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, July 6, 2021 4:54 PM To:Council, City; Bansal, Megha Subject:Naming Highway 101 Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge for Ben Lefkowitz Attachments:210706LefkowitzNameForAdobeCkBridge.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please accept the input in the attached PDF file for the naming of the Highway 101 Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge.    Sincerely,    David Schorow  President, Western Wheelers Bicycle Club    WESTERN WHEELERS BICYCLE CLUB Western Wheelers Bicycle Club, Inc. P.O. Box 60367 Palo Alto, California 94306-0367 https://westernwheelersbicycleclub.wildapricot.org/ July 6, 2021 Palo Alto City Council and Megha Bansal, Project Manager 250 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 To the Members of the Council and Ms. Bansal: Western Wheelers is a recreational road-bicycling club of over a thousand members that is based in Palo Alto. In 1989, Western Wheelers proposed, and the City Council approved, that the Adobe Creek Bicycle/Pedestrian Undercrossing of Highway 101 be dedicated in honor of our former president Benjamin Lefkowitz, “as a fitting tribute to a citizen who contributed significantly to the furtherance of bicycling in Palo Alto,” as the sign erected on the site reads. Now that this undercrossing is in the process of being replaced by the Highway 101 Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge, we request that Benjamin Lefkowitz continue to be honored, this time in his memory, in the name of the new facility. Ben, as he was always known, was born and raised in New York City. He came west, with his wife, Rosalie, for graduate work at Stanford and settled in Palo Alto. After spending three years in the Navy, he began bicycling seriously about 1959, and became a pioneer commuting to work in Menlo Park, at a time when bicycling was an unusual form of transportation for adults. As Ben once said, “I bicycle because it’s a healthy, economical way to get around, and it’s ecologically sound. It gives me a sense of freedom and motion I have found in no other activity.” This perspective has since found widespread acceptance in Palo Alto and forms an essential part of the City’s identity. Ben joined Western Wheelers in 1972 and served as president from 1976-77. He was known for leading rides through downtown Palo Alto to show fellow cyclists the whimsical murals painted there, and on tours of the various bike bridges around the city. Long before the Adobe Creek underpass was improved, he would guide riders down the slope and over the sandbags, bicycles balanced precariously on their shoulders, as part of his tour of the Palo Alto Baylands trails and levees. This makes it especially fitting that a bridge leading to the Baylands be named in his honor. Ben was also active in civic affairs and helped persuade the City Council to build the Oregon Avenue Bicycle/Pedestrian Overpass over Highway 101, a project that prefigured this one. WESTERN WHEELERS BICYCLE CLUB Western Wheelers Bicycle Club, Inc. P.O. Box 60367 Palo Alto, California 94306-0367 https://westernwheelersbicycleclub.wildapricot.org/ Illness struck Ben in 1987, ending his ability to cycle, but certainly not his love of the sport. In 1989, he established a trust fund whose income would be awarded annually to a person making a significant contribution to bicycling in the area. He lived to see the dedication of the Adobe Creek undercrossing in his name, but, sadly, died only a few months later. It would be fitting to continue to recognize his name on the new facility. Sincerely, David Schorow President, Western Wheelers Bicycle Club To, City Clerk, 250 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301 From: Shraddha Dal 2673 Alma St, Palo Alto, CA 94306 Service Account No: 30051807 Subject: Opposing proposed wastewater rate change for S-1-residential Hello, I am opposing the proposed wastewater rate change for S-1- Residential from $41.37 to $43.32. Stop this annual rate every year and put a burden on regular folks. Learn to be convservative when it comes to spending taxpayers money. N Thank you, C-.. Shraddha Dal c:= r- ~ I - :I:. :x <?. U1 -J C")~ --1 --4-< -< r,~ r iT1"'1i1 ~► ::xr (./10 o> ...,,r ...,,--i _a n· rri" > 701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 08/09/2021 Document dates: 06/23/2021 – 07/28/2021 Council Summer Break Set 5 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, July 7, 2021 8:44 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: CRITICAL race theory opponents targeting imaginary foe. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>  Date: Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 8:38 AM  Subject: CRITICAL race theory opponents targeting imaginary foe.  Source: S.J. Mercury 7/7/21        https://mercurynews‐ca.newsmemory.com/eebrowser/ipad/html5.check.21030914/  Mercury News As a Black man, I do not see this as a controversial theory or untested hypothesis but merely a framework that helps gives me words for what I have experienced my entire life. The opponents of critical race theory seem more concerned with banning paradigms that help us understand the racial caste system in this country than trying to work to promote equity for historically marginalized groups. Many of these opponents of critical race theory have only read articles criticiz- ing the framework, rather than works by critical race theorists themselves. This is akin to trying to learn about Christianity by only reading articles by atheists opposed to religion. The wealth gap between Black Americans and White Americans doesn't stem from one group having a stronger work ethic. The over-incarceration of Black men in this country is not because Black men are inherently more criminal. The racial segregation found throughout our nation's cities and schools is not arbitrary or coincidental. Critical race theory helps provide conceptual frameworks that help us avoid falling into unempirical racial tropes and stereotypes that are based on myopic and revisionist histories. 2 For example, when I was a sophomore in an inner-city Cal- ifornia public high school, I had a White Advanced Placement history teacher who really liked my performance in class. One day he said, "Antonio, you are really smart. I would bet money that your ancestors were freedmen and not slaves." My high school teacher made American chattel slavery into an intellectual contest where the most intelligent Blacks were not implicated into racial subordination, even before the Emancipation Proclamation. The history of White supremacy in our country means that diverse voices and narratives have been erased from our national consciousness, and that erasure begins in our public school system. The fact that my teacher attempted to impute intellectual aptitude into chattel slavery demonstrates the perceptional apartheid that many White Americans have when it comes to understanding the history of our country and the implications that history has on our present time. Critical race theory helps break down the distortional segregation that happens when a nation has never fully reckoned with its original sins against enslaved Africans, indigenous communities and other disenfranchised groups. Critical race theory should not be banned but celebrated as a way to more fully diagnose the problems in our country as a first step toward addressing them. Those opposed to critical race theory need to take the first step to learn more about what it actually says, rather than parroting uninformed conservative talking points. Antonio Ingram is a lawyer based in Oakland. 3 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, July 7, 2021 1:59 AM To:Honky Subject:This Wed. – Report on Victory Stopping Wireless (5G and beyond) Agenda in Woodstock, NY CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello all, In cities and towns across the country people are challenging the telecom corporations at the city council or town planning board level, pushing for protective legislation at the state level, and launching lawsuits. In Woodstock, NY, advocates for safe, wired broadband, in partnership with attorney, Andrew Campanelli, have just won a major victory through their local town officials! The planning board has rejected the application by the mighty Crown Castle for installation of wireless antennas in their town. Crown Castle is one of the biggest wireless equipment contractors in the country. The leading advocate in opposing Crown Castle’s application, Steve Romine, will be sharing the inside story this Wed. July 7. We’d like to invite you to hear directly from him how the successful strategy was devised and executed. Here are the details: Time: 7:30 PM (Eastern time) Conference call number: 1-425-436-6364, passcode 451-3611# We’ll ask everyone to mute their phone, or press *6 to eliminate background noise. You can learn more about Steve's work at https://www.thetruthsayerswoodstock.com/. 4 Why is this presentation important? The big telecom companies have been putting up wireless antennas on rooftops, towers, telephone and light poles, and even street lights on a daily basis. Verizon, Sprint T-Mobile have ads saturating TV, radio, and online extolling the high speeds of 5G. What they don't tell us is that fiber-optic cable is actually faster, more secure, provides more privacy, and isn't vulnerable to cyber attack. They also don't tell us that the intensity of the microwave radiation their wireless antennas emit is literally millions of times higher than is adequate for phone reception. Regarding the levels of pulsed microwave frequencies being emitted by wireless antennas, this comparison from my own readings speaks volumes. 5 In addition to hearing from Steve, we’ll apprise you of proposed legislation on 5G, smart meters, and hazardous emissions. You’ll learn about work being done to educate state legislators on what’s needed for the most effective legislation. We’ll share information on how cities throughout the country have been building fiber optic infrastructure resulting in faster, safer, more secure, and lower priced broadband. With this knowledge, we can organize at the town and local level to ensure a future that is free from harmful microwave radiation in our public rights of way. Feel free to forward this to individuals and groups in NY State. 6 For the "Independence Day" we’ve just experienced, let's look forward to having more breakthroughs like Woodstock, NY, in taking back control of our health, safety, and privacy from the corporate powers polluting our environment through all hazardous substances including ground-based and satellite-based wireless emissions. Now is the time for momentum! Looking forward, Les Jamieson on behalf of New Yorkers 4 Wired Tech 7 Baumb, Nelly From:Lai, Sawyer <23sawyerl@students.harker.org> Sent:Tuesday, July 6, 2021 5:38 PM To:Council, City Cc:Chang, Tiffany; Annmaria Antony; Ashley Ma Subject:Plastic Utensil Ordinance Proposal — Protecting Animals Worldwide CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To whom it may concern, My name is Sawyer Lai, and I’m currently a rising junior in high school. In this past year, my friends and I created a nonprofit organization, Protecting Animals Worldwide (PAW), which looks to further environmental justice, specifically in relation to protecting animals. Throughout the past year of quarantine, my family has inevitably turned to ordering take-out multiple times a week, bringing the food back to the safety of our home. After the first few months of this, we had amassed a large stockpile of plastic cutlery, and, as we already have metal cutlery at home, we became increasingly aware of the waste and detriment to the environment we were contributing to while constantly disposing of these utensils. Because of this issue, my family began to ask restaurant servers to take the utensils out of our takeout bags before we left the restaurant. This has largely helped us alleviate our plastic utensil issue, which led me to want to share an idea with you: Alhambra, in Los Angeles County, has recently implemented an ordinance mandating that restaurants give out plastic utensils only upon request. Even as the state continues to slowly reopen and people go back to eating in restaurants, takeout will inevitably remain a large part of people’s lives. I believe that by following Alhambra’s example of creating such an ordinance, Palo Alto can instigate significant change, having a tremendous impact on the amount of plastic saved over time. I understand that creating a city ordinance is no small task, but if this idea is something that the city council would be interested in tackling, my team and I would love to be a part of the process of drafting up a proposal. Thank you so much for your time and consideration! Sincerely, Sawyer 8 Baumb, Nelly From:Matt Mulhern <matt.mulhern@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, July 6, 2021 11:28 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  ‐‐   Matt Mulhern 410‐610‐8321  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Tuesday, July 6, 2021 1:54 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; Leodies Buchanan; boardmembers; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; leager; Mark Standriff; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; sanchezphilip21 @gmail.com; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: June 28, 2021 DW interviews Dr. John Campbell. VERY worthwihile. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:07 AM  Subject: Fwd: June 28, 2021 DW interviews Dr. John Campbell. VERY worthwihile.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 11:57 PM  Subject: Fwd: June 28, 2021 DW interviews Dr. John Campbell. VERY worthwihile.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 4:53 PM  Subject: Fwd: June 28, 2021 DW interviews Dr. John Campbell. VERY worthwihile.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 4:10 PM  10 Subject: Fwd: June 28, 2021 DW interviews Dr. John Campbell. VERY worthwihile.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 3:48 PM  Subject: Fwd: June 28, 2021 DW interviews Dr. John Campbell. VERY worthwihile.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 3:20 AM  Subject: June 28, 2021 DW interviews Dr. John Campbell. VERY worthwihile.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                Monday, July 5, 2021               To all‐                 Here is an interview on DW of Dr. John Campbell re Covid:               DW interview ‐ YouTube              The India Delta variant, B.1.617.2, is spreading rapidly. Not a lot of protection against it with one dose of  Astrazeneca or Pfizer in the UK.  But two shots give very good protection. Same result with our Pfizer, Moderna and JNJ  vaccines in the US.               Most of the world has not enough vaccines. Low vaccine supply. Probably 80% of population with full vaccination  is needed to get herd immunity with the India Delta virus. So, more than was needed with Kent variant. Most places in  the world are not remotely close to 80% fully vaccinated, and until Covid is caused to die out worldwide, it will continue  to mutate and we will see a constant stream of new variants in the developed world.               Dr. Campbell is almost catatonic over the fact that the US has plenty of vaccine and under 70% have received one  shot.  Maybe 53% in US have gotten two shots. "In South Africa they would be lining up to get vaccinated, and in a lot of  o. places". He really borders on becoming catatonic when he talks about vaccine reluctance in the US, unusual for him.              Now, big, impressive, well done study in India of ivermectin: 17 minutes.  Those 17 minutes should change some  important minds in the US;                              Ivermectin prophylactic study from India ‐ YouTube                                    Big study done in India on the prophylacitic benefit of Ivermectin.  17 minutes.  In 17 minutes he offers  convincing eveidence that the drug can prevent infection with Sars Corona Virus 2.  The study was conducted by a  11 respected research institution, not known as a pack of congenital liars, and not known for taking money under the table  to  falsify results. Neither is Dr. Fauci, and Dr. Campbell has called on Dr. Fauci to express an opinion re ivermectin, but  we get only silence from him on the subject. But, Dr. Fauci in a recent interview mentioned that the US is going to spend  $3.1 billion now on studying current medicines to prevent Covid  (I would think that ivermectin would be an early  candidate) and especially on studying meds to treat Covid. Even in 2021, $3.1 billion buys a lot of research. They are  using ivermectin in India now to try to rein in the pandemic. The drug is so cheap that it is essentially free. It has been  used safely as an anti‐parasitic for decades all over the world. India, in this trial, tested ivermectin on several thousand  HC workers and the reduction in Covid infections among those getting the drug is impressive.                 So it is hard to see why the authorities have not approved ivermectin's use as a prophylactic in the US, especially  now when less than 70% of adults over 18 have received even one shot and only ~53% of the adults here have received  two shots. If they absolutely refuse to get vaccinated, why not give them ivermectin?                 I hope that in the $3.1 billion program that some vaccine research can be done on West Nile virus and on the  Lyme disease virus. Neither one is a joke. Tics spread Lyme and mosquitos spread West Nile. Lyme can produce joint  pain for life and West Nile can cause paralysis.No doubt they can do more. No shortage of tics and mosquitos in  California's Central Valley. The Governors and Congress should be urging Dr. Francis Collins to cause research to be done  to develop a vaccine for both diseases.                    Now Dr. Campbell for 16 minutes about the different symptoms caused by the Delta variant v. the Kent variant.  They are like a common cold or hay fever symptoms. He excoriates governments for not announcing this change in  symptoms.: He mentions the NIH there.  I have yet to hear one word about it in the US media. He goes over the  symptoms one could get from the Delta variant IF HE HAS HAD BOTH SHOTS.  Slightly different if one has had only one  shot.  So he is talking about people who get infected with the Delta variant even when they have been partially or fully  vaccinated. Probably too here the symptoms for those without even one shot.                    Then, in the same video, he goes into the big study by Oxford University of ivermectin as a treatment for  persons who are showing symptoms of Covid. Not as a prophylactic, as a treatment. They call if the "Principle" study  (acronym), just getting underway.  I am afraid that study after study suggests that ivermectin is effective in preventing  and treating Covid and that must make Dr. Fauci and the head of the FDA a little uncomfortable since they won't even  utter the word. Because the drug is so cheap as to be almost free, and because billions of uses of it over decades show it  to be safe, it is hard to see why the FDA won't authorize its use now for the unvaccinated as a prophylactic. The effective  dosage of it has been worked out.                I call on the FDA to approve the use of ivermectin now for use as a prophylactic against the the Covid virus.                 Changing symptoms ‐ YouTube                  LH‐ How is it that with less than 70% of Americans having even one shot, and with the Delta variant being twice  as transmissible as the native Covid variant‐  the Wuhan variant, how is it that we do not see a huge spike in cases  now?  Dr. Fauci is saying that we WILL see spikes in cases in parts of the US that are hugely unvaccinated. Dr. Campbell  said "Dr. Fauci is breaking the US into bits"  wrt to where we will see spikes . Also, recall that not everyone infected even  gets symptoms from Covid. Twenty year olds may not even know they are infected, but they do spread the virus to  those unvaccinated who will get sick. Then, some percent get symptoms, some smaller percent go into hospital, some  smaller percent go to the ICU, some smaller percent go to a ventilator, and some smaller percent die.  Also, even with  only ~53% of US adults being fully vaccinated, and with only ~67% having had one shot, and, on the plus side, with a lot  of people now having natural immunity because they have recovered from Covid, and with a very high vaccination rate  among the most vulnerable, mostly elderly people, there must be some sort of herd immunity now at work in the  US.  Even in States with low levels of vaccination, like Mississippi, some percentage of the population has been  vaccinated. Dr. Campbell says that due to the high transmissibility of the Delta variant, we will need 80% fully vaccinated  to have real heard immunity. That would be where the virus dies out. No doubt true, but the situation that an  unvaccinated person faces today is very different than he faced in March, 2020. Still, if one is unvaccinated and  12 contracts Covid, receives a big viral load, is older, has co‐morbidities, maybe has serious chronic lung problems, waits  before seeking medical care, for sure the outcome can be serious.  And those cases are now being seen in parts of the  US. The network news tonight showed a hospital in the midwest that says it is running out of ventilators.                                                   L. William Harding               Fresno, Ca.   13 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, July 5, 2021 11:15 PM To:Human Relations Commission; Council, City; Planning Commission; city.council@menlopark.org; ParkRec Commission; Raj; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Joe Simitian; Binder, Andrew; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Rosen; Molly; Cecilia Taylor; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; chuck jagoda; Molly; GRP-City Council; Jonsen, Robert; Jeff Moore; Donna Wallach Subject:PSN] VFHL Online Film Salon: "Gaza Fights for Freedom" - CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  FYI: if you wish sign up for this important event.   Aram     P.S. Donna, thanks for sending this invitation my way.     -------------- ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Tom Johnson, Voices from the Holy Land Steering Committee <tojo@att.net> To: "kobrenj@yahoo.com" <kobrenj@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, July 5, 2021, 08:34:46 AM PDT Subject: VFHL Online Film Salon: "Gaza Fights for Freedom" - correction     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.VFHL Online Film Salon.jpg     Invitation to our VFHL Online Film Salon "Gaza Fights for Freedom" (corrected)   Voices from the Holy Land, in conjunction with the American Friends Service Committee, invites you to our fifteenth monthly Online Film Salon to be held on Sunday, July 11th at 3 pm EDT/12 noon PDT. Participants will discuss the award winning documentary “Gaza Fights for Freedom”. Please watch the film at your convenience and then join us for the online Q&A discussion. Filmed during the height of the Great March of Return, this documentary features riveting, exclusive footage of the protests. A collaboration of Gaza journalists worked remotely with the American director to produce the film, as Israel had blocked her entry into Gaza. The documentary tells the story of Gaza past and present, 14 showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media. Heard on the film are the victims of the ongoing conflict, including journalists, medics and the family of internationally-acclaimed paramedic, Razan al-Najjar. At its core, Gaza Fights For Freedom is a thorough indictment of the Israeli military for war crimes, and a stunning cinematic portrayal of Palestinian resistance. Film director, journalist Abby Martin, and Issam Adwan, Gaza Project Manager of We Are Not Numbers, will participate in a Q&A panel discussion. Jehad Abusalim, Education and Policy Associate for the American Friends Service Committee, will moderate the Q&A discussion. You must register to participate. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: How this works: 1 - Register for the Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon: http://tinyurl.com/VFHLjuly2021 (If clicking on link does not work, please copy and paste link into browser URL search bar) 2 – Once you register, you will get a confirmation email with  a link to watch the film, AND  a personal link to use to join the webinar discussion on Zoom.  Be sure to save that confirmation email to make it easy to join us on July 11! 3 - Watch the film at your convenience before the event. 4 - Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A discussion on July 11th at 3 pm Eastern/noon Pacific Daylight Savings Time About the speakers Abby Martin is an American journalist, TV presenter, podcaster, and activist. She helped found the citizen journalism website and podcast Media Roots and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored. Martin appeared in the documentary film Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News (2013), and co-directed 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013). She hosted Breaking the Set on RT America from 2012 to 2015, and then 15 launched The Empire Files in that same year as an investigative documentary and interview series on Telesur, later released as a web series. In 2019, she released the film documentary, The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom. Issam Adwan, the Gaza project manager for We Are Not Numbers, is a trained translator/interpreter, journalist and English teacher. In 2019, he was chosen by The Carter Center to be the first Palestinian independent observer for the Tunisian elections. Issam earned his Bachelor's degree in English language and teaching methods from Al-Aqsa University the Gaza and is currently working on his thesis for a master’s degree in translation/interpretation at the Islamic University of Gaza. His passions are improving the learning experience for diverse student populations, youth empowerment, social justice and gender equality. Jehad Abusalim is the Education and Policy Associate at the Palestine Activism Program of AFSC in Chicago. Jehad is a PhD candidate at the History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies joint program at New York University where his research examines Arab intellectual writings on Zionism from the first half of the twentieth century. Jehad also studies the social and political history of the Gaza Strip, focusing on the impact of the Nakba on life in Palestine’s Gaza district and 1950s political life in the Gaza Strip. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration, and Hebrew language and teaching methods from Al-Azhar University in Gaza. To learn more about the film, watch the trailer here: https://tinyurl.com/FreedomTrailer For questions & comments please contact us at vfhlonlinefilmsalon@gmail.com Visit our website at www.voicesfromtheholyland.org Join us at Facebook.com/voicesholyland          Voices from the Holy Land | 3318 Fessenden St NW, Washington, DC 20008 Unsubscribe kobrenj@yahoo.com Update Profile | About Constant Contact Sent by tojo@att.net in collaboration with   To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the InTrusted EmConstant CFREE toda   Try email marketing for free today!          16 ‐‐   You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Palestine Solidarity  Network" group.  To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to  palestine_solidarity_network+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.  To view this discussion on the web visit  https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/palestine_solidarity_network/1382896825.464432.1625527632378 %40mail.yahoo.com.        ‐‐   2 books you must read:   "Against Our Better Judgement: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel" by  Alison Weir  http://www.againstourbetterjudgment.com/    "State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel" by Thomas Suarez  http://thomassuarez.com/SoT.html    Other important websites to visit  http://www.ifamericansknew.org  http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/  https://wearenotnumbers.org/    End the Blockade/Siege on Gaza!  Tear down the Apartheid Walls in West Bank & Gaza!  End the War Criminal Israeli collective punishment on the Palestinian people!   End the illegal Apartheid Israeli Occupation of all of Palestine!  Right to Return to their homes and land in Palestine for all Palestinians!  End all U.S. aid to Israel  Free Palestine! Long Live Palestine!    Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) &   Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Campaigns!  http://www.bdsmovement.net  http://www.WhoProfits.org  http://www.pacbi.org    Support Solidarity with Gaza Fishers  https://sgf.freedomflotilla.org/   https://freedomflotilla.org/  https://sgf.freedomflotilla.org/category/we‐are‐not‐numbers    Support ISM volunteers in West Bank and Gaza Strip!  http://www.palsolidarity.org    Donna Wallach  cats4jazz@gmail.com  Skype: palestinewillbe  Twitter: @PalestineWillBe  (h) 408‐289‐1522  (cell) 408‐569‐6608  17 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, July 5, 2021 5:56 PM To:city.council@menlopark.org; Council, City; Jeff Moore; Planning Commission; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Raj; Human Relations Commission; ParkRec Commission; Binder, Andrew; DuBois, Tom; Cindy Chavez; Joe Simitian; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Cecilia Taylor; Betsy Nash; Cormack, Alison; Rebecca Eisenberg; Jonsen, Robert; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu; Tony Dixon; Greer Stone; chuck jagoda Subject:Derek Chauvin’s Trial and George Floyd’s City | The New Yorker CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/12/derek‐chauvins‐trial‐and‐george‐floyds‐city      Sent from my iPhone  18 Baumb, Nelly From:Ardan Michael Blum <ardan.michael.blum@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, July 5, 2021 5:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:Israel data 'preliminary signal' Delta variant can bypass vaccine: expert CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021‐07‐israel‐preliminary‐delta‐variant‐bypass.html   19 Baumb, Nelly From:Daniel Xu <daniecnn@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, July 5, 2021 12:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Request to a letter of support from Palo Alto Council CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto Council Manager,  I am Daniel Xu, and I am a resident of Palo Alto for the last 11 years.  I love this vibrant  community, and I thank you for your hard work to make this city a desirable place to live.  I am writing to request to you regarding a letter of support from  Palo Alto Mayor’s office.  This  letter of support is for a rally at San Francisco on Saturday, July 17, which calls for an end to  the Chinese Communist Party (also called CCP)’s 22‐year persecution of Falun Gong.  Falun  Gong is known as a traditional Buddhist‐based meditation practice, and its core principles are  truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.     At this point, you may ask, how is that related to the city of Palo Alto?  It matters.  In fact, it  matters with all cities.  As you may know, there have been massive violations of human rights  and freedoms, genocide and crimes against humanity, the suppression of cultural, religious,  and political identity in China.    Ever since the launch of the persecution, tens and thousands of Falun Gong members were  arrested by the CCP purely because they were practicing their own beliefs.  These are the  people who are ordinary citizens of China. They never harmed anyone…they are not  criminals…but they were arrested, imprisoned, brutally tortured, and killed for their vital  organs.     There have been multiple separate, independent reports indicating tens of thousands (possibly  hundreds of thousands) of Falun Gong practitioners may have been killed to extract their vital  organs. As a result, China’s transplant system has the capacity to conduct 50,000 to 90,000  transplants per year.  And forced organ harvesting in China appears to be targeting minorities,  including Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, and underground Christians.  Today more and more US policy makers have realized that the CCP is the No. 1 threat to  America.  A better understanding of the Falun Gong story will help us better understand the  threat from the CCP that we ALL face.  Your letter of support will give hope to those still  suffering in China.  It is also a moral expression for our better humanity.    20   Best wishes,        PS: below is some information about Falun Gong and its persecution in China  What is Falun Gong  https://faluninfo.net/video/falun‐gong‐falun‐dafa/     The persecution of Falun Gong  https://faluninfo.net/video/100‐million‐people‐targeted‐persecution/     Statistics about the scale and scope of the persecution  https://faluninfo.net/key‐statistics‐related‐to‐falun‐gong/     US House resolutions  https://faluninfo.net/united‐states‐government/     Freedom House 2017 Report: The Battle for China's Spirit (Falun Gong chapter)  https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/FH_2017_BattleForChinasSpirit_Falun_Gong_0.pdf     China Tribunal Final Judgement on forced organ harvesting in China  https://chinatribunal.com/final‐judgment/  21 Baumb, Nelly From:P Garnier <bluekayak88@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, July 5, 2021 12:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!      22 Baumb, Nelly From:mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, July 5, 2021 10:39 AM To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: Musicians village CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/07/01/developer‐proposes‐condominium‐project‐in‐ ventura#comment_form  Sent from my iPhone    Begin forwarded message:  From: mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com>  Date: July 5, 2021 at 10:32:27 AM PDT  To: info@peninsulaland.com  Subject: Musicians village  I would support this plan if 24 of the 49 units were subsidized and earmarked for musicians,  synergizing  the geographic proximity and moral valence of Gryphon Stringed Instruments who recently  presented their amazing success story to the Palo Alto Historical Society: Musicians Village at Ventura.   Mark Weiss   In Palo Alto  Landlord, former neighbor, concert promoter, blogger, council candidate  (650) 305‐0701  (This comment was automatically deleted from the palo alto weekly website)    Sent from my iPhone  23 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, July 4, 2021 11:50 PM To:Council, City; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Binder, Andrew; Jonsen, Robert; Joe Simitian; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Moore; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Planning Commission; city.council@menlopark.org; Human Relations Commission; ParkRec Commission; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; DuBois, Tom; GRP-City Council; Cecilia Taylor; Betsy Nash; Raj Subject:“What to the Slave is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Do... CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://youtu.be/O0baE_CtU08      Sent from my iPhone  24 Baumb, Nelly From:Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> Sent:Sunday, July 4, 2021 5:38 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr; city.council@menlopark.org; GRP-City Council; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Clerk, City; City Attorney; Joe Simitian; info@scottweiner.com; Planning Commission; Human Relations Commission; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Dave Price; Mark Petersen-Perez; Mark Mollineaux; Jocelyn Dong; alisa mallari tu; Senior Planet; CCTaylor@menlopark.org; Eugenia (Genie) Njolito Subject:Important program on housing for all, --social housing CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Become more educated re. efforts to provide housing for all as a human right.    https://youtu.be/dJBxCsrRSfQ      80% of Singaporians own their own homes‐‐‐‐for example    Roberta  25 Baumb, Nelly From:James Pedersen <james00090@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, July 4, 2021 2:36 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue open for pedestrians and bicycles in  our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you  for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  26 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, July 3, 2021 11:41 PM To:Honky Subject:A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP NO DOUBT SOS THE ONLY SOLUTION IS "CHANGE" WHAT AILS ALL OF US? GOVERNMENT CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  A failure of Leadership Part 6: Solutions     To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In A failure of Leadership Part 6: Solutions      27 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, July 3, 2021 12:29 PM To:DuBois, Tom; Joe Simitian; Planning Commission; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu; Rebecca Eisenberg; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Binder, Andrew; Jonsen, Robert; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Raj; Greer Stone; Tanaka, Greg; alisa mallari tu; city.council@menlopark.org; Tony Dixon; GRP-City Council; ParkRec Commission; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Rosen; Cecilia Taylor; chuck jagoda; Joe Simitian Subject:Sacramento Mulls a New Homeless Strategy: Legally Mandating Housing CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  FYI: From Friday’s NYT’s          https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/us/sacramento‐homelessness‐right‐to‐housing.amp.html    Sent from my iPhone  28 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, July 3, 2021 11:44 AM To:Cecilia Taylor; city.council@menlopark.org; Council, City; Jeff Moore; Raj; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Joe Simitian; Planning Commission; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Greer Stone; Human Relations Commission; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Tony Dixon; roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; ParkRec Commission; DuBois, Tom; GRP-City Council; Binder, Andrew; Jonsen, Robert Subject:Stop blaming crime rates on defunding the police arguments CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://www.motherjones.com/crime‐justice/2021/07/stop‐blaming‐crime‐rates‐on‐defunding‐the‐police/    Shared via the Google app    Sent from my iPhone  29 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, July 2, 2021 9:07 PM To:Joe Simitian; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Planning Commission; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Rebecca Eisenberg; roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu; Jeff Moore; Raj; ParkRec Commission; chuck jagoda; Greer Stone; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; GRP-City Council; Council, City; city.council@menlopark.org; Binder, Andrew; Jonsen, Robert; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com Subject:Impact of caste on South Asian community CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/04/us/caste‐discrimination‐us‐trnd/index.html  30 Baumb, Nelly From:Laura <lduran.ca@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, July 2, 2021 6:32 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Also, please stop charging entry to Foothill Park!    Laura  31 Baumb, Nelly From:Alexey Dang <alexey.dang@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, July 2, 2021 6:26 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  ‐‐   Email: Alexey.Dang@gmail.com  Mob:  (650) 862 8230  Web:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/leadingchange  32 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, July 2, 2021 5:49 PM To:Joe Simitian; Cecilia; Planning Commission; Jeff Moore; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Raj; ParkRec Commission; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Binder, Andrew; chuck jagoda; Jonsen, Robert; Greer Stone; Betsy Nash; Council, City; Tanaka, Greg; GRP-City Council Subject:Muhammad Ali On Prisons and Palestine etc…..from the archives of Aram Janes CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      Subject: Muhammad Ali On Prisons and Palestine Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 10:19:10 +0000 (UTC)  From: isis feral <isisferal@yahoo.com>  Reply‐To: l  To:   A Taking Aim Salute from Mya Shone and Ralph Schoenman: In celebration of Muhammad Ali June 6th, 2016 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Viva Muhammad Ali! A Taking Aim Salute from Mya Shone and Ralph Schoenman: In celebration of Muhammad Ali 33 “I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain’t going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I’ll die right here, right now, fightin’ you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won’t even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs. You won’t even stand up for my right here at home.” **** “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam when so- called “negro” people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No, I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again: The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people, they wouldn’t have to draft me. I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail. So what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.” Muhammad Ali http://samidoun.net/2016/06/remembering-muhammad-ali-i-declare- support-for-the-palestinian-struggle-to-liberate-their-homeland/ Remembering Muhammad Ali: “I declare support for the Palestinian struggle to 34 liberate their homeland”  Statements June 5, 2016 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.muh ammad-ali On the occasion of the passing of legendary athlete and struggler for justice, Muhammad Ali, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins millions around the world in remembering Ali’s historic legacy of commitment to the liberation of oppressed peoples and his willingness to sacrifice in order to adhere to those principles. In 1985, Ali traveled to Israel in an attempt to secure the release of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners imprisoned in occupied Southern Lebanon. This followed on his visits to Palestinian refugee camps in 1974, when he declared in Beirut that “the United States is the stronghold of Zionism and imperialism.” While visiting Palestinian refugee camps in South Lebanon, he declared “In my name and the name of all Muslims in America, I declare support for the Palestinian struggle to liberate their homeland and oust the Zionist invaders.” Ali championed the Black liberation struggle on multiple fronts; within the United States, and as a force against US imperialism worldwide. He wrote poetry in tribute to the Black leaders of the Attica prison uprising. At the height of his career, Muhammad Ali refused to fight in the Vietnam War in 1967, was sentenced to five years in prison and stripped of his title. 35 When asked about his refusal while participating in a Louisville housing justice struggle, Ali said: “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.” Dave Zirin writes, “Ali’s refusal to fight in Vietnam was front- page news all over the world. In Guyana there was a picket of support in front of the US embassy. In Karachi, young Pakistanis fasted. And there was a mass demonstration in Cairo.” While Ali’s later depoliticization and cooperation with the US government speak to a more complex legacy, the national and international resonance of his resistance to imperialism in the 1960s and 1970s at the height of his athletic greatness echoed around the world. Ali’s history of struggle illustrates the lengthy and deep history of joint struggle and mutual solidarity among oppressed peoples and national liberation movements, and that Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon – and the Black Liberation Movement – were centers and incubators not only for the Palestinian revolution and Black struggle, but revolutionary movements the world over. We recall Ali’s role in representing a deep and collective legacy of resistance to imperialism, to anti-Black racism, and to Zionism, and of the struggle to free prisoners – and peoples – from the jails these systems of oppression create. ------- Sent from my hardwired computer with all wireless functions turned OFF 36 Baumb, Nelly From:Iqbal Serang <iqbalserangarchitect@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, July 2, 2021 10:00 AM To:Council, City Subject:Extend Rent Moratorium by 6 months. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council Members; Please extend the Rent Moratorium by 6 months  since distribution of payments has lapsed and is  only at 2% today.   Thank you for your concerns.  Iqbal Serang  37 Baumb, Nelly From:Arlene Goetze <photowrite67@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, July 1, 2021 12:54 PM To:cindy.chavez@box.sccgov.org; mike wasserman; joe simitian; otto.lee@bos.sccgov.org; susan.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org Subject:World Stats Buried from Public CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Valuable Info for Vaccinated & Unvaccinated Be prepared for either situation! COVID Vaccine Deaths and Injuries Are Secretly Buried Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola. Fact Checked * July 01, 2021 SUBHEADS Reports of deaths/injuries from virus jabs mounting rapidly If Something Goes Wrong, You're on Your Own Can You Afford a COVID Shot Injury? Additional Stipulations That Make Payouts Rare Can You Trust These White-Collar Criminals? ". . .miscarriage rate among women who get the COVID shot within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy is a whopping 82%. The normal rate is 10%. (Vaccines never tested for fertility.) Are Government and Big Pharma Guilty of Willful Misconduct? COVID Shots Are Clearly Riskier Than Advertised STORY AT-A-GLANCE * Reports of deaths and serious injuries from the COVID-19 jabs mount by the day. As of June 11, 2021, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) had posted 358,379 adverse events, including 5,993 deaths and 29,871 serious injuries * In the European Union’s database of adverse drug reactions from COVID shots, called EudraVigilance, there were 1,509,266 reported injuries, including 15,472 deaths as of June 19, 2021. EudraVigilance only accepts reports from EU members, so it covers only 27 countries. Remarkably, about HALF of all reported injuries — 753,657 — are listed as “serious” * The British Yellow Card system had, as of June 9, 2021, received 276,867 adverse event reports following COVID “vaccination,” including 1,332 deaths * Before you make the decision to participate in this unprecedented health experiment, it may be wise to assess your personal insurance and financial ability to handle a serious injury, as pandemic vaccine manufacturers are indemnified against lawsuits * If you are injured by a COVID shot and live in the U.S., your only 38 recourse is to apply for compensation from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Act (CICP). Payouts are rare, cover only lost wages and unpaid medical bills, cannot be appealed, are capped around $370,000 for death, and require you to exhaust your private insurance before kicking in Reports of deaths and serious injuries from the COVID-19 jabs have been mounting with breakneck rapidity. Those who look at the numbers and have some awareness of historical vaccine injury rates agree we've never seen anything like it, anywhere in the world. While data can be hard to come by for some countries, the ones we can check reveal deeply troubling patterns. • United States — As of June 11, 2021, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) had posted 358,379 adverse events,1 including 5,993 deaths and 29,871 serious injuries. In the 12- to 17-year -old age group, there were 271 serious injuries2 and seven deaths. Among pregnant women, there were 2,136 adverse events, including 707 miscarriages or premature births.3 All of these are bound to be undercounts as, historically, less than 10% of vaccine side effects are reported to VAERS.4 An investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services put it as low as 1%.5,6 Be that as it may, the reported rate of death from COVID-19 shots now exceeds the reported death rate of more than 70 vaccines combined over the past 30 years, and it's about 500 times deadlier than the seasonal flu vaccine,7 which historically has been the most hazardous. The COVID shots are also five times more dangerous than the pandemic H1N1 vaccine, which had a 25-per-million severe side effect rate.8,9 Assuming the COVID shots had the same side effect rate, and assuming some 200 million got the vaccine, the estimated number of people suffering a serious side effect would be about 5,000. We're well past t hat already, as 35,86410people have been seriously injured or killed. Even though there are nearly 6,000 reported deaths in VAERS, this number is likely seriously compromised. I recently interviewed Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who has treated COVID patients quite successfully, and we discussed the very distinct possibility that everyone who receives the COVID jab may die from complications in the next two to three years. He personally knows of 28 COVID jab deaths that were not accepted by VAERS. Zelenko suspects the number of deaths may exceed 100,000 already. Getting the COVID jab immediately places the injected individual in the very high risk of dying from COVID. Most have the false assurance that they are protected, but in reality, they are far more vulnerable and as a result will not take very aggressive proactive measures to avoid dying from pathogenic priming or paradoxical immune enhancement before it is too late. Please be sure and make a notation in your calendar to review my groundbreaking interview with Zelenko this Sunday, July 4, 2021, which is only three days away. We will review protocols you can use to protect you and your family or those you love, who now regret 39 getting the COVID jab. • European Union — In the European Union's database of adverse drug reactions from COVID shots, called EudraVigilance, there were 1,509,266 reported injuries, including 15,472 deaths as of June 19, 2021.11 Eudra Vigilance only accepts reports from EU members, so it covers only 27 of the 50 European countries. Remarkably, about HALF of all reported injuries — 753,657 — are listed as "serious," meaning the injury is life-threatening, requires hospitalization, results in a medically important condition, significant disability or persistent incapacity. • U.K. — The British Yellow Card system had received, as of June 9, 2021, 276,867 adverse event reports following COVID "vaccination," including 1,332 deaths.12 • Israel — According to a report by the Israeli People Committee, a civilian body of health experts, "there has never been a vaccine that has harmed as many people."13 For example, Israeli data show boys and men between the ages of 16 and 24 who have been vaccinated have 25 times the rate of myocarditis (heart inflammation) than normal.14 (Myocarditis is also affecting teens and young adults in the U.S. Although CDC officials say no confirmed deaths have been reported, at least two deaths have been linked temporally to the vaccine.15,16,17,18,19) • Australia — In Australia, two people have died from blood clots after taking AstraZeneca's COVID shot. Meanwhile, only one person — an elderly woman — has died from COVID-19 this year.20,21 If Something Goes Wrong, You're on Your Own The pain and suffering these shots have already created is hard to magine. Clearly, millions around the world have had their lives turned upside down by them. Many may not recover, physically or financially. It's really important to realize that if something goes wrong, you're largely on your own. Before you make the decision to participate in this unprecedented health experiment, it may be wise to assess your personal insurance and financial ability to handle a serious injury, as pandemic vaccine manufacturers are indemnified against lawsuits. You cannot sue them for damages. Nor can you sue the government or anyone else. If you are injured by a COVID shot and live in the U.S., your only recourse is to apply for compensation from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Act (CICP), under which COVID-19 vaccines are a covered countermeasure.22 The CICP is run by a sparsely staffed agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Details and hyperlinks to benefit request forms can be found in the Congressional Research Service's legal sidebar, "Compensation Programs for Potential COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries."23 You cannot apply for and will not receive compensation from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which covers other vaccines, including the flu vaccine. Compensation from CICP is very limited and hard to get. In its 15-year history, it has paid out just 29 claims, fewer than 1 in 10.24,25,26 You only qualify if your injury requires hospitalization and results in 40 significant disability and/or death, and even if you meet the eligibility criteria, it requires you to use up your private health insurance before it kicks in to pay the difference. The average CICP award is $200,000, and death cases are capped around $370,000. Meanwhile, you can easily rack up a $1 million hospital bill if you suffer a serious thrombotic event. There's no reimbursement for pain and suffering, only lost wages and unpaid medical bills. This means a retired person cannot qualify even i f they die or end up in a wheelchair. Salary compensation is of limited duration, and capped at $50,000 a year. On top of all that, you cannot appeal the CICP's decision. Appeals simply get reviewed by another staff member in the same office. Can You Afford a COVID Shot Injury? Even if they can get it, CICP awards are likely to be a drop in the bucket for most people. The average award is $200,000, and death cases are capped at $370,376.27 Meanwhile, you can easily rack up a $1 million hospital bill if you suffer a serious thrombotic event.28 You must also pay for your own legal help and any professional witnesses you may need to support your claim. In early June 2021, KRDO news reported29 on the case of Kendra Lippy, a 38-year-old woman who had no health complaints prior to getting her Johnson & Johnson shot. Within a week, she developed headaches, abdominal pain and nausea. Her diagnosis: Severe blood clots that progressed into multiple organ failure and coma. She had to have most of her small intestine removed and will need total parenteral nutrition for the rest of her life — a feeding method that bypasses her gastrointestinal tract. She was hospitalized for 33 days, including 22 days in the intensive care unit. She now needs occupational and physical therapy to regain basic functions like walking, writing and holding a fork. Lippy's hospital bill already exceeds $1 million, a sum she'll likely never be able to pay off, and there's no telling what kind of medical treatment she'll need in years to come. Clearly Lippy is headed for bankruptcy, and medical bills are the most common cause in the U.S. Additional Stipulations That Make Payouts Rare There are also time stipulations. You must file a request for benefits within one year of the date the vaccine was administered in order to qualify. This is a serious barrier, as serious side effects can take time to develop. For example, after the 2009 swine flu pandemic, people started reporting Guillain-Barre syndrome years after getting the pandemic H1N1 vaccine. At that point, they no longer qualified.30 Worst of all, however, is the fact that it is now your responsibility to prove your injury was the "direct result of the countermeasure's administration based on compelling, reliable, valid, medical and scientific evidence beyond mere temporal association." In other words, you basically have to prove what the vaccine developer itself has yet to ascertain, seeing how you are part of their still-ongoing study! The CICP is also notoriously secretive about why claims are 41 approved or rejected. As reported by the Insurance Journal, "it doesn't release even the most basic details such as the kinds of sicknesses people claim they got from vaccines."31 As of June 1, 2021, 1,360 Americans had sought compensation from the CICP for injuries and deaths arising from pandemic counter- measures, but only 869 were deemed eligible to file a claim.32 None has been adjudicated. Professor Peter Meyers, a former director of the Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic, who has referred to the CICP as a "black hole process,"33 warns that it's a "lousy program." He told Life Site News:34 > "It's a secretive, opaque program whereby some unknown officials within the Department of Health and Human Services will make decisions; we don't know how many people are adjudicating, who they are, or what the process is." The secrecy means there are no official statistics on the types of injuries people are filing for, or what countermeasure is said to have caused their injury. By the way, vaccines are not the only countermeasures shielded from liability. Hospital treatment errors are shielded too, and we know some hospitals routinely killed patients, whether they had confirmed COVID-19 or not, by placing them on ventilators even when they didn't need it.35 Can You Trust These White-Collar Criminals? As mentioned, pandemic vaccine makers are shielded from financial liability. The only way you can sue is if you can prove "willful misconduct," such as deliberate deception, fraudulent behavior or hiding relevant information. To get around this, vaccine makers may simply not look for certain problems. The potential for infertility is a perfect example. The spike protein is suspected of having reproductive toxicity, and Pfizer's biodistribution data show it accumulates in women's ovaries.36 Despite that, Pfizer did not perform any reproductive toxicology tests. Since they didn't look, they can with a straight face say they "didn't know" the shot might cause reproductive failure. The thing is, they should have suspected it, and done the tests to make sure. Already, we're seeing signs of reproductive toxicity. Data suggest the miscarriage rate among women who get the COVID "vaccine" within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy is a whopping 82%. The normal rate is 10%, so this is no minor increase. Infertility will be far more difficult to ascertain, and could take decades.37 In a May 28, 2021, letter to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Ira Bernstein and Sanja Jovanovic and Deann McLeod, HBSc, of Toronto, pointed this out by highlighting that preliminary safety studies published in the NEJM in April 2021 were in error by including “clinically unrecognized pregnancies” in them.38 They included adjusted graphs reflecting this, and asked the study’s authors to remove the erroneous data but, interestingly, their letter 42 disappeared from the internet the last week of June, although it was still in Wayback archives as of June 27, 2021. Coincidentally, June 17, 2021, the NEJM republished the April study with no explanation as to why it was being republished and with no adjustments to the data. Considering the criminal history of Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca, it's hard to understand how millions of people trust these companies not to lie in order to make a buck. As reported by Life Site News:39 > "Just three main vaccine makers, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca, have been ordered by state and federal courts to pay a combined more than $8.6 billion in fines to resolve dozens of allegations of criminal and civil misconduct. > Pfizer alone was fined $2.3 billion — the largest such settlement in history, according to the Department of Justice — for willfully defrauding and misbranding its drugs that had already been yanked from shelves for their documented dangers. > But for six whistleblowers who brought evidence forward against the company, it may have continued misbranding and selling its dangerous wares. > 'We've made a trade-off in America,' said Meyers, in giving vaccine manufacturers liability protection to ensure that they will keep making vaccines that, before legal immunity, were bogged down in lawsuit litigation for side effects. > Manufacturers who make cars or ladders or other products can be sued if they are faulty. Vaccine makers have blanket liability to ensure their products are produced, government funding to produce them, ensured government orders for products, government-paid mass-marketing and mandates … > 'The tradeoff seems unfair today because the CICP program is such as flawed program,' said Meyers, particularly when vaccine companies are raking in colossal profits (Pfizer is set to haul in $26 billion from its COVID vaccines this year and COVID vaccine manufacturing is churning out billionaires whose annual salaries are multiples of a decade of CICP payouts to dozens of people). > The CICP benefits are 'stingy compensations,' he added, for people who are suffering and waiting in the face of corporate greed and government opacity. Notwithstanding the drug companies' criminal records, Meyers thinks they would be 'crazy to risk misconduct.' If it turned out that vaccine makers were actually hiding information on risks of COVID vaccines, he said, 'it would be a catastrophe.'" Are Government and Big Pharma Guilty of Willful Misconduct? I don't know about you, but the feeling I get when I look at the cascade of injuries and deaths occurring within days or in many cases mere hours after injection is that something is terribly amiss, and vaccine makers are sweeping it all under the rug. Isn't that willful misconduct? Failing to perform reproductive toxicology tests after they discover that spike protein accumulates in the ovaries — isn't that reprehensible willful misconduct? Continuing to claim that the mRNA stays in the shoulder muscle when 43 they have data showing it gets distributed into virtually all organs in the human body — isn't that hiding important information? Isn't that reprehensible willful misconduct? I would argue that government officials are also guilty of medical maleficence. As noted by Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccine core platform technology,40 the most current version of the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) that governs these COVID shots reveals the FDA opted not to require stringent post-vaccination data collection and evaluation, even though they had the power to do so. Again, if you don't look for injuries, you're unlikely to find them. If there's no robust data collection and review process, they can say the shots are safe and shuttle them through the licensing process far more easily. The problem they're now facing is that VAERS is getting such an overwhelming number of reports that even if they account for only 10% of actual injuries, or less, it's absolutely unmistakable that there are serious problems. Failing to require vaccine makers to put together a comprehensive system to capture adverse event data is a sign of incompetence at best. But that's not all. The FDA really starts appearing deceitful when refusing to acknowledge that the VAERS reports indicate there are problems. To call "coincidence" more than 35,000 times is simply not believable, and to dismiss the risks of permanent disability and death as being "worth it" is beyond heartless, seeing how we have safe and effective treatments and no one actually needs to gamble their health on an experimental gene therapy. COVID Shots Are Clearly Riskier Than Advertised As noted in a June 22, 2021, Wall Street Journal article,41 while VAERS cannot tell us whether the shots were causative in any given side effect report, when you see clusters of reports that form a trend, it's time to investigate. Four serious adverse effects that are currently trending are thrombocy- topenia (low platelet count), noninfectious myocarditis (heart inflammation), especially in those under 30, deep-vein thrombosis and death.42 In order for such effects to be tolerable, even if rare, the vaccine (or drug) would need to be absolutely crucial for survival. Think of a highly infectious pandemic of Ebola, for example — something where death is swift and virtually assured, and treatment, once infected, is ineffective. None of those criteria apply to COVID-19, which has a lethality rate on par with the seasonal flu for all but the elderly and those most frail. The vaccine would also need to be an actual vaccine — something that provides immunity. COVID-19 gene therapy injections don't do that either. Overall, it's clear that deaths and injuries from these shots are being swept under the rug, and we cannot allow that to continue. We must keep pushing for transparency, honesty and accountability. 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Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. 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This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click here to report this email as spam.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click here to report this email as spam.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.    56   Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click here to report this email as spam.     Disclaimer  57 The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click here to report this email as spam.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.      Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 58 This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click here to report this email as spam.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click here to report this email as spam.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.      59 Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or 60 taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click here to report this email as spam.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.      Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email 61 security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.     This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click here to report this email as spam.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. 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To find out more, visit our website.     This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click here to report this email as spam.     Disclaimer  The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. 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This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast, a leader in email security and cyber resilience. Mimecast integrates email defenses with brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast helps protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To find out more, visit our website.        64 Baumb, Nelly From:Steven Weaver <stevenweaver168@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, July 1, 2021 5:41 AM To:Council, City Subject:Re: BIM Modeling Services !!! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello!     Hope you are doing well.      Our company specializes in BIM modeling services (Tender, Permit, Construction & GFC sets). Please let us know if you  are interested in getting any BIM, Modeling or 2D/3D drafting work done.       Look forward.     Thanks,  Steven    65 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Thursday, July 1, 2021 2:03 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; Leodies Buchanan; boardmembers; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; leager; Mayor; Mark Standriff; margaret-sasaki@live.com; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net; VT3126782 @gmail.com; sanchezphilip21@gmail.com; lalws4@gmail.com Subject:Fwd: More mosquitos found with West Nile, and W.N is NO JOKE! 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 1:32 AM  Subject: Fwd: More mosquitos found with West Nile, and W.N is NO JOKE! Ch 30 June 29.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 1:27 AM  Subject: Fwd: More mosquitos found with West Nile, and W.N is NO JOKE! Ch 30 June 29.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 9:53 PM  Subject: Fwd: More mosquitos found with West Nile, and W.N is NO JOKE! Ch 30 June 29.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 8:59 PM  66 Subject: Fwd: More mosquitos found with West Nile, and W.N is NO JOKE! Ch 30 June 29.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 8:47 PM  Subject: Fwd: More mosquitos found with West Nile, and W.N is NO JOKE! Ch 30 June 29.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 8:23 PM  Subject: Fwd: More mosquitos found with West Nile, and W.N is NO JOKE! Ch 30 June 29.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 5:13 PM  Subject: More mosquitos found with West Nile, and W.N is NO JOKE! Ch 30 June 29.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>           Wed.  June 30, 2021                  To all‐                 Look at this. I found this on Google, not finding it on YouTube. KMPH, not Channel 30, had a piece about a  woman in Clovis who felt sick, they went to a hospital, and while there, her legs became paralyzed! Tested positive for  West Nile.They interviewed her and husband.  She looks about 50. This happened several years ago and she is still  paralyzed.  So if you care nothing about West Nile Virus, remember her.  Her name is Trish Hester. A very brave lady.                  Here is the KMPH story:   Please see this:                It could be an especially bad year for West Nile Virus. Here's what to know. (kmph.com)                        Watch the 18 minute interview there.  Notice that they have a basket full of mosquito repellants. I'm going to  get one too.                   Story on Ch. 30 today in Fresno:                                    Valley's dry conditions could lead to more mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus ‐ ABC30 Fresno    67                Now they find the mosquitos carrying W.N. here in California's Central Valley every summer.  I avoid dawn and  dusk outside.  Use repellant unless having your legs paralyzed would not inconvenience you.  West Nile creates other  health problems as well.                                      It's caused by a virus. Could we please have a vaccine against West NIle?  Perhaps there are just not enough  Ameicans and others paralyzed, etc. every year by West NIle to justify a vaccine and the campaign needed to administer  it. It seems to be here every summer. This has been here for ~10 years.                   Go to YouTube and enter "Woman in Clovis, Ca. paralyzed by West Nile virus".  You won't find her but you see  many other people with serious outcomes. Symptoms, what it does to a person, ways to avoid, etc. Lots to watch  there.                   I wish that Fresno Mayor Dyer would put together a report on how many teams of mosquito abatement people  the City and/or County has. How intensive  is the trapping and analysis effort? One vid. shows a truck going through  neighborhoods in Visalia, I believe, spraying for adult mosquitos. Does Fresno have that? A 10 minute video on the  Fresno City website about this would be appreciated.  Even a fifteen minute presentation by the Mayor and his experts  before the Fresno CC detailing the City's efforts against West Nile would be of interest to residents.               I think we deserve some outline from the top of the Fresno City and County governments as to what is being done  to combat West Nile. We see pieces on the local news about the problem, but now we need to hear from the leaders  here as to what is being done by local government. Let us hear from our members of the legislature and from the  Governor about this too.                Because West Nile is now found across the US, the Governors should appeal to the NIH to develop a vaccine. Big  Pharma might not see enough sales of a vaccine to make its development worthwhile, but the federal government can  supply the money to get the job done. Let us hear from our representatives in Congress about this issue too. They can  urge, and fund, research on a vaccine. The President should urge the development of a vaccine too.                   L. William Harding                Fresno, Ca.                Dump out and report standing water.   68 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, July 1, 2021 12:00 AM To:Binder, Andrew; city.council@menlopark.org; Planning Commission; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; chuck jagoda; Rebecca Eisenberg; Greer Stone; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Tanaka, Greg; Jeff Moore; Raj; Joe Simitian; Cindy Chavez; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; ParkRec Commission; Cecilia; Betsy Nash; Jonsen, 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>  Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 5:13 PM  Subject: New Annual Data Shows Hate Crimes Have Increased Across California – AsAmNews    https://asamnews.com/2021/06/30/new‐annual‐data‐shows‐hate‐crimes‐have‐increased‐across‐ california/  New Annual Data Shows Hate Crimes Have Increased Across California June 30, 2021 By Adam Chau, AsAmNews by Akemi Tamanaha, Associate Editor Photo by Adam Chau New data from 2020 shows that hate crimes in California were at their highest reported level in more than a decade. 71 In a Wednesday morning press conference at Oakland’s Chinatown, California Attorney General Rob Bonta briefly previewed new reports, resources and guidelines created to help tackle the increase in hate crimes. He opened the press conference by acknowledging how anxious Asian Americans have felt throughout the pandemic as hate crimes against them continued to rise. Bonta, a Filipino American, noted that he offered to drive his mother into the city because he didn’t think it was safe. “I want you to know that this state sees you, to the Asian American community,” Bonta said. “That you’re being heard, and we’re going to keep doing our part to fight on your behalf.” Top Articles Content byAsAmNews Bonta announced that in addition to a general report on hate crimes, his office had issued a special report on anti-Asian hate crimes. The report, which focused on data from 2020 only, found that the highest number of reported anti-Asian hate crimes occurred in March and April of 2020. There was a 107 percent increase in hate crimes targeting the Asian American community, from 43 reported hate crimes in 2019 to 89 reported hate crimes in 2020. Data also showed that hate crimes have increased overall across the state. At 1,330 hate crimes events in 2020, hate crimes in California are at their highest reported level in over a decade. Anti-Black hate crimes were the most prevalent hate crimes. In 2020, there were 456 reported anti-black hate crimes, an 87 percent increase from 2019. Bonta also reminded the media that despite the spike in hate crimes shown by the data, many hate crimes still go unreported. He announced that his office would be releasing a “Law Enforcement Bulletin and Prosecutor Guidance” to help properly identify and investigate hate crimes. The attorney general’s office will also be releasing brochures in more than two dozen languages to help members of the public identify and report hate crimes, as well as obtain assistance if necessary. 72 Bonta stated that confusion over whether an incident should be considered a hate crime should not stop a victim from reporting. “If you’re in doubt or you’re in danger, we want you to report it. And will take it from there,” Bonta said. Hate crime reporting also hinges on trust between law enforcement and the public. The law enforcement bulletin provides guidelines for building relationships with local communities who may be too wary of law enforcement to come forward. The prosecutor guidelines discuss solutions to help stem the rise in hate crimes. It stresses the importance of “immediate and consistent contact with victims and affected communities” in ensuring successful prosecutions of hate crimes. It also examines “alternative forms of sentencing or restorative justice approaches to hate crime prosecutions.” “I’m hoping that by providing all these solutions we are able to let the public know if you are facing a hate crime or you are the victims of crimes, please come forward,” Carl Chan, the President of Oakland’s Chinatown Chamber of commerce and a hate crime victim, said at the press conference. “There are solutions. There are information. There will be help from the State Attorney General. AsAmNews has Asian America in its heart. We’re an all‐volunteer effort of dedicated staff and interns. 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From conservative Alabama to crunchy California, electric lawn equipment is quietly sweeping the nation.  By Tik Root    https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/06/30/electric-lawn-care/    Download The Washington Post app.    Sent from my iPhone  76 Baumb, Nelly From:Ronald Pyszka <ron.pyszka@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 30, 2021 2:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Thank You CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    To: Members of the Palo Alto City Council    Thank you very much for funding completion of work on the Charleston‐Arastradero corridor.    This project has been a long time coming and the City Council’s support over the years has been very much appreciated.    But please do not undermine all the good work by supporting the ill advised Underpass Option for grade separation on  Charleston Road.    Again, thank you very much for your support.    Ronald Pyszka  284 East Charleston Road  July 12, 2021 Greetings Mayor DuBois, I read this morning that some of Palo Alto's police officers are suing over the BLM mural on the street outside the police department. I support our police officers and I agree that the mural is offensive and divisive. I hope that the City Council, under your leadership, will reconsider this mural and its removal. Below is an email I sent a year ago to Mayor Fine regarding the same, and you can read my comments within. In my almost 70 years as a Palo Altan, I have never seen the level of divisiveness and disrespect that exists today. I only hope that Palo Alto, and America, can find a way to unite our citizens. Thank you. Respectfully, N n£? -...... -i-< c... -< c::: ,--nO ,...,, Jeff Hacker ~ ~~ ----------Original Message ---------- rrl""lll ::vJ> c.n ;xr :r-U)O ::J: > a,-.,,-i - From: JEFF HACKER <jchacker@comcast.net> To: Adrian.Fine@cityofpaloalto.org .. -.,0 U1 c,- r,'1 C") Date: 07/10/2020 2:54 PM Subject: BLM Mural Removal Mayor Fine, I am a lifetime resident of Palo Alto, 69 years, and I am writing to ask for the removal of the Black Lives Matter mural outside City Hall for two reasons. As I'm sure you are acutely aware, painted on the 'E' is a portrait of Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur. Shakur and others with the Black Liberation Army were convicted and sentenced in 1973 for the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper. She escaped prison in 1979. No peaceful movement should ever memorialize a criminal of her stature, and any reference to her should be immediately removed. I have had many friends and even a brother serve on the PAPD, and our officers deserve the ultimate respect. Secondly, to say that Black Lives Matter, rather than all lives matter, discriminates against all other races. All lives do matter. There are many more issues involved in this complex statement regarding issues between police and black citizens, or for that matter all citizens. Things like fatherless families, criminal behavior, non-compliance when interfacing with officers, black on black violence, etc. all are issues that have to be addressed in order to "fix" the world. )> I do not support our city government allowing political statements to be painted on our streets, and I do not want my tax dollars spent that way. I hope you and the City Council will come to your senses and remove this controversial political statement from our street. On a different note, I'm not sure who to address regarding this comment but I mentioned a couple years ago to an officer that the (relatively) new stars on the patrol cars should be changed back to the old stars with the green El Palo Alto tree on them. The new stars look like a "rent a cop" emblem while the old stars made Palo Alto patrol cars stand uniquely out. 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Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Good morning, I'd like to ask you for a favor. Thanks, Ken Sent from my iPhone From:Gary Holl To:Raybould, Claire Cc:Council, City Subject:File No 21PLN-00176 2609 Alma St Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2021 8:00:42 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.________________________________ hello Claire, We received the “Notice of Proposed Development Project” that was send by the City of Palo Alto. I would like to go on the record as apposing a three story building at 2609 Alma Street. (File No. 21PLN-00176) I appose all three story buildings in our neighborhood. RegardsGary Holl200 Colorado AvePalo alto, CA94301 From:Margret To:Council, City Subject:For web service ../// Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 4:03:55 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links.Hello,I wasn't sure if you had seen the error report for your website listing ornot but when I came across your website while checking 3-4 pages ofGoogle Result, I found some issues in your website which can be resolvedby yourself even if you are not so technical. So, if you give me the permission, I would love to share with you areport for your website without any charge. SincerelyMargaret From:kay sabin To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: 1995 Tasso Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 3:35:31 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. > -----Original Message----- From: kay sabin <ksabes@aol.com> To: rachael.tanner@cityofpaloalto.org <rachael.tanner@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: citymgr@cityofpaloalto.org <citymgr@cityofpaloalto.org> Sent: Tue, Jul 20, 2021 11:03 am Subject: 1995 Tasso Hello Rachael Tanner, I just walked out side in my back yard with a friend,and found the builders had placed their ladder on my property to put the under tar paper for the roof. They never came over to ask if theycould come over into my yard. This is how close the back of the garage is to my property.. This project needs to be stopped IMMEDIATELY so that all the issues can be resolved. Kay Sabin 1990 Webster Street From:Cary Andrew CrittendenTo:anya.vinesrodriguez@ssa.sccgov.orgSubject:Fwd: American Red CrossDate:Wednesday, July 14, 2021 12:51:43 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. FYI:: Begin forwarded message: From: Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>Date: 7/14/2021To: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>Cc:tkelly@hudoig.gov,rramirez@sunnyvale.ca.gov,christi.grimm@hhs.oig.gov,tkelly@hudoig.gov,dinh.chu@hhs.sccgov.org,robert.rocco@hhs.sccgov.org,melody.hames@hhs.sccgov.org,support@redcrosstraining.org,ChristopherWelsh <cwelshlaw@gmail.com>,sanfrancisco@sec.govSubject: American Red Cross We need t work together as a team to sort out what's going on with the falsified records & what appears to be serious fiscal mismanagement by Santa Clara County officials. I need to rewind the tape to approximately June / July of last year when out of control wildfires impacted the adjacent Northern California Counties of Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. The Vagabond In. hotel, located at 816 West Ahwanee Avenue was being utilized by Project Room Key & receiving FEMA funds to provide hotel rooms for those at risk of COVID-19. Residents had come to me forhelp because they were getting sick fro Sub Standard food being served & staff was irresponsive to their concerns. At another nearby hotel , The Larkspur Landing inn, The American Red Cross was providing meals which were of much better quality & unlike the food at Vagabond inn, the food at Larkspur was not rotten and nobodywas getting sick. I introduced myself to the Management team & told them about my background and the work that I do. Some of the people at Red Cross were very curious as to what the problem was with Mr. Robert Rocco and concerns were brought up that perhaps somebody within the County of Santa Clara was skimming money fromthe food budget. Example would be: $10.00 / meal; financed by FEMA & end consumer receives $2.00 meal. (. $8.00 difference in food being stolen by somebody & redirected somewhere. ) It is important to note that the Red Cross was very open to share food with the residents of Vagabond inn , but were stonewalled by Robert Rocco with absurd allegations that the Red Cross workers would pose a safetyrisk to the Vagabond In residents by speaking Covid -19 and tried to prohibit the residents from reaching out to Red Cross , they did anyway because the food being served was not edible.) Over some time, the flock of residents from Vagabond inn going to Larkspur Landing for food became so overwhelming that the Red Cross Management had to draw the line & would designate a time for Vagabond Innresidents to come and get fed. Cary Andrew Crittenden On July 14, 2021 at 9:14 AM, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> wrote: Hello Aram, An incident occured yesterday at Vagabond inn which alarmed some of the residents who have epressed frustration over being denied these critical services that they need. In addition to being refused thedocuments that they are illegaly withholding, There were people fro. San Jose Job Corps present & County Staff seamed desperate to prevent the people from. jSan Jose job Corps fro learning about thefraudulent procurement of federal funding & misallocation of resources. This has opened up suspicion that San Jose Job Corps are also being defrauded by Robert Rocco ad his band of criminal thugs. At this time , I know very little about the relationship between the VagabondInn and San Jose Job Corps, I noticed that their website links it the inspector General of US Department of Health and Human Services. I have taken the initiative to copy Christ Grimm, Inspector General of US Department of Health and Human Services. We will also be following up with San Jose Job Corps to alert them to keep their eyesopen for any suspicious activity or fraudulent transactions. Am also including the US Attorneys office Cary Andrew Crittenden On July 13, 2021 at 7:41 PM, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> wrote: Aram, You were also witness to the statements made by LT. Rudy Ramirez, who in. my opinion, also committed extortion. He told me that f I did not leave, I would be arrested. Even though /Iwas not committing crime nor had I violated the policies that they claimed. This was coercion & if I got arrested, this could likely lead to Heidi being injured or killed. I interpreted LT Rudy Ramirez's words as a threat against Heidi's life. We are entitled to that property & because of the fraud and extortion, we are being denied access. This is paid for by federal funds and I believe that these funds are therefore being fraudulentlymisallocated and procured. I do not want to take lega action against Ramirez or the City of Sunnyvale. I am asking them to do their best and help us to resolve the situation, help us get our paperwork & housing restored. We are also entitled to compensation for each and every day we are being illegaly kept fro out home. Approximately $150.00 / day. - plus lost wages as I should Bev getting paid by county for providing in home supportive services. Regards,Cary Andrew Crittenden On July 13, 2021 at 7:28 PM, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> wrote: Are you sure? Jeff Rosen illegaly prosecuted me and sent me to prison, but I will do so. On July 13, 2021 at 7:05 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: Copy in DA Rosen!! Sent from my iPhone On Jul 13, 2021, at 6:30 PM, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> wrote: We need this issue resolved sir. We will pursue whatever legal remedy available but unfortunately, you are responsible because you participated in these crimes. The staff at Vagabond inn is still refusing to release our paperwork to us & we are still not being allowed into our hotel room. Our room was financed by federal funds and we remain entitled to that property. We need to meet with your captain or deputy chief in order to resolve this situation & I hope you decide to cooperate and behave in civil manor as we did nothing to deserve this treatment and this aggression and hostility toward us is unacceptable, We are entitled to full compensation & it is our desire to avoid conflict. if necessary, we will sue you in federal court under USC Title 42 Section 1983. We hope that will not be necessary. Regards, Cary Andrew Crittenden Under Penal Code 518 PC, California law defines the crime of extortion as using force or threats to compel another person to hand over money or property, or to compel a public officer to perform an official act. Extortion is a felony that carries a potential sentence of up to four years in jail or prison. 518 PC states that “extortion is the obtaining of property or other consideration from another, with his or her consent, or the obtaining of an official act of a public officer, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official rig Begin forwarded message: From: Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>Date: 7/13/2021To: jramirez@sunnyvale.ca.govCc: rramirez@sunnyvale.ca.govSubject: Fwd: Inspector General's Office - Extortion by County officials My apologies, it appears to e LT. Rudy Ramirez, not Jose Ramirez that participated I the events at Vagabond In. which are subject to Federal Cause of Action Cary Andrew Crittenden Begin forwarded message: From: Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>Date: 7/13/2021To: "Vines Rodriguez, Anya" <anya.vinesrodriguez@ssa.sccgov.org>Cc: robert.rocco@hhs.sccgov.orgSubject: Inspector General's Office - Extortion by County officials Thank you Anya, We will unfortunately need to enlist the assistance of the Sunnyvale Police and Federal Authorities. for assistance with theVagabond inn situation. Any help from your office would be greatly appreciated, I am copying this email to Robert Rocco., who is a liar and a thief, In November of last year, Mr. Rocco committed at least 2 felonies. He falsified public records and committed extortion. Heidi had been without her card for about 5 weeks. During that tine period, I had covered for her expenses, After receiving her card, she had phone call with Susan Davis who had implied there was mismanagement over Heidis funds Afterclarifying by email , over $1,700 was depopsited into her account. The all of the sudden, a thug came pounding on the door demanding I pay debt that I did not owe. Staff at Vagabond /inn insisted Itake Heidi's money from her to pay the thug. Because /I refused to do so, we were kicked out and our property was stolen. This happened after evidence had been compiled showing that County Executive Jeff Smith acted in collusion with Judge BrianWash and others in sabotaging a civil grand jury investigation into the public guardian who had facilitated the illegal eviction ofHeidi Yauman in 2012, which resulted I. the death off her neighbor: Robert Moss. In this video, Robert Dolsi appears to give 2 different answers to same question: Civil Grand Jury investigation yielded false findings of "NO FISCAL IMPACT" meaning the County of Santa Clara hadfraudulently procured miillions of dollars from US Federal Government. Best Regards,Cary Andrew Crittenden That is extortion. Cary Andrew Crittenden Regards,Cary Andrew Crittenden On July 13, 2021 at 11:04 AM, "Vines Rodriguez, Anya" <anya.vinesrodriguez@ssa.sccgov.org> wrote: I just arrived. I’ll walk to the front of hobees. I’d prefer to meet outside. I have jeans and a gray shirt with a blue maskon. Anya Vines Rodriguez, MSWCounty of Santa ClaraDeputy Public Guardian ConservatorP: (408) 755-7602F: (408) 755-7950P.O. Box 760San Jose, CA 95106-0760NOTICE: This email message and/or its attachments may contain information that is confidential or restricted. It isintended only for the individuals named as recipients in the message. If you are NOT an authorized recipient, you areprohibited from using, delivering, distributing, printing, copying, or disclosing the message or content to others andmust delete the message from your computer. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender byreturn mail. ü Please consider the environment before printing this email. On Jul 13, 2021, at 10:59 AM, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> wrote: Hello Anya, If you want to come early, thats fine. We are next door the Denny's at Hobbes / Motel 6 using their Wi-fi. We are still being refused are peperwork from Vagabond Inn which is illegal & we were hoping to get CivilStandby to get or paperwork and housing restored. There is is no excuse for them to treat us like this aswe did nothing wrong. Bruno at Dennys suggested we leave and come back at 11:45 because that is too long to wait. We dont know what you look like so we will not recognize you. Thank you,Cary Andrew Crittenden Begin forwarded message: From: Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>Date: 7/13/2021To: "Vines Rodriguez, Anya" <anya.vinesrodriguez@ssa.sccgov.org>Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Visa Card Denny's, 814 West Ahwanee Ave.11:45 A.M. ( Mathilda Ave. / 101 ) On July 13, 2021 at 8:55 AM, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>wrote: Thank You Anya, Heidi just walked away & will are back shortly. On July 13, 2021 at 7:49 AM, "Vines Rodriguez, Anya"<anya.vinesrodriguez@ssa.sccgov.org> wrote: Good morning, I only have availability today from 10-1:00pm to deliver your card.Please let me know a soon as you get this where we can meet.Whatever is most convenient for you. Anya Vines Rodriguez, MSWCounty of Santa ClaraDeputy Public Guardian ConservatorP: (408) 755-7602F: (408) 755-7950P.O. Box 760San Jose, CA 95106-0760NOTICE: This email message and/or its attachments may containinformation that is confidential or restricted. It is intended only for theindividuals named as recipients in the message. If you are NOT anauthorized recipient, you are prohibited from using, delivering,distributing, printing, copying, or disclosing the message or content toothers and must delete the message from your computer. If you havereceived this message in error, please notify the sender by returnmail. ü Please consider the environment before printing this email. On Jul 12, 2021, at 2:14 PM, Heidi Yauman<heidi.yauman@outlook.com> wrote: Dear Anya what do i tell mohamed the hamburger man wants his money i dont want him mad at me. he runs falafel flame hamburger place and you should try his onion rings and i hope you have a nice day from heidi yauman. i can give you ham=bug=r reciepts please send USPS tracking u=numer or pastage dates so i can get mofre food From: Vines Rodriguez, Anya<anya.vinesrodriguez@ssa.sccgov.org>Sent: Friday, July 9, 2021 4:36 PMTo: Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> Cc: heidi.yauman@outlook.com<heidi.yauman@outlook.com>; heidi.yauman@email.com <heidi.yauman@email.com>Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Visa Card I have not been notified that the card is ready. I asked youboth to wait to hear from me. We are at the mercy ofUSPS. Anya Vines Rodriguez, MSWCounty of Santa ClaraDeputy Public Guardian ConservatorP: (408) 755-7602F: (408) 755-7950P.O. Box 760San Jose, CA 95106-0760NOTICE: This email message and/or its attachmentsmay contain information that is confidential or restricted.It is intended only for the individuals named as recipientsin the message. If you are NOT an authorized recipient,you are prohibited from using, delivering, distributing,printing, copying, or disclosing the message or content toothers and must delete the message from your computer.If you have received this message in error, please notifythe sender by return mail. ü Please consider the environment before printing thisemail. On Jul 9, 2021, at 1:35 PM, Cary AndrewCrittenden<caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> wrote: Hello Anya, if not today, we will be by Monday to pickup card. We are having difficulty schedulingtransportation. Regards,'Cary Andrew Crittenden From:Allan Seid To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Asian American history to be taught in all Illinois public schools - allanseid734@gmail.com - Gmail Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 4:56:44 PM Attachments:logo_gmail_lockup_default_1x_r2.png ADea4I7EYkPvDGFDJdhddHdG7Kx6zj-J7MGJ9fgNKB6y=s32-c-mo profile_mask2.png 0 icon_3_pdf_x16.png no_photo.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. A GREAT STORY WORTH REPEATING. Teaching American history is fundamental to a united country where the contributions of all citizens and immigrants are made known to all. All high schools should follow the lead of the state of ILLINOIS.We all must support this same effort in our California state leaders in Sacramento now. Ethnic studies also in our universities and colleges must be strengthened and expanded. Allan https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGkZQKvmDXRfLHVfSSKrdfK QfMW H From:Allan Seid To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Asian man pistol-whipped, robbed in San Francisco Bay Area Date:Saturday, July 17, 2021 7:02:25 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 6:56 AMSubject: Asian man pistol-whipped, robbed in San Francisco Bay Are https://news.yahoo.com/elderly-asian-man-pistol-whipped-000310594.html Asian man pistol-whipped, robbed in San Francisco Bay Area Fri, July 16, 2021, 5:03 PM OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An armed robber in the San Francisco Bay Area pistol-whipped an Asian man and a person who tried to intervene in what police described Friday as a “brazen” attack in broad daylight. The man was standing on a corner of Oakland's Chinatown on Thursday when two men walked up and tried to take his belongings. One of the attackers was armed with a gun with an extended magazine, police said in a statement. The attack comes amid a wave of assaults against Asian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the country since the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the U.S. Surveillance video tweeted by a KPIX-TV reporter shows the victim on the ground, his walking cane nearby, and a robber trying to take his watch. The armed man is seen striking a bystander wearing a bike helmet on the head with his gun as the man tried to intervene, causing him to fall. Police didn't immediately respond to messages seeking details about the victims' injuries. The two suspects got into a waiting vehicle driven by a third suspect and fled, police said. Oakland detectives are investigating and have asked anyone with information about the attack to contact them. From:Dilma Coleman To:justin@dhmregroup.com; Council, City Cc:consulate@egyptembassy.net; embassy@egyptembassy.net Subject:Fwd: Before pic..of today"s clients..will show after pics later or tomorrow to Wendy Chen. Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 3:41:20 PM Attachments:Screenshot_20210719-095657.pngScreenshot_20210719-095534.pngScreenshot_20210719-100355.pngScreenshot_20210719-100413.pngScreenshot_20210719-092907.pngScreenshot_20210719-092843.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 3:19 PMSubject: Fwd: Before pic..of today's clients..will show after pics later or tomorrow to Wendy Chen.To: <60amw.actionline@us.af.mil>, David Isidro <disidro@homefirstscc.org> Cc: <sfpdinglesidestation@sfgov.org>, <sfpdbayviewstation@sfgov.org> Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman speaks about the Atari..no no no it's roller skating..with braids..it was prohibited..to have hair extensions with beads..it was black people roller skatingor bowling with braids n beads.. I did say stop playing with my yo yo. Then I continue to cry about the effort whichever works best for how OJ Simpson went away from the house..theestablishment to go find Saran wrap or aluminum foil to wrap the heads of negro children so they could rollar skate or go bowling.. Whatever was wrong today..it's time to allow a Psychic medium empath paranormalhypochondriac think tank Professional braider..to get accolades for surviving in the worst injustices....of labor trafficking human trafficking sex trafficking stuff. To understandknowledge of when white trashy women whom abused drugs with Nicole Simpson. ..and. ..that part of stalking Nicole. The WWF..oir favorite TV show..skip to the part where..littleorchard homeless shelter..houses..the trashy women ...whom witnessed the murder of Nicole Simpson.. That Jimmy's Carter's hand held TV at the cemetery whereas President Abraham Lincoln.isreally dead...argue it...why change the subject..continue to argue about..the fabricated lies about the Netflix's establishment those whom produced documentaries based on Gematriasantanic ritualistic masochistly attacks..like the Dirty John..and other stuff like Santa Clarita Drew Barrymore.. Oh happy day the memories of Abe Lincoln is still alive because his face isstill on the $5 bill. How loud did Diva Lee cry when Justin Simpson dug his hand in Nicole's purse..in his childhood he touched a crack pipe whichever works..justin put the pipe to hismouth..does anyone know if real estate agent Justin Simpson is in A.A? As the ex wife to Justin Simpson.and former owner of a drug Rehabilitation center..a former A.Acounselor..whomever micromanaged communication between Diva and her ex husband Justin Simpson..talk about what color bed sheets u had in the marriage..do a psychic mediumanalysis of the bedroom..livingroom, blah blah..Does it make any sense about real estate agent Kameran Poursham and Idean Poursham their businesses? Talk about it in the next Diva Lee not TMZ. It's the braid..it's the braid..then why is Diva Lee inside Homefirst homeless shelterin San Jose,CA with the same white trash women who smoked drugs with Nicole Simpson in the 1980's-1994? Name all spectators..who arrived at Nicole's home on June 12,1994..thatplastic bag of this n that was left behind don't blame Nicole's housekeeping. why? Because those white trash women in the little Orchard homeless shelter in San Jose CA..were atNicole's home on June 12,1994..jump into their current chores at Little Orchard..do a comparison of the LAPD crime scene reports. Figure out if any of those are currentlyassociated with any journalism TV Netflix..think like a real detective work for it.. Because OJ Simpson has power in his words..he has to become a California Governor now. .. what'sHappening now? I ain't playing poker...trade up.. don't player on ur right..sounds great...don't play with my yo yo. Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman was inside the car whereas her husbandRicky Herd was shot in the head in SF in February 2003. That's what I am saying about defund the police.. I was in the car with my husband Ricky Herd..the same police crime scenethis n that..and the spectators are the same white trash women whereas..it's really about those greedy Jews and their Cohorts whom keep taking police reports into documentaries forNetflix..or grab actor Ashton Kutcher..ask his opinion..of police reports they redacted his name every time..he can't make a citizens arrest because he's an actor. Diva Lee, has a lawdegree, experienced Psychiatric nurse, family life therapist, MD to JD..blah blah braid braid braid..braid is the current status of employment as it it it it it's..not comedian .. Scriptwritingclass..braid braid braid argue it. Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 3:31 PM Subject: Re: Before pic..of today's clients..will show after pics later or tomorrow to WendyChen. To: David Isidro <disidro@homefirstscc.org> Hello, David, Dilma Coleman reflects on her clients last night..their focus, their communicative styles. The email describes it briefly and really quickly..it moves in andout..with emotional comparisons..of how much the youth are not capable with enough compassion..to understand what people age 45 and older have designed for them intechnology..etc. Attachment #1-#3 Makayla July 18,2021 started at 2:10pm. Wasn't sure if I was able to braidher short hair. ..I did the task..gently..and consistently...the overall braid style..was achieved..and it looks good..hope it promotes healthy lifestyle..of self care...Girl age 16...Makayla communicated a negative deceptive harassment about mental health, housing, and charectistics of Dilma Coleman in form of a text to whomever regarding Dilma's currenthousing situation. KK aka Makayla used the words my schizophrenic homeless braider talks to herself while braiding my hair laughing at her stories..she used keyword. Stephen Curry hisinvolvement with her children. Remember that Diva Lee is age 45.. nothing but this n that..wanna be U.S supreme Court Justice a graduate of Palo Alto CA highschool class of1994. After law school Dilma received A.A degree in liberal arts. . continue to areospace engineering schematics..of construction engineering strategic psychological thrillers andenvironmental science. As a former SF FBI agent trained by the CIA.. whatever..it's not a boast or a blast. What's the most favorite thing during Pandemic? Sticker bookphotojournalism.. encouragement for alcoholic brother to quit his habitual aggressions their thinking about this n that..barley beer , cigerettes,cigar ain't my problem.. but it relaxes mystresses..I am fine..no no no..I argue against it and create vision board, visual arts..as an Empath Professional..drug counselor a former owner of an San Jose,CA drug Rehabilitationcenter..don't play with my yo-yo. . Argue that bubble gum has drugs..spin class from 1981 with former U.S President Jimmy Carter..spin class with Russian ambassador, ChinaAmbassador..etc etc save yourself..from Narcissistic individuals. .save some for my dead homies in SF..like it like it. KK Age 16..has a narcissist approach..in a verbal assualt of communicated defamation ofcharector analysis of Dilma Coleman on July 18,2021. This is not an acceptable observation which makes Dilma uncomfortable and now Dilma must reach out to CPA to make themaware of this Minor's learnt behaviors and communicative styles. This communicative style of the girl age 16..has caused emotional distresses mental anguish therefore Dilma will report itto the police including CPS in Santa Clara County and Solano County whereas the girl KK resides. . It's Dilma's understanding that the Girl KK has a history of having Narcissistic behaviors andviolent tempers towards her father, younger and older sisters.when she lives in Fremont,CA. KK's behavorial observation and verbal abuse and physical abuse was communicated in2019..when Dilma braided Maeloni's hair when she was age 19.Maeloni age 21 says that things are more quiet and she is less observant of her little sisters communicative and physicalbehaviors. Dilma did nothing about the complaint.in 2019..until now. New communication by Maeloni on Makayla's hygiene..was heard..on July 18,2019. On July 18,2021 Makaelacommunicated via text messages to whomever that..Dilma is an homeless schizophrenic braider who laughs at her stories at an Santa Clara CA Townsuites hotel by Marriott. First ofall don't argue with Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee..a 16 yr old girl is a child whom has a patterned behavorial observation based on Narcissistic individuals..and it's foundation is basedon sorcerers in Psychiatric businesses like Ujima Psychiatric doctor Yvonne Maxwell and others in the Santa Clara County whom have oppressed and performed sadistic santanicritualistic sexual Assault and physical assualts on Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee since the 1990's and as recent as 2021. I don't know if KK has had any experience in Fremont Mentalhealth hospital in Fremont,CA whereas that place has a history of Psychiatric abuse..with negative environmental factors as a hub for Netflix movie makers..their way of creatingstories..based on the mentally ill, their use of tobacco,alcohol and drugs. On July 18,2021, Dilma did not talk to herself..or something like ur not the boss of me...yes I am offended.whereas I believe that Makayla has a history of having behaviors which creates hostile environment. On July 18,2021 Dilma resides aAttachment#2 start at 2:10pm. Attachment#3 completed at 9:10pmAttachment#4 completed at 9:10pm. client KK age 16. Got braids while her family was around her....her aunt and aunt's girlfriend, mother,younger sister and older sister withboyfriend. Charector analysis of KK: a child who does not understand adults Especially Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman. Dilma feels that KK used sorcerery, or something like the hotel room inMarriott hotel townsuites..was designed for KK to gossip about a charector whom she possibly witnessed in a crisis in the past in that same hotel room. On July 18,2021, KK gossips lies about her braider.while her braider Dilma braids her hair..Dilma braided her client.. whereas she read her texts while she compose it. Dilma feels like the girl age 16 is a part of a vicious cycle whereas she is a victim witness of humantrafficking. On July 18,2021, KK decided to text her friend about some gossip about her hair being braided by a homeless shelter schizophrenic women laughing talking to herself about having achild with Stephen Curry. The client age 16..is mean with narcissistic behaviors. .the child's behavorial observation of Dilma is fictitious, false,and disturbing whereas Dilma had to findpeace of mind to gain strength in hopes that the 16 year old girl wasn't able to hurt Dilma..the texts which Dilma read.. disturbs Dilma...the parent was present in hotel bedroom. Dilmacontinues to observe the child's thinking pattern whereas the child was completely surrounded by people whom she knows really well people whom support her thinking. Dilma had engagedin conversation with adults on topics of Filipino women inventors in the 1980's whom were whereas their projects were trapped by health science..research...work staffed by tempagencies. ..that conversation started at 2:15pm to 3:15pm..then the conversation went to an charector analysis of a Filipino grandpa his comments on his frustrated dreams for hisdaughter whom married an Afro American men whom had a drug addictions. The cultural aspects of Filipino,Asians Male argues about his leadership style in his family to transform theminds of the women he trained to be leaders in technology, areospace engineering and technology of medical devices..that conversation with KK's Aunt went on and on for about anhour. Then Dilma expressed one toe nail short one toe nail long.. environmental science of fungus the elements of a women's health science history of being a solider in the Airforcemilitary also Diva Lee is Jamaican Afghan Asian princess empress..this n that describe chemical warefare the ice cold recovery tank in Nellis Airforce Base in Las Vegas.. thosewhom give assistance to recover neuological recover from being exposed to chemicals and or physical traumatic experience.. children listen to adult's conversation..they mouths closed...but their fingers participated intheir cellular devices with games n texting deceptive.. gossip as If they are the expert..in mental health assessments..why is KK hurt wanting to express...scars.on Jamacian AfghanAsian women Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee.. whereas..she has no Solutions to how to recover or correct the sorcerers or does KK care..to understand the footprints Diva has with the Starson galaxies in outerspace, the comparison of what environmental factors which causes schizophrenic behaviors..and those in the Psychiatric field whom are destructive. Futurerealization of how Diva Afghan Asian women submarines..marine biology.. .KK's behavior stirs up a real mean.... gossip about her braider being a schizophrenic braider who had spent the entire time braiding her hair talking to herself.. laughing outloud too. Dilma is extremely offended and angered by the way the child created a hostile environmentwhereas KK's observation of Dilma is fictitious false and On Sun, Jul 18, 2021, 12:22 PM Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com> wrote: Hello case manager David Isidro, Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee will be in Santa ClaraCA....with 2 clients braiding hair on July 18,2021 whereas she needed an work related excused late night pass. The appointment starts today at 1pm whereas the shopping list wascreated last night but didn't have access to make a purchase until after 11am today. The client was not prepared with the necessity to start this morning at 8am. The clients havetraveled to Santa Clara CA from Suisun,CA because they are Filipino. Filipinos don't braid. Hair. Attachment#1 client was suppose to have her hair extensions but she didn't. Attachment#2 client was suppose to have hair extensions but she didn't. Attachment#3 Nelson Mandela braids. Whereas Dilma Coleman woke up talking to herself about the history of Nelson Mandela because Dilma braided Nelson's illegitimate daughter'shair yesterday at a hotel in Sunnyvale CA. That client will get braids again in September 2021. That's nice.. that's what I am saying. .it's none of my business endeavors to have abraiding business when I already graduated from law school. ..and graduated from medical school and graduated from dental assistance school, graduated from rescue firefightingmedic school, graduated from police academy, aviation academy, areospace engineering strategic planning, drywall construction graduate, cosmetology school graduate again andagain..yeah yeah graduated from Poker gambling school...don't talk about jobs to Dilma Coleman..she is a victim of labor trafficking human trafficking and slavery... victimizedemotionally physically mentally abused by Comedian Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, Angelah Johnson etc. Their greed, their Psychiatric analysis, their bullying narcissistbehaviors, their slavery with the geographic locations whereas they witnessed/participated in sadistic santanic ritualistic masochistly attacks on Nicole Brown Simpson on June 12,1994. New star beauty supply store opens at 11am on July18,2021.. whereas the clients drove fromSuisun CA.. Fairfield CA..blah blah to New Star beauty supply store in San Jose CA.. The braids Dilma install today will be in their Hotel room in Santa Clara CA. Dilma Coleman will try to make curfew. In the future, Manager Wendy Chen must not require before and after pics of Dilma's clientswhereas it's conflicting privacy rights of my clients especially my underage clients. Dilma says that she refuses to show proof of Cashapp to current night staff at Little Orchard because certain individuals employeed with Homefirst homeless shelter at little Orchard..have violated Dilma's rights to earn an income. Examples of the past businesspractices whereas those individuals Currently employees at little Orchard homeless shelter in San Jose CA tainted Dilma's income and the reliable business buildings in geographiclocations whereas Dilma paid rents and property taxes. Whereas her business competitive disputes retailitate with various methods using hypnosis sorcerery with bullying narcissistbehaviors. Dilma could give a detailed Timeline of those geographic locations along with the locations of those accredited cosmetology schools where she obtained recommended certificate ofcompletion. Dilma could reflect on the 1980's- 2021 those individuals who spread their own Narcissistic jealousies, obsessions as an practice to oppress control Jamacian Afghan Asianwomen Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee. In the past, 1-3 current Homefirst homeless shelter employees.. Solicited income from Dilma's braiding services which is a violation of her labor rights,civil Rights, and rights as awomen. Dilma Coleman obtains her clients thru word of mouth within her friends in the community whereas family members and friends..searched thru various sources to findDilma Coleman aka Diva Lee. For HIPPA purposes my clients are not subjected to the rules and regulations of Homefirst homeless shelter which this pic may violate HIPPA lawsof privacy. Ok..best regards Dilma aka Diva Lee From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; fred beyerlein;bballpod; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; Leodies Buchanan; boardmembers; Council, City; Cathy Lewis;Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville;esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net;grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo;hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; lalws4@gmail.com; leager;Mark Standriff; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino;russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Boris Johnson exposed, now in isolation. Looks hypocrtical. Tomorrow,open up in UK Date:Sunday, July 18, 2021 10:18:23 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: Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 1:11 PM Subject: Fwd: Boris Johnson exposed, now in isolation. Looks hypocrtical. Tomorrow,open upin UK To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 12:43 PM Subject: Boris Johnson exposed, now in isolation. Looks hypocrtical. Tomorrow,open up inUK To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sunday, July 18, 2021 To all- Around Monday of this past week, CBS radio network news mentioned, in a report lasting5 seconds, that on Monday, July 19, 2021, the UK government will open everything up, lift all mandatory restrictions, such as mask wearing in public, social distancing, hand washing,avoiding large groups, limiting the number of diners in a restaurant. Instead, all of that will now be voluntary. NOT ONE WORD on the CBS evening TV news about this. All kinds ofmeaningless crap on there, but nothing about this. Five seconds. That is what the honchos at the top of CBS thought it warranted. Now, this morning, not their hourly CBS radio news but their San Francisco radio affiliate, KCBS-AM 740, did a telephone interview with a great male reporter for Sky News in England. NOT ONCE did he say "YOU KNOW". NOT ONCE!. KCBS often interviews by phone reportersfor Bloomberg or the Washington Post. These "reporters" (!) are almost universally infected with and just infested with YOU KNOW, and their employers and KCBS let them get away with it. They shouldn't. These people have lost the ability to communicate in the Englishlanguage. It is so obnoxious to someone with a great command of the English language, people like me, unless the topic is extremely important to me, turns them off right away at thefirst "You know". One of them started his first sentence with YOU KNOW(!) They are engaging in the bastardization of the English language, and the radio stations let them getaway with it. I've counted them doing it 25 times in 3 minutes on occasion. If you took to the front of a classroom at Stanford and did that, you would soon be separated from Stanford. Ifyou did that in a meeting of the Faculty Senate at Stanford, same result. KCBS should screen these people before they talk to them on air and see if they do this. If they do, they should notget on,. Now re the great interview today with the Sky News reporter in England. He said that tomorrow is "Freedom Day" in the UK when all mandatory restrictions re Covid will becomevoluntary. He said "this is just a mess!". The transport industry is making mask wearing mandatory to ride trains, at least. He said that tomorrow morning hundreds of thousands ofmen will board trains all over the UK and the transport workers are supposed to somehow police mask-wearing by them. Dr. John Campbell, in his vids, says that this is a huge mistake.He can't believe they are going to do it. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths will all rise, he says. Those with compromised immune systems, for whom the two shots did not offer greatprotection, will be in special danger. They will have to isolate to avoid infection. The UK is now recording around 50,000 new cases per day, nearly all of them Delta. He expects that number to soon go to 100,000 new cases per day and maybe 200,000new cases per day. The US is now at 1,000 new cases per hour, perhaps representing around 24,000 new cases per day. The UK has 65 million people, 1/5 the US population, and theyexpect 100,000 new cases per day with this Freedom Day nightmare. The Sky News man said that this crazy opening up is risking a total lockdown again in the UK as cases and deaths rise.Dr. Campbell has said that this is all an attempt to reach herd immunity, without saying so. He calls it the "British experiment". The Sky News reporter said that he has had the first shot and will get the second shotthis coming Wednesday. Recently, he came down with Covid and was as sick as a dog. He said it is a horrible disease that he would not wish on anyone. (LH- So it must be trulyhorrible). He said that having the first shot no doubt saved him from severe illness, and maybe worse. He said that the vaccination rates in the UK are 80% with one shot and 60% with bothshots. Now re Boris Johnson. He was exposed to the Health Secretary, who is infected with Covid. So is the Chancellor of the Exchequer. First the PM announced that he would not self-isolate, and then announced that he would self isolate. The advice the UK government has given to the public is to NOT self isolate if exposed to someone known to be infected. Nowthere is a firestorm of criticism in both the press and public about the PM having a different set of rules for the public v. for those running the country. Now all three men are self-isolating. The PM was hospitalized with Covid months ago AND no doubt has been fully vaccinated, but he now still fears illness from having been exposed to the virus again. I profoundly hope that the US is seriously restricting flights in from the UK. Apparentlyit is, but US citizens are exempt. They should be allowed into the US, perhaps, but they should then be required to be tested and they should be quarantined in hotels, and guarded, for two orthree weeks. That is what Australia is doing with its own citizens coming in from India. For a while, they would not allow their own citizens enter from India at all, and Australia has donevery well with controlling Covid and the Delta variant. KCBS ran a clip by Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former director of the FDA and now a board member of Pfizer. He said that now mask-wearing is advised and said that the best are the N-95 masks. He said that now they are readily available. 3M has them. THEN he said that awell-fitting N-95 mask is the best, BUT HE DID NOT SAY HOW ONE WOULDDETERMINE WHICH N-95 MASK TO BUY SO THAT IT WOULD BE 'WELL-FITTING. IS THERE SOME OFFICE OR BUSINESS OR AGENCY THAT CAN SELL USAN N-95 MASK AND ASSURE US THAT THE ONE WE ARE BUYING IS WELL- FITTING? Are we supposed to buy 5 orders of them to try to get one that is well-fitting? Iresent his rather superficial and thoughtless comment here. Tell us how to be sure that the N- 95 mask we buy is well fitting! Come back on the air and give us that advice. He's a fast talkerand I say "Not so fast!" in this case. I see many N-95 masks at Home Depot, but they are for sanding, fiberglass work, painting, etc. Are we to rely on a clerk at Home Depot to tell uswhich one will protect us from Covid? Since N-95s are now readily available, we need advice from the CDC on which one to buy to protect ourselves. For now, I am going to wear two surgical masks whenever I am out of the house. Allof the evidence is that the Delta variant is sweeping the world and that it represents a big third wave in the pandemic, at least in the US. It represents a threat to the fully vaccinated. Itcan make them quite sick but probably will not hospitalize them or kill them. The number of cases here is rising, and the unvaccinated are going to fill the hospitals. Now our failedschool system, failed by design, is really going to hurt us. All of this vaccine hesitency springs from ignorance. I'll go to Home Depot and look at their N-95s. Good to know they are now moreavailable. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; fredbeyerlein; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; Leodies Buchanan; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; DougVagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov;eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com;George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerryruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; Mark Standriff; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com;newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry;VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Fri. July 16, 2021 Odds of getting infected after both shots. Date:Saturday, July 17, 2021 9:11:58 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: Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 4:42 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Fri. July 16, 2021 Odds of getting infected after bothshots. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 4:29 PM Subject: Dr. John Campbell UK Fri. July 16, 2021 Odds of getting infected after both shots.To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Saturday, July 17, 2021 To all- Here Dr. Campbell goes over a good report from Israel re the chance of getting infected, becoming symptomatic, being hospitalized, etc, after one has received bothshots and then let 3 weeks pass to be fully vaccinated. LH- A tiny point of clarification here since the experts talking about this just assume that you know this sequence: One can become infected and test positive WITHOUTshowing symptoms. So showing symptoms means that you have progressed a little, and are now showing some. So the order of events is this chain: Not infected, infected but notshowing symptoms, becoming symptomatic and showing symptoms, hospitalization, ICU, ventilator and death. Vaccine breakthrough infections - YouTube In the Israeli study, 350 such people out of almost 6 million got break-through infectionsfrom the Kent variant, and, by extension, that number would be very low too from the Delta variant. Who has this happen? Older people and ESPECIALLY people with co-morbidities, esp with things like hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease.Anybody over 70 in California with hypertension and/or diabetes? You know the answer. That study included persons age 21 to late 70s. Median age was 70. The fully vaccinated, if they do get infected, have a much lower chance of progressingto hospitalization, etc. and of spreading the virus than do the unvaccinated. Lower viral load. Fewer symptoms, less severe, for shorter duration, usually not progressing beyond havingsome symptoms The presentation of Delta is different than for Kent: The symptoms: Now it is headache, runny nose, sore throat and sneezing. Problem there is that the victims might thinkthey have caught a cold, not go get tested for Covid and keep spreading the virus. Now the WHO is correcting their report re Wuhan. The original virus did NOT originate from the wet market in Wuhan, they now say. It did so in a province to the north of there. Butisn't the viral research lab in Wuhan? So are they now ruling it out too? I think that is a very important question. LA County has now re-imposed mask wearing even for the fully vaccinated when indoorsin a public place due to the wildfire-like spread there of Delta. At 8 PM tonight, the CBS network radio news on the hour played a sound bite of a 22 year old woman. She yelled "Ihate it. I'm fully vaccinated. I wish everone was fully vaccinated". Significance? Not sure. Then they ended the 5 minute news with this. "The experts say you should get vaccinated, sotake your medicine". Not the least bit confusing, right? There IS medicine to prevent the infection: Ivermectin. Big study in India just proved it again. Our experts? Not one word. Calcifadiol, given at hospital admission, can prevent death. Derivative of vitamin D. Our experts? Not one word. Other night I went to my big grocery store in Fresno. They have changed the signs. Nowthey say that if you are fully vaccinated you need not wear a mask in there. Honor system. Lots of people in there suddenly without a mask, and every last one of them looked veryhonorable to me. Some of them were even wearing halos. I was and will be wearing a mask. This drive by the business community in the US to open everything up and NOW because the pandemic is over, is interesting. Some suspect that a tiny handfull of politiciansare reacting to big money. Surely not. Then we watch Dr. Campbell: First India was ravished by Delta, and now the rest of Asia is. Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam, esp. Campbell predictedthat. Not hard to predict. Indonesia et. al. have people dying in the streets. A huge percent of new cases in the US, now 1,000 new cases per hour, a big increase, are Delta cases. Monday, July 19, the UK will relax all restrictions and Dr. Campbell expects new casesto hit 100,000 per day there, maybe 200,000. Per day. I have urged Biden to ban flights in from the UK, BUT APPARENTLY THEY ALREADY ARE. MY APPOLOGIES TO BIDENIF THEY ARE. Kanzlerin Merkel urged Biden in the WH to lift restrictions on European countries sending flights into the US. So not clear what the deal is. Flights in from the UKshould not be permitted. I just googled this and it says that UK citizens are not allowed into the US if they have been in the UK and several other places recently. US citizens are exempt from the ban. LH- If so, they should be required to be tested and spend two weeks in a quaranteen hotel upon arriving in the US. That is what Australia was/is doing even to their own citiizens if theyare flying in from India. For a while, they would not let them in at all, and Australia has been doing spectacularly well with Covid. I wonder what we have been doing about flights fromIndia. Almost certainly, restricting them. OTW, a crime. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; fredbeyerlein; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; Council, City; Cathy Lewis;Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville;esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net;grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo;hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; lalws4@gmail.com; leager;Mark Standriff; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino;russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sat. July 17, 2021- Lots about the US and immune escape Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 10:39:20 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: Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 10:09 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sat. July 17, 2021- Lots about the US and immuneescape To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 9:22 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sat. July 17, 2021- Lots about the US and immuneescape To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 8:51 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sat. July 17, 2021- Lots about the US and immuneescape To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 12:35 AM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sat. July 17, 2021- Lots about the US and immuneescape To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:55 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sat. July 17, 2021- Lots about the US and immuneescape To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:47 PM Subject: Dr. John Campbell UK Sat. July 17, 2021- Lots about the US and immune escapeTo: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Tues. July 20, 2021 To all- Dr. Campbell on Saturday, July 17, 2021: Lots about the US here. Immune escape. US, Vaccine immune escape - YouTube.. Also, Dr. Campbell for Friday July 16, 2021 on immune escape. Vaccine breakthrough infections - YouTube Here he is on Monday, July 19, 2021, the day of the big relaxation of restrictions in the UK. He talks about where this is going. No where good: He's pretty wound up here. Monday update - YouTube Here hs is again on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, talking about immune escape. What arethe odds that the fully vaccinated will get infected? One tiny other thing to worry about: If this happens to you, even though you are fully vaccinated, and even though the symptoms are therefore fewer, milder, and of shorterduration than if you were not fully vaccinated, there seems to be a chance you could go on to develop long covid. OMG, and I thought I was pretty safe on March 6 with two Modernashots. Dtr. Campbell has said that could maybe happen. They don't have data on that, so they cannot say. We have not been impacted by the Delta variant long enough to know yet. This is a good video. He shows percents vaccinated by country in a good chart. Hediscusses Myranmar and it is just the end of the world! 50 million peope, half of them will be infected by Delta in a couple of weeks. The Generals get the health care. Expect a million ortwo million dead before long in Myranmar. The new est. for India is 4 million dead so far, 10X the official number. It is being observed that Gov. Newsom in California could order mask wearing again, but he faces a recall election in a few weeks and so, for that reason, he may not do so. Thatwith the Delta variant sweeping through California. Look at Uganda at the end. Vid. by a man there who tries to visit pts. Third world. Dr. Campbell says he finds it relaxing to watch. Vaccine breakthrough infections - YouTube L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Loran Harding To:Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; David Balakian; Mark Standriff; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Daniel Zack;Dan Richard; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; fred beyerlein; bballpod;grinellelake@yahoo.com; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; Sally Thiessen; Council, City; Leodies Buchanan;alumnipresident@stanford.edu; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; eappel@stanford.edu;fmerlo@wildelectric.net; hennessy; lalws4@gmail.com; david pomaville; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte;terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Mountain View, Ca. cracks down on RVs on the street. Home 2 hi-tech workers Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 1:44:07 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: Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 8:54 AM Subject: Mountain View, Ca. cracks down on RVs on the street. Home 2 hi-tech workersTo: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Thurs. July 15, 2021 To all- Here is why HSR will cause a quintupling of home prices in Fresno if it even gets to building Merced to San Jose. Those long lines of RVs you see in Mt. View arenot for the cleaning crews. They are for the Ph.Ds in computer engineering who work in SV. It's that or $3,000 a month for a one bedroom apt. there. OR rent one in Modesto and be on580 westbound at 4 AM. Just a brutal, humanitarian housing crisis in the Bay Area. 45 minutes to Fresno from Diridon Station via HSR, esp. for the thousands who will work in thenew Google complex in San Jose, will be a God-send for them. $3,000 a month buys a big, new house here. Or at least it still does now. And now Mt. View, which has been tolerant of the RVs, is cracking down. Guesssomeone will have to start an RV partk with all hook ups for so much per month. You see them along El Camino in front of Stanford land too. You might think that the cities of SV could open RV parks for these workers. Runthose at B/E to help the precious work force of high talent who work there. Can't they work with the 8,000 companies there? Thought that was what government was for. Scroll down here to "Business". Oil-spilling ship leaves the SF Bay, new VTA shooter details, texts from the brain andmore - loran.harding@alumni.stanford.edu - Stanford Alumni Mail (google.com) LWH From:Gloria Sikora To:Council, City Subject:In support of mixed development near Caltrain Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 11:01:12 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To Palo Alto City Council members: Please stand up and represent your community and constituents. Palo Alto needs morehousing near Caltrain. Require Smith Development to provide housing units along withtheir proposed commercial development on Sherman, Grant, and Park, near the CalAveCaltrain station. 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Caballero"; 4galsandi@comcast.net; Lee Chin; Jason Robo;steve J. Williams; alan_b.stard.m.p@westnet.com.au; A.Kafouri; Adam Parrott; "butlincat"; a_verias@yahoo.com;Jeffrey Albright; "Arthur Cristian"; adam_boulden20@yahoo.com; 2smileylee@gmail.com; Anita Barth; "Choong Kiat Yian"; alan cranford; 911tap@gmail.com; 2byrnes@bellsouth.net Subject:LC venue? LCfor911.org is one giant step for man one giant leap for mankind Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 8:08:41 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. The time window in the below Poster would conflict with the major LC Event, so better to have an outdoor Rally on Saturday as discussed previously. TAP would need to be the lead getting all the permissions, etc. On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 9:35 AM Matt Van Slyke <m.vanslyke@911tap.org> wrote: Feel free to use this if it helps... Change whatever needs be. Let me know if you need originals. Matt Van Slyke Truth Action Project From: "gene" <gene@laratonda.com>Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2021 8:04 AMTo: "Sandra Jelmi" <sandrajelmi@gmail.com>Cc: "Susan Serpa" <sueserpa@gmail.com>, "Alfred Magaletta (MA)" <Alfred.Magaletta@gmail.com>,"Barbara Honegger (CA)" <bshonegg@gmail.com>, "Betty Smith (NC)" <bgsmith434@gmail.com>, "BillJacoby (NY)" <wsjacoby@hotmail.com>, "Cat Watters (NY)" <catspaws44@gmail.com>,"DavidMeiswinkle (NJ)" <drmeiswinkle@aol.com>, "David Slesinger (NC)"<davidslesinger@yahoo.com>, "Deb Lee (NY)" <deblee1305@gmail.com>, "FranShure"<franshure@estreet.com>, "Frank Agamemnon (NJ)" <honkystar@yahoo.com>, "Julia Piccici (WA)"<jpicicci@yahoo.com>, "JuneSpeight" <junespeight2017@gmail.com>, "Lawrence Fine (MA)" <Lorenzonine@gmail.com>, "Matt Mills (NJ)" <mattmillsnj@gmail.com>, "MattVan Slyke"<m.vanslyke@911tap.org>, "Michael Zarzano (FL)" <AmericanFreedomFarm@gmail.com>, "Mikey Porazzo" <mikeyp1891@gmail.com>, "Morgan Nowlen (OR)" <exomorgan9@gmail.com>, "Phil Restino(FL)" <restinop@aol.com>, "Richard Ellefritz (IL)" <RichardEllefritz@gmail.com>, "Sander Hicks (NY)"<sanderhicksdotcom@gmail.com>, "Thomas Moore" <conguano@comcast.net>, "Les Jamieson"<artisan3@gmail.com>Subject: Re: LC venue canceled Just giving my 2 cents of wishful thinking. It would be nice to have events at a conference room(s) in a hotel where people from out of town could get rooms and participate in main events and breakout sessions. https://www.tripadvisor.com/HotelsList-New_York_City-Convention-Hotels-zfp41427.html Sent from my Galaxy -------- Original message -------- From: Les Jamieson <artisan3@gmail.com> Date: 7/18/21 9:17 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Sandra Jelmi <sandrajelmi@gmail.com> Cc: Susan Serpa <sueserpa@gmail.com>, "Alfred Magaletta (MA)" <Alfred.Magaletta@gmail.com>, "Barbara Honegger (CA)" <bshonegg@gmail.com>, "Betty Smith (NC)" <bgsmith434@gmail.com>, "Bill Jacoby (NY)" <wsjacoby@hotmail.com>, "Cat Watters (NY)" <catspaws44@gmail.com>, "DavidMeiswinkle (NJ)" <drmeiswinkle@aol.com>, "David Slesinger (NC)" <davidslesinger@yahoo.com>, "Deb Lee (NY)" <deblee1305@gmail.com>, Fran Shure <franshure@estreet.com>, "Frank Agamemnon (NJ)" <honkystar@yahoo.com>, "Julia Piccici (WA)" <jpicicci@yahoo.com>, June Speight <junespeight2017@gmail.com>, "Lawrence Fine (MA)" <Lorenzonine@gmail.com>, "Matt Mills (NJ)" <mattmillsnj@gmail.com>, Matt Van Slyke <m.vanslyke@911tap.org>, "Michael Zarzano (FL)" <AmericanFreedomFarm@gmail.com>, Mikey Porazzo <mikeyp1891@gmail.com>, "Morgan Nowlen (OR)" <exomorgan9@gmail.com>, "Phil Restino (FL)" <restinop@aol.com>, "Richard Ellefritz (IL)"<RichardEllefritz@gmail.com>, "Sander Hicks (NY)" <sanderhicksdotcom@gmail.com>, Thomas Moore<conguano@comcast.net>, gene <gene@laratonda.com> Subject: Re: LC venue canceled Now we've had cancellations from 2 churches who are known to be progressive, and have had many political events over the years. A couple of years ago it was Community Church which is Unitarian, as is All Souls Church. You just never know what the forces are behind the decisions and where they're coming from. Dave has a big list of other venues to pursue. One will come through Les On Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 9:14 PM Sandra Jelmi <sandrajelmi@gmail.com> wrote:I don't have the details, but regardless - no matter what they give as an official response, that doesn'tmean it's the real reason. The focus for the LC now is on finding a new venue. On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 7:15 PM Susan Serpa <sueserpa@gmail.com> wrote: I’m sure we can all speculate as to the reason, officially what does All Souls say the reason is? On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 7:01 PM Sandra Jelmi <sandrajelmi@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, Dave Meiswinkle called (and Barbara wrote) to tell me that the venue for the LC event on Sept 11th, All Souls Church, is no more. Despite the contract having been signed, All Souls pulled out of the contract. So it's back to the drawing board for the LC. We're not quite sure what will happen with the AE event. So in case you had already shared this information publicly (as did the LC on their site, they havenow removed it), please be aware that this no longer stands. Thank you, Sandra From:Tim Huson To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:42:46 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I lived for years in Palo Alto, and I now return frequently for visits to friends and occasionally on business. I was thrilled to see the positive change from the closure of University Avenueand Ramona street to cars. I had a lovely coffee at a café on the street, met a friend for dinner at a restaurant on the street, and then brought my whole family to have dinner right on thecurbside on Ramona Street. Palo Alto is uniquely blessed to have its main restaurant and retail Street, University Avenue, not be the only way for cars to get in and around town. Itwould be so lovely to keep this pedestrian and bike safe area for dining and shopping. Cars can park on side streets and in side lots. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles,and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. Sincerely, Tim Huson A former resident of Palo Alto tim@huson.com From:Alicia White To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 2:34:32 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Alicia White From:WJS VII To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 2:29:45 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Wendy Soto From:Lesya Kulchenko To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 8:55:42 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:CAT NGUYEN To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 8:54:52 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Christian Follmann To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 8:54:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Catherine Jhung To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 8:52:44 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto. Catherine Jhung 415-516-4275 From:Sharon Navarro To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 6:17:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sharon Navarro From:Eduardo Lopez To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 5:52:20 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Lea Turpin To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 5:48:23 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto More kids need to enjoy the downtown area more freely. Sir Byron Sent from my iPhone From:Janice Kim To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 5:40:04 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto From:Jeffrey Boeddeker To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 5:06:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Jeffrey Boeddeker (619)822-6335 From:Cory Wilmoth To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 4:53:55 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto From:Amanda Osterlund To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 4:52:52 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Catherine De Los Santos To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 3:40:16 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Tong Chen To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 1:16:35 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Tong Chen From:Jeffrey Cucinotta To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 12:41:44 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto -- Jeffrey Cucinotta From:Daphne Li To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 12:06:51 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto I just moved to the area from the Midwest and one of the things I’ve loved the most of Palo Alto are these pedestrian streets. Sincerely, Daphne Li 535 Everett ave, apt 112, Palo Alto 94301 Sent from my iPhone From:Remington Goodwin To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:49:26 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Hello, my name is Remington Goodwin and I live in downtown Palo Alto. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto From:captnknight@gmail.com To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:46:19 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Teresa Gadda To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:36:18 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto From:Savely Polovets To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:29:52 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Pauline Polovets Sent from my iPhone From:Michelle Avary To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:20:19 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A frequent visitor of Palo Alto - resident of Menlo Park. We are urging Menlo Park to do the same thing! Sent from my fruit-based digital pal From:Tatyana Purlatz To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:19:46 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Tatyana Purlatz and Leonid Milenky. From:Emma Chant To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:17:41 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Kelsey Grabarek To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:12:51 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. My family has greatly enjoyed strolling through downtown and eating in the expanded outside space. This really makes us want to go to downtown Palo Alto more and we really hope it stays this way Sincerely, Kelsey From:Square To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:12:29 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Carla Crotto A resident of Los Altos Hills Sent from my iPhone From:Shaina Reji To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:10:49 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Hi, I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Shaina From:Michael Collins To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:07:33 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Michael Collins 640 Fulton Street Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Michael Grinkrug To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 11:03:25 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto From:Lauren Greene To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Saturday, July 17, 2021 8:33:46 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Hannah Melton To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Saturday, July 17, 2021 8:33:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Lewis Anderson To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Saturday, July 17, 2021 6:32:17 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto -- Lewis Anderson From:gmr33@yahoo.com To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 3:35:17 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely From:Jennifer Landesmann To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto residents on the right side about FAA"s NEPA practices Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 9:42:00 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council, As you may have heard, in defending its citizens, the City of Los Angeles prevailed on a challenge of an FAA airspace amendment. If you listen to the first public comment in yourchambers on April 9th, 2018 when Palo Alto residents first sought your leadership, it is 100% consistent with what the courts ruled last week. As were all of the resident commentssupporting legal action in April 2018 and on June 10th, 2019. There's never been a doubt that on the two occasions when the City had a chance to defend the people of Palo Alto, Council's explanations about "having no case" in April 2018 or that"challenging PIRAT would be seen as "illegal noise shifting" were just not what the law or what residents were pleading. Looking at LA FAA Violated Environmental Laws at LAX, Federal Appeals Court Rules, andafter joining an LAX Roundtable meeting yesterday - two observations; 1) Seamless and open discussion at the LAX roundtable about the LA lawsuit. None ofthe bullying and mystery that goes on in the Bay Area that a city cannot challengethe FAA because nobody will talk to you anymore. 2) LA has three lawsuits and one of them is getting the FAA to look at dispersion WITH an environmental assessment. Feuer said he has been communicating directly with the FAA's Regional Administrator, the FAA's counsel, and members of Congress seeking to obtain relief for impacted residents. Additionally, with federal and local officials, he has pushed the FAA to conduct a thorough environmental assessment of prospective flight pattern changes over the south San Fernando Valley and Santa Monica Mountains. I encourage you to ask Ms Stump to share with you today's Airport Noise Report that has areview on the federal court ruling. There's plenty to say about this ruling but I want to remind that the FAA's GBAS "overlays" and a number of procedures slated to be published by theFAA are not being done right by NEPA. In the last two years, when through the City's seat at the SCSC Roundtable you were urged (begged) by some of us to focus on the FAA following its own NEPA rules for airspaceprocedures affecting Palo Alto, the SCSC totally kicked that can to "legislative" efforts. I don't see how making new laws helps if we cannot help observe laws on the books now. It's not too late now for you to be on the right side of these issues and on the side of YOURconstituents. Please don't stay silent, as rules are broken that affect your constituents. Not when you have the power and authority to say and do something. Jennifer From:Frank Perez To:Council, City Subject:Professional Video Production Provided By Our Talented Neurodiverse Filmmakers Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2021 10:25:43 AM Attachments:pastedGraphic.png pastedGraphic_1.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi City of Palo Alto City Council, Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Frank Perez and I am the Production Managerand Producer at Options For All Production Studio-Silicon Valley. If you haven't heard of usbefore, we are a commercial video production studio that hires our neurodiverse students afterthey graduate from our sister film school and media program. We are a fully-staffed professionalvideo production studio and can produce nearly any project; from commercials to high-qualityimages for social media content, or any project our client desires! We use high-qualityproduction equipment (including Canon C300 and Zoom F8n Multi-Track Field Recorders) tocapture our clients' messages. Using Options For All is a great way to bring diversity and inclusion to your organization! 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From:Gary Davis To:Planning Commission; Council, City Subject:Proposed Bike Project on East Meadow Date:Saturday, July 17, 2021 3:07:12 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Planning Commission and City Council, A concerned neighbor of mine reached out to me on July 14 to advise that the Planning Commission was in session to decide on changes to East Meadow that would directly impact me and my family. Until then, I was unaware of what had been brewing it seems for some period of time. Before I jump head first into this subject, allow me to emphasize that I am an avid biker and 13-year resident of 881 East Meadow (the north side where parking would be retained under the current plan). In fact, since work from the office has resumed, I am back to biking to Mountain View a few times a week. During my route, I run into a few somewhat rough patches that I need to navigate, with the most difficult being the stretches on Middlefield Road that border both sides of San Antonio Road. On my return trip home, when I arrive back to East Meadow Dr., my internal antennae are able to relax as this stretch of road is extremely safe for biking. As to the issue at hand, my feeling is that - similar to the controversial changes implemented along Ross Road not long ago - this would be throwing money at something that is not a huge issue in our neighborhood. I raised two boys here that went through the Palo Alto public school system. They used their bikes at times, and while parents will always have concern about their kids' wellbeing, I always felt that Palo Alto is a relatively safe town to bike in. While I am all for progress, I am not a believer in making changes to roads and neighborhoods where the negative impact on the residents of those areas outweighs the stated justification for the changes. It is pretty easy for those not directly impacted by these changes to aggressively support them when the subject is the perceived added safety of our community's children. Unfortunately, urban biking will always have some level of risk involved. Just recently, while biking in the bike lane across from Gunn High School I hit a short stump of wood (likely from a tree trimming service) hidden in the shadows and flipped off of my bike. No amount of city planning would have saved me that day from that horrible fall. People have bought into and invested in these neighborhoods with an understanding that - apart from natural disasters - what they see today they will continue to see tomorrow. Taking away a whole side of street parking on East Meadow is simply too extreme of a solution to the desire for more bike safety for children commuting to and from school. The peak school bike commute windows cannot be more than 45-60 minutes in the early morning and mid- afternoon, so for approximately two hours of time per day for five days a week the city needs such a drastic solution? While my personal situation might not be the norm, I feel that it might help you see another side of this debate. My two children are now young, working adults and they have been living at home while this resilient Covid virus has upended life all around us. We are four adults in 1421 sq. ft. of living space. I am not complaining and am privileged to be living in this community, but we were forced to make some adjustments in the last 1.5 years, including utilizing our garage space as working space. We do require our driveway and the street to park our automobiles - there is no way to get around that. Reducing parking in the neighborhood would negatively impact us during a time when we are already feeling squeezed by this pandemic. I am sure others feel the same way. Children tend to be bigger risk takers than adults, so those that are not already biking today in this safe biking environment are unlikely to bike because of the suggested changes to my neighborhood. I have not seen a survey on this, so maybe you have different information. Even if that's the case, my suggestions for greater safety that do not require upheaval of our neighborhood are as follows: i. Place police and/or other traffic enforcement personnel at various intersections during the morning and afternoon commute. That would discourage any aggressive speeding during those short commute windows. ii. Paint the bike lanes and place more signage for cars to be cautious (especially) during school commute times. iii. Provide more bike safety education in the schools, since I have seen young bikers frequently making crazy moves during commute times that can actually be the cause of an accident involving cars. iv. Close East Meadow to through traffic from Louis to Middlefield during a one-hour stretch at least during the morning commute to schools (7:30am - 8:30am?), while only allowing residents to come in and out. [I suspect that some of those who are quick to support a drastic change to our neighborhood would not find that solution to be all that palatable as an inconvenience to them.] Please find an alternative solution to what has been proposed. I am not in favor of the permanent removal of street parking for my neighbors across the street. Sincerely, Gary Davis From:Aram James To:Binder, Andrew; Roberta Ahlquist; Jeff Moore; Planning Commission; Council, City; Human RelationsCommission; Raj; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Joe Simitian;city.council@menlopark.org; ParkRec Commission; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Jay Boyarsky; Cecilia Taylor;Greer Stone; GRP-City Council; Jeff Rosen Cc:Donna Wallach Subject:Re: Ben & Jerry"s ending sales in West Bank settlements Date:Monday, July 19, 2021 8:43:06 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Donna,Thanks for sharing this important information. As you suggest I will share this information with others. Aram Sent from my iPhone On Jul 19, 2021, at 8:25 PM, Donna Wallach <cats4jazz@gmail.com> wrote: Greetings all, Although this is good news that the current owners of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream,Unilever, have said that they will stop selling their ice cream in the West Bank, they are still selling their ice cream within the '48 borders, so the Zionists are stillprofiting from their illegal Occupation of Palestine. The group Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, https://vtjp.org, have been organizing for over a decade to getthe company to stop selling its ice cream there within the '48 borders and within the West Bank. On 19th July, as you will read below, Ben & Jerry's says they willend sales of their ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. However, they will continue to sell their ice cream within the '48 borders and are being highlypressured to go back on their word. Please read the Press Release from Vermonters for Justice in Palestine how they say that the Israeli Occupation isstill profiting from the sales of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream and it needs to totally stop selling there. in solidarity Donna PRESS RELEASE Ben & Jerry’s fails to end its Complicity in Israel’s Occupation and Abuses of Palestinian Human Rights according to Vermonters for Justice in Palestine Press Email Contact: Mark Hage or Wafic Faour <ContactUs@vtjp.org>; Phone Contacts: Mark Hage [802 229 4011 or 802 272 3554] or Wafic Faour [802 310 0212] Date - July 19th 2021 For immediate Release. The July 19th 2021 announcement from Ben & Jerry's https://www.benjerry.com/about- us/media-center/palestine- statement announces that "Ben & Jerry’s Will End Sales of Our Ice Cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory" and continues: "We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). We also hear and recognize the concerns shared with us by our fans and trusted partners. We have a longstanding partnership with our licensee, who manufactures Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in Israel and distributes it in the region. We have been working to change this, and so we have informed our licensee that we will not renew the license agreement when it expires at the end of next year. Although Ben & Jerry’s will no longer be sold in the OPT, we will stay in Israel through a different arrangement. We will share an update on this as soon as we’re ready." Ben & Jerry's intended actions fail to address the widespread anger at theactions of the Israeli government against Palestinian people who live in occupied territory, or who are refugees denied their legitimate right to return totheir former homes. According to VTJP member Kathy Shapiro "By maintaining a presence in Israel, Ben & Jerry's continues to be complicit in the killing,imprisonment and dispossession of Palestinian people and the flaunting of international law. Israel destroys lives and property in the lands it occupies byforce." Vermonters for Justice in Palestine (VTJP) continues to call on Ben & Jerry’sto: 1. End the marketing, catering and sales of Ben & Jerry’s products in Israel andJewish-only settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. 2. Stop manufacturing ice cream in Israel. 3. Issue a statement (a) calling on Israel to end its occupation andsettlement enterprise and (b) appealing directly to other socially responsible companies to do likewiseand to cease business operations in Israel and its illegal settlements. These three demands have been clearly stated in a series of petitions directed to the CEO and others at Ben & Jerry's. Now, seven years after our campaign has drawn attention to Ben & Jerry's complicity with the illegal and immoral actions of its licensee in Israel they have finally moved eventually to end sales of their ice cream in illegal settlements, which they have admitted represent a very small part of their business in Palestine/Israel. However, their licensee willcontinue to operate in Israel for another seventeen months, and the company will remain in Israel in a form yet to be announced. Ben & Jerry's fails to recognize that Israel has been identified as an Apartheid State, and their factory there is built on stolen land near the demolishedPalestinian village of Qastina. Their attempt to normalize the widely recognized Apartheid practiced by the Israeli government and military is completelyinconsistent with the company's stated social mission. VTJP member and Palestinian refugee Wafic Faour asserts that "since 1947, Palestinian peoplehave been victimized by Israeli Zionists who have arrived there through racially- selective immigration policies. Ben & Jerry's should completely disengage fromIsrael and apologize for their normalization with an Apartheid state over the past decades". The campaign by VTJP has included meetings with Ben &Jerry's management and members of their Board of Directors, direct appeals to scoop shop ownersand recipients of grant funding from the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, and several petitions signed by thousands of people directed to the company'smanagement. This campaign has been joined by petitions organized by Decolonize Burlington [VT] and by SumOfUs.org. Vermonters for Justice in Palestine works to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for human rights and to end Israel's illegal and immoral occupation of Palestinian lands through education, advocacy, and action. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ So the Zionists who can afford it still get to enjoy Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream asthey, Ben & Jerry's, totally violate their social mission. Especially considering where the Ben & Jerry's factory was built, it is an outrage that they continue toclaim their social mission. Everyone needs to boycott Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. Please share widely Donna ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 'isis feral' via Stop ZIM Action Committee <stop-zim-action-committee@googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 4:43 PMSubject: [SZAC] Fw: Ben & Jerry's ending sales in West Bank settlements To: Stop ZIM Action Committee <stop-zim-action-committee@googlegroups.com> No more ice cream for Zionists! ----- Forwarded Message ----- https://forward.com/fast-forward/473175/ben-jerrys-will-end-sales-of-its-ice- cream-occupied-palestinian-territory: Ben & Jerry’s will end sales of its ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Haaretz July 19, 2021Photo by iStock Ben & Jerry’s announced Monday that it would end sales of ice cream in theIsraeli settlements in the West Bank, following “concerns shared with us by our fans and trusted partners.” “Although Ben & Jerry’s will no longer be sold in the OPT [Occupied Palestinianterritories], we will stay in Israel through a different arrangement. We will share an update on this as soon as we’re ready,” it added. The Vermont-based ice cream company, which launched in 1978, has long beenassociated with progressive values. Last year, following the murder of George Floyd, the company added a special section of its website devoted to combatingwhite supremacy. But until now, Ben & Jerry’s had conspicuously refrained from weighing in on Israeli-Palestinian affairs. So while it has readily marked the anniversary of theSupreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling barring school segregation in the 1950s and condemned the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack as a riotfor white supremacy, the company did not mention Israel or Palestine even as the flare-up in May grabbed headlines around the world. Ben & Jerry’s will end sales of our ice cream in the Occupied PalestinianTerritory. Read our full statement: https://t.co/2mGWYGN4GApic.twitter.com/kFeu7aXOf3— Ben & Jerry’s(@benandjerrys) July 19, 2021 The criticism of the brand over its silence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict coalesced on May 19 with a call by a social justice group called DecolonizeBurlington in Vermont for Americans to boycott the company, according to the Burlington Free Press. Local activists have been lobbying against Ben & Jerry’sIsrael ties since at least 2012. Ben & Jerry’s hasn’t posted on its social media accounts since June, when it was bombarded with criticism for licensing a factoryin Israel which provides Israeli settlements with products. In its statement, Ben & Jerry’s also said: “We have a longstanding partnership with our licensee, who manufactures Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in Israel anddistributes it in the region. We have been working to change this, and so we have informed our licensee that we will not renew the license agreement when itexpires at the end of next year.” The Israeli Ben & Jerry’s, the brand’s only independent licensee, is widely popular. It has produced special flavors for holidays, such as haroset for Passoverand “mixed-up” for this spring’s national election, and last year held a Purim costume party whose prize was a six-month supply of ice cream. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid upbraided Ben & Jerry’s, calling its decision a“shameful surrender” to BDS and to antisemitism. Lapid noted that many states in America have laws against sanctioning Israel, and promised to demand theyimplement these laws against the Vermont company. “We will not stay silent,” Lapid said. Lapid’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Ben & Jerry’s decision was a“willing cooperation with economic terrorism led by the boycott movement, an anti-Israeli movement tinted with antisemitic hues. “It is a discriminatory and immoral decision that singles out Israel, harms bothIsraelis and Palestinians, and gives a tailwind to extremist, thuggish groups. This decision not only does not advance peace and the solution of the conflict, butstrengthens the opponents of reconciliation between the two peoples and those who call for the destruction of the State of Israel.” In response to Ben & Jerry’s announcement, the Yesha Council, an umbrellaorganization of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, said it hopes Ben & Jerry’s backtracks on its decision, and in the meantime urged Israelis to buy localice cream instead of Ben & Jerry’s. “In the hot summer days, we urge Israelis around the country to eat delicious, sweet Israeli ice cream. There’s no need tobuy products from companies that boycott hundreds of thousands of citizens of the State of Israel because of where they chose to live,” they said in a statement. “We hope that the Ben & Jerry’s company will walk back this discriminatorydecision, which brings a bitter spirit to such a sweet area.” David Ha’Ivri, of the Samaria Regional Council, told Haaretz: “I don’t tend to mix ice cream and politics. Currently Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is available in localsupermarkets. Sometimes we buy their products and take home even though they are substantially more expensive than local brands. If they choose to pull out ofour stores it will be their loss and gain only to their competition.” Americans for Peace Now, the U.S. sister organization to Israel’s left-wing Peace Now, praised the move, congratulating Ben & Jerry’s “for making a principleddistinction between sovereign Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal and illegitimate.” The American Israel Public Affairs Committee — the most powerful pro-Israelorganization in Washington — sharply criticized the “discriminatory” move. “It is against the interests of peace and reconciliation to launch a one-sided boycottwhen it is the Palestinian leadership that refuses to come to the negotiating table with Israel,” an AIPAC spokesperson told Haaretz. \ -- -- "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom byappealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." Assata Shakur 2 books you must read: "Against Our Better Judgement: The hidden history of how the U.S. wasused to create Israel" by Alison Weir http://www.againstourbetterjudgment.com/ "State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel" by Thomas Suarezhttp://thomassuarez.com/SoT.html Free Palestine!Right of Return to Palestine for all Palestinians! Free all political prisoners! Leonard Peltier www.WhoIsLeonardPeltier.info Mumia Abu-Jamal www.FreeMumia.com Ruchell Cinque Magee http://denverabc.wordpress.com/prisoners-dabc-supports/political- prisoners-database/ruchell-cinque-magee/ Russell Maroon Shoatz https://russellmaroonshoats.wordpress.com/ Mutulu Shakur http://mutulushakur.com/site/ Julian Assange https://assangedefense.org The Holy Land Five: Shukri Abu Baker Ghassan Elashi Mufid Abdulqader Abdulrahman Odeh Mohammad Elmezain https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-trial-and-conviction-of-the-holy-land-foundation- five/237440/ and thousands more End Solitary Confinement https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com California Prison Focus http://newest.prisons.org/our_story End United $tates of Amerikkka invasions and occupationsU.S. Government and UN Occupation Force Soldiers - Hands off Haiti! http://www.haitisolidarity.net/ Donna WallachDonnaIsAnActivist@gmail.com Skype: palestinewillbeTwitter: @PalestineWillBe (cell) 408-569-6608 -- 2 books you must read: "Against Our Better Judgement: The hidden history of how the U.S. wasused to create Israel" by Alison Weir http://www.againstourbetterjudgment.com/ "State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel" by Thomas Suarezhttp://thomassuarez.com/SoT.html Other important websites to visit http://www.ifamericansknew.orghttp://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/ https://wearenotnumbers.org/ End the Blockade/Siege on Gaza!Tear down the Apartheid Walls in West Bank & Gaza!End the War Criminal Israeli collective punishment on the Palestinianpeople!End the illegal Apartheid Israeli Occupation of all of Palestine!Right to Return to their homes and land in Palestine for all Palestinians!End all U.S. aid to IsraelFree Palestine! Long Live Palestine! Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) & Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel(PACBI) Campaigns!http://www.bdsmovement.nethttp://www.WhoProfits.orghttp://www.pacbi.org Support Solidarity with Gaza Fishers https://sgf.freedomflotilla.org/ https://freedomflotilla.org/ https://sgf.freedomflotilla.org/category/we-are-not-numbers Support ISM volunteers in West Bank and Gaza Strip!http://www.palsolidarity.org Donna Wallach cats4jazz@gmail.comSkype: palestinewillbe Twitter: @PalestineWillBe(cell) 408-569-6608 From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Aram James Cc:Binder, Andrew; Jonsen, Robert; Council, City; Jeff Moore; Raj; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Rosen; Human Relations Commission; Betsy Nash; Planning Commission; city.council@menlopark.org; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; ParkRec Commission; Cecilia Taylor; Roberta Ahlquist; Greer Stone; Tony Dixon; GRP-City Council; Joe Simitian; DuBois, Tom; chuck jagoda; Donna Wallach Subject:Re: Cops allowed to lie to juveniles to obtain confessions banned in Illinois—-how about banning cops from lyingall together -wouldn’t that be novel Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 9:44:44 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Full Stop High Court: Age Must Be Considered In Interrogation https://n.pr/2UT3SJ9 Editor:Palo Alto Free Press Sent from my iPhone On Jul 15, 2021, at 8:45 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: https://abc7chicago.com/amp/jb-pritzker-illinois-false-confession-criminal-justice/10890431/ Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; chuck jagoda; Binder, Andrew; Raj; Cecilia; Betsy Nash; Council, City; Jonsen,Robert; Tony Dixon; Perron, Zachary; city.council@menlopark.org; Human Relations Commission; Jeff Moore;Planning Commission; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Jay Boyarsky; GreerStone; GRP-City Council; Cecilia Taylor; Jeff Rosen; Roberta Ahlquist; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom;ParkRec Commission Subject:Re: Cops allowed to lie to juveniles to obtain confessions banned in Illinois—-how about banning cops from lying all together -wouldn’t that be novel Date:Friday, July 16, 2021 11:38:45 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I hardly think It’s restricted to the NYPD although they may be the biggest and most prolific police miscreants in the country. Remember there are 18 thousand separate police departments in this country and theyguarantee that routine constitutional violations of our citizenry far out number the rare occasion when constitutional rights are upheld. Its just that when the constitution is upheld a bright line shines on the case leaving the illusionthat justice and the constitution are regularly upheld in this country. The illusion allows the legally naive or those invested in the big lie of justice for all…in this country…. to praise a system that deserves no such respect or admiration. Justice in thiscountry, when it happens at all, is a random and rare act. Aram  I agree. The idea of the guardians/paragons/judge & jury of public behavior to have lying as one of their prime "tools" is a contradiction and sets up more lying in the justice system and in the world. BAD idea. Why not endorse them stealing, which they do if they get to a corpse before the fire department, in which case they will have stripped the jewelry off the body? At least in NYC, that's the way they play. On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 9:44 PM Palo Alto Free Press<paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> wrote: Full Stop High Court: Age Must Be Considered In Interrogation https://n.pr/2UT3SJ9 Editor:Palo Alto Free Press Sent from my iPhone On Jul 15, 2021, at 8:45 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>wrote: https://abc7chicago.com/amp/jb-pritzker-illinois-false-confession-criminal-justice/10890431/ Sent from my iPhone -- Chuck From:Jennifer Landesmann To:Council, City Subject:Re: Palo Alto residents on the right side about FAA"s NEPA practices Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 9:52:33 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Correction. The first public comment from April 9, 2018 is here https://youtu.be/uXuyNZullTQ?t=372 On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 09:41, Jennifer Landesmann <jlandesmann@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Council, As you may have heard, in defending its citizens, the City of Los Angeles prevailed on achallenge of an FAA airspace amendment. If you listen to the first public comment in your chambers on April 9th, 2018 when Palo Alto residents first sought your leadership, it is100% consistent with what the courts ruled last week. As were all of the resident comments supporting legal action in April 2018 and on June 10th, 2019. There's never been a doubt that on the two occasions when the City had a chance to defendthe people of Palo Alto, Council's explanations about "having no case" in April 2018 or that "challenging PIRAT would be seen as "illegal noise shifting" were just not what the law orwhat residents were pleading. Looking at LA FAA Violated Environmental Laws at LAX, Federal Appeals Court Rules, and after joining an LAX Roundtable meeting yesterday - two observations; 1) Seamless and open discussion at the LAX roundtable about the LA lawsuit. Noneof the bullying and mystery that goes on in the Bay Area that a city cannotchallenge the FAA because nobody will talk to you anymore. 2) LA has three lawsuits and one of them is getting the FAA to look atdispersion WITH an environmental assessment. Feuer said he has been communicating directly with the FAA's Regional Administrator, the FAA's counsel, and members of Congress seeking to obtain relief for impacted residents. Additionally, with federal and local officials, he has pushed the FAA to conduct a thorough environmental assessment of prospective flight pattern changes over the south San Fernando Valley and Santa Monica Mountains. I encourage you to ask Ms Stump to share with you today's Airport Noise Report that has a review on the federal court ruling. There's plenty to say about this ruling but I want toremind that the FAA's GBAS "overlays" and a number of procedures slated to be published by the FAA are not being done right by NEPA. In the last two years, when through the City's seat at the SCSC Roundtable you were urged(begged) by some of us to focus on the FAA following its own NEPA rules for airspace procedures affecting Palo Alto, the SCSC totally kicked that can to "legislative" efforts. Idon't see how making new laws helps if we cannot help observe laws on the books now. It's not too late now for you to be on the right side of these issues and on the side of YOUR constituents. Please don't stay silent, as rules are broken that affect your constituents.Not when you have the power and authority to say and do something. Jennifer From:Tanner, Rachael To:Don Jackson; Lait, Jonathan; Hoyt, George Cc:Batchelor, Dean; Abendschein, Jonathan; Tam, Christine; Kelty, Hiromi; David Coale; Shikada, Ed; UAC; Council, City Subject:RE: SolarApp+ and Palo Alto Date:Friday, July 16, 2021 10:46:03 AM Attachments:image001.png Thank you Mr. Jackson. Jon is on vacation, so I am responding in his absence. We’ve also been impressed by the SolarApp as well. We are continuing to get updates and information from the regarding what implementation in Palo Alto would look like. We should definitely be able to update at the UAC meeting. Thank you for your passion on these efforts! Rachael Rachael A. Tanner, MCP Assistant Director, Planning & Development Services Department 250 Hamilton Ave | Palo Alto, CA 94301 D: 650.329.2167 E: Rachael.Tanner@cityofpaloalto.org Quality|Courtesy|Efficiency|Integrity|Innovation From: Don Jackson <dcj@clark-communications.com> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 3:46 PM To: Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Batchelor, Dean <Dean.Batchelor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Abendschein, Jonathan <Jon.Abendschein@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Tam, Christine <Christine.Tam@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Kelty, Hiromi <Hiromi.Kelty@CityofPaloAlto.org>; David Coale <david@evcl.com>; Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; UAC <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Subject: SolarApp+ and Palo Alto Director Lait and Mr Hoyt, I “second” the proposal that the City join, support, integrate, and utilize the US DOE/NREL SolarAPP+ PV/ESS permitting/inspection application system. At Mr Coale’s suggestion, I attended this webinar earlier today. This program/process seems like it would be a great solution for Palo Alto. In fact, the Accela permit portal system/vendor the City uses for its Online Permit System is already a SolarAPP+ partner organization, based on statements made during the webinar today, it is my understanding that SolarAPP+ currently integrates into/with Accela, if so, then it should be straightforward for the City to integrate SolarAPP+ into our existing portal and permit-processing system. https://solarapp.nrel.gov/jurisdictions/learn_more I was impressed to see San Jose Mayor Liccardo, Stockton Deputy City Manager Alta, and public officials from Bakersfield, Pleasant Hill, as well as other jurisdictions across the country participating in this event and adopting/supporting the SolarAPP+ system. It is disapointing that Palo Alto is not a leader (or even participating) in this initiative, instead, in stark contrast, Palo Alto’s PV/ESS permitting/inspection process is the subject of scathing exposés in the local press: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/05/21/palo-alto-takes-heat-over-solar- permitting I look forward to hearing the results of the City’s exploration of the SolarAPP+ system at the "Quarterly Permit Processes for Various Energy Technologies” review, currently scheduled for the September UAC meeting, if not before. Regards Don Jackson On Jul 15, 2021, at 2:20 PM, David Coale <david@evcl.com> wrote: Hi George, Thanks for your reply and thanks for looking into SolarApp+. If you did not get a chance to see the webinar you can view it here: https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/leadership-roundtable-empowering-cities- accelerate-rooftop-solar-installations-across This is a truly exciting webinar/app and is well worth the viewing. It really points out the need and advantages of SolarApp+ that is getting praise from cities and installers alike. Previously I had suggested that Palo Alto should outsource the plan check and inspections to 4 Leaf, but we are having trouble now with them on a permit where they are questioning the equipment that we are using, that we have used before in Palo Alto, so this checker is either new or unfamiliar with this. This does not happen with SolarApp+. And, as I mentioned below, SolarApp+ will soon do solar and storage which is now taking months with the Palo Alto process. Let me know if I can help any way with the adoption of SolarApp+. I think this will save a lot of time and money for the city and contractors alike as the testimonials on the webinar a test too. Thanks, David On Jul 14, 2021, at 9:13 AM, Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote: Mr. Coale, We have been in contact with SolarApp+ and are exploring this as an option. George Hoyt, Chief Building Official The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours. -----Original Message----- From: David Coale <david@evcl.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 9:41 PM To: UAC <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Batchelor, Dean <Dean.Batchelor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Abendschein, Jonathan <Jon.Abendschein@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Parkhurst, Rhonda <Rhonda.Parkhurst@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Gennady Sheyner <gsheyner@paweekly.com>; Sandra Slater <sandra@sandraslater.com>; Hodge, Bruce <hodge@tenaya.com>; Bret Andersen <bretande@pacbell.net>; Tam, Christine <Christine.Tam@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Peck, Korwyn <Korwyn.Peck@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Donald Clark Jackson <dcj@clark- communications.com>; Kelty, Hiromi <Hiromi.Kelty@CityofPaloAlto.org>; rscolove@gmail.com; Indra Ghosh <indraghosh@hotmail.com> Subject: SolarApp+ webinar this Thursday @ 10 am CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Hi All, The roll out of NREL’s new SolarApp+, a web based application for solar permitting, with Jennifer Granholm, the U. S. Department of Energy Secretary, will be this Thursday at 10 AM pacific time. See: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ to sign up and for more info on SolarApp+ This app, based on the National Electoral Code, is designed to speed up permitting and inspection of residential solar PV systems. Once the contractor enters in the design, the SolarApp+ ensures the design is code compliant, thereby negating the review process for solar PV permitting. At the end of the process the SolarApp+ will produce a checklist to be used by the inspector for the inspection of the PV system. This app is free to all jurisdictions. I believe Palo Alto’s adoption of the SolarApp+ would allow the city to jump from last place, to being a leader in efficient and timely permitting, at a lower cost then the present system, which leaves much to be desired. In the future, SolarApp+ will also include solar plus storage and then will be expanded to cover electrification projects as well. To reach our 80 by 30 goal of GHG reduction, we will have to replace all gas appliances with electric ones at the end of life of the gas appliances. This will require a lot more inspections. Palo Alto will need to revamp their current process to meet this goal. Please take a look at the SolarApp+ web page and attend the webinar if you are able: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ Thanks, David Please send this info to other interested parties. PS Here is a two minute video of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-zKmtgVPDs From:David Coale To:Hoyt, George Cc:Shikada, Ed; Lait, Jonathan; Batchelor, Dean; Abendschein, Jonathan; Parkhurst, Rhonda; Gennady Sheyner; Sandra Slater; Hodge, Bruce; Bret Andersen; Tam, Christine; Peck, Korwyn; Donald Clark Jackson; Kelty, Hiromi; rscolove@gmail.com; Indra Ghosh; UAC; Council, City; Planning Commission Subject:Re: SolarApp+ webinar this Thursday @ 10 am Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 2:20:26 PM Hi George, Thanks for your reply and thanks for looking into SolarApp+. If you did not get a chance to see the webinar you can view it here: https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/leadership-roundtable-empowering-cities-accelerate-rooftop-solar-installations-across This is a truly exciting webinar/app and is well worth the viewing. It really points out the need and advantages of SolarApp+ that is getting praise from cities and installers alike. Previously I had suggested that Palo Alto should outsource the plan check and inspections to 4 Leaf, but we are having trouble now with them on a permit where they are questioning the equipment that we are using, that we have used before in Palo Alto, so this checker is either new or unfamiliar with this. This does not happen with SolarApp+. And, as I mentioned below, SolarApp+ will soon do solar and storage which is now taking months with the Palo Alto process. Let me know if I can help any way with the adoption of SolarApp+. I think this will save a lot of time and money for the city and contractors alike as the testimonials on the webinar a test too. Thanks, David On Jul 14, 2021, at 9:13 AM, Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote: Mr. Coale, We have been in contact with SolarApp+ and are exploring this as an option. George Hoyt, Chief Building Official The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours. -----Original Message----- From: David Coale <david@evcl.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 9:41 PM To: UAC <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org>Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Batchelor, Dean <Dean.Batchelor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Abendschein, Jonathan <Jon.Abendschein@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Parkhurst, Rhonda <Rhonda.Parkhurst@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Gennady Sheyner <gsheyner@paweekly.com>; Sandra Slater <sandra@sandraslater.com>; Hodge, Bruce <hodge@tenaya.com>; Bret Andersen <bretande@pacbell.net>; Tam, Christine <Christine.Tam@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Peck, Korwyn <Korwyn.Peck@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Donald Clark Jackson <dcj@clark-communications.com>; Kelty, Hiromi <Hiromi.Kelty@CityofPaloAlto.org>; rscolove@gmail.com; Indra Ghosh <indraghosh@hotmail.com>Subject: SolarApp+ webinar this Thursday @ 10 am CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.________________________________ Hi All, The roll out of NREL’s new SolarApp+, a web based application for solar permitting, with Jennifer Granholm, the U. S. Department of Energy Secretary, will be this Thursday at 10 AM pacific time. See: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ to sign up and for more info on SolarApp+ This app, based on the National Electoral Code, is designed to speed up permitting and inspection of residential solar PV systems. Once the contractor enters in the design, the SolarApp+ ensures the design is code compliant, thereby negating the review process for solar PV permitting. At the end of the process the SolarApp+ will produce a checklist to be used by the inspector for the inspection of the PV system. This app is free to all jurisdictions. I believe Palo Alto’s adoption of the SolarApp+ would allow the city to jump from last place, to being a leader in efficient and timely permitting, at a lower cost then the present system, which leaves much to be desired. In the future, SolarApp+ will also include solar plus storage and then will be expanded to cover electrification projects as well. To reach our 80 by 30 goal of GHG reduction, we will have to replace all gas appliances with electric ones at the end of life of the gas appliances. This will require a lot more inspections. Palo Alto will need to revamp their current process to meet this goal. Please take a look at the SolarApp+ web page and attend the webinar if you are able: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ Thanks, David Please send this info to other interested parties. PS Here is a two minute video of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-zKmtgVPDs From:Hoyt, George To:David Coale Cc:Shikada, Ed; Lait, Jonathan; Batchelor, Dean; Abendschein, Jonathan; Parkhurst, Rhonda; Gennady Sheyner; Sandra Slater; Hodge, Bruce; Bret Andersen; Tam, Christine; Peck, Korwyn; Donald Clark Jackson; Kelty, Hiromi; rscolove@gmail.com; Indra Ghosh; UAC; Council, City; Planning Commission Subject:RE: SolarApp+ webinar this Thursday @ 10 am Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 2:56:56 PM Attachments:image001.png Thank you David. I was planning on attending and had a conflict, but I will watch the recorded session. George The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours. From: David Coale <david@evcl.com> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 2:20 PM To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Batchelor, Dean <Dean.Batchelor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Abendschein, Jonathan <Jon.Abendschein@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Parkhurst, Rhonda <Rhonda.Parkhurst@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Gennady Sheyner <gsheyner@paweekly.com>; Sandra Slater <sandra@sandraslater.com>; Hodge, Bruce <hodge@tenaya.com>; Bret Andersen <bretande@pacbell.net>; Tam, Christine <Christine.Tam@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Peck, Korwyn <Korwyn.Peck@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Donald Clark Jackson <dcj@clark-communications.com>; Kelty, Hiromi <Hiromi.Kelty@CityofPaloAlto.org>; rscolove@gmail.com; Indra Ghosh <indraghosh@hotmail.com>; UAC <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org> Subject: Re: SolarApp+ webinar this Thursday @ 10 am Hi George, Thanks for your reply and thanks for looking into SolarApp+. If you did not get a chance to see the webinar you can view it here: https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/leadership-roundtable-empowering-cities-accelerate-rooftop- solar-installations-across This is a truly exciting webinar/app and is well worth the viewing. It really points out the need and advantages of SolarApp+ that is getting praise from cities and installers alike. Previously I had suggested that Palo Alto should outsource the plan check and inspections to 4 Leaf, but we are having trouble now with them on a permit where they are questioning the equipment that we are using, that we have used before in Palo Alto, so this checker is either new or unfamiliar with this. This does not happen with SolarApp+. And, as I mentioned below, SolarApp+ will soon do solar and storage which is now taking months with the Palo Alto process. Let me know if I can help any way with the adoption of SolarApp+. I think this will save a lot of time and money for the city and contractors alike as the testimonials on the webinar a test too. Thanks, David On Jul 14, 2021, at 9:13 AM, Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote: Mr. Coale, We have been in contact with SolarApp+ and are exploring this as an option. George Hoyt, Chief Building Official The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours. -----Original Message----- From: David Coale <david@evcl.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 9:41 PM To: UAC <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Batchelor, Dean <Dean.Batchelor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Abendschein, Jonathan <Jon.Abendschein@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Parkhurst, Rhonda <Rhonda.Parkhurst@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Gennady Sheyner <gsheyner@paweekly.com>; Sandra Slater <sandra@sandraslater.com>; Hodge, Bruce <hodge@tenaya.com>; Bret Andersen <bretande@pacbell.net>; Tam, Christine <Christine.Tam@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Peck, Korwyn <Korwyn.Peck@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Donald Clark Jackson <dcj@clark- communications.com>; Kelty, Hiromi <Hiromi.Kelty@CityofPaloAlto.org>; rscolove@gmail.com; Indra Ghosh <indraghosh@hotmail.com> Subject: SolarApp+ webinar this Thursday @ 10 am CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Hi All, The roll out of NREL’s new SolarApp+, a web based application for solar permitting, with Jennifer Granholm, the U. S. Department of Energy Secretary, will be this Thursday at 10 AM pacific time. See: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ to sign up and for more info on SolarApp+ This app, based on the National Electoral Code, is designed to speed up permitting and inspection of residential solar PV systems. Once the contractor enters in the design, the SolarApp+ ensures the design is code compliant, thereby negating the review process for solar PV permitting. At the end of the process the SolarApp+ will produce a checklist to be used by the inspector for the inspection of the PV system. This app is free to all jurisdictions. I believe Palo Alto’s adoption of the SolarApp+ would allow the city to jump from last place, to being a leader in efficient and timely permitting, at a lower cost then the present system, which leaves much to be desired. In the future, SolarApp+ will also include solar plus storage and then will be expanded to cover electrification projects as well. To reach our 80 by 30 goal of GHG reduction, we will have to replace all gas appliances with electric ones at the end of life of the gas appliances. This will require a lot more inspections. Palo Alto will need to revamp their current process to meet this goal. Please take a look at the SolarApp+ web page and attend the webinar if you are able: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ Thanks, David Please send this info to other interested parties. PS Here is a two minute video of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s- zKmtgVPDs From:Hoyt, George To:David Coale Cc:Shikada, Ed; Lait, Jonathan; Batchelor, Dean; Abendschein, Jonathan; Parkhurst, Rhonda; Gennady Sheyner; Sandra Slater; Hodge, Bruce; Bret Andersen; Tam, Christine; Peck, Korwyn; Donald Clark Jackson; Kelty, Hiromi; rscolove@gmail.com; Indra Ghosh; UAC; Council, City; Planning Commission Subject:RE: SolarApp+ webinar this Thursday @ 10 am Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 3:02:13 PM Attachments:image001.png David, Please provide me with the address and permit number for the application that you had mentioned that you are experiencing difficulties with so that I can look into it further. George The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours. From: David Coale <david@evcl.com> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 2:20 PM To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Batchelor, Dean <Dean.Batchelor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Abendschein, Jonathan <Jon.Abendschein@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Parkhurst, Rhonda <Rhonda.Parkhurst@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Gennady Sheyner <gsheyner@paweekly.com>; Sandra Slater <sandra@sandraslater.com>; Hodge, Bruce <hodge@tenaya.com>; Bret Andersen <bretande@pacbell.net>; Tam, Christine <Christine.Tam@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Peck, Korwyn <Korwyn.Peck@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Donald Clark Jackson <dcj@clark-communications.com>; Kelty, Hiromi <Hiromi.Kelty@CityofPaloAlto.org>; rscolove@gmail.com; Indra Ghosh <indraghosh@hotmail.com>; UAC <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org> Subject: Re: SolarApp+ webinar this Thursday @ 10 am Hi George, Thanks for your reply and thanks for looking into SolarApp+. If you did not get a chance to see the webinar you can view it here: https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/leadership-roundtable-empowering-cities-accelerate-rooftop- solar-installations-across This is a truly exciting webinar/app and is well worth the viewing. It really points out the need and advantages of SolarApp+ that is getting praise from cities and installers alike. Previously I had suggested that Palo Alto should outsource the plan check and inspections to 4 Leaf, but we are having trouble now with them on a permit where they are questioning the equipment that we are using, that we have used before in Palo Alto, so this checker is either new or unfamiliar with this. This does not happen with SolarApp+. And, as I mentioned below, SolarApp+ will soon do solar and storage which is now taking months with the Palo Alto process. Let me know if I can help any way with the adoption of SolarApp+. I think this will save a lot of time and money for the city and contractors alike as the testimonials on the webinar a test too. Thanks, David On Jul 14, 2021, at 9:13 AM, Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote: Mr. Coale, We have been in contact with SolarApp+ and are exploring this as an option. George Hoyt, Chief Building Official The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours. -----Original Message----- From: David Coale <david@evcl.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 9:41 PM To: UAC <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Batchelor, Dean <Dean.Batchelor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Abendschein, Jonathan <Jon.Abendschein@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Parkhurst, Rhonda <Rhonda.Parkhurst@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Gennady Sheyner <gsheyner@paweekly.com>; Sandra Slater <sandra@sandraslater.com>; Hodge, Bruce <hodge@tenaya.com>; Bret Andersen <bretande@pacbell.net>; Tam, Christine <Christine.Tam@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Peck, Korwyn <Korwyn.Peck@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Donald Clark Jackson <dcj@clark- communications.com>; Kelty, Hiromi <Hiromi.Kelty@CityofPaloAlto.org>; rscolove@gmail.com; Indra Ghosh <indraghosh@hotmail.com> Subject: SolarApp+ webinar this Thursday @ 10 am CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Hi All, The roll out of NREL’s new SolarApp+, a web based application for solar permitting, with Jennifer Granholm, the U. S. Department of Energy Secretary, will be this Thursday at 10 AM pacific time. See: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ to sign up and for more info on SolarApp+ This app, based on the National Electoral Code, is designed to speed up permitting and inspection of residential solar PV systems. Once the contractor enters in the design, the SolarApp+ ensures the design is code compliant, thereby negating the review process for solar PV permitting. At the end of the process the SolarApp+ will produce a checklist to be used by the inspector for the inspection of the PV system. This app is free to all jurisdictions. I believe Palo Alto’s adoption of the SolarApp+ would allow the city to jump from last place, to being a leader in efficient and timely permitting, at a lower cost then the present system, which leaves much to be desired. In the future, SolarApp+ will also include solar plus storage and then will be expanded to cover electrification projects as well. To reach our 80 by 30 goal of GHG reduction, we will have to replace all gas appliances with electric ones at the end of life of the gas appliances. This will require a lot more inspections. Palo Alto will need to revamp their current process to meet this goal. Please take a look at the SolarApp+ web page and attend the webinar if you are able: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ Thanks, David Please send this info to other interested parties. PS Here is a two minute video of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s- zKmtgVPDs From:Tietjen, Brent To:Martin J Sommer Cc:CalMod@caltrain.com; Board (@caltrain.com); Council, City Subject:RE: University Ave Beige Pole Color Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 4:27:20 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Martin, Thanks for your patience as I discussed internally with the project team. Please see our responses below. 1. You mention in the video, the "Portal" type pole option for University Ave station, but you have never answered my original question of "why it was not used". Can you please answer this? Center poles were selected where possible to reduce the impact to the removal of trees. There are three main types of poles used along the corridor, single side poles, two track cantilevers (on one side), and center poles. The use of each pole is dependent on the site conditions, including utilities and the clearance between the tracks. Where feasible, center poles were chosen in order to reduce the number trees pruned or removed required to provide clearance for the electrical safety zone (ESZ). The ESZ is typically 10 feet from the farthest electrified element in most cases. A center pole has the ESZ set by the train pantograph as that is the electrified element that is farthest out. With single side poles, the electrical safety zone is set by the pole location which supports an electrified wire. Many cities and communities made comments as part of the environmental review process stating a preference for center poles where possible to both reduce the number of poles and reduce the impact to trees. 2. The 45 foot center poles installed, are 10 feet taller than the 35 foot poles presented to the City. A 30% increase in height, should have been passed back to the City for review. Wouldn't you agree? The designs presented to the ARB/HRB were preliminary and were subject to change. The height is a technical requirement that cannot be modified so it was not brought to the committee for input/review. We provided an opportunity to the ARB/HRB to review and make a recommendation on the pole color since options were possible on the color selection. 3. You stated that the paint life expediency to be 10 years. This clearly indicates, an expectation for Caltrain to paint these poles on a regular basis, and would suggest that painting equipment is already planned for the project. Is it? Caltrain will be working on an overall maintenance plan which will include the maintenance of the facilities installed during the Electrification Project. There are not concrete plans to repaint the poles at this time, but any plans to repaint for maintenance needs will be included in the overall maintenance plan for the electrified system. 4. As stated from the City official Furth, the City "advises", and Caltrain "decides". If I am able to get the Palo Alto ARB to advise/recommend/request painting the top portion of poles in the University Ave station to the City standard of Marine Green, how much weight with Caltrain, will this carry? The pole colors were presented to and selected by the ARB/HRB and Caltrain has considered those choices (confirmed by the City) final. Revisiting color decisions made would not be supported by Caltrain. The project team’s focus is on providing adequate resources and funding to finish the infrastructure work and signal work for project completion by 2024. Best, Brent From: Martin J Sommer [mailto:martin@sommer.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 5:42 PM To: Tietjen, Brent <TietjenB@samtrans.com> Cc: CalMod@caltrain.com; Board (@caltrain.com) <BoardCaltrain@samtrans.com>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org Subject: Re: University Ave Beige Pole Color ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders. Hi Brett, I finally found time to review the January 10th, 2019 City of Palo Alto video recommencedbelow, and have a few followup questions: 1. You mention in the video, the "Portal" type pole option for University Ave station, but youhave never answered my original question of "why it was not used". Can you please answerthis? 2. The 45 foot center poles installed, are 10 feet taller than the 35 foot poles presented to theCity. A 30% increase in height, should have been passed back to the City for review. Wouldn'tyou agree? 3. You stated that the paint life expediency to be 10 years. This clearly indicates, anexpectation for Caltrain to paint these poles on a regular basis, and would suggest that paintingequipment is already planned for the project. Is it? 4. As stated from the City official Furth, the City "advises", and Caltrain "decides". If I amable to get the Palo Alto ARB to advise/recommend/request painting the top portion of polesin the University Ave station to the City standard of Marine Green, how much weight withCaltrain, will this carry? Thanks again,Martin On 4/13/21 12:46 PM, Tietjen, Brent wrote: Hi Martin, The joint ARB/HRB meeting was held on January 10th, 2019. The City of Palo Alto records and uploads videos of these Board meetings for review. The full video of the presentation, including photo simulations shown to the Board, and the ARB/HRB member discussion and decision can be seen on this page https://midpenmedia.org/architectural-review-board-74-1102019/. Thanks, Brent From: Martin J Sommer [mailto:martin@sommer.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 9:59 AM To: Tietjen, Brent <TietjenB@samtrans.com>; CalMod@caltrain.com Cc: Board (@caltrain.com) <BoardCaltrain@samtrans.com>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org; Pat Burt <pat@patburt.org> Subject: Re: University Ave Beige Pole Color ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders. Thanks Brent, looks like "bait and switch" to me. Can you please send me the photos presented to the Palo Alto ARB? Youmentioned them in the prior email, but they were not included with the ARBreport. We need to get this issue resolved. Thank you,Martin On 4/13/21 9:16 AM, Tietjen, Brent wrote: Hi Martin, Thanks for your patience. I believe your questions are related and hope the below information below is helpful. The image you are referencing was a rendering that was created before the final design of the pole and foundation locations was complete. This rendering was also complete prior to the ARB/HRB decision on pole colors for the station area. There are three main types of poles used along the corridor, single side poles, two track cantilevers (on one side), and center poles. The use of each pole is dependent on the site conditions, including utilities and the clearance between the tracks. Where feasible, center poles were chosen in order to reduce the number trees pruned or removed required to provide clearance for the electrical safety zone (ESZ). The ESZ is typically 10 feet from the farthest electrified element in most cases. A center pole has the ESZ set by the train pantograph as that is the electrified element that is farthest out. With single side poles, the electrical safety zone is set by the pole location which supports an electrified wire. Thanks, Brent From: Martin J Sommer [mailto:martin@sommer.net] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 9:28 AM To: CalMod@caltrain.com Cc: Board (@caltrain.com) <BoardCaltrain@samtrans.com>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org; Pat Burt <pat@patburt.org> Subject: Re: University Ave Beige Pole Color ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders. Thanks Brent, appreciate you staying on this issue. In addition, please see the attached photo. This vision of Caltrainrolling into the University Ave station in Palo Alto, is one of the mostwidely distributed photos of the Caltrain Electrification Project.Notice: a) short poles, b) back color, and c) symmetric north andsouth cantilevers. What we received in Palo Alto, bears noresemblance to this? What went wrong, and can we please fix it? Martin On 3/27/21 6:22 PM, CalMod@caltrain.com wrote: Hi Martin, Yes, I will work to get this information from the project team. Best, Brent From: Martin J Sommer [mailto:martin@sommer.net] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2021 2:15 PM To: CalMod@caltrain.com Cc: Board (@caltrain.com) <BoardCaltrain@samtrans.com>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org; Pat Burt <pat@patburt.org> Subject: Re: University Ave Beige Pole Color ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders. Hi Brent, I am still working on this issue. When we talked viaphone, you offered to look into why the tall single poleswere used at the University Ave station, vs two shorterpoles on the side, with or without a crossbar. The CalAve station, uses two shorter poles, placed right on theplatform. Can you please answer that for me? Thanks,Martin On 1/13/21 9:58 AM, Martin J Sommer wrote: Hi Brent, Thanks for talking this morning. Yes, pleasetry to put a number on repainting the tophalf of one or more poles at the UniversityAve station. Once we have this number, Iwill reach out to the City Of Palo Alto, forpotential funding sources. Best regards, Martin On 12/22/20 7:49 PM, Martin J Sommer wrote: +cc: Pat Bert Brent, please take a look at theattached photo. I don't think this is what the City, nor the designengineers, had in mind. Please tell me, how I can help correct this situation. Thank you,Martin -- Martin Sommer650-346-5307martin@sommer.netwww.linkedin.com/in/martinsommer "Turn technical vision into reality." -- Martin Sommer650-346-5307martin@sommer.netwww.linkedin.com/in/martinsommer "Turn technical vision into reality." -- Martin Sommer650-346-5307martin@sommer.netwww.linkedin.com/in/martinsommer "Turn technical vision into reality." From:Eileen Fagan To:Council, City Subject:San Jose is creating a quiet zone - can we? Date:Friday, July 16, 2021 1:48:31 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi, Can we stop the blaring horns through Palo Alto from 10 pm to 7 am...similar to this articleabout San Jose doing the same? It would definitely improve the quality of life of folks near the tracks. Thanks, Eileen Fagan From:Joseph Okogbuo To:Council, City Subject:Silicon Valley RV Rentals Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 2:25:42 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, The domain name www.SiliconValleyRvRentals.com is up for sale at $399 on Dan.com marketplace. You can redirect this domain to your website to capture leads of people looking for RVRentals in Silicon Valley. If Interested, go to www.SiliconValleyRvRentals.com and click on ''Buy Now'' option Further inquiries are welcomed. Best Regards, Joseph Okogbuo From:Joseph Okogbuo To:Council, City Subject:Silicon Valley Rv Rentals Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2021 7:11:50 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, We were wondering if you had time to read our email regarding the availability of the domain name www.SiliconValleyRvRentals.com Are you interested? Let us know your thoughts on this Regards, Joseph Okogbuo From:Don Jackson To:Lait, Jonathan; Hoyt, George Cc:Batchelor, Dean; Abendschein, Jonathan; Tam, Christine; Kelty, Hiromi; David Coale; Shikada, Ed; UAC; Council, City Subject:SolarApp+ and Palo Alto Date:Thursday, July 15, 2021 3:46:33 PM Director Lait and Mr Hoyt, I “second” the proposal that the City join, support, integrate, and utilize the US DOE/NRELSolarAPP+ PV/ESS permitting/inspection application system. At Mr Coale’s suggestion, I attended this webinar earlier today. This program/process seems like it would be a great solution for Palo Alto. In fact, the Accela permit portal system/vendor the City uses for its Online Permit System isalready a SolarAPP+ partner organization, based on statements made during the webinar today, it is my understanding that SolarAPP+currently integrates into/with Accela, if so, then it should be straightforward for the City to integrate SolarAPP+ into our existingportal and permit-processing system. https://solarapp.nrel.gov/jurisdictions/learn_more I was impressed to see San Jose Mayor Liccardo, Stockton Deputy City Manager Alta, and public officials from Bakersfield, Pleasant Hill, as well as other jurisdictions across the country participating in this event and adopting/supporting the SolarAPP+ system. It is disapointing that Palo Alto is not a leader (or even participating) in this initiative, instead, in stark contrast, Palo Alto’s PV/ESS permitting/inspection process is the subject of scathing exposés in the local press: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/05/21/palo-alto-takes-heat-over-solar-permitting I look forward to hearing the results of the City’s exploration of the SolarAPP+ system at the"Quarterly Permit Processes for Various Energy Technologies” review, currently scheduled for the September UAC meeting, if not before. Regards Don Jackson On Jul 15, 2021, at 2:20 PM, David Coale <david@evcl.com> wrote: Hi George, Thanks for your reply and thanks for looking into SolarApp+. If you did not get a chance to see the webinar you can view it here: https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/leadership-roundtable-empowering-cities- accelerate-rooftop-solar-installations-across This is a truly exciting webinar/app and is well worth the viewing. It really points out the need and advantages of SolarApp+ that is getting praise from cities and installers alike. Previously I had suggested that Palo Alto should outsource the plan check and inspections to 4 Leaf, but we are having trouble now with them on a permit where they are questioning the equipment that we are using, that we have used before in Palo Alto, so this checker is either new or unfamiliar with this. This does not happen with SolarApp+. And, as I mentioned below, SolarApp+ will soon do solar and storage which is now taking months with the Palo Alto process. Let me know if I can help any way with the adoption of SolarApp+. I think this will save a lot of time and money for the city and contractors alike as the testimonials on the webinar a test too. Thanks, David On Jul 14, 2021, at 9:13 AM, Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote: Mr. Coale, We have been in contact with SolarApp+ and are exploring this as an option. George Hoyt,Chief Building Official The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours. -----Original Message-----From: David Coale <david@evcl.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 9:41 PMTo: UAC <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Batchelor, Dean <Dean.Batchelor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Abendschein, Jonathan <Jon.Abendschein@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Parkhurst, Rhonda <Rhonda.Parkhurst@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Gennady Sheyner <gsheyner@paweekly.com>; Sandra Slater <sandra@sandraslater.com>; Hodge, Bruce <hodge@tenaya.com>; Bret Andersen <bretande@pacbell.net>; Tam, Christine <Christine.Tam@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Peck, Korwyn <Korwyn.Peck@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Donald Clark Jackson <dcj@clark-communications.com>; Kelty, Hiromi <Hiromi.Kelty@CityofPaloAlto.org>; rscolove@gmail.com; Indra Ghosh <indraghosh@hotmail.com> Subject: SolarApp+ webinar this Thursday @ 10 am CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Hi All, The roll out of NREL’s new SolarApp+, a web based application for solar permitting, with Jennifer Granholm, the U. S. Department of Energy Secretary, will be this Thursday at 10 AM pacific time. See: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ to sign up and for more info on SolarApp+ This app, based on the National Electoral Code, is designed to speed up permitting and inspection of residential solar PV systems. Once the contractor enters in the design, the SolarApp+ ensures the design is code compliant, thereby negating the review process for solar PV permitting. At the end of the process the SolarApp+ will produce a checklist to be used by the inspector for the inspection of the PV system. This app is free to all jurisdictions. I believe Palo Alto’s adoption of the SolarApp+ would allow the city to jump from last place, to being a leader in efficient and timely permitting, at a lower cost then the present system, which leaves much to be desired. In the future, SolarApp+ will also include solar plus storage and then will be expanded to cover electrification projects as well. To reach our 80 by 30 goal of GHG reduction, we will have to replace all gas appliances with electric ones at the end of life of the gas appliances. This will require a lot more inspections. Palo Alto will need to revamp their current process to meet this goal. Please take a look at the SolarApp+ web page and attend the webinar if you are able: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ Thanks, David Please send this info to other interested parties. PS Here is a two minute video of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-zKmtgVPDs Blog | COVID-19 | Racial Justice From:Silicon Valley Community FoundationTo:Council, CitySubject:SVCF eNews — Close the equity gap for Latinx communities in Silicon ValleyDate:Wednesday, July 21, 2021 11:15:37 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. 650.450.5400 @ info@siliconvalleycf.org See the SVCF Latinx Giving Guide These Latinx-led nonprofit organizations provide leadership, direct services, advocacy and support for Latinx communities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Join us in supporting organizations that are advancing equity for Latinx residents in our region. What disaster expertssay you need to knowabout wildfire season "We need to think about how these events impact people on a day-to-day basis. 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Copyright © 2021 Silicon Valley Community Foundation View in browser | Unsubscribe From:Jan Altman To:Fire; OES; Police; City Mgr; Council, City Subject:Thanks to Palo Alto Fire for your wonderful team Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 2:09:51 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Yesterday, 7-19-21, I had a need for emergency response. I’m writing to tell you that the caring and support I received deserves recognition. After getting home, I posted a public thank you on NextDoor. In less than 24 hours over 80neighbors have somehow responded. I’ve copied my post below so you can hear the whole story. (Original is at https://nextdoor.com/p/dKH4DXyrwXx7. Be prepared for some sillycomments, though!) _____________________ Thank you, Palo Alto Fire! I had just begun this afternoon’s walk and was in Johnson Park. Seeing a woman coming towards me pushing a baby carriage, I walked onto the grass to give us proper distance. Ow! I was wearing open-toed sandals and something got under my toes! As I paused to shakeit out, I noticed a bee. Oh, no! I fainted at bee stings as a child! I quickly went to the nearby bench and said to the fellow sitting there, “I was just stung by a bee and I’m allergic to bee stings!” He paused his phone call, picked up his things, and promptly walked away. ??? Maybe hedidn’t speak English? By now my toes were totally killing me! Pain was bad. Still worried I might pass out, I called 911. I was so lucky to be helped by Stephanie, who kept me calm, dispatched helpimmediately, and stayed with me till they arrived. ( to Stephanie!) Palo Alto Fire, being right down the street, was there in two minutes. What a funny coincidence that James, the fellow who treated me, was a beekeeper! Ha ha! He removed the still-attached stinger, and the pain quickly dissipated. 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Inflated Reporting of COVID Deaths Is a Real Conspiracy Santa Clara County, Alameda count Wrong Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked, Mercola Newsletter July20, 2021 Previous Next Will COVID Shots Drive Mutated Variants? Surprising Ways COVID-19 Will Destroy Your Immune System STORY AT-A-GLANCE Two counties in California reanalyzed death certificates and lowered the number of deaths attributed to COVID by at least 22%. One infectious disease expert believes the CDC may soon ask all counties to recount their data Recommendations to add COVID if it was suspected even though not confirmed to the death certificate, financial incentives for hospitals and inaccurate PCR testing are among the factors that supported inaccurate data reporting Conversely, the numbers of injuries and deaths from the COVID shot are being suppressed, disregarded and likely underreported. To boost the appearance that the vaccine is effective the CDC is again manipulating PCR testing by creating different criteria for vaccinated and unvaccinated peopleIf you or a loved one took the shot but have serious regrets, I encourage you to see my most recent interview with Dr. Vladimir Zelenko to learn strategies that may reduce your subacute and long-term risks from the shot For those who are still deciding, consider doing your own risk-benefit analysis based on the science and your individual situation before making a decision that may have permanent and lifelong consequences In the early months of 2020, many mainstream news media laughingly called concerns that there were more deaths reported from COVID than could be attributed to the disease a “death toll conspiracy”1 they said was led by conservative Republicans and “anti-vaxxers.”2 Yet, a few short months later, data confirm what many already knew: The number of people who died “from” COVID-19 were not the same as those who died “with” COVID-19. In late 2020, I reported on several deaths3 that were originally counted as COVID-19, but were later retracted, for example, two deaths from gunshot wounds in Grand County, Colorado, and a motorcycle accident in Orlando, Florida. At the same time, the Freedom Foundation4 accused Washington State's Department of Health of inflating the number of COVID deaths by up to 13%. Although the governor denied the allegation, internal emails revealed in May 2020 that the Department of Health was counting deaths in their official COVIDnumbers that were not directly due to the virus.5 The high death count with COVID-19 was supported by the shameless way in which experts manipulated the PCR test they used to confirm thepresence of the virus. As I reported in 2020 and 2021, the high false positive rate with PCR test was due in considerable part to the recommended exorbitant cycle threshold. The cycle threshold refers to the maximum number of times doubling is allowed during the test. The higher the threshold, the greater the risk that a false positive will label healthy people as a “COVID-19 case.” In reality, PCR testing is not a proper diagnostic tool even though it has been promoted as such. A rising number of COVID-19 cases from inaccurate PCR testing helped tosupport the death toll recorded from the virus. Recently, two counties in California have revised their numbers based on a reevaluation of the data. Two California Counties Recount COVID Deaths After an analysis of the data, Santa Clara and Alameda counties in California discovered there was a significant discrepancy in the number of people who died from COVID-19. The data didn’t change. The number of actual deaths didn’t change. But what authorities found was that 22% of the deaths recorded from COVID could not be attributed to the virus.6 Santa Clara County reported July 2, 2021, that the new numbers were generated by counting only those whose cause of death was from the virus and not counting people who had tested positive at the time of death. The county officials used this approach to determine the true impact COVID-19 had on their community. The month before, in June 2021, Alameda County had also recounted deaths attributed to COVID-19 and registered a death toll drop by about 25%. University of California San Francisco professor of medicine and infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Gandhi believes that the CDC may soon ask all counties to recount their deaths from COVID-19 and the entire nation could see a drop in the death toll.7 Initially, California recorded anyone who died and who had tested positive for COVID-19 as having died from COVID-19. The newest count lists only those who have the virus as cause of death on the death certificate, as determined by the medical examiner. Yet, despite this recount, based on the financial incentives to alter the death certificates and PCR testing that inaccurately labeled people as infected with the virus, the numbers may still not be an accurate representation of the number of people who died from the virus. Financial Incentives Likely Inflated COVID Death Numbers In April 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci brushed off questions that COVID-19 death counts were padded, claiming it was another “conspiracy theory” and should be ignored. A host of mainstream media also reported that suspicions that hospitals were over reporting in order to charge more money were pure conspiracy theories lacking a basis in reality. Yet, firsthand testimony, including that of nurse Erin Olszewski, showed financial incentives were at the heart of overdiagnosis and mistreatment at a public Hospital in Queens, New York. I reported her shocking story in “Nurse on the Frontlines of COVID-19 Shares Her Experience.” According to Olszewski, patients who tested negative were routinely listed as positive and quickly placed on ventilators, a largely inappropriate treatment that ended up killing virtually all of them. By August 2020,8 CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield admitted financial policies may have artificially inflated hospitalization rates and death toll statistics. As reported in the Washington Examiner,9 hospitals have had a financial incentive to inflate coronavirus death, just as they do with deaths in other diseases. In response to a question before a House panel committee asked by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., about potential “perverse incentives” that hospitals might have to alter death certificates, Redfield said:10 “I think you’re correct in that we’ve seen this in other disease processes, too. Really, in the HIV epidemic, somebody may have a heart attack but also have HIV — the hospital would prefer the [classification] for HIV because there’s greater reimbursement.” The Washington Examiner11 also reported that in August 2020 more than 3,000 people were removed from the death count in Texas after it was revealed they did not test positive but were only considered a probable case. Are Experts Counting Actual Deaths Due to COVID? The media also participated in a misrepresentation of reality, by equating a positive test result with being infected with the disease. The fact that a person tests positive does not equate to having COVID-19. The clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 is for someone who exhibits severe respiratory illness that is characterized by fever, coughing and shortness of breath. If you are asymptomatic, you do not have COVID-19. The worst that can be said is that you're infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If you're not actually ill, you don't have the disease. This is one factor that differentiates a person who died from the illness compared to someone who died with a positive test result, meaning the cause of death was completely different, such as heart disease, automobile accident or a gunshot wound. Past studies have also demonstrated a similar event in people who test positive for influenza but do not present with symptoms. One study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine12 in 2014 evaluated five successive cohort years in England using strain-specific serology. The researchers found the influenza virus infected 18% of persons who were not vaccinated each winter. They concluded the 2009 pandemic strain of influenza and seasonal influenza had a similarly high rate of asymptomatic infection. The author of an accompanying editorial wrote:13 "The findings reaffirm earlier reports that there are high rates of serological evidence of influenza infection without corresponding disease. Hayward and colleagues report that roughly 20% of the community shows serological evidence of influenza infection each season, but that most infections (about 75%) are asymptomatic or at least so mild that they are not identified through weekly active surveillance for respiratory illness." Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., is a past vice president and chief scientific adviser of Pfizer. In an interviewhe talked about the number of deaths falsely attributed to COVID-19 in the U.K., saying "I'm calling out the statistics, and even the claim that there is an ongoing pandemic, as false," noting that the definition of a "coronavirus death" in the U.K. is anyone who dies, from any cause, within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test. Were Total Deaths in 2020 Excessive? In the U.S., it's a similar story. December 30, 2020, I reported that as of December 22, 2020, the provisional total death count from all causes, according to the CDC, was 2,835,533. For comparison, the total number of deaths from all causes in 2018 was 2,839,20514 while in 2019 it was 2,854,838.15 By mid-2021, the total number of deaths recorded in 2020 was3,389,991.16 While the number of deaths in 2020 was 535,133 more than the year before, they likely cannot all be attributed to COVID. For example, drug overdose deaths rose dramatically during 2020, and ifthose were erroneously counted as COVID like the motorcycle accidents and gunshot wounds, then they would inflate the COVID numbers dramatically. While the rates have not yet been tabulated, the estimated percent of increase in drug deaths in the first eight months of 2020 as compared to the same period in 2019 ranged from less than 10% to greater than 60% depending on the state.17 Additionally, according to Yeadon and an article in The Guardian,18 some of the increased number of deaths in the U.K. in people aged 45 to 65 were mainly from heart disease, stroke and cancer. These types of deaths suggest there was the higher number could be due to inaccessibility to routine medical care when people were either afraid of or discouraged from going to the hospital. Conversely, COVID Vaccine Adverse Events Likely Underreported As I wrote in "COVID Vaccine Deaths and Injuries Are Secretly Buried," the reports of death and serious injuries from the COVID-19 shot have been mounting with breakneck rapidity. Those familiar with the historical vaccine injury rate agree we've never seen anything like it, anywhere in the world. In the linked article, I reported that as of June 11, 2021, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), had posted 358,379 adverse events. That number jumped to 438,440 events through July 7, 2021.19 This includes 9,048 deaths, 985 miscarriages, 3,324 heart attacks and 7,463 people disabled. In the European Union's database of adverse drug reactions from COVID shots, called EudraVigilance, there were 1,509,266 reported injuries, including 15,472 deaths as of June 19, 2021.20 EudraVigilance only accepts reports from EU members, so it covers only 27 of the 50 European countries. Reports have poured in from around the world of people who died shortly after receiving the COVID-19 shot. In January 2021, Norway had already recorded 29 senior citizen deaths in the wake of their vaccine program21 and in Australia, two people died from blood clots after taking AstraZeneca's COVID shot while only one has died from the disease this year.22 As I discussed in "CDC Caught Cooking the Books on COVID Vaccines," the rising number of vaccine adverse events aren’t the only things being manipulated. To boost the appearance that the vaccine is effective, the CDC is using several strategies. First, the cycle threshold has been significantly lowered from 4023 to 28,24,25 which will hide any breakthrough cases in those who have had the COVID shot. Next, the CDC no longer records a mild or asymptomatic infection in any person who has been vaccinated as a COVID case. Now, the only cases that count in people who have had the shot are those that result in hospitalization or death.26 However, if you're not vaccinated and have a mild case or test positive at a higher cycle threshold, you still count as a COVID case.27 As an example of how changing the analysis affects the statistics, as of April 30, 2021, the CDC had received a total of 10,262 reports of vaccine breakthrough infections.28 At the time they called this a “substantial undercount” since they were using a passive surveillance system that relies on voluntary reporting. However, 67 days later on July 6, 2021, the number of breakthrough cases was slashed to 5,186.29 This was done under the new guidelines that take only hospitalizations and deaths into account for vaccine breakthrough. Do Your Own Risk-Benefit Analysis Before Deciding In my most recent interview with Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, we discuss the acute, subacute and long-term risks for those who have accepted the COVID shot. Additionally, he outlines a strategic plan you can use to help protect your health if you or someone you know got the COVID shot and now have serious regrets. You can see the interview and the strategies to help protect your health in “Might COVID Injections Reduce Lifespan?” For those who are still deciding, it's important to do your own risk-benefit analysis based on your individual situation before making up your mind. You can track the rate at which the total number of vaccine adverse events are being reported to the VAERS system on their website.30 They also publish the number of deaths, hospitalizations, Bell's Palsy, heart attacks and life-threatening side effects being reported in the system in an easy-to- read graphic. Additionally, it's important to remember that the lethality of COVID-19 is actually surprisingly low. Data analysis has shown that for community-based people younger than 60, it is lower than the lethalityof flu for those over 65.31 And, if you're under the age of 40 your risk of dying is 0.01%. Thismeans you have a 99.99 percent chance of surviving the infection.Since the mRNA vaccines are not designed to prevent infection and only reduce the severity of the symptoms, it begs the question — what is being protected? I won't tell anyone what to do, but I do urge you to take the time to review the science and weigh the potential risks and benefits before making a decision that may have permanent repercussions for the rest of your life. + Sources and References Forwarded by Arlene Goetze, MA, writer/editor, No Toxins for Children From:Deborah To:Council, City Subject:air b and b regulations enforcement Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 6:09:10 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council Members, Between dawn barking dogs and drunken boys (at least 3, if not 4) swearing sexist profanitiesat 2:30 AM, sleep was impossible. This nuisance in Palo Alto is emanating from a house that I believe the owner bought specifically to rent through air b and b, as it was immediatelylisted upon its sale, and he never lived in it--! I am a teacher and neighbor and soon I will have to go back to work. This is untenable,especially in neighborhoods where houses are situated on top of one another. I understand that Palo Alto does not permit these short term rentals-- á la air b and b. Pleaseaddress the enforcement of this law. I would like to hear your response.Sincerely, Deborah Trilling From:Ardan Michael Blum To:Council, City Subject:CDC to reverse indoor mask policy, saying fully vaccinated people should wear them indoors in Covid hot spots Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 9:39:16 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/cdc-to-reverse-indoor-mask-policy-to-recommend-them- for-fully-vaccinated-people-in-covid-hot-spots.html From:Albert Henning To:Council, City Subject:City staff and vaccinations Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 4:14:03 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council members, The recent reports of PAPD members' low vaccination rates -- combined with today's news from the State of California, New York City, and US Department of Veterans Affairs -- compel you to act. Any City staff -- including especially police officers, and any staff members who interact with the public -- must, within the next eight weeks, either show proof of vaccination, proof of a valid medical exception (such as, pre-existing immune system compromise), or agree to full PCR testing every 4 to 6 days. Also, all City staff must use the Exposure Notification app on their phone, and have it engaged, and agree to report any positive test result for SARS-CoV-2. The R0 value for the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is about 9.0. This numbercompares unfavorably to the earlier variants' value of about 2.8. The increase means, the herd immunity threshold for the Delta variant, is 90% -- not the 70% associated with the earlier variants. So, even if 100% of our community is vaccinated with the 93%-effective mRNA vaccines, we barely exceed the herd immunity threshold for thecommunity, for the Delta variant. And, as we all know, the Delta variant comprises over 80% of present-day Covid cases. The evidence is plain. There can be no excuses for you; you must enact these orders.And, there can be no excuse for staff failing to comply. Such failure must constitute breach of contract, subject to immediate termination. It's not a matter of 'freedom'. Freedom from responsibility to the community, is nofreedom whatsoever. Sincerely, Al Henning ======= Albert K. Henning, PhD 199 Heather Lane Palo Alto, CA 94303 650-380-5309 (mobile) albertkhenning@yahoo.com From:Flores Juvera To:Council, City Subject:Cityofpaloalto Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 5:30:58 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. 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Photo by iStock.com/flySnow plan rooted in climate, racial, and economic justice. It's going to take all of us building collective power in our communities and putting pressure on our members of Congress to win the transformative change we need. Join an event or action near you, or host your own. Read more! Activists are walked through an Enbridge Line 3 pump station on June 7 after being arrested near Park Rapids, Minnesota. | Photo by Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP | Sierra Magazine | Dispatch From the Line 3Front Lines “The Indigenous-led struggle against the Line 3 Pipeline is at a critical point,” says Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune. “Thousands of Nativepeoples and non-Native allies have traveled to encampments in northern Minnesota to stop the pipeline from being completed since constructionstarted in December. I joined them last week because I believe this is one of the most important environmental struggles in the country right now.” Read more and find out how you can help stop Line 3. | Sierra Magazine | Red Road to DC Last month, brothers Douglas and Jewell James set off from the Lummi Nation in Washington State to Washington, DC, with a 25-foot-tall Read more! Photo courtesy of Wingspan Media totem pole strapped to the bed of a Dodge Ram 3500. At stops along the way the brothers set up the totem pole they carved to draw attention to Native sovereignty struggles in the US today,including resistance to the Line 3 Pipeline in the territory of the White Earth Ojibwe. Check out this postcard from their journey. Read more! Photo courtesy of Rob Vessels | Take Action | Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act White communities are three times more likely than Black and Brown communities to have easy access to nearby nature. To address this “nature equity gap,” a bipartisan group ofsenators has introduced the Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act to expand outdoor equity in urban areas, create jobs, boost the economy, and mitigate theeffects of climate change. Tell your senators to cosponsor the Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act. | En español | Latino Conservation Week/Semana Latina de laConservación Learning about the importance of having access to the outdoors is a Read more! Photo courtesy of the Sierra Club great way to honor Latino Conservation Week. Celebramos las semana pasada con una taller de arte y conversando sobre la importancia que tiene la voz Latina en el movimiento conservacionista. Más info aqui. Take action! Photo by iStock.com/belovodchenko | Take Action | Join the Struggle AgainstLine 3 Sierra Club members and supporters have urged President Biden to halt construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline in Minnesota. Now there's an Army Corps of Engineers official inplace who could be instrumental in stopping Line 3. Longtime defender of Indigenous rights Jaime Pinkham, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Armyfor Civil Works, has bucked pipeline companies before, and we need him to do so again. Contact Assistant Secretary Pinkham today. | Sierra Magazine | Desperate Measures From Arizona to Alabama, the gas industry’s own legislation has moved through statehouses with alarming Read more! Photo by iStock.com/Ilya Rumyantsev speed. At least a dozen states have now passed laws prohibiting cities from restricting gas hookups in new construction, and just as many have introduced similar bills this year. Learn how the gas industry is looking out for #1. Read more! Photo by iStock.com/Alexey Rezvykh | Article | “Natural” Gas Miasma The oil and gas industry has worked hard to propagate the term “natural gas” so it isn’t seen to be dirty like other fossil fuels. But fracked gas is a dirty fossil fuel, and it pollutes our air,water, and climate. The United States is the world’s biggest producer of fracked gas—most of it for export—and the oil and gas industry is eager toexpand its business even further. Read more, and tell President Biden to halt fracked gas exports ASAP. | Sierra Magazine | Who’s the Green City ReallyFor? The high-end aesthetic of many new green spaces like New York City’s High Line and Little Island, at right, is partly driven by private investors, who have a strong incentive to attract well-to-do visitors to the areas they help develop. Read more! Photo courtesy of Michael Grimm Learn what NYC’s Little Island development says about parks and inequality. Take action! Photo by iStock.com/gabort71 | Take Action | Get the Lead Out Lead in drinking water is a problem in every state, affecting 9.2 million homes in all parts of the US. We need to replace our water systems by replacing every single lead pipe in the country toensure clean drinking water for all Americans一a key provision in part of President Biden's American Jobs Plan. If we hope to get the lead out of ourwater, Congress must act. Tell your members of Congress to support the American Jobs Plan. | Article | Redlining and Racism inUrban Planning The goal of urban planning should be to maximize the health, safety, and economic well-being of all people living in urban communities. But the practice of “redlining”—denying loans or insurance in neighborhoods of color— Read more! Photo iStock.com/leolintang has been used to perpetuate segregation and urban blight. Protecting the urban environment and safeguarding the health of urban communities is every bit as important as protecting our national parks and wilderness areas. We can’t tackle the climate crisis without taking a hard look at how inequities in our cities lead to environmental degradation. Read more! Rebecca August taking photos in Los Padres National Forest in the Sespe Wilderness with her dog, Jojo. | Photo courtesy Bryant Baker. | Article | What Rebecca Saw “When I stepped into a wilderness area for the first time, it felt almost primordial,” says Rebecca August, a volunteer leader with the Sierra Club’s Los Padres Chapter. “I imagined that the clear streams and meadows andtowering trees that I saw were much the same as what the earliest inhabitants had seen. [But] a few days later, when I walked out of that dark,mossy forest brimming with life, what I saw forever changed me.” Find out what changed August’s life so dramatically. | Sierra Magazine | Read more! Photo by April Reese and Christina Selby Rewilding the Mexican Wolf A couple of days after Alpha Female 1346 was born in captivity in 2014, biologists snuck the Mexican wolf pup and her brother into the den of a wild wolf pack in New Mexico’s GilaNational Forest, nestled them among the family’s own trio of newborns, and tiptoed away, having no idea if the mother wolf would accept thenewcomers. The experiment proved to be a turning point in the decades-long effort to restore Mexican wolves— the rarest type of gray wolf—to theirnative territory. Get a peek inside the re-wolfing of the Gila Forest. Read more! An orchard worker in Yakima, Washington, in 2020. | Photo by Elaine Thompson | AP | Sierra Magazine | Climate Change AmplifiesInjustice for Farmworkers Ana Ramirez’s father is a farmworker in Washington State; her mother works in a warehouse packing fruit. “My parents are expected to work through all conditions: rain, snow, fires,” Ramirez says. “They worked all through the pandemic, andunemployment isn’t an option—they don’t qualify for government help because of their immigration status.” When temperatures hit 117°F earlierthis month, Ramirez asked her mom if her dad still had to go to work in the fields that day. “I should have known better than to think farmworkers would be able to avoid working in a record heat wave.” Read more! Photo courtesy of Virgin Galactic | Sierra Magazine | Billionaires Don’t Need to Goto Space This month, billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos blasted off into space aboard rocket ships of their own design, effectively marking the launchof commercial space travel and the “dawn of a new space age,” as Branson called it. As climate change accelerates here on Earth, the world’swealthiest men are seeking diversions and entertainment as far from Earth as they can get, beyond the carbon-laden atmosphere. Learn why we should rethink the billionaire space race. Read more! Photo courtesy of Ignacio Garrido | Sierra Magazine | Say Hello to the Arctic KelpRush At a time when kelp has become more and more critical—as habitat, as a food source, as biofuel, and for its ability to sequester large amounts of carbon—the discovery of lush kelp forests in the Arctic has set off something of a scientific kelp rush. Has Big Kelp’s moment arrived? | Ready for 100% | R U Ready 4 100? Clean energy is taking the world by storm, and it’s time for every person in every community to take part in it— starting right where you live. That’s Check out the toolkit! why we've launched the Ready For 100 Activist Toolkit, a blueprint for launching and winning local clean energy campaigns. Here’s how you can get started. Read more! Photo courtesy of David Mitchell | Sierra Club Outings | Embracing New ExperiencesThrough Nature There's no shortage of clichés about travel and its ability to challenge us, broaden our worldviews, or enrich our lives. Eye-roll-inducing as they may be, there's a good reason for these hackneyed superlatives: They're often true, as 21-year-old David Taylor ofDetroit can attest. Read David’s story. This email was sent to: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org This email was sent by the Sierra Club 2101 Webster St., Suite 1300, Oakland, CA 94612 Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe | View as Web Page From:Michael Korn To:City Council; Council, City Cc:Holly Stein; Judith Hannah; bernard.rollin@colostate.edu Subject:Climate change and professional sports Date:Saturday, July 24, 2021 10:01:22 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council Members, Some years back I read about Greta Thunberg's refusal to ever fly on a commercial airplane in order to minimize her carbon output. I started to wonder about the professional sports industry. Baseball basketball football hockey and soccer teams have long seasons and constantly are traveling to other cities to compete. I believe most of their travel is done by air. I did a very rough estimate that every year professional sports teams in America are responsible for ~5000 air flights. It seems to me this is an unconscionable contribution to greenhouse gases and global warming. Professional sports are an utterly frivolous and useless form of entertainment. They are not an essential service. I don't understand why newspapers like the New York Times that are constantly obsessed about climate change alsopromote the sporting industry without the slightest degree of introspection. I am urging City Council to pass a resolution condemning the industry of professional sports and asking Fort Collins residence not to patronize them either in person or onTV in order to mitigate this terrible aggravator of climatic instability. I would like to hear from you about this important problem. Thank you, Michael Korn 970.988.5822 Our Live Well, Do Good newsletter features the latest news, benefits, and opportunities from the Sierra Club's mission-aligned partners. 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This email was sent to: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org This email was sent by the Sierra Club 2101 Webster St., Suite 1300, Oakland, CA 94612 Manage Preferences/Unsubscribe | View as Web Page From:Yahoo Mail.® To:Honky Subject:Dr. Sherri Tenpenny on Corona Virus? SAITH IT"S BEEN AROUND FOR SIXTY YEARS? What about COVID-19? LOL Isn"t it PATENTED? Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 7:41:28 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. [mirror] SPECIAL EVENT: Dr Sherri Tenpenny’s Testimony in favor of HB 248 - When the Media went wild [mirror] SPECIAL EVENT: Dr Sherri Tenpenny’sTestimony in favor of HB 24... Source text:https://www.podbean.com/site/EpisodeDownload/PB1062C4CTG69Y======= I am testified in favor of HB... by From:Arlene Goetze To:cindy chavez; mike wasserman; Supervisor Joe Simitian; Susan Ellenberg; otto.lee@bos.sccgov.org Subject:Facebook buys off NYTimes, WSJ, ABC etc Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 10:22:32 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. -------How can anyone believe the NYTimes? --- (on Mercola or Fauciwomen) Is Facebook Buying Off The New York Times? --- ------ From Washington Monthly, July-August 2021---------------- Facebook has been funneling money to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Bloomberg, and other select paid partners since late 2019. ------------------------ Under the cover of launching a little-known feature, the social media giant has been funneling money to America’s biggest news organizations—and hanging the rest of the press out to dry. --------- -------------For The New York Times, whose was $100 million in 2020, getting “far, far more” than $3 million a year (FROM FACEBOOK). with essentially no associated cost is significant. And once news outlets take any amount of money from Facebook, it becomes difficult for them to let it go, notes Mathew Ingram, chief digital writer for the Columbia Journalism Review. “ . . . . . “It’slike you’re a kept person,” he said. “You’re Facebook’s mistress.” ------------------------ net income Dan Froomkin MAGAZINE Getty Images/iStock O Facebook has responded to negative attention by creating ver the past two decades, as Big Tech has boomed, news organizations have been going bust. Between 2004 and 2019, one in every four U.S. newspapers shutdown, and almost all the rest cut staff, for a total of 36,000 jobs lost between 2008 and 2019 alone. Local newspapers have been particularly devastated, making it more difficult for people to knowwhat is happening in their communities. Many factors contributed to this , but none more so than the cornering of the digital advertising market by the duopoly of Facebook and Google. Facebook’s threat to a free press—and, by extension, to democracy—is especially pernicious. The social media company is financially asphyxiating the news industry even as it gives oxygen to conspiracy theories and lies. As a result of its many roles in degrading our democracy, it faces mounting scrutiny by politicians and regulators. Facebook has responded to the negative attention by creating a highly sophisticated public relations effort, which includes becoming the on federal lobbying and engaging in a massive aimed at the D.C. policy audience. Less well known, and potentially far more dangerous, is a secretive, multimillion-dollar-a-year payout scheme aimed at the most influential news outlets in America. Under the cover of launching a feature called Facebook News, Facebook has beenfunneling money to The New York Times, The WashingtonPost, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Bloomberg, and other select paid partners since late2019. Participating in Facebook News doesn’t appear to deliver many new readers to outlets; the feature is very difficult to find, and it is not integrated into individuals’ newsfeeds. What Facebook News does deliver—though to only a handful of high-profile news organizations of its choosing—is serious amounts of cash. The exact terms of these deals remain secret, because Facebook insisted on nondisclosure and the news organizations agreed. The reported that the agreements were worth as much as $3 million a year, and a Facebook spokesperson told me that number is “not too far off at all.” But in at least one instance, the numbers are evidently much larger. In an interview last month, former New York Times CEO Mark Thompson said the Times is getting “far, far more” than $3 million a year—“very much so.” For The New York Times,whose was $100million in 2020, getting “far,far more” than $3 million a economic collapse number one corporate spender advertisingblitz Wall Street Journal net income a highly sophisticated public relations effort, which includes becoming the number one corporate spender on federal lobbying and engaging in a massive advertising blitz aimed at the D.C. policy audience. year with essentially no associated cost is significant.And once news outlets takeany amount of money from Facebook, it becomes difficult for them to let it go, notesMathew Ingram, chief digitalwriter for the Columbia Journalism Review. “It creates a hole in your balance sheet.You’re kind of beholden tothem.” It’s not exactly payola, Ingram told me, searching for the right metaphor. Nor is it a protection racket. “It’s like you’re a kept person,” he said. “You’re Facebook’s mistress.” There’s no evidence that the deal directly affects coverage in either the news or editorial departments. Before the Facebook News deal, the Times famously published an op-ed titled “,” by Chris Hughes, a cofounder of Facebook turned critic. And since the deal, columns from and , among others, have been similarly critical. In December, the welcomed a lawsuit calling for Facebook to be broken up. And Facebook and Google money is, admittedly, . Virtually every major media nonprofit receives direct or indirect funding from Silicon Valley, including this one. When the Monthly gets grants from do-good organizations like NewsMatch, some of the funds originate with Facebook. But these three points are beyond dispute. First, the deals are a serious breach of traditional ethics. In the pre-internet days, independent newspapers wouldn’t have considered accepting gifts or sweetheart deals from entities they covered, under any circumstance. The Washington Post under the editor Leonard Downie Jr., for instance, wouldn’t even accept grants from nonprofits to underwrite reporting projects, for fear of losing the appearance of independence. Facebook, which took in $86 billion in revenue last year, is a hugely controversial behemoth having profound, highly newsworthy, and negative effects on society. Accepting money from them creates a conflict of interest. Even for trusted news organizations whose audiences believe they can’t be bought outright, “it might come across as hypocrisy to heavily criticize an industry while also collaborating with them,” says Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, the director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Agreeing to keep the terms of the deal confidential is also a mistake, Nielsen told me. “This sort of opacity I don’t think builds trust.” It’s Time to Break Up Facebook Tim Wu Kara Swisher editorial board all over journalism already I Second, these deals help Facebook maintain the public appearance of legitimacy. Journalists, critics, and congressional investigators have amply documented how Facebook has become a vector of disinformation and hate speech that routinely invades our privacy and undermines our democracy. For The New York Times and other pillars of American journalism to effectively partner with Facebook creates the impression that Facebook is a normal, legitimate business rather than a monopolistic rogue corporation. Finally, these agreements undermine industry-wide efforts that would help the smaller, ethnic, and local news organizations that are most desperately in need of help. One such effort would allow the industry to bargain collectively with Facebook and other tech giants by withholding content from the platforms unless they received a fair price for it. But for that to work, small newsrooms would need the biggest and most influential companies to sign on. With those organizations receiving millions of dollars from Facebook through their own side deals, the smaller publications could be left stranded and defenseless. If Facebook’s intent were to save American journalism, it would be making generous offers to smaller, local news organizations that do original reporting, Damon Kiesow, a professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, told me. By contrast, Facebook News “doesn’t really help anyone in the industry except for the small select group of outlets that get paid,” he said. “These efforts are all flavored with a strong dose of crisis communication and regulation avoidance.” f any major figure in the American media was going to say no to Mark Zuckerberg, it was Mark Thompson For most of his eight-year tenure as chief executive officer of the New York Times Company, Thompson was one of the industry’s most thoughtful, eloquent, and persuasive critics of Facebook and the danger it presents to journalism’s businessmodels and essential role in a democracy. “It makes my blood run cold, the idea of Facebook as a publisher,” he said convened by the Open Markets Institute. At a panel later that month, he described that same affect when Zuckerberg “starts talking about how he thinks about community, and about what we trust.” Zuckerberg, he said, has a terrifyingly naive perspective on news.” During the OMI event, Thompson warned darkly about the “sinister” prospect “that Facebook’s catalog of missteps with data and extreme and hateful content” will lead it to try to “set itself up as the digital world’s editor in chief, prioritizing and presumably downgrading and rejecting content on a survey- at a June 2018 event sponsored by the Tow Center In an exclusive interview, former New York Times CEO Mark Thompson said the Times is getting “far, far more” than $3 million a year in payouts from Facebook—“very much so.” and data-driven assessment of whether the provider of the content is ‘broadly trusted’ or not.” Here was from the CEO of the paper of record: “Democracy depends in part on unbounded competition between different journalistic perspectives and the clash of different judgments and opinions,” he said. “History suggests that mainstream news organizations frequently get it right, but also that, not infrequently, it is the outliers who should be listened to.” And he knew what needed to be done. An essential preliminary step was for Facebook and others to “engage with the collective industry bodies of the news business to arrive at shared principles both on the presentation and choice of news content, and on its monetization.” He called for “consistency and comparability in the treatment of news providers.”This was not the language of shakedown. It was an impassioned and impressive philosophical argument about the survival of news—and democracy. But then, all of a sudden, The New York Times and Facebook were making deals together. In October 2019, Facebook announced the launch of Facebook News, with The New York Times as a marquee paid partner, getting prime placement in a new vertical designated for “trusted” news sources. What changed for Thompson between June 2018 and October 2019, such that the idea of Facebook picking which “trusted” news sources to pay went from sinister to “Sign here”? “We always reserved our rights to do what we needed to do for our own business and to continue to fund our journalism in the interim,” Thompson insisted in a phone interview in March. “I’m a sort of pragmatist,” he said. “I don’t really see this as a conflict of interest or an issue of principle, it’s the real world.” He rejected the depiction of the payments as a gift or a payoff. “As far as I’m concerned, we were paid by a platform for access to our content.” Facebook, of course, does not pay The New York Times for access to its content when it is shared on regular newsfeeds. And Thompson said that while he still thinks it would be sinister for Facebook to be making its own editorial decisions on a story-by-story basis, “Facebook making it easier for people to identify The New York Times and making it easier to access The New York Times is a good thing.” actual humility Once news outlets take any amount of money from Facebook, it becomes difficult for them to let it go, notes Mathew Ingram, chief digital writer for the Columbia Journalism Review. “It creates a hole in your balance sheet. What about his devotion to collective rather than individual action? It remains—in theory. “As it happens, I’m still very much in favor of broader agreements,” he told me. “Ideally,” he continued, such payments would be “not just available . . . to the handful of big players but broadly, in particular to local and regional journalism.” So taking the deal wasn’t a betrayal of his principles, Thompson insisted. “I still fundamentally believe everything I said.” With any collective agreement years away at best, he said, “I don’t accept that our reaching it made it harder for the other publishers to get it—on the contrary . . . I don’t think you’ve got any evidence that a refusal to engage . . . would have helped them at all.” It actually sets a good precedent, he suggested. “It’s brilliant to have got a big digital platform to pa for the use of our content.” But organizations that are favored by Facebook will obviously have different incentives going forward than those that are not. Unfavored outlets, if begging doesn’t work, may want to play hardball with Facebook to get their due—while the Timesand others will inevitably have qualms before blowing a hole in their budgets. The Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha declined to address a long list of questions about the specifics of the relationship with Facebook, responding instead with general comments. “Quality journalism is expensive to produce and we believe quality publishers should be fairly compensated for creating valuable journalism,” she wrote in an email. The Times “does not disclose licensing and advertising terms,” she wrote, and “our licensing agreement with Facebook has no impact on our newsroom.” Thompson stepped down as CEO in July 2020 and was replaced by his protégé, Meredith Kopit Levien, who may be even more committed to the deal than Thompson was. A few months after she took over, Levien that Facebook had promised to create a space “for a particular level of quality news providers,” to pay the Times “a fair amount,” and to “feed your funnel.” expressed enthusiasm T To collectively bargain with The Facebook News deal isn’t Facebook’s only, or first, inroad at the Times. The company already had a seat at the table—literally. The publisher and chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. installed the Facebook executive Rebecca Van Dyck on his 12-member board of directors in 2015. Van Dyck, who was Facebook’s global head of consumer and brand marketing at the time, now runs marketing for Facebook’s augmented and virtual reality labs. Indeed, the Facebook News bounty might even be dwarfed by the undisclosed sum that Facebook is pouring into the Times’s new augmented reality efforts. The newsroom’s new “AR Lab,” a between Facebook and the Times, builds augmented reality filters and camera effects distributed on Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram. There are likely even more ties the public doesn’t know about. BuzzFeed News that the Times columnist David Brooks had written a pro-Facebook blog post while on salary for a nonprofit partially funded Facebook and hadn’t disclosed it to his current Times bosses or the readers. hompson would have been very much alone among his U.S. peers had he resisted Facebook’s inducements. He was also hardly the most enthusiastic Facebook partner—that would be News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson, who, after years of vituperative attacks on Big Tech, was grinning at Zuckerberg’s side at the Facebook News dannouncing a “new dawn” for journalists. The rollout was undeniably a huge win for Facebook public relations. The Times story was headlined “ .” What few ensued were related to Facebook’s decision to include Breitbart, the far-right website known for spreading white-supremacist disinformation, among its cadre of “trusted” news sources—although, in Breitbart’s case, an unpaid one. Months later, Joshua Benton, the director of the Neiman Journalism Lab, the big downside: The Facebook News deal, he wrote, “lets them (1) pick the publishers they want to pay, (2) pick the amount of money they want to pay them, (3) get publishers to stop complaining, at least hopefully, and (4) get headlines like ‘Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year,’ in the hopes that they can stave off government regulation or taxation.” Facebook isn’t spending the money “because they think News Tab will be profitable,” Benton wrote. “It’s a way to solve a PR and policy problem.” The vaunted new product, he noted, consists of “a new tab buried so deep in Facebook’s interface you need a spelunker’s headlamp to find it.” Facebook News only links to approved outlets, while in the collaboration recently discovered launch Facebook Calls Truce With Publishers as It Unveils Facebook News negative headlines described Facebook, small newsrooms will need the biggest ones to sign on. With those larger organizationsreceiving millions of dollars from the social media giant through side deals, the smaller publications could be left stranded and defenseless. actual News Feed, the algorithm spews out non-reputable clickbait based on what’s enticing the people, pages, and groups a user engages with the most. “The most notable thing about Facebook News is that it includes almost none of the stories that do well on the rest of Facebook,” the Nieman Journalism Lab editor Laur Hazard Owen. Facebook is suspiciously evasive about how many people use Facebook News and how much traffic it generates for publishers, refusing to provide any indication of its scale at all. “We don’t have hard numbers,” the Facebook News spokesperson, Mari Melguizo, said when I asked for data on its performance. “It’s definitely grown and continues to grow. It is on an upward trajectory.” Prior to Facebook News, the company had repeatedly proved to be an unreliable partner for news publishers. As Sarah Perez , the platform established an “Instant Articles” feature in 2015 that “restricted advertising, subscriptions and the recirculation modules publishers relied on” in exchange for a better user experience. It was a bad bargain, and, as a result, . Facebook promoted a “shift to video” in 2016, but its video use metrics and then refused to pay publishers. This at many companies, including Vox, Vice, and Mic. Shortly before Facebook News launched, , a former editor in chief of USA Today, warned her colleagues that they had “been at the beck and call of these behemoths” for too long. “I think it’s a dangerous situation for news organizations to count on anything when it comes to Facebook,” the Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy says. To Kennedy, Facebook lost any pretense of morality when, having tweaked its algorithms after the November 2020 election to favor authoritative news sources in the News Feed, it —presumably to boost engagement, to placate right-wing publishers, or both. “You pull all this together, and Facebook is just the worst possible partner,” Kennedy says. The world watched an extraordinary exercise of Facebook’s massive power in February when it stymied an Australian government attempt to force it to pay to link to news. First, Facebook temporarily banned Australian news sites from its platform. Then it did an end run around the regulators by agreeing to arrange multimillion-dollar deals with major news providers—on its terms, observed detailed for TechCrunch many outlets abandoned the feature inflated prompted layoffs Joanne Lipman switched back not the government’s. Facebook’s head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, it as “an agreement that will allow us to support the publishers we choose to.” In Australia, the by far of Facebook’s largesse will be Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which owns most of the country’s newspapers. News Corp also heavily lobbied for the new legislation. Facebook didn’t pay the country’s smaller outlets.“In the end, Google & Facebook have a big bucket of baksheesh that will go to old proprietors and their shareholders,” Jeff Jarvis, the director of the Tow Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York, in February. As Facebook News continued to roll out across the globe in 2020 and 2021, someone did finally tell Facebook no. The German media giant Axel Springer , describing it as both unseemly and insufficiently lucrative: “We consider the efforts of several platforms to become news brands themselves while at the same time compensating some publishers with inappropriately low remuneration for their content as problematic,” a spokesperson said. The company is now holding out for the passage of new copyright laws in Europe that it hopes will create revenue- sharing greements “in which all publishers can transparently participate and receive reasonable compensation.” Meanwhile, in the U.S., Facebook’s need for allies in the press has taken on a particular urgency. In October 2020, a House judiciary subcommittee released a , alleging wide-ranging antitrust violations by Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. In December, the and 46 state attorneys general, as well as the attorneys general for D.C. and Guam, brought an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct. Congress is currently holding hearings on the bipartisan , which would give news organizations of all shapes and sizes the ability to negotiate collectively with the big platforms. At a , News Media Alliance CEO David Chavern noted that the larger media companies already have leverage with Facebook and others. “The ones most in need of collective action are small and community publishers, including most particularly publishers of color, who are suffering deeply in this broken marketplace for real quality journalism,” he said. HD Media, which owns several West Virginia newspapers, filed a against Google and Facebook in January, seeking damages from the duopoly. The suit charges that Google’s monopolistic control of digital advertisin described biggest recipient tweeted rejected Facebook’s offer bold, agenda-setting report Federal Trade Commission Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2021 March 12 hearing federal antitrust lawsuit along with a with Facebook not to compete against it, had strangled their source of revenue. In the long run, reformers say, it will be necessary to break up the giant platforms, end their stranglehold on advertising dollars, and ban algorithms that incite outrage or even violence. In the nearer term, however, some observers support the idea of an independent journalistic fund, financed by Big Tech but operating at arm’s length, that could reward ne organizations according to the resources they put into their reporting and the value they contribute to their communities. Some sort of trusted intermediary or collective agreement seems necessary, because it’s hard to see direct handouts as anything more than a corrupt stopgap measure—especially when they’re mostly given to the news organizations that need the money the least. As Doug Reynolds, the managing partner for the West Virginia newspapers suing Facebook and Google for damages, told me, “If the future of this industry is that we’re dependent on their goodwill, then we don’t have an independent press anymore.” ----------------------------------------------------- The Washington Monthly is a bimonthly nonprofit magazine of United Statespolitics and government that is based in Washington, D.C. The magazine is known for its annual ranking of American colleges and universities, which serves as an alternative to the Forbes and U.S. News & World Report rankings. en.wikipedia.org Dan Froomkin publishes independent political-media criticism at Press Watch (presswatchers.org). He has previously held senior editorial positions at the Intercept, HuffPost, and the Washington Post, where he also wrote the White House Watch column for six years. This article was produced in association with the Open Markets Institute's Center for Journalism & Liberty.FORWARDED BY ARLENE GOETZE, MA, WRITER/EDITR, NO TOXINS FORCHILDREN, secret deal Dan Froomkin From:Rice, Danille To:Council, City Cc:Binder, Andrew; Jonsen, Robert; Shikada, Ed; Nose, Kiely; Gaines, Chantal; Guagliardo, Steven; Stump, Molly Subject:FW: Stanford Community Board on Public Safety Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2021 2:24:50 PM Good afternoon Mayor and Council Members, On behalf of Ed I am forwarding the below email from Jean McCown. Thank you. Danille Rice Executive Assistant to the City Manager (650)329-2105 | Danille.Rice@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org From: Jean McCown <jmccown@stanford.edu> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 2:00 PM To: Chavez, Cindy <Cindy.Chavez@bos.sccgov.org>; joe.simitian@bos.sccgov.org; mike.wasserman@bos.sccgov.org; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; Supervisor.Lee@bos.sccgov.org Cc: Kristina.Loquist@bos.sccgov.org​ <Kristina.Loquist@bos.sccgov.org>; tara.sreekrishnan@bos.sccgov.org; Ho, Wendy <wendy.ho@BOS.SCCGOV.ORG>; Stavem, Christine M <christine.m.stavem@BOS.SCCGOV.ORG>; Fernandez01, David <david.fernandez01@BOS.SCCGOV.ORG> Subject: Stanford Community Board on Public Safety Dear Members of the Board of Supervisors: Stanford today released a report of work by the Community Board on Public Safety that was initiated last year to examine Stanford’s interactions with regard to police and public safety on campus. The links below include a communication from President Marc Tessier-Lavigne to the Stanford community and a Stanford Report story made available to the public. Each has a link to the report itself. Much more work lies ahead to advance the initial data analyses and recommendations to lead towards specific changes and policies. Please do not hesitate to contact our office for more information and we can put you in touch with those more deeply engaged in this effort. https://news.stanford.edu/today/2021/07/21/letter-campus-community-regarding-community- board-public-safetys-first-annual-report/ https://news.stanford.edu/today/2021/07/21/community-board-public-safety-issues-first-annual- progress-report Best Regards, Jean K. McCown Associate Vice President Office of Government Affairs Stanford University (650) 725 3329 COVID at home (650) 324 8768 From:Loran Harding To:alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; beachrides;bearwithme1016@att.net; Leodies Buchanan; boardmembers; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field;dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov;eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com;George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerryruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; Mark Standriff; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte;tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net; sanchezphilip21@gmail.com Subject:Fwd: Dr. Campbell Sat. July 24. IMPORTANT. How long immunity lasts & time between shots Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 4:38:54 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: Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 4:22 PM Subject: Dr. Campbell Sat. July 24. IMPORTANT. How long immunity lasts & time betweenshots To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sunday, July 25, 2021 To all- Here is one of Dr. Campbell's most important videos for the US. An Israeli study on how long immunity lasts from the Pfizer vaccine. Immunity against what? Immunity against getting infected, and getting sick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ig US implications from Israel - YouTube This should have a dramatic effect on the deliberations in Washington, D.C. regarding theneed for a booster shot. Our immunity is waning fast and we need a booster shot as soon as one can be arranged. If the TV network news in the US does not cover this, they are just jockstraps for Biden and they will be killing people. We need this dramatic finding to be broadcast far and wideand often and the Biden administration should react with a booster shot for all Americans. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; fredbeyerlein; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; Leodies Buchanan; boardmembers; Council, City; Cathy Lewis;Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; david pomaville; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard;esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net;grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerryruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; Mark Standriff; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte;tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu Subject:Fwd: Dr. Campbell Sat. July 24. IMPORTANT. How long immunity lasts & time between shots Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 11:44:36 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: Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 12:14 AM Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell Sat. July 24. IMPORTANT. How long immunity lasts & timebetween shots To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 11:26 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell Sat. July 24. IMPORTANT. How long immunity lasts & timebetween shots To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Monday, July 26, 2021 11:43 AM To all- Here is Dr. Campbell on Saturday. Chinese researchers have discovered that those infected with the Delta variant have a viral load 1200 times higher than the viral loadthat those infected with the original Wuhan Covid virus had. This explains the high transmissibility of the Delta variant. Those infected with it are spewing out a huge number ofviral particles when the talk, sing, yell etc. So mask up and be careful. If you are over 50probably, 65 for sure, and have co-morbidities, hypertension, diabetes, etc. be damncareful. Be every bit as careful as you were in the spring of 2020, before we had thevaccines. As you see in the video by Dr. John Campbell below, our immunity in the UnitedStates is now going to fade fast, at least wrt severe illness from the Delta variant. Read the email below and watch his video entitled "Big US implications from Israel". We gave thesecond shot too soon, usually at about four weeks. I had the Moderna shots on Friday, Jan. 15 and Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021, 29 days apart. The Brits waited 12 weeks and so now theirimmunity is lasting much longer. Viral load, x 1,200 - YouTube Monday, July 26, 2021 10:19 AM This morning an expert at Baylor University is quoted as saying that the viral load ofthe Delta virus in someone infected with Delta is 1,000 X the viral load in someone infected with the ORIGINAL Wuhan virus. So now that expert too, in additon to Dr. John Campbell, isseeing the report from China re viral load with the Delta variant and CBS radio news is reporting it. Now we need CBS radio and TV network news, and ABC and NBC, etc. to report thestunning news that because of the four week gap between shots in the US, our immunity isgoing to fade fast. It is in Israel where they used a three week gap between shots. See theemail below. The news says that officials in Washington are debating, considering, thinking about, pondering, reflecting upon whether to recommend that the fully vaccinated should wear masksindoors. I think that adds up to DITHERING about it. What if FDR had waited several months or a year to ask for a declaration of war against Japan after Pearl Harbor? Dr. Fauciwent so far as to say that there is a possibility that we may need a booster shot. Because of news in the past 24 hours about the high viral load of Delta pts. and about the fast fadingimmunity we in the US have due to the 4 week gap we used between shots, we need an official recommendation for mask wearing and an official announcement of a booster shot as fast asmillions of booster shots can be arranged. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 4:38 PMSubject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell Sat. July 24. IMPORTANT. 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July 24. IMPORTANT. How long immunity lasts & time between shotsTo: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sunday, July 25, 2021 To all- Here is one of Dr. Campbell's most important videos for the US. An Israeli study on how long immunity lasts from the Pfizer vaccine. Immunity againstwhat? Immunity against getting infected, and getting sick. IT TURNS OUT THAT THAT DEPENDS ON THE LENGTH OF TIME BETWEEN THE SHOTS YOU GOT. THEIMMUNITY WANES FAST AGAINST GETTING INFECTED AND HAVING SOME COVID SYMPTOMS IN ISRAEL, BUT IT WANES MUCH MORE SLOWLY IN THE UK. THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT IN ISRAEL THEY GAVE THE SECOND SHOT 3 WEEKS AFTER THE FIRST SHOT. IN THE UK, IT WAS 10, 12 WEEKS BETWEEN SHOTS ANDTHE UK HAS MUCH LONGER LASTING IMMUNITY TO GETTING INFECTED AND DEVELOPING SYMPTOMS. BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE SIMILAR LENGTHS OFIMMUNITY AGAINST SEVERE DISEASE, HOSPITALIZATION AND DEATH. SO THE USA, WHERE 4 WEEKS WAS COMMON BETWEEN SHOTS, CAN NOW EXPECT A RAPIDLY WANING IMMUNITY AGAINST INFECTION ANDSYMPTOMATIC DISEASE. THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING IN THEIR VACCINATION PROGRAM AND THE US AUTHORITIES DID NOT.THINK OF THAT. WE SHOULD HAVE ASKED THEM WHY THEY WERE USING12 WEEKS. My impression when they did that is that they wanted to get as many peoplevaccinated with one shot as soon as possible. Big US implications from Israel - YouTube This should have a dramatic, stimulative effect on the deliberations in Washington, D.C. regarding the need for a booster shot. Our immunity is waning fast and we need a booster shotas soon as one can be arranged. If we do not get a booster shot, I think we are headed for a disaster this winter in the USA. If the TV network news in the US does not cover this, they are just jockstraps for Bidenand they will be killing people. We need this dramatic finding to be broadcast far and wide and often and the Biden administration should react with a booster shot for all Americans. Orat least for those over 65 or with compromised immune systems. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; fredbeyerlein; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; Leodies Buchanan; boardmembers; Council, City; Cathy Lewis;Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville;esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net;grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo;hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; lalws4@gmail.com; leager;Mark Standriff; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino;russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK. Thurs. July 22, 2021- Lambda variant in Peru & Texas Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 3:04:31 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: Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 12:52 AM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK. Thurs. July 22, 2021- Lambda variant in Peru &Texas To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 12:01 AM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK. Thurs. July 22, 2021- Lambda variant in Peru &Texas To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 8:02 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK. Thurs. July 22, 2021- Lambda variant in Peru &Texas To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 7:10 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK. Thurs. July 22, 2021- Lambda variant in Peru &Texas To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 7:06 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK. Thurs. July 22, 2021- Lambda variant in Peru &Texas To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 5:11 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK. Thurs. July 22, 2021- Lambda variant in Peru &Texas To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 11:17 PM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK. Thurs. July 22, 2021- Lambda variant in Peru &Texas To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 11:10 PM Subject: Dr. John Campbell in UK. Thurs. July 22, 2021- Lambda variant in Peru & TexasTo: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> To all- Sunday, July 25, 2021 2:45 PM The Lambda variant, which first appeared in Peru, is now in Texas, with sustainedtransmission in the UK, Spain, France and Germany. Dr. John Campbell: Lambda in Peru and Texas - YouTube Lambda is interesting. 98% of new cases in Peru. And now it has been detected in Texas. We don't know yet if it can out-compete the Delta variant because the Delta variant hasjust arrived in Peru. If the Delta variant cannot gain a foothold there, then the Lambda variant will be proven to be more transmissible than the Delta variant, and that will portend bad thingsfor the populations in the United States, the UK, Spain, France and Germany, and others, of course. Doctors in Peru are demonstrating for an additional shot of the Pfizer vaccine asa booster. If Lambda speads fast in the US, there will be real pressure for a booster shot here. I personally would welcome one now what with breakthrough infections by the Delta varianthappening now to the fully vaccinated here. Who needs to get good and sick for a week or two? And there is even the possibility of such pts. then going on to long covid. So, the fullyvaccinated could get a breakthrough infection from Delta, have milder symptoms, fewer of them, and of shorter duration than the unvaccinated, and THEN when they seem to recover,could have long covid. I'd like my booster shot now, please. For sure Dr. Fauci and Dr. Wollinsky will be keeping a close eye on the Lambda variant, now circulating in Texas. I recommend the above video by Dr. Campbell. He shows the big, gold plaque he hasreceived form YouTube for hitting one million subscribers. I hope the Biden administration is seriously restricting flights in from Peru now. No big flights from Lima now, please. LH- AND NOT ONE, SINGLE WORD ON THE ABC NETWORK NEWSLAST NIGHT ABOUT THE LAMBDA VARIANT, NOW RAGING IN PERU ANDBEING FOUND NOW IN TEXAS. DW: "Lambda variant pushes up the death toll in Peru". They have the highest numberof dead per capita in the world. And the Lambda variant is largely responsible for that, this says. Lambda originated in Peru, late 2020. It is now in Chile, Argentina, Columbia. Wellwoth seeing if you think we are almost out of danger from Covid and, in fact, if you've run out of things to worry about. I'd defer that vacation to Peru. Lambda variant pushes up death toll in Peru | COVID-19 Special - YouTube ABC Network TV news tonight: 43,700 new cases per day now in the US, 3X morethan earlier. 10,000 news cases per day in Florida, almost a fourth of new infections in the US. I hope their ignorant, loud-mouthed Governor is proud of himself. The CDC is exploring the idea of a booster for those over 65 and for the immunecompromised. Exploring it. They showed a female nurse or doctor named Wen in an ER. "The CDC needs to tell what the rate of breakthrough infections is with Delta!". Ch. 30 local news in Fresno, Ca. tonight: Daily deaths from Covid could triple here.New cases are way up. That increase may top out in October". "Senior health officials in the Biden admin. are considering a booster shot for those over 65 and for the immune-compromised". Here is very good article about the situation in three SF Bay Area counties. Some counties with the highest fully vaccinated rates are seeing the highest rate of new infections. This is well worth reading. Not one word here about the Lambda variant. The media seems blind and deaf to it so far. COVID spreading fast in well-vaccinated California counties – Times-Herald(timesheraldonline.com) LH- Today, Sunday, July 25, 2021 mighty KCBS-AM 740 in SF spoke by phone with big-gun epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford at UCSF, as they do from time to time. Regarding the surge in Covid cases now in the SF Bay Area and in California, he said two things: 1) This was completely preventable with vaccinations. 2) These breakthrough infections of the fully vaccinated with the Delta variant were,therefore, preventable with vaccination of the unvaccinated. AND the breakthrough vaccinations are a product of two things: 1) The ability of the Delta variant to get around theimmunity that the fully vaccinated have, and 2) the exposure to infected persons they have by their actions- where they go, the people they are around. Sure, both make sense. We, the fully vaccinated, will be the victims of the ignoranceand superstition, even, of the unvaccinated if we get a breakthrough infection. AND we will be the victims of ignorant Governors playing politics with Covid, as well as some Mayors andloud-mouthed City Council members and County Supervisors beholden to business interests. And we "can protect ourselves" from all of that by being careful- following all of theguidelines in effect before the vaccines became available. Stay home, wear a mask outside the home, avoid crowds, social distance, wash the hands frequently, don't touch your eyes, noseand mouth. We shouldn't have to be doing all of that at this point. We should have a very high vaccination rate in California, but ignorance due to lousy schools, lousy by design, andcrooked Governors and local officials have resulted in a third of the population in the US still with not even one shot. And, of course, the huge drive, because the pandemic is "easing", toopen everything up. Money talks. This week I was in my bank and in Home Depot. No employees were wearing a mask. A few customers were. And my big grocery store in Fresno on July 15 had big signs up saying that the fullyvaccinated are no longer required to wear masks therein. Honor system. You know what I think of that. The low education level in the Central Valley of California has cost, and willcontinue to cost, lives. People who were cheated out of an education do not listen too and don't absorb information from medical and scientific experts very well. Fresno County has arelatively low vaccination rate compared to other California counties. I saw one chart that showed vaccination rates by level of education. College graduates had a high vaccination rate,way up in the 70 percents. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Dilma Coleman To:60amw.actionline@us.af.mil; Council, City Cc:info@cartercenter.org; fairfaxpd@fairfaxpd.org Subject:Fwd: Idean Poursham it"s Diva Jobs..please connect Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman with Reed Jobs. I need to stopLisa Brennan Jobs from talking bad about her dad. Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 2:41:47 PM Attachments:Screenshot_20210726-141829.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. What's up. Attachment #1 is scrapbooking created by Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs..why? Because diva Lee lives in a homeless shelter whereas the Rehabilitation work counselor..Carlos his history of work under the table... geographic locations whereas East Palo Alto,CA..talk talk about dirty Mexican spiritual leaders and the black ones too..their sexual abuse under thetable..no no no that's not a creative honest profession.Diva is a former Professional hypochondriac Psychic medium empath paranormal MD to JD blah blah..you can't play withmy yo yo. Interpretation of the Yo Yo. Well my dad Steve Jobs yeah diva was adopted whereas the yo yo represents pepperspray,guns, granades.. that's how Steve Jobs taughtDiva..how to use a yo yo..not Gon cry. that's what Steve Jobs did....to rehabilitate diva Lee aka Diva Jobs..it's was for Diva to adapt to society..because diva was a child of war..a realwarhead..a child small enough to crawl underneath the torn buildings to find survivors. If you want to understand the financial issues of Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman..make a vision boardabout dieases..now I'm headed to apply for a position in Qatar mental hospital..whereas I rather be in Damascus, Syria....I left my heart in Syria. ..inside The President of Syria hisadministration cabinet specialized in alerts. Diva to crawl into a space inside a building whereas..the building will explode.. crumble down that war but by bit. Let's pause. But bybit=Biden. No no but by bit= a molested down Syndrome child..their complaints. As a child,Diva had powers of psych psych with a search dog....she search for screams..she findthem wounded soliders and put the phalanges into a pouch on her belly.or leave the phalanges on the person to see it...she screamed.. phalanges with skin..are u hungry? Imagine where shewas? Was Diva a child who harvested food for Cannibals..or something like diva learnt how to sew phalanges pop up on vision board.what the heck..the United States governmentofficials..need to pause on that. Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs landed a position in a publishing house. Whereas President Jimmy Carter..trained Diva at age 5 the truth that Abraham Lincolnis dead..his face on $5 Bill. Should Lincoln be removed from the $5? Explain. Well Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs her thinking about $5 bill was interupted when she learnt about a food stampcard and the black panthers taught about WIC. That's good..Jesus brought the sunshine..#1 Gospel song sung by many people including Britney Spears.. amazing how Britney Spearspays her bills to people whom abuse her..why can't Britney Spears shake them abusive people off her Entourage? Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 11:33 AMSubject: Idean Poursham it's Diva Jobs..please connect Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman with Reed Jobs. I need to stop Lisa Brennan Jobs from talking bad about her dad.To: TuuKasa Real Estate Co. <info@tuukasa.com>, <info@cartercenter.org> Cc: <mcallister@mcallisterlaw.com>, <citycouncil@brentwoodca.gov> Dear Idean Poursham, I need help..to connect with Reed Jobs . Idean remove ur mother Kathleen aka Donna from.little orchard homeless shelter now. Diva was adopted by SteveJobs..and hell yeah I ran away from home...all the time . I don't use the last name Jobs. I am angry about the abuse Lisa Brennan Jobs has done to Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman since mychildhood Lisa Brennan had been punished from plagerized Diva's writings and Lisa sold Diva's writings. Lisa Brennan Jobs sold Diva's inherited financial income from Steve Jobs'sestates after he died. Argue it. I only care that Gavin Newsom is arrested and leaves Reed Jobs alone. Diva is Angry about Lisa Brennan Jobs her book Small Fry ..whereas Lisaplagerized..her involved gang activity whereas Diva Jobs..is Currently living homeless in San Jose CA. What's Happening now? All of Diva's educational records and Professionallicenses,marriage/divorce certificates are hidden.. that's what Gavin Newsom did...use hackers..in law enforcement those law enforcement agencies have no records of Diva being anSF FBI agent. Malfeasance for All the California judges whom worked on the OJ Simpson case,Scott Peterson case,Jaime Osuna case,Sierra Lamar case,and others..let's start withremoving some of those corrupt individuals at 450 Golden gate..SF. hurry up.. in the beginning Lisa Brennan Jobs plagerized and she agressively physically beat Diva up manytimes..therefore Steve Jobs constantly gave spankings to Lisa Brennan Jobs.Steve was a good guy a good dad..he never planned to die with cancer..but he took an ultimatum..Steve Jobs wasinjected with dieases such as that LA rapper Easy E..their dieases were man made from an bio tech labs whereas the effects of the dieases metamorphosis into oooh is that really canceroustumor this n that or viruses..Blood cancer next. That's explains why Diva ran away from Steve's Palo Alto CA home...that home had too much seances..too much sit at a table in thedark..that type of magic..the worst of the worst..black magic spells using hypnosis, sorcerery,slavery, and Gematria santanic ritualistic masochistly planners. Those corruptindividuals in San Jose CA..followed Diva back to Palo Alto CA whereas they employeed the worst for financial jobs at Wells Fargo Bank. Let's just pause..Many people employees of Wells Fargo Bank did fraud transactions..they Rob diva in front of Steve Jobs house. In Palo Alto CA.I am angry about it this is before and after Steve Jobs'sdeath. Very much angry about the drug abuse..whereas Gavin Newsom taught Reed Jobs how to get high on drugs...Gavin so envious he took his drug addictions up and up with his cohortsto find those young kids take their money n use it..pour out their piggy banks and use it. Gavin's Entourage are the worst white,blacks Mexican trash drug addicts protestors..theycrawl crawl walk from Fairfield CA to Humbug Mountain in Oregon.. whereas some of them eat human flesh n blood they stay with Bill Marriott hotel owner Bill..and they float down toFloyd Mayweather Sr that Las Vegas boxing rink..they Cannibal cults.. those cancer patients at Stanford hospital which surround Reed Jobs are the number #1 drug traffickingpeople...who travel back n forth to Sacramento..they often arrive at St.Helena hospital to get an enemas filled with drugs which San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo's is known for hisdistributed Enemas..whereas Caliva cannibus club their manufacturing Dept refuses to make enemas with CBD. Diva was under the table..with a job..them nasty drug addicts protestorshad theirs under the table whereas the table cloth reached the floor..under the table was Diva Jobs aka Diva Lee.. whereas Gavin Newsom was caught up from stealing PlumbJackwineries.in 1993-1994.Who caught him? Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson..they had confronted Gavin..then Gavin Chased Ron Goldman..to the LA restaurant whereas it wasabout a boomerang..gavin tried to kill Ron Goldman..but it was an ultimatum...for Ron to speed over to Nicole's home..Gavin is an Paramont's Great America always an actor theaterstages dancer singer blah blah his tutoring for Simone Biles his ideas moved quickly..yeah arrest Gavin a serial killer,Arsonist let's make his a documentary on Netflix stop all the othernonsense..thise Dirty John documentary..that Cyntoia Brown..that stuff was premeditated.whereas other actors used up a charector analysis of their hate on OJSimpson..Leave the California Governor position for OJ Simpson..remove TMZ owner Harvey Levine..freeze his assets..real estates etc. Arrest TMZ owner Harvey Levine..hurry updo it quickly. Arrest them same day. Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Jobs aka Diva Lee From:Dilma Coleman To:police@newark.org; Council, City Cc:HAX-ExecAssistant-S; clerk@japarliament.gov.jm Subject:Fwd: Idean Poursham it"s Diva Jobs..please connect Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman with Reed Jobs. I need to stopLisa Brennan Jobs from talking bad about her dad. Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 2:50:19 PM Attachments:Screenshot_20210726-141829.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 2:41 PMSubject: Fwd: Idean Poursham it's Diva Jobs..please connect Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman with Reed Jobs. I need to stop Lisa Brennan Jobs from talking bad about her dad.To: <60amw.actionline@us.af.mil>, <City.Council@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: <info@cartercenter.org>, <fairfaxpd@fairfaxpd.org> What's up. Attachment #1 is scrapbooking created by Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs..why? Because diva Lee lives in a homeless shelter whereas the Rehabilitation work counselor..Carlos his history of work under the table... geographic locations whereas East Palo Alto,CA..talk talk about dirty Mexican spiritual leaders and the black ones too..their sexual abuse under thetable..no no no that's not a creative honest profession.Diva is a former Professional hypochondriac Psychic medium empath paranormal MD to JD blah blah..you can't play withmy yo yo. Interpretation of the Yo Yo. Well my dad Steve Jobs yeah diva was adopted whereas the yo yo represents pepperspray,guns, granades.. that's how Steve Jobs taughtDiva..how to use a yo yo..not Gon cry. that's what Steve Jobs did....to rehabilitate diva Lee aka Diva Jobs..it's was for Diva to adapt to society..because diva was a child of war..a realwarhead..a child small enough to crawl underneath the torn buildings to find survivors. If you want to understand the financial issues of Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman..make a vision boardabout dieases..now I'm headed to apply for a position in Qatar mental hospital..whereas I rather be in Damascus, Syria....I left my heart in Syria. ..inside The President of Syria hisadministration cabinet specialized in alerts. Diva to crawl into a space inside a building whereas..the building will explode.. crumble down that war but by bit. Let's pause. But bybit=Biden. No no but by bit= a molested down Syndrome child..their complaints. As a child,Diva had powers of psych psych with a search dog....she search for screams..she findthem wounded soliders and put the phalanges into a pouch on her belly.or leave the phalanges on the person to see it...she screamed.. phalanges with skin..are u hungry? Imagine where shewas? Was Diva a child who harvested food for Cannibals..or something like diva learnt how to sew phalanges pop up on vision board.what the heck..the United States governmentofficials..need to pause on that. Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs landed a position in a publishing house. Whereas President Jimmy Carter..trained Diva at age 5 the truth that Abraham Lincolnis dead..his face on $5 Bill. Should Lincoln be removed from the $5? Explain. Well Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs her thinking about $5 bill was interupted when she learnt about a food stampcard and the black panthers taught about WIC. That's good..Jesus brought the sunshine..#1 Gospel song sung by many people including Britney Spears.. amazing how Britney Spearspays her bills to people whom abuse her..why can't Britney Spears shake them abusive people off her Entourage? Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 11:33 AMSubject: Idean Poursham it's Diva Jobs..please connect Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman with Reed Jobs. I need to stop Lisa Brennan Jobs from talking bad about her dad.To: TuuKasa Real Estate Co. <info@tuukasa.com>, <info@cartercenter.org> Cc: <mcallister@mcallisterlaw.com>, <citycouncil@brentwoodca.gov> Dear Idean Poursham, I need help..to connect with Reed Jobs . Idean remove ur mother Kathleen aka Donna from.little orchard homeless shelter now. Diva was adopted by SteveJobs..and hell yeah I ran away from home...all the time . I don't use the last name Jobs. I am angry about the abuse Lisa Brennan Jobs has done to Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman since mychildhood Lisa Brennan had been punished from plagerized Diva's writings and Lisa sold Diva's writings. Lisa Brennan Jobs sold Diva's inherited financial income from Steve Jobs'sestates after he died. Argue it. I only care that Gavin Newsom is arrested and leaves Reed Jobs alone. Diva is Angry about Lisa Brennan Jobs her book Small Fry ..whereas Lisaplagerized..her involved gang activity whereas Diva Jobs..is Currently living homeless in San Jose CA. What's Happening now? All of Diva's educational records and Professionallicenses,marriage/divorce certificates are hidden.. that's what Gavin Newsom did...use hackers..in law enforcement those law enforcement agencies have no records of Diva being anSF FBI agent. Malfeasance for All the California judges whom worked on the OJ Simpson case,Scott Peterson case,Jaime Osuna case,Sierra Lamar case,and others..let's start withremoving some of those corrupt individuals at 450 Golden gate..SF. hurry up.. in the beginning Lisa Brennan Jobs plagerized and she agressively physically beat Diva up manytimes..therefore Steve Jobs constantly gave spankings to Lisa Brennan Jobs.Steve was a good guy a good dad..he never planned to die with cancer..but he took an ultimatum..Steve Jobs wasinjected with dieases such as that LA rapper Easy E..their dieases were man made from an bio tech labs whereas the effects of the dieases metamorphosis into oooh is that really canceroustumor this n that or viruses..Blood cancer next. That's explains why Diva ran away from Steve's Palo Alto CA home...that home had too much seances..too much sit at a table in thedark..that type of magic..the worst of the worst..black magic spells using hypnosis, sorcerery,slavery, and Gematria santanic ritualistic masochistly planners. Those corruptindividuals in San Jose CA..followed Diva back to Palo Alto CA whereas they employeed the worst for financial jobs at Wells Fargo Bank. Let's just pause..Many people employees of Wells Fargo Bank did fraud transactions..they Rob diva in front of Steve Jobs house. In Palo Alto CA.I am angry about it this is before and after Steve Jobs'sdeath. Very much angry about the drug abuse..whereas Gavin Newsom taught Reed Jobs how to get high on drugs...Gavin so envious he took his drug addictions up and up with his cohortsto find those young kids take their money n use it..pour out their piggy banks and use it. Gavin's Entourage are the worst white,blacks Mexican trash drug addicts protestors..theycrawl crawl walk from Fairfield CA to Humbug Mountain in Oregon.. whereas some of them eat human flesh n blood they stay with Bill Marriott hotel owner Bill..and they float down toFloyd Mayweather Sr that Las Vegas boxing rink..they Cannibal cults.. those cancer patients at Stanford hospital which surround Reed Jobs are the number #1 drug traffickingpeople...who travel back n forth to Sacramento..they often arrive at St.Helena hospital to get an enemas filled with drugs which San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo's is known for hisdistributed Enemas..whereas Caliva cannibus club their manufacturing Dept refuses to make enemas with CBD. Diva was under the table..with a job..them nasty drug addicts protestorshad theirs under the table whereas the table cloth reached the floor..under the table was Diva Jobs aka Diva Lee.. whereas Gavin Newsom was caught up from stealing PlumbJackwineries.in 1993-1994.Who caught him? Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson..they had confronted Gavin..then Gavin Chased Ron Goldman..to the LA restaurant whereas it wasabout a boomerang..gavin tried to kill Ron Goldman..but it was an ultimatum...for Ron to speed over to Nicole's home..Gavin is an Paramont's Great America always an actor theaterstages dancer singer blah blah his tutoring for Simone Biles his ideas moved quickly..yeah arrest Gavin a serial killer,Arsonist let's make his a documentary on Netflix stop all the othernonsense..thise Dirty John documentary..that Cyntoia Brown..that stuff was premeditated.whereas other actors used up a charector analysis of their hate on OJSimpson..Leave the California Governor position for OJ Simpson..remove TMZ owner Harvey Levine..freeze his assets..real estates etc. Arrest TMZ owner Harvey Levine..hurry updo it quickly. Arrest them same day. Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Jobs aka Diva Lee From:Dilma Coleman To:Council, City; investigation@kernda.org Cc:victimservices@cdcr.ca.gov; erin@erindarlinglaw.com Subject:Fwd: Mimi Gardener Gates....Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs is currently homeless in San Jose CA little orchardsurrounded by people who oppressed her and took financial gain access in the form of slavery..pimping and stolereal estates Properties from Diva qui... Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 1:24:48 PM Attachments:Screenshot_20210727-122702.pngScreenshot_20210727-123518.pngScreenshot_20210727-122446.pngScreenshot_20210727-122637.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 1:20 PMSubject: Mimi Gardener Gates....Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs is currently homeless in San Jose CA little orchard surrounded by people who oppressed her and took financial gain access in theform of slavery..pimping and stole real estates Properties from Diva quickly. To: <discoverycenter@gatesfoundation.org>Cc: <clerk@japarliament.gov.jm>, <fairfaxpd@fairfaxpd.org> Mimi, I am in terrible grief..of my longtime friend/mentor William Henry Gates II andbeloved Mary Maxwell Gates. I don't have depression..i am not dangerous to myself. I had the worst mental health care in Santa Clara county whereas I was subject to abuse by UjimaMental health Yvonne Maxwell and others..why? Slavery..their jealousies their rages from their drug abuse..their retailitated jealous rages over My ex husband King Mohammed HassanIV of Morocco..yes the illegal mental health treatment in Fremont Mental Health and St.Helena Mental Health and John George Mental health..that's what it's about but they focuson diva is delusional and never been in the military whereas Diva studied Psychiatric nursing. Diva really hates how she is oppressed..victimized year after year..trapped in a vicious familywho controls the Illuminati. Diva is forever oppressed by sorcerery leadership.. especially by Queen Elizabeth II. It's not ok..Diva needs a job as a lawyer or medical doctor..... stop thelabor trafficking... stop the Mexican men from stealing from the negro women. Stop allowing men to unlawfully have sex with diva then u take the baby away thru an adoption..whereas thewealthy men if they have wealth are subject to paying child support to the legal guardians. Diva could apply for the interim research Program manager position. ..with Bill GatesFoundation or something like finish internship/college with Judicial college in Reno NV or something like internship in Judicial court in Las Vegas. . Diva needs support to gain a policereport.with the officers using. excessive force in making the arrests of following: Mark Zuckerberg owner of Facebook..why? #1 I seen Mark Zuckerberg participate in the homicideof Brent Shapiro(son of Attorney Robert Shapiro) and another man whereas a women named Elsie is blamed in the state of Connecticut for his murder. #2 Mark Zuckerberg got Diva Leeaka Diva Jobs aka Dilma Coleman pregnant with identical twin girls whereas Mark Zuckerberg dated singer Jennifer Lopez.whereas Jennifer Lopez is guilty ofhumantrafficking/slavery/drug trafficking ..Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs aka Dilma Coleman was kidnapped from De Anza college inCupertino,CA.. by singer Jennifer Lopez in 2010.Jennifer drove Dilma aka Diva to an San Jose,CA apartment building on Senter Rd near social services whereas diva gave birth to the identical twin girls. While Jennifer Lopez rode a stationary bike with earbuds...a CaucasianTeacher and her husband a probation officer made an illegal adoption in 2010 in Santa Clara county...the family resides in Newark CA in the home Diva Lee lived..in the 1980's prior tobeing kidnapped to 6229 Thomas Ave Newark CA. Whereas she attended Newark schools.. It's a humantrafficking trend whereas Qatari businessman Wissam Al Mana and Singer Janet Jackson did an illegal adoption on baby boy born January 3,2017. Janet Jackson is with malesex organs and she faked her pregnancy. TMZ owner Harvey Levine did cover the kidnapping and the birth in Solano County..Diva was taken from E.Oakland,CA to Fairfield,CA beaten upuntil the baby arrived. Attachment# 1Mark Zuckerberg..his way of slavery..home invasions and robbery. Diva Lee inherited money from Susan buffet whereas Mark Zuckerberg took it for an investment forFacebook. Mark My took names off the business plan.. whereas the other two males were killed. Attachment#2 Robyn Fenty..is the biological daughter to Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs aka DilmaColeman and Hunter Biden. (They are wicked always doing bad things)I believe that in the past they abused drugs together and did witchcraft spells and love spells..Robyn Fenty thatbisexual women is a wicked daughter as if she possessed like that scary doll Annebelle. Quit calling Diva Lee delusional..I am very upset at the Marriott hotels owner Bill Marriottbecause he ate my father..with his evil cohorts gossip about that. Argue that. Kamala Harris, her father Donald Harris is nasty rapist..who Solicited Diva for sex along with his wife..theydid some horrible stuff in SF with drug busts Kamala oversaw.. it's not good to count the Afro American men who Kamala Harris killed. Kamala Harris a serial killer along with RonaldColeman, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Wesley Snipes, Kris Jenner, Wissam Al Mana and others. Why Steve Jobs adopted Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman? Jamacian music producer Edward Sullivan Lee aka Bunny Striker was killed by santanic masochistly ritualistic attackerswhereas his identical twin brother "bunny striker" died in 2020. That's unreasonable for T.D Jake's to be in a relationship with Bunny Striker doing all music stuff under the table..usingBunny Striker's name. The real estate properties which Diva owned were fraudulent stolen thru ultimatums.. including all money inherited.. that's not a delusional thinking..it's factual. It's factual thatRobyn Fenty..dated Mark Zuckerberg when Mark Zuckerberg tried to become Islamic and have multiple wives..along with his drug addictions. Rapper Jay Z aka Shawn Carter took away valuable real estates Properties from Diva Lee akaDilma Coleman along with diamonds and millions of dollars in written lyrics which he used in his rap music and further along those lyrics into other artists who he discovered. Let's go talk about the gun shot wounds in the head which Michelle Obama did to Diva..yesDiva had been shot in the head 2-3 by Michelle Obama..in her jealous sadistic masochist santanic ritualistic rages over PGA golfer Tiger Woods aka Eldrick Tony or his identical twinbrother Bob Woods. Let's try to move quickly on the truth..of who killed Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson in 1994. Talk about Gavin Newsom,Hunter Biden, Lisa Monaco (deputy chief of Dept.ofJustice) they're issues with greed, Lust,Drug addictions, and bad management of a home in Palo Alto CA. Their illegal businesses. From:Roberta Ahlquist To:WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Human Relations Commission; Council, City; Pastor Kaloma Smith; ParkRec Commission; planning.commision@cityofpaloalto.org; Dave Price Subject:Fwd: SF Chronicle: Manhattanize Palo Alto - Silicon Valley"s birthplace needs to be a housing innovator againDate:Sunday, July 25, 2021 10:51:06 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clickingon links. fyi Time to make some changes!Date: Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 8:33 PMSubject: SF Chronicle: Manhattanize Palo Alto - Silicon Valley's birthplace needs to be a housing innovator again Roberta Alquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> Check out this opinion piece in today’s SF Chronicle that is spot on about how irresponsible Shallow Alto has been for so long: Manhattanize Palo Alto Silicon Valley’s birthplace needs to be a housing innovator again By Brock Keeling Chronicle illustration ; Getty Images Most people know Palo Alto as the epicenter of tech. In 1939, Hewlett-Packard was conceived in a garage on Addison Avenue in the city’s University South neighborhood. The detached wooden shed, a registered California landmark declared as “the birthplace of Silicon Valley,” is now a museum. Less known, however, is Palo Alto’s role as a housing innovator. A couple of decades after HP’s birth, as the tech industry began to take root, famed developer Joseph Eichler, who believed that good design should be democratic, studded the city with affordable homes that, at the time, were priced to move. He used innovative and imaginative architects to bring roughly 2,700 homes with crisp lines and a focus on the outdoors to the working class. These ticky-tacky structures were part of America’s post-war boom, and helped populate the Bay Area through a unique triangulation of high style and build-bythe-numbers ease at friendly prices. As creative minds thrived in Palo Alto, Eichler’s homes housed Silicon Valley’s first wave. They even helped germinate the world’s biggest tech company. Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, grew up in an Eichler in Sunnyvale. The late Steve Jobs, meanwhile, credited Eichler for inspiring him to create Apple’s welldesigned products for the mass market. “I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn’t cost much,” he said of Eichler’s homes in Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs.” “It was the original vision for Apple. That’s what we tried to do with the first Mac.” (Although Jobs assumed he had lived in an Eichler growing up in Mountain View, his family’s Mid-Century Modern was determined to be a lookalike by a competing developer, which Eichler fans call a “Likeler.”) These days, however, the betrayal of Eichler’s affordable and stylish vision really slaps you in the face the moment you step off the train in Palo Alto. Two mid-rise Amazon buildings, emblazoned with the $3.1 billion company’s logo, confront you as you enter the city’s main drag. A slew of boutique venture capitalist firms, with villainous-sounding names like Bain Capital or Omers Ventures, sprout not far away. What you won’t find is enough housing. Eichler’s Mid-Century Modern homes, prized for their vaulted ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows, now regularly fetch upward of $2.5 million. In an acutely perverse way, Eichler’s homes are still affordable, relatively speaking; The median home price in Palo Alto today is $3.5 million, according to June 2021 Redfin estimates. A lucrative investment for the lucky few who can afford it. The culprit? During an era of unfettered tech innovation and cash flow, the city barely increased its housing stock. From 2004, when a puerile Mark Zuckerberg rented a home on La Jennifer Way during the nascent days of “the Facebook,” up until today, scant homes have been built for an increasing workforce. Between 2010 and 2018 Palo Alto's jarring jobs-tohousing ratio was 16:1, with 20,475 jobs added, but only 1,269 homes permitted, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (The jobs-to-housing ratio is grim across the Bay Area.) The city’s egregious lack of shelter has even prompted its own leaders to flee for higher ground: In 2016, Kate Vershov Downing, a former Palo Alto planning and transportation commissioner, quit her job alleging a stubborn City Council and skyrocketing rental prices that she and her family could no longer afford. As former mayor Eric Filseth said in 2020: “You can’t have a functional community comprised only of software engineers and patent attorneys.” Don’t blame the tech industry for Palo Alto's enforced dearth of housing; that would be as cliche as it would be wrong. “Palo Alto has a small group of very wealthy, very powerful people that do not want to see growth,” says Angie Evans, executive director of Palo Alto Forward, a housing advocacy group. “If you go to a playground and chat with parents and grandparents, most people here want to see a living, growing city where we change alongside the needs of the community.” Evans, who lives two blocks away from the Zuckerberg family in the Crescent Park neighborhood, points to a well-moneyed group that ties together anti-housing coteries Embarcadero Institute, Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning and United Neighbors. (Word to the wise: Groups using such jargon as “sensible” or “united” in their names are usually the opposite.) “The strongest force pushing back against new housing in Palo Alto is what's known as the ‘residentialist’ faction,” says Jordan Grimes, a Peninsula housing advocate whose Twitter breakdowns of NIMBY meetings are as legendary as they are informative. (One noteworthy gripe was from a Palo Altan who complained that new housing would bump up traffic, and thus increase the time it takes to get to her second home in Lake Tahoe.) Said housing group of purported sensibility has helped elect the city’s current crop of council members, which includes a real estate agent as well as its mayor, a former Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning member. It’s also important to not let Stanford University, which has one of the largest campuses in the world, off the hook. Stanford Research Park, created in 1951, led to the creation of VMware, Tesla and SAP Labs, among other tech firms, creating tens of thousands of jobs while doing almost nothing in terms of housing creation. The school’s general lot 8, a vast moat of land and a smattering of trees at the university’s north entrance, could easily provide space for dire housing. There is an answer to this quandary: Palo Alto needs to return to its roots as a housing innovator It’s time to Manhattanize Palo Alto. That’s right, Manhattanize, the oft-used West Coast slur that should be embraced and enforced in the Valley. By mandating residential mid and high-rises, Palo Alto can become ground zero for housing that goes above — way above — its puny 50-foot ceiling for new developments, a law enacted in the early 1970s to allegedly preserve quality of life. Get rid of all parking requirements, an outdated mandate from 1951. Affix fees on new commercial builders to fund affordable housing. And increase the puny 20% affordable housing requirement while you’re at it. Lydia Kou, the aforementioned Realtor and a self-described “moderategrowth” City Council member, told me, “It’s simplistic thinking to think it’s okay to just start building. It’s not sensible; it’s just rhetoric.” But even Eichler was prone to the occasional high-rise, like the 315-foot Summit atop Russian Hill, noted for its flared concrete shaft. One of the Bay Area’s best living designers, Stanley Saitowiz, could do wonders given a skyscraper project in Palo Alto. “I don’t care that much about how tall a building is or the facade,” Evans says. “I care about whether my kids are able to grow up in a place that embraces racial and economic diversity and that prioritizes the people most impacted by our problems.” As mandated by the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Bay Area as a whole has to change its zoning to allowconstruction of 441,000 new homes from 2023 to 2031. It’s time to build your share, Palo Altans. You want the envious sobriquet “the birthplace of Silicon Valley”? Then act like it. Turn your skyline into glorious habitable towers that reach beyond the stars. And don’t go anywhere, Cupertino. You’re next. Brock Keeling is an award-winning writer who covers California. From:Dilma Coleman To:sfpdinglesidestation@sfgov.org; sfpdbayviewstation@sfgov.org Cc:Council, City; jbryant@brentwoodca.gov Subject:Fwd: Transgendered man arrived last night..was caught smoking drugs in the women"s restroom on July22,2021 Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 5:31:32 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:26 PM Subject: Fwd: Transgendered man arrived last night..was caught smoking drugs in thewomen's restroom on July 22,2021 To: <ATFTips@atf.gov>, <tips@sheriff.sccgov.org>Cc: <consulate@egyptembassy.net>, TuuKasa Real Estate Co. <info@tuukasa.com> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 4:19 PM Subject: Fwd: Transgendered man arrived last night..was caught smoking drugs in thewomen's restroom on July 22,2021 To: <fairfaxpd@fairfaxpd.org>, <police@newark.org>Cc: <police@santaclaraca.gov>, <clerk@japarliament.gov.jm> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 4:15 PM Subject: Transgendered man arrived last night..was caught smoking drugs in the women'srestroom on July 22,2021 To: David Isidro <disidro@homefirstscc.org> What's up David, Dilma Coleman would like to file a grievance against the transgendered person whom smoked drugs last night in the women's restroom..Dilma Coleman was there inthe shower after 10pm on July 22,2021 when Homefirst female staff entered the women's restroom and confronted the transgendered person to stop smoking and give it up. Somehowthose fumes last night..have made Dilma feel horrible... throughout the day on July 23,2021... At first, Dilma Coleman assumes that the fumes in the smoke in the women's restroom were from a curling iron...a natural burnt hair smell. After staff left the restroom, the transgenderedperson continued to smoke a short filtered cigerette as if their behavorial thinking and habitual aggressions in drug use or nicotine addictions are accepted and not subject to obey and be incompliance with the Rules at Homefirst homeless shelter Little Orchard. Dilma Coleman requests for the staff to remove the disrespectful transgendered mixed race drug addict fromabusing drugs in the women's restroom.. especially when the smoke is toxic and creates a hostile environment. Dilma could give a detailed synopsis of the transgendered person whom smoked drugs lastnight their most utmost geographic tresspasses, violent attacks as a chemical/drug terrorist in a jealous rage over My ex husband Justin Simpson and the assets which he shared with DivaLee aka Dilma Coleman in the past.Since the childhood, that transgendered person including Homefirst homeless shelter staff Roberto has a dangerous sorcerer Narcissistic behaviorstowards Dilma Coleman's assets, financial resources and the creative outlets which created income for Diva whereas they intercepted those resources similar to slavery.. Dilma believesthat the transgendered person whom smoked last night has charectoristics as an Arsonist a person or something like that..Dilma speculates that last night's laundry room disruptive electrical smoke is cause and effect of habitual aggressions in appliances such as washer dryer. In the past, that transgendered person accompanied his good friend Justin Simpson whereasDilma didn't recover real estate properties whereas Diva spent her pennies to purchase interior designing materials such as sparkling marble kitchen countertops, etc at 1359 Lewis St SantaClara,CA including 1189 Tiegen Dr Hayward CA and 101 Gregory Dr Fairfax,CA. In Diva's divorce to Justin Simpson those properties whereas she owned prior to marriage of Justin thepaperwork was hidden from Diva whereas she couldn't get a good transaction of property ownership because of being oppressed micromanaged by gangster Narcissist leader Robertoand oppressed by Jewish Narcissistic Homosexual leaders Harvey Levine and Santa Clara county DA Jeff Rosen. It's obvious that those real estate properties which needed to beremodeled were Justin's biggest task during his marriage to Diva Lee whereas his transgendered lover had a jealous rage to keep Diva away from the real estates propertieswhereas continuous drug addict squatters remained and inhabited the dwellings at their most crucial housing crisis and their creative development with Netflix TV series "Dirty John" etc.This style of mafia had kept Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee homeless oppressed and seperated from her dearest friends and family since the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and RonaldGoldman in 1994. Diva Lee uses powerful distinctive analysis of European/African American women Cosmetologist/business owner Larita Bass,Colin Kaepernick and his cohorts whomare subjected to publishing house company. Larita Bass a Morgan Hill,CA resident has cohorts such as Harvey Levine and others whom created the stories for Netflix TV seriesdocumentary. Justin Simpson's favorite transgendered homosexual cohorts made those Property upgrades..in interior designs along with the other bisexual homosexual men whoparticipated in the boys club of TMZ owner Harvey Levine, plus others such as Roberto,Santa Clara county DA Jeff Rosen their creative projects for TV series documentary Netflix. It'sDilma's obvervations whereas the laundry room at Little Orchard homeless shelter in San Jose CA had a technical difficulty whereas there was an unexpected fire drill, the temporaryremoval of guests, the call to the local San Jose fire Dept for expection on July 22,2021. That's Dilma's observation not hallucinating thinking. .. Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee From:Leland Wiesner To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: your recent eBook or eAudiobook purchase suggestion: "Genius--The Con" and "Genius--The Game" Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2021 1:35:05 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Why are you cutting library fees and building a $100M Police Station? Perhaps if people were more educated and had better jobs, we would have less crime and not need more police. ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Library Collections <LibraryCollections@cityofpaloalto.org> Date: Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 1:08 PMSubject: RE: your recent eBook or eAudiobook purchase suggestion: "Genius--The Con" and "Genius--The Game"To: lwiesner@gmail.com <lwiesner@gmail.com> Dear Palo Alto Library Patron, Thank you for your suggestion. The City’s general fund for library collections has been cut by almost 23%, so we have to say with regret that we are unable to purchase the title you are recommending because we must use our limited funds to purchase titles that are in greater demand or are available at a greatly discounted price. Thank you, Palo Alto City Library From:RS Love To:UAC Cc:David Coale; Don Jackson; Batchelor, Dean; Council, City Subject:FYI only - Pleasant Hill first in California to adopt SolarAPP+ online permitting Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 11:44:16 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Just a data point for your consideration. Scott Love650-224-7252 New major breakthrough in lowering cost of going solar | Environment California From:Yahoo Mail.® To:Honky Subject:HUGE: The Massive Uprising Has Gone Global! Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 4:44:59 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://youtu.be/8tfF5fdA4uA W.H.O. WHISTLEBLOWER CONNECTS THE DOTS [2021-07-20] - DR. ASTRID STUCKELBURGER & DEL BIGTREE (VIDEO) (bitchute.com) From:Dilma Coleman To:TuuKasa Real Estate Co.; info@cartercenter.org Cc:mcallister@mcallisterlaw.com; citycouncil@brentwoodca.gov Subject:Idean Poursham it"s Diva Jobs..please connect Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman with Reed Jobs. I need to stop LisaBrennan Jobs from talking bad about her dad. Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 11:33:56 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Idean Poursham, I need help..to connect with Reed Jobs . Idean remove ur motherKathleen aka Donna from.little orchard homeless shelter now. Diva was adopted by Steve Jobs..and hell yeah I ran away from home...all the time . I don't use the last name Jobs. I amangry about the abuse Lisa Brennan Jobs has done to Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman since my childhood Lisa Brennan had been punished from plagerized Diva's writings and Lisa soldDiva's writings. Lisa Brennan Jobs sold Diva's inherited financial income from Steve Jobs's estates after he died. Argue it. I only care that Gavin Newsom is arrested and leaves Reed Jobsalone. Diva is Angry about Lisa Brennan Jobs her book Small Fry ..whereas Lisa plagerized..her involved gang activity whereas Diva Jobs..is Currently living homeless in SanJose CA. What's Happening now? All of Diva's educational records and Professional licenses,marriage/divorce certificates are hidden.. that's what Gavin Newsom did...usehackers..in law enforcement those law enforcement agencies have no records of Diva being an SF FBI agent. Malfeasance for All the California judges whom worked on the OJ Simpsoncase,Scott Peterson case,Jaime Osuna case,Sierra Lamar case,and others..let's start with removing some of those corrupt individuals at 450 Golden gate..SF. hurry up.. in thebeginning Lisa Brennan Jobs plagerized and she agressively physically beat Diva up many times..therefore Steve Jobs constantly gave spankings to Lisa Brennan Jobs.Steve was a goodguy a good dad..he never planned to die with cancer..but he took an ultimatum..Steve Jobs was injected with dieases such as that LA rapper Easy E..their dieases were man made from an biotech labs whereas the effects of the dieases metamorphosis into oooh is that really cancerous tumor this n that or viruses..Blood cancer next. That's explains why Diva ran away fromSteve's Palo Alto CA home...that home had too much seances..too much sit at a table in the dark..that type of magic..the worst of the worst..black magic spells using hypnosis,sorcerery,slavery, and Gematria santanic ritualistic masochistly planners. Those corrupt individuals in San Jose CA..followed Diva back to Palo Alto CA whereas they employeed theworst for financial jobs at Wells Fargo Bank. Let's just pause.. Many people employees of Wells Fargo Bank did fraud transactions..they Rob diva in front ofSteve Jobs house. In Palo Alto CA.I am angry about it this is before and after Steve Jobs's death. Very much angry about the drug abuse..whereas Gavin Newsom taught Reed Jobs howto get high on drugs...Gavin so envious he took his drug addictions up and up with his cohorts to find those young kids take their money n use it..pour out their piggy banks and use it.Gavin's Entourage are the worst white,blacks Mexican trash drug addicts protestors..they crawl crawl walk from Fairfield CA to Humbug Mountain in Oregon.. whereas some of themeat human flesh n blood they stay with Bill Marriott hotel owner Bill..and they float down to Floyd Mayweather Sr that Las Vegas boxing rink..they Cannibal cults.. those cancer patientsat Stanford hospital which surround Reed Jobs are the number #1 drug trafficking people...who travel back n forth to Sacramento..they often arrive at St.Helena hospital to getan enemas filled with drugs which San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo's is known for his distributed Enemas..whereas Caliva cannibus club their manufacturing Dept refuses to makeenemas with CBD. Diva was under the table..with a job..them nasty drug addicts protestors had theirs under the table whereas the table cloth reached the floor..under the table was DivaJobs aka Diva Lee.. whereas Gavin Newsom was caught up from stealing PlumbJack wineries.in 1993-1994.Who caught him? Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson..they hadconfronted Gavin..then Gavin Chased Ron Goldman..to the LA restaurant whereas it was about a boomerang..gavin tried to kill Ron Goldman..but it was an ultimatum...for Ron tospeed over to Nicole's home..Gavin is an Paramont's Great America always an actor theater stages dancer singer blah blah his tutoring for Simone Biles his ideas moved quickly..yeaharrest Gavin a serial killer,Arsonist let's make his a documentary on Netflix stop all the other nonsense..thise Dirty John documentary..that Cyntoia Brown..that stuff waspremeditated.whereas other actors used up a charector analysis of their hate on OJ Simpson..Leave the California Governor position for OJ Simpson..remove TMZ ownerHarvey Levine..freeze his assets..real estates etc. Arrest TMZ owner Harvey Levine..hurry up do it quickly. Arrest them same day. Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Jobs aka Diva Lee From:Janet Benson To:Council, City Subject:Keep pedestrian streets permanent Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 1:36:39 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ From:Ramsey Allington To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 8:31:00 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto Thank you, Ramsey AllingtonKellogg Ave From:Katherine To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 6:25:36 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Wes Ong To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 6:03:09 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto We’re a married pair of front liners at Stanford and relaxing on university avenue in peace is something we highly treasure, please keep our streets open for pedestrians and bicycles permanently! Sent from my iPhone From:jorge luis henao To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 3:59:41 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Enviado desde mi iPhone From:Will Krispin To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:37:32 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos due to my clumsy fat fingers. From:Sarah Ciccaglione To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 5:44:55 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! The closure of University and Ramona has made a huge impact on enjoyment of the space, business development, and pedestrian safety. Sincerely, Sarah Ciccaglione, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Sylvie To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 3:05:52 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto -- Sylvie Stefant 650.823.3313 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylviestefant/ From:Aaron Zakem To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 6:26:53 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto Aaron Zakem From:Heidi Schwenk To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 11:38:51 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ YES!!! Please keep University Avenue and California Avenue, Ramona Street OPEN for outdoor dining, pedestrians, bicycles, pets, pop up hand made products/art pieces and street concerts. KEEP STREETS CLOSED TO AUTOMOBILES PERMANENTLY!!! There are plenty of parking lots and garages. It's a matter of quality of life & commerce for the community. Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto and my out of town guests Sent from my iPhone From:Gary Mandelstam To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 10:02:25 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Menlo Park within walking distance of downtown Palo Alto From:Nacho Mendez To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Saturday, July 24, 2021 11:37:37 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Bisheh To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 10:44:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:siavosh rezvan behbahani To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 10:44:11 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Maryam Tafreshi To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 10:44:09 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Angela Ruth To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 2:31:12 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Cheers, Angela From:Rickey Fleming To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 1:32:53 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Alicia Cappelli To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 11:24:16 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Jennifer Meaney To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Thursday, July 22, 2021 3:14:10 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Jenn Sent from my iPhone From:Jennifer Sampson To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Thursday, July 22, 2021 3:12:44 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto From:Yahoo Boris To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2021 3:21:15 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Thanks. Boris From:David Yoon To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2021 12:26:33 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:María Paz González Cordero To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:55:35 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, Aresident of Palo Alto Maria Paz Gonzalez From:Kanth, Gayathri To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed; Nose, Kiely; Gaines, Chantal Subject:Library Reopening Plans Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 12:45:04 PM Attachments:image001.pngimage003.pngimage004.pngimage006.pngimage007.pngimage002.png Good Afternoon Mayor and City Council, We have recently received several emails from community members enquiring aboutreopening of the College Terrace and Downtown libraries and expanding hours of the MitchellPark, Rinconada and the Children’s Library. You might be getting similar questions fromcommunity members. The library has written two blogs to respond to community questionsregarding reopening and services provided last year. The first blog highlights the library’sservices last Fiscal Year and the second blog focuses on the library’s current and futurereopening plans. City Manager Ed Shikada has asked me to share these drafts with you beforeit is published. Year in Review: https://library.cityofpaloalto.org/? p=1027346&post_type=bccms_news&preview=1&_ppp=f5b38f8fd8 Reopening Plans: https://library.cityofpaloalto.org/? p=1027424&post_type=bccms_news&preview=1&_ppp=caf8e90c29 Please let me know if you need any more information. Thanks, Gayathri Gayathri Kanth Interim Library Services Director Library Department (650) 329-2668 | gayathri.kanth@cityofpaloalto.org https://library.cityofpaloalto.org From:Voters Choice Subject:Local Voter Rights Act Information Date:Thursday, July 22, 2021 2:26:34 PM Attachments:image001.pngimage003.pngimage004.pngimage005.pngimage006.pngimage007.pngPRESS RELEASE -- COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA REGISTRAR OF VOTERS OFFICE TO HOLD FEEDBACKFORUMS.pdfVoter"s Rights Act Tool Kit.docxVoters Right Act Flyer.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. 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Officer Became the Accused Capitol Riot #EyeGouger Date:Wednesday, July 28, 2021 1:50:06 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ FYI: you gotta love this story How a Respected N.Y.P.D. Officer Became the Accused Capitol Riot #EyeGouger https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/nyregion/capitol-riot-january-6.html?referringSource=articleShare Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:DuBois, Tom; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Pat Burt; Human Relations Commission; Council, City;roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu; chuck jagoda; Joe Simitian; Planning Commission; ParkRec Commission; Greer Stone;wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; city.council@menlopark.org; GRP-City Council Subject:NYTimes: The Left Needs the A.C.L.U. to Keep Defending Awful Speech Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 1:13:31 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ The Left Needs the A.C.L.U. to Keep Defending Awful Speech https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/opinion/aclu-free-speech.html?referringSource=articleShare Sent from my iPhone From:Jen B To:Council, City Subject:Please keep downtown car free! Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 7:05:23 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Please keep University Avenue & Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It makes downtown so much more delightful!Maybe just add more close-in handicapped pkg to maintain accessibility. Thank you! -Jen, a long-time resident of Palo Alto From:David Sacerdote To:Council, City Subject:Please mandate vaccination for city employees Date:Thursday, July 22, 2021 3:44:12 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I urge you to follow the recommendation of Santa Clara County health officials by mandating vaccination for city employees. Young Palo Alto residents, and those whose immune systemsare suppressed are not yet eligible for vaccination, and do not have choice about whether they interact with police or other first responders. Ensuring universal vaccination of publicemployees, subject to limited medical-necessity exemptions would go a long way towards building community trust and ensuring public safety. Press release from county can be found here:https://covid19.sccgov.org/news-releases/pr-07-22-2021-public-health-officials-urge- employers-to-require-employee-vaccination Thank you From:Anirudh Krishna To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 Date:Thursday, July 22, 2021 11:22:04 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. In fact, I would prefer it remain this way even permanently if possible. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter! Anirudh Krishna Sent from my iPhone From:Stein,Holly To:Michael Korn; City Council; Council, City Cc:Hannah,Judith; Rollin,Bernard Subject:RE: Climate change and professional sports Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 11:01:38 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Fort Collins City Council, The author of the letter below comes from a person that we meet briefly at a Starbucks when he approached us to take a photo of him for a family member more than a year ago. He has never spoken to us on this issue, and is using our e-mails in the copy line without permission and inappropriately – presumably to suggest we are in agreement with his initiative. Please do not associate me, or my colleague Prof. Judy Hannah, with Michael Korn or his view points. What has transpired here is highly unprofessional. Regards, Holly Dual Affiliation Dr. Holly Stein, Professor, Senior Research Scientist and Director, AIRIE Program, Colorado State University Research Scientist, University of Oslo, Norway e-mail for contact: holly.stein@colostate.edu www.airieprogram.org From: Michael Korn <makompk@aol.com> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2021 11:01 PM To: City Council <ccouncil@cityofloveland.org>; City Council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Stein,Holly <Holly.Stein@colostate.edu>; Hannah,Judith <Judith.Hannah@colostate.edu>; Rollin,Bernard <Bernard.Rollin@ColoState.EDU> Subject: Climate change and professional sports Dear City Council Members, Some years back I read about Greta Thunberg's refusal to ever fly on a commercialairplane in order to minimize her carbon output. I started to wonder about the professional sports industry. Baseball basketball football hockey and soccer teams have long seasons and constantly are traveling to other cities to compete. I believe most of their travel is done by air. I did a very rough estimate that every yearprofessional sports teams in America are responsible for ~5000 air flights. It seems to me this is an unconscionable contribution to greenhouse gases and global warming. Professional sports are an utterly frivolous and useless form ofentertainment. They are not an essential service. I don't understand why newspapers like the New York Times that are constantly obsessed about climate change also promote the sporting industry without the slightest degree of introspection. I am urging City Council to pass a resolution condemning the industry of professional sports and asking Fort Collins residence not to patronize them either in person or on TV in order to mitigate this terrible aggravator of climatic instability. I would like to hear from you about this important problem. Thank you, Michael Korn 970.988.5822 From:Hannah,Judith To:Michael Korn; City Council; Council, City Cc:Stein,Holly; Rollin,Bernard Subject:RE: Climate change and professional sports Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 10:46:15 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council Members, Please be advised that neither I nor Holly Stein were aware of the contents of this message, and do not endorse Mr. Korn’s proposal. While we see the urgent need to fight climate change, this is not a practical solution and would lead to further division on the issue. Regards, Judy Hannah From: Michael Korn <makompk@aol.com> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2021 11:01 PM To: City Council <ccouncil@cityofloveland.org>; City Council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Stein,Holly <Holly.Stein@colostate.edu>; Hannah,Judith <Judith.Hannah@colostate.edu>; Rollin,Bernard <Bernard.Rollin@ColoState.EDU> Subject: Climate change and professional sports Dear City Council Members, Some years back I read about Greta Thunberg's refusal to ever fly on a commercialairplane in order to minimize her carbon output. I started to wonder about the professional sports industry. Baseball basketball football hockey and soccer teams have long seasonsand constantly are traveling to other cities to compete. I believe most of their travel is done by air. I did a very rough estimate that every year professional sports teams in America areresponsible for ~5000 air flights. It seems to me this is an unconscionable contribution to greenhouse gases and global warming. Professional sports are an utterly frivolous and useless form of entertainment.They are not an essential service. I don't understand why newspapers like the New York Times that are constantly obsessed about climate change also promote the sportingindustry without the slightest degree of introspection. I am urging City Council to pass a resolution condemning the industry of professional sports and asking Fort Collins residence not to patronize them either in person or on TV in order tomitigate this terrible aggravator of climatic instability. I would like to hear from you about this important problem. Thank you, Michael Korn 970.988.5822 From:Michael Korn To:Stein,Holly; City Council; Council, City Cc:Hannah,Judith; Rollin,Bernard Subject:RE: Climate change and professional sports Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 12:06:04 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I was not implying your in agreement with my proposal. I wrote to you because you areclimate scientists and thought you would find the email of interest. I'm rather perplexed by your defensiveness and histrionic response. Very disappointing if people who are experts in the field are unwilling to advocate for practical solutions. Crawlback into your caves! Sent from the all new AOL app for Android On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 12:01 PM, Stein,Holly <Holly.Stein@colostate.edu> wrote: Fort Collins City Council, The author of the letter below comes from a person that we meet briefly at a Starbucks when he approached us to take a photo of him for a family member more than a yearago. He has never spoken to us on this issue, and is using our e-mails in the copy line without permission and inappropriately – presumably to suggest we are in agreementwith his initiative. Please do not associate me, or my colleague Prof. Judy Hannah, with Michael Korn or his view points. What has transpired here is highly unprofessional. Regards, Holly Dual Affiliation Dr. Holly Stein, Professor, Senior Research Scientist and Director, AIRIE Program, Colorado State University Research Scientist, University of Oslo, Norway e-mail for contact: holly.stein@colostate.edu www.airieprogram.org From: Michael Korn <makompk@aol.com> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2021 11:01 PM To: City Council <ccouncil@cityofloveland.org>; City Council<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Stein,Holly <Holly.Stein@colostate.edu>; Hannah,Judith<Judith.Hannah@colostate.edu>; Rollin,Bernard <Bernard.Rollin@ColoState.EDU> Subject: Climate change and professional sports Dear City Council Members, Some years back I read about Greta Thunberg's refusal to ever fly on a commercial airplane in order to minimize her carbon output. I started to wonder about the professional sports industry. Baseball basketball football hockey and soccer teams have long seasons and constantly are traveling to other cities to compete. I believe most of their travel is done by air. I did a very rough estimate that every year professional sports teams in America are responsible for ~5000 air flights. It seems to me this is an unconscionable contribution to greenhouse gases and global warming. Professional sports are an utterly frivolous and useless form of entertainment. They are not an essential service. I don't understand whynewspapers like the New York Times that are constantly obsessed about climate change also promote the sporting industry without the slightest degree of introspection. I am urging City Council to pass a resolution condemning the industry of professional sports and asking Fort Collins residence not to patronize them either in person or on TV in order to mitigate this terrible aggravator of climatic instability. I would like to hear from you about this important problem. Thank you, Michael Korn 970.988.5822 From:Morgan Nowlen To:Yahoo Mail.® Cc:Pc User; Teresa Dixon; David Meiswinkle (NJ); Lou Basile; Philip Hussa; Dennis Tiernan; Bob McCafferty; JackDerripper; Biotica; Denise; Djoymorgan27; Frank Agamennon; Sarah Klepner; Frank Agamennon; George Lydakis;Teresa Dixon; BBC ONLY; Steve Kormandy; Greta Bernhardt; David Slesinger; Julia Piccici (WA); Michael Zarzano(FL); Sandra Jelmi; Richard Gage; Cat Watters (NY); Fran Shure; Matt Mills (NJ); Alfred Magaletta (MA); Matt VanSlyke; Gene Laratonda (PA); Lawrence Fine (MA); Richard Ellefritz (IL); Phil Restino (FL); June Speight; Susan Serpa (MA); Les Jamieson; Mikey Porazzo; Barbara Honegger (CA); Bill Jacoby (NY); Sander Hicks (NY); Gene Laratonda(PA); Michael Santangelo; Michael Zarzano (FL); Eileen Coles; Hegelian Dialectic’s White Rabbit; Thomas Moore;Ezrider67; Nancy Brais; Frank Cott; mkormondy@yahoo.com; Joanne Casey; Haydee Bill Mooney; NJ Electrician;Patty LaPlaca; Andres Lorraine; Camille Lachica; Carol Macannico; Perla Simmons; Rachel Joy Simmons; LIST Dutchess County; Michael Ryan; Jack & Barbara Connors; coderevival@yahoo.ca; F Cosmas; BBC ONLY; Chris L.Spiess; Nancy Clancy; clmacgil@ucalgary.ca; cotingas@hotmail.com; Claire; Council, City; NICOLE;ckerwick1@yahoo.com; MARGO COLEMAN; FRANK SOOS; cldodson07@yahoo.com; Cort Greene; LinkedIn; BRIAN HALL; contactsellis@gmail.com; connor_hart@comcast.net; Don Fredrick; corky4president2002@gmail.com;coglitor@unive.it; codepinkorlando@gmail.com; Carlos Jr Rodriguez; cl_madison@hotmail.com; BBC ONLY; BBCONLY; companeras1994@yahoo.com; BRIAN WILLIAM HALL; commanderlopez@gmail.com;cmchinn2005@hotmail.com; CommSocial; Amy Atkinson; yellowbuzz2@yahoo.com; ymqyw@yahoo.com; yobar23@gmail.com; yucobond@gmail.com; zuk6224@gmail.com; zinnguy@hotmail.com; zoxebox@hotmail.com;yourfinancialhealing@gmail.com; yourogue@hotmail.com; zenblews@hotmail.com; zubaby2244@yahoo.com;yorkie@mtb.biglobe.ne.jp; zmorales83@yahoo.com; yellowsub910@verizon.net; ajwalker86@hotmail.co.uk;a7la_marmoor@hotmail.com; 911grassroots@gmail.com; adam.alex.c@gmail.com; acgravity@gmail.com; Amilie;Annie Bunting; ALDEE FILLEY; Adam; Adam Fligsten; BAYYENAH ABOUL-AZIZ; Rich Schultz; alandberta@gmail.com;adam johnson; Alan Watt; 911readingroom@gmail.com; aahoover@comcast.net; 911research.com@gmail.com;Ajene Washington; abolishtaxes@gmail.com; ALAIN CARPENTER; 911review.com@gmail.com; agallop@hotmail.com; abenelson@hotmail.com; Anne Johnson; 911truthwatertown@gmail.com; Amy de Miceli Ellie;1800capone@gmail.com; emilia a; 911truthfarmer@gmail.com; 60m@cbsnews.com; A. Caballero;4galsandi@comcast.net; Lee Chin; Jason Robo; steve J. Williams; alan_b.stard.m.p@westnet.com.au; A.Kafouri;Adam Parrott; butlincat; a_verias@yahoo.com; Jeffrey Albright; Arthur Cristian; adam_boulden20@yahoo.com;2smileylee@gmail.com; Anita Barth; Choong Kiat Yian; alan cranford; 911tap@gmail.com; 2byrnes@bellsouth.net Subject:Re: LC venue? LCfor911.org is one giant step for man one giant leap for mankind Date:Thursday, July 22, 2021 7:19:32 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. The Unitarian Church turns us away Yoda: "outside the box will you find it, mmhmm." Morgan Nowlen9/11 Truth Action Project (911tap.org)9/11 Truth Action Project Charlottesville (FB & Meetup) 132 Westwood Circle Charlottesville, VA 22903 310.715.9085 On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:08 PM Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> wrote: The time window in the below Poster would conflict with the major LC Event, so better to have an outdoor Rally on Saturday as discussed previously. TAP would need to be the lead getting all the permissions,etc. On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 9:35 AM Matt Van Slyke <m.vanslyke@911tap.org> wrote: Feel free to use this if it helps... Change whatever needs be. Let me know if you need originals. Matt Van Slyke Truth Action Project From: "gene" <gene@laratonda.com>Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2021 8:04 AMTo: "Sandra Jelmi" <sandrajelmi@gmail.com>Cc: "Susan Serpa" <sueserpa@gmail.com>, "Alfred Magaletta (MA)" <Alfred.Magaletta@gmail.com>, "Barbara Honegger (CA)" <bshonegg@gmail.com>, "Betty Smith (NC)" <bgsmith434@gmail.com>, "BillJacoby (NY)" <wsjacoby@hotmail.com>, "Cat Watters (NY)" <catspaws44@gmail.com>,"DavidMeiswinkle (NJ)" <drmeiswinkle@aol.com>, "David Slesinger (NC)"<davidslesinger@yahoo.com>, "Deb Lee (NY)" <deblee1305@gmail.com>, "FranShure"<franshure@estreet.com>, "Frank Agamemnon (NJ)" <honkystar@yahoo.com>, "Julia Piccici (WA)"<jpicicci@yahoo.com>, "JuneSpeight" <junespeight2017@gmail.com>, "Lawrence Fine (MA)"<Lorenzonine@gmail.com>, "Matt Mills (NJ)" <mattmillsnj@gmail.com>, "MattVan Slyke"<m.vanslyke@911tap.org>, "Michael Zarzano (FL)" <AmericanFreedomFarm@gmail.com>, "MikeyPorazzo" <mikeyp1891@gmail.com>, "Morgan Nowlen (OR)" <exomorgan9@gmail.com>, "Phil Restino (FL)" <restinop@aol.com>, "Richard Ellefritz (IL)" <RichardEllefritz@gmail.com>, "Sander Hicks (NY)" <sanderhicksdotcom@gmail.com>, "Thomas Moore" <conguano@comcast.net>, "Les Jamieson"<artisan3@gmail.com>Subject: Re: LC venue canceled Just giving my 2 cents of wishful thinking. It would be nice to have events at a conference room(s) in ahotel where people from out of town could get rooms and participate in main events and breakout sessions. https://www.tripadvisor.com/HotelsList-New_York_City-Convention-Hotels-zfp41427.html Sent from my Galaxy -------- Original message -------- From: Les Jamieson <artisan3@gmail.com> Date: 7/18/21 9:17 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Sandra Jelmi <sandrajelmi@gmail.com> Cc: Susan Serpa <sueserpa@gmail.com>, "Alfred Magaletta (MA)" <Alfred.Magaletta@gmail.com>, "Barbara Honegger (CA)" <bshonegg@gmail.com>, "Betty Smith (NC)" <bgsmith434@gmail.com>, "Bill Jacoby (NY)" <wsjacoby@hotmail.com>, "Cat Watters (NY)" <catspaws44@gmail.com>, "DavidMeiswinkle (NJ)" <drmeiswinkle@aol.com>, "David Slesinger (NC)" <davidslesinger@yahoo.com>, "Deb Lee (NY)" <deblee1305@gmail.com>, Fran Shure <franshure@estreet.com>, "Frank Agamemnon (NJ)" <honkystar@yahoo.com>, "Julia Piccici (WA)" <jpicicci@yahoo.com>, June Speight <junespeight2017@gmail.com>, "Lawrence Fine (MA)" <Lorenzonine@gmail.com>, "Matt Mills (NJ)" <mattmillsnj@gmail.com>, Matt Van Slyke <m.vanslyke@911tap.org>, "Michael Zarzano (FL)" <AmericanFreedomFarm@gmail.com>, Mikey Porazzo <mikeyp1891@gmail.com>, "Morgan Nowlen (OR)" <exomorgan9@gmail.com>, "Phil Restino (FL)" <restinop@aol.com>, "Richard Ellefritz (IL)" <RichardEllefritz@gmail.com>, "Sander Hicks (NY)" <sanderhicksdotcom@gmail.com>, Thomas Moore<conguano@comcast.net>, gene <gene@laratonda.com> Subject: Re: LC venue canceled Now we've had cancellations from 2 churches who are known to be progressive, and have had many political events over the years. A couple of years ago it was Community Church which is Unitarian, as is All Souls Church. You just never know what the forces are behind the decisions and where they're coming from. Dave has a big list of other venues to pursue. One will come through Les On Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 9:14 PM Sandra Jelmi <sandrajelmi@gmail.com> wrote: I don't have the details, but regardless - no matter what they give as an official response, that doesn't mean it's the real reason. The focus for the LC now is on finding a new venue. On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 7:15 PM Susan Serpa <sueserpa@gmail.com> wrote: I’m sure we can all speculate as to the reason, officially what does All Souls say the reason is? On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 7:01 PM Sandra Jelmi <sandrajelmi@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, Dave Meiswinkle called (and Barbara wrote) to tell me that the venue for the LC event on Sept 11th, All Souls Church, is no more. Despite the contract having been signed, All Souls pulled out of the contract. So it's back to the drawing board for the LC. We're not quite sure what will happen with the AE event. So in case you had already shared this information publicly (as did the LC on their site, they have now removed it), please be aware that this no longer stands. Thank you, Sandra From:Aram James To:Roberta Ahlquist Cc:chuck jagoda; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Raj; Human Relations Commission; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; Council, City; David Angel; Molly; Joe Simitian; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Raj Subject:Re: prisons in Finland Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 5:11:10 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Thanks Roberta! Excellent piece Sent from my iPhone On Jul 26, 2021, at 4:27 PM, Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu>wrote: https://youtu.be/l554kV12Wuo From:Mary Gallagher To:Roberta Ahlquist Cc:WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Human Relations Commission; Council, City; Pastor Kaloma Smith; ParkRec Commission; planning.commision@cityofpaloalto.org; Dave Price Subject:Re: SF Chronicle: Manhattanize Palo Alto - Silicon Valley"s birthplace needs to be a housing innovator againDate:Sunday, July 25, 2021 11:23:06 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clickingon links. Dear Housing Advocates: Like: that vast moat of land at the north entrance. Again, this suggests any increase in homes would depend on new construction, high rises on bare land. The article also fails to mention CIQA: https://www.opr.ca.gov/ceqa/ I continue to have the mantra: no new construction is needed. There is an abundant number of existing structures that could be used to add homes to the inventory of homes in Palo Alto and on the SF Peninsula. The corporations with the jobs must engage to reveal ghost houses, create maps of homeless encampments, and identify other existing structures for their employees in Palo Alto as well as those living further way.. Thank you for sharing this article, Roberta. Mary On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:51 PM Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> wrote:fyi Time to make some changes!Date: Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 8:33 PMSubject: SF Chronicle: Manhattanize Palo Alto - Silicon Valley's birthplace needs to be a housing innovator again Roberta Alquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> Check out this opinion piece in today’s SF Chronicle that is spot on about how irresponsible Shallow Alto has been for so long: Manhattanize Palo Alto Silicon Valley’s birthplace needs to be a housing innovator again By Brock Keeling Chronicle illustration ; Getty Images Most people know Palo Alto as the epicenter of tech. In 1939, Hewlett-Packard was conceived in a garage on Addison Avenue in the city’s University South neighborhood. The detached wooden shed, a registered California landmark declared as “the birthplace of Silicon Valley,” is now a museum. Less known, however, is Palo Alto’s role as a housing innovator. A couple of decades after HP’s birth, as the tech industry began to take root, famed developer Joseph Eichler, who believed that good design should be democratic, studded the city with affordable homes that, at the time, were priced to move. He usedinnovative and imaginative architects to bring roughly 2,700 homes with crisp lines and a focus on the outdoors to the workingclass. These ticky-tacky structures were part of America’s post-war boom, and helped populate the Bay Area through a unique triangulation of high style and build-bythe-numbers ease at friendly prices. As creative minds thrived in Palo Alto, Eichler’s homes housed Silicon Valley’s first wave. They even helped germinate the world’s biggest tech company. Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, grew up in an Eichler in Sunnyvale. The late Steve Jobs, meanwhile, credited Eichler for inspiring him to create Apple’s welldesigned products for the mass market. “I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn’t cost much,” he said of Eichler’s homes in Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs.” “It was the original vision for Apple. That’s what we tried to do with the first Mac.” (Although Jobs assumed he had lived in an Eichler growing up in Mountain View, his family’s Mid-Century Modern was determined to be a lookalike by a competing developer, which Eichler fans call a “Likeler.”) These days, however, the betrayal of Eichler’s affordable and stylish vision really slaps you in the face the moment you step off the train in Palo Alto. Two mid-rise Amazon buildings, emblazoned with the $3.1 billion company’s logo, confront you as youenter the city’s main drag. A slew of boutique venture capitalist firms, with villainous-sounding names like Bain Capital orOmers Ventures, sprout not far away. What you won’t find is enough housing. Eichler’s Mid-Century Modern homes, prized for their vaulted ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows, now regularly fetchupward of $2.5 million. In an acutely perverse way, Eichler’s homes are still affordable, relatively speaking; The median home price in Palo Alto today is $3.5 million, according to June 2021 Redfin estimates. A lucrative investment for the lucky few who can afford it. The culprit? During an era of unfettered tech innovation and cash flow, the city barely increased its housing stock. From 2004, when a puerile Mark Zuckerberg rented a home on La Jennifer Way during the nascent days of “the Facebook,” up until today, scant homes have been built for an increasing workforce. Between 2010 and 2018 Palo Alto's jarring jobs-tohousing ratio was 16:1, with 20,475 jobs added, but only 1,269 homes permitted, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (The jobs-to-housing ratio is grim across the Bay Area.) The city’s egregious lack of shelter has even prompted its own leaders to flee for higher ground: In 2016, Kate Vershov Downing, a former Palo Alto planning and transportation commissioner, quit her job alleging a stubborn City Council andskyrocketing rental prices that she and her family could no longer afford. As former mayor Eric Filseth said in 2020: “You can’t have a functional community comprised only of software engineers andpatent attorneys.” Don’t blame the tech industry for Palo Alto's enforced dearth of housing; that would be as cliche as it would be wrong. “Palo Alto has a small group of very wealthy, very powerful people that do not want to see growth,” says Angie Evans,executive director of Palo Alto Forward, a housing advocacy group. “If you go to a playground and chat with parents andgrandparents, most people here want to see a living, growing city where we change alongside the needs of the community.” Evans, who lives two blocks away from the Zuckerberg family in the Crescent Park neighborhood, points to a well-moneyedgroup that ties together anti-housing coteries Embarcadero Institute, Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning and United Neighbors. (Word to the wise: Groups using such jargon as “sensible” or “united” in their names are usually the opposite.) “The strongest force pushing back against new housing in Palo Alto is what's known as the ‘residentialist’ faction,” says Jordan Grimes, a Peninsula housing advocate whose Twitter breakdowns of NIMBY meetings are as legendary as they are informative. (One noteworthy gripe was from a Palo Altan who complained that new housing would bump up traffic, and thus increase the time it takes to get to her second home in Lake Tahoe.) Said housing group of purported sensibility has helped elect the city’s current crop of council members, which includes a real estate agent as well as its mayor, a former Palo Altans for SensibleZoning member. It’s also important to not let Stanford University, which has one of the largest campuses in the world, off the hook. StanfordResearch Park, created in 1951, led to the creation of VMware, Tesla and SAP Labs, among other tech firms, creating tens ofthousands of jobs while doing almost nothing in terms of housing creation. The school’s general lot 8, a vast moat of land and a smattering of trees at the university’s north entrance, could easily provide space for dire housing. There is an answer to this quandary: Palo Alto needs to return to its roots as a housing innovator It’s time to Manhattanize Palo Alto. That’s right, Manhattanize, the oft-used West Coast slur that should be embraced and enforced in the Valley. By mandating residential mid and high-rises, Palo Alto can become ground zero for housing that goes above — way above — its puny 50-foot ceiling for new developments, a law enacted in the early 1970s to allegedly preserve quality of life. Get rid of all parking requirements, an outdated mandate from 1951. Affix fees on new commercial builders to fund affordable housing. And increase the puny 20% affordable housing requirement while you’re at it. Lydia Kou, the aforementioned Realtor and a self-described “moderategrowth” City Council member, told me, “It’s simplistic thinking to think it’s okay to just start building. It’s not sensible; it’s just rhetoric.” But even Eichler was prone to the occasional high-rise, like the 315-foot Summit atop Russian Hill, noted for its flared concrete shaft. One of the Bay Area’s best living designers, Stanley Saitowiz, could do wonders given a skyscraper project in Palo Alto. “I don’t care that much about how tall a building is or the facade,” Evans says. “I care about whether my kids are able to grow up in a place that embraces racial and economic diversity and that prioritizes the people most impacted by our problems.” As mandated by the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Bay Area as a whole has to change its zoning to allow construction of 441,000 new homes from 2023 to 2031. It’s time to build your share, Palo Altans. You want the envious sobriquet “the birthplace of Silicon Valley”? Then act like it. Turn your skyline into glorious habitable towers that reach beyond the stars. And don’t go anywhere, Cupertino. You’re next. Brock Keeling is an award-winning writer who covers California. -- Mary Gallagher, B.Sc.Aquatics Professional650-683-7102 (cell) Copyright 2021 Security Alert NoticeThe information contained in this e-mail is confidential information, presumed to be virus free, and intended only for use by the individual or entity named above. Virusprotection is the responsibility of the recipient. If the reader of this email is not the intended recipient, dissemination or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this emailin error, please delete the material from your computer. From:Aram James To:Roberta Ahlquist Cc:WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Human Relations Commission; Council, City; ParkRec Commission; planning.commision@cityofpaloalto.org; Joe Simitian; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Shikada, Ed; Stump, Molly; Rebecca Eisenberg; DuBois, Tom Subject:Re: SF Chronicle: Manhattanize Palo Alto - Silicon Valley"s birthplace needs to be a housing innovator again Date:Sunday, July 25, 2021 11:17:42 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Roberta, Excellent piece! Thanks for circulating! Best regards, Aram Sent from my iPhone On Jul 25, 2021, at 10:51 PM, Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> wrote: fyi Time to make some changes! Date: Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 8:33 PMSubject: SF Chronicle: Manhattanize Palo Alto - Silicon Valley's birthplace needs to be a housing innovator again Roberta Alquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> Check out this opinion piece in today’s SF Chronicle that is spot on about howirresponsible Shallow Alto has been for so long: Manhattanize Palo Alto Silicon Valley’s birthplace needs to be a housing innovator again By Brock Keeling <image001.jpg> Chronicle illustration ; Getty Images Most people know Palo Alto as the epicenter of tech. In 1939, Hewlett- Packard was conceived in a garage on Addison Avenue in the city’s University South neighborhood. The detached wooden shed, a registered California landmark declared as “the birthplace of Silicon Valley,” is now a museum. Less known, however, is Palo Alto’s role as a housing innovator. A couple of decades after HP’s birth, as the tech industry began to take root, famed developer Joseph Eichler, who believed that good design should be democratic, studded the city with affordable homes that, at the time, were priced to move. He used innovative and imaginative architects to bring roughly 2,700 homes with crisp lines and a focus on the outdoors to the working class. These ticky-tacky structures were part of America’s post-war boom, and helped populate the Bay Area through a unique triangulation of high style and build-bythe-numbers ease at friendly prices. As creative minds thrived in Palo Alto, Eichler’s homes housed Silicon Valley’s first wave. They even helped germinate the world’s biggest tech company. Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, grew up in an Eichler in Sunnyvale. The late Steve Jobs, meanwhile, credited Eichler for inspiring him to create Apple’s welldesigned products for the mass market. “I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn’t cost much,” he said of Eichler’s homes in Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs.” “It was the original vision for Apple. That’s what we tried to do with the first Mac.” (Although Jobs assumed he had lived in an Eichler growing up in Mountain View, his family’s Mid-Century Modern was determined to be a lookalike by a competing developer, which Eichler fans call a “Likeler.”) These days, however, the betrayal of Eichler’s affordable and stylish vision really slaps you in the face the moment you step off the train in Palo Alto. Two mid-rise Amazon buildings, emblazoned with the $3.1 billion company’s logo, confront you as you enter the city’s main drag. A slew of boutique venture capitalist firms, with villainous-sounding names like Bain Capital or Omers Ventures, sprout not far away. What you won’t find is enough housing. Eichler’s Mid-Century Modern homes, prized for their vaulted ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows, now regularly fetch upward of $2.5 million. In an acutely perverse way, Eichler’s homes are still affordable, relatively speaking; The median home price in Palo Alto today is $3.5 million, according to June 2021 Redfin estimates. A lucrative investment for the lucky few who can afford it. The culprit? During an era of unfettered tech innovation and cash flow, the city barely increased its housing stock. From 2004, when a puerile Mark Zuckerberg rented a home on La Jennifer Way during the nascent days of “the Facebook,” up until today, scant homes have been built for an increasing workforce. Between 2010 and 2018 Palo Alto's jarring jobs-tohousing ratio was 16:1, with 20,475 jobs added, but only 1,269 homes permitted, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (The jobs-to-housing ratio is grim across the Bay Area.) The city’s egregious lack of shelter has even prompted its own leaders to flee for higher ground: In 2016, Kate Vershov Downing, a former Palo Alto planning and transportation commissioner, quit her job alleging a stubborn City Council and skyrocketing rental prices that she and her family could no longer afford. As former mayor Eric Filseth said in 2020: “You can’t have a functional community comprised only of software engineers and patent attorneys.” Don’t blame the tech industry for Palo Alto's enforced dearth of housing; that would be as cliche as it would be wrong. “Palo Alto has a small group of very wealthy, very powerful people that do not want to see growth,” says Angie Evans, executive director of Palo Alto Forward, a housing advocacy group. “If you go to a playground and chat with parents and grandparents, most people here want to see a living, growing city where we change alongside the needs of the community.” Evans, who lives two blocks away from the Zuckerberg family in the Crescent Park neighborhood, points to a well-moneyed group that ties together anti-housing coteries Embarcadero Institute, Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning and United Neighbors. (Word to the wise: Groups using such jargon as “sensible” or “united” in their names are usually the opposite.) “The strongest force pushing back against new housing in Palo Alto is what's known as the ‘residentialist’ faction,” says Jordan Grimes, a Peninsula housing advocate whose Twitter breakdowns of NIMBY meetings are as legendary as they are informative. (One noteworthy gripe was from a Palo Altan who complained that new housing would bump up traffic, and thus increase the time it takes to get to her second home in Lake Tahoe.) Said housing group of purported sensibility has helped elect the city’s current crop of council members, which includes a real estate agent as well as its mayor, a former Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning member. It’s also important to not let Stanford University, which has one of the largest campuses in the world, off the hook. Stanford Research Park, created in 1951, led to the creation of VMware, Tesla and SAP Labs, among other tech firms, creating tens of thousands of jobs while doing almost nothing in terms of housing creation. The school’s general lot 8, a vast moat of land and a smattering of trees at the university’s north entrance, could easily provide space for dire housing. There is an answer to this quandary: Palo Alto needs to return to its roots as a housing innovator It’s time to Manhattanize Palo Alto. That’s right, Manhattanize, the oft-used West Coast slur that should be embraced and enforced in the Valley. By mandating residential mid and high-rises, Palo Alto can become ground zero for housing that goes above — way above — its puny 50-foot ceiling for new developments, a law enacted in the early 1970s to allegedly preserve quality of life. Get rid of all parking requirements, an outdated mandate from 1951. Affix fees on new commercial builders to fund affordable housing. And increase the puny 20% affordable housing requirement while you’re at it. Lydia Kou, the aforementioned Realtor and a self-described “moderategrowth” City Council member, told me, “It’s simplistic thinking to think it’s okay to just start building. It’s not sensible; it’s just rhetoric.” But even Eichler was prone to the occasional high-rise, like the 315-foot Summit atop Russian Hill, noted for its flared concrete shaft. One of the Bay Area’s best living designers, Stanley Saitowiz, could do wonders given a skyscraper project in Palo Alto. “I don’t care that much about how tall a building is or the facade,” Evans says. “I care about whether my kids are able to grow up in a place that embraces racial and economic diversity and that prioritizes the people most impacted by our problems.” As mandated by the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Bay Area as a whole has to change its zoning to allow construction of 441,000 new homes from 2023 to 2031. It’s time to build your share, Palo Altans. You want the envious sobriquet “the birthplace of Silicon Valley”? Then act like it. Turn your skyline into glorious habitable towers that reach beyond the stars. And don’t go anywhere, Cupertino. You’re next. Brock Keeling is an award-winning writer who covers California. From:mark weiss To:WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Human Relations Commission; Council, City; Pastor Kaloma Smith; ParkRecCommission; planning.commision@cityofpaloalto.org; Dave Price; Roberta Ahlquist;brockallenkeeling@gmail.com; Lenny Siegel; Rebecca Eisenberg; Becky Sanders Subject:Re: SF Chronicle: Manhattanize Palo Alto - Silicon Valley"s birthplace needs to be a housing innovator again Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 8:56:04 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Brock Keeling is just a tool of the tech industry. The real story is the corporate monoculture begat by the proliferation of semiconductors/computers/social media combined with whatGeorge Packer -- twice his age, writes for better papers, son of two professors, works for Laurene Powell Jobs, went to Gunn -- calls the "unwinding" of Democracy - it's a vacuum. I'm consistently "New Residentialist" -- running for council 3 times, applying for commissions5 times -- which means taking the lead from Tom Jordan, Enid Pearson and Emily Rentzel who OPPOSED THE CORPORATE HEGEMONY OF HEWLETT PACKARD. Iconsistently oppose development of both commercial and residential developers -- because they game the system, push for upzones --- LIKE AT FRY'S / NORTH VENTURACURRENTLY -- and are greedy. I'm for additional major park in Ventura -- OUR HISTORICALLY BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD -- and a MUSICIAN'S VILLAGE. On that 60 acre upzoned city, therecould be a project that has about 40 units, 20 of which are earmarked for musicians. Mark Weiss Earthwise Productions - -which is a spin-off of Bay Area Action Earthdayin Palo Alto SORRY ABOUT THE ALL CAPS -- TOO MUCH COFFEE SO FAR THIS A.M. PS Steve Jobs often came to my concert series at Cubberly Community Center, the repurposedhigh school, fall, 1994 to winter 2001 WHICH IS WHERE HE GOT THE IDEA FOR THE IPOD. PSS I married a palo alto arts commissioner in 2017 and we honeymooned in Manhattan in2018 so I don't completely disagree with Brock On Sunday, July 25, 2021, 10:51:01 PM PDT, Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> wrote: fyi Time to make some changes! Date: Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 8:33 PM Subject: SF Chronicle: Manhattanize Palo Alto - Silicon Valley's birthplace needs to be a housing innovator again Roberta Alquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> Check out this opinion piece in today’s SF Chronicle that is spot on about how irresponsible Shallow Alto has been for so long: Manhattanize Palo Alto Silicon Valley’s birthplace needs to be a housing innovator again By Brock Keeling Chronicle illustration ; Getty Images Most people know Palo Alto as the epicenter of tech. In 1939, Hewlett-Packard was conceived in a garage on Addison Avenue in the city’s University South neighborhood. The detached wooden shed, a registered California landmark declared as “the birthplace of Silicon Valley,” is now a museum. Less known, however, is Palo Alto’s role as a housing innovator. A couple of decades after HP’s birth, as the tech industry began to take root, famed developer Joseph Eichler, who believed that good design should be democratic, studded the city with affordable homes that, at the time, were priced to move. He used innovative and imaginative architects to bring roughly 2,700 homes with crisp lines and a focus on the outdoors to the working class. These ticky-tacky structures were part of America’s post-war boom, and helped populate the Bay Area through a unique triangulation of high style and build-bythe-numbers ease at friendly prices. As creative minds thrived in Palo Alto, Eichler’s homes housed Silicon Valley’s first wave. They even helped germinate the world’s biggest tech company. Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, grew up in an Eichler in Sunnyvale. The late Steve Jobs, meanwhile, credited Eichler for inspiring him to create Apple’s welldesigned products for the mass market. “I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn’t cost much,” he said of Eichler’s homes in Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs.” “It was the original vision for Apple. That’s what we tried to do with the first Mac.” (Although Jobs assumed he had lived in an Eichler growing up in Mountain View, his family’s Mid-Century Modern was determined to be a lookalike by a competing developer, which Eichler fans call a “Likeler.”) These days, however, the betrayal of Eichler’s affordable and stylish vision really slaps you in the face the moment you step off the train in Palo Alto. Two mid-rise Amazon buildings, emblazoned with the $3.1 billion company’s logo, confront you as you enter the city’s main drag. A slew of boutique venture capitalist firms, with villainous- sounding names like Bain Capital or Omers Ventures, sprout not far away. What you won’t find is enough housing. Eichler’s Mid-Century Modern homes, prized for their vaulted ceilings and floor-to- ceiling windows, now regularly fetch upward of $2.5 million. In an acutely perverse way, Eichler’s homes are still affordable, relatively speaking; The median home price in Palo Alto today is $3.5 million, according to June 2021 Redfin estimates. A lucrative investment for the lucky few who can afford it. The culprit? During an era of unfettered tech innovation and cash flow, the city barely increased its housing stock. From 2004, when a puerile Mark Zuckerberg rented a home on La Jennifer Way during the nascent days of “the Facebook,” up until today, scant homes have been built for an increasing workforce. Between 2010 and 2018 Palo Alto's jarring jobs-tohousing ratio was 16:1, with 20,475 jobs added, but only 1,269 homes permitted, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (The jobs-to-housing ratio is grim across the Bay Area.) The city’s egregious lack of shelter has even prompted its own leaders to flee for higher ground: In 2016, Kate Vershov Downing, a former Palo Alto planning and transportation commissioner, quit her job alleging a stubborn City Council and skyrocketing rental prices that she and her family could no longer afford. As former mayor Eric Filseth said in 2020: “You can’t have a functional community comprised only of software engineers and patent attorneys.” Don’t blame the tech industry for Palo Alto's enforced dearth of housing; that would be as cliche as it would be wrong. “Palo Alto has a small group of very wealthy, very powerful people that do not want to see growth,” says Angie Evans, executive director of Palo Alto Forward, a housing advocacy group. “If you go to a playground and chat with parents and grandparents, most people here want to see a living, growing city where we change alongside the needs of the community.” Evans, who lives two blocks away from the Zuckerberg family in the Crescent Park neighborhood, points to a well-moneyed group that ties together anti-housing coteries Embarcadero Institute, Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning and United Neighbors. (Word to the wise: Groups using such jargon as “sensible” or “united” in their names are usually the opposite.) “The strongest force pushing back against new housing in Palo Alto is what's known as the ‘residentialist’ faction,” says Jordan Grimes, a Peninsula housing advocate whose Twitter breakdowns of NIMBY meetings are as legendary as they are informative. (One noteworthy gripe was from a Palo Altan who complained that new housing would bump up traffic, and thus increase the time it takes to get to her second home in Lake Tahoe.) Said housing group of purported sensibility has helped elect the city’s current crop of council members, which includes a real estate agent as well as its mayor, a former Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning member. It’s also important to not let Stanford University, which has one of the largest campuses in the world, off the hook. Stanford Research Park, created in 1951, led to the creation of VMware, Tesla and SAP Labs, among other tech firms, creating tens of thousands of jobs while doing almost nothing in terms of housing creation. The school’s general lot 8, a vast moat of land and a smattering of trees at the university’s north entrance, could easily provide space for dire housing. There is an answer to this quandary: Palo Alto needs to return to its roots as a housing innovator It’s time to Manhattanize Palo Alto. That’s right, Manhattanize, the oft-used West Coast slur that should be embraced and enforced in the Valley. By mandating residential mid and high-rises, Palo Alto can become ground zero for housing that goes above — way above — its puny 50-foot ceiling for new developments, a law enacted in the early 1970s to allegedly preserve quality of life. Get rid of all parking requirements, an outdated mandate from 1951. Affix fees on new commercial builders to fund affordable housing. And increase the puny 20% affordable housing requirement while you’re at it. Lydia Kou, the aforementioned Realtor and a self-described “moderategrowth” City Council member, told me, “It’s simplistic thinking to think it’s okay to just start building. It’s not sensible; it’s just rhetoric.” But even Eichler was prone to the occasional high-rise, like the 315-foot Summit atop Russian Hill, noted for its flared concrete shaft. One of the Bay Area’s best living designers, Stanley Saitowiz, could do wonders given a skyscraper project in Palo Alto. “I don’t care that much about how tall a building is or the facade,” Evans says. “I care about whether my kids are able to grow up in a place that embraces racial and economic diversity and that prioritizes the people most impacted by our problems.” As mandated by the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Bay Area as a whole has to change its zoning to allow construction of 441,000 new homes from 2023 to 2031. It’s time to build your share, Palo Altans. You want the envious sobriquet “the birthplace of Silicon Valley”? Then act like it. Turn your skyline into glorious habitable towers that reach beyond the stars. And don’t go anywhere, Cupertino. You’re next. Brock Keeling is an award-winning writer who covers California. From:Aram James To:Jay Boyarsky; Human Relations Commission; Planning Commission; Jeff Moore; Council, City; ParkRecCommission; chuck jagoda; Roberta Ahlquist; Binder, Andrew; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Greer Stone;city.council@menlopark.org; Joe Simitian; Jeff Rosen; DuBois, Tom; Tanaka, Greg Subject:Re: Tasers Forum Aram James ( 2014) Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 8:05:18 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ From the archives of Aram James: why the Palo Alto Police Department should Shelve Tasers. > > Check out this video on YouTube: > > https://youtu.be/zxRyBZjY46s > > > Sent from my iPhone From:Morgan Nowlen To:Council, City Subject:Re: Your e-mail to City Council was received Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 3:37:25 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Thank you Charlottesville City Council, But I don't think my request/response/inquiry is worthy of your time. It's a simple matter of when deed was signed over & thus an articulation of tax responsibility based therefrom. Thisis fixable without the entire council looking into it. I know where the gentleman I turned the deed over to lives & we're friends. This matter should be solved on a small scale with oneperson in City gov. Thank you very much, Morgan Morgan Nowlen9/11 Truth Action Project (911tap.org) 9/11 Truth Action Project Charlottesville (FB & Meetup) 132 Westwood Circle Charlottesville, VA 22903310.715.9085 On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 10:19 PM Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote: Thank you for your comments to the City Council. Your e‐mail will be forwarded to allseven Council Members and a printout of your correspondence will also be included in the next available Council packet. If your comments are about an item that is already scheduled for a City Council agenda, youcan call (650) 329‐2571 to confirm that the item is still on the agenda for the next meeting. If your letter mentions a specific complaint or a request for service, we'll either reply with an explanation or else send it on to the appropriate department for clarification. We appreciate hearing from you. From:Michael Morganstern To:Council, City; City Mgr; Fire; Police Subject:Requiring Vaccination of City Employees Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 7:38:40 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I think that all city employees should be required to have Covid vaccination. At the very minimum, every fireman and policeman must be vaccinated. Anybody being taken to Stanford Emergency by the Fire Dept will be at an unneeded risk of Covid. Similar risks are posed by the Palo Alto Police. Not being vaccinated is absolutely contrary to Protect and Serve. Sincerely, Michael Morganstern (Age 79) 567 Lincoln AvePalo Alto 94301650 326-0600 From:isiordiam@yosemite.edu To:Council, City Subject:RFP Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 4:33:19 AM Importance:High CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.________________________________ Hi, we recently purchased a new constructionWe're in need of your service on the construction projectare you available to give a quote?I look forward to hearing from you if you are interested and available. Thank you!!John Aguilar From:Dilma Coleman To:jbryant@brentwoodca.gov; info@brentwoodhomeowners.org Cc:David Isidro; citycouncil@brentwoodca.gov Subject:Search for Sydney Simpson..Diva Lee desires to contact Sydney Simpson re:real estate license opportunity plusthe latest current dilemmas Friendly ghost of Nicole Brown Simpson at Little Orchard homeless shelter in SanJose CA Date:Thursday, July 22, 2021 2:37:31 PM Attachments:Screenshot_20210722-134603.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. What's up Brentwood,CA Mayor Bryant, my name is Diva Lee aka Dilma coleman....I appreciate your time to read this email. I desire ur help to communicate with Sydney Simpson,OJ Simpson and my ex husband Justin Simpson. It's regarding the trash women whom introduced drugs to Nicole Simpson their sorcerery, and their corrupt schemes of beingProfessional squatters whom haunted Diva in every real estate properties she obtained since the death of Nicole Brown Simpson on June 12,1994. It's not fair to trap Diva Lee aka DilmaColeman as a victim oppressed within 2021. Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman had owned a home in Fremont,CA and other geographic locations whereas Dilma was forced with ultimatums tosign documents which gave up her rights as a homeowner. The murder trial of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson isn't resolved whereas those individuals who witnessed the murderare housed at Little Orchard homeless shelter in San Jose CA and their Cohorts are those individuals who work in local businesses and government. In fact, the jurisdiction and trialneeds to reopen remain in Santa Clara county whereas the murderer and those whom disrupted the Los Angeles CA crime scene travelled from 477 Tuscarora Dr San Jose,CA On June12,1994 and Eastridge Aviation charter plane boarding ramps. Argue it. I argue that the crime scene of Nicole Simpson was tainted like a making of a Netflix documentary..who tainted thecrime scene at Nicole's home on June 12,1994? TMZ owner Harvey Levine and Santa Clara county DA Jeff Rosen and those trash women currently housed at Homefirst homeless shelter.DIVA IS a key witness to the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and victimized emotionally physically mentally in labor trafficking human trafficking stuff. U don't know the truth of howmuch sorcerery styles separate marriages..now dogs and their sexual organs are being Exploited..for individuals to be agressively attached to their pets for sexual gratification..divaLee currently living in little Orchard homeless shelter is a paranormal hypochondriac Psychic medium empath think tank PHD to JD surrounded by white trash women whom usedsorcerery jealous sadistic santanic ritualistic masochistly attacks on Nicole Brown Simpson on June 12,1994 and Ron Goldman..got it. Argue it..The word PTSD..is expressed thru thebehaviors of those trash women who did drugs with Nicole Simpson..their sorcerery styles separate marriages and made Justin Ray Simpson and other children begin their alrithgramsexperience with drugs..diva Lee an Jamacian Afghan Asian princess empress this n that..the granddaughter to Afghan Royals including Diva's late uncle "Bunny Striker Edward SullivanLee his identical twin brother is Diva's dad whom was killed by a santanic ritualistic masochistly attackers associated with Marriott hotel owner Bill Marriott. Justin Simpson in hischildhood was cohorced hypnotized to make his hand go to Nicole's purse whereas there was a crack pipe. That women on Bed #59..and #60 has managed to design their tresspasses likethose on cartoon Network show "South Park" Justin as a child simultaneously simulated that he smokes..with items from his mother's purse..that was the ritualistic practices which trashwomen on bed #59 did to Justin when she was in the inner circle of Nicole Brown Simpson and their drug abuses. Nicole Brown Simpson was a very good mother..who entertained thechildren in the house with watching WWF whereas these trash women currently living in little orchard homeless shelter..often scattered around the house as the most wicked fans or needy community comadadies from the wealthy whereas the lines were too long at other publicresources which handles the homeless aka papparatti's TMZ owner Harvey Levine it's his sorcerery operation it's backwards to the future to end sorcerers using aggressive physical actsof abuse which oppressed Diva..in the 1980's to early 1990's diva Lee did everything to get rid of trashy white women whom followed Nicole Simpson..stalked her turned her home intotrash then they act like housekeepers.. whereas those women did everything to taint the crime scene in the Los Angeles CA home of Nicole Brown Simpson on June 12,1994. These womentook a bubble gum..already been chewed snapped big bubble melted out of Diva's mouth..that dirty trash women on bed 59..she had took the gum out her mouth when she was a kid ...bed#59 blocks the restroom at Little Orchard homeless shelter in San Jose CA whereas she had the same habits at Nicole's home on June 12,1994. DIVA had to pee and poop on OJSimpson's floor in the past childhood whereas. dogs went too. . ..Is PTSD ok. Whenever these women see diva at little orchard their conversational words reflects the same words usedagain and again. Its their world..their rehearsals...like a rehearsal for reality TV .its what's diva Lee gave these women..PTSD diva busted their teeth out their mouth in the 1990's fortheir transgressions of tresspasses. Stop their reality TV....same women same missing teeth..same little orchard. Arrest them same trash women .from their habitualaggressions..their associated Cohorts whom tampered with the crime scene crime labs reports on the June 12,1994 death of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. Recognize theculprits whom organized the fashionable Reality TV shows those hurtful stories released on Netflix TV...who is on bed #60? Kathleen aka Donna the trash women biological mother toReal Estate Agent Idean Poursham. What did Kathleen do to Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman? Kathleen aka Donna is guilty of slavery humantrafficking and guilty of sexualassualts..her nasty hate on Jamacian Afghan Asian women Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman. I am not a WWF..I am a thumbsucker only in the night..brief on brief.. considering thecircumstances of could I get an Asylum..on Earth. I can't believe that.. Nicole's haunted house..that she built for us in our childhood..remember Diva's costume was similar to a Chinacabinet whereas..Justin Simpson spent all day..trying to figure out how to remove Diva's Halloween costume. Attachment #1 is a Fortune Teller Halloween costume similar to the oneNicole Brown Simpson her homemade Halloween costume she and OJ SIMPSON built for Diva.. whereas OJ's son Justin Simpson spent hours trying to get inside of it with Diva.. Justinnot psychic or it's an psycho analysis..of a real life job training courses..Diva moved on to hair braiding..whereas hair beads are prohibited at the roller skating rink and bowlingalleys...whereas OJ Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson provided Saran wrap and aluminum foil as the head wraps to cover up the hair extensions with beads..the left over Saran wrap andaluminum foil transforms into a restaurant coming to you..but it was Basketball player Del Curry the criminal who participated in a home invasions stole cooking journals he madeultimatums just to get a list of spices and seasonings which Diva Lee's mother had in kitchen cabinet..the thoit Jamacian /Canadian down Syndrome women Ayesha Curry plagerized fromthe back of the cereal boxes her most prized work as an actress was strawberry shortcake doll with grape jelly spread on the top of the head. Whereas Diva made songwriting fun fromconflicted events whereas Strawberry jam was spread on my teddy bears..then the singer of the 1990's Guy song it..those fights those charectoristics of a down Syndrome women preparing asnack. Diva prepare a song..now compsoses detailed geographic sadistic santanic ritualistic reports whereas the law enforcement agents refused to make police report and make arrests..Whomever stole Peggy Ryen's cooking journals that's nice..it was plagerized by Ayesha Curry and nowadays Ayesha Curry organized meals for the homeless. cooking recipes from Peggy Ryen in the 1980's..my Father's baby momma whom was killedalong with Christopher , Hughes and Doug Ryen in Chino hills CA. San Quentin prison inmate Kevin Cooper. Whichever one Kim Kardashian can't exonerate anyone or become alawyer because of her dangerous sorcerer type of business..in the form of arson and drive by shooting after Diva. From San Quentin prison Kevin Cooper wasn't the killer but he wasoperating in a secret society..with California Governor Gavin Newsom..all Gavin did in 1994 was steal Diva's wineries PlumbJack. And a SF cornerstone..gavin claims he got it from aneye of newt...whereas it was an aggressive physical planned attack to get rid of Nicole Brown Simpson...whom was Diva's business guardian..and guardian of her stockportfolio...understand the sorcerers of the 1980cs..whom did it..Gavin Newsom and Kim Kardashian use sorcerery to recruit more drug addicts Protestors for Arsonists positions andthat's what they did to start those fires in California and Oregon. What I am saying is that Ayesha Curry a down Syndrome women plagerized cooking journals..like down SyndromeDonald Trump and his administration cabinet specialized in harvested drugs from sewer pipes under San Jose,CA Winchester Mystery House. If u don't have anything planned..plan on therecall of our current California Governor Gavin Newsom. Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee From:Joseph Okogbuo To:Council, City Subject:Silicon Valley Rv Rentals Date:Monday, July 26, 2021 10:27:42 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, This is a follow-up on the domain SiliconValleyRvRentals.com. We made a discount on it, perhaps your service is interested but not OK with the former price. You can now get it for $150; To get it now, go to www.SiliconValleyRvRentals.com However, if not interested, kindly let us know so that we can contact other businesses. Regards, Joseph Okogbuo From:Mayra Azanza To:Council, City; Planning Commission Subject:Turning left on Embarcadero Road Date:Friday, July 23, 2021 12:24:28 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council and Planning Commission members, I live in Walter Hays Dr and in order to enter Walnut Dr coming East or incorporating into Embarcadero to take 101 Fwy, I have to turn left on Embarcadero. I have been very close to being hit by cars while waiting to turn left on Embarcadero. It isalso very dangerous (and sometimes long-wait) to make a left from Walnut Dr towards 101 fwy. Is there a possibility to add a traffic light or a stop sign for that corner? Just yesterday as I waswaiting to turn left, the person behind was hit by the car behind them. I am a cautious driver, I usually have my children in the car with me and I am changing my driving habits to turn lefton Newell or all the way to St. Francis, but it has become more and more dangerous as we go back to pre-covid traffic, with people going back to the office and children to school. Me, my family and neighbors would benefit from a safer corner with crosswalks, traffic lightsor stop signs and clear signaling. Thank you, Mayra Azanza From:Nicole Valk To:Council, City Subject:Unsafe Conditions in Cowper/Webster Parking Garage Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 2:44:34 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To whomever this may concern, My name is Nicole Valk and I work at 505 Hamilton Avenue in Palo Alto. I would like to bring to your attention the rising issue with the homeless situation as well as other reckless behavior in the Cowper/Webster parking garage which is a garage that I frequently park in on a daily basis in order to go to work. I was notified a month or so ago that street parking would be enforced and thus I would need to start parking in the parking garage for long term parking. I have no problem with this, however, lately it has increasingly grown more and more unsafe to do so. I have received multiple complaints from our employees that they have been yelled at as well as spit on when walking to their cars in the parking garage from homeless people. In addition, I have been notified of suspicious activity coming from construction workers, etc. that has been taking place in this specific parking garage. The most recent attack was when my car was broken into last Thursday, July 22nd when I was parked on the basement level. My window was completely shattered and a few belongings that were located inside my middle console were broken beside my vehicle. The next day, my colleague suffered a similar break in where his window was shattered as well. I can’t say for certain who committed these crimes, but the issue is all the same: me and my coworkers do not feel safe when parking in the parking garage. With all of this being said, something needs to be done. For the time being, I implore you to allow long term street parking be permitted until something is done so more people don’t have to suffer through another car break in or a verbal/physical attack when walking to their cars. I kindly ask you again to please consider not reinforcing street parking for the safety of the Palo Alto workers and residents. Thank you for your time and your attention to this matter. Best, Nicole Valk Icon Ventures 505 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 310 Palo Alto, CA 94301 O: (650) 463-8811 | M: (650) 400-5732 From:Home To:Council, City Subject:Vaccinate or stay home Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2021 11:31:18 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to mandate all city employees to get vaccinated or stay home. If their job cannot be done at home adequately their employment should be terminated at once. Also vaccination proof should be required to enter city building including libraries, etc. If you fail to do this the public is owed an explanation as to why you are not doing so. Thank you for listening and hopefully taking immediate action. I think this all should have been done weeks ago. Paul Taylor 3185 Waverley St PA 701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 08/09/2021 Document dates: 06/09/2021 – 06/16/2021 Council Summer Break Set 8 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Winter Dellenbach <wintergery@earthlink.net> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 3:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:Memo - Item number 7 - for Council Members - City Council Meeting June 14 Attachments:WD IPA Scope of Services.docx   1 To: City Council Members From: Winter Dellenbach 6-14-21 City Council Meeting RE: Item #7 – Expand IPA Scope of Services 1.Complaints by Members of the Public and Internal Affairs Investigations A. Add Supervisor Inquiry Investigations (SIIs) to the Scope of Services Complaints from members of the public shall include Supervisor Inquiry Investigations, which are minor complaints that are sufficiently investigated and resolved through expedited review (formerly Informal Inquiry Reports). B. My Comments: At some point SIIs were created by the PAPD, carved out from Citizen Complaints, removed from IPA oversight, and supposedly restricted to simple complaints of misunderstanding and discourtesy requiring little investigation. However, someone on staff made a wise decision that IPA oversight was needed given the course that SIIs were taking in 2018, and it was imposed in 2019. By this time, SIIs were being used for more complex Complaints that generated multiple IPA recommendations for change within the PAPD. (See end of this memo for examples)* Now go to the police accountability URL below and compare two complaint forms – a short one on the screen applying to several categories of employees including sworn officers. This form is likely the one most complainants will fill out since it is on the screen. https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Police/Accountability/Employee-Complaint Next on the screen, click on the “Complaint Packet” above the green employee complaint box. You will see 7 pages about Citizen Complaints. These always have had IPA oversight, and as you can see by law must be retained for 5 years for officer accountability. The Complaints comprise data PAPD reports to the City yearly. In contrast, there is no information about SIIs Complaints available to the public on this site or elsewhere, not even in the Police Policy Manual (that the public doesn’t much look at, though Citizen Complaints are mentioned four times there). C. My Questions - our IPA thinks SIIs can be alright, but there are other concerns we should know and understand that Supervisor Inquiry Investigations must conform to: Is there a SIIs Complaint form that’s different than the Citizen Complaint form or does it always start as a Citizens Complaint? 2 Who decides if a Citizen Complaint remains or becomes a SII, the PAPD or the Complainant? Is a SIIs Complaint always retained for 5 years, and if it was gleaned from a Citizen’s Complaint, is that original Citizen’s Complaint also retained for 5 years? Are all SIIs included in PAPD’s data tracking for reporting purposes, just as are Citizen Complaints? Are SIIs used to monitor employees as a Performance Indicator by the PAPD? Note: Informal Inquiry Reports served this function, the former term for SIIs. (PAPD Policy1020.4.4) Is there a written process/policy for SIIs? If so, post it for the public to see on the Police Portal. If not, City Council, please require it be created now with the above concerns (and others?) in mind. Update the online Complaint filing site to better inform the public of this two-track Complaint protocol once there is a written process/policy. 754 2. Taser Deployment and Other Reviews Added Use of Force Reports and Injuries in the Draft Scope of Services Issue: If changes are not made, some of the most vital oversight expansions by Council could be severely undermined or entirely lost through poor wording. A.What Council Passed: “Direct Staff to amend and expand the current Independent Police Auditor’s (IPA) scope of services to include all administrative use of force reports where a baton, chemical agent, TASER, less-lethal\ projectile, canine, or a firearm is used, and all cases where the subject’s injuries necessitate any treatment beyond minor medical treatment in the field.” Council Action Minutes, 11-16-20, Motion as Amended Passed: 7-0 B. Compare your wording to this Draft Scope of Services language, pg. 2, (a) (b): The Department will promptly notify the CONSULTANT of each Taser deployment when any of the following occurs, regardless of whether a complaint is filed or the Department initiates an internal affairs investigation: (a) an officer deploys a Taser in an interaction with the public; and (b) an officer uses a baton, chemical agent, less-lethal projectile, canine, firearm or other force resulting in injury requiring treatment beyond minor medical care in the field. 
 3 C. My Comments: The draft Scope of Services substantially changes Council’s intent for the IPA to provide oversight of more use of force categories as listed in your action minutes above. You list “injury” as a separate added category, not as a qualification needed for the other categories to apply. If this is not changed it will greatly undermine the increase in police accountability this offers under some critical circumstances. For example, a person or group of people subjected to tear gas, or being shoved back with batons may not be injured to the point of requiring off-site treatment, but surely we can agree we would want the IPA’s oversight of such an incident. To fix this: To make the Draft Scope of Services align with Council intent is to either stick with Council’s original wording (easiest), or make the following changes: In (a), the word “and” should be deleted and replaced with “or” to better clarify that the list in (b) has no relevancy to a Taser being deployed or not. For (b), the clause in bold should be deleted and replaced by the wording passed by Council as seen in the above action minutes of November 16, 2020. 3. Timing, Review and Transmittal Publication of Reports A.What Council Passed: Timely IPA Reports Direct Staff to maintain an every six (6) months schedule for IPA reports to City Council containing reviews ready at the time of the report.” Council Action Minutes, 11-16-20, MOTION AS AMENDED PASSED: 7-0 B.Compare above to the Draft Scope of Services language, pg. 2: “Department [Police] and CONSULTANT [IPA] acknowledge that accountability and public trust are served by prompt, accurate and thorough Departmental investigations and CONSULTANT reviews. Department and CONSULTANT also acknowledge that the time required for investigation and review varies depending on the facts and circumstances, including availability of witnesses, investigative resources, complexity, and the existence of collateral proceedings. Department and CONSULTANT commit to use diligence and reasonable efforts to complete investigations, reviews and public reporting in a timely manner. 
 CONSULTANT will produce two reports during each year summarizing its findings and reporting on each investigation and disposition. Effective June 1, 2021, CONSULTANT’S reports will be published as a City Council Information Report in February and August, except upon mutual agreement where unusual circumstances require. 
By December 1 for the February report, and by June 1 for the August 4 report, CONSULTANT will transmit a Draft Report to the Department containing all matters CONSULTANT has completed since CONSULTANT’S most recent previous report. 

 CITY and CONSULTANT will coordinate and use reasonable efforts ensure the Draft is reviewed and finalized for publication in February and August. CITY reviews are for the purpose of completeness, accuracy, and compliance with law and procedure. CONSULTANT will consider CITY’s comments and will confer with CITY and attempt to reach a consensus. CONSULTANT will have final authority over the contents of the Final Report. If substantial issues arise with any matter, CONSULTANT shall consider pulling that matter for further work and publication in a subsequent report. C. My Comments: Enough with the Excuses and Lukewarm Assurances The truth is that it is exceedingly rare there is a legitimate reason for an entire IPA Report to be late. We saw it happen in 2019 because of the HR/IPA jurisdiction issue. Then things got bogged down which is why the Council wisely set a twice a year schedule for release of the IPA Report to it [and the public] – now February and August. The IPA can’t finish a Report if others hold it up. The litany of excuses here would have been better left out. Just meet the deadlines – staff meets deadlines all the time. If a case really can’t be released in its “year”, it doesn’t excuse holding up the IPA Report that typically includes several types of of case reviews, not just one. After your Monday meeting, it should contain even more. A.What Council Passed: Twice Yearly Public Meetings with IPA after Reports “Amend the contract to require the Independent Police Auditor (IPA) to meet with the City Council in open session twice a year with each report.” Council Action Minutes, 11-16-20, MOTION AS AMENDED PASSED: 7-0 B.Compare to the Draft Scope of Services language: “Beginning in the second half of 2021, CONSULTANT shall meet with the City Council two times per year to discuss trends in criminal justice and policing, policy and training matters, recommendations made by CONSULTANT, and other Council concerns. CONSULTANT’S conferences with Council are not for the purpose of elaborating on published reviews of specific incidents and shall not include discussion of personnel matters prohibited by law. Semi-annual conferences shall be 5 scheduled after publication of the CONSULTANT’S report, according to availability of Council and the CONSULTANT.” 
 C. My Comment: Write into the Scope of Services to make it totally clear: “…City Council meets in open session twice a year with each report”. *See above, 1. A. 2nd section, examples of SIIs reports City Manager Supplemental Report, 6-12 2018 Informal Inquires report: Officer Conduct - An officer stopped the arrestee for a lawful traffic violation Due to arrestee’s evasive driving and uncooperative behavior, the arrestee was detained at gunpoint. Based on the circumstances of the stop, the officer’s actions were consistent with Department policy. Excerpt from 2019 IPA Report – Informal Inquiry Complaint Report Allegation of Excessive Force During a Pat Down Search The complainant, who was seated in the front passenger’s seat of the vehicle and was the driver’s sister, prepared a complaint form. She was also interviewed by a supervisor assigned to conduct an inquiry and made the following allegations in writing and/or during the intake interview: • The officer was rude by opening the door after approaching the car. • The officer placed her sister in the rear of his police car without Mirandizing her. • The officer searched the car “for no reason”. • The officers asked them if there were any weapons in the car because they were African American. • The officer left with an arrestee not in handcuffs. RECOMMENDATION NINE: The supervisor should be briefed about the need to address every allegation raised by a complainant in his review and the need to base any justification for officers’ actions on the evidence available. Additional Issues Complainant interview not tape-recorded It is standard internal investigative practice to tape record interviews of complainants so that there is the “best record” of what was alleged and the fullest account of the complainant’s narrative. In this case, the supervisor did not tape record the conversation and there is no explanation in the file for why this did not occur. PAPD should devise protocols to ensure that complainant interviews are recorded. RECOMMENDATION ELEVEN: PAPD should devise protocols to ensure that all intake and follow-up interviews of complainants are tape recorded, and if extenuating issues make 6 this not feasible (such as complainants’ refusal to be recorded), there should be documentation explaining this. Notification Letter In advising the complainant of the disposition of this matter, PAPD sent a form letter with no information about what the Department did to investigate the complaint. It is an approach common among law enforcement agencies, largely because of confidentiality and efficiency concerns. But the downside to the lack of detail is that it easily contributes to skepticism about the thoroughness of the review and the legitimacy of the outcome. We have seen agencies address this dynamic by providing specific information that personalizes the response and reflects the due diligence that occurred. And those departments include language thanking the complainant for engaging and acknowledging the importance of public feedback. We mentioned this issue in our last report – in the context of encouraging PAPD to share its efforts in a case that it had reviewed quite carefully and thoughtfully. Providing additional information will make the process more meaningful to complainants and, given the small volume of cases. RECOMMENDATION TWELVE: Whenever a review of an incident identifies gratuitous profanity being spoken by an officer to a civilian, supervisors should ensure an appropriate remediation. RECOMMENDATION THIRTEEN: PAPD should consider providing more information and context in its closing letters, such as advising the complainant what investigative steps were taken and what sources of information contributed to the Department’s conclusion. Informal inquiries may include matters such as misunderstandings or minor issues of discourtesy. Historically these informal inquiries have not been included in the IPA’s scope of work and as a result were not included in the 2018 IPA reports issued, but were included in the City Manager’s Supplemental Reporting. However, beginning with the attached IPA report for calendar year 2019, and moving forward, these inquiries will be included in the IPA’s review. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:herb <herb_borock@hotmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 6:26 PM To:Council, City; Clerk, City Subject:June 14, 2021 Council Meeting, Item #8: 340 Portage/3200 Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Herb Borock  P. O. Box 632  Palo Alto, CA 94302    June 13, 2021    Palo Alto City Council  250 Hamilton Avenue  Palo Alto, CA 94301      JUNE 14, 2021 CITY COUNCIL MEETING, AGENDA ITEM #8  340 PORTAGE AVENUE / 3200 PARK BOULEVARD      Dear City Council:    I urge you to continue this agenda item until after your summer vacation to enable City staff to make available on the City's website the legislative history for the section of the Palo Alto Zoning Ordinance that is the subject of this agenda item.    One way to make the legislative history available is provide a link to the prior website that had all the documents from that are not accessible from the current website.    The public is entitled to have on a timely basis copies of the staff reports and minutes of the City Council meetings and Planning and Transportation Commission meetings that resulted in the language in the Zoning Ordinance that you are being asked to interpret    The applicant's consultant Steve Emslie is a former Director of Planning who has his copies of that legislative history.    The City staff have their own copies of that legislative history.    The City's website links to the relevant staff reports and minutes are broken and need to be fixed to permit the public the opportunity to participate in the hearing on this agenda item.  2   Simply fixing those links before your June 14, 2021 meeting upon receipt of this email letter is not a reasonable response to my request, because that does not provide me and other interested parties an adequate period of time to review the relevant documents.    You are being asked by staff in your quasi-judicial capacity to make an interpretation of language in the Zoning Ordinance.    If the language is unambiguous, then you are prohibited from changing the meaning of that unambiguous language under the guise of "interpretation", because you would be taking a legislative action that would be a Project as defined by the California Environmental Act (CEQA).    That Project would need to follow the Palo Alto Municipal Code sections for amending the language of the Zoning Ordinance.    An attempt to alter the unambiguous language of the Zoning Ordinance without abiding by the amendment process in the Zoning Code and without conducting an environmental assessment for a CEQA Project is a prejudicial abuse of discretion and a violation of the Zoning Ordinance and CEQA.    Thank you for your consideration of these comments.    Sincerely,    Herb Borock      1 Baumb, Nelly From:Rebecca Sanders <rebsanders@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 8:58 AM To:Council, City Subject:It's a Bad Idea to Commercialize North Ventura CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council:     Looking forward to seeing you all tonight.     Please chuck out the staff recommendation to add 126,500 square feet of office space. Please settle on a vision that is in  alignment with the wishes of the residents, the majority of the NVCAP working group and with our housing goals.  What  would it be like to  build 100% housing? Or even 90% housing?  In other parts of the city housing is penciling out. Mostly  market rate but it is housing. Even right there on Park Boulevard, Sobrato is building 80 townhomes.     Also while I've your attention, please direct me to the "complaints department":    The working group gets what 1 page in the staff report for two years of blood sweat and tears? Alll the work of the  NVCAP WG  is completely disregarded into the bargain. The WG came up with so many alternatives, none of which  resembles 3B that is proposed. Total disconnect.     City planners like to plan cities, I get that. But Palo Alto is not SF, SJ, MV or RWC. Our planning staff does not appear to  be working in the best interests of residents or at the direction of Council. It's like they've gone off their heads over  there.     Individually, I like all the planning staff I've talked to.  I think there is a lot of passion and good intent there, but I'm  wondering if they are getting too much pressure from the vested interests that their lines of communication are getting  tangled up. Or they are so close to the ground they can't see the big picture? I am frustrated with their disregard of the  Working Group's efforts. The WG did a ton of work, yet taxpayer dollars goes into staff time putting together proposals  that the residents don't care for, that don't reflect the WG's conclusions.     But outcomes are what count.  Please build housing over there, okay?  And let's find a way to pay for it.  I'm attaching  Angela Dellaporta's amazing document that she helped compile about how to pay for what we need.  Please remember  that the WG was all volunteer and we got literally tens of thousands of dollars of value out of them, time and brilliance‐ wise. Dedication like that is why I love this town and will keep on caring about what happens here.    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ULDPZCuwcCWd4rYRDUUzbMZwwQzttnZPnBoD1r8PgLQ/edit    Thank you.    Becky Sanders  Ventura  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Andrea Temkin <andreatemkin@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 8:53 AM To:Council, City Subject:Ventura neighborhood CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois and City Council Members:     I have lived in the Ventura neighborhood for over 25 years. I am writing in opposition to the proposed staff plan for the  former Fry’s property for these reasons:    Any development should be an extension of the Ventura neighborhood and this proposal does not have a  ‘neighborhood’ feel.     We don’t need more office space along the Park Blvd corridor.     My neighbors and I spent countless hours on the City‐sponsored activities, surveys, public input sessions, and serving on  the NVCAP. Please be responsive to our call for affordable housing, more green space, and acknowledgement of the  site's history.    Finally, this is a once‐in‐a‐lifetime opportunity to create something beautiful, environmentally innovative, and to  preserve the historic nature of Ventura neighborhood as the most racially integrated in all of Palo Alto.     Don't lose this opportunity to create a desirable future neighborhood for short‐term economic development.    Thank you,  Andrea Temkin    ‐‐‐3371 Park Blvd   Palo Alto CA 94306  650.380.6183                3 Baumb, Nelly From:Miriam Madigan Brown <mrmadigan@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 9:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re-Zoning for Ventura Neighborhood: OPPOSED to "option 3B" CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Greetings City Council: I have been a resident of the Ventura neighborhood since 2003. I live here with my family and believe strongly in actively cultivating the type of community we all wish to live in. I have served as a volunteer board member for Palo Alto Community Child Care, supported the neighborhood public schools my children have attended and still attend, and supported youth sports and arts. I have also taken the time on multiple occasions to provide input to the NVCAP process (in addition to other community-shaping activities). I am dismayed to see the two years of effort that has been put into NVCAP completely disregarded by city staff. The option put forth by city staff could not be further from what community residents want - and not just Ventura residents. Ventura residents do not want this, and neither does any other neighborhood in Palo Alto. Try putting this in North Palo Alto - parts of that area area are also close to transportation and amenities, the alleged reasons to put this in Ventura. They would not want it, and we don't either. It is not an appropriate option in a number of respects - far too much density with far too little parking and far too little green space for it to be livable, AND it adds office space? The very thing we all agree we *don't* need or want more of? The added office space is only "necessary" IF we assume developers are entitled to a certain level of profit. This is false. This option would make our community worse, not better. Reject it. There has to be a way to use this land in a manner where more stakeholders benefit - there is so much that could work well for existing and new residents and the broader community. NVCAP generated many good ideas. Option 3B is NOT among them. Please direct city staff to go back and identify options that improve, not ruin, our community. Thank you, Miriam Brown 4 Baumb, Nelly From:Angela Dellaporta <asdellaporta@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 5:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:NVCAP Alternatives CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members,     In October of 2018, the NVCAP Working Group was asked by the City Council to create a vision for the future of the North Ventura area as a walkable neighborhood with multifamily housing, ground floor retail, a public park, creek improvements and an interconnected street grid.“ The Working Group was not asked to come up with a plan that would satisfy the financial goals of the property owners, nor to increase the amount of office space in Palo Alto.     In fact, the working group was given these instructions just a few months after the city council had -- for good reason -- passed a permanent cap on the development of new office space.     As you consider the Alternatives before you, please keep in mind that this City Council’s job, like the working group’s job, is not to satisfy the financial goals of the property owners. Instead, the job of the city council is to create policies that maintain all the attributes that make us love living in Palo Alto -- its tree-lined, walkable, streets; welcoming neighborhoods; excellent schools; and beautiful parks.     Alternative 3B includes a massive 380% increase in office space, from 33,000 sq feet to 126,000 sq feet, supposedly to make the developers happy with their future profits. Not only does this increase apparently disregard the overabundance of office space that already exists in this city, it also flies directly in the face of the wishes and needs of residents who want housing and parks, not more offices, not more traffic.     While Alternative 2 is not as financially attractive to developers, according to the Staff Report it could easily be made financially feasible. If the council is willing to look outside of the proverbial box, it will also discover numerous methods -- delineated in detail in this NVCAP WG document -- that could allow the city to support the creation of an attractive, vibrant mixed-use neighborhood, welcoming to all in the NVCAP area. To mention just one method: while small businesses have suffered during the pandemic, larger businesses, such as those involved in finance, insurance, professional and technical services have thrived. A 1% business tax on businesses with over 50 employees would allow Palo Alto to actually reach the Comprehensive Plan’s recommendation of 4 acres of park space per resident, rather than the measly 1-2 acres provided by both of these Alternatives.     At any rate, the massive increase in office space in Alternative 3B, with its concomitant increase in traffic is simply not necessary. And after all, who wants the best for this city? And who is in control? The developers? Or the city council?     Thank you, Angela Dellaporta       5 Baumb, Nelly From:Scott Van Duyne <scott.vanduyne@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 4:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:Staff is broken, can we fix it? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  In reviewing the Staff report from the NVCAP Working Group, I am left nonplussed:     https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas‐minutes‐reports/reports/city‐manager‐reports‐ cmrs/2021/id‐11930.pdf    How can they make the claim in the Executive Summary that they are adopting the Working Groups goals (as developed  over 17 meetings and 2 years or dedicated work), when their #3B proposal is in direct contradiction of the overwhelming  results and recommendations of the Working Group?       I believe this is not the first time the Staff has submitted barefaced lies in their reports to Council in an effort to push  their own agenda.  The current Staff leadership has lost credibility with me, and I would hope, with many  others.   Hearing them present reports now sounds like Fox News to me, and I cannot trust anything they say to be fact‐ based, although I am sure much of it is.  All the details and numbers in their reports are probably mostly true, but they  have all become suspect to me.    How does the Council tolerate this?  Can we fix the Staff leadership? or has Palo Alto flipped to the dark side, and it is  just too late to recover.        Scott Van Duyne  Margarita Avenue    6 Baumb, Nelly From:Margaret Heath <maggi650@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 12, 2021 4:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Council meeting 6/14/21, item 9, NVCAP CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear Mayor Dubois and Council Members,     I urge you to interpret the city’s zoning code in the strictest possible terms to restrict office use on the “Fry’s” site to the least amount legally permitted. Don’t let Sobrato hold the city hostage to “up-zoning” the site, thereby permanently reducing the amount of land available for housing. When Sobrato claims “housing only” doesn’t “pencil out” perhaps what they really mean is that housing doesn’t pencil out in comparison to housing AND offices. As long as Sobrato thinks they can prevail and leverage increased office space in return for less housing, they will not concede to any other outcome. In addition, when Sobrato bought the property a few years ago it may be their purchase price included an assumption that, given the city’s history, they could persuade the city council to permit additional office development on the site. Consultants may even be persuaded to factor in the price Sobrato may have “over- paid” for the land to support their contention that minimizing office and maximizing housing does not “pencil out” for Sobrato. Don’t be fooled and allow Sobrato to use the price they may have paid for the property as “leverage” to get around a strict interpretation of the zoning restrictions. It is not in any way up to the city to help a company profit or not in their business dealings. There’s a certain irony that Sobrato proposes to include office space that will likely generate more jobs on site than the number of people decent sized on-site housing will likely accommodate. Thereby not only making Palo Alto’s ratio of jobs to housing worse, but the housing situation even more difficult for those families who want to make Palo Alto their future home. If Sobrato claims they are not prepared to develop the site without their proposed office use, but can’t do anything else with the site, the price of the land will eventually reflect that reality. Sooner or later a developer, if not Sobrato, will be prepared to build the family housing as zoned for, and which the city so desperately needs. The demand for housing will not diminish. Do not short-change the city with a short-sighted decision to give away land zoned for housing. Sincerely, Margaret Heath 2140 Cornell Street 7 Baumb, Nelly From:President LWVPaloAlto <president.lwvpaloalto@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 10, 2021 7:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:LWV Palo Alto Letter to Council re: NVCAP 6.14.21 Attachments:LWVPA NVCAP letter to council 5.14.21.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice Mayor Burt and Council Members,     Attached is the LWV Palo Alto public statement regarding the MVCAP preference for agenda item #9 on the June 14  agenda.    Thank you,    Liz Kniss  President, LWV Palo Alto  3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org June 9, 2021 RE: Agenda Item 9: Action Item on NVCAP Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice Mayor Burt and Council Members, The League of Women Voters believes every family, regardless of income, is entitled to live in decent, safe, and affordable housing. Expanding the supply of affordable housing is a responsibility of all levels of government. We are especially concerned that the city has fallen behind in expanding housing opportunities for low-and-middle income residents. Many League members remember that when they moved to Palo Alto, teachers, nurses and public safety employees were among their neighbors. This seems difficult, if not impossible, without more welcoming housing policies in our city. For these reasons the Palo Alto League supports the staff recommendation for alternative 3B in the NVCAP study area or a bolder housing alternative. The North Ventura area meets all the criteria for a great housing site. It is close to services and shopping. It is close to thousands of jobs. And it is close to Caltrain and bus transportation options. Alternative 3B provides the most housing, the most housing designed for low and middle- income residents and the most open space of the NVCAP alternatives presented to Planning and Transportation Commission (PTC) and council. It comes to council with the PTC recommendation and it is the only NVCAP alternative evaluated as financially feasible by the city’s consultant. Liz Kniss President LEAGUE OF -WOMEN VOTERS. OF PALO ALTO 8 Baumb, Nelly From:slevy@ccsce.com Sent:Thursday, June 10, 2021 11:33 AM To:Council, City; Planning Commission Cc:Lait, Jonathan; Shikada, Ed Subject:NVCAP alternatives CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor DuBois and council members, The North Ventura planning area checks all the boxes as a great site for housing. --close to services, shopping and restaurants --close to thousands of jobs --close to CalTrain and VTA ECR routes --Provides multiple opportunities for reducing car use including for residents who own cars Our PTC has recommended alternative 3B for your approval. Among the alternatives considered --3B has the most housing --3B has the most units reserved for low/moderate income residents --3B has the most open space\ --And 3B is financially feasible without public subsidy Even if council is successful in a RHNA appeal, we will still face 5,000+ units as a goal when have been unable to meet our current 2,000 unit goal. Alternative 3B would be one giant step forward. If I were voting, I would vote to make modest increases in height and density and add other incentives to increase the number of units even more but I am glad to the support the PTC recommendation. Alternative 3B follows the example of successful efforts to expand housing and housing affordability in neighboring cities and has been applied with great success by SV@Home, our leading advocate for housing affordability. Projects that bring hundreds and thousands of units for low and moderate income residents have been approved as part of large feasible mixed use projects that include commercial development in Mountain View, San Jose and Redwood City. It is a practical and effective model. My understanding under our state housing laws is that local control means that Palo Alto gets to choose the best way to meet our housing goals and does not mean we get to ignore them without serious consequences. Donald Trump has excited many of his voters by telling them what they want to hear and believe despite that it is in conflict with reality and the law. I hope council does not follow that example with regard to housing in Palo Alto. 9 Stephen Levy 10 Baumb, Nelly From:Palo Alto Forward <palo.alto.fwd@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 9:43 PM To:Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Burt, Patrick; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Stone, Greer; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Cormack, Alison; Planning Commission; HeUpdate Subject:Agenda Item #9: Preferred Alternative for NVCAP CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois and Palo Alto City Council Members:     Palo Alto Forward is a non-profit organization focused on innovating and expanding housing choices and transportation mobility for a vibrant, welcoming, and sustainable Palo Alto. We are a broad coalition with a multi-generational membership, including new and longtime residents.    We strongly support, at a minimum, staff and the Planning and Transportation Commission’s recommendation: Alternative 3B. NVCAP is perhaps the best site in Palo Alto for a walkable, multi- use neighborhood with new housing. Alternative 3B illustrates both economic and financial feasibility and creates the greatest potential for addressing current and future housing and mobility demands. It is a unique opportunity to build homes close to services, shopping, transit, and jobs, which would set new families and low-income residents up for success.     Palo Alto Forward supports expanding Alternative 3B because this option will:    1) Demonstrate the broadest vision for an inclusive neighborhood at all incomes and requires the least public funding for financial feasibility  2) Address climate change goals (S/CAP) by incentivizing public transit use over single occupancy vehicles by reducing parking requirements and strongly emphasizing “best practices '' drought tolerant landscaping. It also utilizes infill development to address climate change, reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions and promote safe bike-able spaces.   3) Utilize varied design and infill with multiple building heights and densities, promoting the potential for partnerships with private and public funders and includes the greatest amount of open space   4) Recognize that this area and neighborhood have a greater potential for diversity, equity, and inclusion if more lots support varying types of homes   Through the RHNA process, Palo Alto is responsible for identifying policies and feasible sites for an additional 6,086 units of housing in our opportunity-rich city. Reaching this level would enable more economic diversity in our community, shorter commutes for essential workers (especially for sites adjacent to transit and jobs), support sustainability goals, and help the region reduce homelessness and overcrowding in existing units.   If we fail to meet our goals by our site selection and lackluster policies, the State of California can levy fines, disqualify us from designated funding, appoint an agent to oversee our Housing Element, remove insufficient housing policies and even approve housing proposals irrespective of our local zoning policies.     11 Failure to exercise local control by selecting enough feasible sites to support the number of housing units needed will likely result in state intervention. NVCAP should be utilized as an opportunity to equitably meet our housing needs and regional goals.    In order to ensure this happens, we must adjust our height limits, parking policies, fees, and FAR to accommodate for more homes and make it economically feasible to build. Unless Palo Alto is willing to create incentives that enable appropriate development, the property owners will not be inclined to create bolder and imaginative solutions and will largely retreat to what is feasible under the current development standards.     Gail A. Price  President, Palo Alto Forward    1 Baumb, Nelly From:Lissy Bland <lissybland@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:22 PM To:Council, City Subject:NVCAP City Staff Recommendations CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    I am a resident of the Ventura neighborhood. I attended both public outreach meetings and answered all of the  questionnaires sent to neighborhood residents after the initial meetings.  I am deeply disappointed to learn that the city  staff has recommended even more office space than the most dense alternative which only one of the member of the  NVCAP working group supported. In these community outreach meetings we were encouraged to think big, be creative  and we were. Now it seems that all our out‐of‐the box thinking was ignored. One of the most popular ideas at these  meetings was to naturalize the Matadero Creek. The Planning and Development followed up on this idea. However, the  only park space shown in the latest proposal is far from the Matadero Creek. This amenity could be the crowning jewel  of the redevelopment effort. Why has it been dropped? Why bother to do community outreach if you ignore the  results?    We do not need more office space in Palo Alto. More office space only exacerbates the approximately 3.5/1  jobs to  housing ratio in the city. I note that the beautiful new R & D facility at 3045 Park Blvd has remained unoccupied since  its completion over two years ago.  With so many high tech employees working remotely and high tech companies  loosening their expectations for face time in the office, how can you assume that new office space will continue to be  profitable? In any event, the city could make office space less profitable by changing its fee structures.     Facebook, Google, and Apple have pledged to spend $4.5 billion to build housing. Has Palo Alto made any effort to seek  funds so that redevelopment does not worsen the jobs/housing imbalance by finding a creative funding mechanism?    Lissy Bland  235 Wilton Ave.  Palo Alto, CA 94306             2 Baumb, Nelly From:Michelle Li <jiayimichelle@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 10:39 AM To:Council, City Subject:Housing CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members: Please do not allow more office space in North Ventura. What we need in Palo Alto is housing. Housing people is a top priority and should override the economic interests of the property owners. I understand the area is already zoned for housing, RM-30. Please do not upzone any property that will make it harder for housing to be built. Thank you. Michelle Li Leland Manor 3 Baumb, Nelly From:Annette Ross <port2103@att.net> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 10:18 AM To:Council, City Subject:Ventura Plan CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I am willing to bet that a majority of Palo Altans would agree on this:  it is tremendously discouraging to read about the  status of the Ventura Plan and the decisions before Council.     I have a small suggestion:  call some of the previous Council Members who comprised the various majority blocs that  approved a level of commercial development over the last several years that created an impossible‐to‐close  jobs:housing imbalance.  Ask them what they had in mind vis‐a‐vis housing for all the new workers.  Maybe they will  share their insight with you.  From where I sit, it looks like they were, essentially, kick‐the‐can majorities who created  the housing problem that you must now address. In the process, they also curried favor with developers with some  enjoying election and re‐election at least in part due to donations from those who seek development opportunities  here.  That approach is not sustainable.  Just ask the former residents of the Hotel President or any of the newly  homeless or housing insecure.    It is pathetic that the City’s consultants and Staff have offered that adding more commercial may be the only carrot that  will entice developers to add housing.  I get that developers are not in business to give away profit opportunities, but  this feels a bit like housing ransom.    You all were elected b/c residents felt you were capable of addressing the City’s problems and improving the status quo.  I cannot predict what form the Ventura plan will take, but I surely do hope Palo Alto can do better than taking two steps  backwards in order to take one step forward.  It will be interesting to listen to the discussion and learn what the future  holds.    Yours is not an easy task ‐ good luck.    Annette Ross  College Terrace  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Christian Pease <cgpease2016@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 7:43 PM To:Council, City Cc:City Mgr Subject:Your Vote: North Ventura Coordinated Coordinate Area Plan CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Members of the Palo Alto City Council,     I write concerning your pending vote on go‐forward options and the recommendation offered by the City  Manager Shikada’s staff regarding North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan.     I urge you to NOT vote for the Shikada team’s favorite: Alternative 3B.     This option is so bad and runs so counter to the notion of adding “affordable” housing – it is nothing short of  ludicrous.     And have you ever driven around Ventura’s narrow streets? I have.     I lived in a Ventura apartment for several years before purchasing the first house I owned in Palo Alto.     Ventura is one of the, if not the densest neighborhoods in the entire city of Palo Alto, at least by measure of its  small lots and hard to navigate streets.     Given our housing “crisis” and our jobs to housing imbalance, how could anyone seriously suggest Ventura is  good location for adding another 126,600 square feet of commercial office space?     One reason only: To satisfy private commercial real estate capital requirements; to make sure they once again  enjoy outsize profits.     In other words, they say: “Give us what we want or you won’t get any housing whatsoever.”     I’m sure that got the City Manager’s team’s attention.     “Pencil out” are today’s magic words.     I was taught that in a market system, those who take big risks deserve outside rewards if they succeed.     Well, maybe it’s time commercial real estate investors in this town learned that success is not guaranteed. If it  is, the returns must be more modest,     And finally, maybe it is time that the City Manager and his staff that we taxpayers pay for, unlike the untaxed  businesses in this city, learn that they do not actually do not work for private investors.  5    So please vote against North Ventura Coordinated Plan Alternative 3A.     Please consider Alternative M. It will produce more housing that is more affordable. And the best part is, this  thoughtful alternative comes by way of uncompensated city resident volunteers.     Imagine that.     Thank you for your consideration.     Sincerely,  Christian Pease   6 Baumb, Nelly From:Carla Wray <carla.wray@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 3:44 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fry’s CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Council,  please no more office space in North Ventura neighborhood.  Now that businesses are developing hybrid  work from home/office,  it seems wrong to build more offices.  We don’t know if the pandemic is really gone yet.  Apts  and  homes yes!  Community center and park?  Yes!  Low income housing?  Yes.    Thank you for keeping Ventura a welcoming place to new residents.    ‐Carla Wray    Sent from my iPhone  7 Baumb, Nelly From:christopher jette <christopherjette@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 12:24 PM To:Council, City CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Greetings Elected Board Members,   As a resident if the Ventura neighborhood of Palo alto it has come to my attention that,    "Developers and city staff are urging the City Council to rezone the north part of Ventura to allow 126,600 square feet of  new offices, despite overwhelming disapproval of this plan by a special group of mostly Ventura residents the City  established to look at planning options."      This is a blatant disregard for all of the suggestions and opinions of the people who live in this neighborhood. There is  absolutely no need for more office space, there are plenty of brand new and completely vacant office spaces available.  They were vacant before the pandemic as well.       If the city council is not acting in the interest of the citizens and instead in the interest of the a single developer it  suggestsv that there is a relationship between the council or city officials and said developer that is more important than  that with the citizenry. Ventura neighborhood has been bearing the brunt of unsightly development which is only  valuable for the developer and those who are being paid by the developer.     To be clear, we do not want this development! Going against the wishes of those who have to live with this atrocious  decision places the counsel in line with the red lining practices that have historically defined this neighborhood.     Christopher jette  8 Baumb, Nelly From:Rita Vrhel <ritavrhel@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 11:26 AM To:Council, City Subject:Ventura /Fry's site CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello: a previous City Council made a mistake on the Fry's site years ago, please do not repeat. 126,000 sq ft of office space is a terrible mistake! traffic, more jobs: housing imbalance; exactly what is not needed. An even more crowded El Camino, Oregon Expressway and San Antonio. More congestion with in the Ventura area which, has for years, been, IMO, undeserved. And the historical Cannery must be saved and converted. Seems like a lot of time and money have been wasted on the North Ventura Plan as the property owner was not consulted? How can housing be made a priority? Thank you. 9 Baumb, Nelly From:John Guislin <jguislin@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 11:20 AM To:Council, City Subject:No to Office Development in Ventura CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council:   Given our decades old and record‐setting imbalance of jobs/housing, if the City considers adding more office space in  the Venture neighborhood it will again be turning a deaf ear to residents' voices. While the need for more affordable  housing is generally accepted, the City is struggling to make it a reality.  Please do not fall back on the traditional  developer give‐aways in the false hope that somehow all the traffic and liveability issues of new commercial  development will somehow disappear.    Developers have become experts at boxing city leadership into a corner and getting the new development rights they  desire. It is past time to stand up to development interests and make housing and residential quality of life the true  priorities for new construction.    Please do not repeat the mistakes of the past.     John Guislin    10 Baumb, Nelly From:CeCi Kettendorf <cecihome@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 12, 2021 8:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:north Ventura neighborhood CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council Members,   Please listen to the Ventura neighborhood.  Please build homes, retail, a park, a community center in the north Ventura  neighborhood.   Build for Palo Alto families; build for those of us who call Palo Alto home.  Why on earth are we building MORE offices?!  CeCi Kettendorf  3719 Grove Avenue  Palo Alto, 94303  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Richard Placone <rcplacone@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Saturday, June 12, 2021 4:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fw: Express: City ponders future of prominent Ventura site CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council Members, I am sending this article from the Palo Alto Express in case some of you have not read it. Please pay attention to the letters in support of converting the Ventura site to a housing park with the emphasis on low cost to moderate housing. For once, please do all in your extensive power, including Eminent Domain. The Sobrato group is very wealthy, and evidently will stop at nothing to increase their wealth. It is time for our council to take serious note of the fact that the State seems certain to be able to force cities to increase low cost housing. You must use this as part of your arguments for taking whatever action you must take to make Ventura the housing neighborhood it has long intended to become. Thank you. Richard Placone Chimalus Drive Barron Park/Palo Alto ( Since 1962 FYI) ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Palo Alto Online <express@paloaltoonline.com> To: "express@paloaltoonline.com" <express@paloaltoonline.com> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021, 10:19:26 AM PDT Subject: Express: City ponders future of prominent Ventura site | Bridge installation work back on this weekend | Answers to questions around state reopening   10 AM Friday, June 11, 2021 Support Local Journalism To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Express     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.PA GwenLuce LEAD      12 Top Stories from the Palo Alto Online staff   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.alt_text   Departure of Fry's Electronics leaves city with a zoning dilemma BY GENNADY SHEYNER The City Council has a rare opportunity to exercise some power over the future of 340 Portage Ave. site for potential housing after 15 years of helplessly watching commercial uses occupy it and leave. Read More »   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Freeway closure back on again to install new bridge over U.S. Highway 101 BY PALO ALTO WEEKLY STAFF The new bridge over U.S. Highway 101 in Palo Alto is scheduled to go up this weekend, which will require a segment of the freeway to gradually close down from Saturday night through Sunday morning. Read More » To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.California's big reopening: What changes — and what doesn't — on June 15? BY BEN CHRISTOPHER Gov. Gavin Newsom promised business as usual, but there could be exceptions to everyday life returning to normal. Here are questions and answers to clear up confusion. Read More » To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.VTA investigation of gunman reveals no indication of violent behavior BY JANA KADAH VTA staff and local leaders are investigating Sam Cassidy's personnel history as a VTA employee after the May 26 shooting in which he killed nine of his co-workers before turning the gun on himself. Read More » To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Six rescued, two arrested in human trafficking investigation that included Palo Alto brothel BY BAY CITY NEWS SERVICE ~ ------------ ~ ------------- ~ ------------- ~ ----------- 13 Police have arrested a couple on suspicion of pimping and pandering in connection with brothels in Milpitas, Palo Alto and San Jose. Read More » To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.PA TomCorreia MR 1       To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. ARTS Out of this world: Pace makes space for painter's cosmic landscapes BY SHERYL NONNENBERG Damian Loeb's work is informed by photography, cinematography and the appropriation of images found in such far-flung places. Read More » To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. PHOTOGRAPHY Exhibit offers insights into Upward Scholars members BY HEATHER ZIMMERMAN "Spring Upward" at Art Ventures Gallery highlights members of the program that aids immigrants in education and career development. Read More » For more top stories, go to the Palo Alto Online Home Page »     Hot Picks Must-see events recommended by our A&E editors   TODAY'S EVENTS (JUNE 11)  Lesson: Wildlife Tracking Basics Peninsula Open Space Trust, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority host a two-part webinar on local wildlife tracking. Event starts at noon. Go to openspacetrust.org. Talk: Black American History The Palo Alto Art Center hosts an online talk with Bridget R. Cooks, curator of "The Black Index" exhibit, which offers an overview of art by Black American artists from the 19th to 21st centuries. Event starts at 5 p.m. Go to cityofpaloalto.org. TOMORROW'S EVENTS (JUNE 12)   14 Concert: Ragazzi Continuo Ragazzi Continuo choir celebrates its 10th year with the virtual concert "All Will Shine." Event starts at 5 p.m. Go to ragazzicontinuo.org. Theater: 'The Mercy Seat' Los Altos Stage Company presents a virtual production of "The Mercy Seat," which follows a man and a woman as they face the world following the Sept. 11 attacks. Streaming live on Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through June 20. Go to losaltosstage.org. For more hot picks, go to the Community Calendar »   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.PA SupLocJourn MR 3       Local Sports from the Palo Alto Online staff   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Menlo boys can look ahead to a brighter basketball future BY RICK EYMER Chris Cook and Hunter Riley had already graduated when they took to the court on Thursday for Menlo School boys basketball, which finished its season losing to The King's Academy. Read More » To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Former Cardinal Press makes U.S. women's soccer history BY RICK EYMER Former Stanford All-American Christen Press became the 14th player in U.S. women's national soccer team history to record 100 points Thursday, assisting on the goal of a 1-0 win over Portugal. Read More » To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Sacred Heart Prep boys reach title game of CCS Division IV basketball BY GLENN REEVES Aidan Braccia scored a career-high 34 points in helping Sacred Heart Prep beat Scotts Valley 90- 48 in the semifinals of the Central Coast Section Division IV boys basketball playoffs Thursday. 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Subscribe, unsubscribe or change your e-mail address/preferences Copyright 2021 Embarcadero Media 450 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto CA 94306   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 17 Baumb, Nelly From:Marilyn mayo <marilynmayo@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 12, 2021 10:19 AM To:Council, City Subject:Ventura Site CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Mayor & Council Members:    There is general agreement of the long‐term goals of developing the Ventura Site. However, how to pay for them is  more problematic. Adding more commercial development should not be part of the solution.    Palo Alto is known for it’s talent, ingenuity, and expertise. If we need affordable housing and open space amenities vote  to do so.  There must be alternative sources of funding besides adding more offices.    Thank you for time & concern,    Marilyn Mayo  404 Oxford Ave, Palo Alto  Evergreen Park  18 Baumb, Nelly From:Jennifer Fisher-Siddeek <jensiddeek@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, June 10, 2021 2:06 PM To:Council, City Subject:North Ventura development CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members, I'm writing today as a resident of Palo Alto, a mother of 4 school-age children, a PTA volunteer, and a renter. We desperately need more housing in Palo Alto and the North Ventura parcel presents a wonderful opportunity to show that the city values diversity in socioeconomic status- that this city is not only for wealthy homeowners. It offers the opportunity to demonstrate commitment to city development that recognizes the challenges of climate change. And the city has the chance to build, almost from scratch, an entirely new community on 60 acres of land. What an amazing moment to showcase the possibilities of the future and "put your money where your mouth is" on so many fronts- particularly equity. I'm writing to ask that you support Alternative 3B. It's our chance to make the most of a parcel of land by developing a diverse, equitable and inclusive neighborhood that is close to transit as well as the California Avenue commercial district. My husband and I lived on College Ave years ago and I loved being able to walk just a couple of blocks and take care of most of my errands. These are the kinds of developments we need to accomplish independence from cars and to support our local businesses. To meet this moment, we must adjust building height limitations and parking requirements. Speaking from experience- I parked my car and didn't use it for days at a time. So, it is not necessary to have the typical parking requirements for housing built at the Ventura site. People can use VTA, bikes, Caltrain, walking, and ride share services. Individual vehicles are not a necessity for this development so close to transit and the commercial district. If there are other policies of the city that make this project economically unfeasible for developers, those policies need to be scrutinized and adjusted responsibly. Without affordable housing, without housing density, without housing built near transit to facilitate independence from personal vehicles, our city will wither. Already enrollment in schools is down. Already we have a serious problem with diversity and equity. Already we have a serious lack of housing compared to the number of jobs in this city. Already we are facing challenges because of climate change. If schools close and only millionaires can afford to live here- what kind of city will this be? Who will work at the fire department? Who will work at the mechanic? Who will work at the bakery? Who will teach in the schools? Who will work in the pharmacy? Now is your chance to realize a vision for what Palo Alto can be going forward. Do not continue the status quo. Be bold. Do the right thing. Best regards, Jennifer Siddeek 19 Baumb, Nelly From:Steve Pierce <pierce@zanemac.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 6:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:Ventura CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Palo Alto needs more housing opportunities at all price levels. Ventura offers a rare opportunity, and the plan that  provides the most housing is what I support.      S    To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Zane STEVE PIERCE BSCE & M City Planning ZANE MACGREGOR Real Estate Advisors & Brokers 621 High Street Palo Alto CA 94301 cell 650 533 7006 main 650 324 9900 fax 650 323 5431 zanemac.com         GI 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Magic <magic@ecomagic.org> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 9:19 AM To:Council, City Subject:Fry's CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Councilmembers,    The first rule for getting out of a hole is to stop digging. The staff proposal to allow >125,000 ft2 of office space to be  built on the Fry's site is digging with a vengeance.    Please reject this proposal and support your constituents' request for an extension of their existing neighborhood, one  that includes housing affordable to those in our community with lower money incomes and that provides amenities like  open space in quantities that conform to our stated planning objectives.    The Ponzi scheme of growing non‐residential tax base, only to chase it with externally mandated housing construction, is  a race to the bottom. The sooner we stop, the better our chances of achieving a community balanced within, and with  its global surroundings.    Thank you for considering these views.    David Schrom    ************* Magic, 1979‐2021: forty‐two years of valuescience leadership **************    Magic demonstrates how people can address individual, social, and environmental  ills nearer their roots by applying science to discern value more accurately and realize   it more fully.     Enjoy the satisfaction of furthering Magic's work by making one‐time or recurring gifts.   Magic is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Contributions are tax‐deductible to the full extent   permitted by law.                                                                 THANK YOU!    www.ecomagic.org ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ (650) 323‐7333‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Magic, Box 15894, Stanford, CA 94309  ************************************************************************************************** **  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Jo Ann Mandinach <joann@needtoknow.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 12:07 AM To:Council, City Subject:The Fry's Site is supposed to have HOUSING, NOT MORE OFFICES CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor and City Council. Yet again the developers and biased city staff are advocating for MORE offices at a time when they should be concentrating on writing their appeal of the silly ABAG/MTC guidelines that ridiculously equate housing targets to offices and jobs, disadvantaging Palo Alto while letting other communities off the hook because they were smart enough to rein in office growth and worsening our already horrendous jobs/housing imbalance. Please say no to more offices and commuters that will furtner inflate ABAG targets and make traffic worse. Oregon Expressway is already congested for most of the day -- and has been for years! Why make traffic worse with MORE commuters? Add much-needed housing instead! With so much uncertainty facing Palo Alto and California, it's inconceivable that you're pushing OFFICES instead of housing for the Fry's site. OFFICES increase traffic and competition for housing, thus pushing up the price of housing and, of course, accelerating the ABAG/MTC housing target speed cycle. Are you unaware that we're in a historic drought where farmers aren't farming because of the water shortage, where food prices are soaring because of their inability to irrigate and feed stock, and where salmon are being TRUCKED to available bodies of water to survive because the water table is at historic lows?   Are you unaware that the drought increases the risk of fires and that we're already being warned to reduce power use to avoid outages and rolling 3 blackouts because we're too populated NOW to provide sufficient electricity for the EXISTING population in hot weather? You know the current 2,000,000 Santa Clara residents face mandatory water restrictions yet you're being encouraged to approve more offices that outnumber housing by a huge and growing margin and that Palo Altans have historically conserved more than required to do more than our share. "Water Use Per Person Falls" (PA Daily Post 6/2/21 article on the Drought) "Even though water use per person has fallen in Palo Alto, the city expects water usage to increase over the next two decades due to increases in the number of businesses and residents." But how much more must existing residents sacrifice so the developers can keep adding NEW and more profitable offices to further skew the jobs/housing imbalance which in turn feeds the ABAG targets. Build housing, not offices. Build parks, not offices. Build retail to generate sales tax revenue, not offices. End the Rinse-Lather-Repeat cycle of office growth. We're out of water! Most sincerely, Jo Ann Mandinach   1 Baumb, Nelly From:Tirumala Ranganath <ranguranganath@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:43 PM To:Council, City Cc:ranguranganath Subject:Voting on NVCAP (Fry's site develoipment) proposals - 3B should be a resounding NO CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members,              As a long time resident of the greater Ventura neighborhood, I  would like to express my strong objection to the proposal 3B, that is  being recommended by the city staff.                First off, I'd like to start with a tongue in cheek observation about  the oft repeated phrase that developers say that a particular proposal  doesn't " pencil out " !  I would like to suggest that perhaps the "  developers " who are having trouble with the pencilling part should look  for some good pencils !   In the absence of finding the right pencils in this  town, maybe they should look elsewhere, perhaps in other towns around  the bay area and maybe even outside the area !   It's neither a  responsibility nor an obligation for the city and its residents to help these  " developers " grant exceptions and rule changes to have their pencilling  exercises work out to their satisfaction.                Roughly three years ago, in 2018 with the help of PASZ, over 3000  signatures were collected in the allotted time ( 30 days) to put a ballot  measure that would limit yearly office building in the city to </= 50, 000  sq,ft. With the surprising help of the then councilman Cory Walbach, the  City Council voted to adopt the petition without putting it on the ballot  that November.  Now, the city staff is recommending a project proposal  with 126,000 sq.ft of office space in addition to whatever else, in terms of  housing, to the city council for their yes vote.  I am not sure what has  2 changed in the intervening time period to warrant this course of  action?  Covid‐19 lock down and the resulting slow down might have  alleviated the problem with traffic congestion, etc. However, there has  not been an explosion in the availability of  necessary housing,  especially at the BMR and low cost brackets to warrant the  recommendation from the city staff.  The real need for the city is for the  BMR and Low cost housing, not market rate nor luxury apartments !  As  for the Sobrato organization being not interested in developing the Fry's  site in the manner in which the NVCAP group had recommended, it is  certainly within their rights as property owners.  HOWEVER, THE  EXPECTATION OF THE SOBRATO GROUP TO HAVE AN INDEFINITE  EXTENSION TO THE EXCEPTIONS THAT WERE GRANTED TO FRY'S, IS  DEFINITELY NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THE CITY AND IT'S RESIDENTS  !  ADDING INSULT TO INJURY, THE CITY STAFF RECOMMENDING THE  126OOO SQ.FT OFFICE ADDITION IS DOUBLY INSULTING. One is tempted  to ask " In whose interest is the city staff working ", certainly not  the city's residents ?                 There is no benefit to the project when a measly 15% at best  accommodation for BMR/Low cost housing is all that is usually proposed,  when the need is much greater (the real need of BMR/Low Cost housing  becomes a political football and a joke.  At this rate, Palo Alto will never  have sufficient numbers of BMR/Low cost housing units to help with the  service workers needs. The oft repeated phrase " Helping accommodate  our service workers housing needs, without long commutes ", turns into  a cruel joke !                  Knowing all these issues, I request the City Council to really reject  this absurd proposal 3B that is being pushed by the city staff.  It's the  wrong request for our city, one that should not even be on the table for  consideration.  Please, please reject this developer giveaway and avoid  3 setting a really bad precedent. Anything less would be a disaster for our  beloved city.                  Thank you for hearing me out,    Sincerely,  Ranganath        Ranganath   1 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 11:44 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; Council, City; Chris Field; Cathy Lewis; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; leager; Mark Standriff; Mayor; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net; sanchezphilip21@gmail.com; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; boardmembers Subject:Re: Dr. Campbell on Fri. June 11, 2021. Delta variant spreading. Cases increase. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:41 PM Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 3:26 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Fri. June 11, 2021. Delta variant spreading. Cases increase.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 1:29 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Fri. June 11, 2021. Delta variant spreading. Cases increase.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 1:21 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Fri. June 11, 2021. Delta variant spreading. Cases increase.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      2 ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 1:08 AM  Subject: Dr. Campbell on Fri. June 11, 2021. Delta variant spreading. Cases increase.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                     Sunday, June 13, 2021                                    To all‐              Dr. John Campbell in UK for Friday, June 11, 2021:                 Friday evening ‐ YouTube                The India Delta variant is now 91% of    NEW   cases in UK.     It is increasing in the US too.   It is now 6% of new  cases in the US.                      He feels that with infections up, the June 21 opening set for England won't  happen. Big increase in cases. The new  India Delta variant is why.                The link between cases and hospitalizations is not completely broken by vaccination, but it is certainly  attenuated, he shows with charts.            The India Delta variant is 60% more contagious than the B.1.1.7 variant, the Kent variant, and twice as contagious  as the original Wuhan Covid virus.                    He shows a chart that gives names of the various variants. South Africa variant completely out‐competed now  in the UK by the Delta variant.           See the chart beginning at 6:40 here. LOTS of information in 4 minutes there. He says "crib sheet for all of the  variants of concern in the UK".                  The chart shows the number of cases confirmed in the UK from the different variants.              The Alpha variant, B.1.17, the Kent variant, 267,922 cases.           The Kappa variant, B.1.617, the first India variant, I THINK, 465 cases.            The India Delta variant, B.617.2, 42,233 confirmed cases.                  Effectiveness of vaccines:  For the Delta variant:    It is B.1.617.2.  The UK authorities did a study of 1054 persons  infected with B.1.617.2, confirmed by genomic testing. The study ran from April 5 to May 16, 2021.                   Results:  Pfizer vaccine 88% effective against symptomatic disease from the Delta variant two weeks after the  second dose                    AZN vaccine is 60% effective against the India Delta variant two weeks after the second shot.  AZN was 66%  effective against B.1.1.7, the Kent variant, two weeks after the second shot. .               But with the AZN, it takes the immune response longer to build up, so AZN might be OK.  So he is not concerned  about the difference between 88% and 60%.   3               Both vaccines are 33% effective against symptomatic disease from B.1.617.2 three weeks after the FIRST dose.                Both vaccines were 50% effective against B.1.1.7 (the Kent variant) three weeks after the first dose.   LH‐  That  is a difference to remember!               He does not say how effective the J&J and the Moderna vaccines are against the Delta variiant. Apparently they  have not been studied yet for that.               "So we see some decrease in effectiveness in the vaccines against the India Delta variant but still very high  protection against SEVERE  illness and death"                A few days ago, he said that the US should halt all flights coming in from the UK.      HALT FLIGHTS FROM THE  UK.                 IN UK a lot more cases now. Some slight increase in hospitalizations. Deaths remarkably low in UK at the  moment.                 Now a passage which begins at 5:50 in the video and ends at 6:27.  A total of 37 seconds.   I wish that Dr.  Campbell had been more emphatic here about the India Delta variant if he means what I take him to mean here. I  listened to it at least 10 times to write it down, and now, two days later, I have listened to it again 5 times.                         He says that of the people who have gotten infected with the new India Delta variant, only 5% of them were  fully vaccinated with one of the vaccines.  Then he goes on to talk about what happens to fully vaccinated people who,  nonetheless, get infected with the India Delta varriant. Then he offers this rather surprising news, rather matter of  factly.                          Start listening at 5:50:    "The people who are infected after they've been vaccinated are not getting as many  symptoms‐ one or two‐ rather than five which people typically got the first week after infection without vaccination.  (LH‐ Is that a huge surprise? One is better off if he is infected after being vaccinated than he is if he is infected without  being vaccinated????)   He continues:  "So less symptoms and they don't last for as long. So fewer symptoms, less  severe, and they don't last for as long."  LH‐  I think here is referring back to his statement above that "So we see some  decrease in effectiveness of the vaccines against the India Delta variant but still very high protection against severe  illness and death".  LH‐  I take this to mean that If one is infected with the India Delta variant after he is fully vaccinated,  he may get symptoms, but not as many and not as severe and not for as long  as would be the case if he were not  vaccinated.  So the vaccines do provide some protection against the India Delta variant.     And then Dr. Campbell  continues here:....(SO)  AS WELL AS ( the vaccines) protecting against infection overall,  (LH‐ i.e., in the  population),  people who are infected (after being vaccinated), less severely so (than if they had not been vaccinated‐  LH)".   LH‐ He is saying that the main vaccines are not somehow worthless against the India Delta variant.  This passage  ends at 6:27.                      Another few weeks of restrictions are needed in UK, Dr. Campbell says. Restrictions are scheduled to be lifted  there on Monday, June 21, 2021. Maybe California should learn from that and not open everything up on Tuesday, June  15, 2021.  The India Delta variant spreads fast and we have not halted flights in from the UK.  Publicizing the rapid  spread of the India Delta variant, now in the US, might just cause some additional percentage of the US population to  get vaccinated. Our vaccines are not quite as effective against the India Delta variant as they have been against, say,  the Kent variant‐ the main variant now in the US.  That means that even if you are fully vaccinated in the US, you are  still, to some extent, vulnerable to the India Delta variant, indeed as you are to the Kent variant!! You won't get as sick  as you would were you unvaccinated, but still...     And if you have not been fully vaccinated, you should be worried  until you are.    4              I was fully vaccinated with Moderna by March 1, 2021, and I shall keep wearing two masks and keeping my  distance from other people, washing hands, etc.                  Here is another expert discussing the India Delta variant:                   How dangerous is the Indian variant of the coronavirus? | COVID‐19 Special ‐ YouTube                     L. William Harding                Fresno, Ca.                                                      5 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 4:33 PM To:Council, City; city.council@menlopark.org; Planning Commission; Human Relations Commission; Rebecca Eisenberg; raj@siliconvalleyde-bug.org; Roberta Ahlquist; chuck jagoda; Binder, Andrew; Greer Stone; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Jonsen, Robert; Richard Konda; Joe Simitian; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Tanaka, Greg; Jeff Moore; Shikada, Ed; DuBois, Tom; ParkRec Commission; Winter Dellenbach Subject:Marshall Project wins Pulitzer Price ( with other media outlets) for series on canine attacks CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/11/the‐marshall‐project‐wins‐the‐pulitzer‐prize    Shared via the Google app    Sent from my iPhone  6 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Rieder <barieder@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 12, 2021 9:59 AM To:Council, City; pausd.ca@k12-lets-talk.com Cc:Barbara Rieder Subject:Hazard for Walkers&Bikers CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To Whom It May Concern, I am sending this email to both of you because I do not know who is responsible for the maintenance of property between Walter Hayes School, chain link fence and Embarcadero Road. Weeds are now waist high, the Oleander has grown over the side walk, making it single lane only and bikers must duck their head, a partially dead tree could break and hit pedestrians and cars and several dead bushes with the dying weeds make it a potential fire hazard. Please, make certain the responsible party, clears this up and ideally the parking strip of weeks too. PA City Ordinance asks bikers to use the sidewalk given the hazardous traffic on Embarcadero Road. Four time a week walkers like myself must step into these weed as most bikers do not stop. Thank you for your attention to resolving this hazardous situation. Barbara Rieder 1728 Cowper Street Palo Alto, Ca 94301 650-321-1159 7 Baumb, Nelly From:Amie Ashton <aashton@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 11, 2021 1:16 PM To:Council, City Subject:6/17 Happy Hour: Biking with Mr. Barricade CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Honorable City Council,    You are formally invited to join your neighbors at City Hall at 5:30 p.m. on 6/17 for a casual talk about biking and bike infrastructure with TikTok star Vignesh Swaminathan and Pat Burt (moderated by Amie Ashton, that's me).    Vignesh (aka. Mr Barricade) makes infrastructure FUN, I know - who thought that was possible. In addition to being a TikTok sensation with a half-million followers, he is CEO and President of Crossroad Lab. In addition, he is a Citizen Advisory Committee Member and Citizen Watchdog Committee Member for the VTA. Vignesh also serves as a Sustainability Commissioner for the City of Cupertino. He is most well-known for his TikTok account, Mr Barricade, which makes planning and infrastructure accessible to his nearly half a million followers!    You all know Vice Mayor Pat Burt, so no introduction needed there.    This event will be outdoor and socially distanced. Attendance capped at 50. I will be leading a bike ride in from the Cal Ave Caltrain station beginning at 5:00 p.m. if anyone would like to join.     Register here, we hope to see all your smiling faces there: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-hour-biking- with-mr-barricade-tickets-157699235659    Amie Ashton  Board Chair, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition      8 Baumb, Nelly From:contacto@hotelsalud.com.ar Sent:Friday, June 11, 2021 10:58 AM To:Council, City Subject:RE: Hotel Sanitario CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.            Alojamientos Sanitarios   OPEA            Alojamientos Sanitarios Solo para PACIENTES derivados a Buenos Aires por turnos o tratamientos de LARGA ESTADÍA.       Solo para Obras Sociales   Inicio | COVID | Hospitales UP Studio | Dptos | INFO - Hoteles - Aparts - Departamentos Temporarios          Bienvenidos a Alojamientos Sanitarios Producto de OPEA TURISMO. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello Palo Alto City Council,    This is Taylor Smith, manager of Skateworks Skateboard Shop in Los Altos and 30 year resident of Palo Alto.    It has recently come to my attention that the plans for a new skatepark in Palo Alto would potentially include partial or  full demolition of the historic Greer Bowl.     Greer Bowl is what put Palo Alto "on the map" in the greater skateboard world and holds a special place in the hearts of  Bay Area skateboarders. It has been featured in hundreds of skateboard magazines and videos, and is a global  destination due to it being one of the last remaining historic "second generation" parks.    As someone who learned to skate in Greer Park 22 years ago and continues to use the park 3‐4 times a week, I would  hope that the significance of Greer Bowl and the thoughts of residents and current users would be included in any future  plans.    I am a current Palo Alto resident/voter/taxpayer and manager of the closest skateboard business in proximity to Greer  Park. I would love to be included in any ad hoc planning committees and further meetings in regards to the new  skatepark.    There are plenty of other ways to achieve the goals of the proposed new skatepark without destroying a historic and  beloved site, and I would like to help in figuring out the best way to achieve that.    Please let me know what next steps I should take!    Regards,  ‐Taylor  14 Baumb, Nelly From:Mora Oommen <mora@youthcommunityservice.org> Sent:Thursday, June 10, 2021 1:01 PM To:Council, City Cc:Greer Stone; pat@patburt.org; Tom DuBois; Lydia Kou; Howard, Adam; Shikada, Ed; O'Kane, Kristen; Leif Erickson Subject:Invitation! YCS Summer of Service Showcase CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Hon City Council Members, City Manager and Community Service Dept Team,    YCS is grateful for the support from The City of Palo Alto to provide funds that include scholarships for youth to participate in the YCS Summer of Service Camps. This week we kick off our weekly Virtual Camp Showcase on Fridays from 12-1pm. Although our camps are in-person, in order to accommodate guests at our showcase and comply with COVID guidelines our showcase will be held online.     We invite you to join us starting this Friday for the next seven Fridays for our virtual showcase by our SOS campers.  Please extend this invitation to your members and board as well, we'd love to have them join us.     Weekly YCS Camps:  Day 1-4 campers are guided through a creative process of in-person service-learning. Day 5 campers will present a showcase to parents, nonprofit partners, and the larger community over zoom. The Showcase is on Fridays (June 11-July 30) from 12-1pm but sometimes can go over, we invite you to join us as your schedule may permit. Please log onto https://www.zoom.us/ and click on Join a meeting and enter the following Meeting ID:   Zoom Meeting ID: 873 8001 1184   Password: summercamp  Environment Week with Grassroots Ecology: Jun 7 – 11, 2021  Homelessness Week with Project WeHope: Jun 14 – 18, 2021  Food Security Week with The Health Trust: Jun 21 – 25, 2021  Animal Care Week with Palo Alto Humane Society: Jun 28 – Jul 2, 2021  Children’s Hospital Week with Family House: Jul 12 – 16, 2021  Teacher STEAM Support Week with RAFT (Resource Area For Teaching): Jul 19 – 23, 2021  Veterans Week with Veterans Hospital Palo Alto: Jul 26 – 30, 2021  For more details on camp, please check out our website-   www,youthcommunityservice.org/sos  15 We encourage our guests to ask questions and share comments with our campers during the Q&A period. Please turn your cameras on during the presentation, if possible.  Best wishes,  Mora             ‐‐   Mora Oommen  Executive Director  (pronouns: she/her)     To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.  Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter    Registration Open!   2021 Summer of Service Camps for 3rd‐10th Graders. Have fun, make a difference!     Youth Community Service  Mailing Address: PO Box 61000  Palo Alto, CA 94306    Office Location  780 Arastradero Rd., Room V‐14  Palo Alto, CA 94306  Office: (650) 858‐8061  Cell: (650) 644‐5354  mora@youthcommunityservice.org  16 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 10, 2021 10:58 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; chopinion@gogglegroups.com Subject:Fwd: MEETING LINK TO MY PRESENTATION CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: David Morrison <docentdm@gmail.com>            ALLAN SEID allanseid734@gmail.com  Date: Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 10:27 AM  Subject: Re: MEETING LINK TO  PRESENTATION BY Dr. ALLAN SEID    Zoom Info for next Wednesday, June 16th, Wednesday, 3 pm      https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87208172815  Meeting ID: 872 0817 2815        PC: 850       David  www.andrewjmorrisonfinepaintings.com      17 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Thursday, June 10, 2021 1:41 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; Council, City; Chris Field; Cathy Lewis; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; leager; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mark Standriff; Mayor; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. Campbell, UK, Wed. June 9, 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 1:19 AM  Subject: Dr. Campbell, UK, Wed. June 9, 2021  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                        Late on June 9, Wednesday, 2021                    To all‐  Dr. Campbell for today.          The India Delta variant.  100% as transmissible as the original variant. It is in the US. Twice as transmisslble as the  original. He means as the very first variant when he says that. The problem in the US is the low vaccination rate now.            The India Delta variant has doubled from 3% of cases to 6% in the US.   From May 8 to now.  So exponential growth  potentially.                 33% of protection with one shot.                 88% protection with two doses, at least in UK using the Pfizer and AZN vaccines.  Protection against symtomatic  disease caused by Delta vrus.               W. Va is giving out guns as an incentive.  Washington State giving grass.                In the UK the India Delta variant is spreading. Growing exponentially. The R value may be 6.  The most concerning  time in the UK for some time, he says. He shows the numbers.                  "The UK Delta variant is a threat to many countries. The US should halt flights from the UK".    From the  UK.   Think the Biden admin. will do that? I'd be surprised.    18                   Delta (india) variant increases in UK and US ‐ YouTube              This India Delta variant is apparently NOT the India variant we have seen for weeks.  He gives two different  numbers for the viruses at the outset here.  The India Delta variant is the B.1.617.2 variant.   B.1.617.2.                     L. William Harding                Fresno, Ca.                     19 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 8:25 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; Council, City; Chris Field; Cathy Lewis; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; leager; Mark Standriff; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net; sanchezphilip21@gmail.com; lalws4@gmail.com Subject:Fwd: Dr. Campbell discuss new CDC report on effect of Covid on 12-17 adolescents CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 4:45 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell discuss new CDC report on effect of Covid on 12‐17 adolescents  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 3:52 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell discuss new CDC report on effect of Covid on 12‐17 adolescents  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 2:43 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell discuss new CDC report on effect of Covid on 12‐17 adolescents  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 3:41 AM  20 Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell discuss new CDC report on effect of Covid on 12‐17 adolescents  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 3:27 AM  Subject: Dr. Campbell discuss new CDC report on effect of Covid on 12‐17 adolescents  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                Wednesday, June 9, 2021                To all‐    Dr. Campbell on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.               CDC report just out on hospitalized adolescents in the US,  defined by the CDC as 12 to 17 years of age. 7th grade  through 12th  grade for most.                 (Oh, some break the mold. Harold Brown, Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Defense, received his Ph.D degree in  Physics from Columbia University  when he was 21 years old.  Pres. Carter appointed him Sect. of Defense when Brown  was president of Caltech).  I always noticed that Dr. Brown spoke with great authority about nuclear weapons and arms  limitation talks. If you read the following, you'll see why. Around May 13, 1992, I was returning from an exploratory trip  to Guadalajara and was walking through SFO's main terminal. Vast, empty marble space. Here came Harold Brown and  General Alexander Haig. "I'm in control here in the White House" Haig said the day Reagan was shot. Famous sound‐ bite. As we passed, they were talking to each other and neither man said anything to me. They probably assumed that I  was a moron who didn't know who either one of them was.  They were merely the former Secretary of State and the  former Secretary of Defense of the United States.                 Harold Brown ’45, GSAS’49, Carter Administration Secretary of Defense | Columbia College Today            Here is bio and obit for Alexander Haig.  I found this very interesting and I think that most recipients will find it so  too if they read it.                          Alexander Haig obituary | US news | The Guardian               Dr. Campbell discusses the CDC report. Not a long discussion today. 17:09:    The report, dated June 4, 2021, is the  first definitive report on adolescents hospitalized with Covid. It looked at 99 counties in 14 States.  204 such pts. were  confirmed to have Covid19. The numbers are small compared to other age groups, but they are there.                  Of the 204 pts so hospitalized, 1/3 went into the ICU, and 5% required mechanical ventilation. None died. Some  would have died in Africa, Latin America, Dr. Campbell says.  Long Covid with organ damage is a risk for these pts. The  Pfizer vaccine is the one being used to vaccinate this group but, of course, these 204 had not been vaccinated.                 Cause of these cases is return to school, behavioral changes, such as mask wearing and social distancing changes.                 Interesting report from CDC. Thorough. Timely. People on City Councils, County Boards of Supervisors, School  officials, ignorant Governors, yelling to get the schools open should at least watch this vid. Parents who believe in  vaccination should too. To prevent all of this mayhem, just get your kids vaccinated.                                        Adolescent hospitalizations increase ‐ YouTube    21             "Not sure there's a bottom line from the report" Dr. Campbell says, except that it is worth it to get vaccinated.                  L. William Harding               Fresno, Ca.                                                 22 Baumb, Nelly From:Hilary Glann <hglann@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 6:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please move Safe Gun Storage Up in the Priority List CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois and Palo Alto Councilmembers: In light of the recent rash of post-pandemic shootings (most notably for us the VTA massacre in May), and the pending nullification of California’s assault weapons ban by a Federal judge, we are less safe from gun violence in Palo Alto now than we were in 2020. I ask the Council to please prioritize the creation and approval of the safe gun storage ordinance that you asked the City Attorney to create in your final City Council meeting of December 2020. Safe gun storage protects our City from gun accidents, gun suicides, and gun thefts that can lead to armed robberies and other crimes. Currently 34 California cities -- including Belvedere, Burlingame, Saratoga, Sunnyvale, Moraga and Portola Valley -- plus 3 counties, have safe gun storage ordinances in place. https://giffords.org/lawcenter/report/communities-on-the-move-local-gun-safety- legislation-in-california/ Let’s not let a tragedy happen in Palo Alto that could have been prevented with safe storage of firearms. Please let us know when we can expect the ordinance to be reviewed and approved by Council. The many gun safety groups in the area stand ready to help the City publicize this important safety measure. Thank you, Hilary Glann hglann@gmail.com   23 Baumb, Nelly From:Patience Young <patiencesinging@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 3:28 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr Cc:Patience Young Subject:Zoning codes and related decisions CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  9 June 2021  To: the City of Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission  From:  Patience Young, 157 So. California Avenue, #H202, Palo Alto  Re: Zoning codes and related decisions     I write as a concerned citizen who has resided in the condominium community of Palo Alto Central for 25 years and now fully  own my home.  The neighborhood has changed somewhat since I arrived here, in ways desirable and regrettable, and I know  that any urban area is subject to changes and growth over time.   I fully support the intent to provide housing opportunities  for all who work in our city—indeed, were it not for the condominium option, I would not have been able to purchase my  home within walking distance of my professional life at Stanford.     The issues we face today are not only to establish new housing in Palo Alto, but also to do so humanely, recognizing that all  residents are entitled to share a quality of life that our city is known for.  Some Palo Alto homes are modest while others are  among the finest to be found anywhere, but there has been a standard of living city‐wide that all residents want, are perhaps  now anxious, to maintain.  We take pride in our city, and I hope to take pride in the city’s successes to provide affordable  housing options; together we will forge ahead to accomplish our goals.     My neighborhood, the California Avenue business district and once the village of Mayfield, is a mixed‐use area.  Residents  enjoy access to public transportation, local shops, and a year‐round farmers’ market.  Businesses may come and go; residents  like myself tend to stay, and establish community together, much as in other neighborhoods in our city.  As we face urban  growth, what do my neighbors—residents as well as business people —need to thrive and maintain our quality of life? What  do we see endangered by current and anticipated proposals for our district, by changes in zoning here and elsewhere in our  city?       These are concerns for my neighbors:     24 1. Foremost and basic: access to daylight and fresh air.  Height restrictions, setbacks, and density limits are essential to  provide all residents, long‐time and newcomer alike, with living areas that are truly livable.  2. Traffic congestion: our streets were not intended to carry the load of traffic that will accompany new occupancy in the  area.  3. Parking:  despite a new multi‐level parking structure, parking in our neighborhood will soon become a big problem, if  planning does not require new construction to provide truly adequate parking for occupants, residents, customers,  visitors.  4. Green space: new housing in this neighborhood will not have the private lawns and gardens found nearly everywhere  else in Palo Alto; nor do we have neighborhood parks for people of all ages to play and exercise.   Housing density  without public spaces for recreation greatly diminishes quality of living.  5. Noise pollution  6. Density and adequate living spaces: we’ve seen recent proposals for housing units that are virtually the size of motel  rooms.  These are disheartening to a resident, oppressive for a residential building, and over‐demanding for a  neighborhood.  See #s 1‐5 above.     Failure of the city to address these concerns will lead, in the long run and not‐too‐distant future, to conditions that fester  discontent and distress.  Our fair city can lead by example to overcome these early symptoms of urban blight, and to maintain  our reputation for quality of living.       This is our home.  Yours is here, as well.  Quality of life is ours to respect and sustain.     Thank you for your attention to these concerns.  Patience Young              25 Baumb, Nelly From:Judy Rock <rockjudy1@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 2:16 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please enact a safe firearms storage ordinance CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice Mayor Burt, city council members, Safe storage of firearms is an urgent matter of public safety. Guns that are not locked up pose a threat to everyone - they can too easily be used for crimes, suicide, or simply discharged by accident with tragic results. Children are particularly vulnerable. The COVID-19 lockdown and restrictions have worsened mental health in the community, heightening the risk at this time. For the safety of everyone in our community, please support adoption of an ordinance requiring safe storage of firearms at home: unloaded, locked up securely. thank you, Judy Rock 3872 Nathan Way Palo Alto 94303 650-906-4148 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 7:20 PM To:Greer Stone; Pat Burt; DuBois, Tom Cc:Council, City Subject:Greer & Pat: don’t think I conflated anything the IPA wrote in his report to the BOS —-I thought I read directly from his Nov 2020 report …certainly correct me if I am wrong CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.        Greer & Pat: Much thanks to both of you —( and also the mayor and the remainder of the council) for adding the  language to the uses of force that need to be be reviewed by the IPA to include: “pointing a gun” at an individual:    Best regards,     Aram           Will quote directly from IPA report to the Sheriff’s Office dated  Nov 2020 and presented by Mike Gennaco on Nov 17,  2021      Starting on page 5 of his report:     Recommendation 6: The Sheriff’s Office should consider adding to its force reporting policies a requirement that  Deputies report a use of force any time they point a firearm at an individual.     “In our initial report, we noted that another key piece of the 8 Can’t Wait Recommended on comprehensive use of force  reporting is a requirement that officers report as a use of force any time they point a firearm at an individual. We further  noted that the Sheriff’s Office General Orders do not include such a provision. We further observed that there is some  evidence to suggest that agencies that have this requirement tend to have lower rates of officer involved shootings and  that tracking this information also allows agencies to more deeply assess any disparity in police activities in relation to  different racial and ethic groups.”     NOTE: I did not get to the concluding paragraph on page 6 of the IPA report under recommendation 6: it reads as  follows:     “ We have been advised that the Sheriff’s Office is still evaluating this Recommendation and how it could be  incorporated into existing use of force reporting procedures, following industry best standards. The Sheriff’s Office  noted that the Racial Identity and Profiling Act ( “RIPA”) will require reporting to the Attorney General each time  personnel point a firearm at a person.”     NOTE: 2: Footnote 6 of the IPA’s Nov 2020 report ‐bottom of page 6, reads as follows.:   The RIPA reporting requirements mandates the the Sheriff’s Office to begin collecting data for RIPA commencing January  1, 2021 but the reporting requirement to the Attorney General does not become effective until April 1, 2022    2   Shared via the Google app    Sent from my iPhone  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Albert Henning <albertkhenning@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 7:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Transparency leads to social justice CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council members,    You have this evening an agenda item related to transparency in police operations and policing. I urge you to approve  this, and every, proposal which increases transparency in the conduct of police and policing in our City. Mr Gennaco’s  OIR organization is well‐qualified to serve the public’s interest while preserving individual rights.    Beyond this immediate matter, I urge you to push much further. Hiding behind human relations law, privacy law, and  communications encryption rules does nothing serve the public interest; rather, it perpetuates systemic injustice. Keep  working to improve our city and its government.    Sincerely,    Albert K Henning, PhD  199 Heather Lane  Palo Alto, CA 94303  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Rosita Newman <rosita@snewman.net> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 4:00 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Economic Recovery CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please keep University Avenue a Pedestrian Street; this will allow restaurants to recover from the losses brought on by  Covid. People feel safe having the choice to dine outdoors and so it brings more business to Downtown Palo Alto.     Thank you,    Rosita Newman  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Justin Lan <j.dash.san@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:20 PM To:Council, City Subject:Downtown visitor CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Imagine heading out on your day off. Where would you go? Ideally someplace clean, easy to get to, without having to  struggle driving or walking.     I'm not a Palo Alto resident, and for years I resisted meeting friends in downtown Palo Alto ‐‐ even though some of my  favorite shops are there. Recently I went by, and what a change! With University closed to vehicle traffic, downtown is  fun and meant for humans. Please consider it keeping it that way, or I might end up going to other cities that have kept  their downtowns closed to vehicle traffic.    ~Justin  6 Baumb, Nelly From:michal shalon <michalshalon@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:15 PM To:John Guislin Cc:Council, City Subject:Re: FIREWORKS: Time to take action to align with neighboring communities CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I strongly agree! Fireworks noise has definitely affected the quality of life here in Crescent Park. People do research  these things when looking for a home. If quality of life in an area is lowered, property values will be affected in the long  run, and property tax revenue will be affected too.      Michal Shalon    On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 2:48 PM John Guislin <jguislin@gmail.com> wrote:  New Menlo Park firework penalties to skyrocket to $1,000 City Council members say illegal firework detonations have become 'unbearable' and a 'major quality of life issue' https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2021/06/10/new‐menlo‐park‐firework‐penalties‐to‐skyrocket‐to‐1000    COUNCIL MEMBERS:  While our City Council voices concern and sympathy for the impacts and dangers of illegal fireworks, our neighbors are  taking action to reduce the harm done by fireworks.  We need to implement similar measures so that perpetrators are not able to cross the city boundary into Palo Alto and  feel immune from serious consequences.    This is as straightforward as legislating gets: severe penalties will help reduce the use of illegal fireworks and the fire  risks they bring.    It is past time to step up and do our part to address this problem.     Sincerely,  John Guislin  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Dan Feldman <dfeldman@dfeldman.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:15 PM To:John Guislin Cc:Council, City; Perron, Zachary; Rindfleisch Tom Subject:Re: FIREWORKS: Time to take action to align with neighboring communities CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council Members:    I completely agree with John Guislin's email below.    I am a Palo Alto neighbor living very near many of the Menlo Park  frequent offenders.  I can report that in the last week there has been a  major reduction in the late‐night disturbances from across the San  Francisquito Creek.     I urge our Palo Alto City Council to follow in the foot‐steps of our  neighbors. The impact is real.    I would also like to voice our support for the efforts of the PAPD (Palo  Alto Police Department) as expressed in a recent email from Captain  Zachary Perrone. I urge the Council Members to continue to support the  efforts of PAPD.    Sincerely,  Dan Feldman    On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 2:48 PM John Guislin <jguislin@gmail.com> wrote:  New Menlo Park firework penalties to skyrocket to $1,000 8 City Council members say illegal firework detonations have become 'unbearable' and a 'major quality of life issue' https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2021/06/10/new‐menlo‐park‐firework‐penalties‐to‐skyrocket‐to‐1000    COUNCIL MEMBERS:  While our City Council voices concern and sympathy for the impacts and dangers of illegal fireworks, our neighbors are  taking action to reduce the harm done by fireworks.  We need to implement similar measures so that perpetrators are not able to cross the city boundary into Palo Alto and  feel immune from serious consequences.    This is as straightforward as legislating gets: severe penalties will help reduce the use of illegal fireworks and the fire  risks they bring.    It is past time to step up and do our part to address this problem.     Sincerely,  John Guislin  9 Baumb, Nelly From:John Guislin <jguislin@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 2:48 PM To:Council, City Subject:FIREWORKS: Time to take action to align with neighboring communities CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  New Menlo Park firework penalties to skyrocket to $1,000 City Council members say illegal firework detonations have become 'unbearable' and a 'major quality of life issue' https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2021/06/10/new‐menlo‐park‐firework‐penalties‐to‐skyrocket‐to‐1000    COUNCIL MEMBERS:  While our City Council voices concern and sympathy for the impacts and dangers of illegal fireworks, our neighbors are  taking action to reduce the harm done by fireworks.  We need to implement similar measures so that perpetrators are not able to cross the city boundary into Palo Alto and  feel immune from serious consequences.    This is as straightforward as legislating gets: severe penalties will help reduce the use of illegal fireworks and the fire  risks they bring.    It is past time to step up and do our part to address this problem.     Sincerely,  John Guislin  10 Baumb, Nelly From:Michelle Li <jiayimichelle@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 10:39 AM To:Council, City Subject:Housing CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members: Please do not allow more office space in North Ventura. What we need in Palo Alto is housing. Housing people is a top priority and should override the economic interests of the property owners. I understand the area is already zoned for housing, RM-30. Please do not upzone any property that will make it harder for housing to be built. Thank you. Michelle Li Leland Manor 11 Baumb, Nelly From:mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 7:45 AM To:Council, City Cc:Tom DuBois; Alison Cormack; Shikada, Ed Subject:Tax Tesla, don’t subsidize it CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Fellow Citizens— leadership:  The staff report says we are spending $200,000 to upgrade a transformer in the parking garage on Bryant  Street near  my home such that Tesla can install 19 chargers for their electronic vehicles, and then they will pay us back $2,000 a  month and $176,000 total over seven years.  Tesla is a publicly traded company worth $595 billion as of this morning.  We should be taxing them to the tune of $10 million per year not subsidizing them.  Dontcha think?  Mark Weiss  sold Chevy, rides a bike    Sent from my iPhone  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Bedwell <allan.bedwell@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 1:51 PM To:Council, City Subject:Safety Incident/Damage to Cars by Public Works Department CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Mayor and City Council Members,   Today at 1pm, June 15, I watched a Palo Alto Department of Public Works road crew potentially damage cars and create  unsafe conditions on Emerson Street as a result of unscheduled road repair.  This safety risk and damage was completely  avoidable if the Public Works Department had simply notified residents on Emerson Street of pending maintenance to  the roadway.    Specifics of the safety incident:   At 1pm, June 15, a team of City road workers began working southbound on the 1600 block of Emerson Street.    The road crew used a high pressure air nozzle, attached to and powered by a large truck, to blow out chunks of  asphalt out of the road surface cracks.     Some of those chunks of asphalt, and a high volume of sand, hit our cars parked on the street immediately in  front of our home. One of our cars was a brand new Mercedes Benz that was 2 days old.    When I tried to speak to the worker with the high pressure air nozzle, he was unresponsive and just stared at  me. He continued to use the high pressure air nozzle as I tried to speak to him. I was not wearing personal  protective equipment like safety glasses, and could have easily been struck by flying debris.     The work crew did not stop their activity as we quickly moved our cars out of the sandblasting and spray of  asphalt chunks      Immediately following behind the air blaster and truck, a second road crew followed a few feet behind spraying  liquid tar into the cracks in a windy environment, potentially impacting cars parked on the street.     Other cars may have been damaged by the high pressure air blower pushing chunks of asphalt out of the street.  There was a Public Works supervisor within 300 yards of the road crew, but he spent zero time watching or preventing  the activity for the 30 minutes I observed him. He spent his entire time speaking to road worker foreman and having a  great time laughing, with his back turned to the work crew the entire time as they continued blowing and spraying  debris down the street.    We were given NO prior notice of this road work. The City of Palo Alto could have avoided any liability for damage or  injury by a simple notice to residents a few days ahead of the project. We could have easily moved our cars ahead of  time with proper advance notice.     As a Palo Alto resident and active voter, I'm appalled that the City disregarded personal property and safety in such a  manner.  It's counter to the public service obligations of the City and government.  This safety incident was completely  avoidable    As council members, please ensure your Public Works Department takes immediate action to notify residents of any  potential Public Works projects that might harm their property or impact their safety.     I also urge you to take disciplinary action with the Public Works team and Supervisor for failing to take proper basic  safety precautions or simple notification of  residents prior to their activity.  2   Sincerely,    Allan Bedwell  1637 Emerson Street  Palo Alto, CA 94301.  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Arlene Goetze <photowrite67@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 10:45 AM To:gavin@gavinnewsom.com; info@kamalaharris.org; info@rokhanna.com Subject:HOW SHOTS AFFECT AGES 14-30 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please be updated on who is dying and getting seriously hurt with the fake shots that many US doctors are calling to STOP completely.... VAERS of CDC, after vaccination, has logged 5,165 deaths, 25,359 serious effects and 294,802 averse effects between Dec. 14 and May 29 for all ages. Please do not encourage young people to get shots that mutate genes, especially with Pfizer shots which have the highest death rate. (VAERS) Moderna admits its shot is not a vaccine but a gene mutation technology.. Please know that the CDC members own 30 or more vaccine patents and their goal seems to be to put unsafe vaccines in everyone....rather than insist that these fake vaccines follow proper testing procedures for the safety of all ages. Forwarded by Arlene Goetze, MA spirituality, writer/editor, NO Toxins for Children Below: 1. 475 hearts Aflame under 30 2. 800 Reports of Hearts on Fire 3. Severe reactions in Teens 4. Oracle designer dies after shot 5. Soccer star collapses after Pfizer shot 6. 200 cases of myocarditis under 30 -------------------------- CDC to Convene Meeting on 475 Reports of Heart Inflammation in People Under 30 By Megan Redshaw childrenshealthdefense.org. June 11, 2021 The Centers for Disease Control and\Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday it will convene an emergency meeting of its advisers on June 18 to discuss higher-than-expected reports of heart inflammation following doses of Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines, 4 CBS News According to the CDC, a total of 475 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis were recorded in patients 30 and younger. The CDC identified 226 reports that might meet the agency’s “working case definition” of myocarditis and pericarditis following the shots, the agency disclosed Thursday during an FDA hearing. The majority of those affected have recovered, but 41 had ongoing symptoms, 15 are still hospitalized and three are in the intensive care unit. Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, deputy director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office said during Thursday’s meeting there had been a higher-than-expected number of cases of heart inflammation among young people recently vaccinated with their second doses of mRNA vaccine. CDC data showed 196 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis among 18- to 24-year-olds through May 31, compared with an expected rate of between eight and 83 cases. Among 16- to 17-year-olds, 79 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis were reported through May 31. The expected rate among people in this age group is between two and 19 cases, Shimabukuro said during his presentation. --------------------------------------- Nearly 800 Reports of Heart Inflammation After Vaccines in US BY ZACHARY STIEBER. THE EPOCH TIMES. JUNE 10,2021 Federal authorities have received over 800 reports of heart inflammation in people who received a COVID-19 vaccine, a health official said Thursday. The reports of myocarditis or pericarditis were submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a passive reporting system run jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration, through May 31. The bulk of the reports described heart inflammation appearing after the second of two doses of either the Pfizer of Moderna vaccines, both of which utilize messenger RNA technology --------------------------------------- Severe Reactions in Healthy Teens From COVID-19 Shot Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola. Fact Checked May 18, 2021 STORY AT-A-GLANCE * 17-year-old Everest Romney of Draper, Utah, developed blood clots in his brain within days of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine * Emma Burkey, an 18-year-old from the Las Vegas area, received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine March 20, 2021, and was put into a medically induced coma within two weeks due to seizures and blood clots in her brain * Another devastating report states that a 15-year-old boy from Colorado, with no preexisting conditions or allergies, died from cardiac failure two days after receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 5 vaccine * Victims’ families are hoping to receive help for medical bills, but they’re unlikely to get it; if you or a loved one dies or is permanently injured by an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, you cannot sue the drug company that made it Healthy teenagers have been hospitalized,1 and at least one death in a teen has been reported,2following experimental COVID-19 vaccinations being distributed under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) granted to vaccine manufacturers by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The adverse events are especially tragic since COVID-19 has a 99.997% survival rate among children and teens,3 making the necessity of vaccination highly questionable. SUBHEADS After Shot, Healthy Teen Develops Blood Clots in the Brain 18-Year-Old Hospitalized With Blood Clots After COVID Shot COVID Vaccine-Related Death of Teen Reported to VAERS Victims Looking for Help With Medical Bills Unlikely to Get It Cutting Through the Confusing COVID Information READ WHOLE STORY. MERCOLA NEWSLETTER with title above. ----------------------------------------- To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented autodownload of this picture from the Internet.   CDC Vaccine Tracking System Designer & Oracle Director Joel  Kallman Dead 2 Months After COVID‐19 Vaccine Shot  by GreatGameIndia  The Director at Oracle, Joel Kallman who designed CDC's Vaccine Tracking System is dead two months after taking the COVID-19 vaccine shot. Read more of this post. -------------------- ----------------- To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented autodownload of this picture from the Internet.   Danish Soccer Star Christen Ericksen Collapses, Heart  Restarted On Pitch After Taking Pfizer Vaccine  by GreatGameIndia  Danish Soccer star Christen Ericksen collapsed during the Euro 2021 playoff match today. He  nearly died during the game and his heart was restarted on the pitch. The team cardiologist has  confirmed that he got the Pfizer vaccine 12 days ago.                          Read more of this post  ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented autodownload of this picture from the Internet.   How COVID‐19 Vaccines Are Causing Myocarditis  In Youngsters  by GreatGameIndia  [!] _____ _ 6 Inflammation and swelling of the heart, a condition known as Myocarditis, has been identified in many youngsters who have received their dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Although experts are still looking into the matter, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed over 200 cases of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination in people 30 or below .Read more of this post ------------------------------------------ Vitamins or Vaccines C, D, zinc fake shots to genetically mutate Just tell young people to take Vit C, D, zinc and get some sunshine to protect themselves from the virus. IT IS NOT EVEN A CHOICE! NO ONE TELLS PEOPLE HOW TO STRENGTHEN THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEMS. HOW SAD. Please LEAD THE WAY! ---------------········································································································································································································································ 7 Baumb, Nelly From:mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 10:36 AM To:Council, City Cc:Tom DuBois tom.dubois@gmail.com; Lisa Waltuch; Nia Taylor; ladoris cordell; Kienzle, Karen; Holman, Karen (external); Greer Stone; Terry Acebo Davis; Alison Cormack; Gennady Sheyner; Aram James; Rebecca Eisenberg Subject:O brave new venture CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    I find pretty much everything I read or heard about the new Ventura to be dystopian.  If it’s true that we are replacing a giant retail – – due to the effects of Internet – – with 1,000 new Palo altans, what type  of new neighbors do we want? Also if we include a major park how would that influence the outcome and how will it  change us?  Mark Weiss    Sent from my iPhone  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Shikada, Ed Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 2:48 PM To:Allan Bedwell Cc:Council, City; Eggleston, Brad Subject:RE: Safety Incident/Damage to Cars by Public Works Department Dear Mr. Bedwell,    I am very sorry to hear about this incident.  Thank you for bringing this to our attention, I will ask our director of public  works Brad Eggleston to look into this matter right away and ensure proper follow‐up.  We appreciate the detail  provided in your message, as it helps us determine the responsible individuals.    Once again, my apology for your experience.    Sincerely,  ‐‐Ed      Ed Shikada  City Manager  250 Hamilton Avenue  Palo Alto, CA 94301  (650) 329‐2280  ed.shikada@cityofpaloalto.org         From: Allan Bedwell <allan.bedwell@gmail.com>   Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 1:51 PM  To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>  Subject: Safety Incident/Damage to Cars by Public Works Department    CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Mayor and City Council Members,   Today at 1pm, June 15, I watched a Palo Alto Department of Public Works road crew potentially damage cars and create  unsafe conditions on Emerson Street as a result of unscheduled road repair.  This safety risk and damage was completely  avoidable if the Public Works Department had simply notified residents on Emerson Street of pending maintenance to  the roadway.    • CITY OF PALO ALTO 2 Specifics of the safety incident:   At 1pm, June 15, a team of City road workers began working southbound on the 1600 block of Emerson Street.    The road crew used a high pressure air nozzle, attached to and powered by a large truck, to blow out chunks of  asphalt out of the road surface cracks.     Some of those chunks of asphalt, and a high volume of sand, hit our cars parked on the street immediately in  front of our home. One of our cars was a brand new Mercedes Benz that was 2 days old.    When I tried to speak to the worker with the high pressure air nozzle, he was unresponsive and just stared at  me. He continued to use the high pressure air nozzle as I tried to speak to him. I was not wearing personal  protective equipment like safety glasses, and could have easily been struck by flying debris.     The work crew did not stop their activity as we quickly moved our cars out of the sandblasting and spray of  asphalt chunks      Immediately following behind the air blaster and truck, a second road crew followed a few feet behind spraying  liquid tar into the cracks in a windy environment, potentially impacting cars parked on the street.     Other cars may have been damaged by the high pressure air blower pushing chunks of asphalt out of the street.  There was a Public Works supervisor within 300 yards of the road crew, but he spent zero time watching or preventing  the activity for the 30 minutes I observed him. He spent his entire time speaking to road worker foreman and having a  great time laughing, with his back turned to the work crew the entire time as they continued blowing and spraying  debris down the street.    We were given NO prior notice of this road work. The City of Palo Alto could have avoided any liability for damage or  injury by a simple notice to residents a few days ahead of the project. We could have easily moved our cars ahead of  time with proper advance notice.     As a Palo Alto resident and active voter, I'm appalled that the City disregarded personal property and safety in such a  manner.  It's counter to the public service obligations of the City and government.  This safety incident was completely  avoidable    As council members, please ensure your Public Works Department takes immediate action to notify residents of any  potential Public Works projects that might harm their property or impact their safety.     I also urge you to take disciplinary action with the Public Works team and Supervisor for failing to take proper basic  safety precautions or simple notification of  residents prior to their activity.    Sincerely,    Allan Bedwell  1637 Emerson Street  Palo Alto, CA 94301.  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 10:29 PM To:Allan Seid Subject:Fwd: PRESENTATION INVITATION Attachments:Allan Seid TAlkfinal.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    You do not want to miss this talk by our own neighbor! Dr. Allan Seid REFLECTIONS on ANTI-ASIAN DISCRIMINATION and VIOLENCE: 1850s TO THE PRESENT Wednesday, June 16, 3:00 PM Zoom ID 872 0817 2815 PC 850 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87208172815 Among the many contributions to our community by Allan and Mary Seid, residents on the 7th Floor, is the founding in 1973 of the Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI). This vital organization is even more pertinent today. Co-sponsored by the Channing House Speakers’ and Racial & Social Justice Committees 4 Baumb, Nelly From:Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 9:21 PM To:Nanci Kauffman Cc:French, Amy; Council, City; Kathy Layendecker; Lait, Jonathan; Lorraine Brown; Shikada, Ed; info@pnqlnow.org Subject:Re: Question for June 9th Castilleja Neighborhood CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Nanci, Thanks for your reply. The point is if the traffic problem is really fixed, then there should not be a need for an underground parking garage. It doesn't make sense to build a multi-million dollar underground garage just for claiming to meet any parking requirements. The money would be much better spent on shuttling and satellite parking to further improve any traffic issue. If Castilleja is genuinely wants to provide a solution that is good for the neighborhood, I am sure the neighbors would be willing to work with Castilleja and the City for a parking solution that is acceptable for the neighbors but without an underground garage. Thanks Nelson 5 On Monday, June 14, 2021, 03:18:30 PM PDT, Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> wrote: Thanks again, Nelson, for clarifying your concerns. Traffic around campus has been reduced dramatically in recent years, and as you know, under our new CUP, we will be required to maintain extremely low trip counts. Additionally, the proposed trip-counting mechanisms are extremely technical and stringent. In addition, we will be abiding by the new standards for how we provide parking for our campus. Thank you for your continued input. Nanci ,/ ... ,. BOO Building9 Castilleja s! c, Kellog Castilleja Sch< Sw1mmlngP, Tempcrt1rity clo ~ 6 On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 2:49 PM Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> wrote: Nanci, Thanks very much for replying to my question on a Sunday morning. It is hard to imagine this ordeal has been going on for almost 5 years. Below is our email exchange summarized our first and only face to face personal meeting back in August 2016. As I stated during that meeting, I will be supportive of Castilleja's expansion plan if it is beneficial to the neighborhood. The parking issue is a symptom and the root cause is traffic. If the traffic issue is really resolved by various suggestions such as what I listed in my email below, then there will not be a parking issue. However, Castilleja continues to insist on its own interpretation by picking and choosing specific issue to drive its own agenda. Although different neighbors could be impacted differently by Castilleja, ultimately we all want to preserve the quality of life for the neighborhood. I am not sure if the following statement from your reply is a hypothetical example or actually referring to the 47 letters submitted on May 2017. Please note all the letters signed by the immediate neighbors are located within the circled area below and well within the 600 feet of Castilleja. "versus a neighbor 3 blocks away who signs a petition (47 signatures, not letters) to oppose a parking lot for fear it will bring traffic," 7 Castilleja is located in the heart of a single family neighborhood bordered by Embarcadero and Alma. In order for us co-exist in harmony, we all need to work together to come up with sensible solutions. Please do not just keep pushing Castilleja own agenda and blindly insisting on the underground garage. Instead really work on a solution to solve the root cause of traffic. Thank you and have a nice Sunday afternoon. Nelson L ~ Castilk1ja Sch ( q Kel lo ~~ ~ .. 4b Casti lleja Sci '(- -~ ~,s; Swimming I $..f Te1l1pu·tuit,, i;I ~ ;:i.q, '" Nie, ~ ~'l, .(I-' r>,'t _,,,,fl. $';§$ ,;,,, 4i:! -~ ,i'"e 800 Bu ii din,g 9' ~" "'1~ ~T ~o;. ,s,,_O .!{l' "14} ~0 ~.s,r ~~ '§' # 8 ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> To: Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> Cc: "klayendecker@castilleja.org" <klayendecker@castilleja.org>; Kimberley Wong <sheepgirl1@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 10:18 PM Subject: Re: Invitation to lunch with Nanci Kauffman Nanci, Thanks for the reply. We will relay this message to our concerned neighbors. We will all be looking forward to the updates based on our input. Meanwhile we will continue our efforts to protect our quality of life. Regards Nelson From: Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> To: Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> Cc: "klayendecker@castilleja.org" <klayendecker@castilleja.org>; Kimberley Wong <sheepgirl1@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 11:11 AM Subject: Re: Invitation to lunch with Nanci Kauffman Dear Nelson and Kimberley, Thank you both for taking the time to meet with us. We appreciated the opportunity to hear your concerns and we will reflect on all of them as we continue to develop our plans for Castilleja's future. Please stay tuned for more updates. Regards, -Nanci On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> wrote: Nanci and Kathy,    Thanks for meeting with Kimberley and me yesterday to discuss our input for Castilleja on ways to co‐exist  with the neighbors.  Here is the summary of our discussion.        While Kimberley and I appreciate the opportunity of this face‐to‐face meeting, this does not change the  fact that we were never briefed on the current plan prior to its submission. We had to learn about the direct  negative impact to our house from the City website. We learned that the two houses across from us would  be demolished and replaced with an underground garage driveway funneling traffic of 440 trips per peak  9 hour to our front door and living room.   Thanks to Nanci for clarifying the 440 trips means 220 cars minus  the cars that will be parked and exited as a later time.    Because we stated that we adamantly oppose the current master plan and CUP application in our previous  email, I appreciated that Kathy limited the overview of the plan to the barrier at Emerson & Embarcadero  and beautification of the grounds above the underground garage exit.    As a way to frame the context of our input, I restated the following known facts  Castilleja is located in a Single Family R1 Neighborhood  Castilleja is operating under the Conditional User Permit that is granted in 2000 with a maximum of 415  student enrollment   Castilleja has violated the enrollment limit for over 10 years The following is our input:  Non Starter o   Building an underground garage  o   An exit ramp for the underground garage pointing at our home o Remove/Move 168 trees especially the 120 ft Redwood and the Oak trees in 1235 and 1262  Emerson o Demolishing the 1235 and 1262 Emerson   o   Discussion of any plan without prior traffic study that measures the true impact of Castilleja traffic  to the neighbors’ quality of life and an agreed acceptable impact target by the neighbors. o Multi year constructions to disrupt and reduce our quality of life.        The guiding principle to design any plan is to allow Castilleja and the neighbors to co‐exist in harmony  while protecting the quality of life for the neighbors and Palo Alto residents as a whole.  Any proposal  must have a clear description of the benefit to the neighborhood and Palo Alto City as a whole, to  benefit the Palo Alto Community and stay within the confines of the R‐1 zoning of the neighborhood        Palo Alto traffic is reaching gridlock level.   Though neighbors in the past were hoping a garage will  address the off street parking issue, most of us who have met in the neighborhood meeting have  realized that this will not solve the problem.  Traffic is getting worse and the garage will just invite more  traffic to the neighborhood and the City.  If your goal is as you mentioned to reduce traffic in the  neighborhood, then you should not need a garage.  You should redirect the budget for the underground  garage toward solutions including the following to reduce traffic to Palo Alto o remote garage  or lot o more shuttles and from remote garage or lot o bike/walk o train/bus        Current traffic study is widely inadequate by just manually counting car for one hour during school  dropoff in Castilleja campus in the morning.   We need to have accurate comprehensive traffic study that  covers 24x7 traffic around the neighborhood with and without Castilleja in session for the following. Set  up traffic cameras such as the case by Gunn High, count many days over an extensive period of time in  various weather conditions, automate the counting of cars for surrounding neighborhood. o Regular class session o Summer class session o Weekday events o Weekend events 10        Castilleja presents the result of the traffic study to the neighbors and work with the neighbors to  define a concrete acceptable target of the traffic impact to the neighborhood.        Safety: Need to collaborate with the Commission of Traffic Safety, other schools, Penny Ellson of the  PA Bicycle Advisory Committee as well as those working on the plans for the Embarcadero corridor near  Paly and Town & Country.  They all need to be aware of the master plan of Castilleja and drastically  change of flow of traffic and dedicating one east bound lane off Embarcadero at the Kingsley, Emerson,  Embarcadero junction to outflowing Emerson traffic.        We need much better transparency of the discussion regarding the plan to avoid a repeat of not  notifying impacted neighbors as in our case. This was not an acceptable approach to build a collaborative  plan. o Date of Castilleja/Neighborhood meeting should be communicated at least 1 month ahead via  email and Castilleja website o All materials to be presented in the Castilleja/Neighborhood meeting should be viewable via  Castilleja website 2 week prior the meeting o All meeting note of the Castilleja/Neighborhood meeting should be viewable via Castilleja website  1 week after the meeting o All submission of documents by Castilleja to the City and communication from the City to  Castilleja related the the current CUP application and existing CUP should be made available in the  Castilleja website        Suggestions to welcome more feedback from the neighbors: o Provide several options of plans to present to the community before submission. Print out huge  copies and allow them to view the various options just like at the Embarcadero corridor meetings.  Have neighbors write on the plans for their immediate input. This should be followed up to make  sure that Castilleja has made changes and "heard" the neighbors’ requests. o This will reduce the amount of iterations to the submitted plans and increase transparency  between Castilleja and the neighbors o Explore large lots to park cars offsite and shuttle students in. Explore another site to have a  satellite school, near 101 just as Keyes school did.   We are looking forward to see how your actions will bring back a good quality of life to our Single Family  Neighborhood. Nelson & Kimberley  On Sunday, June 13, 2021, 09:56:31 AM PDT, Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> wrote: Dear Nelson, Thank you for your question and for the opportunity to reply. I’d be happy to explain. As you know, neighborhood input has varied over time, and different neighbors have expressed conflicting points of view. Therefore, it would be impossible to develop a project that incorporates every neighbor’s comments and concerns. What I said at the meeting was that each new iteration of the project has reflected our attempts to review and consider all neighbors’ comments, to accommodate as many as possible, while also abiding by additional requirements set forth by city staff, and also by ARB, PTC, HRB, and now, City Council. 11 A simple example: At one time, there were neighbors who requested that all cars be removed from the street, so we proposed ample underground parking. Over time, other neighbors indicated a preference for more street parking, in favor of an underground parking structure with fewer spaces. Other neighbors have focused on concerns that the garage footprint might be too close to a heritage tree. Each iteration of the parking plan for our project has been influenced by input from key stakeholders, while also seeking to manage opposing priorities and the city requirements to park our project. City staff, commission members, and ultimately the City Council, all face conflicting input from from stakeholders, and I don’t envy the challenge of weighing one neighbor’s perspective over another’s. For example, how might we consider the voice of neighbors whose homes are across the street from the school, and who have stated adamantly that they don’t want to see a parking lot from their kitchen windows, versus a neighbor 3 blocks away who signs a petition (47 signatures, not letters) to oppose a parking lot for fear it will bring traffic, without ever knowing that no new trips is a condition of the project. Ultimately, I believe Council will do their best to make a decision that takes into account not only current perspectives, but equally important, they will make a decision that is consistent with their vision for the future of Palo Alto. Castilleja’s willingness to address current and future parking needs in the neighborhood represents an investment in Palo Alto’s future that will benefit the community and will be greatly appreciated by future homeowners. Thank you again for posing this question and for giving me a chance to share my answer. Regards, Nanci On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 2:36 PM Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> wrote: Nanci, Thanks for taking additional questions via email since you limited the June 9th Castilleja Neighborhood meeting via Zoom to just one hour. You have stated publicly a number of times that Castilleja has incorporated all of the neighbors comments and concerns into the documents for the Castilleja Expansion plan. You also repeated that when you answered our neighbor Mary Sylvester's question during the Q&A of this meeting. On May 3rd 2017, the PNQL group hand delivered signed letters from 47 immediate neighbors to Castilleja stating that the neighbors DO NOT want the underground garage and the reason. My question is can you please let us know where is that reflected in Castilleja submitted documents for the Castilleja Expansion Project? Thanks Nelson -- Nanci Kauffman Head of School Castilleja School 1310 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 12 P (650) 470-7718 E nkauffman@castilleja.org www.castilleja.org Follow us on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Women Learning. Women Leading. For an appointment, contact: adelafuente@castilleja.org or (650) 470-7702 -- Nanci Kauffman Head of School Castilleja School 1310 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 P (650) 470-7718 E nkauffman@castilleja.org www.castilleja.org Follow us on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Women Learning. Women Leading. For an appointment, contact: adelafuente@castilleja.org or (650) 470-7702 13 Baumb, Nelly From:Kanth, Gayathri Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 6:01 PM To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed Subject:Downtown and College Terrace library reopening Attachments:FW: College Terrace Reopening Good Evening Mayor and Council Members:    We had recently received an email from a community member enquiring about the reopening of the College  Terrace library. You might be getting similar questions from community members. City Manager Ed Shikada  has asked me to share with you the response that I sent to the community member.    Please let me know if you have any questions.    Respectfully,  Gayathri      Gayathri Kanth  Interim Library Services Director  Library Department   (650) 329‐2668 | gayathri.kanth@cityofpaloalto.org   https://library.cityofpaloalto.org                  • ' 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Kanth, Gayathri Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 5:59 PM To:Kanth, Gayathri Subject:FW: College Terrace Reopening   From: Kanth, Gayathri   Sent: Monday, June 7, 2021 5:15 PM  To: Pria Graves <priag@birketthouse.com>  Cc: Cormack, Alison <Alison.Cormack@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: College Terrace Reopening    Dear Ms. Graves,    Thank you for reaching out to Councilmember Cormack about the reopening of the College Terrace Library. I  really appreciate your support of the College Terrace library.    As you know, as the State and County have begun relaxing restrictions, we have also been focusing on safely  reopening our libraries. So far, we have reopened the Children’s, Rinconada and Mitchell Park Libraries.     We are hoping to reopen the College Terrace and the Downtown Libraries once we hire new library staff. In  the last year, due to the uncertainties of the economy, the library and other departments had frozen a  significant amount of vacant positions. Following the budget adoption of the Council, the library will be hiring  new staff to fill those vacancies and reopen the libraries. We will be announcing reopening dates once we  know more details.    Again, thank you very much for your support of the library. We look forward to serving you at the College  Terrace Library.    Thanks,    Gayathri    Gayathri Kanth  Interim Library Services Director  Library Department   (650) 329‐2668 | gayathri.kanth@cityofpaloalto.org   https://library.cityofpaloalto.org                  • 14 Baumb, Nelly From:Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:17 PM To:Nelson Ng Cc:French, Amy; Council, City; Kathy Layendecker; Lait, Jonathan; Lorraine Brown; Shikada, Ed; info@pnqlnow.org Subject:Re: Question for June 9th Castilleja Neighborhood CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Thanks again, Nelson, for clarifying your concerns. Traffic around campus has been reduced dramatically in recent years,  and as you know, under our new CUP, we will be required to maintain extremely low trip counts. Additionally, the  proposed trip‐counting mechanisms are extremely technical and stringent.     In addition, we will be abiding by the new standards for how we provide parking for our campus.     Thank you for your continued input.   Nanci      On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 2:49 PM Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> wrote:  Nanci, Thanks very much for replying to my question on a Sunday morning. It is hard to imagine this ordeal has been going on for almost 5 years. Below is our email exchange summarized our first and only face to face personal meeting back in August 2016. As I stated during that meeting, I will be supportive of Castilleja's expansion plan if it is beneficial to the neighborhood. The parking issue is a symptom and the root cause is traffic. If the traffic issue is really resolved by various suggestions such as what I listed in my email below, then there will not be a parking issue. However, Castilleja continues to insist on its own interpretation by picking and choosing specific issue to drive its own agenda. Although different neighbors could be impacted differently by Castilleja, ultimately we all want to preserve the quality of life for the neighborhood. I am not sure if the following statement from your reply is a hypothetical example or actually referring to the 47 letters submitted on May 2017. Please note all the letters signed by the immediate neighbors are located within the circled area below and well within the 600 feet of Castilleja. "versus a neighbor 3 blocks away who signs a petition (47 signatures, not letters) to oppose a parking lot for fear it will bring traffic," 15 Castilleja is located in the heart of a single family neighborhood bordered by Embarcadero and Alma. In order for us co-exist in harmony, we all need to work together to come up with sensible solutions. Please do not just keep pushing Castilleja own agenda and blindly insisting on the underground garage. Instead really work on a solution to solve the root cause of traffic. Thank you and have a nice Sunday afternoon. 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Regards Nelson From: Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> To: Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> Cc: "klayendecker@castilleja.org" <klayendecker@castilleja.org>; Kimberley Wong <sheepgirl1@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 11:11 AM Subject: Re: Invitation to lunch with Nanci Kauffman Dear Nelson and Kimberley, Thank you both for taking the time to meet with us. We appreciated the opportunity to hear your concerns and we will reflect on all of them as we continue to develop our plans for Castilleja's future. Please stay tuned for more updates. Regards, -Nanci On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> wrote: Nanci and Kathy,    Thanks for meeting with Kimberley and me yesterday to discuss our input for Castilleja on ways to co‐exist  with the neighbors.  Here is the summary of our discussion.        While Kimberley and I appreciate the opportunity of this face‐to‐face meeting, this does not change the  fact that we were never briefed on the current plan prior to its submission. We had to learn about the direct  negative impact to our house from the City website. We learned that the two houses across from us would  be demolished and replaced with an underground garage driveway funneling traffic of 440 trips per peak  17 hour to our front door and living room.   Thanks to Nanci for clarifying the 440 trips means 220 cars minus  the cars that will be parked and exited as a later time.    Because we stated that we adamantly oppose the current master plan and CUP application in our previous  email, I appreciated that Kathy limited the overview of the plan to the barrier at Emerson & Embarcadero  and beautification of the grounds above the underground garage exit.    As a way to frame the context of our input, I restated the following known facts  Castilleja is located in a Single Family R1 Neighborhood  Castilleja is operating under the Conditional User Permit that is granted in 2000 with a maximum of 415  student enrollment   Castilleja has violated the enrollment limit for over 10 years The following is our input:  Non Starter o   Building an underground garage  o   An exit ramp for the underground garage pointing at our home o Remove/Move 168 trees especially the 120 ft Redwood and the Oak trees in 1235 and 1262  Emerson o Demolishing the 1235 and 1262 Emerson   o   Discussion of any plan without prior traffic study that measures the true impact of Castilleja traffic  to the neighbors’ quality of life and an agreed acceptable impact target by the neighbors. o Multi year constructions to disrupt and reduce our quality of life.        The guiding principle to design any plan is to allow Castilleja and the neighbors to co‐exist in harmony  while protecting the quality of life for the neighbors and Palo Alto residents as a whole.  Any proposal  must have a clear description of the benefit to the neighborhood and Palo Alto City as a whole, to  benefit the Palo Alto Community and stay within the confines of the R‐1 zoning of the neighborhood        Palo Alto traffic is reaching gridlock level.   Though neighbors in the past were hoping a garage will  address the off street parking issue, most of us who have met in the neighborhood meeting have  realized that this will not solve the problem.  Traffic is getting worse and the garage will just invite more  traffic to the neighborhood and the City.  If your goal is as you mentioned to reduce traffic in the  neighborhood, then you should not need a garage.  You should redirect the budget for the underground  garage toward solutions including the following to reduce traffic to Palo Alto o remote garage  or lot o more shuttles and from remote garage or lot o bike/walk o train/bus        Current traffic study is widely inadequate by just manually counting car for one hour during school  dropoff in Castilleja campus in the morning.   We need to have accurate comprehensive traffic study that  covers 24x7 traffic around the neighborhood with and without Castilleja in session for the following. Set  up traffic cameras such as the case by Gunn High, count many days over an extensive period of time in  various weather conditions, automate the counting of cars for surrounding neighborhood. o Regular class session o Summer class session o Weekday events o Weekend events 18        Castilleja presents the result of the traffic study to the neighbors and work with the neighbors to  define a concrete acceptable target of the traffic impact to the neighborhood.        Safety: Need to collaborate with the Commission of Traffic Safety, other schools, Penny Ellson of the  PA Bicycle Advisory Committee as well as those working on the plans for the Embarcadero corridor near  Paly and Town & Country.  They all need to be aware of the master plan of Castilleja and drastically  change of flow of traffic and dedicating one east bound lane off Embarcadero at the Kingsley, Emerson,  Embarcadero junction to outflowing Emerson traffic.        We need much better transparency of the discussion regarding the plan to avoid a repeat of not  notifying impacted neighbors as in our case. This was not an acceptable approach to build a collaborative  plan. o Date of Castilleja/Neighborhood meeting should be communicated at least 1 month ahead via  email and Castilleja website o All materials to be presented in the Castilleja/Neighborhood meeting should be viewable via  Castilleja website 2 week prior the meeting o All meeting note of the Castilleja/Neighborhood meeting should be viewable via Castilleja website  1 week after the meeting o All submission of documents by Castilleja to the City and communication from the City to  Castilleja related the the current CUP application and existing CUP should be made available in the  Castilleja website        Suggestions to welcome more feedback from the neighbors: o Provide several options of plans to present to the community before submission. Print out huge  copies and allow them to view the various options just like at the Embarcadero corridor meetings.  Have neighbors write on the plans for their immediate input. This should be followed up to make  sure that Castilleja has made changes and "heard" the neighbors’ requests. o This will reduce the amount of iterations to the submitted plans and increase transparency  between Castilleja and the neighbors o Explore large lots to park cars offsite and shuttle students in. Explore another site to have a  satellite school, near 101 just as Keyes school did.   We are looking forward to see how your actions will bring back a good quality of life to our Single Family  Neighborhood. Nelson & Kimberley  On Sunday, June 13, 2021, 09:56:31 AM PDT, Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> wrote: Dear Nelson, Thank you for your question and for the opportunity to reply. I’d be happy to explain. As you know, neighborhood input has varied over time, and different neighbors have expressed conflicting points of view. Therefore, it would be impossible to develop a project that incorporates every neighbor’s comments and concerns. What I said at the meeting was that each new iteration of the project has reflected our attempts to review and consider all neighbors’ comments, to accommodate as many as possible, while also abiding by additional requirements set forth by city staff, and also by ARB, PTC, HRB, and now, City Council. 19 A simple example: At one time, there were neighbors who requested that all cars be removed from the street, so we proposed ample underground parking. Over time, other neighbors indicated a preference for more street parking, in favor of an underground parking structure with fewer spaces. Other neighbors have focused on concerns that the garage footprint might be too close to a heritage tree. Each iteration of the parking plan for our project has been influenced by input from key stakeholders, while also seeking to manage opposing priorities and the city requirements to park our project. City staff, commission members, and ultimately the City Council, all face conflicting input from from stakeholders, and I don’t envy the challenge of weighing one neighbor’s perspective over another’s. For example, how might we consider the voice of neighbors whose homes are across the street from the school, and who have stated adamantly that they don’t want to see a parking lot from their kitchen windows, versus a neighbor 3 blocks away who signs a petition (47 signatures, not letters) to oppose a parking lot for fear it will bring traffic, without ever knowing that no new trips is a condition of the project. Ultimately, I believe Council will do their best to make a decision that takes into account not only current perspectives, but equally important, they will make a decision that is consistent with their vision for the future of Palo Alto. Castilleja’s willingness to address current and future parking needs in the neighborhood represents an investment in Palo Alto’s future that will benefit the community and will be greatly appreciated by future homeowners. Thank you again for posing this question and for giving me a chance to share my answer. Regards, Nanci On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 2:36 PM Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> wrote: Nanci, Thanks for taking additional questions via email since you limited the June 9th Castilleja Neighborhood meeting via Zoom to just one hour. You have stated publicly a number of times that Castilleja has incorporated all of the neighbors comments and concerns into the documents for the Castilleja Expansion plan. You also repeated that when you answered our neighbor Mary Sylvester's question during the Q&A of this meeting. On May 3rd 2017, the PNQL group hand delivered signed letters from 47 immediate neighbors to Castilleja stating that the neighbors DO NOT want the underground garage and the reason. My question is can you please let us know where is that reflected in Castilleja submitted documents for the Castilleja Expansion Project? Thanks Nelson -- Nanci Kauffman Head of School Castilleja School 1310 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 20 P (650) 470-7718 E nkauffman@castilleja.org www.castilleja.org Follow us on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Women Learning. Women Leading. For an appointment, contact: adelafuente@castilleja.org or (650) 470-7702 ‐‐   Nanci Kauffman Head of School Castilleja School 1310 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 P (650) 470-7718 E nkauffman@castilleja.org www.castilleja.org Follow us on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn    Women Learning. Women Leading. For an appointment, contact: adelafuente@castilleja.org or (650) 470-7702  21 Baumb, Nelly From:Bob Wenzlau <bwenzlau@neighborsabroad.org> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 11:55 AM To:Council, City Cc:Gaines, Chantal; board@neighborsabroad.org Subject:Oaxaca, Mexico 2021 Trip Report Attachments:Oaxaca Trip Report June 2021 Neighbors Abroad.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Honorable Mayor and Council Members,     The attached letter summarizes a trip just completed to our sister city, Oaxaca, Mexico. I represented Neighbors Abroad.    The letter summarizes several meetings with photographs.  The trip was catalyzed by Oaxaca's rainy season, and the  installation of 50 rainwater capture systems in the village of Yaxe. Yaxe is a village that has benefited for decades from a  children's health program we support called Niño a Niño (now Vidas y Sueños).  Several additional meetings were held  given my presence.    I hope you have a chance to read this, and know there is interest in the Fall 2021 of a visit by Council representatives to  celebrate both pending carbon offset agreement benefitting three more villages as well as our climate  responsibility here.  Additionally, to view and learn in the village of Yaxe of rainwater capture approaches, an approach  that is very viable to consider in Palo Alto.    The local leadership of these initiatives includes Sarah Burgess, our Vice President for Oaxaca, joined by board members  Ken and Flor Sanchez.    Sincerely,    Bob      ‐‐       Bob Wenzlau  President  Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto  650‐248‐4467  Facebook  |  Web | Twitter | Join    June 14, 2021 Palo Alto City Council Palo Alto, California Re: Trip Report to Oaxaca, Mexico June 2021 Honorable Council Members This is a trip report from a visit to Oaxaca occurring June 7 through 12. As President of Neighbors Abroad, I represented the organization and informally our city. The trigger for the visit was to celebrate the installation of 50 rainwater capture systems in the rural community of Yaxe, Oaxaca. This is a project catalyzed by Neighbors Abroad, and brings lessons to Palo Alto especially given our own drought conditions. During the visit there were five meetings to summarize, and potential action considerations for our city. 1.Oaxaca Sister City Committee. We reviewed multiple programs with a focus on orphanage support. Learning lessons from the pandemic, Oaxaca will have Catarina Manzana of Oaxaca on our Oaxaca Zoom call the second Friday of the month. 2.ICICO for Carbon Offset Purchases. Discussed progress toward the next offset contract between City of Palo Alto and ICICO, the community owned carbon sequestration collective. The next contract will support communities offset sequestration: Santiago Xiacui, La Trinidad and San Miguel Maninaltepec. We discussed developing a web platform to make the purchase of Oaxaca offsets be used to offset travel consistent with the CORSIA climate protocols, and extending this opportunity to our European sister city as we vision a sister city climate network. The timing would launch a Oaxaca Carbon platform in October to align with the UN Climate Summit in November 2021. City Action: The communities will invite representatives of the City to visit in October to show the sequestration operations, as well as celebrate the incredibly impactful commitment by the City. The timing is October 2021. 3.New President Elect (Mayor) of Oaxaca. An election for the next President (Mayor) of Oaxaca City was held last week. The President Elect is Francisco Martínez Neri, referred to as “Neri”. He asked to meet, and listened to an MEMBER, SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL PALO, PHILLIPI NES OAXACA, MEXICO ENSCHEDE,NETHERLANDS LI NKOPING, SWEDEN _,,..,, .. "''" ...... ...... ,, .. ,~ «Mm neighbors abroad PALO ALTO SISTER CITIES ALBI, FRANCE TSUCHIURA JAPAN HE IDELBERG, GERMANY YANGPU DISTRICT, SHANGH~. CHINA PO Box 52004, Palo Alto California 94303 USA lnfo@neighborsabroad.org +01 650 561 6106 www. neig hbo rsabroad .o rg Facebook: Neighborsabroad Trip Report to Oaxaca, Mexico June 2021 overview of Neighbors Abroad engagement in Oaxaca. He is interested in further development of carbon offset programs and rainwater harvesting. Action. Generate a letter of congratulation to the elected President of Oaxaca. 4.Visiting the Patrons of the Fire Fighters. Discussed their challenges where they have 5 cities the size of Palo Alto without fire stations, as well as making a children’s book for education. Neighbors Abroad is ready to support transport of vehicles, but there is a lack of vehicles being surplused now. 5.Yaxe to Celebrate the Rain Water Capture Program. Yaxe is a community of 3,000 residents in about 500 homes in rural Oaxaca. With climate change, the area has become dryer, and trucked in water was low quality and intermittent. Yaxe is also a community where Vidas y Sueños AC, an organization Neighbors Abroad supports, has for 40 years been teaching young girls self- esteem. Through that engagement, the water challenge was understood, and the project created. Approximately $80,000 was raised through numerous organizations to create the systems. They include roof sheeting, capture, storage, filtration and pumping delivery - a system that is modern and intuitive. The social integration with the village is as integral as the technology solution. An art project consisting of murals showing sustainability themes has been initiated with a vision that murals (similar to the synthetic fabric murals on City structures) would be created in Oaxaca, and shared in Yaxe and Palo Alto. City Action: The Yaxe community invites representatives of the City of Palo Alto to tour the operating rainwater capture project, and inaugurate the sustainability art project. The organization, Isla Urbana (www.islaurbana.org) has presented to the City Stormwater commission to introduce experiences in Mexico with rainwater harvesting where over 21,000 systems have been installed. The local leadership of these initiatives includes Sarah Burgess, our Vice President for Oaxaca, joined by board members Ken and Flor Sanchez. Following are some images from the trip. It is an honor to be from Palo Alto, and maintain civic engagement between our communities. Yours, Neighbors Abroad Bob Wenzlau President cc.Board of Neighbors Abroad 1.Oaxaca Sister City Committee. Jefe Manuel Maza (Oaxaca Fire), Josefina Hamilton (Alburgue Josefina), Carolina Manzano (attends monthly zoom calls), Bob Wenzlau, Lupita Vargas (President of Comite in Oaxaca), Soledad Osogobio (Comite Board Member), Tere Sánchez (Comite Board Member), and Ignacio Garcia (former student exchange chaperone) 2. ICICO for Carbon Offset Purchases Rosendo Pérez Antonio, Carlos Pérez González, Perfecto Pacheco Acevedo and Bob Wenzlau 3. New President Elect (Mayor) of Oaxaca. 4. Visiting the Patrons of the Fire Fighters. Frida Lyle, Bob Wenzlau, Presidente - Elect Francisco Martínez Neri, and unknown associate of Neri. Bob Wenzlau, Heliodoro Carlos Díaz Escárgara (State Director of Civil Security) and Jefe Maza. Recognized Bob’s 20 years of service to the Oaxaca Fire Fighters with placard signed by all state’s firefighters. Meeting with the patronados. < SSP Oax's Post SSP Oax 2d ·0 Agradecemos el respaldo y la continuidad que el Comite de Ciudades Hermanas de Palo Alto California-#Oaxaca, le brinda al H. Cuerpo de Bomberos GobOaxaca. Seguimos trabajando bajo los programas de apoyo para vehiculos, equipo y capacitaci6n de nuestros elementos. En dicho encuentro de trabajo, el titular de la SSPO, Heliodoro Carlos Diaz Escarraga reconoci6 y agradeci6 el apoyo brindado desde hace 20 aiios por parte del Comite, presidido por Bob Wenzlau, en beneficio de las y los oaxaqueiios. En reconocimiento a este trabajo, el Patronato de apoyo a Bomberos GobOaxaca y la SSP Oax entregaron un escudo elaborado en hojalata y firmado por personal de la corporaci6n, al presidente del Comite. Seguimos estrechando esfuerzos para garantizar un #OaxacaSeguro. #Oaxaca Subsecretaria de lnformaci6n y Desarrollo lnstitucional Alejandro Murat Hinojosa Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca Policia Vial del Estado Policia Estatal de Oaxaca PABIC GobOax Prevenci6n SSPO Unidad De Genero Sspo Unidad de Policia Cibernetica Oaxaca Centro de Reeducaci6n para hombres que ejercen violencia contra las mujeres Centro Estatal de Emergencias ()0 42 1 Comment 10 Shares 5. Yaxe to Celebrate the Rain Water Capture Program. Clockwise, community gathered to celebrate and learn about capture systems, Enrique Lomnitz of Isla Urbana with capture system (small blue device captures sediments in first rain), community members listening, Helene Iturribarría Rojas the state environmental director providing opening remarks, and Bob Wenzlau and Julie Jomo with younger kids on right participating in Vidas y Sueños program. Catalina (on left of Julie) is the current leader in Vidas y Sueños, and participated in program 40 years ago. 22 Baumb, Nelly From:Rice, Danille Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 7:43 AM To:Council, City Cc:Stump, Molly; Shikada, Ed; Minor, Beth; Gaines, Chantal; Nose, Kiely; Numoto, Darren; Batchelor, Dean; Horrigan-Taylor, Meghan Subject:State Budget Funding for Broadband – Letter of Support Attachments:Palo Alto Broadband Support Letter 6.9.2021.pdf Good morning Mayor and Council Members,   On behalf of City Manager Ed Shikada, I would like to inform you that the attached letter was sent to the Honorable  Gavin Newsom, Nancy Skinner, and Phil Ting  regarding support for Governor Newsom’s proposal to invest $7 billion as part of a plan to expand broadband  infrastructure, increase affordability, and enhance access to broadband for all Californians.  Respectfully,   Danille       Danille Rice  Executive Assistant to the City Manager  (650) 329‐2105 | danille.rice@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org                      • CITY OF PALO 11 rr, ffl 1!11111 ALTO u • 1M1 UU Office of the Mayor and City Council P.O. Box 10250 Palo Alto, CA 94303 650.329.2477 650.328.3631 fax City of Palo Alto June 9, 2021 The Honorable Gavin Newsom Governor of California State Capitol, First Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 The Honorable Nancy Skinner The Honorable Phil Ting Chair, Senate Budget Committee Chair, Assembly Budget Committee State Capitol, Room 5019 State Capitol, Room 6026 Sacramento, CA 95814 Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: State Budget Funding for Broadband – Letter of Support from the City of Palo Alto Dear Governor Newsom, Chairperson Skinner, and Chairperson Ting: On behalf of the City of Palo Alto, I write to express our strong support for Governor Newsom’s proposal to invest $7 billion as part of a plan to expand broadband infrastructure, increase affordability, and enhance access to broadband for all Californians. As budget negotiations finalize, I respectfully urge the Senate and Assembly to incorporate language which keeps the full $7 billion and allows local jurisdictions to access these funds, into the Legislature’s final budget. As you all know, the pandemic has underscored the importance of making broadband accessible, reliable, and affordable for various aspects of modern life. California needs the ability to work with and empower local partners to deploy this infrastructure at large scale—specifically, we appreciate and support the Governor’s proposal to create a public financing program that backs municipalities, non-profits, cooperatives, and others to access long-term financing which will unlock their potential to build modern access. Additionally, we support the construction of an open access “middle mile” fiber network so that all communities have the ability to tap into a quality network. In order to bridge the digital divide and enhance existing infrastructure options, local governments and their partners must have access to these dollars. Complete funding with the ability for municipalities to access is critical, and I urge the Administration and Legislature to work together and ensure that these funds are part of the final State Budget. Sincerely, Tom DuBois, Mayor City of Palo Alto CC: The Honorable Toni Atkins, President Pro Tempore, California State Senate The Honorable Anthony Rendon, Speaker, California State Assembly Palo Alto City Council DocuSign Envelope ID: 11922627-6582-4DB1-AF77-AA2152E4247E [ DocuSigned by: ~=9 23 Baumb, Nelly From:Ram Verma <ram_1807@hotmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 12:57 AM To:Transportation; Baird, Nathan; Kamhi, Philip Cc:Council, City Subject:Request for Residential Downtown Parking Permit Attachments:REAL_ID.jpg CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi,     My name is Ram Verma and I'd like to get a residential downtown parking permit (currently have a car which  needs parking).    I've submitted the form on this link: https://us.openforms.com/Form/3be312ae‐920d‐4093‐9cdd‐ f063e500214c I'm unsure on next steps here and the timeline I can expect my permit, so please advice. My  receipt number from the form completion is 39.    I have also attached my license for verification as well and live at 501 Forest Ave.    Thank you,  Ram  24 Baumb, Nelly From:Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 2:50 PM To:Nanci Kauffman Cc:French, Amy; Council, City; Kathy Layendecker; Lait, Jonathan; Lorraine Brown; Shikada, Ed; info@pnqlnow.org Subject:Re: Question for June 9th Castilleja Neighborhood CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Nanci, Thanks very much for replying to my question on a Sunday morning. It is hard to imagine this ordeal has been going on for almost 5 years. Below is our email exchange summarized our first and only face to face personal meeting back in August 2016. As I stated during that meeting, I will be supportive of Castilleja's expansion plan if it is beneficial to the neighborhood. The parking issue is a symptom and the root cause is traffic. If the traffic issue is really resolved by various suggestions such as what I listed in my email below, then there will not be a parking issue. However, Castilleja continues to insist on its own interpretation by picking and choosing specific issue to drive its own agenda. Although different neighbors could be impacted differently by Castilleja, ultimately we all want to preserve the quality of life for the neighborhood. I am not sure if the following statement from your reply is a hypothetical example or actually referring to the 47 letters submitted on May 2017. Please note all the letters signed by the immediate neighbors are located within the circled area below and well within the 600 feet of Castilleja. "versus a neighbor 3 blocks away who signs a petition (47 signatures, not letters) to oppose a parking lot for fear it will bring traffic," 25 Castilleja is located in the heart of a single family neighborhood bordered by Embarcadero and Alma. In order for us co-exist in harmony, we all need to work together to come up with sensible solutions. Please do not just keep pushing Castilleja own agenda and blindly insisting on the underground garage. Instead really work on a solution to solve the root cause of traffic. Thank you and have a nice Sunday afternoon. Nelson ,/ ... ,. BOO Building9 Castilleja s! c, Kellog Castilleja Sch< Sw1mmlngP, Tempcrt1rity clo ~ 26 ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> To: Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> Cc: "klayendecker@castilleja.org" <klayendecker@castilleja.org>; Kimberley Wong <sheepgirl1@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 10:18 PM Subject: Re: Invitation to lunch with Nanci Kauffman Nanci, Thanks for the reply. We will relay this message to our concerned neighbors. We will all be looking forward to the updates based on our input. Meanwhile we will continue our efforts to protect our quality of life. Regards Nelson From: Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> To: Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> Cc: "klayendecker@castilleja.org" <klayendecker@castilleja.org>; Kimberley Wong <sheepgirl1@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 11:11 AM Subject: Re: Invitation to lunch with Nanci Kauffman Dear Nelson and Kimberley, Thank you both for taking the time to meet with us. We appreciated the opportunity to hear your concerns and we will reflect on all of them as we continue to develop our plans for Castilleja's future. Please stay tuned for more updates. Regards, -Nanci On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> wrote: Nanci and Kathy,    Thanks for meeting with Kimberley and me yesterday to discuss our input for Castilleja on ways to co‐exist  with the neighbors.  Here is the summary of our discussion.        While Kimberley and I appreciate the opportunity of this face‐to‐face meeting, this does not change the  fact that we were never briefed on the current plan prior to its submission. We had to learn about the direct  negative impact to our house from the City website. We learned that the two houses across from us would be demolished and replaced with an underground garage driveway funneling traffic of 440 trips per peak hour to  27 our front door and living room.   Thanks to Nanci for clarifying the 440 trips means 220 cars minus the cars  that will be parked and exited as a later time.    Because we stated that we adamantly oppose the current master plan and CUP application in our previous  email, I appreciated that Kathy limited the overview of the plan to the barrier at Emerson & Embarcadero and  beautification of the grounds above the underground garage exit.    As a way to frame the context of our input, I restated the following known facts  Castilleja is located in a Single Family R1 Neighborhood  Castilleja is operating under the Conditional User Permit that is granted in 2000 with a maximum of 415  student enrollment   Castilleja has violated the enrollment limit for over 10 years The following is our input:  Non Starter o   Building an underground garage  o   An exit ramp for the underground garage pointing at our home o Remove/Move 168 trees especially the 120 ft Redwood and the Oak trees in 1235 and 1262  Emerson o Demolishing the 1235 and 1262 Emerson   o   Discussion of any plan without prior traffic study that measures the true impact of Castilleja traffic  to the neighbors’ quality of life and an agreed acceptable impact target by the neighbors. o Multi year constructions to disrupt and reduce our quality of life.        The guiding principle to design any plan is to allow Castilleja and the neighbors to co‐exist in harmony  while protecting the quality of life for the neighbors and Palo Alto residents as a whole.  Any proposal  must have a clear description of the benefit to the neighborhood and Palo Alto City as a whole, to benefit  the Palo Alto Community and stay within the confines of the R‐1 zoning of the neighborhood        Palo Alto traffic is reaching gridlock level.   Though neighbors in the past were hoping a garage will  address the off street parking issue, most of us who have met in the neighborhood meeting have realized  that this will not solve the problem.  Traffic is getting worse and the garage will just invite more traffic to  the neighborhood and the City.  If your goal is as you mentioned to reduce traffic in the neighborhood,  then you should not need a garage.  You should redirect the budget for the underground garage toward  solutions including the following to reduce traffic to Palo Alto o remote garage  or lot o more shuttles and from remote garage or lot o bike/walk o train/bus        Current traffic study is widely inadequate by just manually counting car for one hour during school  dropoff in Castilleja campus in the morning.   We need to have accurate comprehensive traffic study that  covers 24x7 traffic around the neighborhood with and without Castilleja in session for the following. Set  up traffic cameras such as the case by Gunn High, count many days over an extensive period of time in  various weather conditions, automate the counting of cars for surrounding neighborhood. o Regular class session o Summer class session o Weekday events o Weekend events 28        Castilleja presents the result of the traffic study to the neighbors and work with the neighbors to  define a concrete acceptable target of the traffic impact to the neighborhood.        Safety: Need to collaborate with the Commission of Traffic Safety, other schools, Penny Ellson of the  PA Bicycle Advisory Committee as well as those working on the plans for the Embarcadero corridor near  Paly and Town & Country.  They all need to be aware of the master plan of Castilleja and drastically  change of flow of traffic and dedicating one east bound lane off Embarcadero at the Kingsley, Emerson,  Embarcadero junction to outflowing Emerson traffic.        We need much better transparency of the discussion regarding the plan to avoid a repeat of not  notifying impacted neighbors as in our case. This was not an acceptable approach to build a collaborative  plan. o Date of Castilleja/Neighborhood meeting should be communicated at least 1 month ahead via  email and Castilleja website o All materials to be presented in the Castilleja/Neighborhood meeting should be viewable via  Castilleja website 2 week prior the meeting o All meeting note of the Castilleja/Neighborhood meeting should be viewable via Castilleja website  1 week after the meeting o All submission of documents by Castilleja to the City and communication from the City to Castilleja  related the the current CUP application and existing CUP should be made available in the Castilleja  website        Suggestions to welcome more feedback from the neighbors: o Provide several options of plans to present to the community before submission. Print out huge  copies and allow them to view the various options just like at the Embarcadero corridor meetings.  Have neighbors write on the plans for their immediate input. This should be followed up to make  sure that Castilleja has made changes and "heard" the neighbors’ requests. o This will reduce the amount of iterations to the submitted plans and increase transparency  between Castilleja and the neighbors o Explore large lots to park cars offsite and shuttle students in. Explore another site to have a  satellite school, near 101 just as Keyes school did.   We are looking forward to see how your actions will bring back a good quality of life to our Single Family  Neighborhood. Nelson & Kimberley  On Sunday, June 13, 2021, 09:56:31 AM PDT, Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> wrote: Dear Nelson, Thank you for your question and for the opportunity to reply. I’d be happy to explain. As you know, neighborhood input has varied over time, and different neighbors have expressed conflicting points of view. Therefore, it would be impossible to develop a project that incorporates every neighbor’s comments and concerns. What I said at the meeting was that each new iteration of the project has reflected our attempts to review and consider all neighbors’ comments, to accommodate as many as possible, while also abiding by additional requirements set forth by city staff, and also by ARB, PTC, HRB, and now, City Council. 29 A simple example: At one time, there were neighbors who requested that all cars be removed from the street, so we proposed ample underground parking. Over time, other neighbors indicated a preference for more street parking, in favor of an underground parking structure with fewer spaces. Other neighbors have focused on concerns that the garage footprint might be too close to a heritage tree. Each iteration of the parking plan for our project has been influenced by input from key stakeholders, while also seeking to manage opposing priorities and the city requirements to park our project. City staff, commission members, and ultimately the City Council, all face conflicting input from from stakeholders, and I don’t envy the challenge of weighing one neighbor’s perspective over another’s. For example, how might we consider the voice of neighbors whose homes are across the street from the school, and who have stated adamantly that they don’t want to see a parking lot from their kitchen windows, versus a neighbor 3 blocks away who signs a petition (47 signatures, not letters) to oppose a parking lot for fear it will bring traffic, without ever knowing that no new trips is a condition of the project. Ultimately, I believe Council will do their best to make a decision that takes into account not only current perspectives, but equally important, they will make a decision that is consistent with their vision for the future of Palo Alto. Castilleja’s willingness to address current and future parking needs in the neighborhood represents an investment in Palo Alto’s future that will benefit the community and will be greatly appreciated by future homeowners. Thank you again for posing this question and for giving me a chance to share my answer. Regards, Nanci On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 2:36 PM Nelson Ng <lofujai@ymail.com> wrote: Nanci, Thanks for taking additional questions via email since you limited the June 9th Castilleja Neighborhood meeting via Zoom to just one hour. You have stated publicly a number of times that Castilleja has incorporated all of the neighbors comments and concerns into the documents for the Castilleja Expansion plan. You also repeated that when you answered our neighbor Mary Sylvester's question during the Q&A of this meeting. On May 3rd 2017, the PNQL group hand delivered signed letters from 47 immediate neighbors to Castilleja stating that the neighbors DO NOT want the underground garage and the reason. My question is can you please let us know where is that reflected in Castilleja submitted documents for the Castilleja Expansion Project? Thanks Nelson -- Nanci Kauffman Head of School Castilleja School 1310 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 30 P (650) 470-7718 E nkauffman@castilleja.org www.castilleja.org Follow us on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Women Learning. Women Leading. For an appointment, contact: adelafuente@castilleja.org or (650) 470-7702 31 Baumb, Nelly From:Tiam Fook Chong <toca@killineyusa.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 10:28 AM To:Council, City Cc:Daryl Khoo Subject:Hazardous Pavement CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  City.Council@cityofpaloalto.org 33 34   Hi,     There is an uneven metal plates on pavement right in front of 552 Waverley St. Palo Alto CA 94301    The uneven plates stood out more than 1 inches, it’s hazardous!       T Chong  408 688 6218  35 Baumb, Nelly From:zach@skateparks.com Sent:Friday, June 11, 2021 2:35 PM To:Council, City; strewbacca@comcast.net; Jensen, Peter Cc:kord@skateparks.com Subject:Greer Park | Palo Alto | Skatepark CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To Whom It May Concern,    I have addressed this email to the contacts I know who may have some interest in Palo Alto’s Skatepark located in Greer  Park.    It has come to my attention that there may be a movement or intent to replace the existing skatepark with a new  skatepark.    The purpose of this email is to share that the existing skatepark has a significant following of dedicated users and a  historical notoriety amongst skaters and the world of public skateparks.  Built in 1985 “Greer Park” is one of five (5) skateparks noted as California’s first public skateparks.  The other parks are  located in Santa Cruz, Petaluma, Santa Rosa and Pleasanton.  These parks were at the forefront of a new form of recreation and “paved the way” for the modern public skatepark  movement that many people take for granted today.  The City of Santa Cruz has taken steps to preserve and improve “Derby Skatepark” recognizing it’s historical significance  and value.  The City of Pleasanton is in the process of doing the same.    For your consideration, many of the contemporary skatepark features that Greer Skatepark lacks, could easily be added  adject to and around the edges of the existing park.  There are also many basic improvements that could be done to the existing skatepark that would improve the  aesthetics, skating functionality and structural integrity for years to come.    My father designed Greer Park in 1985 and our office continues to work on skatepark developments around the world  today.  I would be happy to answer any question or provide additional information at any time.    Thank you for your consideration,      Zachary Wormhoudt Principal Landscape Architect 849 Almar Avenue, Suite 280 | Santa Cruz, CA 95060 p_831.426.8424 | F_831.426.8411 | m_831.334.4022 www.skateparks.com | Wormhoudt Collective   111',. Wiarmhoiudt INC 36 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 11, 2021 2:28 PM To:Allan Seid Subject:Fwd: PRESENTATION INVITATION Attachments:Allan Seid TAlkfinal.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      Date: Fri, Jun 11, 2021   Subject: Re: PRESENTATION INVITATION BY Dr, ALLAN SEID    Channing House is sending you a full page announcement with the live Zoom link to the talk by Dr. Allan Seid.(JUNE  16th, WEDNESDAY, 3 pm)    Please use the email with the attachment containing the ZOOM LINK  so that you clink the LINK on the day of the  presentation.                Thank you.     37 Baumb, Nelly From:M H <mh11281@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 10, 2021 7:17 AM To:Simms, Richard Cc:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Batchelor, Dean; UTL-Customer Service; editor@paweekly.com; DuBois, Tom Subject:RE: 250 Sherman 6/10 10:30pm Palo Alto Resident CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Greetings Mr. Simms,    I hope all is well at work and in life. I am a resident of Palo Alto with a residence facing Sherman Avenue. You can  imagine my surprise when I came across the PSA flyer stating work will commence at 6/10 @ 10:30pm and conclude at  6:30am (attached).    I find this extremely short timing and more importantly, disruptive on a work evening. I am a public worker who depends on adequate rest to prepare mentally and physically for work. Needless to say, given the noise associated with your  project, it does not appear that I will be able to effectively perform my duties during my Friday shift and may require me  to use personal time off.    As a result, please let me know who and where to send a check to for restitution purposes (hourly rate x 8, of course). I  have also copied the city council, the Palo Alto Daily Post, PAOnline editorial, and other entities.    In the event you postpone the work, please let me know what the City Utilities office intends to do moving forward.    Best,    Palo Alto Resident  38   rl ' PALO ALTO . UT11.ITlf$ u......~-' S,;looMc,l .. '(llt , ........... l\otf:°')'UIIW..,.<>rc<- C I SCt:eHet t·-.,~• ..... •tolO,-•l........,,"'-10.l!t:l"""'"" ~.,.., __ ,_r.-., ..... 11.)t;l:I l'"")'d',."l••'lt,r.._,c,...,._"'•-•,-.W-• ...... • ~ .................... -~_...f~------·-~~ -·c •• 1ot ... .t. ..... _...,,. ........ '°'" __ .,.....2'°~..,...,. •• w ... iw._.,.aAI" Cb:> Cee:r 45 f -.... 39 Baumb, Nelly From:BradySantaClara Chapter <santaclara@bradyunited.org> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 3:12 PM To:Council, City Subject:In support of Safe Storage CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois and Palo Alto Councilmembers: Last December, you directed city staff to draft an ordinance requiring the safe storage of firearms at home. Too many children and teens have been victims of suicide and accidental shootings from unsecured firearms. Too many guns are burglarized and end up being used in further crimes and community violence. The stresses of COVID-19 have only heightened the risk of harm always present in firearms. Brady’s Santa Clara County Chapter joins the rest of the Gun Violence Prevention community in congratulating you on your early recognition of the value of safe storage, and urges you to pass the ordinance now. The recent mass shooting in San Jose brings home the task before us: there are so many aspects of gun violence, it will require a range of policies to address them. We can begin by rejecting the false equivalence of unfettered gun violence and “freedom.” Despite the broken state of our national politics, we can begin at the municipal level. Thank you for taking this stand! Sincerely, Chapter members: Don Veith, Chair Sana Sethi, co-Chair Lareen Jacobs BRADY UNITED AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE SANTA CLARA COUNTY 40 Leslie F. Murdock Karen Pandula (Silicon Valley Gun Violence Prevention Alliance) Mike Serrone (Sunnyvale Democratic Club Board Member) Stephen Siegel Carol L. Weiss Allies: Linda Lenoir Reverend Erik Swanson 41 Baumb, Nelly From:Bradd Silver <bradd.silver@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 2:25 PM To:Council, City Subject:Safe storage ordinance Attachments:Palo Alto City Council safe storage .pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  This is for the next city council meeting.  Letter attached      Thank you       Bradd Silver   June 9, 2021 Dear Mayor DuBois and Councilmembers: I am writing to urge you to pass a safe storage ordinance. As we recover from the recent mass shooting in San Jose, and the mass shootings that have been occurring all over our country, the time for action on gun violence prevention is now. We cannot afford to wait to pass common sense gun policies that keep our communities safe. Last December, the City Council directed city staff to draft an ordinance requiring the safe storage of firearms at home. This is an urgent matter of public safety. A safe storage ordinance would require firearms at home to be stored unloaded and locked when unattended. California law does not currently require these specific steps. Many California cities and counties have enacted safe storage laws. Palo Alto has a chance to join these cities in showing that keeping their communities safe from gun violence is a priority. We know safe storage saves lives due to unintentional shootings by children, and suicide by gun by teens and adults.. Safe storage decreases stolen weapons often used in violent crimes. It has been nearly six months since the City Council directed the writing of the ordinance. Our community cannot wait any longer for change. I write today to urge you to make the adoption of a safe storage of firearms ordinance a priority and pass the safe storage ordinance immediately. Thank you for your work on this issue so far. Sincerely, Bradd Silver MD Silicon Valley GVP Alliance From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2021 11:47 PM To: chuck jagoda <chuckjagoda1@gmail.com>; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu>; Human Relations Commission <hrc@cityofpaloalto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Joe Simitian <Supervisor.Simitian@bos.sccgov.org>; Jeff Rosen <JRosen@dao.sccgov.org>; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; Raj <raj@siliconvalleydebug.org>; city.council@menlopark.org; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org>; ParkRec Commission <parkrec.commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; winter dellenbach <winterdell@earthlink.net> Subject: [SZAC] Vancouver Action Blocks Israeli Cargo Ship CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Vancouver Action Blocks Israeli Cargo Ship In the News, June 12, 2021 https://cpcml.ca/210612-vancouver-action-blocks-israeli-cargo-ship/ On the afternoon of June 8 in Vancouver several hundred people marched from Woodland Park to the entrance of Vancouver Harbour demanding that the harbour refuse to offload cargo of Israeli goods from any Zim cargo ships. The organizers in their call to “STAND WITH PALESTINE! BOYCOTT ZIM!” pointed out that “The Israeli Zim Shipping company profits from the military occupation of Palestinian communities and an apartheid system that treats Palestinian workers and families as second-class citizens, living under Jim Crow-type conditions. The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions has asked for our support to bring an end to Israeli apartheid and to hold apartheid-profiting businesses accountable.” The Zim ship, the Volans, was scheduled to dock and unload in Oakland, California in May but that was prevented by massive demonstrations and the refusal of longshore workers to unload the ship. When news was received that the ship would try to dock and unload in Vancouver on June 8 activists issued a call for action to make sure that did not happen. In their call to action they said, “We are calling on the Port of Vancouver to reject Israeli Apartheid ships and shipping lines and stop enabling them to profiteer from the occupation and colonization of Palestinian land.” Hundreds of people blocked the entrance to the port of Vancouver for over four hours while representatives of different organizations spoke, including the Canada Palestine Association, Samidoun Palestinian Solidarity Network and several Filipino anti-imperialist organizations. The procession to the port was led by a banner that read BLOCK THE BOAT: BOYCOTT ISRAELI APARTHEID! DEFEND PALESTINE! The participants included large contingents of youth from the South Asian, Filipino and Palestinian communities and organizations including the Palestinian Youth Movement, Youth for Palestine Vancouver, Independent Jewish Voices Vancouver, the Communist Party of Canada, BDS: Boycott, Divest, Sanction, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid-Vancouver, Sulong BC, BAYAN Canada, Falastiniyat, and the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist). Statements of different organizations were warmly received as they were distributed to passers-by and drivers that were stopped by the protesters and police barricades. The action was a success, with the ship having to bypass Vancouver and head for Prince Rupert instead. The organizers pointed out that “Every hour that ZIM cargo ships remain undocked and unloaded is a huge victory, as it means that the apartheid state of Israel is losing enormous amounts of money.” -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Stop ZIM Action Committee" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to stop-zim-action- committee+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/stop-zim-action- committee/569385DE-0CC0-4165-9C94-FBF3DEFC4E76%40igc.org. -- "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." Assata Shakur Free Palestine! Right of Return to Palestine for all Palestinians! Free all political prisoners! Leonard Peltier www.WhoIsLeonardPeltier.info Mumia Abu-Jamal www.FreeMumia.com Ruchell Cinque Magee http://denverabc.wordpress.com/prisoners-dabc-supports/political-prisoners- database/ruchell-cinque-magee/ Russell Maroon Shoatz https://russellmaroonshoats.wordpress.com/ Mutulu Shakur http://mutulushakur.com/site/ The Holy Land Five: Shukri Abu Baker Ghassan Elashi Mufid Abdulqader Abdulrahman Odeh Mohammad Elmezain https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-trial-and-conviction-of-the-holy-land-foundation-five/237440/ and thousands more End Solitary Confinement https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com California Prison Focus http://newest.prisons.org/our_story End United $tates of Amerikkka invasions and occupations U.S. Government and UN Occupation Force Soldiers - Hands off Haiti! http://www.haitisolidarity.net/ -- 2 books you must read: "Against Our Better Judgement: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel" by Alison Weir http://www.againstourbetterjudgment.com/ "State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel" by Thomas Suarez http://thomassuarez.com/SoT.html Other important websites to visit http://www.ifamericansknew.org http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/ https://wearenotnumbers.org/ End the Blockade/Siege on Gaza! Tear down the Apartheid Walls in West Bank & Gaza! End the War Criminal Israeli collective punishment on the Palestinian people! End the illegal Apartheid Israeli Occupation of all of Palestine! Right to Return to their homes and land in Palestine for all Palestinians! End all U.S. aid to Israel Free Palestine! Long Live Palestine! Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) & Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Campaigns! http://www.bdsmovement.net http://www.WhoProfits.org http://www.pacbi.org Support Solidarity with Gaza Fishers https://sgf.freedomflotilla.org/ https://freedomflotilla.org/ https://sgf.freedomflotilla.org/category/we-are-not-numbers Support ISM volunteers in West Bank and Gaza Strip! http://www.palsolidarity.org Donna Wallach cats4jazz@gmail.com Skype: palestinewillbe Twitter: @PalestineWillBe (h) 408-289-1522 (cell) 408-569-6608 701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 08/09/2021 Document dates: 06/16/2021 – 06/23/2021 Council Summer Break Set 9 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Minor, Beth Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 12:54 PM To:Ellson, Penny; Council, City Subject:RE: Thank you, Beth Minor! Thank you Penny,   I have enjoyed working for and with you over these many years. You have always been pleasant and I will miss  you.  Hopefully we can keep in touch.  Thank you for your kind words.  BETH MINOR  City Clerk  (650)329‐2379 | Beth.Minor@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org From: pennyellson12@gmail.com <pennyellson12@gmail.com>   Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 12:42 PM  To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>  Cc: Minor, Beth <Beth.Minor@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: Thank you, Beth Minor!  CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Honorable City Council,  I see that you will be honoring Beth Minor on her retirement this week.   I want to express my personal deep gratitude for Beth’s service. During over two decades of community service with the  city, Beth has given me guidance on process, committees and where to find documents countless times.  Beth is a  quintessential dedicated public servant.  Her professionalism and warm, friendly presence at City Hall has made citizens  feel welcomed into public process.  Her gentle and patient guiding hand helps us all find the right person at the right  moment to engage with the city productively.  Beth is a shining example of a very skilled and dedicated staffer who  values and supports positive democratic process.  I will miss Beth.  I wish her the very best in her well‐earned retirement.   Thank you, Beth!  Penny Ellson  • ' 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Jeff Greenfield <jeffg13@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 8:58 AM To:Council, City Subject:Comments re: Board and Commission Term Limits and Appointments (Item 18, 6/21/21)) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Councilmembers,    I am the Vice Chair of the Parks and Recreation Commission, but I am writing to you on my own behalf regarding the  proposed Ordinance Establishing Board and Commission Term Limits and Consolidating Appointments to April 1st of  Each Year.    I support the term start date change from March 15th to April 1st.   I have a number of specific comments re: the  proposed ordinance update as follows.  Unfortunately, I feel there are some gaps in the ordinance put forward by staff  with problematic consequences, so I recommend this item be pulled from the consent calendar to improve the  language.    <#1>  As a policy adding term limits is implemented, clarity regarding service dates used to measure a term is  needed.  What is the actual “start of service date” used for both the max term timing and the gap in service after  terming out?  This shouldn’t be the date someone is voted in ‐ i.e. the appointment date.  This should be either April 1st  or the date someone is sworn in.  How to determine the start of service needs to be clarified.      <#2>  2.16.070 Schedule of appointments.   (a) The City Council shall review applications to fill vacancies in the following boards and commissions in April of each  year.    >> This language is ambiguous ‐ it is not clear what is specified to occur in April of each year.     The wording readily suggests that "the review of applications" is specified to occur in April of each year, which is  not the intent.     The focus here is to specify when new appointments occur.  Accordingly, it doesn't seem pertinent to specify or  when applications should be reviewed.  Consider simply specifying the date when new terms will commence.   The term start date will be April 1st.  Rather than specifying "April of each year", why not be more clear by  including the April 1 date in the updated language.   This clause specifically applies to "expiring term vacancies", so it would improve clarity to note this.   Consider new wording such as: "To fill expiring term vacancies in the following boards and commissions, the City  Council shall review applications and make appointments for new terms commencing on April 1st."    <#3>  2.16.070 Schedule of appointments.   (b) The City Council shall fill vacancies in all other boards and commissions in April of each year, or at another time, at its  discretion.  >> This clause no longer applies since there are no longer "other" boards or commissions.  (a) applies to regularly  scheduled appointments for expiring terms, and (c) applies to partial‐term appointments for vacated  appointments.  There will no longer be any boards or commissions with "other" (i.e. "out‐of‐cycle") regularly scheduled  appointments, so I suggest that this clause should be omitted.    2 <#4>  2.16.080 Term limits.   (d) A member who has served three consecutive terms of office (or two consecutive terms of office for the Planning and  Transportation Commission) shall not be appointed to the same board or commission within one year of the last date of  service.  >> This seems to mandate one year between the last date of service and a "re‐appointment" date to the same board or  commission, instead of a one year gap between the last date of service and effective new start of service date.  If the  appointment date is in fact the date on which City Council votes to appoint someone back on to a board or commission,  then the wording of this clause will not have the intended effect.  Instead, this could result in a gap of two years  between the end and start of service following an expiring term.    <#5>  The proposed plan to extend current BBC terms by 3‐1/2 or 10 months to align with the new April 1 term start  date, will result in service for some current appointees being limited to less than 9 (or 8) years, whereas this would not  have been the case if the term were not extended.  This will impact some commissioners or board members who were  initially appointed to partial terms of less than 1‐1/2 (or 2) years.  This will also impact SWMOC members who were  initially appointed to 2‐year terms when the committee began service in September 2017.  For example, under the  proposed ordinance, "original" SWMOC members with terms currently ending in 2023 would be termed out on 3/31/24  after serving for ~6 years, 8 months.      Thank you for your consideration.    Jeff Greenfield  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Nancy Cassidy <nancy.cassidy@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 10:50 PM To:Council, City Subject:College Terrace Library CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To whom it may concern,   Our family has lived in College Terrace for many years and we LOVE our local library, and are eager for it to reopen…it is  a vital resource for our community!!!  Thank you,  Nancy Cassidy  Shows:  nancycassidymusic.com, ReverbNation  Music:  Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, CDbaby  Videos: youtube  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Trisha Suppes <tsuppes@stanford.edu> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 10:13 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please Open College Terrace Library Importance:High CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council,  Please make sure our Library is open for the summer.  All of us, and especially the kids need this  as part of our return to 'normal' and re‐engaging in our communities.    Thanks for noting this request,  Trisha    Trisha Suppes, MD, PhD  Professor   Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences  Stanford University School of Medicine  Director, Exploratory Therapeutics Laboratory  Treasurer American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology  Immediate Past President International Society for Bipolar Disorders  Founder, VA Palo Alto Bipolar and Depression Research Program  Director, VA Palo Alto CSP NODES  VA Palo Alto Health Care System  3801 Miranda Ave. (151T)  Palo Alto, CA  94304  650‐493‐5000 x62567    tsuppes@stanford.edu  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Diane <dianeef@comcast.net> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 1:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:College Terrace library, again CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    We were all thankful when you directed the City Manager to reinstate funds and not to impose the budget cuts he had  proposed. Now, despite your clear directive he is unilaterally deciding not to reopen the College Terrace library. His  reason is there are “staffing issues”. Please direct him to use his managerial prowess to reassign staff so the library in  College Terrace can be reopened as promised before you take your summer break.    Thank you for consideration.    Diane Finkelstein  2049 Dartmouth Street    Sent from my iPad  1 Baumb, Nelly From:mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 7:45 AM To:Council, City Cc:Tom DuBois; Alison Cormack; Shikada, Ed Subject:Tax Tesla, don’t subsidize it CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Fellow Citizens— leadership:  The staff report says we are spending $200,000 to upgrade a transformer in the parking garage on Bryant  Street near  my home such that Tesla can install 19 chargers for their electronic vehicles, and then they will pay us back $2,000 a  month and $176,000 total over seven years.  Tesla is a publicly traded company worth $595 billion as of this morning.  We should be taxing them to the tune of $10 million per year not subsidizing them.  Dontcha think?  Mark Weiss  sold Chevy, rides a bike    Sent from my iPhone  1 Baumb, Nelly From:pennyellson12@gmail.com Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 1:24 PM To:Council, City Subject:Thank you...And please support Item 3 this evening. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Honorable City Council,    Thank you for including completion of the Charleston‐Arastradero Plan in the approved budget.  After more than two  decades of community engagement, including: 17 public hearings and so many community meetings I have lost count,  planning, computer modeling, multiple trials, and related engineering work, the complete plan will improve road  operations and safety for all road users for years to come.      Please support approval of Item 3 on your Consent Calendar this evening.      With gratitude,    Penny Ellson    To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office preautomatic download of this picture from the Intern   Virus-free. www.avg.com   [§] 2 Baumb, Nelly From:Robert Neff <robert@neffs.net> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:6/22 Consent - Charleston Arastradero CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Honorable City Council, I am so pleased to see funding for completion of the Charleston Arastradero corridor on the consent calendar for your June 22 meeting, Item 3. This will improve safety and connectivity for bicycling and walking along the corridor, finally improving safety at Middlefield, adding comfort and safety at El Camino Real, improving safety for walking and biking at Fabian, and connecting bike lanes and trails continuously all the way from Arastradero Preserve and Los Altos Hills to the hardware store in Mountain View. This will make more trips convenient and attractive as active transportation trips, improving our health and environment, and reducing our community's carbon footprint. I would welcome riding or walking the corridor with any of you before and especially after the changes are made. Finally, it is good to see the span completed for the new bridge over 101. I hear it should be completed by the end of August. Won't that be grand! -- -- Robert Neff Emerson Street near Loma Verde, Palo Alto robert@neffs.net 3 Baumb, Nelly From:Kathy Durham <kfdurham@earthlink.net> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 6:35 PM To:Council, City Subject:RE: 6/22 Council Meeting, Consent Calendar Item #3: Approve without delay! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Honorable Council Members,   At your June 22 meeting, I urge you to approve Item # 3 on your Consent Calendar with no further delay, including the  Construction Contract, the Contract Amendment and the Adoption of a Resolution for Senate Bill 1.  Here's why:   A.  The extended discussion earlier this spring clarified that if your approval is withheld for the Phase 3 completion  measures for the Charleston‐Arastradero Corridor Project as part of the CIP project PE‐13011 this fiscal year, the City will  lose outside funding assistance for important intersection safety improvements on this key school and work commute  corridor, benefiting  drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians using this busy, essential east/west roadway. Don't let this  happen!  B.  The proposed improvements of bulbouts, high visibility crosswalks, and median islands are proven safety  improvements for reducing the risk to pedestrians and bicyclists crossing busy multi‐lane roadways in communities  across the country. Eliminating the disappearing bike lanes at the four intersections can be done without causing  significant delay for drivers thanks to recent improvements in traffic signal coordination.  One location where these improvements were strongly questioned prior to implementation in 2010 was  the Stanford Avenue/El Camino Real intersection, a joint project of the City of Palo Alto and CALTRANS.  There was an immediate surge in walking and biking across ECR by people of all ages, thanks to the  protected median islands, the elimination of the pork chop islands (extremely hazardous), the clearly  marked crosswalks and having a safe space for bicyclists to wait for the signal to change. The traffic  signal improvements and reduced crossing distance not only improved safety for foot‐powered users,  but they also reduced back up for drivers. Crashes and injuries were much reduced ‐‐ truly a win‐win!    C. Yes, continuing to evaluate the results of implementing these improvements is important! But the recent track record  of the Public Works team on construction oversight, engagement with the public before, during and after  implementation and keeping the public's interest in a safer street for all users is commendable. I urge you to support  their professional recommendations and move forward to reduce the risks of injuries and deaths caused by the  outmoded automobile‐centric 1950s‐60s designs of the four intersections along the Charleston/Arastradero corridor in  Phase 3 of this project.   In sum, I urge all City Council members to approve the proposed Consent Calendar Item #3 at your Tuesday meeting on  Tuesday, June 22nd.   Thank you for considering my comments.  Kathy Durham  Palo Alto PTA Traffic Safety Rep, 1989‐2004  City of Palo Alto Safe Routes to School Coordinator, 2005‐2016  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Reine Julianna Schultz <reine.schultz@yahoo.co.uk> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 8:18 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Patrick O'Melveny <pvomelveny@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 7:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Alycia Cary <alyciacary@college.harvard.edu> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 7:46 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I hope this message finds you well. I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Best,  Alycia  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Shayne San Agustin <ssanagus@mail.ccsf.edu> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 7:31 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   5 Baumb, Nelly From:Viper <ztracker@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 7:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android  6 Baumb, Nelly From:Claudia <claudiagchee@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 7:10 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Please please please!  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Yelin Suh <yelin.suh@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  8 Baumb, Nelly From:(null) (null) <andrewschultz@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:55 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in  this quality of life matter!      Andrew    Sent from my iPhone  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Janne Linn Oftedal <jannelinno@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Regards,    Janne‐Linn Oftedal  10 Baumb, Nelly From:Matilde McQuarrie <tillaoft@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Dave McQuarrie <dpmcquarrie@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Dave McQuarrie  12 Baumb, Nelly From:Alissa Ford <angelodarte@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:47 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  13 Baumb, Nelly From:Marco Cesarano <marcoc2@hushmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:43 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone    14 Baumb, Nelly From:Julie Coats <juliecoats@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Sincerely,  Julie Coats  Palo Alto resident of downtown north    Sent from my iPhone  15 Baumb, Nelly From:M. Chakmakchi <mchakmakchi@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Mohamed Chakmakchi  344 Bryant St  Palo Alto 94301    Sent from my iPhone  16 Baumb, Nelly From:Alissa Ford <alissalford@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  17 Baumb, Nelly From:John Jameson <jajameson@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:18 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   18 Baumb, Nelly From:Joao mota Vicente <joaomotavicente@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  19 Baumb, Nelly From:sonbol nickravesh <nfdcsunny@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:12 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  20 Baumb, Nelly From:Vikram Bhambri <vikram@roohsf.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 5:45 PM To:Tanaka, Greg; Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Kou, Lydia; Shikada, Ed; Kleinberg, Judy; Stone, Greer; Burt, Patrick; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Aidan Pasamonte from Palo Alto City Councilmember Tanaka's Office Subject:Letter to City Council - UpLift Program CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Mayor DuBois, and honorable members of the Palo Alto City Council:     Even though we are new to Palo Alto and opened for business in January 2020, ROOH has already established itself as a premier destination for our patrons though it has been a constant struggle to deal with the COVID related closures and outdoor dining uncertainty. What we have seen is that outdoor dining has accounted for 62% of our sales. Even after 50% opening and now 100% opening, customers prefer to sit outdoors as the comfort level is not there yet to sit inside. 15 months of losses that we have incurred cannot be undone or made up because we are now open 100%. It will take some time for things to really come back to normal and it will be really harmful for the restaurants and retail if we take that outdoor crutch away suddenly. Also, California is blessed with beautiful weather and we have been given this opportunity to really take advantage of that and uplift the Palo Alto downtown with Alfresco dining and shopping.    Additionally, every other city in the Bay Area including San Francisco have already agreed to extend street closures till the end of the year. This will put us all at a disadvantage compared to those downtowns and cause additional challenges for us. I am sure that we can come up with creative ideas to address the concerns from retail rather than wholesale opening the streets. Restaurants bring vibrancy to any downtown and we would appreciate and strongly encourage the city council to make this a win-win situation for every business.    Thanks ROOH Palo Alto  473 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA      21 Baumb, Nelly From:Anastasia Karaglani <malesina1@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 5:24 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  22 Baumb, Nelly From:Lorenzo Gallicchio <lgallicc@stanford.edu> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 4:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in  this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  23 Baumb, Nelly From:Fabian Ignacio Morales Polanco <fabianmp@stanford.edu> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 4:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  24 Baumb, Nelly From:Sharon Viggiano <sharonviggiano@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 3:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Members,    It is so lovely having University and California Ave closed to cars. I always park on side streets and really appreciate being  able to stroll without inhaling  car fumes. Please don’t miss the opportunity to move our community forward by keeping  these two streets closed to through parking.  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue, Ramona Street and California ave open for pedestrians and bicycles in our  Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your  support in this quality of life matter!  Thank you,  Sharon Viggiano  830 Talisman Drive  Palo Alto  Ps my 96 year old mother in law, Dina Viggiano, a Palo Alto resident since 1963 asked me to urge you to keep University  open to pedestrians and bikes and closed to car traffic.      Sent from my iPhone  25 Baumb, Nelly From:Chuck Crafton <chuck.crafton@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 3:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   26 Baumb, Nelly From:Nicole Valk <nicole.valk@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:49 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  27 Baumb, Nelly From:Hamilton Hitchings <hitchingsh@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:42 PM To:Council, City Subject:Tuesday City Council - Please Extend Street Closures and Local Emergency CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council, Please preserve outdoor dining. A visit to either Cal Ave or University and Ramona will show you just how popular outdoor dining has become. Residents, local employees and visitors love it. It’s also critical for helping restaurants and their employees recover after a painful year of financial losses. While businesses are just starting the recovery period, many folks, including myself, are not ready to begin indoor dining. Please extend the Uplift Local Encroachment Permit Program through Dec 31st, 2021 and explore extending it on a long-term basis. I’d also move the downtown Farmer’s market to University Ave to help local businesses with more foot traffic. Ending street closures have the following drawbacks:  Instead of allowing restaurants to go to the middle of the street they will only be able to situate in the parking spots resulting in significantly reduced capacity.  No one wants to breath car pollution while dining  Moving vehicles can become dangerous to diners, especially if someone intends harm as we read about in headlines every week  You will lose the relaxed, safe and uncrowded pedestrian feel if you open up University, Ramona and Cal Ave Also, please use concrete barriers or bollards to ensure pedestrian safety in the face of a potentially malicious driver. Please do not rescind the local emergency before the state rescinds it. While we are recovering let’s remain vigilant so the Delta Variant and future Covid variants do not cause a resurgence, which includes use of face masks by servers. Finally, many restaurants are not observing contactless payment so I end up signing a server’s iphone with my finger, which is not sanitary in the Covid era. Please make one of the requirements of outdoor dining permits, that the restaurant must provide contactless payment. Thank you. Hamilton Hitchings 28 Baumb, Nelly From:Michael Yamada <michael@yamada-san.org> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:28 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  29 Baumb, Nelly From:Jawaid Iqbal <jawaid.iqbal@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:13 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  30 Baumb, Nelly From:Suman Talukdar <suman@aisprouts.vc> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my mobile  @stswww  31 Baumb, Nelly From:(null) (null) <navgov@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:05 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Thanks,  Naveen Govind  32 Baumb, Nelly From:mozart reynosi <reynosi@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:04 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Melanie      Sent from my iPhone  33 Baumb, Nelly From:Heba Jawaid <hebajawaid5@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  34 Baumb, Nelly From:Terry Sculley <terry_b_sculley@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I strongly urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our  Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    We think that this helps our area mature into a more European and healthier social and commercial environment for  everyone.    Walking and eating outside and seeing so many happy, relaxed and rejuvenating people brings my family joy.    Please keep the roads closed to traffic.    Everyone will be more likely to eat and shop here.  I know we have!    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Kindly,    Terry, John, Emery & Sophia Sculley    650‐995‐4491    Senior Officer, ret.  External Affairs Directorate  NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory    Sent from my iPhone ᩢᩣᩤ  35 Baumb, Nelly From:Helen <skybluelinen@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:57 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:KEEP UNIVERSITY CLOSED TO CARS CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello.    Been living here 13 years and Uplift Local is the best thing to happen to University.    NOT missing the car traffic/congestion/noise AT ALL. It is so beautiful to be able to see people  walking and enjoying the main street.    I've been dining out nonstop with neighbors, friends, and coworkers. It is lovely.    Please vote to keep University AS IS.    Thank you!  Helen  36 Baumb, Nelly From:Nik Djordjevic <nikd0303@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Alex Djordjevich  Sent from my iPhone  37 Baumb, Nelly From:Nik Djordjevic <nikd0303@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:55 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Olivera Djordjevich    Sent from my iPhone  38 Baumb, Nelly From:spomenka djordjevic <sdjordjevic873@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Spomenka Djordjevic  Sent from my iPhone  39 Baumb, Nelly From:Nik Djordjevic <nikd0303@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Nik Djordjevic  Sent from my iPhone  40 Baumb, Nelly From:Alexei Andreev <andreev.alexei@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Will donate money to the campaign for politicians eager to keep University Ave  open.    Co‐founder and Managing Dorector  Autotech Ventures        Sent from my iPhone  41 Baumb, Nelly From:Cafe Venetia <cafevenetia@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:26 PM To:Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Kou, Lydia; Shikada, Ed; Kleinberg, Judy; Stone, Greer; Burt, Patrick; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Aidan Pasamonte from Palo Alto City Councilmember Tanaka's Office; Tanaka, Greg Subject:Letter to City Council - UpLift Program CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Café Venetia 419 University Ave Palo Alto, California 94301 www.cafevenetia.com Mayor Tom DuBois & City Council Members, City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Ave Palo Alto, CA 94301 June 20, 2021 Mayor DuBois, and honorable members of the Palo Alto City Council: Café Venetia has been a feature of downtown Palo Alto’s University Avenue for over 15 years. We are writing to stronglyurge you to continue the Uplift Program so that we may continue to serve and be part of this community in the coming years. The Uplift program has provided us (and many other dining and retail establishments) with a desperately-needed lifeline during the past year of the pandemic. As we have shown in previous letters, reduction in our customer base due to interior space closures and capacity restrictions meant significant losses to our business. Our 419 University Avenue location has suffered a total 24% loss in customers covers in the Year 2021, to-date, when compared with the same period of the Year2019. See Attachment. Even more concerning, when combining our other location at the Downtown Train station, we have a 46% total reduction of customers covers for the same period because the professional sector and about ½ of Stanford has not returned. See Attachment. While these numbers are jarring, we know that other local dining establishments have in many cases experienced even greater losses. It is clear to us as business owners that without the UpLift Program these numbers would have been significantly worse. 42 Right now, with the lifting of the emergency mandate and gradual return to normalcy, it can seem that we are ‘out of the woods’ from this last year of restrictions and loss. However, we urge you to consider the financial reality for the majority of dining and retail owners, who are still working hard to make up for the loss of foot-traffic for this year alone, and who remain in a dangerously fragile place. The vast majority of us will need the rest of the year to try to get back on our feet, and to ensure longer-term viability as businesses. This is where the Uplift program comes in: continuing it will play a direct, vital role in our ability togradually make back our losses. In closing, we want to voice our support for the program as a clear benefit to the wellness and quality of life for ALL of our Palo Alto residents in the long term. We know that the public has voted 97% in favor of the street closures over the courseof several surveys. It is in the hands of the City Council to decide to prolong an innovative program that puts an emphasison public space for the public good. When the decision is made regarding the UpLift program, we urge you to consider what is beneficial to our community members as a whole, rather than a small (but vocal) contingent. Thank you for considering our perspective as small business owners, and as longtime members of this community. Regards, CAFE VENETIA, INC Enclosure: To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   ‐‐   Cafe Venetia  419 University Ave  95 University Ave  Palo Alto, California 94301  Preserving tradition…  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7cN2gFwYzQ&t=0s    43 Baumb, Nelly From:LOREN GORDON <lilikg@mac.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:18 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  44 Baumb, Nelly From:Lin.Helen <lin.helen@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021 and beyond.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Helen  45 Baumb, Nelly From:Alan Lau <alanarch_1@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Alan  46 Baumb, Nelly From:Vivianna mendoza <vivisc08@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:42 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  47 Baumb, Nelly From:Monisha Perkash <mperkash@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:20 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Monisha Perkash        Sent from my iPhone  48 Baumb, Nelly From:Alessandra Costa <oleppio@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:20 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  49 Baumb, Nelly From:Devan Perkash <perkashd@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:20 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Devan Perkash  50 Baumb, Nelly From:Rajan Perkash <rperkash@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Raj Perkash  Sent from my IPhone  51 Baumb, Nelly From:Maya Perkash <perkashmaya@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  52 Baumb, Nelly From:Alexandra Regalado <regalado.a@icloud.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  53 Baumb, Nelly From:Maria Metzger <mariametzger@me.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:34 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  54 Baumb, Nelly From:Juliana Olivares <julianaolivares@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:33 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   55 Baumb, Nelly From:Brandon Coull <bcoull2311@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:31 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  56 Baumb, Nelly From:Logan Rotolo <rotoll.rpi@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:30 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Logan  57 Baumb, Nelly From:James Cazzoli <jamescazzoli@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:30 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  58 Baumb, Nelly From:Florencia Dazzi <fdazzi@amsl.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:29 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  59 Baumb, Nelly From:Pasha Dahncke <pasha.dahncke@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:25 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    We urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown,  so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Eating outdoors safely is important  to families with young children who will not eat inside. It’s been a wonderful addition to downtown!    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Pasha Dahncke  60 Baumb, Nelly From:Sergii Lymych <nlmtt@icloud.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:04 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  61 Baumb, Nelly From:Andrea Betti Berutto <bettiberuttoa@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 10:58 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  62 Baumb, Nelly From:Jeff Dean <jeff.dean@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 10:37 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    As a citizen, taxpayer and voter in Palo Alto, I strongly believe the city council should be making decisions that improve  the quality of life for Palo Alto residents and visitors, and not optimizing for cars.       I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!     ‐Jeff    Jeff Dean  Palo Alto resident  63 Baumb, Nelly From:Lucio Lanza <lucio@lanzatechventures.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 10:28 AM To:Council, City Cc:Lucio Lanza Subject:Palo Alto Uplift open streets program support CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To Palo Alto City Council: I’m writing today to express my enthusiastic support of the Palo Alto Uplift open streets program that was put into place last year. As an Italian-born investor with an office on University Avenue, with long-standing knowledge of our local businesses and restaurants, I have seen first-hand the benefits of this street closures program. More broadly, the vitality of our retail and dining establishments is a critical part of the overall ecosystem of innovation here in Palo Alto (as well as at Stanford, and Silicon Valley as a whole). Indeed, I believe that having more outdoor spaces for gathering is one of the best ways to promote the exchange of new ideas and generate valuable collaborations. Impromptu encounters are more likely to take place in a city that places a strong emphasis on a variety and high number of different options of places to meet — especially outdoors, in such a great climate as ours. Finally, it is also clear to me that an increase in public space encourages visitors to linger (which benefits us all), and vastly improves our quality of life as a community. I strongly encourage you to continue the street closures program, as part of a forward-thinking urban plan for our city, and in keeping with our status as one of the most innovative regions in the world. Regards, Lucio Lanza  64 Baumb, Nelly From:Lee Zulman <lzulman@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 9:51 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Aryela zulman  65 Baumb, Nelly From:Wendy Sinton <wendy.sinton@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 9:51 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Wendy Sinton  Forest Ave.  66 Baumb, Nelly From:Can Kirmizibayrak <cankirmizi@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 8:07 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!    This seems to have overwhelming public support and it would be very undemocratic to reverse such a widely supported  program. As a Palo Alto resident I would like the city council to act in a manner that respects its residents’ opinion.    Can    1 Baumb, Nelly From:Katlin Villar <katlin.villar@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:50 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this  quality of life matter!          Sent from my iPhone  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Leland Owens <lelandkowens@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:50 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Sarthak Majithia <sarthakmajithia@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 9:39 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in  this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Bisera More <bisera_more@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 9:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021..    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Best,    Bisera Rakicevic    Sent from my iPhone  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Liam Norris <liamnorris1231853211@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 9:13 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   6 Baumb, Nelly From:Samantha Hastie <samantha.hastie@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 9:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, as a Palo Alto native, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open  for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Sincerely,    Samantha Norris      Sent from my iPhone  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Uta Cipriano <utacipriano@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  8 Baumb, Nelly From:EgawaNatsuko <natukojpbio@icloud.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 7:14 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Best regards,  Natsuko  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Manali Doshi <manali_doshi@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 7:11 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  10 Baumb, Nelly From:Rob Zehner <rob.zehner@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 7:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. I’m so happy that COVID has shown us  how we can prioritize pedestrians and cyclists to create safe, engaging spaces in our cities and towns. We should be  seizing the opportunity to make these changes permanent. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Rob Zehner  Regular Palo Alto shopper and diner  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Kristine Zehner <klmgroove@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 7:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  With an unvaccinated child in our  family, outdoor seating is our only option for eating out.  If this block reopens, we ‐ and countless families like us ‐ will  not be able to spend any time or money in downtown Palo Alto.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  12 Baumb, Nelly From:Austin Wise <austinmwise@icloud.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    Please keep the University Ave closed to traffic. It is such a better use of the real estate for dinning and live music.    Regards,  Austin Wise      Sent from my iPhone  13 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara L Dunn <bdunn@stanford.edu> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:51 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Members,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street — and also California Ave! — open for pedestrians and  bicycles, so that we can enjoy the wonderful carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021 (and beyond!  Forever!). I have been loving the ambience of the pedestrian centers and have actually been going out for meals and  shopping more than I ever did before the closures.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Barbara Dunn  Harvard St  Palo Alto  14 Baumb, Nelly From:Paul Cipriano <PCipriano@endovascularsurgery.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:46 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  15 Baumb, Nelly From:Brian Nadreau <brian.nadreau@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:46 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   16 Baumb, Nelly From:Judy Windt <judy@judywindt.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:03 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my jPhone  17 Baumb, Nelly From:Rebecca Nathenson <rebecca@nathenson.net> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Thanks,  Rebecca    Sent from my iPhone  18 Baumb, Nelly From:Doug Solomon <dsolomon@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  19 Baumb, Nelly From:Beth Mills <bethsmills3215@icloud.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    This is how they live in Europe, and it is the best! Please, please let us have a taste of this gracious way of life here!    Beth Mills  3215 Emerson St  Palo Alto.      Sent from my iPhone  20 Baumb, Nelly From:annarmills <annarmills@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:50 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  21 Baumb, Nelly From:Daniel Montague <danielwmontague@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:48 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!        Sent from my iPhone  22 Baumb, Nelly From:Maryam Akbarpour <akbarpour.maryam@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:39 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter! 23 Baumb, Nelly From:Hossein Akhlaghpour <hosseinakhlaghpour@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter! ‐‐   Best Regards    Hossein Akhlaghpour   https://www.linkedin.com/in/hosseinakhlaghpour  24 Baumb, Nelly From:filiz ciftci <filizciftci23@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:31 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Filiz Azar.  25 Baumb, Nelly From:Mahdi Azar <mah358di@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  26 Baumb, Nelly From:Yosvin Aguirre <yosvinaguirre19@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:24 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   27 Baumb, Nelly From:ori Braun <ori@dsentz.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:24 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Ori Braun          Sent from my iPhone  28 Baumb, Nelly From:Sophia C. <sophxch@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:23 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  29 Baumb, Nelly From:Shirley Braun <shirley@swift-insights.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:23 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Shirley Braun      30 Baumb, Nelly From:Claire Dolan <clairedolan1@me.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:05 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,It’s hard to believe that you wouldn’t see how much the open street is a benefit to Palo Alto.  It will only grow in popularity and create an environment that everyone can enjoy.  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in  this quality of life matter!    Claire Dolan    Sent from my iPhone  31 Baumb, Nelly From:Aani Homeira <homeira.a@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter! ‐‐   Sent from Gmail Mobile  32 Baumb, Nelly From:Kevin Ko <kevinsko@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 4:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from Kevin iPhone  33 Baumb, Nelly From:Pauline Mok <wingyee_mok@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 4:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Thanks  ‐Pauline      Sent from somewhere in the iPhone land  34 Baumb, Nelly From:Alba Almeida <alba_aa@icloud.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 4:04 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,     I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  35 Baumb, Nelly From:Patrick Schnabel <PatrickSchnabel@eurofinsEAG.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 3:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone    36 Baumb, Nelly From:Anna <akq2006@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 3:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.        Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in  our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Anna KQ  ‐‐   ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐   Anna  37 Baumb, Nelly From:David Hindin <david.hindin@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 2:42 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    David Hindin, MD     Staff Surgeon, General Surgery  Palo Alto Veterans Health Care System    Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, 2019‐2020 Innovation Fellow     linkedin.com/in/davidhindin/   38 Baumb, Nelly From:Kathryne Sanserino <katesanserino@me.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 2:36 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Kate Sanserino  Stanford medicine      Sent from my iPhone  39 Baumb, Nelly From:Daniel Rabinowitz <dan_rabs@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 2:04 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  40 Baumb, Nelly From:Elena R <elena_krasnovsky@hotmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 1:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  41 Baumb, Nelly From:Maryam Yousefi <maryam.yousefi66@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 1:39 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Thanks,  Maryam      42 Baumb, Nelly From:Hossein Shafagh <hoss.sha@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 1:39 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Thanks,  Hossein      43 Baumb, Nelly From:Malachi Bingham <anano.zero@icloud.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 1:11 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. I am a Palo Alto citizen and student  living at 359 Iris way with my two parents and brother and we all love spending time on university the way that it su now  and I wouldn’t change it for anything if I had final say.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Sent from my iPhone  44 Baumb, Nelly From:Jalena Bingham <jalenab@me.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 1:04 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    Please kvote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that  we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. we love how University Avenue feels like  Europe with so much space for outdoor dining. we are much more likely to walk downtown now and spend time at the  shops and restaurants. please keep it like this permanently!!    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Jalena Bingham & Daniel Behrendt  359 Iris Way  palo Alto, CA 94303    Sent from Jalena Bingham’s iPhone    45 Baumb, Nelly From:Chantelle <Chickyscout@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Chantelle  46 Baumb, Nelly From:Vladimir Kotlov <vladimir.kotlov@personalcapital.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:44 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. This is one of the best places in the Bay  Area for outside dining. Nobody will more happy with a few extra parking spaces. Keep it for people please.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  47 Baumb, Nelly From:Cindy Stack-keer <cindyskeer@att.net> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:29 PM To:Council, City Subject:Outdoor Dinning CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To whom it may concern, I am in full support of the uplift local program and keeping the outdoor dining set up in downtown Palo Alto. Thank you! Cindy 433 Concord Dr. Menlo Park 48 Baumb, Nelly From:Karen Hardy <keh_hardy@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 11:37 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  49 Baumb, Nelly From:Robin Austin <robincaustin@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 11:36 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  50 Baumb, Nelly From:Josiah Yarbrough <yarbrough@stanford.edu> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 11:16 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!     Josiah Yarbrough  PhD Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering  Stanford University | 314‐373‐9190  Sent from my iPhone (please excuse errors)  51 Baumb, Nelly From:Nuray Yilmaz <nyilmaznuray@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 11:12 AM To:Council, City CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    To the Mayor and members of the Palo Alto City Council: I am writing to declare my strong support for continuing the UpLift Program in downtown Palo Alto. For restaurant employees, the program has been a key lifeline for us to keep working and to keep local dining establishments afloat in the past year. As has been documented, food service employees have suffered disproportionately during the pandemic due to severe loss of working hours, and in too many cases, business closures. As we begin to see positive signs for the coming months, we are still concerned about the fragility and feasibility of our employment: if the footprint of available dining space is reduced, we will be hit again. Therefore, we are urging you to continue the popular pedestrian streets program to help maintain the flow of customers to our downtown so that they do not go elsewhere. Last, we have not heard any complaints from customers regarding concerns over parking -- in fact, the attractive dining environment that the Uplift program has provided has been a great success amongst our clientele, and the increase of foot traffic has been truly beneficial to our restaurant. I hope you keep us in mind when considering the future of the program. Thank you for your consideration,   Sent from my iPhone  52 Baumb, Nelly From:Oliver Purcell <oliverpurcell1@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 11:05 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  53 Baumb, Nelly From:Maya Shin <hello@mayashin.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 11:05 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Maya Shin  54 Baumb, Nelly From:Ariana Beil <acbeil2301@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:55 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Ariana Beil    Sent from my iPhone  55 Baumb, Nelly From:Karlis Felzenberg <kfelzenberg@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:53 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      ———————  Karlis Felzenberg  1.650.283.3151    56 Baumb, Nelly From:Annika Weimer <aweimer@stanford.edu> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:11 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Dr Annika Weimer  Sent from my iPhone  57 Baumb, Nelly From:lucie jay <luciejay@me.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:00 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  58 Baumb, Nelly From:FINGER Isabelle <isabelle.finger@insead.edu> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 9:55 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  59 Baumb, Nelly From:Ryan Moyer <moyyerra@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 10:40 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  60 Baumb, Nelly From:Nicole Barnes <nicolerosebarnes@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 10:14 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  61 Baumb, Nelly From:Berna <bernacamci@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!          62 Baumb, Nelly From:Suraksha Vidyarthi <bobbyvid@hotmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:55 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  63 Baumb, Nelly From:Nancy Katz <nkatz300@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:48 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please extend the Uplift Local through the end of this Summer CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council,    Please vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles at least through the  summer. It’s a wonderful environment that everyone can enjoy. Thank you for your support and help in keeping Palo  Alto wonderful and helping our local restaurants recover after such a tough 15 months.    Best,  Nancy Katz  Palo Alto resident  64 Baumb, Nelly From:Chris Steussy <chrissteussy@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:47 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Chris steussy     65 Baumb, Nelly From:Henriette Fux <ariettefux@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:32 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    ‐Ariette      ‐Ariette  66 Baumb, Nelly From:René Aeberhard <rene.aeberhard@icloud.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:31 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    René Aeberhard  125 Lois Lane  Palo Alto, 94303  67 Baumb, Nelly From:Landon Ledbetter <landon.ledbetter@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  68 Baumb, Nelly From:Eric Lebel <kwikkeys88@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I just had a delightful evening on the closed university avenue. Please do not reopen to traffic.    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Eric Lebel, resident  Sent from my iPhone  69 Baumb, Nelly From:Kylie Scott <kylie.degnan@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Kylie Degnan  Sent from my iPhone  70 Baumb, Nelly From:Andi Kleissner <andikleissner@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Thanks,  Andi      Sent from my iPhone  71 Baumb, Nelly From:Gmail <sydneywhynot@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 7:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  72 Baumb, Nelly From:verakenehan@alumni.gsb.stanford.edu Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 7:40 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Vera Kenehan      Sent from my iPhone  73 Baumb, Nelly From:Nicky <martinnicole0001@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 7:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  74 Baumb, Nelly From:nina.g.mariano@gmail.com Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 7:34 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    The outdoor seating and open environment are huge reasons why we keep coming back. Thank you for your support in  this quality of life matter!    Sincerely,  Nina Custodio    75 Baumb, Nelly From:Trysh Huntington <trysh.huntington@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:05 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  76 Baumb, Nelly From:Sumi Hachmann <sumi.kim.hachmann@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 7:12 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this  quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  77 Baumb, Nelly From:Amanda Su <amandayingsu@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 7:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local program through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To City Council:     Please vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles. The closure of these  streets to cars have been a dramatic quality of life improvement for residents, families, visitors, and pedestrians.    According to Staff Report ID # 12302, the consideration to reopen University Avenue and Ramona Street to cars is based  on testimony from "some" retailers and restaurant owners; however, b8ta is the only business cited by name in this  testimonial, and it remains unclear how reopening these streets to cars will improve either parking opportunities or  business sales to pre‐pandemic levels. As a resident who frequently walks through and has driven through University  Avenue (as well as nearby Lytton and Hamilton Streets), University Avenue itself has very little parking and is often  congested with traffic. There are many parking garages near University Avenue that have not been filled to capacity  even during peak hours during COVID.    Moreover, reopening University Avenue and Ramona Streets to cars may redirect potential diners and shoppers to other  cities' downtown areas, negatively impacting restaurant and city tax revenues.     Thank you for your consideration,    Amanda Su, Resident (Downtown North)      78 Baumb, Nelly From:Madeline Radway <madelineradway@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:45 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Best,  Madeline Radway  79 Baumb, Nelly From:Andrea Graham <andreag263@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Don’t open the streets. This is awesome!    Andrea      Sent from my iPhone  80 Baumb, Nelly From:Robert Radway <rmrlab@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:34 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    ‐Robert Radway    Sent from my iPhone  81 Baumb, Nelly From:Bernhard Mistlberger <bernhard.mistlberger@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:31 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  82 Baumb, Nelly From:Howard Bujtor <hbujtor@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:18 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  83 Baumb, Nelly From:Andy Boyatzis <aboyatzis@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:16 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  84 Baumb, Nelly From:Sarah Boyatzis <sarahboyatzis@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Regards,  Sarah Boyatzis  85 Baumb, Nelly From:Matt Wyman <guinaut@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  The entire city becomes a worthwhile  destination as a result.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Matt Wyman  86 Baumb, Nelly From:K L <kimberlymorales1km2@icloud.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:14 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  87 Baumb, Nelly From:Laura Martinez <lalamartinez93@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:11 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  88 Baumb, Nelly From:Diego Samayoa <diegosama2@hotmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:11 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  89 Baumb, Nelly From:Joel Singh <joels@sfcu.org> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone        90 Baumb, Nelly From:Rajat Ahuja <rajat12@msn.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:06 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Rajat Ahuja    iOS के िलए Outlook Ůाɑ करŐ  91 Baumb, Nelly From:ROBERT BUCHAN <rbuchan284@me.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:05 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  92 Baumb, Nelly From:Roni Chahal <rondeep.chahal@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:05 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!        93 Baumb, Nelly From:Nathaniel Hoffman <nathanhhoffman@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:04 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  94 Baumb, Nelly From:Noel Kenehan <noel.kenehan@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 5:42 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Noel kenehan  95 Baumb, Nelly From:Kyle Harrison <kyle.harrison@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 5:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep California Avenue, University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in  our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021 and beyond.  Let’s  make Palo Alto more sustainable and less car dependent.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Kyle Harrison  1120 California Ave  Palo Alto CA    Sent from my iPhone  96 Baumb, Nelly From:Christian Dahlen <christian.dahlen@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 5:31 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021..    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Sincerely    Christian Dahlen    Sent from my iPhone  97 Baumb, Nelly From:Kastania Dahlen <kastania.dahlen@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 5:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Kastania Dahlen        Kastania Dahlen    University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign  98 Baumb, Nelly From:Asavari Bhogle <asavaribhogle@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 5:23 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  99 Baumb, Nelly From:Shweta Sharma <shwetasharma16@icloud.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 5:22 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  100 Baumb, Nelly From:Jonatan Littke <jonatan.littke@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 5:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  ‐‐   Jonatan Littke    (650) 213‐2947  todayilearned.app | littke.com | @littke  101 Baumb, Nelly From:Chris Mammone <cmammone@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 4:29 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  102 Baumb, Nelly From:rongoularte@gmail.com Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 3:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  103 Baumb, Nelly From:Gabriela Corona <gaby4455@icloud.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 3:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Enviado desde mi iPhone  104 Baumb, Nelly From:Vanessa Morell <nessamorell88@icloud.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 2:51 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  105 Baumb, Nelly From:jose casta <choli.01@hotmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 2:50 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  106 Baumb, Nelly From:Thomas Anderson <thomasbanderson1201@icloud.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 2:24 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  107 Baumb, Nelly From:John Luke <me@johnius.ru> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 1:46 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Best regards,  John Luke  108 Baumb, Nelly From:Kristina Zarlengo <zarlengo@panix.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 12:50 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Kristina Zarlengo  zarlengo@panix.com  109 Baumb, Nelly From:Aimee Sales <aimee.michelle.sales@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 12:17 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   110 Baumb, Nelly From:Andrew Chang <awchang.is@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 12:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,     I work at the Porsche office that just moved to Palo Alto.    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   111 Baumb, Nelly From:Charlotte Pilgrim <shevek33@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 11:53 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    It’s better for businesses, and it improves people’s quality of life. This section of University Avenue has never been an  efficient way to get to various points in Palo Alto by car.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Best wishes.  Charlotte Pilgeim    Sent from my iPhone  112 Baumb, Nelly From:Marios Leventopoulos <takver@me.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 11:47 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Marios Leventopoulos  Sent from my iPhone  113 Baumb, Nelly From:Christian Everett Wright <cewright@stanford.edu> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 11:20 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  114 Baumb, Nelly From:CAMILLE TOWNSEND <camille.townsend@me.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 10:59 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Many thanks, Camille Townsend      Sent from my iPhone  115 Baumb, Nelly From:Sibel Yaman <sibel_yaman@icloud.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 10:32 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  116 Baumb, Nelly From:Ozgur Oyman <oz.oyman@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 10:31 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  117 Baumb, Nelly From:eric buatois <buatois@me.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 9:37 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Éric Buatois  Sent from my iPhone  118 Baumb, Nelly From:Anastasia Katsarova Conti <anastasiya.katsarova@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 9:23 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Anastasia  119 Baumb, Nelly From:Anastasia Lyudvik <lyudvik81093@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 8:49 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  ‐‐   Anastasia Lyudvik    1 Baumb, Nelly From:Betty Liu <bettyliu345@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Sandra Nyholm <sandranyholm@comcast.net> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 8:55 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Miguel Goncalves <goncalvesmiguel@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 8:55 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Chrisoula Kapelonis <ckapelonis@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 8:23 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  ‐‐   www.chrisoulakapelonis.com  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Alex Kolbasov <akolb1@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 8:07 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 08/09/2021 Document dates: 06/16/2021 – 06/23/2021 Council Summer Break Set 10 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 6 Baumb, Nelly From:Sneha Palle <palle.sneha1@icloud.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:31 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Aparna Velampudi <aparnavelampudi@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  ‐‐   Regards,  Aparna Velampudi    Cell:248‐686‐4858    8 Baumb, Nelly From:Florian Wimmers <flowimmers@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:13 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Ingrid Masson-Carro <ingridmasson7@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:12 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  10 Baumb, Nelly From:KAVITA Varadarajan <kavita864@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Best,  Kavita  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Ivy Li <ivyli.sy@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:23 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Ivy Li    Sent from my iPhone  12 Baumb, Nelly From:Belbun Gomes <belbungomes@icloud.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:13 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  13 Baumb, Nelly From:Owen Bittinger <obitting@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 5:48 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  14 Baumb, Nelly From:Sarah Sky <reddrahh@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 12:55 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  15 Baumb, Nelly From:Corinne Keer <corinnekeer@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:22 AM To:Council, City Subject:In Support of Uplift Local Program and Downtown street closures! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi All,     I am in full support of he uplift local program and keeping the outdoor dining set up in downtown palo alto!    Best,  Corinne Keer, Palo Alto resident  16 Baumb, Nelly From:Andy Dugacki <adugacki@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 8:51 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    It feels like in Europe where pedestrians can enjoy sidewalk cafes!    Let’s make Palo Alto great!    Thank You!!!      Sent from my iPhone  17 Baumb, Nelly From:Vijay Jaswal <vsjz99@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10:43 PM To:Council, City Cc:Vijay Jaswal Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  18 Baumb, Nelly From:gracee choi <gracee75@hotmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10:26 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Please please please!  I wish it could be like this permanently!    gracee  19 Baumb, Nelly From:abdulkadir gökdoğan <gokdoganabdulkadir@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10:22 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  20 Baumb, Nelly From:Nicole Zimelman <niczim3@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 9:51 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Nicole Zimelman    Sent from my iPhone  21 Baumb, Nelly From:Maryam Khanbaghi <mkhanbaghi@scu.edu> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 9:18 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  Please vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown until end  of summer, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Maryam Khanbaghi, Ph.D.  22 Baumb, Nelly From:Eric Zim <ericmzim@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 9:12 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!        Sent from my iPhone  23 Baumb, Nelly From:Alleyda Barraza <alleyda@icloud.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 7:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  24 Baumb, Nelly From:ldelacruz@sandiego.edu Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 7:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.   Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  25 Baumb, Nelly From:Tara Dolin <taradolin2@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 7:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Thanks,  Tara Dolin  26 Baumb, Nelly From:Matthew Capelouto <matthewcapelouto@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 7:11 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Matthew Capelouto  450 Seale Ave, Palo Alto  27 Baumb, Nelly From:Karen Fitch <kfitch@natera.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:45 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  28 Baumb, Nelly From:Tagtgr <tagtgr@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:59 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Theresia    29 Baumb, Nelly From:David Newcomb <dnewcomb23@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  30 Baumb, Nelly From:Kristina Arriaga <kristina.arriaga@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 5:48 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  31 Baumb, Nelly From:Alan Chiu <alanchiu@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 5:05 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      AC  32 Baumb, Nelly From:Sam Jackson <sam@samjackson.org> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 5:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.     And beyond ‐‐ these have been a wonderful change to the community. I spend more at businesses; friends come to visit  and I'm less lonely because they actually enjoy visiting for a meal; and beyond all that, it's great to create more  walkabikity and connection to neighborhood. Feels safer. Make it permanent and further enhance it, please.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter ‐‐ I benefit nearly every day from these closed streets.    Thanks  Sam    94306  33 Baumb, Nelly From:Tamara Taylor <tamara@lanzatechventures.com> on behalf of Lucio Lanza <lucio@lanzatechventures.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 4:44 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tamara Taylor Subject:Uplift Local Program and Downtown Street Closures CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council members, I'm writing to you to encourage you to vote against canceling the Uplift Local Program and Downtown Street Closures. I am a business owner at 165 University Ave that has invested in other small businesses on University Ave as well as a homeowner at 972 Hamilton Ave. My staff and I often walk down University Ave for lunch, window shopping, and afternoon coffee breaks. We enjoy the inviting atmosphere and spend more time walking in the shopping areas because of it.    Regards, Lucio Lanza Lanza techVentures Management LLC 165 University Ave., Suite 200 Palo Alto, California 94301 P: 650-322-5300 Email:lucio@lanzatechventures.com Web: www.lanzatechventures.com   34 Baumb, Nelly From:MacKenzie Cox <mkenzie.cox@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 4:39 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    Please vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown. It has  greatly increased our quality of life and made downtown more accessible to our family.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   35 Baumb, Nelly From:Miquell Olivia Miller MD <miquellm@stanford.edu> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 4:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in  this quality of life matter!    Sincerely,  Miquell Miller, MD  Stanford University    36 Baumb, Nelly From:Mira Moufarrej <mira.moufarrej@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 3:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021 (or indefinitely).    I have sincerely loved having the street closed to cars and believe it has dramatically improved the ambiance and beauty  of University Ave.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Mira  37 Baumb, Nelly From:DRE <dstylez404@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 3:44 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   38 Baumb, Nelly From:Vanessa Folkerts <vafolkerts@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 2:14 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy a safe environment through the Summer 2021 ‐ at least.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Vanessa Folkerts  39 Baumb, Nelly From:Pravin Kumar <ppk@kumarfamily.us> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 2:10 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our  Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!       ‐‐   Pravin Kumar  [prah‐VEEN] [koo‐MAR]  ppk@kumarfamily.us  +1.650.283.3191  40 Baumb, Nelly From:William Craig <wmrcraig@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 1:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Maya Craig  905 Cowper St, Palo Alto, CA 94301  41 Baumb, Nelly From:William Craig <wmrcraig@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 1:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      William Craig  905 Cowper St, Palo Alto, CA 94301  42 Baumb, Nelly From:Lynette Philippe <lynettephilippe9800@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 1:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Lynette Philippe      Sent from my iPhone  43 Baumb, Nelly From:Courtney flores <courtneynflores@icloud.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 1:39 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  44 Baumb, Nelly From:Gajus Worthington <gajusanniew@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 1:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from Annie's iPhone. Please excuse typos.      45 Baumb, Nelly From:Carol Scott <cscott@crossfieldllc.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:07 PM To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Kamhi, Philip; Baird, Nathan; Tom DuBois; Filseth, Eric (external); Lydia Kou; Greer Stone; Pat Burt; Greg Tanaka; alisonlcormack@gmail.com Cc:Neilson Buchanan; John Guislin; Allen Akin; Christian Pease; Paul Machado; Mike Eager; Wolfgang Dueregger; Chris Robell; Jocelyn Dong; Gennady Subject:Report on Parking Capacity, Occupancy, and Vacancies in the Cal Ave Commercial District Attachments:Parking Report - June 20, 2021.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council, City Manager, and Mr. Kamhi and Mr. Baird,    Attached is a report which includes recent data collected on parking capacity, occupancy, and vacancies in  public garages and lots and street facings in the California Ave. commercial area.      I have included measurements from May 21 and June 11, 2021, but data collection efforts will continue until  such time as they are no longer needed.    As you can see, on both days, over 900 parking spaces were available in the Cal Ave. commercial area.  These  900 spaces could easily accommodate the 250 non‐resident parking permits allocated to Evergreen Park (125  permits) and Mayfield (125 permits), especially as the 'show rate' is be less than 100% as it has in the past.  In  light of these data, we call upon you to eliminate all‐day employee parking permits in the EP/M RPP.    This is the right thing to do to fulfil the promise of the City's Comprehensive Plan, to make progress toward the  City's S‐Cap goals, to execute Policy T‐5.11*, and to ensure the same level of safety and protection from air  pollution enjoyed by other RPP areas that do not include such permits.  Now is the time to make the decision  to proactively manage and control traffic and parking in this area.    Thank you for considering this data and our request.    Carol Scott  on behalf of other resident volunteers    Policy T‐5.11:    Work to protect residential areas from parking impacts of nearby businesses and uses, recognizing that fully addressing some existing intrusions may take time   ‐‐   Carol Scott  1 California Avenue Commercial District Public Parking Executive Summary of RPP Residents’ Survey May 21, 2021 and June 11, 20211 Transmitted June 20, 2021 Included in this report are two eight-page exhibits that show: (1) the capacity of the parking garages, lots, and street faces in the California Avenue commercial district,2 (2) the number of vehicles parked in/or various garages, lots, and streets and in specific zones within those sites, and (3) the number of vacant parking spaces. The first exhibit provides data collected on Friday, May 21, 2021 at mid-day when utilization is presumed to be at a peak given the presence of both employees and visitors at the lunch hour. The second exhibit provides data collected on June 11, 2021, also at mid-day. Even pre-Covid, it was widely known that public parking inventory operated at 66% capacity except during the mid-day period of approximately 11:30 am. to 1:30 pm.3 Thus these snapshots are intended to represent the likely peak demand for parking during the week and day of measurement. At the time of measurement, the City was not enforcing public parking limits in City garages, lots, or street faces, i.e., unlimited parking was free to employees (from California Ave. as well as College Terrace and El Camino Real) and visitors alike. Recommendation: These data show that City garages, lots, and California Ave commercial street facings are operating at only 58% capacity during the peak mid-day time period. At least 900 parking spaces were available on two separate measurement occasions. Therefore, the time has come to deliver on the long-promised removal of all-day commercial parking from Evergreen Park and Mayfield.4 Removing commercial traffic from our neighborhoods not only is consistent with the City’s Comprehensive Plan5, but it also offers a clear path to making these residential streets safer, and supports the related city goals of 1 Document written by Carol Scott based on observational data collected by Nielson Buchanan and other resident volunteers on May 21, 2021 and June 11, 2021. Equivalent data are also available for March and April, 2021. 2 Every effort has been made to verify actual parking inventory with limited records available from the Office of Transportation. Unfortunately, however, these records often provide conflicting information, making reconciliation of observational data with City records currently impossible. 3 Josh Mello, then Manager of City of Palo Alto Office of Transportation and Planning, minutes of the City Council meeting, February 5, 2018, p. 65. 4 A similar analysis of downtown Palo Alto is in preparation. 5 “ It encourages commercial enterprise, but not at the expense of the City’s residential neighborhoods.”, p. 4-5. See also Policy T-5.11: Work to protect residential areas from parking impacts of nearby businesses and uses, recognizing that fully addressing some existing intrusions may take time. 2 reducing SOV trips, reaching our CO2 emission goals and protecting residential quality of life. Further, City policies to move employee parking into the public garages, and in particular the new Sherman Ave garage, would provide convenient parking for employees and also leave closer-in parking spaces for convenient customer parking to stimulate patronage of the businesses along California Ave. It is time for businesses and developers to live up to their promises of transportation demand management. As one current councilman stated in 2017, “Between Caltrain, the Marguerite, El Camino and VTA and so forth, this is A bout as transit rich as it gets. If we can’t get it to work here, we ought to throw In the towel and build giant garages everywhere.”6 Data Highlights • A key summary finding is that on both days of observations, there was a vacancy rate of roughly 58%, meaning that at least 900 parking spaces were available even as many parking spaces have been taken out of service to support UpLift Local. (pages 1-2 of charts for each observation date) • This large number of vacant spaces, however, was not evenly spread throughout the garages, lots and street facings. The new parking garage at 350 Sherman accounted for over 500 of the vacant spaces, with very little usage except on the first floor. (page 3 of charts) • Few cars use the second floor of the 275 Cambridge garage, resulting in vacancy rates between 61% and 67%. (page 4 of charts) • Only the 475 Cambridge garage, as measured on June 11 , showed any significant utilization on the second floor, resulting in the lowest vacancy rate among garages of 40% (in May) and 27% (in June), which is still above the 15% standard for commercial parking lot efficiency (e.g. 85% occupancy). (page 5 of charts) • Surface lots 1, 2, 4 and 9 along Cambridge Ave occupancy rates vary considerably, with lots 1 and 2 showing vacancy rates from 71% to 81%. Only lots 4 and 9, which are closer to the heart of the California Ave. business district and El Camino Real, show relatively low vacancy 6 Council Member Eric Filseth, Council meeting January 23, 2017, when the EP/M RPP was approved, as quoted in the Palo Alto Weekly, January 24, 2017. 1593 1592 932 912 0 500 1000 1500 2000 May June Pa r k i n g S p a c e s California Ave. Public Garages, Lots & Street Parking Spaces Fridays, May 21 and June 11, 2021 Mid-Day Observations Capacity Vacant 3 rates -- between 4% and 14%, with Lot 4 showing greater consistency of use. (pages 6-7 of charts) • The only surface lot remaining on Sherman Ave. shows a vacancy rate of 16% to 20%. This lot is sometimes impacted by construction crews working on El Camino Real. (page 8 of charts) • These data indicate that in the absence of any incentives to park in particular places, people prefer to park in lots rather than garages, and on the lower floor of a garage rather than a second or higher floor. Street facing parking is also popular. If customers or visitors have any difficulty finding a place to park during the noon hour, one potential explanation may be that employees who arrive earlier in the day take most of the most convenient lot and garage parking spaces, and there are no directional signs that would direct customers and visitors to other parking areas with ample parking. 4 Note on Observation Data Collection Methodology The data included in this report was collected through personal observation captured and recorded with less than a total of four volunteer hours to survey, record and display the parking patterns. No technology was required except an Excel spreadsheet. The observational process was developed by resident Neilson Buchanan (cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com) and other citizen volunteers in the University Ave. neighborhoods. Mr. Buchanan has offered to transfer this low level, but reliable technology at no cost to the Office of Transportation for its verification and use. Every effort has been made to verify actual parking inventory with limited records available from the Office of Transportation. Unfortunately, these city records often provide conflicting information about public parking capacity. Spreadsheet tables and formulae are subject to further testing and updating of City changes with garages, lots and street faces. For example, the number of parking spaces taken out of the inventory due to the Uplift Local street closures and reservation of some parking spaces for short term pick-up/take-out parking is based on observation at these particular points in time. Nevertheless, the data is substantially correct and consistent with actual conditions. No observations or measurements were made of private parking space capacity in the California Ave. commercial area. Some of these areas continue to be used for parking while some private lots have been closed to parking so as to be used for restaurant/retail activity as part of Uplift Local or are being used for purposes other than parking. 5 Exhibit 1 Parking Data Collected Friday, May 21, 2021 Mid-day Contents Summary for California Ave. Public Garage and Lot Parking page 1 Summary for Street Facing Parking page 2 Detail for 350 Sherman Garage – Lot 7 page 3 Detail for 275 Cambridge Ave Garage – Lot 3 page 4 Detail for 475 Cambridge Ave Garage – Lot 5 page 5 Detail for Surface Lot 1 and Lot 2 – 100 and 400 block of Cambridge Ave page 6 Detail for Surface Lot 4 and Lot 9 – 400 block of Cambridge Ave page 7 Detail for Surface Lot 8 – 400 block of Sherman Ave page 8 6 Exhibit 2 Parking Data Collected Friday, June 11, 2021 Mid-day Contents Summary for California Ave. Public Garage and Lot Parking page 1 Summary for Street Facing Parking page 2 Detail for 350 Sherman Garage – Lot 7 page 3 Detail for 275 Cambridge Ave Garage – Lot 3 page 4 Detail for 475 Cambridge Ave Garage – Lot 5 page 5 Detail for Surface Lot 1 and Lot 2 – 100 and 400 block of Cambridge Ave page 6 Detail for Surface Lot 4 and Lot 9 – 400 block of Cambridge Ave page 7 Detail for Surface Lot 8 – 400 block of Sherman Ave page 8 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Leticia Gonzalez-Ratchev <leticia.gonzalez.ratchev@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:49 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Leticia Gonzalez  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Doris Cohen <cohendoris2@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 1:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   3 Baumb, Nelly From:Essam AlNaggar <elnagar.essam@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 1:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    ‐Essam  Sent from my iPhone  4 Baumb, Nelly From:segerpeter07@gmail.com Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 12:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree, safe, and eco‐friendly environment. Be bold and make Palo Alto a model US city by  PERMANENTLY banning cars form university ave.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    ‐Peter Seger, PAO resident  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Adam Killeen <adamjkilleen@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:59 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear PA City Council,    I moved to Palo Alto two months ago in order to take advantage of the AMAZING outdoor midtown scene that has  resulted from street closures and the permission for private dining to occur in public space.    It would be a terrible mistake to revert to pre‐pandemic policy. Palo Alto’s pedestrian‐friendly, restaurant‐friendly  outdoor dining spaces are unparalleled in the Bay Area. It draws a huge amount of revenue to small businesses who  have struggled and are severely space‐limited. It encourages street‐shopping. With the expanded table seating,  reservations are still hard to come by, indicating the need for extra space.    PLEASE consider policy to permanently transform University and some surrounding cross streets to a pedestrian‐only  zone. Traffic has not been interrupted, parking is ample, and midtown has progressed to become a far more beautiful,  happy, music‐filled space that everyone desires. This is a fantastic opportunity that City Council will not easily come by  again.    Sincerely,  Adam Killeen  816 Cowper St, Apt 2    6 Baumb, Nelly From:KAREN EDWARDS <karene@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:52 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    As a Palo Alto homeowner for over 25 years I feel very strongly that keeping portions of a university and Ramona are  good for our city on many levels:   safety, wellness (exercise of walking).  Environmental (less driving). And sense of  community.  Many other Bay Area cities have invested to have more attractive downtowns and if we don’t, Palo Alto will  fall behind the trend that attracts commerce.    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Karen Edwards  +1 650 245 2064    My pronouns are she and her.  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Yuliya Kozich <yuliyakozich@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:51 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Best regards,  Yuliya.  8 Baumb, Nelly From:Agnes M <agnes.mar@icloud.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:51 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Dylan Scoledes <dylan.scoledes@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:42 AM To:Council, City Subject:My vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!    This would allow the businesses to recover during the slow summer season and would spur on our economy as a  community.    Thank you,    Dylan Scoledes  10 Baumb, Nelly From:Dmitry Stavisky <dstavisky@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:30 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    ‐Dmitry Stavisky  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Benjamin Braun <benbraunster@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:27 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,      I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.     Having these streets closed to cars has made downtown Palo Alto far more enjoyable for both shopping and dining.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Benjamin Braun  118 Kingsley Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301  12 Baumb, Nelly From:Marc Najork <najork@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:25 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  The much improved outdoor seating in  downtown Palo Alto (and many other Bay Area cities) has been one of the few silver linings of the pandemic, and I  would like to be able to enjoy it as long as possible.  I know that I am not alone in this ‐‐ 97% of respondents to a recent  survey favor keeping University car‐free (story link).    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!     Marc Najork  Resident of Palo Alto since 1996  13 Baumb, Nelly From:Carmina Littlefield <carminalittlefield@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:24 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Carmina Littlefield    Sent from my iPhone  14 Baumb, Nelly From:Nick Phillips <nick.phillips.jhu@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:23 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I heard that the streets of downtown Palo Alto are reopening to car traffic in early July. I’ve really enjoyed the street  closures, and I’d support extending street closures and outdoor dining.    Please let me know if there is any other way I could voice my support for such initiatives.    Thanks,  Nick Phillips  842 University Ave, Palo Alto  15 Baumb, Nelly From:Eugene Portnoy <portnoy@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:23 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Best,  Eugene    16 Baumb, Nelly From:Artem Amirbekov <artem.amirbekov@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:22 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  17 Baumb, Nelly From:Nikita Loginov <loginov.n.d@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:11 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   18 Baumb, Nelly From:Michael Grinkrug <michael.grinkrug@broadcom.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:04 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 Attachments:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________  19 Baumb, Nelly From:Teresa Gadda <tggadda@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:04 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  20 Baumb, Nelly From:Michael Grinkrug <michael.grinkrug@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:04 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   21 Baumb, Nelly From:BIG SISTER. ............. <TORRES2666@msn.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10:27 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!     Get Outlook for Android  22 Baumb, Nelly From:Anu Bhambri <anu@roohpaloalto.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 10:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Thanks,  Anu Bhambri  (425)681‐1491  ROOH        23 Baumb, Nelly From:v b <vikrambhambri1974@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 10:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Vikram  24 Baumb, Nelly From:Anu <anugbhambri@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 10:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Thanks,  Anu Bhambri  (425)681‐1491  ROOH        25 Baumb, Nelly From:Maryam Hosseini <maryamhosseini211@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 10:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  26 Baumb, Nelly From:Sachin Dhawan <sach.dha.09@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 10:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  27 Baumb, Nelly From:Ramak Ravanbakhsh <raamak@icloud.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 9:13 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  28 Baumb, Nelly From:MazdaK Adam <mazdak3003@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 8:40 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  29 Baumb, Nelly From:Jeanette Kennedy <jkc_kennedy@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 7:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Jeanette Kennedy  30 Baumb, Nelly From:Kennedy, Kevin <kkennedy@stblaw.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 7:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  31 Baumb, Nelly From:Anu Bhambri <anu@roohsf.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 7:49 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Thanks,  Anu Bhambri  (425)681‐1491  ROOH        32 Baumb, Nelly From:Jerry Davis <gfdavis@umich.edu> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 7:14 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Jerry Davis  Harrumph, tiny keyboard  33 Baumb, Nelly From:sujay jain <sujay.bitspilani@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 7:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  ‐‐   Best,   Sujay  34 Baumb, Nelly From:Christie Brown <clbrown@umich.edu> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 7:05 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Although what’s below this paragraph  is canned text, I will add on my own that the atmosphere on University is vastly  improved by the pedestrian ease and the absence of cars.  It is not hard (!!) to park a block on either side; please make  this change permanent.  Humans first!!!    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Typos are iPhone's fault!  35 Baumb, Nelly From:Stephanie Sharron <ssharron@me.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 6:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  36 Baumb, Nelly From:Swati DiDonato <swatididonato@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 6:07 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Swati  37 Baumb, Nelly From:Matthew DiDonato <matthewjdidonato@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 6:06 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   38 Baumb, Nelly From:Michael Sanie <michael@sanie.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 6:03 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Michael  39 Baumb, Nelly From:Jacky Moore <jackymoore99@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 5:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Sent from my iPhone  40 Baumb, Nelly From:Lauren Porter <lasporter@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 2:39 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      336.209.3200    Sent from my iPhone  41 Baumb, Nelly From:Sarah Griffiths <sarahgriffiths@msn.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 2:39 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Sarah Griffiths      Sent from my iPhone  42 Baumb, Nelly From:Lee Merkle-Raymond <lee.merkle.raymond@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 2:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Thank you!  Lee Merkle‐Raymond  211 Heather Lane  Palo Alto, CA 94303    Email from my iPhone  43 Baumb, Nelly From:subha menon <subhakpmenon@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 2:16 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android  44 Baumb, Nelly From:Katie Diamond <kd.diamond12@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 12:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycle in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Katie Diamond      Sent from my iPhone  45 Baumb, Nelly From:Gal Dor <galdorlaw@icloud.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:25 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  46 Baumb, Nelly From:Gal Dor <galdorlaw@icloud.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:25 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  47 Baumb, Nelly From:melinda@ourhut.net Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:43 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Kind regards,    Melinda Zschietzschmann    Sent from my iPhone  48 Baumb, Nelly From:Veronica Gabriele <veronica1gabriele@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:08 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Palo Alto  is not a highly trafficated area and keeping the streets close helps boost the economy and create a more pleasant  environment. It would be a great idea to have steer closed each summer for everyone to enjoy. Thank you for your  support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  49 Baumb, Nelly From:david palma <palmadavidpato@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:03 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  50 Baumb, Nelly From:Yasaman Bahri <yasamanbahri@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 8:05 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   51 Baumb, Nelly From:Pavel Sirotin <pavelsirotin@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 6:52 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Best,  Pavel  52 Baumb, Nelly From:Andrew Mattarella-Micke <mattare2@uchicago.edu> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 8:45 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021, and beyond.     Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   53 Baumb, Nelly From:Nuray Yilmaz <nyilmaznuray@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 8:07 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  54 Baumb, Nelly From:Dimitar Pachov <dpachov@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 7:31 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Please don't vote to reopen University Avenue on Jul 3, 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council,     Please extend the Uplift Local Program at least by the end of 2021. It has tremendously both helped local businesses and  transformed that part of the city into a vibrant community.    Pedestrian‐first approach is the right approach. Cities and towns are for people, not cars.    A city without a pedestrian zone is a dead city. In fact, University Avenue should become permanently pedestrian!  Additionally, you should consider that there is no European city without central pedestrian zones and centers.    A good example for the additional tremendous economic benefit is Lancaster, California. It spent $11.5 million creating a  pedestrian‐friendly downtown and in just four years, it attracted $130 million private investment, doubled its downtown  tax revenue, created 48 new businesses and 800 new jobs, and road injuries decreased by two‐thirds.    There is no doubt in the minds of my friends and me that by becoming a pedestrian zone only, University Avenue will  foster a healthy community, provide financial and economic benefits and foster progress and safety.    Thank you.  Dimitar    55 Baumb, Nelly From:Vikram Singh <vsingh24@me.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 7:31 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter! This will pay off in long term. And we  will not have an opportunity like this again to create a socially positive environment. We owe this to ourselves.  Otherwise, we will always remain an unfriendly jungle of concrete, which may be worth a lot, but unwelcoming. I have  live across the world in Europe and Asia, and creating a pedestrian friendly street will bring long term growth to Palo  Alto.  I have run into few people who come from other cities just to visit Palo Alto downtown because they love the new  vibe.    A proud resident of Palo Alto city since 2013    Vikram Singh  56 Baumb, Nelly From:Frank Viggiano <fpviggiano@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 6:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please extend Uplift Local on University Ave. and California Ave. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  As a Palo Alto resident and patron of businesses on University Ave. and California Ave. I strongly urge you to keep the  business district segments of those streets closed to automobiles.  It makes it so much nicer to shop and eat on those  streets without the noisy, smelly cars idling needlessly on the street.  The amount of parking provided on the street is  insignificant compared to the vast amount of free parking offered in Palo Alto's many lots and parking sturctures.  I have  lived in Palo Alto for about 40 of my 63 years of life, and I honestly can't remember a time I have parked on University  Ave. itself.  The few times I have tried to even drive down it have been an exercise in frustration, as I spent all of my time  idling while I waited for pedestrians and congested auto traffic.  It is always best to either bike there or drive directly to a  garage, avoiding University.  And then I can relax walking along University Ave., car free!   I know that the pandemic has been tough on businesses as worried customers avoided in‐person shopping to shop  online.  But I do believe we will all start to visit indoor shops again now that we are vaccinated.  And the shops and  restaurants on a car‐free University Ave. and California Ave. will be my first choices!  Thanks very much for your attention.  Frank Viggiano  830 Talisman Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94303      57 Baumb, Nelly From:nihat usal <nihatusal@hotmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 5:20 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  58 Baumb, Nelly From:Haily Moon <pepperplimsoles@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 4:42 PM To:Council, City Subject:Extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this  quality of life matter!  59 Baumb, Nelly From:Rob Shelton <shelton.rob@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 4:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in  this quality of life matter!      Rob Shelton  Executive Fellow  Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship    Sent from my iPhone  60 Baumb, Nelly From:Mirjana Spasojevic <spasojevic@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  61 Baumb, Nelly From:Heidi Schubert <heidi.schubert@alumni.stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 2:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you  ‐Heidi    62 Baumb, Nelly From:Andres Felipe Rodriguez <a.feliper82@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 2:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    <BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our  Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for  your support in this quality of life matter!    Andrés F. Rodríguez    63 Baumb, Nelly From:Melina Patterson <melinapatterson@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 2:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Melina Patterson    64 Baumb, Nelly From:Kelsey Banes <kelseybanes@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 2:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone    65 Baumb, Nelly From:Geoff Williamson <gtwilliamson@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 1:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Best regards  Geoff Williamson    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Geoff Williamson  +1(650) 575‐9572      66 Baumb, Nelly From:Vladimir Prelovac <vprelovac@icloud.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 1:43 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  67 Baumb, Nelly From:Cafe Venetia <cafevenetia@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 12:21 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  68 Baumb, Nelly From:Square <crotto@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 9:45 PM To:Council, City Subject:I vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of 2021, and beyond CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council, <BR><BR>I hereby vote to keep University Ave open for pedestrians and bicycles, so that we can enjoy  the carefree and safe environment through the Year 2021 and beyond.<BR><BR>Thank  You!      Sent from my iPhone  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Greg Welch <welgreg@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 8:18 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Matthieu Bonnard <mpbnyc@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 3:55 AM To:Council, City Subject:Keep University and Cal Ave pedestrian to make PA community stronger CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello     When people are in their car, they tend not to talk to others, for obvious reasons. When they walk on a street, they  bump into people they know, then chat. This is exactly what happens on the pedestrian portions of University and  California Ave.     Please keep it that way. As a matter of fact, make the pedestrian experience even better by removing the asphalt and  replacing it with a true pedestrian environment.     Below a picture of Sceaux, my home town in France, nearby Paris. The pedestrian street totally transformed the town. It  became this convivial town, where people walk instead of drive, and talk to each other. Parisians visit Sceaux the same  way Sceaux residents go to Paris. Because of its pedestrian street (and amazing park arguably). And it’s great for local  businesses.    Please keep University and Cal ave pedestrian, and make it even better than what it is now.    Matthieu Bonnard    3 5 Baumb, Nelly From:Dafna Zur <dafnaz@stanford.edu> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 10:16 PM To:Council, City Subject:keeping Cal Ave closed to traffic (and open to pedestrians!) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council members, I write briefly to support the proposal to keep Cal Ave closed to traffic. As a Palo Alto resident that lives in University Terrace, my family and I have really enjoyed the enhanced services made possible by the closing of Cal Ave to traffic -- the ability to sit outdoors, and a safer environment for pedestrians and bikers. I hope you will consider keeping the street closed so that we can better support the businesses on the street. Thank you, Dafna Dr. Dafna Zur [she/her]  Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Literatures and Cultures  Director of Undergraduate Studies, EALC major  Director of the Center for East Asian Studies  Stanford University  https://profiles.stanford.edu/dafna‐zur  https://zurdafna.youcanbook.me      6 Baumb, Nelly From:Gabrielle Jackson <gabrielle.jackson@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 9:40 PM To:Council, City Subject:KEEP pedestrian mall on California avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hello,    My family lives in the college terrace area of Palo Alto, right off of California avenue.    Blocking cars from California Ave east of El Camino is one of the few good things to happen in the last year.  We love it,  and go to that area more now than we ever did before, when cars were the norm!    Please KEEP California Avenue as a pedestrian mall.    Sincerely,  The Greif Family  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Isaac Sorkin <sorkin@stanford.edu> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 7:40 PM To:Council, City Subject:re: California Ave. pedestrian zone CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi,     I am a resident of College Terrace (1455 California Ave., Palo Alto, 94304), I am writing in support of maintaining the  pedestrian zone on California Avenue.      Let me make two points in favor of keeping the pedestrian zone on Calfornia Avenue.    First, the closure has created a valuable amenity.  I now find California Avenue to be a more appealing destination and it  has increased my patronage of the businesses on California Avenue.  This valuable amenity has few costs: my increased  patronage of businesses includes Mollie Stone's, which is easy to access via Cambridge Avenue.      Second, as a matter of principle, the effect on (potential) resident's quality of life should weigh heavily in the decision.  It  is hard to justify a decision rule that gives every incumbent business a veto over the decision‐‐‐this embraces a "min  max" (maximize the well‐being of the worst off) objective function, which is not often the basis of sound public policy  decisions, especially when applied to firms rather than people.      In closing, the pedestrian zone is one of the few positive changes to come out of the pandemic and I hope that we can  find a way to maintain it.    Sincerely,  Isaac Sorkin  1455 California Ave  Palo Alto, CA  94304      8 Baumb, Nelly From:silvia ruggerone <silviaruggerone@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 7:12 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep Cali Ave close to traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear all,   As residents of Palo Alto near California avenue, we ask you to keep California Avenue closed to cars traffic. It is great to  have a pedestrian area near restaurants and stores.  It will be nice that the restaurants on the other adjacent streets cold have more outdoor space using parking spaces  along the streets.  I used to drive on California Ave but I can easily reach everything without problems driving around it.  Since the closure we like to bike to pick up food and to go to Mollie Stones, it is healthier for us and fun for the kids.    I did not previously write to ask the same thing for University Ave. I enjoy the pedestrian area there too but I understand  the challenges of keeping that street closed to cars.    Thank you   Silvia Ruggerone  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Patrick Kehoe <patrickjameskehoe@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:43 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep the pedestrian zone on first few blocks of California Ave CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     My wife and I are Palo Alto residents who live in College Terrace near California Avenue, at 2600 Columbia Street,  94304.     I have spoken with dozens of my neighbors and their is overwhelming support to keep the first few blocks of the  California Commercial District a pedestrian zone, as the City Manager has recommended.     I very much hope that you do! It has been fantastic to walk down there and go out to have dinner outside. My friends  and I are not ready to cram into  indoor restaurants any time soon,but we are very happy to eat outside. So, personally, I  think it will very much benefit the businesses there.     Can you please keep it open for another year and see how it goes?    Thank you,    Patrick       10 Baumb, Nelly From:Irv Brenner <irvb@pacbell.net> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 5:51 PM To:Council, City Subject:University Closure CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council Members: I urge you to reconsider your July reopening of University Avenue. Long before Coronavirus, the option of creating a University mall was contemplated because of its obvious benefits to shoppers, diners and strollers while reducing the frustrating traffic congestion. When you needed to implement closure in order to keep businesses viable during the pandemic, the results demonstrated that it was indeed a workable and welcome plan. It's now a joy to experience outdoor dining and the absence of car noise and pollution. It seems to me that with personal contact restrictions now removed, all businesses including those on side streets should also prosper as long as adequate parking is provided by adjusting the current public parking restrictions to accommodate shoppers. I hope you'll agree. Respectfully, Irv Brenner 250 Byron Street Palo Alto 94301    To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Virus-free. www.avast.com   11 Baumb, Nelly From:Lorenzo Gallicchio <gallicchiolorenzo@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 4:04 PM To:Council, City CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,     I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  12 Baumb, Nelly From:Rahmin Jawaid <rahmin.jawaid@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please Vote to Extend Local Street to End of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!   13 Baumb, Nelly From:Juliana Crispo <julianacrispo@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:05 PM To:Council, City Subject:KEEP UNIVERSITY AVE CLOSED TO TRAFFIC PLEASE CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Keep street closed! How do I vote against reopening? ‐‐   Juliana Crispo   Cell: 212.837.8336  Book a Zoom Call  14 Baumb, Nelly From:Yue Huang <hu0002ue@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:32 AM To:Council, City Subject:keep university avenue open to pedestrian only CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open  for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe  environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   15 Baumb, Nelly From:Karin Kimbrough <karinknyc@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:01 AM To:Council, City Subject:Keep University and Cal Ave Closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please count me as a Palo Alto resident who greatly hopes you will keep University Ave and California Ave closed to  vehicle traffic.    There is ample parking behind the street block and the quality of life will increase as people can walk leisurely to shop  and dine.    There is a reason many charming European towns and cities have adopted this model of living‐ it works!    Please keep Univ & Cal ave pedestrianized!    Karin Kimbrough  16 Baumb, Nelly From:Valentina <valiagd@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:52 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Keep University Ave Open for Pedestrians CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council Member,      I was very alarmed to find out today that the city council had changed their previous decision to leave University Ave  open to pedestrians until the end of October, and is considering to open up the street to car traffic on July 3rd.    Please note that reversing a decision that is wildly supportive and favored by most of us (restaurants, cafes and  customers and their kids) to one that may suit only a few does nothing but lowers the level of trust vested in you and,  bluntly said, makes the council appear, I am sorry to say, incompetent.    My family and friends have greatly enjoyed the closed down streets with no cars ... it provided safe space for a casual  stroll, comfortable play for kids while sipping a drink, and a relaxed space to enjoy the sun while enjoying a crape or  cappuccino, or a burger ... this has been the main space for us to feel some normalcy lately.      Although life seems to be approaching "what it used to be" stage, the pandemic is not the only reason you should keep  the street open to pedestrian traffic only. In addition to the numerous studies citing long‐term increase in revenue for  businesses & city from exclusively pedestrian streets, the benefits to the community and existence of social connections  are something my family can firmly attest to.     Please please please, consider University Ave's fate in a holistic manner and when making decisions in regard to it  prioritize for the long term community benefits. Leave University Ave open to pedestrians only permanently.    Kind Regards,   Valentina  17 Baumb, Nelly From:Steven Baker <steven.baker@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 8:26 AM To:Council, City Subject:keeping cal ave, university, ramona closed to cars CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi,   I fully support continuing to keep cal ave, university, and ramona closed to cars to enable more pedestrian use and  seating.  People, not cars, should have primacy in our public space.    I regularly frequent these areas of town and especially enjoy the outdoor seating amenities of the restaurants but also  just for strolling.  I am MORE likely to go to these places and visit businesses there now that the street is closed.  One  silver lining of the pandemic is it shows those businesses can still flourish with that street closed, and we can create a  lovely walkable area in a place once dominated by cars.      Sincerely,  Steve Baker  18 Baumb, Nelly From:Ryan Sepassi <rsepassi@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 10:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keeping downtown closed to cars CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    As a resident of Palo Alto, I strongly support keeping University Ave and California Ave closed to car traffic. It is an  enormous improvement to my quality of life and to the social and community life of the city. It’s no exaggeration to say  that it is better than even before the pandemic.    I understand that some businesses are opposed to keeping those streets closed, but we should run the city for our  residents as a whole, not for a select few business owners. Walking‐only downtowns can be vibrant places for shops,  restaurants, and many other businesses. It may be that some businesses are no longer viable while others thrive. The  economic life of downtown will adapt to the changes. I have no doubt that if we embrace this new direction that the city  will see even more economic activity, which will be a boon to many business owners, customers/patrons, and to city  finances.    I love the ambiance of University Ave without cars and we can go even further in making it a lovely outdoor pedestrian  area year‐round.    Thank you for listening to your residents, Ryan Sepassi Downtown North, Palo Alto    19 Baumb, Nelly From:sarahmueller1970@gmx.net Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:41 PM To:Administrative Services; CSD; PWD; City Mgr; Clerk, City; Council, City Subject:Closure of University Ave and Ramona Str Palo Alto CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Sir or Madam, I honestly do not understand why both streets will be reopened by July 3rd. As being originally from Europe I loved the flair of sitting outside in the fresh air and having enough space for walking. I really do not understand why you are opening the streets so soon. It is hard to understand why the streets are not closed during summer. There are supporters and opposers, I see, but sometimes the argument of the supporters of the street opening is just laziness, citizens who do not want to leave their car. Furthermore, University Ave is not completely closed, just a few blocks. Well, a decision has already been made. Still, I am supporting street closures. By the way, please, everyone should the treated equally. No masks for neither vaccinated nor unvaccinated citizens, in every occasion. I am looking forward to all live events we had before COVID-19! Best regards, Sarah Bay Area, CA 20 Baumb, Nelly From:Fernando Cabildo <fernando.cabildo@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 5:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:Street Closures - please prolong CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council:    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, as  well as California Avenue, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021 and  beyond.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Sincerely,  Fernando Cabildo  1120 California Avenue  21 Baumb, Nelly From:Sabrina Dahlen <sabrina.dahlen@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 5:32 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep Downtown Open CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!   Sabrina Dahlen   22 Baumb, Nelly From:Yvonne Dennis <ycdennis@hotmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 2:44 PM To:Council, City Subject:Reopening University Avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello Council,    I am writing you to ask that you please keep University Avenue closed to traffic at least through the labor day  weekend.  The community has really benefited from the closure.  Many restaurants have only been able to  survive with their expansion to outdoor dining.  I and many friends are more comfortable dining outside rather  than inside.  I do not believe that any decrease in retail business is specifically a result of the street  closure.  Pre‐pandemic, most people who drove downtown to shop did not expect to find parking close to the  stores.      I think there are more benefits to the majority of businesses and the community at large to justify postponing  the reopening of University Avenue for several more months.    Thank you,  Yvonne Dennis  23 Baumb, Nelly From:Anne Brodell <annebrodellmft@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 9:57 AM To:Council, City Subject:Downtown CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council  Please keep University Ave and the adjacent  streets open and safe for people and kids and bikes and sitting and eating.  It has been wonderful for community and for our grandkids.  There are parking structures throughout the city.  Thanks so much  I am writing on behalf of our whole family. (And the grandkids) Anne Brodell PS Cal Ave should absolutely stay the way it  is There is no reason for it to have 2 lanes in each direction Especially w the new (unused) parking structure  24 Baumb, Nelly From:Kimberley Wong <sheepgirl1@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 9:53 AM To:Council, City; City Mgr Subject:Keep streets closed, libraries open! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor and City Manager Keeping University closed has brought back a nice walkable feel to Palo Alto... places for neighbors to gather and chat at a safe distance. The outdoor parklets are great because many of us are still not comfortable being inside a restaurant still despite lifted of bans on indoor dining. Although they have lifted mask wearing in grocery stores, I am also uncomfortable shedding my masks in those establishments as well as any other public places except for outdoor dining. In Europe, I don’t hear of residents complaining that they can’t drive to their favorite cafe. I have also heard of residents counting cars in the parking structure off of California Avenue and reporting that they are not being fully parked. I would venture a guess that the garages near University Avenue are not fully parked either. Why is it that everyone has become so car dependent that they need to park directly in front of the establishment they are going to? Those who have trouble walking can park in the back should be granted a special privilege of accessing a business through a back door. Problem solved. Remember the pre-pandemic days of inching along University Ave to get anywhere? Is this what people really want again? I say we celebrate Palo Alto, its restaurants which spent big money to establish parklets and advertise the other retail businesses. I think that many of us are willing to put our money with our mouths are in shopping local. I myself made it a point to purchase gift items from Bell's books, Gwen's Letter Perfect and the United Nations Association gift shop at least once a month. For the office spaces, as office workers slowly trickle in, they are more than capable of walking a few blocks from the garages to their offices. Even prepandemic, I had heard that many of the parking spaces were never fully utilized. Please let us enjoy our community, shop local, eat local and live large like the Europeans! Ask what the residents will do for it's local businesses and you will be surprised how many of us will step up. Residents care more than you think! And I would like to add that if it comes to asking residents to help volunteer to keep the smaller local libraries afloat, such as the College Terrace and Children's library, residents will also rise to the occasion. Caring citizens are what make Palo Alto so unique and special. Thank you for reconsidering keeping the streets closed and libraries open. Kimberley Wong, longtime resident of Palo Alto 25 Baumb, Nelly From:Aaron shaket <aaronshaket@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 8:43 PM To:Council, City Subject:Leave university Ave closed to traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi    It’s been so great to see people enjoying the city. Please keep the street closed    Aaron shaket  Palo Alto  6502721864    Sent from my iPhone  26 Baumb, Nelly From:Wieland Krispin <wielandkrispin@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 8:33 PM To:Council, City Subject:Support for continued/ permanent downtown & Cal Ave closures CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  My wife and I are Palo Alto residents, and we are both appalled by the city council's consideration to reopen Cal Ave and  university Ave back to car traffic.      Your own surveys have shown that the citizens and residents of this city support a extended and likely even a permanent  closure of our downtown streets by a wide margin.     This is a democracy and even though I’m sympathetic to stores that are still struggling from the pandemic it’s laughable  to blame the closures for that.   There is no proof that the street closures are to blame for dwindling foot traffic to jewelry or tech gadget store but  potentially the fact that people are not spending in those categories at the moment.     We’ve been locked up for months and months and few a craving new tech toys or jewelry but social connection and  going out for their friends and families.     Palo Alto should be a progressive example to our neighboring cities and promote a walkable city. We like to look at  Northern European and Baltic states for their ability to create lively walkable downtowns. The people of Palo Alto want  exactly that by a wide margin and as the representatives of the citizens and not a handful of businesses you should make  that a reality.     In addition I added some research below that disproof some of the concerns that have been raised about the topic:    ‐Better for businesses (people spend more time in the areas as they encourage mingling and socialization)    ‐Better for health because they promote walking, biking, and other modes of transportation, discourage car trips  (reduce emission) and open up opportunities for adding green spaces  ‐It's a trend that started pre‐covid and something we should encourage:   ‐SF started the process of closing market street AND redesigning the area (pre‐covid)   ‐Barcelona, Madrid, Oslo (all cities with much higher population density) are creating large car‐free zones   ‐NYC established car‐free zones (1 mile stretch of 14th street )     Parking: There are 134 total on‐street parking spots on University Ave in the DT area between Alma and Webster (city  documents: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/transportation/parking/downtown‐parking‐ management‐study/2017‐03‐18_study_downtownparkingmanagement_existingconditions[councildraft].pdf)     There is a total of 1372 hourly off‐street parking spots (which doesn't include the 1,811 permit parking sports) in the  downtown area and 1103 on‐street parking spots (if we were to totally eliminate street parking on university ave, which  is not being proposed). The reduction in available parking would only be 5% for a potentially meaningful increase in  quality of life and based on city research especially the permit parking spots have relatively low average occupancy      27 Baumb, Nelly From:alan gara <alanggara@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 8:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Taxpayer not happy CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I am very concerned that despite the overwhelming support of tax paying citizens who wan university to remain open to  only pedestrians,that there is now an effort to reopen university Avenue prior to the agreed upon date.    Please vote with the taxpayers and vote to improve the quality of life for palo alto citizens.    Thank you  Alan gara  1265 wilson street  Palo alto    28 Baumb, Nelly From:lauren thinkgardens.net <lauren@thinkgardens.net> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 4:43 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr Subject:In favor of permanent street closures CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    I am in favor of making the street closures on University and California Avenue permanent.  These two  downtown street areas are infinitely more attractive than they were with cars.  With the gorgeous weather we  enjoy in Palo Alto, it makes perfect sense to keep these streets closed.      As a trained garden designer, I am aware of the work being done by landscape designers to create and explore  ideal communities.  These simple street closures take a crowded, unpleasant place and turn it into a perfect  walkable enjoyable dining & shopping district.  It would be a huge loss to end this.    I do not believe any decrease in businesses downtown is due to the street closures.  I believe any decreases  were due to people not going out during the pandemic and people purchasing items online instead of  locally.  If anything, I for one look for reasons to go downtown and spend time outside under the lights.  It's  just lovely and a perfect situation for an enjoyable afternoon.  That is good for business.    Lauren  29 Baumb, Nelly From:Vitoria Moreno-Costa <vmorenocosta@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 3:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep University and California streets closed to cars CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello Palo Alto City Council,     I am writing to you as a Palo Alto resident to request you keep downtown PA and California Ave closed to car traffic. The  closure of the streets during the COVID‐19 pandemic has been a wonderful innovation that has made the area more  lively and desirable for residents. I have loved strolling through the streets and eating al fresco. I understand some  businesses have complained that they have lower foot traffic, but imagine the difficulty restaurants will have convincing  residents to eat indoors. I hope for the benefit of 95% of Palo Alto residents, we should keep the streets closed and  allow our community to adapt and prosper in this wonderful new environment. Thank you for considering my viewpoint  and I hope you vote to keep University and California closed to car traffic.     Thank you,  Vitoria Moreno‐Costa  30 Baumb, Nelly From:Rachel Thomas <rachelthomasesq@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 1:47 PM To:Council, City Subject:I support extending the University Avenue Parklet Program. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  My name is Rachel Thomas. I am a resident of Downtown North and mother to a PAUSD rising 7th grader.      I support extending the University Avenue Parklet Program and maintaining the pedestrian‐friendly environment  established on University Avenue.     I have enjoyed eating out at restaurants on University Avenue so much more without traffic; my family and I are far  more inclined to eat at a restaurant now than when University Avenue was open to vehicular traffic. Keeping vehicular  traffic from University Avenue is consistent with the streets overall purpose, flow, and feel. Especially in the past few  weeks as things have been opening up, I have noticed far more people on the street than even before the pandemic  closures. It is wonderful to see the return to life and I worry that closing University Avenue will curb the enthusiasm and  momentum of the community. Most importantly, with the street closure, my child, newly discovering independence as a  middle schooler, has more opportunities to safely move unsupervised throughout downtown. I worry less about his  safety as he navigates downtown with his friends and without parental supervision ‐ an invaluable part of growing up  and a rare opportunity for many kids who live in communities without thoughtful city planning related to traffic and  pedestrianization.     I am not without sympathy to those businesses that have had difficulty recovering after the impacts of the pandemic.  Opening University Avenue to vehicular traffic is not the solution.    I respectfully ask that Council vote to maintain and/or extend the University Avenue Parklet Program.    Kindly,    Rachel Thomas      31 Baumb, Nelly From:DANA PHILLIPS <andzphillips@bellsouth.net> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 1:25 PM To:Council, City Subject:Car Traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    I favor re‐opening University Ave to car traffic  32 Baumb, Nelly From:GP Jones <senojpg@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 12:04 PM To:Council, City Subject:University Avenue ReOpening CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I vote no.    Seriously, I have made this suggestion numerous times.  Pattern University Avenue after Pearl Street in Boulder, CO  Close it – make it pedestrian – between High Street and Webster.  Best would be to make Hamilton one way north/east and Lytton one way south/west    But I know that one‐way streets take a lot of flak in PA, so try this  TIME THE STOPLIGHTS progressively so that traffic flows (at 23 mph?  27 mph?)   A. From Univ and High, to Hamilton, left down Hamilton to Webster, then left on Webster and right on Univ.  In the other direction,   B. From Univ and Webster, right turn, then left on Lytton, then all the way down to the left at High St. and right on  Univ.  High is already 1‐way for the two blocks necessary; do the same for Webster.  So through traffic would be able to get from one end to the other in likely less time than it takes to drive straight on  Univ.    SOME cross streets on Univ could be left open, but NOT every one.  Bryant and Waverly could be.  You could add Cowper if you want.  But the lights at Hamilton and Lytton would be timed for flow on those streets, NOT the cross streets.    Yes, businesses will not get customers who drive down Univ and park on Univ.  But customers WILL CONTINUE TO COME (if the businesses are any good) and particularly after people find out how nice  (and EASY) it is to walk and window shop and visit multiple stores in a single visit.    I think it would vitalize downtown P.A.  AND IT COULD BE TRIED EXPERIMENTALLY WITHOUT ANY CONSTRUCTION.  Just leave University Ave closed as it is now, PUT UP CLEAR SINAGE, and TIME THE LIGHTS.  And PUBLICIZE THE HELL OUT OF IT so that everyone knows.    Count the cars, measure the thru times and wait times, then tinker with the timing as appropriate.  (I realize that the final version might need or want new signal control hardware/software).    But let’s TRY IT.      ‐carl jones    33 Baumb, Nelly From:Lauren Bonomi <lpbonomi@me.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 11:05 AM To:Council, City Subject:Pedestrian streets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi Council Members,    I’d like to add my voice to those in favor of keeping University Ave and California Avenue closed to traffic and open for  street dining and pedestrians.    I think it has made the areas so much more friendly.  The people I encounter are happier and more relaxed.  I think it’s  been a welcome improvement after a long and stressful time due to the pandemic.  Considering the Bay Area is already  a stressful place to live, I like this effort to slow down and improve the quality of life.    Thanks very much for your time and consideration,    Lauren Bonomi  526 Lowell Ave    Sent from my iPhone  34 Baumb, Nelly From:Karen Jacobson <jacobson.karen.a@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:57 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep streets closed to vehicle traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Members,    I’m writing to urge you to keep University Ave and Cal Ave closed to vehicle traffic as pedestrian walking streets.  And,  this allows for outdoor dining.  I’ve really enjoyed dining outdoors during the pandemic.  Please keep it that way.    Best Regards,    Karen Jacobson  729 Mayfield Ave  Stanford, CA 94305  35 Baumb, Nelly From:kate <kate_godfrey@outlook.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Proposed street closures CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council members,    I urge you to keep University Avenue and ESPECIALLY Ramona Street open through the summer.     The closed streets bring joy...and more business to some of the restaurants than they could ever have  accommodated pre‐pandemic.     Thank you,    Kate Godfrey  Lincoln Avenue  36 Baumb, Nelly From:Lyn Chambers <LynCC@comcast.net> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 8:47 PM To:Council, City Subject:University Ave. closure CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hello,    I just wanted to say that I favor keeping University Avenue closed as it is now.  It is wonderful to have a walkable area in  downtown like that.  This is the best chance we will have to  keep it that way.  If you vote to reopen, you will never get  agreement to have it closed again (until maybe we have another pandemic).    Lyn Chambers  37 Baumb, Nelly From:Steve Tjiang <steven.tjiang@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 8:29 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please do not re-open California Avenue and University Avenue to traffic. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I am all for keeping the streets closed. It has definitely made California Avenue and University of Palo Alto more lively  and more friendly.  The closures have created more public spaces for which we can enjoy the great weather that we are  blessed with here.  It is about time that we take back our public spaces for people instead of cars.     I have enjoyed dining and walking on the closed streets. I run into my neighbors and friends and reconnected with them  in a way that didn't seem possible before the street closures. More than anything, more public spaces like closed streets  will make Palo Alto a better community.    But I do sympathize with non‐dining businesses that are suffering from the closures. I don't really understand but I do  sympathize. Pre‐pandemic when I visit a business on university avenue, I had to park a few blocks away and walk. I don't  understand how reopening the streets would change that.    But why do we have to choose between exactly two options: keep the streets closed OR return back to pre‐ pandemic traffic.  Let's be creative and find another solution that reclaims our public space and help the businesses.  38 Baumb, Nelly From:dedra hauser <dedra@pacbell.net> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:39 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep University Avenue car free CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council members, One of the silver linings in the pandemic has been the creation of two walkable dining and shopping destinations in Palo Alto. These communal spaces were life savers at a time of so much isolation and are a big step in the direction of creating a vibrant, sustainable city of the future. The crowds that throng California and University Avenues can revitalize small stores if they have a realistic business model and take advantage of all that foot traffic. I hope you don't take us backwards to the now discredited practice of putting cars ahead of people. Sincerely, Dedra Hauser 39 Baumb, Nelly From:Thomas Daniel <tomek.daniel@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 4:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:University Avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    On Tuesday, 6/22 City Council considers cancellation of downtown street closure.    I urge you to keep downtown streets closed. We have already too many cars around, ability to walk around downtown is  wonderful and should be preserved. Anybody can park on adjacent streets, cars do not have to drive through University.    Please keep cars away.    Thank you for the consideration.    Thomas Daniel    40 Baumb, Nelly From:Sharon Richmond <sharonrichmond1@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 4:44 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please do not let cars back onto CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Calif ave or university ave.  The European feel of these streets adds a lot of charm and community feel to our town!    Sharon Richmond  Maddux Drive  Palo Alto    Pls excuse typos and brevity. Sent from my iPhone  41 Baumb, Nelly From:Mike Knowles <mknowles@intl.younglife.org> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 4:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep University Avenue and California Avenue CLOSED to auto traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Our family has lived in Palo Alto for 30 years and we love it here.  One of the things we love is that this is a walking  community…people often walk to the store or restaurant rather than get in their car and roll up with window.  We have  so enjoyed dining and shopping on Cal Ave and University Ave over these last months with NO CARS!  Please make these  two streets permanent pedestrian walkways that will help to encourage and build community.       Best Regards,    Mike Michael C. Knowles Phone: (650) 888-8985 skype: michael.c.knowles www.africa.younglife.org         **Confidentiality Notice*** This e-mail transmission and any documents, files or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain confidential and legally privileged information, which is intended solely for use by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, copying, printing or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete (destroy) the original transmission and any attachments.     42 Baumb, Nelly From:Mehrnoush L <mehrnoush.shah@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 2:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:University Ave CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,     Please consider not reopening the University Ave. to cars. I am a resident of the city of Palo Alto and we like the outdoor  seatings area on that street. Also, many restaurants have lost a major revenue due to the Covid pandemic and this helps  them to compensate their revenue loss. Thank you for your time and consideration.     Best,  Mejrnoush  43 Baumb, Nelly From:Elaine Hahn <elaine@hahnfamily.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 12:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep University Ave closed for pedestrians CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,    Please keep University Ave closed to pedestrians for the foreseeable future.  Our community is just getting  back together after a long period of isolation, and a downtown welcome to pedestrians and outdoor dining  will be an important way for our community to regather and heal.  It's OK, from my perspective, to revisit the  question after we are fully "back to normal" after COVID, but it is too soon.      Thank you for supporting our community and the restaurants who serve us!    Elaine Hahn  465 Melville Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301  44 Baumb, Nelly From:rogersac@aol.com Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 12:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:Possible reopening of Cal Ave and University Ave CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council. I am against the reopening of these streets for many reasons. The one that needs to be considered is that people who enjoy eating outside or feel safer eating outside rather than inside, will go to where they can continue to dine outside, namely Castro Street, Santa Cruz, or wherever they can still eat outside. These customers will not just go inside to eat, they will drive elsewhere. This will not only be bad for Palo Alto businesses, but also for City taxes as those taxes will go to Mountain View or Menlo Park. I love eating outside during the summer. This has been one of the highlights of the past 15 months. I think of it as a plus. I do not mind parking in a nearby carpark and walking. If the cross streets were made disabled parking and/or 30 minute parking only it would enable those with mobility difficulties or just needing to pick up a prescription or similar, easier access. Hopefully you will consider my thoughts in your decision. Thank you. Carol Rogers. Stockton Place. 45 Baumb, Nelly From:George Northup <gnorthup@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:45 AM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Pedestrian Streets in Palo Alto CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council Members of Palo Alto.      I am writing to ask that Palo Alto strongly consider keeping in place the use of blocked sections of university avenue  which allows for expanded restaurant outdoor seating.  This also allows for walking safely downtown, without worrying about cars, etc.  Many, many residents and shoppers,  diners feel strongly about this.  Thank you for your consideration.    ‐‐   George E. Northup  GNorthup@gmail.com  46 Baumb, Nelly From:Grace Calhoun <calhoungrace@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:32 AM To:Council, City Subject:Public comment: University ave CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto Councilmembers,     My name is Grace Calhoun and I am a resident of Palo Alto. I am in love with this city, and one of the biggest reasons for  that is because of Palo Alto’s beautiful restaurant scenes on University and California. Walking through these streets  makes the city feel alive and gives the residents here a genuine sense of pride and community.     More than this, I see businesses flourishing as community members and people from other areas gather to be a part of a  wondering dining and shopping experience. The pedestrian walkways on University and California are amazing for both  residents and businesses.     The beautiful community that I love will, quite honestly, be significantly damaged or ruined if these walkways are  opened up to car traffic again.    The reality is, people have been driving for months since shelter in place was lifted. There’s plenty if parking still  available for those who need it. Let’s not litter our streets with cars when we have something truly beautiful here.     I know I speak for many people when I ask you not to open University OR California avenues to car traffic.     Respectfully,    D. Grace Calhoun  47 Baumb, Nelly From:Pavel Zheltov <pavel.zheltov@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 12:49 AM To:Council, City Subject:Streets must remain pedestrian only CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto city council,      I would like to ask you to weigh pros and cons of reopening the walking streets of Palo Alto to car traffic, and to vote to  keep them fully pedestrian.     Cars do not belong either on University avenue, or on California Ave. It was obvious before the pandemic, and it has  become public knowledge after the pandemic. Denying it will simply delay the inevitable. The city downtowns all over  the world are closing main streets to vehicular traffic, because it makes them more liveable, more attractive, more  functional, more human. Meanwhile, Palo Alto city council seems to be debating whether to deny 97% of the public in  order to please 3% of some scattered store owners.     Even if I was to believe that foot traffic to the shoe shop on University has decreased, it should not become the least  common denominator which determines what every one must be doing. The shoe shop will adapt, or nice to Hamilton  or Lytton, especially if you provide a subsidy to do so. There must be progress, not stagnation of ideas and rot of  leadership. If DeNovo jewelry shop and Mollie Stones grocery store complain about the reduction in visits, they are  being disingenuous. DeNovo traffic could not have reduced, given how busy Ramona has become, and it derives 90% of  its revenue from its nationwide online store anyway. Similarly, the route to Mollie Stones via Cambridge avenue has  fewer stop signs and pedestrian crossings than University. If anything, it has become more accessible.     Reopening the streets is the wrong thing to do. I personally will hold each of those members of the city council who vote  to reopen the streets, accountable for damaging the culture and the community of Palo Alto.    Best regards,   Pavel Zheltov,  345 Forest Ave              48 Baumb, Nelly From:Lisa Betts-LaCroix <bettslacroix@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 9:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please leave University Ave blocked from traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear city Council    Please leave University Avenue open to foot traffic as it is good for businesses socializing and enjoying life. We have  enough Rhodes for cars and the city could use more social walking spaces.    Thank you,  Lisa  ‐‐   Lisa Betts‐LaCroix  ______________________________________  Presentation Coach * Speaker * Actor * Dancer    Instagram    Host ‐ The Super Power U Podcast  On iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play   Online at www.lisabl.com/podcast    49 Baumb, Nelly From:Kayla Brand <kaylabrand888@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 5:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep University Ave Closed to Cars CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council, I heard that you are debating opening University Ave to traffic on June 22nd. Please keep it a pedestrian street, potentially as a permanent addition to the University Ave atmosphere. Ever since the creation of University Ave as a restaurant seating area, the street has been buzzing with life and laughter, which is especially nice to hear after the long pandemic closures. The first time I saw the street closure, I thought it was a brilliant idea. I always prefer to eat outdoors when I can, and it is so nice to have a dining area surrounded by other diners, rather than being closely bordered by a street. It is like having a new park, in the place of a road. Seeing the tented dining areas reminds me of the best memories of realizing the end of the pandemic was in view. Please keep them alive. Thanks for considering, Kayla, Palo Alto resident 50 Baumb, Nelly From:Klemen Cas <klemen.cas@gokapua.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 1:37 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Reopening of University Avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members,    we have just been told that University Avenue will reopen for traffic in July. I urge you to reconsider the decision; one of  the very few positives of the covid time have been the closed‐for‐traffic sections in the city. Roads are lively, restaurants,  caffes and bars are putting their tables out, people enjoy sitting outside, kids can play on the street, people go for a  walk. Weather is great, people are doing great, business is good.     We have enough roads that have remained open and plenty of parking space everywhere. There is no need to remove  these new oases.    You have the opportunity to make University Street, the few side streets and the California Ave permanent asset for the  well‐being of Palo Alto citizens,    Please, use it,  Thank you,  Klemen Cas    ‐‐  Klemen Cas, PhD  Founder & CEO at KAPUA  51 Baumb, Nelly From:David Presotto <presotto@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 9:43 AM To:Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Burt, Patrick Subject:University Ave reopening CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Over the last 20 year that I have lived here, University has increasingly become a terrible place to go even though I only  live 3 blocks away.  All of the problem is the traffic.  Not only are there a lot of cars but many circle endlessly looking for  free parking.  The result is a permanent blue choking cloud of emissions and constant noise over the area.     The only good thing that has come of the pandemic has been turning University into a pedestrian mall.  One can now  walk there and eat outside without the constant honking, loud engines, sound systems, and pollution.  This is a boon not  only for the shoppers but also for the shops.  Please don't open the street, it is fine the way it is.  The only thing you  really need to do is replace the large barriers at the cross streets with something that fire engines can easily cross like  the lower profile barriers or collapsible posts that they can clear but cars can't.    Thank you for your attention to this matter.                   David Presotto                 730 Webster St, Palo Alto, CA 94301    52 Baumb, Nelly From:Jan M. Gronski <jmgronski@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 9:08 AM To:Council, City Subject:Keep university avenue closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you,     Jan M. Gronski  705 Newell Rd, Palo Alto, Ca 94303  53 Baumb, Nelly From:Phiroze Petigura <phiroze80@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 15, 2021 8:51 AM To:Cormack, Alison; Shikada, Ed; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Tanaka, Greg; Kou, Lydia; Burt, Patrick; DuBois, Tom; Council, City; Stone, Greer Subject:Please Keep University Ave closed to cars CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     As a resident of Palo Alto I urge you to keep University Avenue closed to cars and open only to pedestrian traffic.      Phiroze Petigura   Palo Alto, CA  54 Baumb, Nelly From:Jimison, Holly <h.jimison@northeastern.edu> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 10:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to keep University & California Aves closed to traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I strongly recommend that the City Council vote to keep University Ave and California Ave closed to traffic and open for  the large number of pedestrians that frequent the area when there is no traffic.  Restaurants are able to handle larger crowds.  People love sitting outdoors.  There is more foot traffic for other stores  than before.  Thanks for your consideration.  Holly Jimison   483 Addison Ave  Palo Alto  55 Baumb, Nelly From:Karen G <karen.gamow@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 6:33 PM To:Council, City Subject:Pedestrian University - please continue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear friends, Writing to say how much we have enjoyed the pedestrian University Avenue experience. It's been a joy to connect more meaningfully with people, to slow down, to breathe clean air. We hope you will continue this long into the future. There are very few places that are anything like what one experiences throughout Europe -- beautiful spaces for walking, shopping, and enjoying outdoor dining. We simply never came to University Avenue, though we've lived in the area for 25 years, until it was so walking-friendly. Thank you for your consideration. Warmly, Karen Gamow 56 Baumb, Nelly From:Anne Rerolle <anne@barronparkpreschool.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 6:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:Pedestrian streets must stay CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please keep California Avenue and downtown Palo Alto closed to traffic FOR EVER. It is better for customers, for  restaurants, for businesses, and for the planet. Thank you!    Sent from my iPhone  57 Baumb, Nelly From:Irene Au <irene.au@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 5:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please make parklets on University Ave and California Ave permanent CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     I writing to urge you to make the parklets on University Ave and California Ave permanent and close both streets off to  car traffic. I read with dismay that City Manager Ed Shikada recommended reopening these streets to cars in early July,  and hope that you will rule in favor of what 96‐97% of respondents to a recent survey prefer, which is to keep these  streets closed to car traffic.    If you visit either street on any night, even a Monday night as I did last week, you can see that the streets are lively and  bustling with people and music; the vibe is reminiscent of vibrant, European cities such as Barcelona and Copenhagen in  the summertime. There is a great sense of joy and unity as you see people milling about, socializing, serendipitously  running into friends, neighbors, and acquaintances and connecting with each other, people‐watching, enjoying dinner or  ice cream. With just a bit more imagination and will, the scene on these streets could provide a great opportunity for  bringing the arts to Palo Alto, in the form of live music and visual and performing arts in the streets. Loneliness is an  epidemic that is the root cause of depression and anxiety in many young people and adults; transforming these major  business thoroughfares into pedestrian malls could play a small role in ameliorating these great societal problems and  perhaps bring our community closer together.    There isn't a single resident in Palo Alto that I have spoken with that wants to see these streets reopened. People  celebrate the vibrancy of the streets and the beautiful spaces many restaurants have invested in to increase their  capacity for more people to enjoy. Suddenly these streets have become cool destinations within Palo Alto that brings  people out.    I understand the concerns about retail being impacted and wonder to what degree these businesses would have been  negatively impacted by Covid in spite of the street closures, not because of the street closures. The pandemic  accelerated the trajectories many industries and institutions were already on, from telemedicine to higher education.  Perhaps the pandemic played a greater role than street closures did in exacerbating existing struggles merchants  experienced before the pandemic. More cars driving down a street will not send more foot traffic to stores. Moreover,  the opening of Real Produce International Market on El Camino may have played more of a role in impacting Mollie  Stone's business than the closure of California Ave, since there is a significant difference in price between the stores for  produce, meat, dairy, and prepared foods. Whatever the case may be, there must be a way to adjust the program to  help struggling businesses without having to revert back to the sad way things were before.     Rather than stick to the status quo and be afraid of change, let's be bold and brave and make positive impactful  transformations in our community. Please vote for permanently closing University and California Ave to cars.    Sincerely,  Irene Au  Oxford Ave    58 Baumb, Nelly From:Rosita Newman <rosita@snewman.net> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 4:00 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Economic Recovery CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please keep University Avenue a Pedestrian Street; this will allow restaurants to recover from the losses brought on by  Covid. People feel safe having the choice to dine outdoors and so it brings more business to Downtown Palo Alto.     Thank you,    Rosita Newman  59 Baumb, Nelly From:Vicky Hung <vic.lightowler@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep university ave closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hu,    We would like to request for University Ave to remain closed to traffic. We will feel much safer to be able to dine out in  the open and al fresco dining is one of the best things that have come out of this.    Thank you for your consideration.    Sincerely    Vicky  60 Baumb, Nelly From:Martin A Fischer <fischer@stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:23 PM To:Council, City Subject:University Avenue reopening to traffic Attachments:University Avenue reopening to traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Martin A Fischer <fischer@stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:23 PM To:Council, City Subject:University Avenue reopening to traffic Dear Palo Alto City Council:    I urge you to NOT reopen University Avenue to traffic and to keep the pedestrian zones. I’m a resident of Menlo Park,  but since the traffic closure, my family has shifted close to 100% of our restaurant spending to University Avenue. We  will stop doing so if traffic is back.    Thank you for considering this request. Best,    Martin Fischer  376 Marmona Drive, Menlo Park  650‐387‐2573  61 Baumb, Nelly From:Dragos Maciuca <dmaciuca@hotmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:08 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Pedesrian Streets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please continue to maintain University Ave as a pedestrian street. It has been so nice to be able to walk in the  middle of University Ave and have all the outdoor space for the restaurants. Never mind that when University  Ave is open to traffic it barely flows anyway. Please learn something from Europe and don't go backwards.    Sincerely,  Dragos Maciuca  62 Baumb, Nelly From:Steve Furney-Howe <sfurneyhowe@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:03 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep University Ave. pedestrian CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I am writing to encourage You to keep University Avenue and California avenue closed to through vehicular traffic  permanently. Having outdoor seating for restaurants and Cafes and no through traffic creates more pedestrian traffic,  not less. The argument that little or no parking on those streets fishing bad for business on those streets is not strong.  Any given business on those streets only has 2‐3 spaces in front of a store. He odds of a patron to those stores being  able to park in front of any given store are quite low. Parking garages are available. Side street parking is available. As  more ride sharing and autonomous vehicles are used need for parking spaces should be less.please encourage cleaner  air, quieter and safer streets for pedestrian access to the downtown streets. More people enjoying the outdoors brings  more people outdoors!     Steve Furney‐Howe   Menlo Park, CA  Frequent walker from Menlo Oaks to DTPA  63 Baumb, Nelly From:Anshul Jain <anshuljain26@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:02 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Pedestrian streets: University Avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,    I recently read about the proposal to re‐open University Avenue starting July 3rd as California gets back to normal.    It's a cheering moment that we have come this far and have fought the pandemic so well that we are at the moment  opening the city and get back to the world we had before the pandemic. Opening the street is certainly one of those and  very much important for various reasons. Although, during this we have learnt about the benefits of keeping the streets  closed which gives us an opportunity to enjoy the beautiful weather and also an opportunity for small and medium  businesses to make up for the loss with extra seating capacity.    I completely understand various challenges in keeping the streets closed but if there is anything we can do that can help  us keep some of the benefits that we discovered during the pandemic, that would be great.     Sorry to bombard your Inbox and thanks for reading.    Best,   Anshul  64 Baumb, Nelly From:Lori Hobson <lorimhobson@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 2:56 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Keep University Ave Closed to Traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Bring people out and together safely. Keep the street close to cars. Closing the streets has been a very good thing for the community. People are safely seeing neighbors. There are more smiles. People isolated from each other do not seem to do so well. I love that most the folks out and about are from the immediate area. This is such a good thing for what seems like an awfully bickering community otherwise. Regards, Lori Hobson Employee at a Downtown Palo Alto business (not on University) Resident of Menlo Park 65 Baumb, Nelly From:Alexander Striffler-Hernandez <striffler@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 2:49 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Keep University closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please keep the on‐street dining options on University Avenue. We love the ambiance and ability to spend time at the  restaurants and with the local retail spots.     It encourages people to use bikes, walk or shared transportation. There is plenty of parking in the garages.     Thank you!    Alex Striffler  66 Baumb, Nelly From:Nancy Martin <nmartin67@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 2:48 PM To:Council, City Subject:Opening streets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please please don’t open the streets to traffic.  I love the downtown just as it is now    Nancy Martin  627 Forest Ave  Palo Alto 94301    Sent from my iPad    67 Baumb, Nelly From:James Stoyell <jamesstoyell@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 11:43 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep the pedestrian streets! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,     I have visited University Ave many times a week since the pandemic began ‐ sometimes on foot, sometimes on my bike,  and sometimes in my car. The pedestrian friendly streets are a big part of why I go there ‐ it feels so much safer and  more joyous to be surrounded by other happy people instead of constantly needing to watch my step around cars. I'm  much more able to stop by restaurants and stores, and spend much more time there than I used to. Please keep the  streets friendly and safe for pedestrians by keeping them closed off to cars!    Thank you,    James Stoyell  68 Baumb, Nelly From:Alison Guan <alisonguan@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 6:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: Keeping Cal Ave for pedestrians CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  correction: I meant to type 'street scene', not 'street scent'.     On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 6:26 PM Alison Guan <alisonguan@gmail.com> wrote:  Hi Palo Alto City Council,     I'm writing to add my voice as a citizen in favor of keeping Cal Ave closed to cars.    My family of four has lived in Palo Alto since 2008. Our two sons have attended Ohlone, Walter Hays, Greene, and are  now at Paly. We love many things about Palo Alto, but the ability to safely walk and bike is high among them.     We live near to Cal Ave, and feel so fortunate to be able to walk there to the restaurants. Having the street closed to  traffic has enhanced that experience so much. I was inspired to write this letter because we just spent a very pleasant  few hours with friends at The Counter, in their outdoor/street seating area. There was a musician performing nearby,  and it was a lively, relaxed and fun scene. As usual in Palo Alto, the weather was lovely. Even once Covid is behind us, I  don't see why as a community we wouldn't want this wonderful outdoor street scent to continue. Let's keep it  permanent!    I am dismayed that the street may be reopened to cars, and perplexed as to why that decision would be made. I've  heard that one of the main businesses lobbying for reopening to cars is Molly Stones. This seems to have little merit to  me ‐ their parking lot is still easily accessible. If they are experiencing a dip in sales, I would imagine the competition  from the excellent new market on El Camino called 'Real Produce' might be the reason.    I hope that the city council will consider the views of the residents of Palo Alto. Everyone I talk to feels the same as me,  that Cal Ave should stay closed to cars.    Thank you for your consideration.    Alison Guan  2260 South Court  Palo Alto    69 Baumb, Nelly From:Alison Guan <alisonguan@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 6:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keeping Cal Ave for pedestrians CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi Palo Alto City Council,     I'm writing to add my voice as a citizen in favor of keeping Cal Ave closed to cars.    My family of four has lived in Palo Alto since 2008. Our two sons have attended Ohlone, Walter Hays, Greene, and are  now at Paly. We love many things about Palo Alto, but the ability to safely walk and bike is high among them.     We live near to Cal Ave, and feel so fortunate to be able to walk there to the restaurants. Having the street closed to  traffic has enhanced that experience so much. I was inspired to write this letter because we just spent a very pleasant  few hours with friends at The Counter, in their outdoor/street seating area. There was a musician performing nearby,  and it was a lively, relaxed and fun scene. As usual in Palo Alto, the weather was lovely. Even once Covid is behind us, I  don't see why as a community we wouldn't want this wonderful outdoor street scent to continue. Let's keep it  permanent!    I am dismayed that the street may be reopened to cars, and perplexed as to why that decision would be made. I've  heard that one of the main businesses lobbying for reopening to cars is Molly Stones. This seems to have little merit to  me ‐ their parking lot is still easily accessible. If they are experiencing a dip in sales, I would imagine the competition  from the excellent new market on El Camino called 'Real Produce' might be the reason.    I hope that the city council will consider the views of the residents of Palo Alto. Everyone I talk to feels the same as me,  that Cal Ave should stay closed to cars.    Thank you for your consideration.    Alison Guan  2260 South Court  Palo Alto    70 Baumb, Nelly From:Ashish Gupta <ashishgupta@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 4:48 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep university Ave free of traffic. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  This is a request to keep California Ave and university ave free of cars. The ability to walk those streets is a lovely  experience.      Thanks    Ashish   701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 08/09/2021 Document dates: 06/16/2021 – 06/23/2021 Council Summer Break Set 11 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Michael Johnston <mljohnston@compass.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 8:21 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. I understand that retailers feel that the  lack of parking in front of their stores is the reason for decreased sales, but it is Amazon. People have no issue parking  hundreds of yards away from the entrance of a mall. The fact that the streets are closed makes for a much more  pleasant shopping experience.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Michael Johnston  Sent from my iPhone    MICHAEL JOHNSTON  Broker Associate  To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.  | Palo Alto  DRE 01131203  (650) 533‐5102      I have not verified any of the information contained in those documents that were prepared by others. Buyers need to  satisfy themselves as to issues discussed in these documents, disclosures and reports.  This email communication, its contents and attachments may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information  which is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s), and the information contained herein shall not be forwarded,  copied, printed, or otherwise used without the permission of the sender.  Additionally, unauthorized interception,  review, dissemination, downloading, or disclosure is strictly prohibited and may violate applicable law, including the  Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender by  reply email, delete the communication, and destroy all copies. I have not verified or investigated, nor will I verify or  investigate, information supplied by third parties.  I Fxl 2 Baumb, Nelly From:Robert Ragno <robertragno@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 8:20 AM To:Council, City Subject:In support of extending Uplift Local through the end of 2021 and investigate permanent conversion CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I'm writing to express my support to keep University Avenue open to pedestrians through the end of the summer and to  investigate a long term conversion into a walking mall. Having grown up in Palo Alto it's been exciting to see the energy  outside with the restaurants and outside seating. I spent a number of years in Boulder, Colorado and the outside walking  mall on Pearl St was one of the many positive features of the city. It could be a model for potential long term changes to  University Ave. It's so successful now that the mall itself is a draw for people, both local and out‐of‐towners, nearly every  day of the year. Placing the focus on outdoor spaces for pedestrians instead of focusing on vehicle accessibility (not to  say you can't accommodate handicap parking for those with disabilities) is the way forward. With our excellent weather  here year round a walking mall on University would be beneficial for the vast majority of businesses and more  importantly has vast support from the community at large. Don't let the outspoken complaints of a minority of  businesses stymie this incredible opportunity for trialing a re‐envisionment of our downtown space.    Sincerely,  Robert Ragno  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Jahnvi Sharma <jahnvi.sharma@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 10:32 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep streets blocked for dining! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hello Palo Alto city council,       I am a resident of Menlo Park. And I live really close to polo alto downtown. Pandemic has changed lifestyle of every  one. Since the restaurants opened up, I have been enjoying my meal with my family every time seating outdoor without  traffic passing by. Really hoping this will continue.  Thank you!    Sincerely    Jahnvi      Sent from my iPhone  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Conrad Wadowski <conrad.wadowski@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 1:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep University Closed! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi, we’re huge fans of the safe, walking environment on University.     This is a chance to create a real community here in Palo Alto, while driving more business to local businesses.     Please keep University closed!  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Tim Cawley <tim.cawley1@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:51 AM To:Council, City Subject:Keep downtown like it is CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  We enjoy it so much, it would be a shame to go back to the old way.    Tim Cawley  800 High St.  6 Baumb, Nelly From:Hannah Beryl <hannahlberyl@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep street dining open CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    To whom it may concern,    I am writing to kindly request you keep street dining open in downtown Palo Alto. While adults have had plenty of time  to be vaccinated and can safely return to indoor dining, children have not and dining outdoors is a lower risk activity for  our children. Beyond that, some people remain hesitant to return to indoor dining and that would hurt our small  business restaurants who have suffered so much this past year.    Please vote to extend keeping outdoor dining on the streets of Palo Alto available.    Thank you,  Hannah    Sent from my iPhone  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Meghan McKowen Rice <mmckowen79@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 3:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:Outdoor dining on Palo Alto closed streets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hello,    I am writing to show my strong support in keeping the streets closed (or partial closure) for outdoor dining in Palo Alto. I  haven’t dined often at our restaurants because of Covid precautions, however I have loved the feeling of our streets  when I walk down them, and I am excited to visit our restaurants now that it feels safer. I feel like it brings our  community together in a fun way. I think retail shops will also benefit from having more people out walking around the  area.    Thank you!  Meghan Rice  8 Baumb, Nelly From:Titi Liu <liutitimina@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 10:47 AM To:Council, City Subject:Keeping Downtown Streets going CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     As a Palo Alto resident (downtown North) I have heard from so many friends and neighbors about how much more we  are going to downtown to enjoy the restaurants, shops, salons etc because of the lack of cars. It creates a much lively yet  peaceful experience.     I hope Palo Alto will follow in the footsteps of many communities across the country that are keeping pedestrian friendly  streets and parklets in place even after the pandemic. It is one of the many ways pandemic life has shown us that  another way is possible.     Warmest regards,  Titi       9 Baumb, Nelly From:Zach Ephron <zachephron@hey.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 8:08 AM To:Council, City Subject:Opening University and California CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello City Council, I don't have much to say about this, but I like having the streets closed to cars. You have already surveyed people, and they like it too. You should survey businesses to hear what they want as well to take that into account. Another idea, ban tents and umbrellas at restaurants on those streets so retailers are visible. If people don't want to be exposed to the weather they can eat inside. 10 Baumb, Nelly From:Clare Whitecross Libraro <clarelibraro@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 9:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep the streets closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Thank you!    Clare Whitecross Libraro  650 823 9219  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Kelly Featherstone <kellymarie20@hotmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 9:29 PM To:Council, City Subject:Downtown Palo Alto - Please Vote to keep streets for pedestrians CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To whom it may concern:      I believe you are voting on June 22nd if you should open up car traffic.  I feel strongly that it should stay open.    I enjoy the beautiful downtown so much.  I have young kids and it feels so much safer not to have cars  everywhere and to be able to eat outside with them.    I live and work nearby and really find the outside dining such a wonderful option.    Thank you,    Kelly Featherstone  12 Baumb, Nelly From:Christina Rahima Ahmadzai <crahmadzai@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 8:18 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep Palo Alto downtown open to pedestrians CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please keep the Palo Alto downtown open to pedestrians! We love this outdoor scene. Am I able to vote online  somewhere?  Thank you !      Sent from my iPhone  13 Baumb, Nelly From:Irene <pak_ratz_blues@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 7:33 PM To:Council, City Subject:Open Streets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Open streets to auto traffic, business that are not on main streets are suffering.    Irene Lloyd  Resident  Sent from Mail for Windows 10    14 Baumb, Nelly From:Denise Foley <dfoley888@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 5:38 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Pedestrian Streets - keep them open to pedestrians and not to cars CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please keep pedestrian streets alive by keeping them closed to cars. I love having more space to eat outside. We should take advantage of the summer weather also. I also think people are more inclined to shop in the other stores if they can leisurely stroll down the street and not have to worry about cars. It makes us look like one of those beautiful towns in Europe that attracts so many tourists. 15 Baumb, Nelly From:christina stidham <christinastidham@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 5:24 PM To:Council, City; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; Kou, Lydia; Tanaka, Greg; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Shikada, Ed Subject:Vote NO on June 22th to keep University closed!! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello council members,   I own a home in Palo Alto and walk downtown every morning and evening to enjoy the pedestrian street. My husband  and I have enjoyed the community aspect of the parklets and reduced traffic on University and a few of the adjacent  streets. We dine regularly downtown and our friends from other cities have also driven to Palo Alto to join us.  The  restaurants have created wonderful seating for outdoor dining that would be eliminated without your help!  This  pandemic has created some terrible situations for people and some wonderful opportunities for our downtown region  to host people safely.  The parking is ample and should not be the reason to open up University.  I ask you to please vote  NO on June 22th to keep University closed.      Christina Stidham  16 Baumb, Nelly From:Jonathan Lewis <jonathan1300@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 12:06 AM To:Council, City Subject:Streets for everyone CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi, Jonathan, midtown PA resident here! As someone who has gone from being a college student to a young professional scraping by to married with a toddler but still renting because you won’t build more housing here, reopening commercial corridors such as University, California, and Ramona to vehicular traffic is anathema to any and all goals the city has claimed to care about when it comes to safety and climate. Streets where people feel safe and things are scaled and designed for people instead of vehicles is an attraction, not a detriment to local businesses. If city council was paying any attention to the response and results from these closures in major cities across the country it should be pretty plain to see, why does the innovative thinking have to be limited to the private sector? Every decision is going to make someone mad and I’m sure whoever it is that doesn’t like the closures is a real thorn in some of your sides right now, and I empathize, but you all need to accept the responsibility to make decisions on behalf of all your citizens, not just the landed gentry. The street “closures” are popular, good for business, good for your climate goals, good for safety, special events, and other activities that strengthen community and promote economic activity. It should be a slam dunk, do yourselves a favor, swallow a couple emails or angry calls and do what’s best for the community.    I ride my bike around town with my 18 month old daughter and having car-free spaces to go for lunch or errands is life changing for us. Please reconsider ending or limiting the slow streets program. Sincerely, Jonathan ‐‐   Jonathan  17 Baumb, Nelly From:William Reeves <williamjusticer@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 7:17 PM To:Council, City Subject:I'm Voting to keep Ramona St Closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Palo Alto City Council: I enjoy the safe outdoor experience created with the closure of Ramona St. Please count my vote  to  CLOSE Ramona St, through the summer.      Thank you    Will  18 Baumb, Nelly From:Noa Ben-Efraim <benoa@umich.edu> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 8:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:I'm Voting to keep Ramona St Closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Palo Alto City Council: I enjoy the safe outdoor experience created with the closure of Ramona St. Please count my vote  to CLOSE Ramona St, through the summer.    Thank you      Sent from my iPhone  19 Baumb, Nelly From:Kira Enriquez <kiraenriquez@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 8:54 PM To:Council, City Subject:I'm Voting to keep Ramona St Closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Palo Alto City Council: I enjoy the safe outdoor experience created with the closure of Ramona St. Please count my vote  to  CLOSE Ramona St, through the summer. <BR><BR>Thank you  20 Baumb, Nelly From:Jamie Cullen <jamiecullen7@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 9, 2021 8:55 PM To:Council, City Subject:I'm Voting to keep Ramona St Closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Palo Alto City Council: I enjoy the safe outdoor experience created with the closure of Ramona St. Please count my vote  to  CLOSE Ramona St, through the summer.    Thank you  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Elizabeth Fraze <bethfrz@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 8:32 PM To:Council, City Subject:Downtown CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please keep it closed, it make a wonderful destination for the whole family. Thank you Elizabeth (Crescent Park)  1 Baumb, Nelly From:lynda hastie <lyndahastie@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 9:54 AM To:Council, City CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our  Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!     Lynda and Trevor Hastie  1040   2 Baumb, Nelly From:Mark Silverman <markdsilverman@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:02 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please maintain pedestrian zones/street closures CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Members of the City Council,      I am a Palo Alto resident (1640 Amherst CT, 94304), and would like to express my strong support for maintaining the  current street closures on California and University Avenues.    I understand from news reporting and discussions with neighbors that there is a concern that the debate around street  closures is forcing the city to pick economic winners and losers. I hope the council would look at this from a broader  constituent point of view ‐ what makes the city more livable and enjoyable for the largest number of people?    Speaking personally, my family has greatly appreciated walking in the pedestrian zones, eating outside, and having a  sense of more community engagement that these street closures have enabled. Moreover, this has not come at the cost  of finding a place to park ‐ finding parking has been easy, and close by, to where we want to go.     More than 95 percent of respondents have indicated support for these continued pedestrian friendly spaces ‐ and this  coincides with research which indicates that such spaces are beneficial to the communal and economic life of cities. As  such, I hope you will decide to vote in favor of preserving these pedestrian friendly spaces ‐ not in favor of cars and in  picking different economic winners and losers.     Thank you for your time and attention. With best regards,   Mark Silverman   3 Baumb, Nelly From:Caroline Trippel <trippel@stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:04 AM To:Council, City Subject:Keep Cal Ave Pedestrian CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,  My name is Caroline Trippel, and I am a Palo Alto resident, living near California Avenue in College Terrace at 2500  Columbia Street, 94304. I would strongly like first few blocks of the California Avenue commercial district to remain as a  *car‐free pedestrian area*.     The benefits of the closure for residents' quality of life should weigh heavily in the Council's decision, along with the  effects on business. In fact, I would argue that the restaurants here receive more business as a result of the car‐free  nature of the area. For example, me, my family, my friends enjoy walking along the pedestrian zone and/or eating  outside at restaurants. The closure does not make it more difficult to reach businesses in the closed zone or outside it or  find parking, including (if you patronize them). I have no problem and find the business easier to access in fact. There  is plenty of parking in lots behind California Avenue on both sides and in the new city parking garage on the southeast  side. Molly Stones in particular is easy to reach from Cambridge Ave, contrary to the concerns of Mike Stone, the store's  owner, who has been a vocal opponent of the street closure for this reason.     96% of residents wanted to keep Cal Ave closed, according to a city poll conducted this spring. (See PA weekly story  linked above.) Arguably, this should end the discussion: when almost all citizens prefer a policy, their democratic  representatives need to carry out that wish. This argument would be weaker if opinion were less lopsided, but this kind  of result is nearly unheard of in public policy. While poll respondents self‐selected, presumably those who felt  strongly against were as likely to vote as those strongly for.   Nearly all Cal Ave business owners have expressed strong support for the closure. Mike Stone, of Molly Stone's, is one of  the only exceptions. City Manager Shikada's concern that some businesses benefit more than others from the closure is  misplaced (confused, badly reasoned...). (1) There seems to be no evidence that the closure has shifted business from  some businesses to others. (2) That not all businesses benefit exactly equally is not a reason to eliminate a program that  benefits some. (3) Increased customer traffic in any part of the Cal Ave commercial area is likely to have some  benefit for the rest of the area.     The Council can keep Cal Ave closed even if it opens University Avenue. University Avenue businesses appear somewhat  split on their street's closure, although 97% of residents like it.     Bottom line: Almost no decision the Council ever faces is easy, but this one is: essentially everyone wins  by maintaining the closure and there are no significant downsides or costs.           All the best, Caroline Trippel -- Caroline Trippel Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Stanford University 4 trippel@stanford.edu Pronouns: she/her     5 Baumb, Nelly From:Amir Safavi-Naeini <amir.safavi@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:15 AM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto resident in favor of keeping the pedestrian zone CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council     I am a resident of Palo Alto (2600 Columbia St, Apt 306, 94304) who has benefitted from the pedestrian zone. In fact, as  restrictions have eased, I find myself going to California Avenue and the businesses around there much more often than  I used to before the pandemic, and this is because of the great environment that has been created by the pedestrian  zone.    I walk and drive to this area often. Thanks to the new parking lot, it is extremely easy to find parking, even during peak  hours. My driving route is completely unaffected by the closure, driving up California was never pleasant before the  closure, and it was always easier to find parking on the side street. To go to Mollie Stone's, I would always drive up  Cambridge Avenue (and still do!) ‐‐ it has always been easier than driving up California Avenue.     We have a very special opportunity to make the center of California Avenue so much more pleasant, vibrant, and lively.  This will make our city's businesses more attractive, and our residents happier. It comes at no negative cost ‐‐ the  parking on Cal Ave is miniscule compared to public parkings on cambridge and the new lot, and the traffic always made  it nicer to drive up cambridge to access Mollie Stone's anyway.     Please feel free to contact me in case of questions,    Thank you  Amir Safavi‐Naeini  626‐379‐3702  6 Baumb, Nelly From:Devon Elizabeth Ryan <devonr@stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:38 AM To:Council, City Subject:Commenting in support of keeping the closure of California Avenue to vehicle traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council Members,    I am writing in support of keeping the California Avenue area from El Camino to Birch closed to cars. Unlike University  Avenue which I feel is a more complex issue for the city, California Avenue is not a major thoroughfare for vehicles  traveling from Palo Alto to the 101. Instead the street terminates into a CalTrain station which creates a major  pedestrian element to the space. It also has ample parking on the parallel and adjacent streets. My family and I (all Palo  Alto residents who live in University Terrace, just across from College Terrace along California Avenue,) have absolutely  loved frequenting restaurants and businesses on Cal Ave with the closure. The outdoor seating, ambiance, and European  style of the street is inviting and wonderful. We used to eat on Cal Ave probably once or twice a month and now it’s  three times a week given how lovely it is. Moreover, I have friends who come from Menlo Park and Mountain View on  CalTrain or by bike just to come to our restaurants and meet us on this lovely closed street. The farmer’s market on Cal  Ave closes the street to cars anyway every Sunday between 9 and 1. This seems like a simple extension of that and has  been really a joy to live near. I think this closure not only benefits the surrounding community but also helps local  businesses on Cal Ave which have become a real destination thanks to the street closure. I do not think the street  closures and openings need to be a one size fits all approach. I think California Avenue is really uniquely positioned to  benefit the community with the closure and almost no downsides so I hope the council will take that into consideration  and keep the vehicle closure and our lovely new street as is.    Thank you so much,    Devon Ryan  Palo Alto Resident  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Dan Congreve <congreve.dan@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:51 AM To:Council, City Subject:In Support of the Cal Ave pedestrian zone CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello!     My name is Dan Congreve and I'm a Palo Alto resident living off Cal Ave. I just wanted to briefly write in support of  maintaining the Cal Ave pedestrian zone. Since moving to Palo Alto, it has quickly become one of our favorite spots to  visit, and that is in large part due to the atmosphere and convenience of the pedestrian zone ‐ we definitely frequent the  area more because of it!     It would be quite sad to see it reduced to a standard street after all that, and we would likely spread out our patronage  to other locations more frequently, rather than take advantage of the convenience and enjoyment of walking up to Cal  Ave.     Thank you for your time, and please feel free to contact me with any questions.    Best,    Dan  8 Baumb, Nelly From:Alistair Boettiger <boettiger.alistair@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 12:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep Cal Ave Pedestrian zone CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     I am a Palo Alto Resident, living in College Terrace off of California Avenue.  I am writing as I urge you to keep Cal Ave as  a pedestrian zone.    The atmosphere of the pedestrian outdoor market area is much preferable. This section of Cal Ave. afforded very little  parking previously, and Cal. Ave. is well serviced already by variety of parking options on the immediately neighboring  streets, so little is gained by making this accessible to cars. The car free zone is also much safer for small children who  frequent the area with their families, as well as for bikes.  It also enhances the green image of our community.  Please keep the unique Pedestrian downtown area!    Best regards,  Alistar  ‐‐   Alistair Boettiger   alistairboettiger.info 9 Baumb, Nelly From:Andreas Breiter <andreas.f.breiter@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 12:34 PM To:Council, City Subject:Pedestrian zone on California Avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Members of the City Council,     I am reaching out before the upcoming city council meeting, as the topic of the California Avenue pedestrian zone is on  the agenda and it is very dear to me. Living on Columbia St. in Palo Alto, just off California Avenue, the pedestrian zone  has changed the life of my family. Before that, California Avenue was not really a nice destination to go for a walk to and  especially not a place to dine, as there were no real outside dining options. Now, with no cars present, it is a completely  different environment, transforming the street to one of the best locations in the area to visit with families. It is  particularly great for young children, who now regularly play on the street while their parents dine or shop.    I heard that there are discussions to open Cal Av for traffic again. I think this would hurt the street and community living  here. There was never a need to drive along Cal Av, as:  1) There is anyways not a lot of parking, so when I want to go to a store on Cal Av I take one of the two neighboring  streets to the parking lots which are behind the Cal Av shops  2) Cal Av does not actually go anywhere ‐ it is a more or less a dead end street (except for the shops which as said have  their parking behind them). Only exception would be the train station which can be easily reached via Cambridge Av  3) I heard arguments that Molly Stones can then not be reached as well ‐ I think that is not an argument, as Cal Av in  front of Molly Stones is not closed and as one of the parking lot entrances to Molly Stones is anyways on Cambridge Av  (+ the exit is to Cambridge Av)    Thus, I would like to propose to make the closure permanent and remodel Cal Av to a real outdoor dining and shopping  street. That would be a magnet for people from neighboring areas and a real benefit for the locals    Thank you,  Andreas Breiter  10 Baumb, Nelly From:Dawnae Dodds <dawnaemd@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 12:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Teresa Nicolson <tnicolso@stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 1:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep California Avenue as a pedestrian zone CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council Members,    I shop at Molly Stone’s all the time, and the closure of California Avenue has had zero impact on my choice of using that  store. It is just as convenient to drive down Cambridge Avenue. In fact there is much less foot traffic on Cambridge so it  is easier to use Cambridge to get to Molly Stone’s. In addition, most shoppers know about and use the parking  garages/lots off of Cambridge. Eliminating the few street parking spaces on California Ave cannot be having much of an  impact. Perhaps a sign directing traffic to Cambridge would help outsiders locate the parking for this area.    In addition, most people love the feel of the farmer’s market and having California Ave permanently closed down gives  this commercial area a nicer atmosphere and adds something unique to the neighborhood. As a result of the closure, I  do patronize the shops and restaurants more often during the week. The increase in patrons on the street, along with  the appeal of umbrellas, outdoor lights and container plants are having a positive impact on passersby. It looks like a  happening place and a popular destination from El Camino. If anything, adding more plants/trees in the midline area  would make this area even more attractive.    Sincerely,  Teresa Nicolson  Palo Alto resident      Teresa Nicolson, Ph.D. Professor 1265 Welch Road, BMI Building, Room 0456 Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, CA 94305 Tel. +1 (650) 725-3708 URL https://nicolsonlab.stanford.edu/   12 Baumb, Nelly From:Colleen Honigsberg <colleenh@law.stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 1:21 PM To:Council, City Subject:Cal Ave CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello, I live in College Terrace (94304), and I hope that you keep the first few blocks of Cal Ave as a pedestrian zone. I'm still not comfortable returning to an indoor restaurant with my children because they are too young to be vaccinated, so I love that we can eat outdoors on Cal Ave. Please keep this area closed to car traffic! If the changes are permanent, Cal Ave could build beautiful outdoor spaces. Thanks! Colleen   ‐‐   Colleen Honigsberg  Associate Professor of Law  Stanford Law School  650.736.8777   colleenh@law.stanford.edu  13 Baumb, Nelly From:Guilli Martin <guilli.martin@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 1:31 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street for pedestrians and bicyclists in our Downtown, so that  we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Guilli Martin    Sent from my iPhone  14 Baumb, Nelly From:Brusk Akcay <bruskakcay@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 1:32 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  15 Baumb, Nelly From:Ayse Linde <ayselinde@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 1:36 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  16 Baumb, Nelly From:Joakim Linde <joakim.linde@me.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 2:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    17 Baumb, Nelly From:Deborah Cohler <dacohler@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 2:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep Cal Ave open to pedestrians CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council ‐    I am a resident of Palo Alto (College Terrace, 94304).   I urge you to keep California Avenue open for pedestrians and closed to cars. The experiment in a car‐free retail and  dining corridor has been a huge success, as the overwhelming positive response on the May city poll indicates.     There is ample parking behind Cal Ave for deliveries and shoppers and diners to access. And the open boulevard creates  a warm community feeling, as well as a safer experience for Palo Alto residents and visitors of all ages. My family and  visiting friends love the new open street experience, and we have actually increased our shopping and eating along Cal  Ave and University Ave, as opposed to other places where sidewalks are more crowded both by the usual  pedestrian traffic and by pop up outdoor dining stations.     Thank you for your consideration,  Deborah Cohler  2600 Columbis Street, 94304    ‐‐   Deb Cohler (she/her/hers)  18 Baumb, Nelly From:Susan Solomon <srfsolomon@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 3:21 PM To:Council, City Subject:Hoping you keep the streets open for dining CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    As others must have said to you, outdoor dining in Palo Alto on the closed streets has been wonderful in so many ways.  We will certainly go out for dinner more often with the dining outdoors. While diners come to eat at restaurants, they  will certainly be passing the many shops and  often buying.  Parking is ample in lots and side streets.    Seems to me that it would be useful to have Hamilton and Lytton each one way with University closed.  When University  was open to traffic, it was frequently a bottleneck with traffic barely moving. Nothing will be lost and so much gained by  making the outdoor dining on closed streets permanent.    Thank you for your consideration,    Susan Solomon  Garland Drive  Palo Alto CA    Sent from my iPad  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Trevor John Hastie <hastie@stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:57 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Trevor Hastie  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trevor Hastie hastie@stanford.edu Professor, Department of Statistics and Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University Phone: (650) 725-2231 Fax: (650) 725-8977 URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~hastie address: room 104, Department of Statistics, Sequoia Hall 390 Serra Mall, Stanford University, CA 94305-4065 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- `    2 Baumb, Nelly From:Sabah Siddiqi <sabahakhtar@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:44 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Nalini Kartha <nalinikartha@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:44 AM To:Council, City Subject:California Avenue Pedestrian Zone CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello City Council,     My family and I reside in Palo Alto (94304, College Terrace neighborhood) and I am writing to ask that you please do  NOT eliminate the pedestrian zone on the first few blocks of California Avenue. We live walking distance from Cal Ave  and have really enjoyed visiting the restaurants and shops there in the last year ‐ we find that we have dined there way  more often than before the pedestrian zone was established as we really like the ambience now with the outdoor  seating. When we do drive there, we have not had any issues finding parking at 1 of the many lots on parallel streets. A  more immediate and short term concern is that our son is not vaccinated yet and we are not comfortable dining indoors  ‐ if the pedestrian zone were eliminated we would probably find other outdoor restaurants to dine at. In addition, we've  heard that 96% of residents who responded to a survey (myself included) wanted the pedestrian zone to continue on ‐  this and the fact that businesses on Cal Ave are (almost entirely?) benefiting from the foot traffic should be all that is  required to guide the decision IMO.    Thank you,  Nalini  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Larry Magid <larrymagid@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:41 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue, California Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in  our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Larry Magid  CEO ConnectSafely    Columnist Mercury News  Host of ConnectSafely Report for CBS News    Sent from phone, typos and all!        5 Baumb, Nelly From:Jane Willenbring <jane.willenbring@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:39 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep Cal Ave closed to cars CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,   I’m a resident of Palo Alto and the Cal Ave neighborhood (Bowdoin St) and I very much want to keep Cal Ave closed.  I  love going there and walking around with my family and do so every week.  It makes Palo Alto an even better place to  live than before.  I believe most residents and businesses want to keep it closed.  I’m not sure who the switch back is  being made for but drivers can drive and park in other places.  I’ll stop shopping there if it is opened up because I didn’t  shop there when it was open pre‐pandemic.     This is a really special opportunity to make Palo Alto more like a city of the future.  Now, we bend over backward for  cars, but we don’t have to do that.     Thanks for reading,   Jane          ===  Jane Willenbring  Palo Alto resident    6 Baumb, Nelly From:Ignacio de Mingo <idemingo@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:28 AM To:Council, City Cc:Sheil Tamboli Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local PERMANENTLY! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I live and vote in Palo Alto. I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment PERMANENTLY.  Many cities across the world are leading with walkable downtowns that have a relationship with health  benefits by providing an active lifestyle, decreasing pollution, and leading to efficiency in time and cost. A  walkable street ensures that people can safely cross from one store to the other and spend money at both.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Best,  Ignacio de Mingo  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Aaron Meier <arm99jam@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:18 AM To:Council, City Subject:We Support California Avenue Closure CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council,     As a Palo Alto resident living off California street in College Terrace I support the closure. We, as many of our neighbors,  enjoy walking through the pedestrian zone and really enjoy the outdoor dining that has resulted from the closure. It's  great to see people enjoying themselves, strolling along and dining with friends and family and enjoying life without all  that traffic and noise. I feel like I'm back in Europe while I'm dining!    We frequent Molly Stones and other businesses there and do not feel the closure impacts us in any way from accessing  these businesses. There is plenty of parking on either side of California Street.    Please keep the California Street closure in effect. Everyone I speak with wants to keep the pedestrian zone, including  many of the owners/managers of the businesses that we frequently dine with and shop with.    Thank you,    Aaron Meier  2500 Columbia Street  Palo Alto, CA 94304  8 Baumb, Nelly From:Alexandra Konings <agkonings@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 9:57 AM To:Council, City Subject:California Avenue closure CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,    I am a resident of College Terrace, and am writing to express my support for maintaining the closure of California  Avenue to vehicular traffic. My family and I love walking down Cal Ave without worrying about noise or safety from cars,  and have enjoyed eating outside many times during this pandemic. We enjoy the chance to eat outside and occasionally  listen to live performances organized by the restaurants. We find ourselves eating at Cal Avenue much more frequently  because of the closure than we used to when it was open to car traffic and would if it returned to being open to car  traffic ‐ including at restaurants nearby that are on nearby side streets but that we still love more because of our greater  affinity for the area (e.g. Cafe Pro Bono). Furthermore, while we usually walk to Cal Ave from our home, a recent ankle  injury has forced me to drive there recently. When doing so, I have never had an issue finding parking behind either side  of the street. While I know the council is concerned about parking, I have never had issues with this (and also didn't pre‐ pandemic those times I had to drive). The new garage on Sherman is great for increased parking capacity, and there  were always very few spaces along California Avenue itself anyway. Thus, I urge the council to please consider the  enormous benefits to quality of life that keeping Cal Ave closed provides (every time we visit we see people enjoying  walking down the middle of the street!) and keep it closed to traffic.     Best regards,  Alexandra Konings  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Emma Jacquemart-Simonen <emmajs1@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 9:25 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    I do not feel comfortable sitting inside yet and we should have the ability to sit outside.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  10 Baumb, Nelly From:Sara Fernandez-Lopez <sarafernandezlopez@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 9:18 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep University Avenue and California Street closed to automobiles CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hello,    I am originally from Spain.    I was delighted to see University Avenue and California Street closed to automobiles to accommodate more outside  dining during the pandemic. I never understood why there wasn’t more outdoor dining in California considering the mild  weather all year round. But at least, we got a taste of it. Isn’t it great? Isn’t it great to be able to be outside having a glass  of wine, or having a nice dinner, no cars on site, kids being able to get up and walk around without parents worrying that  either they are bothering other fellow diners (if inside) or being run over by a car?    I have seen it in the Spain. Businesses complaining when they close full town centers to traffic, because they think they  will lose people and then the opposite happens. People like places to leisurely walk, going inside stores just because  they see something in the window. That doesn’t happen if you are driving.    Please keep University Avenue and California Street closed to automobiles!!!    Sara Fernandez  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Julia Salzman <horence@stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 8:34 AM To:Council, City Subject:closure of Cal ave CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hello    I live near Cal Ave in Palo Alto.      Myself, my family, my friends enjoy walking along the pedestrian zone.  There are huge benefits of the closure for residents' quality of life which I think should weigh heavily in the Council's  decision. Buisnesses can adapt to this.    There is plenty of parking in lots behind California Avenue on both sides and in the new city parking garage on the  southeast side.    96% of residents wanted to keep Cal Ave closed, according to a city poll conducted this spring.    Sincerely,  Julia Salzman  12 Baumb, Nelly From:Sarah Glasser <sarahglasser1@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 8:31 AM To:Council, City Subject:Keep Downtown Open for Bicycles! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter! Best,  Sarah  13 Baumb, Nelly From:Fabio Casati <fabio.casati@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 7:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:make it the most beautiful downtown in California. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please Keep our downtown closed to traffic    I went through this process in Italy. At first some shops complain. Then they are happy.  A permanent closure also allows for a very different setup. It can become nicer and nicer as city and businesses make it  the most beautiful downtown in California.    Fabio Casati        Sent from my iPhone  14 Baumb, Nelly From:Justin Lan <j.dash.san@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 14, 2021 3:20 PM To:Council, City Subject:Downtown visitor CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Imagine heading out on your day off. Where would you go? Ideally someplace clean, easy to get to, without having to  struggle driving or walking.     I'm not a Palo Alto resident, and for years I resisted meeting friends in downtown Palo Alto ‐‐ even though some of my  favorite shops are there. Recently I went by, and what a change! With University closed to vehicle traffic, downtown is  fun and meant for humans. Please consider it keeping it that way, or I might end up going to other cities that have kept  their downtowns closed to vehicle traffic.    ~Justin  From: Chris Lemons <chris.lemons@stanford.edu> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 10:23 AM To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Subject: Support for Continued Closure of California Avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, I am a resident of Palo Alto (University Terrace off of California Avenue). I am writing to express my support for maintaining the closure of the California Avenue in the main commercial area (same place as Farmer's market). It has just been wonderful to have a space where people can walk, kids can bike, and people can mingle and eat outside without traffic. We frequent many of the businesses, including Molly Stone's, and I don't see any negative impact of the closure. If anything, I think the closure might be helpful-- we want to go to Cal Ave for dinner, coffee, etc. b/c of the pleasant atmosphere due to the closure-which often means we will then go into several of the businesses b/c they are close. I know many of our neighbors are also supportive of maintaining the pedestrian area. I appreciate your consideration. Chris ____ Christopher J. Lemons, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Special Education Stanford Graduate School of Education 485 Lasuen Mall | EDUC 319 | 650.725.2276 chris.lemons@stanford.edu https://profiles.stanford.edu/christopher-lemons Improving lives through learning 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Lutz Finger <lf@lutzfinger.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:14 AM To:Council, City Subject:A little bit of flaire CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,  I am in living in Mountain View, but I coming now roughly twice every week to Palo Alto, because sitting in University  Street is somewhat of a European Flaire that not many cities have around here.     I get it that other restaurants that i used to visit get now less traffic since I am here at University Street. But why would  anyone want to punish us the user who enjoy being here.     Thank you for your support  Cheers Lutz Finger  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Dawn Hale-Miller <dawnhm50@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 5:28 PM To:Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Kou, Lydia; Shikada, Ed; Kleinberg, Judy; Stone, Greer; Burt, Patrick; alison.cormacj@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (Internal); aidan.pasamonte@cityofpaloalto.org Cc:Drew Ferrando; Chris Miller Subject:City of Palo Alto Uplift Program CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  In Mayor DuBois, and honorable members of the Palo Alto City Council,    My family, for 4 generations, have been property owners on University Avenue well over 60 years. We are fortunate to  be a part of a wonderful community of residents, college students and professors, restauranteurs and  retailers.   However, in March 2019, the beginning of the Pandemic/Covid19 was upon us ‐ worldwide, which no one  thought would have the long term affects that it has demonstrated to us as of June 2021. As property owners, we  worked with our tenants by offering rent discounts and deferment for the past year. We were fortunate to have a strong  partnership with our tenants and we made it work by communicating and showing empathy and compassion.  We  followed the rules and guidelines provided on the city, county , state and country level – always hoping that it would get  better each month and that we would return to “normal’.  It was a hardship for tenants and their businesses and to a  certain extent it was stressful to us during a time that was already so unpredictable and really quite frightening with all  of the health and safety measures. However here we are and hopefully our communities are getting stronger by the day.  We were asked to send a letter by our tenants to show our support for the Uplift Program in downtown Palo Alto, which  we gladly accepted. Not only do we show total support, but we feel this is exactly what the City of Palo Alto needs to  build our community back up. At a time where the pandemic completely shook us to the core throughout the world with  social distancing, masks mandated lock downs, restaurants and retail closures, and no gatherings of 6 or more people,  we as a human race need to be social and interact with one another. By having University Avenue shut down and be  created into a promenade would be a wonderful thing. It would be a step towards creating that sense of community and  socializing. I have been to other parts of the US where I have seen this concept and it is so great to see that human  interaction. Let the City of Palo Alto be that city that demonstrates the awareness that we need to build partnerships  and friendships and the need for human contact and not be in a vehicle once again isolated from one another. We need  to be a part of the fabric of a community to thrive and not to continue to be separate and closed off from one another.     Please think about the importance of the Uplift Program for not only the business owners on University Avenue but for  the residents and college students that enjoy the sense of community, as well as how good it would be for the  environment to not have cars and traffics. People would be able to enjoy the charm that University Avenue has to  offer.   There would be an environment that would encourage people to reach out to one another and take the time to  re connect. We wouldn’t be jumping back into a life of the hustle and bustle but actually be grateful that our lives are  getting back to normal.     I thank you for the time that you have taken to read this email.     Be thankful and grateful.     Dawn Miller and Family       Sent from my iPhone  2 Baumb, Nelly From:HK SR <srandhk@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 4:51 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keeping California Avenue closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To whom this concerns,     I'm writing to add my strong support to keeping California Avenue closed to traffic near the restaurants. The road  closure has in no way reduced our access to the stores. We can easily access the Mollie Stones parking lot when  shopping at that store as well as the plentiful parking lots in the neighboring streets.   We enjoy outdoor street dining so much that we have greatly increased our patronage of the restaurants in Cal  Ave. Since we frequent the restaurants and cafes more, we also use the stores like Mollie Stones more often.     Thank you for your consideration,    Hemamala Karunadasa  Palo Alto resident  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Robert J. Nicolls <robertjnicolls@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 4:26 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Laura Nicolls <lauranicolls@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 4:26 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Eric Hahn <eric_hahn@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 4:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  6 Baumb, Nelly From:Sahil Rihan <sahil.rihan@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 6:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:Permanent conversion of University Avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council,    Kindly consider making the outdoor seating on University Avenue permanent so residents and families can take  advantage of the beautiful California weather to dine outdoors and walk in a safe and family friendly environment.    Thanks  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Monika Schleier-Smith <schleier@stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 7:33 PM To:Council, City Subject:California Avenue Pedestrian Zone CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto City Council,    I am writing to urge you to preserve the pedestrian zone on California Avenue.  As a resident of the College Terrace  neighborhood, I am a routine patron of restaurants and businesses on Cal Ave.  Observing and enjoying the increase in  vibrancy brought about by the pedestrian zone has been one of the silver linings of the pandemic.  While I particularly  enjoy visiting by bicycle or on foot, I have also found that it is easier than ever to park my car near Cal Ave, thanks to the  newly built garage.  In summary, closing these few blocks of Cal Ave to cars has been entirely a positive development.  I  count myself among the 96% of Palo Alto residents who entreat you not to eliminate the pedestrian zone.    Sincerely,  Monika Schleier‐Smith  8 Baumb, Nelly From:Kambiz Hooshmand <kambizhoo@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 8:01 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Alireza Dastgheib <dastgheib@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 8:26 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   10 Baumb, Nelly From:Johannes Klem <johannesk@google.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 9:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:Street closures CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  University Ave is so much better with limited traffic, and is wide enough to be designed into an amazing pedestrian only  experience. Just imagine the possibilities !     Please consider closing it for good.    Thank you,  Johannes Klem  449 Homer Ave,Palo Alto 94301  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Nancy Coupal <nancy@coupacafe.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:00 PM To:Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Kou, Lydia; Shikada, Ed; Stone, Greer; Burt, Patrick; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Aidan Pasamonte from Palo Alto City Councilmember Tanaka's Office; Tanaka, Greg Subject:Uplift Program and Street Closures CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois and Members of the City Council of Palo Alto,    Coupa Cafe has 2 locations in downtown Palo Alto, one on Ramona St. and the other on Lytton Ave. The Ramona St. location has been in business for 18 years, since 2003, and our Lytton Ave location since 2015. We have seen the ups and downs of the City for many years. With the devastation of the pandemic and the severe loss of sales compared with pre Covid numbers, -90% in April 2020, and -55% currently, the Uplift program helped Coupa Cafe stay in business and not have to close its doors permanently. Our Lytton location, on an open street, has suffered the greatest losses and would have closed were it not for the help of our landlord who has helped us prevail. The lack of train traffic and office worker population downtown has had a more severe impact on this location, even though it is located on an open street.    On May 20th, 2021, the business community received an email from Kara Apple about updates related to the Yellow Tier for State and County Covid guidelines . The information included the following statement:     Recommend University Avenue and Ramona Street reopen on Tuesday, July 6, 2021    We had previously been told by email from Kara on April 26th, that the street closures would continue through the summer and at least until October 31st, 2021. The vast majority of the local community surveyed by the City of Palo Alto voted to continue the street closures as well.    First, I would like to point out that I strongly urge the City Council to separate the half street closure of Ramona Street from University Ave. They are completely independent streets as is California Ave, which will have their street closure program extended until September 6th. I understand that this difference is because Cal Ave does not have a Parklet Program. Looking at this objectively, many restaurants on the half closure of Ramona St also do not have Parklets such as Osteria, Old Pro, Bistrot Maxime, Tea Time and Sweetgreens. The same goes for University Ave. Parklets are expensive and not everyone has the ability or means to invest in them. Furthermore, all of us who are on University and Ramona Streets have suffered millions of dollars of financial losses due to Covid, and having planned for the streets to remain closed through October, we have already invested substantial amounts of money, searched far and wide to rehire staff even at higher wages, and planned for a small partial recovery over the coming summer months. Ending the street closures prematurely on July 6 or even September 6th would make all these investments worthless and hiring back staff futile. The next 5 months with the street closures are critical for our economic survival and the reemployment of our hospitality staff, which between all the local restaurants is substantially higher than all non-restaurant retail establishments. To conclude that street closures are the reason for depressed non-restaurant retail sales is naive. There are a lot more factors involved and the lack of office worker presence and train traffic is definitely important in this analysis. No one drives through Stanford Shopping center to get to a retail shop; people park in lots and walk to where they want to go.    Now to see that the City Council is considering taking away the temporary closures by voting on June 22nd is devastating. The huge financial losses incurred over the last year will never be recovered, but the hope of a better summer with outdoor dining on the street and parklets was a glimmer of hope in the otherwise very dark 12 recent past. We have all operated during the past year to simply stay in business, but we depend on our City to help us recover and move forward with the still depressed business environment in Palo Alto. It is certain that restaurant business in the downtown area is not even near normal at this time in terms of revenue, and all of us need support to take advantage of the summer months with the improving weather and customers hoping to feel some sort of normality after a long period of forced hibernation. Restaurants are the center of cultural life and we need to do everything possible to keep them in business.    Without the street closures, it will not be possible to pursue the same level of economic recovery because workers are still not back at their offices downtown or elsewhere, Stanford will not initiate full campus classes before late September, and the numerous vacancies downtown make it a less desirable place to enjoy strolling or shopping. Restaurant presence on the street helps mitigate this issue. The half street closure of Ramona Street offers a unique environment with a harmonious and lively feeling that people thrive for. The possible use of the middle of University Ave for a bike lane would be a welcome change in a City where riding a bike can be a very dangerous idea because of car traffic. Summer is a time for music, for families and for fun, not just cars.    Although the CDC and the State hope to be able to move towards normal life, no one knows if a second wave of Covid restrictions may occur as they did in Europe, and as happened in Santa Clara County from December through February when Palo Alto reopened streets. This is not to mention the Covid variants which still remain a threat. A study recently released out of the University of California, San Francisco concluded that the UK variant was able to quickly dominate the country because it is better able to evade the body's initial immune response, allowing the virus to replicate in the body before the immune system mounts a robust defense. Currently, the Delta variant is occuring in southern California with numerous new cases reported. Lastly, if the City would do a survey before making a decision of what residents prefer (regarding street closures), I believe that most would say they still choose outdoor dining out of precaution because life cannot change with absolute confidence of non-infection from one day to the next.    There are many examples of other states and cities such as San Francisco or New York that are extending through October 31st, or making permanent the outdoor street dining etc (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/nyregion/nyc‐outdoor‐dining‐restaurants.html) where "The outdoor dining program has saved an estimated 90,000 restaurant jobs citywide, according to city officials." Polly Trottenberg, the city transportation commissioner, said the program “has developed into one of the few bright spots in the pandemic,” calling it “a creative new vision of public space.”    I strongly urge you to please consider each street on it's own in your decision process, and to honor what you have already promised: extend street closures respecting the original extension to October 31st, 2021. We all know that 2021 will just be the beginning of a path to partial recovery from the economic devastation of Covid-19. The financial livelihood of the downtown businesses involved is in your hands.     Thank you for your consideration,    Nancy Coupal  President, Coupa Cafe      13 Baumb, Nelly From:Curtis Layne <curtis.s.layne@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:21 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep California Ave closed to cars CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi,     Having California Ave closed to cars for the past year has been one of the few highlights from COVID. The communal  atmosphere, outdoor seating, and safe waking environment has been incredible and I would to see this become a  permanent fixture on the street.     There’s ample parking around and cities are meant to be for people, not cars. This is something you see a lot of in  Europe and it really creates a great community vibe and makes the city come alive.     I would be extremely disappointed if Cal Ave were to be reopened to cars this year, or at all for that matter. Please do  what’s best for our community.     Thanks,  Curtis    14 Baumb, Nelly From:Katie Miller <katieleahmiller@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep Cal Ave open for outdoor dining & pedestrians CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council,    I would really like you to keep Cal Ave permanently closed to cars and keep it open for pedestrian traffic and outdoor  dining. I think this would be a huge win for the community.    Closing Cal Ave and allowing for restaurants to extend their patios out onto the street has been so nice for the  community.  If anything it’s been one silver lining of Covid. Listening to live music, eating outdoors next to neighbors,  enjoying a leisurely stroll to all the shops.    I know that myself and many of my neighbors who live in College Terrace would love to see Cal Ave remain closed to car  traffic and keep the sense of community and festivities going. Many, if not all of the restaurants are benefiting greatly  and have been able to increase their capacity and employ more people. I believe there is ample parking on the side  streets and in the parking garages. Cal Ave is still very easy to navigate and access on foot and hasn’t deterred me from  shopping in the retail stores.    Please vote to keep it closed to car traffic. It’s been so nice and we would love to keep enjoying it as it is.    Thank you,  Katie Miller  College Terrace        Sent from my iPhone  15 Baumb, Nelly From:Valerie Sarma <vsarma@mac.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep Cal Ave open for outdoor dining and foot traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Palo Alto City Council,    A neighbor suggested that I write to express my deep concern about the closure of the extended outdoor dining and  foot traffic on Cal Ave. in September. My family has loved the safety this provided during the pandemic and while we  would love for it to continue permanently I think it is essential it continue until children under 12 are able to be  vaccinated.    Kindly,  Valerie Sarma    2125 Wellesley St.  Palo Alto, CA 94306  16 Baumb, Nelly From:Thomas F Icard III <thomas.icard@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:25 PM To:Council, City Subject:Expression of support to keep California Avenue closed to car traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Members of the Palo City Council,     I am writing in connection with the City Manager's proposal to return California Avenue to its pre‐pandemic status open  to automobile traffic. I would like to express my unwavering support to keep the street closed to car traffic, and to  remain a pedestrian and outdoor dining area.    As a resident of College Terrace, just across El Camino Real from the California Avenue business district, the  improvements I have seen in quality of life as a result of the pedestrian zone have been immeasurable. What was once a  place to visit only when necessary ‐‐ to pick up something quickly from a grocery or to get takeout from a restaurant ‐‐ is  now itself a destination. The area has become a center of community in a way that was previously only possible once a  week (during the Sunday morning farmers market). Whereas before my household would have done the majority of our  shopping and dining elsewhere, we now find ourselves always inclined to stay in the neighborhood. I sincerely hope that  the city is able to retain this wonderful arrangement going forward. In my estimation the long‐term benefits for our city  and for our community will be substantial.     With sincerest thanks,  Thomas Icard  2500 Columbia St, Unit 402  Palo Alto, CA  17 Baumb, Nelly From:Chris Tucher <ctucher@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:04 PM To:Council, City Subject:Request to speak at Tuesday special meeting CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To: City Council meeting planner, for 6/22 Special Meeting     May I please request permission to speak briefly at tomorrow (Tues) special meeting, to item #6 regarding street  closures and Cal Avenue.    Here’s my view, which i’ve shared with several council members … and I’ll summarize tomorrow within the limits of  allotted time.       I feel strongly that California Avenue presents us with a fabulous opportunity to upgrade the city street scene … if  we keep it a car‐free restaurant and pedestrian zone, permanently.    Cal Ave has never been more attractive than it is today: outdoor diners, people gathering and milling about, live  music in the evening. And the restaurants are doing this on shoestring budgets in the teeth of a pandemic  recession. Imagine how much better it’d be if they (and the city) could invest in the street scene knowing it’d be  permanent.    Why let Cal Ave return to its drab and nondescript pre‐pandemic past? Residents overwhelmingly do not want  that; 96% told the city’s survey Cal Ave should stay car‐free). We’re told that local businesses want to go back.  Which ones? Not the restaurants, who seem like the most vibrant businesses on Cal Ave. Mollie Stones and the  other retailers are easily accessible via side streets and rear parking (including that new 4‐story garage). Signage  on El Camino, like with Fry’s in yesteryear, might assuage them.     But regardless, this is too valuable an opportunity to let slip away over the short‐term worries of a few  commercial interests. Restaurants will thrive. Cal Ave will become a destination, and that will lead to more and  better retail. And most important, Cal Ave will become a vibrant gathering spot and hub of the community,  especially evenings.    I mean, Cal Ave is a dead end either way. It stops at the train tracks. Please resist the short‐sighted pressure of  commercial interests. They’ve been catered to for decades, and Cal Ave retail has only gone downhill — except  for the restaurants. Let them stay on the street!         Chris Tucher  4264 Manuela Way  Palo Alto  650‐799‐3224  ctucher@gmail.com  18 Baumb, Nelly From:Friederike Buelow <ikebuelow@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:38 AM To:Council, City Subject:Reopening of streets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi,    We are long‐time residents of Palo Alto and always wished there were more pedestrian zones and street cafes.  Now  that our wish has come true, albeit as a lucky by‐product of this otherwise horrible pandemic, we really don‘t want the  city to take it all away again Frequent fears of insufficient business for local stores are very likely unfounded.  Most cities  in Europe now have some kind of car‐free city/shopping center and merchants are doing just fine.  Most stores can be accessed for deliveries from a back alley.  Parking doesn‘t seem a problem at this time with new  parking garages  nearby.  We believe that stores will actually get more foot traffic, potential customers will spend more time looking at displays  and popping in spontaneously than if they’re rushing by in their cars. Restaurants, during the Pandemic, were able to  increase their seating quite a bit.  And lastly, the charm of an outside lunch, dinner, or happy hour, and the leisurely  atmosphere of strolling down a safe and decelerated street is for many customers a reason to come back.  We know that all of our friends and neighbors want to keep the main downtown areas pedestrian‐only, and the outdoor  restaurant spaces open for business.    Please make sure that University and  California Aves remain closed to cars!      Thank you!    Friederike Bülow  001‐650‐245‐5695    Sent from my iPhone  19 Baumb, Nelly From:Aaron Levie <aaron@box.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 1:06 AM To:Council, City Subject:University Ave restaurants CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear PA City Council—     I just wanted to send a note of support for keeping the outdoor dining on University Ave.  As a 15 year resident of Palo  Alto/Menlo Park, this is about the greatest community innovation I’ve ever seen here. The vibrancy of the city is  amazing, and for many people  I know, it has dramatically increased the rate of going out now downtown (even more than pre‐COVID). I would hate to  see this end!    Good luck on your decision.    Thanks,  ‐Aaron  20 Baumb, Nelly From:Seán Patrick Crotty <sean.patrick.crotty@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 3:27 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep Ramona closed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto City Council,    As a 30‐year resident of Palo Alto, the vibrant outdoor restaurant scene on Ramona Street in downtown has been a  wonderful addition to the life of the city.    I understand you must strike a balance in supporting all of the city’s businesses, so I would urge you to please consider  keeping half of Ramona Street closed —just as it is right now:  from Hamilton Avenue to just before the entrance to the  underground garage at 533 Ramona.    This would enable long‐standing favorite restaurants — starting with Osteria & going to Nola’s — to continue to provide  the delightful & thriving outdoor dining experience that is filled every evening with happy patrons.    Thank you for your consideration on this, and for your efforts in guiding our city.    ~ Seán    mobile:  (650) 799 ‐ 8829  sean.patrick.crotty@gmail.com  http://www.linkedin.com/in/seancrotty      21 Baumb, Nelly From:Nynke van den Berg <n.s.vandenberg@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 7:12 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please keep the streets closed for outdoor dining! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi city council  Please keep Cal Ave and University Ave closed to cars. The outdoor dining experience has been fantastic and it really has  changed life in the neighborhood! Not to forget about the European vibe it gives off reminding me of the terraces at  home!  Thanks, Nynke  22 Baumb, Nelly From:Pradeep Sindhu <pradeep.sindhu@icloud.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 7:37 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I would like to urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our  Downtown, so that we can enjoy a carefree and safe environment for the foreseeable future.    Quality of life matters. Please take a clue from European cities and eliminate cars from streets where people can sit and  enjoy themselves without suffocating from exhaust fumes.    Thank you!    ‐ Pradeep ‐    Sent from my iPhone  23 Baumb, Nelly From:Alex Newman <newman.alexjames@icloud.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 7:59 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  24 Baumb, Nelly From:Ayse Linde <aysefindikli@mac.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:09 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  25 Baumb, Nelly From:Anton <antonschneider90@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:40 AM To:Council, City Subject:Keeping pedestrian zone on California Avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Council members,    Please keep parts of California Avenue a pedestrian zone as it is today (all days of the week).    It creates a great outdoor space for eating, walking around, the occasional live band...  There is plenty of parking in the side streets, e.g. Cambridge Avenue.  I think it really adds to our neighborhood and the local businesses.    Thank you for your work and time.  Anton Schneider  2030 Williams Street      Sent from my iPhone  26 Baumb, Nelly From:Elise Mostello <emostello@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 9:25 AM To:Council, City Subject:Cal Ave Pedestrian Zone CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     Good morning!  I am a Palo Alto resident living on Columbia Ave, close to where the Cal Ave pedestrian zone is.  I am  emailing to advocate that this pedestrian zone be here to stay, even as restrictions are removed and we begin to enter  our "new normal" stage of COVID response.  As a mother of two small children I rely on this pedestrian area heavily,  which I will expand upon below.    My family and I relocated to Palo Alto in September from Cambridge, MA. We have two small children (ages 1 and 3)  and being able to walk or have our 3 year old bike in an area that is safe is important to us.  In Cambridge there were  many walking paths, nature reserves, and outdoor dining areas for us to explore (both before and during COVID, despite  weather). In moving to Palo Alto we were nervous that we would be forced to drive everywhere instead of walking, or  that if we walked it would be less safe because of the increased traffic that exists in the suburbs from everyone else  driving.  We were beyond excited when we saw the adjustment to Cal Ave.  We have walked/biked to Cal Ave at least 3  times a week since moving here to dine, explore, and let the kids roam in a large space without concern of cars or  overcrowding.  To hear that this may now be reversed is devastating to our family.  If the area went back to car traffic  and primarily indoor dining I can definitely say that we will not be using this as our dining outlet with such frequency.     In addition to being a great space for my children to roam and explore, it is also one of the few areas that has a plethora  of outdoor dining.  I know that for adults who can be vaccinated that moving to indoor dining is not a concern, but for  my children who are still too young to be vaccinated yet is a great concern for us to be indoor dining.  I have recently  been argued with, by fellow residents without children, that children don't get COVID and not to worry.  I hope that the  City Council understands that this argument is false.  Children can get COVID, it just doesn't hospitalize them at the rate  it does adults... yet.  Since we don't know the long term effects of this neurological disease and we don't know if a new  variant will affect children more, it is important for our family to remain safe with our dining activities.     I would like to add that I have also used this space by car when meeting my family after work or buying groceries  at Molly Stone's.  I have never found accessing it by car or finding parking a problem.  I'm actually quite surprised at how  much parking is available ‐ thank you for the lots and side street parking!    In the recent polls about this space it is overwhelmingly clear that the residents want this to remain a pedestrian  expanded space.  Please listen to the residents and keep Cal Ave partially closed to traffic, more open to pedestrians,  and available for us to enjoy more outdoor dining.    Thank you for your time and consideration of my opinions!    Sincerely,  Elise Mostello  27 Baumb, Nelly From:Camelia Simoiu <csimoiu@stanford.edu> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 9:49 AM To:Council, City Cc:Gordon Wetzstein Subject:Please keep California Ave as a pedestrian / outdoor dining area CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To whom it may concern: I am writing on behalf of my husband (CC'd) and myself to express our hope that the first few blocks of California Avenue be kept as a pedestrian and outdoor dining area. We are residents of Palo Alto, living in College Terrace near California Avenue (zip code 94304). My husband is a Professor at Stanford and I am a Data Scientist at Waymo. Since the closure, we have walked, dined, and shopped locally more often than before. For example, we've found it more convenient to pick up groceries at Molly Stones or Sun Life as part of our walks in the area, rather than purposefully drive elsewhere as we used to do. We've found that the no-car zone has created a fantastic space to meet friends and spend time with our toddler, as it is significantly safer for him without cars. As a result of spending more time on California Avenue, we have supported local business more so than ever before. The pedestrian zone was one of the few positive outcomes to come out of the pandemic, and we sincerely hope that it will be kept this way. best regards, Camelia and Gordon Wetzstein 28 Baumb, Nelly From:Emma Chant <emma.d.chant@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 9:53 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Members,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.  I have lived here for almost four years, and while the last year has been rough in a lot of ways, the last few months have  been the best time to walk around downtown Palo Alto. With open air dining the town seemed very cool!  Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  Best,  Emma Chant      Sent from my iPhone  29 Baumb, Nelly From:Bob Wenzlau <bob@wenzlau.net> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 9:55 AM To:Council, City Subject:June 22, 2021 - Item 7 - Support for Continuing Street Closures and Parklets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council Members,     I urge you to extend and develop a permanent strategy to maintain the street closures and parklets that allow the  presence of our cafes on our boulevards.      From an international perspective, and generally a perspective that embraces sustainability, the reclaiming of our streets by our cafes and businesses emulates our sister cities in Heidelberg, Albi, Linköping, Enschede and Oaxaca.  In these  cities the businesses are vital, and the community presence is strong.      I often view these decisions as tipping points.  Where will Council tip?  Will Council tip to lead us to the sustainable  future, or will Council maintain legacy positions. As we tip to the future we evolve, and find how our businesses would  be creative to attract merchants.  (We know that Stanford Shopping Center likely attracts high tax revenues, without  having cars driving through their walkways.)    Good luck in your leadership!    Bob            ‐‐     Bob Wenzlau  bob@wenzlau.net  650‐248‐4467  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Alison McNall <a_mcnall@icloud.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:24 AM To:Council, City Subject:Opening California Ave and University Avenue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    I would like to see these streets remain closed to traffic. People need to have pedestrian only areas to feel safe and  tranquil.  There are plenty of parking spots around so it isn’t necessary to open the streets up to traffic chaos.  Thank you  Alison McNall  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Verdere Philpot <verdere.philpot@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:32 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Regards,  Chris  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Gayle Laakmann McDowell <g@gayle.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:59 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I am a resident of Palo Alto, living a few blocks from University Ave. I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and  Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe  environment through the Summer 2021.     While I am vaccinated, my children are not — and indoor dining makes me very uncomfortable. Moreover, keeping  university Ave open for pedestrian fosters a wonderful community, which Palo Alto is desperately in need of.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Gayle McDowell   Palo Alto resident  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Carolina Abbassi <carolina.abbassi@mac.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:02 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Jamie O'Connell <jpdoconnell@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:17 PM To:Council, City Subject:Urging you to continue California Avenue pedestrian zone permanently/indefinitely CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Councilmembers:     Thank you for serving our community on the Council. I write to urge you to maintain the  California Avenue pedestrian zone permanently — or at least indefinitely — rather than  end  the program in September.     My family and I live on California Avenue, a few blocks from the commercial district. While we  frequently shopped and dined on California Avenue before the pandemic, the  increased availability of outdoor dining as a result of the creation of the pedestrian zone has  significantly increased the frequency of our visits to restaurants there. The pedestrian zone also  makes it more pleasant to stroll in the commercial district, which has increased our spontaneous  visits to stores there. While we are now vaccinated and comfortable eating indoors, we much  prefer eating outside, and our youngest child is not yet vaccinated and so we will not eat indoors  with him.     Our family is just one, of course, but your constituents have spoken clearly and overwhelmingly in  favor of maintaining the closure. When 96% of residents who respond to a city poll agree, it is  difficult to see how you could justify going against them, as democratic representatives. Of course  it is reasonable for you consider other factors — representative democracy is not direct  democracy. But when public opinion is so overwhelming, going against it can only be justified by  equally overwhelming arguments.     Happily for you and our community, though, this is an easy public policy call — unlikely nearly  every other choice you and other local government leaders face. There are no significant  downsides to maintaining the closure of the few blocks of California Avenue to vehicle traffic  indefinitely, or ideally permanently (a choice you do not need to make at this point):    Businesses in the California Avenue area benefit from increased patronage.    Access to businesses, traffic, and parking are just as easy with the closure as they would  be with Cal Ave open, thanks to the existence of easy‐to‐navigate parallel streets on both  sides of California Avenue and plentiful parking in lots and the new garages. (Those who  designed the closure — presumably city staff and merchants — deserve credit for placing  the end of the closure at Birch Street,  preserving very easy access to Molly Stone’s,  Caltrain, the courthouses and other things at the north end.) Mike Stone’s concern  6 about access to Mollie Stone’s grocery store is misplaced: I shop there and find it just as  easy to get in and out of the parking lot as it was without the closure.     Finally, I understand that some have expressed concern that the closure has different effects on  different businesses, benefitting some more than others. Some even suggest that the closure  involves the city “picking winners and losers.” This concern is entirely misplaced. First,  there seems to be no evidence that any business is significantly harmed by the closure, and many  benefit tremendously. Thus there is considerable benefit and almost no cost to the  closure. Second, all public policies have distributional effects, including those that represent  the status quo: whatever you do or do not do about the closure, or any other issue you face, some  people will benefit more, some may benefit less, and some (although few if any in this case) may  lose out. Governing involves choices among priorities, so the argument that a particular choice  involves “picking winners and losers” is meaningless. Indeed, the Cal Ave closure is an extremely  rare opportunity to benefit many people — including 96% of residents who felt strongly enough to  express their opinion, and the vast majority of Cal Ave business owners — at the expense  of essentially nobody.     To mix sports metaphors, keeping the pedestrian zone is a public policy slam dunk, while ending it  would be an own goal. I urge you to maintain one of the only positive things that the pandemic  has brought to Palo Alto, and to the daily life of my family and many other citizens and business  owners.     Sincerely,   Jamie O’Connell            ______________________________________________________________________________________________  Jamie O’Connell  Lecturer in Residence   Stanford Law School  559 Nathan Abbott Way  Stanford, CA 94305       Tel: +1 (650) 736-8771  Email: joconnell@law.stanford.edu  Website: https://law.stanford.edu/directory/jamie-oconnell/  ______________________________________________________________________________________________  8 Baumb, Nelly From:emmy mccormack <emmymac2002@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:32 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Susan Wong <susanswong925@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:46 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  10 Baumb, Nelly From:Elizabeth Young <eecyoung@outlook.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,  I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this  quality of life matter!    Elizabeth  PA resident      Sent from my iPhone  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Lerner, Ron <Ron_Lerner@intuit.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!     Sent from my mobile device.   +1‐646‐226‐1578  Ron_Lerner@Intuit.com     12 Baumb, Nelly From:Milton Goldman <milt_goldman@icloud.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 1:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Thanks    Milt Goldman  13 Baumb, Nelly From:Aishetu Dozie <aishetu@bossybeauty.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 1:35 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  14 Baumb, Nelly From:Ada <adriana_vascan@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 1:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Adriana Vascan  15 Baumb, Nelly From:John Dawson <dawsonjohnp@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 2:07 PM To:Council, City Cc:dawsonjohnp@gmail.com Subject:California Avenue and University Avenue street closures CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi council members,    Whether and when to re‐open these business districts to cars is a big decision for Palo Alto.  This is not something that  should be decided by staff, essentially it should be decided by the people who live here.    Not by staff and not by local businesses.  Of course their wishes, opinions, concerns, and well‐being should be taken into  account, but that is different than turning the decision over to them.    You have received overwhelming feedback from residents that we want the closures to continue.    Of course the details need to be managed by staff, and perhaps the best answer for California Avenue is different from  the best answer for University Avenue.    But listen to the people who elected you and to whom you are actually responsible, exercise your authority, and direct  staff accordingly.    A longtime Palo Alto resident,    John Dawson    16 Baumb, Nelly From:Nick Warner <nickwarner007@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 2:11 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      I am a downtown worker (business not disclosed) and we have been doing very well since last July when we re‐opened.  Customers seem to have NO problem with parking one block away to visit our retail store.   I implore the council to listen to what the people want! Not the handful of juggernaut landlords who want to keep their  rents as high as possible.   Without exception the ground floor businesses only have two or three parking spaces in front of them. Which means  that 99% of their customers have had to park a block or two away pre‐pandemic, anyway.   Landlord's buildings may or may not fill to capacity again, in their own time. Not because University Ave is wide open.     I could continue but I hope you have read this message.     Thank you.   1 Baumb, Nelly From:Eddie Reynolds <eddiereyn@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 2:44 PM To:Council, City Subject:Keep University Avenue Open!!! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Keep our Restaurants open and in the streets!  Please.  Eddie Reynolds and Hernan Correa  548 Everett Court  2 Baumb, Nelly From:Carlos Rivas <rivasvivas@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 2:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Street Closures CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Members of the City Council of Palo Alto,    My name is Carlos Rivas and I’m a resident of Palo Alto. My wife and I and our two kids live at 850 Guinda Street and  have lived at this address since 2010.    I am writing to express my strong support for the street closure program. The last year has been a difficult one for all of  us, but as the world begins to re‐open and we all get comfortable going out again, we have found the ability to walk to  downtown Palo Alto for a meal or for ice cream invigorating. The kids love riding their bikes or walking our dog and  feeling safe. The street closure has also brought life back to downtown Palo Alto, making it more enticing to go out, have  a meal outdoors and enjoy a nice long evening. It has almost made downtown Palo Alto feel like a small European town.    We have seen a significant number of vacancies over the years transforming what was once an incredibly attractive city  into a fairly sad one with more homeless and vacant store fronts. The street closure program has begun to reverse that  feeling and it would be a real shame to return to the way we were as we kick off the summer and good weather season.    I urge you to please keep the street closure program in place through the fall so that my family and I (and many others)  can continue to enjoy downtown Palo Alto and so that we keep the livelier spirit alive and make this an attractive  destination for others.    With warm regards,  Carlos Rivas  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Neeraj Gupta <neeraj@cervinventures.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 1:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,<BR><BR>I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for  pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the  Summer 2021.<BR><BR>Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  1 Baumb, Nelly From:anne <ahusty@hotmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 8:02 PM To:Council, City; Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; patburt11@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@CityofPaloAlto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; Greer Stone; greg@GregTanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Appeal Verizon cell tower application approval CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Representative of the People,  I am writing to ask that you over‐turn the  decision by Planning Director Jonathan Lait to approve Verizon's cell tower  application 20PLN‐0018.  It seems like once again it is disappointing to see the direction the city takes when important decisions are made, with  little to no regard for community interests. It is extremely concerning when the city prioritizes profit interests over  people’s well being.  My husband and I have seen this far too often during the 42 years that we have lived in Palo Alto, basically a pass is  given to big money at the expense of the community. I include the planning commission, city attorney and the city  council in a pattern of bias and undue generosity given towards the interests of money. This points directly at the  distrust many Palo Alto residents have of our local government,(also, government in general) that has been time and  time corrupted by moneyed interests.   Now is the right time to build a trust between citizens and their government, show some principal and do the right  thing, by overturning this poor decision.      Thank you,   Anne Husty                  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Margaret Heath <maggi650@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 8:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:Council meeting 6/22/21 Item 8 - Verizon Wireless At-places Memo CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      Dear Council Members,     I was dismayed to learn that the city management approved Verizon's wireless application. While balancing the quality  of life for residents and the interests of the telecommunications industry may be no easy task, the decision by Director  of Planning Jonathon Lait and City Manager Ed Shikada appears to be completely out of touch.    However, this may be the outcome of a pivotal meeting of the Planning and Transport Commission some years ago, and  I believe a direct line can be drawn between the outcome of that meeting and what you have before you today.  During  that meeting I watched a very newly appointed member of the Planning and Transportation Commissionadvocate  strenuously and successfully on behalf of telecommunications industry interests.  Although the commissioner  acknowledged that he had specialized knowledge in this area, there was no mention that his professional work might  involve representing clients in an industry that stood to gain financially in the outcome of the meeting. Indeed, his  expertise and advocacy undercut months of staff's hard work with both industry representatives and residents.  Ultimately resulting in an outcome that significantly weakened and in some cases completely disregarded staff's  proposed cell equipment design guidelines and placement codes.       I later came to understand that this commissioner's own law firm specializes in representing clients in the  telecommunications industry,  an industry that had a lot to gain if staff's report and recommendations to the  commission could be significantly undermined and weakened.  While city guidelines address personal financial gain  while a member of the council or any of Palo Alto's commissions and boards is serving, are there no guidelines regarding  a member's personal financial interest in representing the financial interests of an industry represented by their clients?  At a minimum, why was this close professional affiliation not disclosed to the public and fellow commissioners?     Sincerely,  Margaret Heath  2140 Cornell Street  Palo Alto  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Annette Fazzino <annette.fazzino@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 7:02 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tom DuBois; PatBurt11@gmail.com; alisonlcormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; Greer Stone; Greg Tanaka; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Please overturn Planning Director Lait's approval of Verizon's cell tower CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice‐Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka:    I understand that Planning Director Jonathan Lait approved Verizon's cell tower application 20PLN‐00118.     This makes me cranky. It seems as though Planning Director Lait did not take appropriate care on this one. The  equipment does NOT comply with the design standards that Palo Alto has established. Not only that, but everyone  within 600 feet of the proposed tower was required to have been notified and a meeting held for community discussion.  Those things didn't happen. It's a slippery slope when we allow something to pass through without following the rules.  Especially with the negative impact that we face when things pass without the Municipal Code being followed.    I've been involved with the many Palo Alto residents who want to be careful about how cell towers are situated in Palo  Alto. So many other Cities are working to get this technology right. Let's do the same. I know that I am far from alone in  having grave concerns about a noisy, ugly cell tower proposed at the end of my short driveway. This particular project is  not the one outside my son's window; however, we need to get ALL of these projects placed in the right areas in order  to maintain residential quality of life. So, let's go through all of the proper steps on this particular application, 20PLN‐ 00118.     Please overturn and deny the application and require that Verizon comply with our City's Municipal Code. Keep Palo Alto  beautiful and peaceful.     Thank you for your consideration.    Very truly yours,    Annette Evans Fazzino  650.799.7414  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Amrutha Kattamuri <vkattamuri@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:49 PM To:Council, City Cc:Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission; Jeanne Fleming Subject:Request to deny Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka, I am writing this email to request and urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118. First off, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so. I would therefore kindly request you to please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community. Thank you for your consideration. Yours truly, Amrutha Kattamuri 6 Baumb, Nelly From:Meredith Einaudi <mweinaudi@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:12 AM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; gre@gregtanaka.org; ARM@cityofpaloalto.org Subject:Overturn Decision to Approve Verizon's Cell Tower Application 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor Dubois,Vice Mayor Burt; and Council Members  Cormack,Filseth; Kou, Stone and Tanaka,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Jonathan Lait's decision to approve  Verizon's cell tower application 20PLN ‐00118.   Among many reasons to reject Verizon's application is that the Planning  Director has approved oversize equipment that fails to comply with the  design standards Palo Alto has established. In addition Our Municipal  Code requires that Verizon notify all residents and property owners  within 600 feet of the project and invite them to a community meeting in  which the proposed project can be discussed.Verizon did not do this,     Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with  the  city's Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to  protect the quality of life in our community.    Yours truly, Meredith Einaudi  7 Baumb, Nelly From:Annette Rahn <annetterahn@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 7:26 PM To:Council, City Cc:DuBois, Tom; Cormack, Alison; alisonLcormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); lydiakou@gmail.com; gstone@gmail.com; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission; patburt11@gmail.com Subject:Overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s Decision to Approve Verizon’s Cell Tower Application 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.        Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,      I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Annette Rahn        8 Baumb, Nelly From:kip <krhusty@hotmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 2:09 PM To:Council, City; Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; patburt11@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@CityofPaloAlto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; Greer Stone; greg@GregTanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Addendum to my previous email re: cell phone tower appeal CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,    I forgot to add one further statement to support my request that the CIty Council reject Director Lait's short‐ sighted and overly generous (we could say suspicious) approval of Verizon's incomplete and flawed  application, 20PLN‐008.  I apologize for taking up more of your time.    It has been my experience that the City Attorney, through many of it's changing faces, has looked for ways to  support the interest of profit over the interests of residents (sure, they may resort to the twisted argument  that the business interests are providing for the interests of residents, but in a case of safety and health, this is  a dangerous and anti‐democratic sophistry). I urge you to look at the legal requirements strictly (as City's  attorneys often do in arguing for the interests of Verizon and others) and apply the principles that you are  here to represent the interests of the residents and citizens of Palo Alto (the living, breathing persons, not the  perversion that grants corporations personhood ‐ the two are not the same in a real governance aspect).  It is  time for the living people to be given their full value and not short‐changed through legalistic servitude to  moneyed interests.  The cynicism directed toward government these days owes much to such transparent  maneuvering.  I know as dedicated representatives of the living people of Palo Alto, you want to build a trust  between citizens and their governments.    Thank you,    Kip Husty  9 Baumb, Nelly From:kip <krhusty@hotmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 12:12 PM To:Council, City; Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; patburt11@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@CityofPaloAlto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; Greer Stone; greg@GregTanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Appeal of Verizon cell tower application approval CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Representative of the People,    I am writing to ask that you over‐turn the deficient and disturbing decision by Planning Director Jonathan Lait's  to approve Verizon's cell tower application 20PLN‐0018.    The appeal filed by United Neighbors discusses the deficiencies of the application and Director Lait's failure to  uphold the legal requirements for any such application.  There is a great deal of talk these days about the  break‐down of the 'rule of law' and that should not be only directed against disgruntled citizens who break the  law, but should be first and foremost applied to the decisions by the State.  Further, the rule of law must be  there to protect the people first and foremost, without contortions to benefit the interests of profit making  under whatever tortured rationale.  It is disturbing that we have to appeal a decision by City officials and  agents that once again favors multi‐national corporations that are merely here for profit, not because it is  their community where they live their lives.      Director Lait has side‐stepped legal requirements for the interests of a corporation that hires lawyers and PR  reps to further their interests in profit.  This kind of leniency given to moneyed interests has a suspicious  appearance.  To strengthen the rule of law for the people it emanates from and for, and, additionally, to make  it clear that favoritism based upon profit interests will not be tolerated in a City that represents its people first  and foremost, this appeal should be granted.  Not only would it meet legal requirements, it would send a  message to the citizens of Palo Alto that their interests, as residents whose lives are directly affected by City  decisions,  are the primary concern of their government.  Otherwise, cynicism creeps in as it appears that  outside money takes precedence over locally lived interests.    For all the short‐comings of the applications and the approval, the application should be denied.  As a  statement re‐affirming the value of community and the people, it ought to be denied.    Thank you for your time,    Kip Husty  10 Baumb, Nelly From:Alex Ivashchenko <alex@ivashchenko.name> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 12:06 AM To:Council, City Cc:tomforcouncil@gmail.com; patburt11@gmail.com; alisonlcormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); lydiakou@gmail.com; gstone22@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board Subject:Please overturn Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,     I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     -- A.I. 11 Baumb, Nelly From:Art Liberman <art_liberman@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:59 PM To:Council, City Subject:Overturn Cell Tower administrative approval CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Planning Director Jonathan Lait erred when he approved Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN- 00118. Palo Alto codes require Verizon to notify residents within 600' of the project and hold a community meeting. Verizon failed to do so, yet Mr. Lait approved the project. Verizon proposes to use equipment that does not comply with Palo Alto's design standards, yet Mr, Lait approved the project. Please overturn Mr. Lait's approval of this project and reject Verizon's application. Also, provide clarifying guidance to Mr. Lait, so that in the future he is aware that he can only approve projects that, at a minimum, comply with Palo Alto's Municipal Code. Thank you, Arthur Liberman 751 Chimalus Drive Palo Alto 12 Baumb, Nelly From:Leonard Schwarz <lschwarz@right-thing.net> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 5:57 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); Kou, Lydia; 'Greg Tanaka'; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Verizon Cell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council Members,    I strongly urge you to overturn Planning Director Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower  application 20PLN‐00118 allowing cell towers at 850 Webster Street, 1221 Middlefield Road  and 853 Middlefield Road.    In filing their application, Verizon simply ignored the requirement in Palo Alto’s Municipal  Code that residents living within 600 feet of any proposed site are to be notified of a meeting  at which the applicant is to explain the project and answer residents’ questions.  One  example:  Channing House is within 600 feet of one of these sites, yet none of its residents  were notified.    Moreover, Planning Director Lait has approved a design that is disallowed by our City’s Code.    Please do not turn your back on the residents and allow a project to go forward that has been  and remains in violation of the Palo Alto’s Municipal Code.  Why our City’s Planning Director  has decided to ignore the Code is a question for another day.  But now is the moment for City  Council to insist that our Municipal Code is not to be so casually disregarded.     Thank you,    Leonard Schwarz  Webster St., Palo Alto        13 Baumb, Nelly From:Jeffrey S. Glenn <jsglenn@stanford.edu> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 4:49 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Appealing New Cell Towers CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Sincerely,  Jeffrey    Jeffrey S. Glenn, M.D., Ph.D.    Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology    Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology    Director, Center for Hepatitis and Liver Tissue Engineering    Stanford University School of Medicine    CCSR Building, Rm. 3115A    269 Campus Drive    Stanford, CA 94305‐5171    U.S.A.    email:jeffrey.glenn@stanford.edu    14 tel (office): (650)725‐3373    tel (lab):     (650)498‐7419    fax:            (650)723‐3032    pager:        (650)723‐8222; ID# 23080      15 Baumb, Nelly From:Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 4:00 PM To:Clerk, City Cc:chow_tina@yahoo.com; 'Jerry Fan'; annette.fazzino@gmail.com; jnimkar@gmail.com; Council, City Subject:FW: 6/22 appeal of Verizon cell tower approval CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Clerk, I fear that you may not have received the email below that I sent you earlier in the week. As it says, I would appreciate it if you would tell me what the format will be of the 6/22/21 appeal hearing before City Council. For example, how much time will be allotted to each party and in what order will the parties speak? I would also appreciate it if you would: 1) tell me to whom I should send exhibits for Tuesday’s hearing (i.e., so that they can be shown to Council and the public); and 2) send me a Zoom link to provide to residents who would like to attend the hearing. Again, thank you for your help. Since the hearing is only five days away, we are very much in need of this information. Sincerely, Jeanne Fleming   Jeanne Fleming, PhD JFleming@Metricus.net 650-325-5151     ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐  From: Jeanne Fleming <jjf@right‐thing.net>   Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 10:43 AM  To: city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org  Cc: chow_tina@yahoo.com; Jerry Fan <jerry.fan@gmail.com>; Annette Fazzino <annette.fazzino@gmail.com>; Jyo  Nimkar <jnimkar@gmail.com>  Subject: 6/22 appeal of Verizon cell tower approval    Dear City Clerk,    I would appreciate it if you would tell me what the format will be of the 6/22/21 appeal hearing before City Council.  For  example, how much time will be allotted to each party and in what order will the parties speak?  16   Thank you for your help.    Sincerely,    Jeanne Fleming     JFleming@Metricus.net  650‐325‐5151    Sent from my iPad  17 Baumb, Nelly From:James VanHorne <james_vanhorne@stanford.edu> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 3:55 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); Kou, Lydia; Greg Tanaka; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Verizon Cell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I have lived in Palo Alto for over 50 years, and have become increasingly concerned about the heavy cell tower  equipment to be installed on our telephone poles.  I have written to you about this concern in the past.       In that regard, I urge you to reject and overturn Jonathan Lait's decision to approve Verizon cell tower application  20PLN‐00118.  This strikes me as a reversal of some of previous words he has said about paying attention to the  opinions of citizens and to the ARB.  Rather autocratic it strikes me.      Lait has now approved oversize equipment that does not comply with design standards established by Palo  Alto.  Residents and property owners within 600 feet of the projects approved, three as I understand it, have not been  notified by Verizon.  You cannot expect Verizon to do anything other than pressure city officials to yield to their agenda ‐ ‐ that is what they have implied to their stockholders.    Please deny their application and insist they comply with Palo Alto's Municipal Code.  We as residents deserve  better.  Thank you for your consideration.    Sincerely,  James C. Van Horne, 2000 Webster St., Palo Alto, CA  94301.        18 Baumb, Nelly From:Francesca Kautz <dfkautz@pacbell.net> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 3:27 PM To:Council, City Cc:AlisonLCormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Architectural Review Board; Clerk, City; Filseth, Eric (external); greg@gregtanaka.org; GStone22@gmail.com; LydiaKou@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Planning Commission; tomforcouncil@gmail.com Subject:Please deny Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,     I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Francesca Kautz  19 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:49 PM To:Council, City Cc:AlisonLCormack@CityofPaloAlto.org Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Towers Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,   I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  20 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:31 PM To:Council, City Cc:Planning Commission Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Towers Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,   I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  21 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:26 PM To:Council, City Cc:Architectural Review Board Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Towers Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,   I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  22 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:16 PM To:Council, City Cc:AlisonLCormack@CityofPaloAlto.org Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  23 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:12 PM To:Council, City Cc:Council Member Tanaka Office Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,     I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  24 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:04 PM To:Council, City Cc:patburt11@gmail.com Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  25 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 1:58 PM To:Council, City Cc:gstone22@gmail.com Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  26 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 1:56 PM To:Council, City Cc:greg@gregtanaka.org Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,     I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  27 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 1:55 PM To:Council, City Cc:tomforcouncil@gmail.com Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois,     I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  28 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 1:55 PM To:Council, City Cc:Filseth, Eric (external) Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  29 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Kelly <bmkelly@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 1:55 PM To:Council, City Cc:lydiakou@gmail.com Subject:Jonathan Lait & Verizone Cell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Barbara Kelly, resident of Palo Alto  30 Baumb, Nelly From:Paul Machado <plmachado@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 12:01 PM To:Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Burt, Patrick; Tanaka, Greg; Kou, Lydia; Filseth, Eric (Internal); AlisonLCormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Stone, Greer Subject:Verizon app 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please deny this cell tower application as Verizon failed to comply with  design and notification requirements.  It is believed the applicant should  be required to satisfy all requirements in the application process.    Thank you    Paul Machado  31 Baumb, Nelly From:Alice Holmes <AHolmes@renault-handley.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 11:52 AM To:Council, City Cc:tomforcouncil@gmail.com; patburt11@gmail.com; alisonlcormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); lydiakou@gmail.com; gstone22@gmail.com; 'greg@gregtanaka.org'; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:New Cell Towers CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka, As a thirty five year resident of Palo Alto, I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118. Mr. Lait has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so. Why? I have written concerning this matter in the past. I am very concerned that our city employees uphold the design standards and the Municipal Code. Why are you allowing Mr. Lait to override these two very important areas? Why is the City Manager allowing his employees to go around the rules? I continue to express concern about the power and control of the City Manager, who is not elected, and the interaction with City Council members. Please hold the Planning Director and the City Manager accountable to follow the design standards and insist that the Municipal Code is followed. Please vote to deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. As a resident of Palo Alto, I am counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community. With appreciation for your service to our community, 32 Alice Holmes Resident of Palo Alto since 1986 33 Baumb, Nelly From:Nancy <ngkrop@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 11:07 AM To:Council, City Cc:PatBurt11@gmail.com; Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Overturn Approval of Verizon cell tower application 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto City Council members,     Please overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    First, due to Verizon’s failure to comply with our City’s Municipal Code, the application must be denied.    - The Planning Director approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with Palo Alto design standards;     - The Palo Alto Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. Verizon failed to do so.    Second - just a reminder - when considering ANY proposed cell tower, please comply with the PAUSD school board resolution recommending 1500 foot setbacks of cell towers from PAUSD schools. Several PAUSD PTAs also passed resolutions supporting these cell tower setbacks from our schools.    Thank you for making the time to read my email.    Nancy Krop  Barron Park resident   34 Baumb, Nelly From:Ann Protter <ann.protter@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 10:59 AM To:Council, City Cc:Clerk, City; tomforcouncil@gmail.com; patburt11@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (external); lydiakou@gmail.com; gstone22@gmail.com; Greg Tanaka; Architectural Review Board Subject:Verizon's Cell tower 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,     Please overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    I understand that neither the design or the application process met the Palo Alto design standards. The equipment is oversized and there should have been a community meeting with the affected neighbors.    What is the point of community involvement and design standards if Mr Lait just approves projects that he likes?    Please deny the Verizon application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code.     We residents count on you, our City Council, to protect us from Verizon and Mr Lait's impudent decisions.    Sincerely,  Ann Protter    35 Baumb, Nelly From:robell <robell999@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 10:43 AM To:burt@cityofpaloalto.org; DuBois, Tom; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Kou, Lydia; gstone22@gmail.com; Stone, Greer; Greg Tanaka; Tanaka, Greg; Council, City Cc:Jeanne Fleming Subject:Verizon's Proposed Installation CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear Palo Alto Council Members,      I write to you in support of the appeal issued by United Neighbors regarding Verizon's proposed installation of  a cellular node to be located at 850 Webster Street. This address is Channing House where I live together with  about 240 other senior residents.    Verizon did not notify us of this plan. We received a card on May 27, 2021 from City Hall informing us of this  proposal. We live under a macro cell tower that Hammett Engineering assures us is harmless. Not all who live  here are convinced that is the case as there are conflicting views among well‐respected scientists. There is also  an AT&T tower near our Health Center. However, adding this additional source of emissions is truly  worrisome.    I hope you will oppose this installation so close to so many seniors who live near these emissions 24/7. We  would desire the same setbacks as schools. Thank you for considering this matter.     Thank you,  Mary Robell  36 Baumb, Nelly From:Magic <magic@ecomagic.org> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 10:27 AM To:Council, City; Tom DuBois; PatBurt11@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); Lydia Kou; Greer Stone; Greg Tanaka; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Appeal of approval of Verizon cell tower application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Councilmembers,     Please overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s approval of Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118. Lait has allowed equipment that violates Palo Alto's design standards and has approved the application despite Verizon's failure to provide legally required notice to residents.    Please deny Verizon's application and warn them that you will continue to deny this and subsequent applications if they continue to violate the law.    Thank you for considering these views.     David Schrom  ************* Magic, 1979‐2021: forty‐two years of valuescience leadership **************    Magic demonstrates how people can address individual, social, and environmental  ills nearer their roots by applying science to discern value more accurately and realize   it more fully.     Enjoy the satisfaction of furthering Magic's work by making one‐time or recurring gifts.   Magic is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Contributions are tax‐deductible to the full extent   permitted by law.                                                                 THANK YOU!    www.ecomagic.org ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ (650) 323‐7333‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Magic, Box 15894, Stanford, CA 94309  ************************************************************************************************** **  37 Baumb, Nelly From:Ardan Michael Blum <ardan.michael.blum@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:50 AM To:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission; Council, City Subject:Got one of these towers to be set up (possibly) 600 feet from your house and you remain silent? No! I do not think so! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka, I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118. Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so. Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community. Thank you for your consideration. 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If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachment thereto.   /—/ /—/   39 Baumb, Nelly From:Jyotsna Nimkar <jnimkar@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 7:50 PM To:Council, City Cc:Clerk, City Subject:Verizon cell tower application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear city council,     I would like to appeal the Planning Director’s decision to approve Verizon’s application 20PLN‐00118 to install cell  towers at 1221 Middlefield Road (Node 061), 850 Webster Street (Node 204) and 853 Middlefield Road (Node 205).    I want to voice a strong protest against Verizon for not complying with basic protocol such as sending out notices to all residents within 600 feet, not filing required documents, and for going with a new design that the City Ordinance clearly doesn’t allow.   Appreciate your support in representing the residents of Palo Alto, especially those living in the neighborhoods of the proposed cell towers.    thanks  Jyo Nimkar  Palo Alto      1 Baumb, Nelly From:Hamilton Hitchings <hitchingsh@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:21 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please Deny Verizon's cell tower application 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council, I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118. The Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so. Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community. Given the noise and unknown health effects, I do not believe we should be permitting cell towers adjacent to residential properties and instead they should have a minimum set back (e.g. 100 feet). It should also be pointed out that telcos often put in equipment that exceeds their permitted strength and these cell towers can be in very close proximity to folks sleeping upstairs, which is not recommended. Thank you for your consideration. Hamilton Hitchings 2 Baumb, Nelly From:Rita Vrhel <ritavrhel@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:35 AM To:Council, City Subject:Requesting overturn approval of new cell towers CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council..please vote tomorrow to overturn Mr. Lait's approval of Verizon's application to install 3 new cell towers at 850 Webster, 1221 Middlefield Rd and 853 Middlefield Rd. Application # 20PLN-00118. No one person who is not elected or held accountable to city residents, should be given the power to make such an important decision. Mr. Lait has a history of not understanding issues with cell towers in residential areas or near schools. The points set forth by United Neighbors are valid. Please vote to overturn Mr. Lait's approval and demand that Verizon comply with the regulation existing in Palo Alto for cell towers. Thank you. Rita C. Vrhel Phone: 650-325-2298 3 Baumb, Nelly From:Samuel W Brain PhD <samb@stanford.edu> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:42 AM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@GregTanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board Subject:Overturn approval of Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka:     I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Samuel W. Brain, Ph.D.  ‐‐  Samuel W. Brain, Ph.D., 3737 La Donna Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306.  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Renu Virdi <rkvirdi@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 1:45 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Appeal to overturn approval on cell tower application 20PLN-00118. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone, and Tanaka, I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118. The Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with Palo Alto's design standards. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so. Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community. Thank you for your consideration. Yours truly, Renu Virdi 5 Baumb, Nelly From:Ashish Bhan <abhan111@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 2:16 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board Subject:Cell Phone Towers in Palo Alto CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,     I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Ashish Bhan      7 Baumb, Nelly From:Rebecca Sanders <rebsanders@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 2:24 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: Cell Towers for Discussion Tuesday, June 22 - Item #8 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois and Council Members: I thought we already established our standards for Cell Towers in Palo Alto. So why did our planning director approve these three new towers that don’t meet our standards? Once again if a vested interest is rebuffed by one pathway, they simply try for another opening in the castle, this time through our planning director. Even more time is wasted in reviewing the same material over and over again. The telecommunications industry is stamping their feet to get what they want, but what is that to us? Why do they get another chance to get what they want? Please reverse the planning director’s decision and let’s try to see if we can’t motivate city staff to follow the will of Council and to serve the residents, whose interests appear to be overlooked and discounted whenever they interfere with business and considerations of the private sector. People over there at United Neighbors and their friends have worked hard to educate council, residents and staff on how this topic affects residential quality of life, health and well-being. It’s not fair or right that with one signature, a city staff member can undo all the advocacy of both the council and residents. Thank you. Becky Sanders Ventura 8 Baumb, Nelly From:William Beck <drewbeck9@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 2:09 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; Greg Tanaka; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board Subject:Please Do Not Allow Verizon Cell Tower Application 20PLN-00118 To Proceed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,     I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    The street I live on has not been personally affected by the installation of cell towers but I still ask that you please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. Design standards and notification requirements are there for good reasons. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the processes that are in place and the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration,  William Beck  Resident, Palo Alto    9 Baumb, Nelly From:Anne Lum <annelum@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 2:34 PM To:Council, City Subject:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Alison.Cormack@CityofPaloAlto.org; EFilseth@gmail.com; LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@GregTanaka.org; City.Clerk@cityofpaloAlto.org; ARB@cityofpaloalto.org; Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,     I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Anne Lum  781 Barron, Homeowner and Resident  10 Baumb, Nelly From:Kang, Danielle Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:51 AM To:Council, City Subject:FW: Appeal of Verizon Permit Good morning City Council,    On behalf of Jeff Levinsky, I am forwarding the below email for your review.  Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to assist.    Thank you,  Dani          Danielle Kang  Administrative Associate III  Office of the City Clerk  250 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301  P: 650.329.2159 | E: Danielle.Kang@CityofPaloAlto.org      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Jeff Levinsky <jeff@levinsky.org>  Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 10:49 AM  Subject: Re: Appeal of Verizon Permit    Test  ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Levinsky To: City Council Cc: Kang, Danielle Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 10:48 AM Subject: Appeal of Verizon Permit   Dear City Councilmembers: I’d like to call your attention to the June 17 memo from Jonathan Lait regarding your upcoming appeal hearing on June 22 for the Verizon wireless project. On page two, the letter acknowledges the appellants are correct in their very first claim that Verizon failed to adequately notify nearby residents of a community meeting regarding their application. In staff’s own words, Verizon “failed to provide proper notice in accordance with the municipal code.” The letter then goes on to suggest that the Council could deny the appeal anyway on this point by ruling that the notice of the appeal hearing itself constitutes some kind of substitute. I urge you to not follow that recommendation. What is the point of your creating laws requiring applicants to notify the community if staff suggest you help applicants then ignore those laws? A key benefit of community meetings is to provide an opportunity for residents to learn at an early stage about a proposal and then work with others in the community to gather facts, submit questions, contact experts, engage with city officials as appropriate, and provide input c1rr OF PALO AL 0 11 at subsequent hearings and opportunities. To ignore all that process, as staff suggests to you as an option, defies the whole concept of public engagement and transparency. And it means the laws of the City of Palo Alto can just be ignored. Furthermore, Verizon has about 121 million customers in the United States and a market capitalization of about $231 billion. It’s hard to believe that they need your forbearance to meet a requirement to notify residents in a particular part of the city, given that commercial databases provide every mailing address at negligible cost and the technology to determine distances of one address to another is commonplace. Staff's letter to you never mentions how easy it would have been for Verizon to comply with the law. I recommend you uphold the appeal based on this aspect alone, have staff restart the public process our laws require, and remind city management that the public doesn’t pay them to find ways to avoid compliance with the laws. Thank you, Jeff Levinsky   12 Baumb, Nelly From:forest light <forest129@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:47 AM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board Subject:June 22 Special Meeting, Action item 8, 3 Wireless Communication Facilities- Verizon Cluster 4 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please OVERTURN Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established.   Our Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed.   But Verizon did not do so.    This comes no real surprise to our neighborhood where we have on past occasions we been forced to deal with various communications companies tiresome, arrogant, high-handed attitudes and unilateral projects.    Please deny Verizon's application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code and help us protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you,    Michael Maurier  Fairmede Ave  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Clerk, City Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 10:33 PM To:neva yarkin Cc:Council, City Subject:RE: from neva yarkin Hi Neva,      It is not under my authority or purview to overturn Director Lait’s decision.  It is however Council’s ability to do so.  I am  forwarding to them so they see your email.     Thanks and stay healthy.      BETH MINOR  City Clerk  (650)329‐2379 | Beth.Minor@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org                         From: neva yarkin <nevayarkin@gmail.com>   Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 9:24 PM  To: Clerk, City <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>  Subject: from neva yarkin    CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  June 21, 2021     Dear City Clerk,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    The Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    • . 2 Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Neva Yarkin  nevayarkin@gmail.com    3 Baumb, Nelly From:Rebecca Patton <rebeccap1234@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:40 AM To:Council, City Cc:greg@GregTanaka.org; Filseth, Eric (external); Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission; LydiaKou@gmail.com; tomforcouncil@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; PatBurt11@gmail.com Subject:Verizon's cell tower application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Council members Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka, I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118. I have learned that the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. Verizon neglected to do so. Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community. Thank you for your consideration. Yours truly, Rebecca Patton and Tom Goodrich Forest Ave 4 Baumb, Nelly From:Tina Chow <chow_tina@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:19 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (external); Lydia Kou; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; planning.commision@cityofpaloalto.org Subject:Please stand up for Palo Alto's wireless standards CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,    I am writing to ask you to carefully consider each of the arguments that will presented tonight in our appeal of the decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Each of the arguments separately represents a serious concern about the cell tower approval process in Palo Alto. Put together, the arguments provide a strong case for overturning the current approval decision. This situation also points to the need for Palo Alto to stand strong regarding local municipal control and to continue to speak up about legislation regarding local authority for cell tower decisions.    Palo Alto’s wireless ordinance requires resident participation in the decision process. In the Staff Report it says that "staff concurs with the appellant that the applicant failed to provide proper notice in accordance with the municipal code.” In addition, the multiple-shroud design Verizon will use for these cell towers doesn’t even conform with the approved designs in the objective wireless standards that Council approved in Dec. 2019.     We shouldn’t be letting Verizon cut corners here under any circumstances. City Staff should not be helping them out, for example, to make up for their failure to notify. And letting residents know of a decision after it’s been made, with no opportunity to attend a community meeting, and then expecting them to pay hefty fees to appeal the decision, is just not the way to do it.    Staff might argue that the final outcome won’t change - that Verizon would just resubmit an application for the same thing - but they would face a delay of several months and they would have to do it right, including resident input and complying with all of Palo Alto’s standards - learning the important lesson that they can’t just ignore the city’s ordinance or its residents.    If Council lets Verizon's sloppy application and this decision stand, it will be showing Verizon that Palo Alto is more lenient with big corporations who want to put up their profit-making and potentially hazardous equipment, than it is with residents who want to put up solar panels on their homes (see article from Palo Alto Online).     Please insist that Verizon comply with our city’s wireless ordinance, and then please act quickly to strengthen this ordinance further (as Council directed way back in April 2019).    Thank you,  Tina Chow  Barron Park, Palo Alto resident  Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Jerry Fan <jerry.fan@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 6:40 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; Greer Stone; Greg Tanaka; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Overturn Jonathan Lait's decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice‐Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower  application 20PLN‐00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards  Palo Alto has established.  Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property  owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be  discussed.  But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code.  The residents of Palo Alto  are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.     Thank you for your consideration.    Yours truly,     Jerry Fan  6 Baumb, Nelly From:Carol Brouillet <cbrouillet@igc.org> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 6:02 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@GregTanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Please Overturn Verizon's Sell Tower Application CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice‐Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait's decision to approve Verizon's cell tower  application 20PLN‐00118.    The Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has  established.  Not only that, our city's Municipal Code required Verizon to notify "all residents and property owners  within 600 feet of the project site" of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed.  But  Verizon simply failed to do so. Their disregard for basic law is a red flag.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City's Municipal Code.  The residents of Palo Alto  are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community. Innumerable scientists are also deeply concerned  about the health effects on humans and all life by radio frequency waves. Please read  https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/the‐appeal to see that this is a global issue and you are on the frontlines of protecting  citizens from an onslaught where we have very few tools to defend ourselves. We need your support and action.    Thank you for your consideration.    Carol Brouillet  4060 Verdosa Drive  Palo Alto        1 Baumb, Nelly From:slevy@ccsce.com Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:23 AM To:Steve Levy Subject:June Bay Area economic update CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/bay-area-job-watch-56/ The highlights are below. I wart to highlight a couple of points. First recent job gains have been steady but unspectacular. Even so, for 2021 the Bay Area and state have outpaced the nation in job growth. But we started from a much deeper hole. Second, the outlook going forward for 2021 is much brighter as reopenings are occurring and federal and state policies support our state and region. Third, even as the short term brightens, the region faces housing and other competitiveness challenges that will constrain long-term regional prosperity and our ability to address equity concerns The Recovery Strengthens June 21, 2021 The Bay Area posted modest job gains in March, April and May. The outlook for stronger near-term economic gains is positive though long-term challenges remain. The U.S. economic outlook has improved with positive implications for our region. The Bay Area success in battling the pandemic with declining case and hospitalization levels and high rates of vaccination has led to many reopenings with more to come that will be reflected in this and July jobs reports. The highlights: • The Bay Area added 89,500 jobs between January and May 2021 and the regional unemployment rate fell from 6.6% to 5.4%. Job gains were led by the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas and a rebound in the restaurant and tourist sectors. • The U.S, and Bay Area economic outlook has been upgraded by the $1.9 billion COVID relief package that has so far resulted in growth in retail sales and the ISM manufacturing and services indices. • Bay Area growth should accelerate now with more businesses reopening including some in-person capacity at sports and tourist venues. • The long-term Bay Area economic challenges remain with only slow progress on housing, transportation and economic competitiveness, challenges at the front of the Bay Area Council policy agenda. 2 Baumb, Nelly From:Jonathan Zdasiuk <jonathanzdasiuk@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 9:10 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  3 Baumb, Nelly From:Natalie Stucka <nstucka@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:26 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   4 Baumb, Nelly From:Eugenio Vidrio <eugeniovidrio@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!   Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android  5 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:01 PM To:Loran Harding; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; Leodies Buchanan; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; Chris Field; Cathy Lewis; Council, City; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; leager; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mark Standriff; Mayor; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; sanchezphilip21@gmail.com; lalws4 @gmail.com Subject:Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 7:15 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:28 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 2:30 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 2:24 AM  6 Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 12:40 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 12:24 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 10:24 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 5:00 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 4:53 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 4:20 PM  7 Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 3:21 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 3:18 AM  Subject: Dr. John Campbell UK Sun. June 20, 2021: Antivirals! Wouldn't need vaccines!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                        Tuesday, June 22, 2021                      To all‐                    Dr. John Campbell for June 20, 2021   "Money for Antivirals" is his topic:                      Money for antivirals ‐ YouTube             This is an important discussion. Highly recommended.                        "The US wants to re‐invigorate the therapeutics, antivirals business in the US", says the Biden Admin.  Dr.  Campbell:  Will they really look at potential antivirals and other therapeutics?   Profits are an issue here, surprisingly.                 Here is the news about which Dr. Campbell is talking:              The Biden administration investing $3.2 billion to find new antiviral drugs ‐ The Washington Post                  Dr. Campbell pretty much holds his fire here re Ivermectin. It has been shown to be an effective prophylactic to  PREVENT  PREVENT  infection with Covid and an effective TREATMENT in the early stages of the disease. He has had a  doctor in the US, in Indiana, I think, Dr. Pierre Kory, give a longish interview about his positive experience with it and a  woman in England, Dr. Tess Lawrey, who runs a consultancy and who also is a great believer. See the link below for the  interview he does with her.  When new cases started to decline in India recenty, Dr. Campbell said this cannot be due to  vaccination alone since it is going so slowiy among India's 1.3 billion people. It is known that Ivermectin is widely used in  India to prevent infection with covid. It is an anti‐parasitic and has also been used billions of times for that purpose. He  shows a new report by a very senior health official in the UK saying that Ivermectin is safe. The WHO says more data is  needed to determine if it is safe.                  LH‐  I was going to lay in here a video or two from doctors who say that Ivermectin can prevent Covid.  But if you  go to Youtube and enter "Ivermectin to prevent or treat Covid"  you will find at least 50 such videos, most of them  pro.  So, take your choice of vids.     8               NEVERTHELESS,  here is Dr. Campbell discussing meta‐analyses of Ivermectin trials with Dr. Tess Lawrey on April  7, 2021. Her team's meta‐analyses show that Ivermectin works, while the WHO, in a very flawed analysis, concludes that  it is not effective against Covid19: She concludes, after doing a meta‐analysis of many studies of Ivermectin to prevent  and treat Cocid, that it is effective. She shows a slap‐dash meta‐analysis done by the WHO that concludes, after looking  at fewer studies, that Ivermectin is not effective wrt Covid.                   In a meta‐analysis, they take the data reported in 40 or 50, e.g., TRIALS done around the world on a drug and  they analyze them. They rate each trial:  truly randomized, double‐blind, placebo controlled, etc.?  They throw out any  poorly conducted trials. Then they combine data from well conducted trials and arrive at a conclusion as to how good  the drug is at, say, preventing deaths from Covid. They apply statistical software there that is widely used for this. Dr.  Lawrey is a medical doctor.                   Ivermectin discussion with Dr Tess Lawrie ‐ YouTube                    Here is another interview he did with her, 7:04 long, explaining what her team does. Her company is "The  Evidence Based Consultancy". She is a "guideline methodologist". She helps expert panels make decisions.  Our doctors  do "evidence based practice". They don't just go by their gut.                      Evidence based practice, Dr Tess Lawrie ‐ YouTube                  I even found an interview Dr. Campbell conducted with Dr. Lawrie re her meta‐analyses of Ivermectin trials that  runs for over an hour. You can probably find it on YouTube. She has big‐gun experts on her team to do these meta‐ analyses. These Skype, or Zoom, or whatever, interviews are tedious enough to listen to for 10 minutes due to the lousy  audio. Over an hour is not pleasant. I listened to that one last night for 30 minutes. She took her results to the big‐ gun  regulators in the UK and sent them to her MP. Dr. Campbell should have her come to his site and do an interview there.  His audio is good.                                    Dr. Campbell says that we need and deserve a response from Anthony Fauci, et. al.,  on this issue.  "Common, Tony Fauci, either say Ivemectin is safe and effective at preventing Covid infection, or it is rubbish.  We have  miles of data to look at.  Instead, all we have had from him on this issue is silence".                Here is Dr. Campbelll on June 15, 2021 discussing 1) the Novavax vaccine‐  great promise there, and 2) Ivermectin:                       Vaccination and ivermectin ‐ YouTube                   These antiviruals, prophylactics to prevent and therapeutics to treat viral infections, would be a good way to  deal with the inevitable future pandemics, says Dr. Campbell:  He has said repeatedly that we got off easy this time with  Covid. We could get a virus that is 10X more infectious, like measles, and 50X deadlier, like Ebola.                  The British are building a vaccine super‐factory. We should see what they are building and build some ourselves.  Right when trillions are being discussed for infrastructure, would those not qualify as well as some new bridges  qualify?  They might be $100 million each to build, so dirt cheap, considering.            Dr. Campbell gets into the touchy subject of profits for Big Pharma.  If you give someone with Covid a therapeutic  drug that cures him with a pill a day for a week, he would then need no further drug treatment for Covid. No huge profit  in that. BUT if you can sell billions of doses of a vaccine, with booster shots as a follow up some time later, now we're  talking about real money. A Brit. like Dr. Campbell may be more cynical than Americans like me, but he thinks that the  profit potential of vaccines v. that of therapeutics may influence drug companies in their interactions with governments  and therefore the money that governments devote to one or the other approach to pandemics.     9               LH‐ Maybe the $3.2 billion that the Biden admin. is going to invest in looking for new antivirals will look carefully  early on at Ivermectin. That is what a lot of doctors and researchers are hoping for. But if it takes them five years to  study it, a lot of lives could me lost that Ivermectin could apparently save.                  L. William Harding              Fresno, Ca.                                      10 Baumb, Nelly From:Atif Khan <atif@deeda.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,      I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank you for your support in this  quality of life matter!    A      11 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 7:52 PM To:Allan Seid Subject:Fwd: Repeat of Dr. Seid's Talk on Anti-Asian Discrimination and Violence CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2021   Subject: Repeat of Dr. Seid's Talk on Anti‐Asian Discrimination and Violence  Dear Friends,    If your schedule permits, please consider joining us this Saturday, June 26th, at 10 am (Pacific) to hear an audio‐visual  repeat of Dr. Allan Seid's Zoom presentation entitled "Reflections on Anti‐Asian Discrimination and Violence:  1850s to  the Present."    Dr. Seid is a resident of Channing House and an activist, academic and retired psychiatrist.  His talk is co‐sponsored by  the Channing House Speakers' and Racial & Social Justice Committees.    Dr. Seid's recorded talk is offered in part because many people were unable to access the original Zoom session, due to a  limit of 100 participants.  So the meeting limit was raised; the talk was recorded; it will be replayed on Saturday at 10  am; and it will be followed with a Q & A with Dr. Seid "live," in person.    Here are the title, date, Zoom link, ID and Pass Code for Dr. Seid's repeat presentation:      REFLECTIONS on ANTI‐ASIAN DISCRIMINATION and VIOLENCE: 1850s TO THE  PRESENT  New Date: Saturday, June 26,  10:00 AM   Zoom ID: 872 0817 2815 Pass Code: 850    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87208172815?pwd=MUR1NnZ2czNGbVp6amlPOEZCV0do dz09    Please forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested in hearing the talk and participating in the live  Q&A afterward.  (Channing House's announcement flyer is reproduced below. )    We hope to see you there.    Thank You,    12 Allan Seid ‐ on behalf of the  Channing House Speakers and RSJ Committees    ‐‐‐‐‐‐      REPEAT OF DR. ALLAN SEID’S ZOOM PRESENTATION  ON   REFLECTIONS on ANTI‐ASIAN DISCRIMINATION and VIOLENCE: 1850s to the  PRESENT    Because our Zoom link could only accommodate 100 participants, many people were unable  to access Allan Seid’s talk. Fortunately, the talk was recorded and will be replayed with a  question‐and‐answer session followed with Allan “live and in person.”    REFLECTIONS on ANTI‐ASIAN DISCRIMINATION and VIOLENCE:   1850s TO THE PRESENT  New Date: Saturday, June 26,  10:00 AM  Zoom ID: 872 0817 2815 Pass Code: 850  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87208172815?pwd=MUR1NnZ2czNGbVp6amlPOEZCV0dodz09    To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Dr. Allan Seid  Among the many contributions to our community by Allan and Mary Seid, residents on Channing  House’s  7th Floor, is the founding in 1973 of the Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI).   This vital organization is even more pertinent today.    Co‐sponsored by the Channing House Speakers’ and Racial & Social Justice Committees          GI 13 Baumb, Nelly From:Katerina Chinnappan <katchinnapp@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 7:42 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!      Sent from my iPhone  14 Baumb, Nelly From:Deborah Goldeen <deborah.goldeen@sonic.net> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 6:23 PM To:Council, City Subject:Opening Streets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    1) Do University and Cal Ave have to considered together? Can decisions for each district be separate?    2) Rental electric scooters with baskets (Lime) would solve the shopping problem. It’s done so in San Diego.    3) I remember being five or six years old and looking at Univeristy Avenue and thinking “this is horrid.” For decades this  hideousness of downtown Palo Alto (University Ave.) has bugged the crap out of me. The conclusion I came to years ago  was the only way to save it was to close part of it to cars and make it green space/open eating seating.    Deborah Goldeen, 2130 Birch St., 94306, (650)321‐7375  15 Baumb, Nelly From:Deborah Goldeen <deborah.goldeen@sonic.net> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Jun 22 Meeting, Agenda Item #6 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Closing of Cal Ave to cars and making it open dining has literally been the BEST thing that has ever happened half a  century of living in Palo Alto.    Deb Goldeen, 2130 Birch St., 94306, (650)321‐7375  16 Baumb, Nelly From:Deborah Goldeen <deborah.goldeen@sonic.net> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:College Terrace Library CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    When my kids were young (age two to twelve), I used the College Terrace branch all the time. I rarely used the other  branches, even though the hours at CT have always been so limited. I live in Evergreen Park. I feel that branch has very  high community value. In fact,  the branch libraries are one of the important features in Palo Alto that make it a cut  above. Please reopen it soon.    Deb Goldeen, 2130 Birch St., 94306, (650)321‐7375    PS ‐ Council failed to put tax on realestate transactions. Should have happened decades ago. No sympathies with budget  problems.  17 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:16 PM To:Jeff Moore; Raj; Cindy Chavez; Joe Simitian; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; Greer Stone; Human Relations Commission; Planning Commission; chuck jagoda; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; rebecca@winwithrebecca.com; Council, City; city.council@menlopark.org; Tanaka, Greg Subject:Philly DA 8 part series review CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://amp.theguardian.com/tv‐and‐radio/2021/jun/22/philly‐da‐breaking‐the‐law‐review‐a‐deeply‐thrilling‐hopeful‐ show‐to‐devour      Sent from my iPhone  18 Baumb, Nelly From:Ashik Ardeshna <ashik@aol.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:10 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Thanks  Ashik  19 Baumb, Nelly From:James White <wlj@alumni.stanford.edu> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:06 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please do not open University Ave to cars. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please do not open University Ave to cars. My family visits University Ave almost every day and we spend too much  money there. Parking isn't a problem even on Friday evenings.    The city manager’s proposal states that for some retailers sales in Palo Alto have not rebounded. The proposal then  continues, "For example, b8ta noted that customer traffic is down   92% in Palo Alto from a comparable month pre‐Covid, while the rest of its retail stores are recovering 5‐10% on a  relative basis per week."     Using b8ta as an example here makes no sense:    1. The figures in the proposal are for traffic (visitors), not sales.  2. b8ta's CEO told TechCrunch in October 2020 that "on the shopping side, visitation is way down but sales have almost  come back to where they were pre‐pandemic."   3. b8ta's showrooms are indoor and hands‐on, which deters visitors during the pandemic.   4. b8ta has relatively short hours (11 am to 5 pm or 6pm). Much of their pre‐pandemic traffic may have been workers  who left downtown during the pandemic.  5. On a recent evening, I passed by b8ta during a June World Music Month free concert event (5‐7 pm). People were  walking past the dark, closed b8ta storefront while right next door people were dining outside at Crepevine. b8ta has  opportunities to get people in the door even with the street closed.  6. b8ta's storefront is not blocked by a parklet and so is clearly visible to pedestrians.  7. If b8ta were a shopper's primary destination, that shopper could be forgiven for thinking the store might be closed:      a. It's hard to find the store hours on b8ta's mobile website.      b. The link to b8ta's Palo Alto store from their Facebook page b8ta.com/locations/palo‐alto results in "page not  found".       c. The link to b8ta's Palo Alto store from Apple Maps results in "page not found".    Thanks,  James White  Palo Alto resident  20 Baumb, Nelly From:Giuseppe Carrubba <carrubba@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 4:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:outdoor dining CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear Council Members,     As stated in an earlier letter (see below) there are many reasons to allow outdoor dining to continue through  the Summer at the very least. Once again, the council has already voted and approved street closures  through Oct 31,2021. In addition, with all the news on the Delta variant and the uncertainty still ahead of us in  terms of community transition among the unvaccinated (which are all children in our community under 12  years of age). It still seems wise to keep outdoor dining spaces open as we navigate these next phases of a  global pandemic and reopening responsibly. Allow restaurants to recoup the investment in hiring more staff  and spending money on outdoor set ups, rather than closing and reopening again down the line. It is  promising to hear that votes on some type of permanent outdoor dining could be coming down the line, since  it is something the community is clearly enjoying.    I understand the retail argument, but I do believe that there may be a fallacy in it.      The idea that "correlation implies causation" is an example of a questionable-cause logical fallacy, in which two events occurring together are taken to have established a cause-and-effect relationship.    Covid, a worldwide pandemic that is still causing havoc, is the reason for the reduction in revenue suffered by our standard brick and mortar business. It has evolved much of the new world retail to an online model, and off of the streets. That is the cause of the slowdown. It's evident in the surplus in parking spaces available everyday, from 8am to 6pm. And it becomes evident again at night, when bars and restaurants are active, that the streets fill and parking gets hard to find. Restaurants bring people, specifically in the evening, in numbers that are not seen during the regular 'business day'     The shift to online work, and online shopping, was accelerated tenfold by the necessity that covid brought along with it. Lets not harm an already ill restaurant industry even further by misdiagnosing the ills of our city's brick and mortar businesses. Covid, is the reason ZOOM + DOORDASH + AMAZON + INSTACART and so many others in that service industry boomed. And it's the reason our retailers are hurting. That is the real cause/    Letter from May 28,2021    I am writing this letter in support of continuing the street closers in Palo Alto. The news that you are  considering a new end date to street closures in Palo Alto comes as disquieting news for all of us as restaurant  owners. We have invested much into this effort and have been able to employ many people that are a part of  this community. If you choose to close the Summer Streets Program (Uplift Program) early, you will be not  only putting many people out of work (again), but you will be taking away what is still deemed by  21 many experts as the safest dining option (outdoors) for our community.  Keeping our outdoor dining spaces  open or a bit longer is still the safest option for families with young children who are not eligible for  vaccinations yet and for those that are not yet vaccinated. Not everybody is completely okay with indoor  dining as of yet. Numbers in California are low (thankfully), but we are still in the middle of a global pandemic  and the Bay Area is an international hub of travel. This should cause pause as we think about the potential  variants that can still spread in our community and our responsibility to keep each other safe as we phase into  going back to "normal."  In addition to the safety issues, by closing our outdoor dining spaces, we will miss the  most important moment in this program. We are just beginning to recoup the benefits of the countless hours  of time and thousands of dollars spent by each respective businesses invested to recreate our operations  outdoors.     The survey to keep streets closed with 95% support speaks for itself.  The Palo Alto community, whom you  represent, wants and supports street closures to allow for real outdoor dining options that allows them to  safely enjoy a meal. Citizens and businesses, not just restaurants, have already spoken on this. Why are we  backpedaling? What happens if we have another surge in cases and a change in county health  ideology/capacity requirements? Do we then again set up outside? Again rehire? Again spend money to outfit  an outdoor dining room? According to Friday's New York Times, 600 Americans a day are still dying of Covid.  According to today's data, California is at a 49% vaccination rate, we are still 20% away from herd immunity as  a State. In addition, we as business owners cannot police who can dine indoors by proof of vaccination and put  customers and our food service workers at risk. We don't know for sure that we won't need outdoor dining  again in the future. Each time we pivot, it comes at a high cost and risks our ability to keep our doors open in  the long run. Restaurants are already in a very fragile ecosystem as it is and the closure of outdoor dining  spaces will put them at even greater risk of not surviving. Staying the course that has already been approved  and keeping the streets closed through at least the Fall if not Winter seems more than wise, it's fair to those  who have invested thousands, pivoted left right and in circles all year long. Let us stay the course, not just  because it's already been approved, but because it simply makes sense to the safety of our community.  We  are where we are with the success of low rates in our county, so why change what we are doing at the finish  line? It's working to keep our community safe, so why would we change that now? Keep the streets that are  closed, closed, at least until October, better year through the end of the year. We still aren't sure yet if  the  real fight against this virus and its variants is over and we don't yet know the longevity of the vaccine even in  fully vaccinated individuals. As we head into Fall and Winter, this is uncharted territory as to what spikes could  occur. If we need to recreate outdoor dining again we will need to spend money, find employees and again  wait to get approval from the city again. Consistency is the absolute key to everyones' success. So let's  continue to keep Palo Alto business and Palo alto residents in mind, and back a decision they've already made  and want.     The vibrancy of the street closures is sure to benefit all businesses in Palo Alto. Closing any outdoor dining will  just push consumers to other cities such as Menlo Park and San Carlos or Mountain View where they can  enjoy their choice of safe outdoor dining options. Why should Palo Alto open streets up, if other cities are not?    Many residents will be enjoying long‐awaited vacations this year and traffic will naturally slow due to fewer  people in Palo Alto this Summer. This should alleviate some of the concern over traffic flow. The largest tech  companies in Silicon Valley support working from home through the end of the year, Stanford University plans  to reopen in Fall but will still be supporting staff to work remotely too, so all of these decisions indicate traffic  will still be lower than pre‐covid times. We are in this together, so let's stay in this together as a community  and follow through on what has already been set forth by the community and by the City of Palo Alto for  creating the street closure program in the first place.    22 I know that this is a difficult decision.  I do not know what the correct decision is, I will look forward to any  direction you can provide.  Giuseppe Carrubba    direct 650.906.5265    come join me :‐)    www.LaForetRestaurant.com  www.SanBenitoHouse.com  www.GrandViewSanJose.com  www.OsteriaToscanaPaloAlto.com  www.PizzaPieHmb.com  www.CaffeRiace.com                               and the farm!                           www.GrandViewFarmsSJ.com      ******* This message may contain confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above  and may contain information that is legally privileged. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for  delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message  is strictly prohibited.  If you have received this message by mistake, please immediately notify us by replying to the  message and delete the original message immediately thereafter.  Thank you.******  23 Baumb, Nelly From:Nancy Coupal <nancy@coupacafe.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 4:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:news of interest CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://abc7news.com/san‐francisco‐business‐small‐businesses‐closed‐reopening‐ca‐stores/10794477/  24 Baumb, Nelly From:Reza Sheykhi <reza.sheykhi@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 4:45 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Member,    I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so  that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.    Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!    Reza  25 Baumb, Nelly From:Jennifer Schmidt <jenniferschmidt097@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 4:21 PM To:Council, City Cc:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission Subject:Overturn decision on Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,    I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    We must hold telecom companies accountable to meet the standards we thoughtfully established for our city.     Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,  Jennifer Schmidt  A concerned resident and parent of young children  26 Baumb, Nelly From:Walter Varda <rds.walter.varda@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 4:16 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please vote to extend the Uplift Local through the end of Summer 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member, I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and  bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021. Thank  you for your support in this quality of life matter!  27 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 1:21 PM To:Honky Subject:Inward Crackdown CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Sign the petition to demand your U.S. Senators support “The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act” (S. 1265). With the radical Biden regime turning the Deep State inward on everyone from Trump supporters to Libertarians and using their unholy alliance with Big Tech to spy on and harass innocent Americans, this bill is more important now than ever. They are pushing the fear and paranoia between innocent people so far that it would even make the German Stasi blush. President Biden is even using the old “See Something, Say Something” campaign for citizens to snitch on each other about their so-called “extremist views.” Please sign the petition at once to push back on this reckless attempt at division and even nationwide crackdowns on political opinions. To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In Please read Dr. Paul’s note below from Sunday that spells out just how dangerous this move by Biden is and what we can do about it. -John ________Forwarded Message________ To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the InCampaign Dear Frank, This is how major domestic crack downs, round ups, and even civil wars get started. The Biden administration, fresh off of months of embarrassing defeats to 28 their legislative agenda, is now completely turning inward on the American people to paint them as “enemies of the state.” Their version of an enemy is someone who has a political opinion that doesn’t line up with their corporate fascist narrative! Biden even had one of his mouthpieces come out publicly to ask American citizens to snitch on their neighbors for their “extremist views,” and use the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “See Something, Say Something” reporting procedure to do it. Biden is even setting up a federal “snitch line” so people can report their “radical” neighbors. “See Something, Say Something” was started as a way to alert DHS to foreign terrorists attempting to make violent attacks in our country, not to report dissenting opinions. Sadly -- as I’ve warned for years -- this is the natural progression of the Global War on Terror, and it was only a matter of time before a dangerously rogue administration started to target innocent Americans for their political stance. The Biden administration is starting to sound completely indistinguishable from their Soviet Russia counterparts . . . or the German Stasi! Biden has employed the National Security Council (NSC) wing of the White House to paint virtually anyone in this country as a potential “terrorist,” by lumping them in with what are seen as “fringe” groups. They single out people who fit any of the following categories: >>People who oppose corporate globalization; >>People who think our government is guilty of overreach; >>People in opposition to legislative, regulatory, or other actions taken by the government; >>People who are concerned about single-issue topics, such as the Second Amendment, high taxes, or the right to life. Former CIA Director John Brennan took it a step further and singled out libertarians as among the people the government should go after. What is their justification for any of this? 29 Frank, we never see the evidence or examples of why American citizens who have certain political opinions are dangerous. But reality doesn’t matter to the political class, as long as they can shamelessly promote fear, division, and distrust among Americans. I have no doubt that once an innocent person is snitched on for their “wrong think” on certain issues, they will then be spied on electronically and targeted for harassment. The Big Tech tyrants will do the dirty work, just like they’ve been doing for years! Thankfully, a bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate to break up the unconstitutional marriage between the Deep State and Big Tech. “The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act” (S. 1265) was recently introduced by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and my son Rand Paul (R-KY), and it should get support on both sides of the aisle. If this bill passes, any government agency would have to obtain a warrant before they could even attempt to purchase this kind of data. Sign the petition to demand your U.S. Senators support this bill. Then, please consider a generous donation to help Campaign for Liberty spread the word about this bill to restore the Fourth Amendment on many key fronts! Frank, this would mean agencies like the NSA, CIA, and FBI would actually have to present evidence before they could spy on you. It couldn’t just be the result of a See Something, Say Something snitch that the Biden administration is attempting to cajole. The bill contains badly-needed changes to how our data is obtained: >>> Ensures that intelligence agencies must get a court order before acquiring any American’s location data, web browsing records, and search history. >>> Stops law enforcement and intel agencies from procuring data if it was obtained via deception, hacking, or violations of a contract, privacy policy, or terms of service. >>> Extends existing privacy laws to infrastructure firms that 30 own data cables & cell towers. >>> Requires FISA Court review to obtain metadata information about international phone calls, text messages, and emails. This could not come at a better time as the Deep State and government authoritarians are attempting to further crack down and target innocent Americans on what we say and do online. And we’re even finding out the U.S. Post Office has been spying on Americans’ activity online! The USPS is over $160 billion in debt, yet they have the time and resources to spy on innocent Americans and their Internet habits?! They’re trying to turn us into a society where you can be targeted by domestic spies just for hurting the feelings of a major corporation online. The Biden administration, through the NSC, is adding criticism of corporate globalization to their list of wrong think offenses that your neighbors should snitch on you for, making this development even more alarming! I don’t know about you, but I think it’s time for the defenders of liberty to go on offense and compel our legislators in D.C. to support “The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act,” to push back on these snitches and surveillance bullies! Sign the petition to demand your U.S. Senators support this bill. Then consider a generous donation to help Campaign for Liberty spread the word about S. 1265 to restore the Fourth Amendment on many key fronts! The NSC’s report on the so-called threats to our national security has concluded they are mostly internal now and foreign actors aren’t the big threat anymore: “This is largely today an inside-out problem, not an outside-in problem,” the official said, though adding that there are adversaries “seeking to sow divisions in our society.” Certainly someone is trying to sow division in our society, but the source of it is the Biden administration and the NSC. They ought to hold up a mirror. The ultimate goal of those pushing for a crackdown on “domestic terrorism” 31 is to make people unwilling to even consider “radical” ideas — to make people so afraid of certain ideas that they refuse to even give those ideas a fair hearing. Progressives who are tempted to support what is being promoted as a crackdown on right-wing violence should consider the history of government harassment of progressive movements and leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. What do they think a future right-wing authoritarian would do if given power to go after “ideological extremists”? All Americans who cherish the Bill of Rights should come together to stop this latest crackdown on liberty. It’s time to push back on this attempt to push us to the brink of something much worse than we’ve seen, even in the last 18 months of divisive politics. Sign the petition now! For Liberty, To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Ron Paul, M.D. Chairman P.S. Liberty will ultimately prevail, but not without you and me facing some tough battles. Many eyes need to be opened, and Campaign for Liberty is keeping the brushfires of liberty burning. Let’s make 2021 a historic year. 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If you’d prefer to donate via PayPal, please click here. ________________________________________________ The mission of Campaign for Liberty is to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a constitutional foreign policy, by means of education, issue advocacy, and grassroots mobilization.   Because of Campaign For Liberty's tax-exempt status under IRC Sec. 501(C)(4) and its state and federal legislative activities, contributions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions (IRC § 170) or as business deductions (IRC § 162(e)(1)). www.CampaignForLiberty.org    This message was intended for honkystar@yahoo.com You were added to the system August 9, 2012 [More information]. 33 Baumb, Nelly From:Lauren Angelo <lauren.angelo@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 1:18 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: Junior Museum & Zoo Admission Fee CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members,     The Friends of the JMZ sincerely thank you for adopting the Finance Committee's recommendation and lowering the  ticket price to $10.  We sent the email below to our mailing list this afternoon, and we look forward to partnering with  the City and the community in the years to come.    Lauren Angelo  President of the Friends of the JMZ    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo <info@friendsjmz.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 12:50 PM  Subject: Junior Museum & Zoo Admission Fee  To: <lauren.angelo@gmail.com>    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In        To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.              To our Friends community, We are pleased to share that last night the Palo Alto City Council adopted the Finance Committee’s recommendation and lowered the JMZ admission fee from $18 to $10. Over the past year, the Friends have worked tirelessly to ensure that the JMZ reopens with a ticket price that makes the JMZ as affordable and accessible as possible. Thank you to all of you that attended and spoke at Finance Committee and City Council Meetings, wrote City Council Members, and spread the word on social media in support of our efforts. Your voice made a difference! Although the $10 admission fee is what comparable children’s museums and zoos in the area charge, we know the jump from “free to fee” may be disappointing for many Palo Alto residents. The Friends remain committed as 34 ever to expanding access to science education in our community. For more than 20 years, the Friends have funded a program in which JMZ educators provide the same science lessons taught in Palo Alto schools to children in East Palo Alto and other underserved communities. As we look to the future, it is our goal to make the JMZ, and the richer experience the new museum and zoo will provide, as open and inclusive to all as possible. We are busy planning for the October reopening and are eager to introduce the reimagined Junior Museum & Zoo to the community. We know this will be an incredible destination for young children and their families to engage in hands- on play and early-science education, and to interact with new and beloved animals in the zoo. Thank you again for your support. We cannot wait to welcome you to the new JMZ soon. 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Try email marketing for free today!       35 Baumb, Nelly From:Kevin Ma <kevinma.sd@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:54 AM To:Council, City Subject:Eviction Moratorium w/ County Update CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,    From today's Board of Supervisors meeting, they will only be extending the eviction moratorium for unincorporated  areas. However, their County Counsel did mention that City Attorneys throughout the county were notified about this  last week, as well as the Supervisors directing the County Counsel to be available for all cities for assistance in creating  local eviction moratoriums.    While it does seem that the state will be extending theirs, we should enact a backstop in case any legal cracks occur, as  seen previously during the AB 1482 urgency ordinances back in 2019. I also ask that the city devote some resources to  spread awareness of the rent relief system; the city of Mountain View has been conducting virtual and in‐person  sessions.    Sincerely,  Kevin Ma  36 Baumb, Nelly From:mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 10:43 AM To:Council, City; Bill Johnson; Gennady Sheyner Cc:Tom DuBois (tom.dubois@gmail.com); Alison Cormack; Holman, Karen (external); Greg Schmid (external); Rebecca Eisenberg; James Aram; Greer Stone; Raven Malone; Drekmeier, Peter; Summa, Doria; David Moss; Steven D. Lee; Harry Price; LaDoris Cordell; Becky Sanders; Jocelyn Dong; nia taylor; Lisa Waltuch; Reckdahl, Keith; Regina Wallace-Jones; Bruce Reyes-Chow Subject:tax tesla (more) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Screen Shot 2021-06-22 at 10.39.09 AM.png     To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In Screen Shot 2021-06-22 at 10.39.09 AM.png Shared with Dropbox   Think of how many hours of library service we could restore if we had a payroll tax on the billions and trillions of dollars of corporations that are headquartered or have offices here like Tesla, Hippo, VMWare, Amazon, formerly Facebook, formerly Google. Let's end the tax holiday and subsidy of the ultra-rich. And leave the mom-and-pops alone. Tax the top. Mark Weiss in Palo Alto cc: Palo Alto Weekly, which censors my views, automatically, with their fascist algorithm.   37 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 7:31 PM To:DuBois, Tom Subject:What about not funding 5 additional police ….use the million plus towards fire station 5….or toward a crisis intervention team..much needed in our police department CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    >  > Why are we funding 5 additional police officers with so many other priorities? What about a crisis intervention team  rather then 5 more sworn officers?  Hire A former victim of police violence as a community liaison between police and  community. Other options that should be discussed by council and the community before filling 5 police slots cut during  the Covid crisis????? Thanks, aram  >  > Sent from my iPhone  38 Baumb, Nelly From:Ardan Michael Blum <ardan.michael.blum@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 7:18 PM To:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; AlisonLCormack@cityofpaloalto.org; Filseth, Eric (external); LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Clerk, City; Council, City Subject:City Council Meeting - June 21, 2021 Live comment CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka, I am watching the council meeting (now at 7:20) and would want to point out an URGENT need to stop paying for buildings and vacation tweaks for the City Manager, that you focus on getting back the non-essential police department staff! Sincerely, Ardan Michael /—/   ADDRESS:  Ardan Michael Blum A. Blum Localization Services 345 Forest Avenue, Suite 204 94301, Palo Alto, California, USA. PHONE/ PGP DETAILS: Office & Signal: +1 (650) 427-9358 Mobile: +1 (650) 531-1103 NEW Home: [not accepting text messages] +1 (650) 847-1810 PGP Key: Request SOCIALLY & WORK ONLINE: Twitter: @ArdanBlum | @Palo_Alto_Seo | @PaloAltoTourist Professional Website: search-engine-optimization-company.com Personal Blog: https://iterate.live NOTICE: This email, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information or may otherwise be protected by law. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachment thereto.   /—/ /—/   39 Baumb, Nelly From:John Kelley <jkelley@399innovation.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 4:03 PM To:Council, City; UAC; Planning Commission Subject:Exclusionary Zoning: Its Effect on Racial Discrimination in the Housing Market | The White House CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/blog/2021/06/17/exclusionary‐zoning‐its‐effect‐on‐racial‐discrimination‐in‐the‐ housing‐market  40 Baumb, Nelly From:Anne Lum <annelum@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 2:34 PM To:Council, City Subject:Tomforcouncil@gmail.com; PatBurt11@gmail.com; Alison.Cormack@CityofPaloAlto.org; EFilseth@gmail.com; LydiaKou@gmail.com; GStone22@gmail.com; greg@GregTanaka.org; City.Clerk@cityofpaloAlto.org; ARB@cityofpaloalto.org; Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor DuBois, Vice-Mayor Burt, and Councilmembers Cormack, Filseth, Kou, Stone and Tanaka,     I am writing to urge you to overturn Planning Director Jonathan Lait’s decision to approve Verizon’s cell tower application 20PLN-00118.    Just for starters, the Planning Director has approved oversized equipment that fails to comply with the design standards Palo Alto has established. Moreover, our city’s Municipal Code required Verizon to notify “all residents and property owners within 600 feet of the project site” of a community meeting at which the proposed project would be discussed. But Verizon simply failed to do so.    Please deny their application and insist that Verizon comply with our City’s Municipal Code. The residents of Palo Alto are counting on you to protect the quality of life in our community.    Thank you for your consideration.     Yours truly,    Anne Lum  781 Barron, Homeowner and Resident  41 Baumb, Nelly From:Alison Reid <alisonr5201@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 11:00 AM To:Lydia Kou; Council, City Subject:Fwd: utility observations - sewage rates for smaller residential houses and tankless h20 heater recommendation to reduce gas usage CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  In light of the city council meeting and utility ‐ sewage discussion.    Sending the email below recommending sewage fee changes to smaller footprint residential houses to be more  equitable.    To reduce use of gas, most countries in the world use tankless water heaters (this reduces water usage and gas  usage).  In a family of four, the ROI (Return on Investment) is typically 4 ‐ 5 months, and then the monthly fee is greatly  reduced as gas is not required to continuously heat the water in the 30 or 40 Gallon Water heater.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Alison Reid <alisonr5201@gmail.com>  Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 6:14 AM  Subject: utility observation ‐ overcharge illegal tax  To: Lydia Kou <kou.pacc@gmail.com>    Hi  Lydia    Thank you again for your support of the Foothill Park signature gathering and referendum.    You may have seen this article about utility overcharging considered an illegal tax:  https://www.paloaltoonline.com/blogs/p/2020/12/08/palo‐alto‐utility‐gas‐overcharges‐are‐illegal‐judge‐says‐‐‐‐but‐ there‐are‐other‐questionable‐charges‐at‐city‐hall    I think the same would apply to the sewage tax which is the same for a large house, or an unit identified by separate  gas/electrical meters.  I have lived in a number of places and the $41/ a month for sewage is atleast double to anythig I  have paid before.  These fees especially if there are multiple units at an address is exorbinant.    Most charges are by use now, and I do not think a single person in a large house should be charged the same as 5 people  in a large house ‐ this may be difficult to regulate but sq footage of a house may be an appropriate indicator.  Another  example, is if multiple units pay the $41/fee ‐ so if a location has 4 different gas/utility bills then the city receives not just  $41 but $164;  in this case, the sewage pipes being used are not greater than the one large house with 5 people.    In the spirit of not overcharging utility costs which as the lawsuit indicates is an illegal tax, here are two suggestions:  1.  Reduce the sewage cost under a certain square footage ‐ 2500 sq ft to $20/month.    2. Per physical address, cap the sewage charges to $80.    42 Perhaps the council can review the utility charges in light of the pandemic and that note the lower income individuals  live in the smaller sq footage houses, and or more densely populated addresses ‐ this would be a way to be fair about  pay for use, but also eliminate the illegal overcharging for utility services.    Thank you for reading, stay safe,  Alison  43 Baumb, Nelly From:Friends of Cubberley <friendsofcubberley94303@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 8:19 PM To:Council, City; board@pausd.org Subject:Cubberley Ad-Hoc Committee CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi School Board and City Council,    Friends of Cubberley is aware that an ad‐hoc committee has been formed, but we would appreciate an update.  Can you  please provide one?  Also, it would be great to get updates regularly.    Thank you    Deborah Simon  Chair, Friends of Cubberley  701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 08/09/2021 Document dates: 06/16/2021 – 06/23/2021 Council Summer Break Set 12 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 44 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 5:14 PM To:Loran Harding; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; Leodies Buchanan; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; Chris Field; Cathy Lewis; Council, City; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; leager; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mark Standriff; Mayor; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. Campbell UK Thurs. June 10, 2021- Lots re Delta var. Different symptoms for it. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 3:48 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell UK Thurs. June 10, 2021‐ Lots re Delta var. Different symptoms for it.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 1:21 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell UK Thurs. June 10, 2021‐ Lots re Delta var. Different symptoms for it.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 1:19 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell UK Thurs. June 10, 2021‐ Lots re Delta var. Different symptoms for it.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 8:43 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell UK Thurs. June 10, 2021‐ Lots re Delta var. Different symptoms for it.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  45     ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 8:11 PM  Subject: Dr. Campbell UK Thurs. June 10, 2021‐ Lots re Delta var. Different symptoms for it.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                     Sunday June 20, 2021                     To all‐                   Dr. Campbelll in UK on Thurs. June 10, 2021.  The India Delta variant seems to be presenting with a somewhat  diffferent set of symptoms than did the Kent vrariant. That is important because one might just assume that he has cold  or hay fever symptoms when he has India Delta.  So says Dr. Campbell here. Important that public health officials in the  US and the various States see this:                Change in symptoms ‐ YouTube                    What the UK authorities are saying, actually, is this: Starting at 4:04 in the video:  Dr. Campbelll: "There has  been a change in presentation of Covid in the UK since the beginning of May, 2021: It presents more like a common cold.  People don't realize they have Covid, therefore, and carry on spreading it so now we see more cases. This has not been  picked up by the mainstream media. They are very selecitive in what they want to report"  (LH‐ I go a little farther,  saying that the networks in the US are "jockstraps for Biden".)                    Here are the Covid symptoms now seen in the UK since the beginning of May, in order of prevalence"                        1) Headache                      2) Sore throat                      3) Runny nose                      4) fever                      5) Cough                          Loss of smell is not being reported now.                          Then he says this:  "This change in symptoms is caused by   1) Change in variants  and/or 2) Change in  community immunity. Probably a bit of both".                     LH‐ Now changing subjects:                    The fully vaccinated can get infected with India Delta because our vaccines are not as effcacious against it as  they are against the Kent variant. Dr. Campbell has shown the reports indicating that more than once. Read it again. So  the situation has now changed for the fully vaccinated!  And notice: This applies to persons who get fully  vaccinated in  June, 2021 as well as to people, like me, who were fully vaccinated by March 1, 2021.  You thought you were pretty safe  since say, March 1, 2021, when you became fully vaccinated, and you WERE, pretty much, against the Kent variant. BUT  NOW YOU ARE SOMEWHAT MORE AT RISK DUE TO THE INDIA DELTA  VARIANT. IT CAN GET AROUND THOSE GREAT  VACCINES YOU RECEIVED TO SOME EXTENT‐  I GOT THE MODERNA ON JANUARY 15  AND FEBRUARY 13, AND SO WAS  FULLY VACCINATED AROUND MARCH 1, 2021. What it can cause for the fully vaccinated with higher probability now is  symptomatic disease.   That is disease where you have one or more symptoms.  See the link above to see what they  may be with India Delta.  BUT the fully vaccinated in the US do not seem then to progress on to the worst  46 scenarios‐  hospitalization, ICU, ventilator and death when they get infected with India Delta,    LH‐ Well, why would  some of them not???????????   Maybe the vaccines we have received to make us "fully vaccinated", Pfizer and Moderna  and for some, J&J, in the US can generally prevent progression to the full blown disease‐ hospitalizaton, ICU, ventilator  and death due to Delta.  But for sure, the reports, at least the ones Dr. Campbell shows in the UK, indicate that two  things are going on with Delta:  (1) It is more transmissible, so the chance of the fully vaccinated, or anyone else,  contracting it is higher than it was for the Kent variant  and (2) the vaccines we have received to make us fully vaccinated  are less efficacious wrt Delta. They don't offer quite as high protection.   So, at a minimum, the fully vaccinated can now  expect a higher probability of getting one or more symptoms of Delta, and they are somewhat different than  were/are  the symptoms of the Kent variant.                  So notice‐ TWO things are going on. 1)  One relates to the virus, and that has changed with the arrival of the India  Delta variant, B.1.617.2. It is more transmissible than was the Kent variant.                   The OTHER relates to our vaccines. That has not changed. The vaccines you received in January are not somehow  changing. The vaccines are less efficacious wrt the India Delta variant than they were wrt to the Kent variant, B.1.1.7,  the Alpha variant.                 But is it cause for celebration to learn that suddenly the fully vaccinated CAN get one of the symptoms of India  Delta discussed in the Dr. Campbell video above even if you are unlikely then to progress on to hospitalization, ICU,  ventilator and death? I don't think so! Being fully vaccinated, you are MORE LIKELY TO GET SOME SYMPTOMS OF THE  INDIA DELTA VARIANT  THAN  YOU WERE TO GET SOME SYMPTOMS OF THE KENT VARIANT. SO YOUR RISK OF  TROUBLE HAS GONE UP WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE INDIA DELTA VARIANT. YOU SHOULD NOW BE MORE CAREFUL  THAN YOU HAVE BEEN SINCE YOU BECAME FULLY VACCINATED AND ONLY FACED THE KENT VARIANT.                 And, in the face of this rapidly spreading new variant, California is opening up.That is premature, in my opinion. I  hope Gov. Newsom reads this and sees the vid.  Germany has suspended all traffic from the UK. The US should do that  too.  The Director of the CDC was on TV yesterday saying you are protected against serous disease from India Delta if  you are fully vaccinated. True enough, but she neglected to add that the fully vaccinated are now more subject to the  less threatening "symptomatic disease" from India Delta than they were when all we had to deal with was the Kent  variant!! I don't like that. Just incompetent and I'd fire her for it. Tell it like it is, lady, if you know how it is.                 The Biden administration are not burglers. They are bunglers.                Biden said on network TV yesterday the following:  "The india Delta variant is more transmissble and more  virulent, more deadly".  I don't think so, wrt to # 2 there.  Have not heard that it is more deadly.   It is more  transmissble  and   our vaccines are less efficacious wrt to the Delta variant.  Those two should be enough to scare  people into getting vaccinated.                      L. William Harding                  Fresno, Ca.                   BA, Biological Sciences, Stanford, 1964                MBA Finace, University of Oregon, 1968                Passed CPA exam, 1987                M.S. Taxation, California State University, East Bay, 1991          47 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 4:34 PM To:Perron, Zachary; Joe Simitian; Council, City; Planning Commission; Binder, Andrew; rebecca@winwithrebecca.com; chuck jagoda; Human Relations Commission; DuBois, Tom; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Raj; Jeff Rosen; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Greer Stone; Tanaka, Greg; city.council@menlopark.org; Cecilia Taylor; Tony Dixon; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Roberta Ahlquist; ParkRec Commission Subject:Police Credentials Help, a d Hurt, a Mayoral Bid CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,     I urge you to vote to keep University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles in our Downtown, so that we can enjoy the carefree and safe environment through the Summer 2021.Thank you for your support in this quality of life matter!  49 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 4:00 PM To:Joe Simitian; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Council, City; Planning Commission; Human Relations Commission; chuck jagoda; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Greer Stone; Greer Stone; Council, City; city.council@menlopark.org; GRP-City Council; james pitkin; Raj; Rebecca Eisenberg; Jeff Moore; DuBois, Tom; ParkRec Commission; Greer Stone Subject:DA on left in Los Angeles Faces a Revolt CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/us/george‐gascon.amp.html      Sent from my iPhone  50 Baumb, Nelly From:Margaret Heath <maggi650@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: What is this new store/thing at town and country? Seems cool. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council members,     I thought you might be interested in this recent post on Next Door about a new occupancy use at Town and Country  Village.  Shall we expect to see T&C begin leasing their retail spaces to businesses such as tutoring services, martial arts studios,  etc, that do not    have a substantial retail component generating sales tax or appeal to shoppers?      Of course, taking the long view, not appealing to shoppers will help make their argument that other uses, such as  medical that can pay them higher rents, should be allowed to begin to replace retail.      Perhaps businesses that pay sales tax should define what retail is.        maggie (heath)      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Nextdoor College Terrace <reply@rs.email.nextdoor.com>  Date: Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 3:48 PM  Subject: What is this new store/thing at town and country? Seems cool.  To: <maggi650@gmail.com>      ?        To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   View on Nextdoor          To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automati  Howard Kushlan, Professorville     ?   To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In    General ꞏ Jun 19      4        8        See 6 previous replies   51             Lally Rezayani  Some expensive real estate                      Paul Mortenson   The name sounds like it would be run by Professor Xavier. LOL                   View or Reply         This message is intended for maggi650@gmail.com. Unsubscribe here. Nextdoor, 420 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102      52 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 11:27 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Mercury News CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>  Date: Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 11:23 AM  Subject: Mercury News  To: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>        https://mercurynews‐ca.newsmemory.com/eebrowser/ipad/html5.check.21030914/  Mercury News By Leonardo Castañeda lcastaneda@bayareanewsgroup.com Aggie Yellow Horse's son had just turned 1 when she saw the news in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic about an Asian American family, including a 2-year-old, being attacked and stabbed at Sam's Club in Midland, Texas. The suspect had targeted the family because he believed they were Chinese and spreading COVID-19, the FBI said, an early case in a growing wave of hate initially set off in part by racist conspiracies about the coronavirus. The attack hit a painful chord for Yellow Horse with her young family, so when the second-generation Korean American professor was offered a chance a few weeks later to volunteer with the San Francisco-based Stop AAPI Hate project, she jumped on it. Her work involves reading the stories sent in by community members, filtering out trolls and cleaning the data for analysis. 53 The reports - more than 6 ,600 of them collected by Stop AAPI Hate - document a stream of troubling incidents: The Concord eighth grader who was "teased and humiliated" by students who called her "kung-flu," a rac ist term for the coronavi rus popularized by former President Donald Trump. Someone walking down the street in San Francisco who was approached by a man who yelled "Go back to your country" before spitting in the victim's face. And in San Jose, a resident reported a convenience store near their home was tagged with an anti-Asian American message and an expletive. "It's not only that some of those stories are so horrific, but I think in some ways they remind (me) of my personal lived experiences with racism, xenophobia or oppression," said Yellow Horse, a professor at Arizona State University. "Seeing stories that I also could relate to I think was really difficult." Yellow Horse is one of a number of researchers and volunteers who have been working to collect, document and report on incidents of hatred against Asian Americans nationwide. The work, many of them said, can be painful and traumatizing, see- ing their siblings and parents, even themselves, reflected in stories of abuse, assault and discrimination. But it's also provided opportunities for solidarity across the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, they said. "Having done it for some time now, I do realize there's some value in reading those stories," Yellow Horse said. "I do think that I feel less alone or isolated with my own experience." Russell Jeung, the San Francisco State University professor who co- founded Stop AAPI Hate after reading news stories about attacks against Asian American elders, said he quickly realized he needed to be more emotionally open to the stories he was collecting. "I'm more stoic and I thought that might help, but now I've realized, no, I think I'm being traumatized as well," he said. "Rather than being stoic and nonemotional, I think I'm trying to actually acknowledge and deal with the pain and try to heal from it." For Jeung, that has meant going to therapy, something he never thought he'd do. A person of faith, he's also turned to prayer, HATE » PAGE 6 Russell Jeung, a San Francisco State professor and co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, found himself being traumatized by the stories of attacks. DAI SUGANO — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER 54 Yellow Horse as well as running, to foster more empathetic responses to traumatic incidents he's now exposed to on a daily basis. He starts any presentation he's invited to with a moment of silence for victims of racial violence, sharing his struggles to understand how to move forward. 55 Baumb, Nelly From:Nuray Yilmaz <nyilmaznuray@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 11:12 AM To:Council, City CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    To the Mayor and members of the Palo Alto City Council: I am writing to declare my strong support for continuing the UpLift Program in downtown Palo Alto. For restaurant employees, the program has been a key lifeline for us to keep working and to keep local dining establishments afloat in the past year. As has been documented, food service employees have suffered disproportionately during the pandemic due to severe loss of working hours, and in too many cases, business closures. As we begin to see positive signs for the coming months, we are still concerned about the fragility and feasibility of our employment: if the footprint of available dining space is reduced, we will be hit again. Therefore, we are urging you to continue the popular pedestrian streets program to help maintain the flow of customers to our downtown so that they do not go elsewhere. Last, we have not heard any complaints from customers regarding concerns over parking -- in fact, the attractive dining environment that the Uplift program has provided has been a great success amongst our clientele, and the increase of foot traffic has been truly beneficial to our restaurant. I hope you keep us in mind when considering the future of the program. Thank you for your consideration,   Sent from my iPhone  56 Baumb, Nelly From:Lutz Finger <lf@lutzfinger.com> Sent:Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:14 AM To:Council, City Subject:A little bit of flaire CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,  I am in living in Mountain View, but I coming now roughly twice every week to Palo Alto, because sitting in University  Street is somewhat of a European Flaire that not many cities have around here.     I get it that other restaurants that i used to visit get now less traffic since I am here at University Street. But why would  anyone want to punish us the user who enjoy being here.     Thank you for your support  Cheers Lutz Finger  57 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 10:20 PM To:citycouncil@mountainview.gov; city.council@menlopark.org; Planning Commission; Human Relations Commission; rebecca@winwithrebecca.com; Roberta Ahlquist; Joe Simitian; Raj; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; chuck jagoda; Greer Stone; Jeff Rosen; Council, City; Cecilia Taylor; Betsy Nash; Jeff Moore; DuBois, Tom; Tanaka, Greg; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Richard Konda; Binder, Andrew; Shikada, Ed; Jonsen, Robert Subject:‘Philly D.A.’ Subject Larry Krasner Talks “Transparency” & PBS Series – Deadline CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://deadline.com/2021/06/philly‐da‐pbs‐independent‐lens‐documentary‐series‐larry‐krasner‐ted‐passon‐nicole‐ salazar‐yoni‐brook‐interview‐news‐1234777636/      Sent from my iPhone  58 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 5:36 PM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: CONGRATULATIONS_-TOM and Susan CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Friends,      It is a distinct pleasure for me to encourage all of you to know about the unique and creative work of the couple, TOM  IZU and SUSAN HYAYASE, and to hopefully take advantage of their unique contribution to our area.  Allan    Metro active by Gary Singh:  http://www.metroactive.com/features/columns/Silicon‐Alleys‐Augmented‐ Reality‐Local‐Artists‐Japantown‐San‐Jose.html       59 Baumb, Nelly From:Diane <dianeef@comcast.net> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 1:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:College Terrace library, again CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    We were all thankful when you directed the City Manager to reinstate funds and not to impose the budget cuts he had  proposed. Now, despite your clear directive he is unilaterally deciding not to reopen the College Terrace library. His  reason is there are “staffing issues”. Please direct him to use his managerial prowess to reassign staff so the library in  College Terrace can be reopened as promised before you take your summer break.    Thank you for consideration.    Diane Finkelstein  2049 Dartmouth Street    Sent from my iPad  60 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 10:36 AM To:Allan Seid Subject:ALERT! 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Friends,     Due to the large number of attendees at my recent presentation, which exceeded our virtual zoom capacity, causing  many applicants  to be locked‐out from entry, the sponsoring committees and I of Channing House apologize,      In response to a significant number of requests for  presentation recorded material, a repeat of the talk will be offered  one week from now, ‐‐Saturday, June 26th at 10 am.    Please watch for confirmation of this early alert and the provision of the Invitation with the MEETING LINK, PROGRAM ID  NUMBER and PASSCODE.     HOPE TO SEE YOU ON Zoom on JUNE 26th at 10 am,    Allan  61 Baumb, Nelly From:Arlene Goetze <photowrite67@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 9:48 AM To:cindy chavez; joe simitian; mike wasserman Subject:mR NA Gathers in OVARIES CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 1:08 PM  Subject: Thurs. June 17, 2021 Dr. J. Campbell‐ CDC report on seroprevalence in US Great!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  65           Thurs. June 17, 2021                To all‐  Excellent discussion by Dr. John Campbell in the UK of a CDC report just issued on seroprevalence in the  US‐  the percentage of people testing positive for the antibodies to Covid19.   This is 15 minutes long and I highly  recommend it. A little light at the end of the tunnel. The bad news is the rapidly spreading India Delta variant in the US.                Natural immunity key in US ‐ YouTube                    They looked at blood donors to see what percent had antibodies to Covid. Those that did have those  antibodies got them through 1) being vaccinated against Covid and/or 2) by being infected with Covid19 and having  recovered. The CDC used data from March 31, 2021, so the seroprevalence would be considerably higher now with the  vaccination campaign in the US, and due to more people having been infected with Covid19 and having  recovered.  LH‐  What the CDC does not talk about in this report is exactly what having some antibodies to Covid does  for a person! There is more to the immune system than the generation of antibodies. T‐cells, B‐cells, natural killer cells,  even some cells in the bone marrow all are part of the immune response to an antigen. So I am not sure how much we  should be cheering because of a high seroprevalence found in this study of blood donors by the CDC.  UNLESS,  UNLESS  the presence of antibodies means that the entire immune system was mobilized by vaccination (probable)  and/or the entire immune system was mobilized by just being exposed to the Covid virus (not sure).                   Dr. Campbell says here that "All of the mitigation measures applied in the US, mask wearing, social distancing,  lock‐downs, distance learning in schools, hand washing, allowed the people who required hospitalization in the US to  filter into the HC system in an "orderly manner" instead of all at one time. Had they all entered the system at one time,  the system could not have handled them all and far more would have died in the US, far more than the 600,000 that  have died to date"‐ paraphrasing. Dr. Campbell estimates as many as two million more would have died in the US.                    This is one of Dr. Campbell's most lucid and newsworthy vids, in my opinion.                  But with regard to the India Delta variant, our vaccines are not quite as efficacious as they were wrt the Kent  variant, the famous B.1.1.7 variant, dominant in the US now, or the original Wuhan variant. So if you are fully vaccinated  today, you stand a better chance of getting sick with the Delta variant than you have stood and do stand of getting sick  from the earlier variants. However, if you are fully vaccinated, you might get one symptom instead of five, and the  severity and length of your illness will probably be less than if you had not been vaccinated. Whoopee! So our vaccines  are not useless against the Delta variant, so showed Dr. Campbell in a vid of about two days ago.   So now the situation  for the fully vaccinated  (me, e.g., fully vaccinated by March 1, 2021) has changed with the arrival of the India Delta  variant.  That is because it is 1) more transmissible and  2)  the vaccines with which we were fully vaccinated now do not  give us the same degree of protection against it that they gave us against the Kent variant and the original Wuhan  variant. The situation has changed suddenly for the fully vaccinated in the US.   As a result, I am going to re‐instate the  precautions I was taking from March, 2020 to March 2021. Lets look at the numbers from a study done by UK  authorities on the effectiveness of various vaccine as reported by Dr. Campbell on Friday, June 11, 2021:                    The Delta variant B.1.617.2  is 60% more contagious than the B.1.1.7, the Kent variant, now dominant in the US,  and TWICE as contagious as the original Wuhan Covid variant.                From a study done in the UK reported by Dr. Campbell in his video of Friday, June 11, 2021.  I included it in a mail I  sent out dated Sunday, June 13, 2021. See his vid. of June 11, 2021 on YouTube to see the following numbers and the  cite to the study.      66           Effectiveness of vaccines:  For India Delta variant, the Pfizer vaccine is 88% effective against symptomatic disease  two weeks after the second shot. (LH‐ symptomatic disease is the least problematic, next to completley asymptomatic.  Beyond symptomatic disease the progression can be hospitalization, ICU, ventilator and death).                 Oxford‐AZN vaccine is 60% effecive against India Delta two weeks after the second shot.      LH‐ Big  difference!  88% effective for Pfizer and 60% effective for the AZN vaccine two weeks after the second shot. The AZN  vaccine does take longer than the Pfizer vaccine to reach its maximum effectiveness, says Dr. Campbell.                AZN was 66% effective against the B.1.1.7 Kent variant two weeks after the second dose. There you see some  reduced effectiveness in AZN against the Delta variant. AZN does take longer to ramp up the immune system than Pfizer,  Dr. Campbell says.                   BOTH Pfizer and AZN vaccines are 33% effective against symptomatic disease from B.1.617.2, the India Delta  variant three weeks after the first dose.                   Both vaccines are 50% effective against B.1.1.7 Kent three weeks after the first dose.   That is a pretty stark  difference‐ LH                   No word in that study regarding the effectiveness of the J&J and Moderna vaccines against India Delta. I am fully  vaccinated with Moderna and I'd be curious to know how effective it is against India Delta.                    Dr. Campbell concluded there in his vid. of Friday, June 11, 2021  by saying "So we see some decrease in  effectiveness in the vaccines against the India Delta variant, but still very high protection agains severe illness and  death".    My email of Sunday, June 13, 2021 included a link to that video.                   What about the unvaccinated?  Most older Americans have been vaccinated, and younger people do not get as  sick, if at all, generally, from Covid variants.  But they can and do indeed get sick from the Delta variant. One of Dr.  Campbell's vids a few days ago detailed a report done in the UK by the authorities showing ~250 unvaccinated young  adults who had been proven by genetic sequencing to be infected with the Delta variant. I sent that video out in an  email. Some, or all, were hospitalized, some of those went into the ICU, some of those were put on ventilators. None  died, but some would have died had they been in Africa or Latin America, said Dr. Campbell.                 And what about unvaccinated older people?  I would not care to be in that category. The Kent variant, the B.1.1.7  variant, posed enough risk to them. Now we have the far more transmissible India Delta variant. The authorities in the  US should now spread an alarm about the danger that unvaccinated older persons are in. I was talking to someone in  Mumbai recently. He said that health authorities there are going to the homes of elderly or disabled people to vaccinate  them.               I would not want to be living in the US right now and being unvaccinated and with the Delta variant spreading fast.  It will probably become the dominant variant in the US soon, Dr. Campbell has said.                 With California and most of the rest of the US opening up now, we will see a rise in cases.                  Very interesting video.                  Here is a video I included a day or two ago about the Delta variant.  NOTICE THAT THE GERMANS HAVE HALTED  ALL TRAVEL FROM THE UK EXCEPT FOR THEIR OWN RESIDENTS.  It says that in the first few seconds. Dr. Campbell said  a week ago that the US should halt all travel from the UK too:                       How dangerous is the Indian variant of the coronavirus? | COVID‐19 Special ‐ YouTube                    L. William Harding  68 Baumb, Nelly From:alan gara <alanggara@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 8:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Taxpayer not happy CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Member,    I am very concerned that despite the overwhelming support of tax paying citizens who wan university to remain open to  only pedestrians,that there is now an effort to reopen university Avenue prior to the agreed upon date.    Please vote with the taxpayers and vote to improve the quality of life for palo alto citizens.    Thank you  Alan gara  1265 wilson street  Palo alto    69 Baumb, Nelly From:Shannon Rose <shannonrmcentee@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:18 PM To:Chuprina, Nadya Cc:Council, City Subject:Re: Reminder: New murals coming soon to Palo Alto! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Nadya, I won't be able to attend the Palo Alto Public Art Program's meeting tonight but I thought I'd write and share a thought with you and the Public Art Program. Will you please share this with the City staff who are involved and with the Program's members? If you've heard about a very tall "lighting tower" that has been proposed in San Jose -- then you will know that it is extremely controversial. It made me want to express something that I think is very important for Palo Alto's Public Art Program as you think about our public art and engage with potential artists. I want to ask you and the City to protect us from any public art that requires lighting at night. There is considerable scientific evidence that nighttime lighting is harmful -- to humans, to birds and to other species. It also wastes electricity. I strongly urge the Public Art Program to make environmental concerns a major part of any discussions regarding the art you commission or buy. Should some lighting be required at night for aesthetics or safety in areas where the public walks in the evenings, such as a downtown area with restaurants and bars, the art lighting should turn off automatically at nine or ten p.m. With climate change and the existential threats it brings, we cannot afford to ignore the reality of our times. Even if art is thrilling and beautiful, we must ponder whether we can afford any attendant environmental costs. Sincerely yours, Shannon Rose McEntee  410 Sheridan Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306           On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:15 AM Palo Alto Public Art Program <nadya.chuprina@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.        e-news To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.          ~ -------------- 70 JUNE 2021   NEW MURALS COMING SOON!   Local Artists Selected to Create Temporary Murals   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.    San Francisco-based Olivia Losee-Unger is one of four California artists to create a mural for the SPB construction fence in summer 2021   We are thrilled to announce four Bay Area artists who will soon transform construction safety barriers into a canvas for art! Selected artists, including Abi Mustapha, Dr. Debra Koppman, Jessica Eastburn, and Olivia Losee-Unger, will create original artworks drawing inspiration from the unique character of Palo Alto’s California Avenue District, and celebrating its diverse community, rich history, and iconic landmarks that make this neighborhood distinct. Four site-specific murals will be installed later this summer 2021 and wrap over 900 linear feet of the construction fence at 250 Sherman Avenue.   ARTLIFT MIRCOGRANTS   Don't Miss These New Microgrant Projects   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.    Wondering what to do around Palo Alto this weekend? Go enjoy many ArtLift projects currently on display! Whether you venture out to the downtown districts around University or California Avenues, spend a day at a park, or stroll around a neighborhood, you will most likely come a cross an ArtLift Microgrant art installation, pop-up performance, or a temporary mural. Let us know which project is your favorite! Later this month, enjoy the outdoors and spend some time at Eleanor Pardee park by trying your hand at a Game of Cones with a super-sized whimsical chess set created by Elizabeth Bennett, or contemplate impacts of the pandemic with Robin Mullery's Bright Existence art installation sited at Rinconada Park and inspired by works of poetry by Brenda Hilman.   Still Image of Nature Abstracted project by Robin Apple  ArtLift Project Map   WELCOME NEW COMMISSIONER   Palo Alto-based resident and artist Lisa Waltuch joins Public Art Commission   GI 71 The City of Palo Alto Public Art Commission is delighted to welcome its newest member, Lisa Waltuch. A Palo Alto resident, Lisa is a creative producer and artist whose practice incorporates artifacts from people’s lives, such as text, photos, iconography, textiles, into her work so she can tell stories through a visual medium. As a Public Art Commissioner she is excited to foster work that brings the diverse groups in our community together. Commissioner Waltuch holds a B.A. in Art History and Design from Stanford University and an M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design. She previously served as Creative Director for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website.   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   PAC Commissioner Lisa Waltuch   REMEMBERING BARBARA GUNTHER   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.    Fall by Barbara Gunther, 2009, Oil on canvas, 36 x46 in., Gift of the Artist, Palo Alto Collection of Public Art   We would like to take a moment to honor the memory of a Palo Alto artist, accomplished painter and lithographer Barbara Gunther who passed away on March 12, 2021 at her home in Palo Alto, surrounded by the family she loved so unreservedly during her long life. During her 55-year artistic career, Gunther created a magnitude of works that can be found in many private and public collections across the country. During her residency with Cubberley Artist Studio Program between 2003 and 2016, Gunther was a prominent member of the Cubberley artistic community, a kind mentor, and devoted art educator. She gifted three of her artworks to the City of Palo Alto Collection of Public Art, including a lithograph titled Bourbon Street (1975), and two oil paintings, Rhododendron II (2009), and Fall (2005).            Next Public Art Commission Meeting June 17, 2021 at 7 p.m. View PAC meeting Agenda      Artist Opportunities and Resources Artist Resources; Anti-Racism Resources, and COVID-19 Emergency Grants and Relief Funds on the Public Art Website      CONTACT US Elise DeMarzo Public Art Program Director 650.617.3517 elise.demarzo@cityofpaloalto.org 72 Nadya Chuprina Public Art Program Coordinator 650.329.2227 nadya.chuprina@cityofpaloalto.org Denise Laxen di Zazzo Communications and Artist Studio Program Coordinator 650.617.3506 denise.laxendizazzo@cityofpaloalto.org           PALO ALTO PUBLIC ART PROGRAM | [cityofpaloalto.org/publicart]       To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the InIn stagram   To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the InFacebook   To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the InTwitter              Palo Alto Public Art Program | Division of Arts and Culture , 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Unsubscribe shannonrmcentee@gmail.com Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by nadya.chuprina@cityofpaloalto.org powered by   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today. Try email marketing for free today!       u 73 Baumb, Nelly From:Cherelle Blazer, Sierra Club <reply@emails.sierraclub.org> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 11:21 AM To:Council, City Subject:Celebrating Juneteenth CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Juneteenth Flag Supporter, Saturday is June 19th, or “Juneteenth”-- traditionally a Southern Black holiday celebrating liberation and commemorating the day on June 19th, 1865, months after the Civil War had ended and years since the Emancipation Proclamation, that soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and spread the news that slavery had ended, freeing those people who were still in bondage even after the war was over. Growing up in Texas, Juneteenth was always something my family celebrated. It was OUR Fourth of July: Black Liberation Day. Part family reunion and part community celebration. Black families all over the community would get together at neighborhood parks to celebrate life even in the face of oppression. There was always laughter, dancing, music, joy, soul food, and most of all, love. It was life affirming, it was culturally affirming, and it was my favorite holiday. Today Juneteenth has become a national celebration of Black people and a call for the fulfilment of the promise of liberation. It’s the commemoration of having 74 made it through the horrific nightmare--of forced slavery, of segregation, Jim Crow, and even current oppression which we see in the form of continued police violence, political disenfranchisement, and disproportionate amounts of pollution being dumped on Black communities. It is time for the liberation to be complete, for harm to end and restitution and repair to be made. That’s why this year the Sierra Club is calling for reparations for Black people. It is impossible to accomplish our mission of creating a healthy, safe, and sustainable future for all without acknowledging and materially addressing the past and present economic, cultural, psychological, and spiritual impacts of racism on Black communities. As a 129-year-old organization, the Sierra Club has work to do both internally with staff and volunteers, and externally with our community partners. Though it is a difficult walk, we are dedicated to justice and accountability. We invite you as our membership, and the rest of the United States, to come along with us on this journey towards liberation and repair. The Movement for Black Lives defines reparations as a concept rooted in international law that involves specific forms of repair to specific individuals, groups of people, or nations for specific harms they have experienced in violation of their human rights, which are essential to collective liberation and well- being. Reparations include five key components: Cessation/Assurance of Non- Repetition, Restitution and Repatriation, Compensation, Satisfaction, and Rehabilitation. Communities that have been treated as sacrifice zones by big polluters have been calling for reparations for years. So much of the wealth in the U.S. was built on a foundation of theft and enslavement, and by returning some of that wealth to the people it was stolen from, we can begin to undo the intergenerational harm done to Black communities. 75 To learn more about reparations, please read this explanation from the Movement for Black Lives. You can also read our press release from Sierra Club President Ramon Cruz and Executive Director Mike Brune. Happy Juneteenth. In Solidarity, Cherelle Blazer Senior Director, International Climate and Policy Campaign Sierra Club Illustration of Juneteenth flag by iStock.com/vadimrysev This email was sent to: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org This email was sent by the Sierra Club 2101 Webster St., Suite 1300, Oakland, CA 94612 Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe | View as Web Page 76 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 10:20 AM To:city.council@menlopark.org; Council, City; Planning Commission; Human Relations Commission; chuck jagoda; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Roberta Ahlquist; Joe Simitian; Raj; Richard Konda; Greer Stone; Tanaka, Greg; DuBois, Tom; Cecilia Taylor; Betsy Nash; rebecca@winwithrebecca.com; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Jeff Moore Subject:Use of force policies written by Lexipol at play in police shootings CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://www.usatoday.com/in‐depth/news/nation/2021/06/15/lexipol‐policies‐aim‐to‐limit‐legal‐liability‐in‐police‐ shootings/5173324001/      Sent from my iPhone  77 Baumb, Nelly From:John Guislin <jguislin@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:33 AM To:Council, City Cc:Sue Dremann Subject:Illegal and dangerous fireworks - a state-wide problem CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council: California is now getting almost daily coverage in the New York Times for our illegal fireworks problem (see below). With record drought and, this week, record heat, the dangers presented by fireworks are increasingly perilous. Other cities and agencies are taking actions to reduce the incidence of fireworks but our Council has done nothing. It is beyond dumb to think that these illegal fireworks are someone else's problem: the noise impacts and fire risks from these activities do not recognize municipal boundaries. It has likely never been more true to say that if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Please increase fines for illegal fireworks in Palo Alto and join with our neighbors in coordinated efforts to catch and punish those who set them off. At the same time start planning now for next year to curtail the illegal sale and distribution of fireworks in California. John Guislin NYT: What’s Going On With Illegal Fireworks in California? Thursday: Agencies across the state are cracking down ahead of the Fourth of July. June 17, 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/us/illegal-fireworks-california.html?searchResultPosition=1 NYT: Blaze sparked by Memorial Day fireworks leaves 40 homeless, California officials say BY DON SWEENEY JUNE 02, 2021 08:06 https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article251840223.html  78 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:45 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; chopinion@gogglegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Chinese Immigration and the Legendary Frederick Douglass – AsAmNews CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>  Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2021   Subject: Chinese Immigration and the Legendary Frederick Douglass – AsAmNews  Source: Am news 6/17/21        https://asamnews.com/2021/06/14/civil‐rights‐pioneer‐frederick‐douglass‐opposed‐immigration‐laws‐ which‐restricted‐chinese‐and‐japanese‐from‐coming‐to‐the‐u‐s/  Chinese Immigration and the Legendary Frederick Douglass June 14, 2021 To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Wikimedia Creative Commons from National Archives https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Douglass_(circa_1879).jpg GI 79 By Raymond Douglas Chong, AsAmNews Staff Writer Early Chinese Immigration During the mid-19th century, desperate Chinese men of the rural Sye Yup region of Kwangtung province sought their fortune, at a promise land across the Pacific Ocean. America was known as Gum Saan – Gold Mountain. They arrived in two major waves, the California Gold Rush (1848 to 1855) and the First Transcontinental Railroad (1865 to 1869), at bustling port of the First City – San Francisco. The sojourners, pioneers and adventurers doggedly pursued their American dreams in the wild American West. They mined for gold and silver in the rivers and hills. They built the railroad lines across the wilderness. They put up the river levees of the Sacramento Delta. They farmed at fields, gardens and orchards of the virgin lands. They cooked dishes and washed laundry at Chinatowns. The Chinese unfortunately faced the ugly scourge of racism. The Whites bitterly harassed and attacked them across the American West. They cruelly called them as celestials and heathens, from an exotic land. They fervently called for their immigration and naturalization ban. The Anti-Chinese Sentiment of the Yellow peril was pervasive in American society. Very few American defended the civil rights of the Chinese. Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass, a prominent African American abolitionist against American slavery in the South, was a defender of the Chinese. He was nationally known as an elegant orator and an insightful writer. He escaped slavery in 1838. He was self- educated to read and write. After end of the American Civil War in 1865, Douglass was a leading advocate for American civil rights. Douglass was widely heard and read for his impassioned speeches, as well as poignant quotes: If there is no struggle, there is no progress. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. 80 Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The “Composite Nation” Speech Top Articles Content byAsAmNews At Boston, in his Composite Nation Speech (1869), Douglass eloquently argued for Chinese and Japanese immigration to America. He strongly declared America as a “composite nation” with immigration as a fundamental human right. The Chinese in themselves have first rate recommendations. They are industrious, docile, cleanly, frugal; they are dexterious of hand, patient of toil, marvelously gifted in the power of imitation, and have but few wants. Those who have carefully observed their habits in California, say they can subsist upon what would be almost starvation to others. I have said that the Chinese will come, and have given some reasons why we may expect them in very large numbers in no very distant future. Do you ask, if I favor such immigration, I answer I would. Would you have them naturalized, and have them invested with all the rights of American citizenship? I would. 81 Would you allow them to vote? I would. Would you allow them to hold office? I would. The fact that the Chinese and other nations desire to come and do come, is a proof of their capacity for improvement and of their fitness to come. There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are external, universal, and indestructible. Among these, is the right of locomotion; the right of migration; the right which belongs to no particular race, but belongs alike to all and to all alike. It is the right you assert by staying here, and your fathers asserted by coming here. It is this great right that I assert for the Chinese and Japanese, and for all other varieties of men equally with yourselves, now and forever. Let the Chinaman come; he will help to augment the national wealth. He will help to develop our boundless resources; he will help to pay off our national debt. He will help to lighten the burden of national taxation. He will give us the benefit of his skill as a manufacturer and tiller of the soil, in which he is unsurpassed. We shall spread the network of our science and civilization over all who seek their shelter whether from Asia, Africa, or the Isles of the sea. We shall mold them all, each after his kind, into Americans; Indian and Celt; negro and Saxon; Latin and Teuton; Mongolian and 82 Caucasian; Jew and Gentile; all shall here bow to the same law, speak the same language, support the same Government, enjoy the same liberty, vibrate with the same national enthusiasm, and seek the same national ends. Chinese Exclusion Act To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. On May 6,1882, Congress passed the first Chinese Exclusion Act and President Chester Arthur signed it- the first federal law in America that restricted immigration based on nationality or race. Afterwards, racist Whites governments restricted the civil rights of the Chinese. White mobs massacred Chinese, including Hells Canyon and Rock Springs. 83 Congress finally repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act and subsequent amendments in 1943 with the passage of the Magnuson Act, otherwise known as the Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943. On October 3, 1965, at Liberty Island in front of the colossal Statue of Liberty in New York City, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the landmark Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as Hart-Celler Act. The public law abolished the national origins quota system that was biased for Northwest Europeans and directly excluded immigration of Eastern and Southern Asians to America. In 1965, the Chinese and Japanese officially became Americans of Frederick Douglass’ “composite nation.” AsAmNews has Asian America in its heart. We’re an all-volunteer effort of dedicated staff and interns. Check out our new Instagram account. Go to our Twitter feed and Facebook page for more content. Please consider interning, joining our staff, or submitting a story or making a contribution. 84 Baumb, Nelly From:Nanci Kauffman <nkauffman@castilleja.org> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 7:08 PM To:Mary Sylvester Cc:Lait, Jonathan; French, Amy; City Attorney; Council, City; Shikada, Ed; klayendecker@castilleja.org Subject:Re: June 9th, 2021 Meeting: Unanswered Question/s CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Good evening, Mary. Thank you for your email. Kathy is on vacation but I know she will be eager to fully respond when  she returns. Thanks for your patience.     In the meantime, I’m sorry to hear that my presentation wasn’t relevant to your concerns. I hope that means that the  start up of camp this week has gone well. If not, please let us know.     Regards,  Nanci    On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 6:32 PM Mary Sylvester <marysylvester@comcast.net> wrote:  Hello Kathy, I am writing pursuant to your invitation to Castilleja neighbors that their unanswered questions from your 6/9/21 biannual meeting can be forwarded directly to you for answering. Initially, I would like to express my frustration about Castilleja unilaterally setting the agenda for your recent biannual meeting with neighbors as required per your 2000 Conditional Use Permit (CUP). The setting of an one-hour timeframe along with a 20 minute presentation by Nanci Kauffman about graduation and current school operations did not meet the needs or interests of neighbor, particularly as to updates about your expansion plan. For your information, page 2 of your 2000 CUP states, "Castilleja shall continue to initiate the scheduling of neighborhood meetings to provide an open dialogue regarding neighborhood issue." My unanswered questions from the 6/09/21 meeting pertain to Castilleja's proposed garage: 1) Given that Castilleja has sufficient on-campus parking with the existing 86 spaces now on the school site along with 54 spots on the street ringing the campus, the necessity for the garage remains unclear. Please explain. 2) Satellite Parking: The status of the current satellite parking at First Presbyterian Church remains unclear as to current and future use. Given feedback from members of that church there remain a number of unused parking spaces on the site M-F, has Castilleja made any efforts o expand your offsite parking at this or any other location? 3) Shuttling: Neighbors have noticed for years that Castilleja's electric shuttles appear underutilized, both for students and staff. What are your plans going forward to upgrade and enhance this service for staff and students? With sufficient shuttling, use of public transportation, biking, and satellite parking there appears no need for an underground garage to neighbors. 85 4) Environmental management: To date, neighbors have not been informed of projected levels of pollutants that will be emitted from the proposed garage into the neighborhood. This is a critical issue as exhaust will be released directly into public walking spaces and residents' homes. Can you please provide the specific type of fumes which will be released, at what levels and concentrations, at what rate and hours of the day as well as the the type of exhaust system to be utilized? Given that it has been 5 years that neighbors have requested information about the need for the garage when sufficient on-campus parking exists as well as specific information as to the environmental impacts of the proposed garage, I'm sure you can understand our need for a thorough as well as expeditious response. Should you not have the specifics on the environmental impacts, I'm sure one of your project architects or environments engineers, can provide that. I look forward to your response. Thank you, Mary Sylvester (650) 387-2129 ‐‐   Nanci Kauffman Head of School Castilleja School 1310 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 P (650) 470-7718 E nkauffman@castilleja.org www.castilleja.org Follow us on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn    Women Learning. Women Leading. For an appointment, contact: adelafuente@castilleja.org or (650) 470-7702  86 Baumb, Nelly From:Jeff Hoel <jeff_hoel@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 5:16 PM To:Council, City; UAC Cc:Hoel, Jeff (external) Subject:TRANSCRIPT & COMMENTS (part 2) -- 05-24-21 Council mtg -- FTTP CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council members and UAC commissioners, Here is the rest of the transcript, with my comments. Thanks. Jeff =================== Jeff Hoel 731 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 =================== ############################################################################################### Audio: https://midpenmedia.org/city-council-152-5242021/ Presentation slides (56): https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/attachments/05-24-2021-id-12117-presentation.pdf ############################################################################################### BREAK ############################################################################################### 3:35:31: Mayor DuBois: OK. If Council members are back, please turn your camera on. [pause] Looks like we may have lost Council Member Cormack. [pause] Well, hopefully she'll reconnect. Let's go ahead and continue. 3:36:12: City Clerk Minor: She was actually under -- Mayor DuBois, she was actually under attendees. I just upgraded her to panelist. 3:36:18: Mayor DuBois: OK. Good. Welcome back, Council Member Cormack. 3:36:23: Council Member Cormack: I'm nor sure if I was upgraded or downgraded. 87 3:26:27: Mayor DuBois: Yeah. Side-graded. Let's go ahead and move on to questions, comments. There was a lot to digest here. It was a very big report. Um. [pause] Does anybody want to start? Yeah. Council Member Cormack. 3:36:47: Council Member Cormack: Thanks so much. Um. As we went through this tonight, one thing that occurred to me is: it might have been better to have a study session first, to break up sort of all of the information, and then talk about the actions. I mean, the UAC spent many hours on this. And it took me a long time even just to read their minutes. So, you know, just a thought for next time. This is a big deal. Speaking of the Utilities Advisory Commission, a huge thanks to them. Lots of diligence on spending time on this. I have a few overall comments I want to make. And then a fair number of questions. You know, first -- You know, we got the survey results last week from Polco. And when you think about the need or desire for -- I'm not going to call it "fiber-to-the-home." I'm going to call it, like, you know, good internet. Not even just fast internet. It's really reflected on pages 74 to 75. There are, you know, at least 12 separate comments that people wrote in. ### Here's the Polco survey document (05-17-21). "Internet" is mentioned 23 times. "Fiber" is mentioned 10 times. ("Fibre" is mentioned once.) https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/2021/id-12270.pdf ### I'd encourage Council members to think seriously about wanting and asking for FTTP specifically. The City has had a couple of decades to consider what technology is best for delivering internet service to homes and businesses. And I've also been thinking a little bit about, you know, what is a utility. And, you know, should this be a utility that we offer. A couple ways of thinking about a utility. Right? One is something that we all need. And I think there's an argument to be made that, at this point, everyone needs this kind of service. But then, there's also the argument about -- or is it best provided as a monopoly. Right? Due to capital costs. And that's sort of like where we end up thinking about the cost part of it. So, I just encourage us all to think about, you know, what is a utility and what should a city be providing. ### Empirically, internet service in Palo Alto costs more than it should, and isn't as fast as it should be, or as reliable as it should be. And no government entity has shown an interest in improving the service via regulation. ### On 10-18-10 and 11-01-10, Council voted to increase the purpose and duties of UAC to include providing advice to Council about a fiber utility. https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/year-archive/2010/final-cmr-398_10-2nd-reading-council-ad-hoc-committee.pdf I appreciate the staff report. You know, we've been at this for 20 years. And we've gone this way, and that way, and up and down -- literally. So, I feel like this Council sort of ends up with a lot of things that we've been working on for this long. And then, a fair number of questions. Oh, actually, one more comment. I thought the information provided -- and I think some of it was actually in the UAC minutes, not in the staff report -- about the cost of construction. Being, for example, the congestion underground that's already there. There's a lot of things. The idea that when you hit a tree, you have to stop. Right? Because we care a lot about trees. Construction hours. I thought those were interesting. I don't know how much of that is able to be mitigated. But I do think it's important for us to understand what the cost of construction is. Not just the fact that -- what we're paying people. So, a lot of time spent on aerial versus underground. And can someone help me understand. I don't know if this would be Mr. Honker or Mr. Batchelor. Why -- where we're doing underground versus aerial? Is it because of what already exists? Looks like a really important thing to determine cost, and also where this operates first. So, can you give us a little bit more layperson's description of what's where, and why? 3:39:51: 88 Dean Batchelor: So, Council Member Cormack -- So, right now, the way that it is defined is that -- We have neighborhoods right now that have poles in the areas and locations. So, as John was describing how that aerial plant would be ran, the existing poles would be able then to utilize the new fiber in the backbone, and, also, to -- the new fiber that would have to be laid for fiber-to-the-home. In the underground areas, where there's already been existing underground, it will have to go back in the underground area. There's nothing else to attach to, at this point, from an aerial perspective. The plant is split about 60-40 -- 60 percent of it aerial, 40 percent is underground. Somewhere right around there -- 45-55. And so, that underground area, as you saw, in that map, outlined in the red area, most of all of that is in the underground area of the City. So, there's nothing that we could attach to. So, it would have to be -- The streets would have to be dug -- or bored -- and then installed with fiber to underground. 3:41:02: Council Member Cormack: OK. So, the poles -- just so everyone's -- I understand -- is electrical and phone on the poles? 3:41:09: Dean Batchelor: So, right now, there's electrical, there's AT&T, there's Comcast. And then, in some areas, there's actually our fiber, as well, too. The dark fiber that we run around throughout the system. 3:41:23: Council Member Cormack: OK. So, we already have fiber that's aerial. 3:41:27: Dean Batchelor: Yes. In some -- In the aerial portions, yes. We do. 3:41:30: Council Member Cormack: OK. Um. I will take my questions to the next round then. Thank you. 3:41:38: Mayor DuBois: Well, I'll just jump in with some questions this round. So, if we connect to individual homes, would utilities use that connection as well? ### Great question. 3:41:53: Dean Batchelor: I'm sorry. Sorry, Mayor DuBois. Can you clarify that for me? I'm sorry. 3:41:57: Mayor DuBois: Yeah. I mean, if we do the fiber-to-the-home, would the City want to use that connection to individual homes? 3:42:07: Dean Batchelor: Yes. I guess -- What you're asking -- I'm still not really actually clear. But what you're saying is that if we went fiber-to-the-home, we would have single -- individually -- drops to each home? 3:42:17: Mayor DuBois: No. The City -- itself -- want to use that? Or, like, I think the -- AMI uses a wireless connection to the meters. 3:42:26: 89 Dean Batchelor: Sorry. Yes. So, the City would also want to -- You know, we could go into some of the further park areas. We could also go into some of the areas where the Community Center is. We could use it for other City devices. Or buildings. Or other ideas around using that fiber as it goes through the neighborhoods. ### Batchelor still doesn't understand the question. 3:42:51: Mayor DuBois: OK. And I think the cost estimates -- maybe this is for John -- were to put drops to 100 percent of the homes. ### No. Only to premises that take service. For example, on Slide 18, https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/attachments/05-24-2021-id-12117-presentation.pdf the cost for drops in the City-ISP model is shown to be less than for the partner-ISP model, because it is assumed that the take rate would be higher for the partner-ISP model. (The reason for that assumption wasn't explained very well.) I mean, is there a model where you skip homes if they don't commit to the service? Does that make sense to do? ### Just to be clear, the proposal is to "pass" 100 percent of premises, and then "connect" a premises when it asks for service. The proposal is NOT to fail to pass premises that don't commit to taking service. 3:43:07: John Honker: Yeah. Thank you, Mayor DuBois. And that's actually the model that's -- that we've shown. So we basically shown that only the homes that subscribe to service will get a fiber drop to them. 3:43:20: Mayor DuBois: OK. 3:43:21: Dean Batchelor: And I think that -- if I can add, John -- correct me if I'm wrong -- but that was based off of the 32 percent take rates. 3:43:28: John Honker: Yeah. That was based on the very conservative 32 percent. So, basically, 32 percent of the homes would get a fiber drop. Every home that was slated for service would be built when they signed up for their connection. 3:43:43: Mayor DuBois: OK. Um. So, I'm a little bit concerned that we would exhaust our Fiber Fund just on the backbone. ### Very good point. You know, I did see how the model -- the no-bond model. But, you know, I'd like to see us kind of leverage these funds to show kind of end-to-end -- all the way to the home. And then, Council Member Cormack asked about the undergrounding. Certainly, I saw, too, the amount of undergrounding. The size of the holes makes a huge difference. The tunnel. Could we do all of this in a single 2-inch duct? 3:44:20: John Honker: Absolutely, you could. So, the way that we had designed the network was for -- actually was for 2 -- or, potentially 3 -- 2-inch ducts. Because installing 1, versus 2, or up to 3 -- there's a small marginal cost for the additional ducts. So, when you're doing it -- when you're installing, the majority of the cost is to directional drill, or bury the first one. So, when you're doing that, the -- your best opportunity is to install more of them. Because it's a marginal cost of the additional materials. And that way, you really never have to dig up the roads again. So, you do it one time. You put in extra duct for your future needs. And even other providers' future needs. And then, those become first use. And you 90 don't dig up again, unless you absolutely have to. But it generally prevents you from having to do a lot of additional road work down the road. 3:45:20: Mayor DuBois: Right. But the more you dig, the more costly it is. So, there's some trade-off. You don't want to do 5 4- inch ducts ... 3:45:28: John Honker: Right. Correct. 3:45:28: Mayor DuBois: ... and waste money. Right? 3:45:30: John Honker: Especially downtown, where it's very congested on all of the subsurface utilities. So, we always -- We generally recommend the 2-inch. Because it's very flexible. So, even if your -- Well, I'll give you a good example. In Boulder, we're boring through, you know, 24-inch boulders. It's called Boulder for a reason, in Colorado. And that 2-inch duct, you can maneuver very easily underground around things. Whereas, you're putting in the larger duct, it becomes very difficult. So, where it's congested, where it's rocky, where it's difficult to build, the 2-inch duct is a great idea. 3:46:05: Mayor DuBois: OK. In your no-bond option -- your ** option -- did you consider charging some of those harder-to-reach homes a higher rate? 3:46:17: John Honker: You know, we didn't look at a higher rate. But it's something that you could always do. I think there's -- we've seen commu- -- we've seen cities go two ways. Either charge a premium. Which may be less desirable than the second way. The second way is charge a connection fee. Right? Because the challenge is, where it is more expensive - - and I mean, you know, a very large magnitude more expensive -- charging an up-front connection fee could alleviate some of that. So you can keep the pricing the same. And then just have some customers who have that additional service charge. As if -- Like a lot of cities do. If they have a rural or hard-to-reach sewer or water or electric customer. 3:46:59: Mayor DuBois: And my last question, for now. So, we're looking at the next phase, for $2 million. And there was $500,000 from the Electric Fund. And $1.5 [million] from the Fiber Fund. How are we determining the split, you know, between these multiple uses, and potential reliability benefits, and all this other benefits? 3:47:20: John Honker: So, we really based it on the amount of infrastructure that each department would utilize. Again, you know, the Electric Fund contribution is important because it's -- it's building infrastructure specifically for reliability purposes and resiliency. It's about a quarter of the total of the rest of the project. Or, a quarter to a third. So, that's kind of how the split was developed. 3:47:47: Mayor DuBois: You're saying it's a quarter, based on the number of fibers, or number of ducts? Or, like, what's the -- How do you figure that out? 3:47:55: John Honker: Yeah. Total fibers that would be used in the system. Plus any of the electric-only infrastructure. Because, if you remember from that last map we showed, there are some connections that were made to the substations that were 91 specific to electric, that wouldn't be made for the rest of the City. Right? So those are just add-ons for electric. That was taken into account when we considered the total capital expenses for those, versus the general City network. 3:48:24: Mayor DuBois: OK. Thank you. Sorry. I was talking. Let's go in the order I see them. Vice Mayor Burt, and then Council Member Stone. 3:48:33: Vice Mayor Burt: Yeah. Well, first, thanks for a really thorough presentation. And thanks to the UAC for their deep scrutiny on this. When we do the rollout -- the full rollout -- is it going to serve not only homes but small businesses and those clients as well? ### Why wouldn't it serve all businesses, not just small businesses? 3:48:56: John Honker: Yeah. You would. So, we had a long discussion with the fiber team and the UAC about how to do that. Because you have a lot of dark fiber customers that are out there today, that you want to keep. But, you know, Palo Alto's not -- Those are mainly larger customers. Right? ### The City, for privacy reasons, doesn't disclose who its dark fiber customers are, at least not to the public. I happen to know that some are residences. They can afford dark fiber. ### They have dark fiber connections, so, in that sense, they can afford them. They can afford larger, you know, fiber connections. But the small businesses can't. Right? So, this network -- As you're building fiber-to-the-home, there's a natural opportunity to start providing small business internet, very similarly, in those -- you know, small retail -- restaurants, coffee shops. 3:49:31: Vice Mayor Burt: Well, and that's what I had thought. And several years ago, when we were looking at this, we actually changed the nomenclature from "fiber-to-the-home" to "fiber-to-the-premise," ### Or, to be more grammatically correct, "fiber-to-the-premises." (See definition 3 here.) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/premise to try to reflect that. I don't know how we got back to the "home." But I think it -- We may want to reconsider it. So just the public understands who's being served by it. ### Great idea. The motion (at 5:05:07) would have been an opportunity to do that. And then, on the current revenue generated by the dark Fiber Fund, ### I think the Fiber Fund is for the entire fiber utility, not just for the dark fiber utility. (Even though, so far, the revenues in the Fiber Fund came exclusively from dark fiber operations.) I heard $30 million accumulated is the number now. But in the budget -- Operating Budget manual -- binder -- it shows, I think, $34 million, going to $35 [million]. At the end of this coming fiscal year. Which number is it? The $30 [million} or the $34 [million]? 3:50:31: Dean Batchelor: ** 3:50:33: - 92 John Honker: Director Batchelor, if you could give us some guidance. 3:50:35: Dean Batchlor: Yeah. Dave, do you want to talk? Dave Yuan? 3:50:38: Dave Yuan: Yeah. This is Dave Yuan, Utilities Strategic Business Manager. Yeah, we were a little conservative when we gave John the $30 million number. There is $35 [million] in the reserves. But we're also setting aside for the next phase as well ... 3:50:50: Vice Mayor Burt: So then, all of the modeling was based upon $30 million in the reserve, not the $35 [million]. Correct? 3:50:57: Dave Yuan: That is correct. 3:50:58: Vice Mayor Burt: Good. Good. Good to hear. So, also, in the budget book, it listed this an an enterprise fund. And I had always understood that it was. Meaning that those --the uses of those funds could -- were restricted to -- not an explicitly-defined set of boundaries -- they could be, essentially, anything telecom related. But that it was NOT a fund that was intermingled with the General Fund. Or, it could be drawn from. And now, I've had it explained otherwise today that it's not technically correct. And I don't know if the City Attorney, or anyone else, could clarify that. 3:51:49: City Attorney Stump: I'll let the ASD Director -- Finance Director -- talk about what an "enterprise fund" means, in terms of how the City sets up its books. But the funds that I can tell -- I can speak to the legal issues. The funds that are generated by the dark fiber activity -- two aspects of them that are notable and different than most of our other utilities, which is that the cost that we charge for participating in those programs is not required by law to be limited only to our -- strictly to our costs of providing services. We can, in fact, charge a rate that exceeds those costs. And then those proceeds are available to the Council's discretion to be used for a variety of purposes. The funds are not limited by Proposition 218 and 26, which we're already accustomed to, with water, gas, wastewater, and electric, to being only used on the utility that generated the funds. 3:52:53: Vice Mayor Burt: OK. And so, I'll just say that I'm -- still believe that there -- we should be thinking of this fund as primarily with a nexus to a build-out of this fiber system. But with these clarifications, I -- I -- it made me pause, and say, well, wait a minute. After last year and this year of struggling through just drastic cuts to services in the community, this fund -- which actually could have been partly utilized to preserve some of those services -- wasn't discussed as part of -- any part of what the Council could consider, to bridge a two-year or so real severe budget gap. To preserve critical services, as fire, and police, and code enforcement, and Children's Theater, and all those things. So, I'm going to be interested in having a discussion, in particular, since the business model was based upon assuming $5 million less currently in this fund than we actually have. So, I'll leave that for discussion later. And, really, it's a discussion for Finance Committee and the Council, tomorrow, rather than for this particular item. But I just want to put that on the table for consideration. 3:54:24: Mayor DuBois: Council Member Stone. 3:54:28: Council Member Stone: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I also want to offer my thanks to the UAC and staff and our consultant for all the work that's been done on this. It's been really helpful. So, thank you. A few questions. The first one: Can maybe the consultant further explain what a "dig once" policy is? And what "microtrenching" is? 93 3:54:53: John Honker: Sure. I'd be happy to, Commissioner [sic] Stone. So, the "dig-once" -- A "dig-once" policy is, effectively, a City ordinance that, any time the ground is disturbed in the right-of-way, for a subsurface utility, such as water, electric, gas, telecommunications, that there's a coordination effort that allows other utilities to be notified of that, and to potentially put in their own utilities alongside the trench. With the concept -- With the idea that, look, the cost of doing this is not the materials. It's not actually putting the infrastructure in the ground. It's actually digging the trench. So, you know, digging - - The labor portion of any infrastructure project like this is 80 percent of the cost. Now, the "dig-once" only works in certain circumstances. And, effectively, when there's a trench open, then those policies work very well. When you're doing directional drilling -- So, for example, when you're boring -- using a drill -- to place conduit, you won't have that opportunity. Because, again, it's a single machine. There's no trench. It's digging directly through the earth. So, those "dig-once" policies work very well. And in those conditions where you have trenching happening. 3:56:22: You second question was on "microtrenching." And we've encountered microtrenching a lot, just in the construction projects that we manage. It works on some cases. In others, it fails miserably. And it's a function of how the -- It's a function of three things: 1) how the duct is placed. How deep. Because a lot of microtrenching will have, like, a 12-inch cut in the pavement, to install conduit. And it's generally installed in the sidewalk, or under the sidewalk, or under the street. So, then you have restoration on top of that. So, in one case, you have the depth. And if it's not deep enough, occasionally you'll have hits on the trench. Because it's in the path of other utilities. And it can be easily dug up. 2), the restoration is very difficult on microtrenching, especially in urban areas. Because you're actually restoring a lot of roadway. Even though you're microtrenching, and you have a small -- you know, 2- to 3-inch trench, versus maybe, you know, a large trench -- you still have to restore that. And, a lot of times, the restoration isn't done correctly. Because construction contractors aren't as familiar with microtrenching. So, the labor associated with it. It's a different installation process. It's a different restoration process. And we -- We've been involved with two or three projects where the restoration is not gone well. And it's caused, you know, public works to have to come back and re-restore and resurface some of the roadways. So, you know, it has very specific places that it can be used. And it -- But it definitely has its challenges. 3:58:08: Council Member Stone: So, I can see microtrenching can be risky. But are we able to do an underground analysis or something -- kind of recognize those warning flags BEFORE? Or is this something that we really don't know until we start digging and constructing a project? 3:58:26: John Honker: In this next phase, we'll be able to do that. In the detailed engineering phase, we can -- You know. Because our engineers will actually be in Palo Alto, on the ground, walking out every roadway, and every route. So, they'll be able to pick up any specific opportunities for microtrenching. And figure out if that creates enough of a cost benefit to use the technique. There's some risk. Like you mentioned, there's some risk in it. But if we can find the areas where it works well, and we can stay out of the roadway, then those can definitely save some money. 3:58:59: Council Member Stone: **. Sorry, go ahead. 3:59:02: Dean Batchelor: Sorry. Council Member Stone. So, one of the other risks that -- placing this. Usually, microtrenching usually is better in a rural area. But when you get into the dense population that we have, usually that goes right against the curb. So, right where the curb and the street meet. And that usually goes, as John mentioned, about 12 inches down. But it goes right over the top of all the services. It goes over your water service. It goes over your electric service. It goes over your top of your -- So, if there is a break on one of those water mains -- on the services that are going to the homes -- there are strong chances that you're going to rip that fiber out of the ground. Because, again, it's only 12 inches below grade level. So, it works really well in rural areas, where you don't have that density. But, as we are -- But, as John and I have talked, we're going to look at some of these areas, and see what we can do. In the City. 3:59:54: 94 Council Member Stone: And thanks for that clarification. ** One quick question as a direct kind of follow-up to that. The report states that the estimated cost of the two fiber backbone networks ### Council Member Stone seems to think there are TWO new fiber backbone networks. is between $22 [million] to $28 million, depending on the construction method. Are these the type -- 'Cause it wasn't very clear what were the types of construction method that's in the report. Are these the type of things that we're talking about, that is giving that pretty significant price range? 4:00:21: John Honker: Actually, the original numbers -- the $22 [million] to $28 [million] -- was sort of an interim analysis that we did for the City, that looked at either 2-inch conduit or 4-inch conduit. Because there was some question about which would be the best for the City to install -- 2-inch being the $22 million, 4-inch being the $28 million. You know, more materials, harder to install, bigger duct. We all agreed, I think, in consensus that 2-inch was a much better and more cost- effective option for the City. Less restoration. Less utility issues. So, that's where that $28 [million] came from. So, the $22 [million] is for the installation of multiple 2-inch conduits underground. Directional boring would be the majority of the work that was done. Because, again, you know, you're in tight underground easements, and there's lots of utilities. So there's got to be pot pulling. There has to be utility locates. And then, you know, once that's all done, ensuring those existing utilities are protected, then they will directional-bore those runs. So, that's what we would anticipate for the majority of the project. A little bit of trenching here and there. Maybe some microduct -- microtrenching -- if there are opportunities. 4:01:41: Council Member Stone: OK. Thank you for those clarifications. And I see I'm out of time. 4:01:44: John Honker: You're welcome. 4:01:45: Mayor DuBois: Council Member Filseth. 4:01:47: Council Member Filseth: Yeah. Thanks very much. A whale of a lot of work here. Which is good. Question on -- So, some of the reference cities where -- where -- that have gone down this direction. Were AT&T and Comcast sort of active in a lot of those cities, and an existing presence, and so forth? 4:02:12: John Honker: Commissioner [sic] Filseth, we -- Generally, yes. I think -- When we think about other cities that are out there doing what Palo Alto's considering doing, we want to make sure they're the same size and shape. Right? 4:02:25: Council Member Filseth: Right. 4:02:25: John Honker: Because, you know, a lot of rural communities have done this, as well. And, you know, maybe it's not as competitive there. Maybe they don't the duopoly, with -- But the ones that we look at, you know -- the Longmonts in Colorado, Fort Collins, Loveland, Chattanooga, BrightRidge (or Johnson City Electric), Jackson Energy -- You know, 50[,000]-ish to 100,000 in populations. They all have a cable company, and they all have a telco. Right? It's either AT&T and Comcast. Or it's CenturyLink and -- ah -- ah -- Altice. Or it could be, you know, Cox and -- ah -- ah -- AT&T. Or any combination. There's generally one cable provider and one inter- -- telephone company. 4:03:16: 95 Council Member Filseth: So, how did the incumbents respond, when the cities went down these paths? ** experience? 4:03:23: John Honker: So -- So -- They'll put up a fight. I mean, they always put up a fight. Usually what we see is, they'll -- I mean, Colorado -- just being so close to the three Colorado cities [Longmont, Fort Collins, and Loveland] that have built out on the Front Range, they're very similar in their tactics. Right? They took a shotgun approach there, and, you know, put out negative -- negative campaigns against them. They spent marketing dollars to try to dissuade each of the cities from building out. They lobbied commissioners. ### Council members. They lobbied the city manager. They did everything they could until the point that they found the project was green-lighted. And then it's just a matter of competing. And, at that point, it's -- It's stiff competition. Right? Because they're established companies. But they don't have good reputations. And the reputations that they have are one of the biggest challenges, I think, that they face, when going up against municipal providers. We ... 4:04:23: Council Member Filseth: So, even in the space of the -- cities hit their take rate targets. 4:04:29: John Honker: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, ... 4:04:31: Council Member Filseth: OK. 4:04:31: John Honker: ... I mean, the most mature one, I would say -- I mean, there's a lot. Longmont is probably the closest to you. They're about 70,000 population. They own their own electric utility. They built out six years ago. And now, they're at about a 54 percent take rate? 4:04:47: Council Member Filseth: OK. 4:04:47: John Honker: They offer 1-gig service. They were very intent on building as fast as they could, and getting as many customers as they could. So, they said, look, you know, instead of -- We're going to price our gigabit service at $50 a month. And we're going to give people a charter membership for life if they sign up for that $50 a month. So, they had huge, huge sign-ups. Huge take rate. Because they realized, you know, this is a fixed-cost business. The more customers they can have, spreads that fixed cost over a lot more -- It just makes it more sustainable. Plus, they wanted -- they wanted the reputation. The wanted to be the local home provider. And they're very, very adamant about their quality of service. And their reliability on the electric side. And they use that to really win customers on the fiber side. 4:05:41: Council Member Filseth: OK. And so -- So, then, people switched partly because of price, but then partly because of brand image? 4:05:48: John Honker: Brand image. Yeah. Price and br- -- You know, it's a combination. It's got to be a brand. It's got to be a price. And it's got to be the right package. So, you know, the speed, price, and brand are those three market factors that -- they have to be right for the municipal provider to ... - 96 3:06:04: Council Member Filseth: And were the incumbents also offering gigabit to -- in the significant portion of the city? 4:06:08: John Honker: They were. 4:06:10: Council Member Filseth: They were. OK. 4:06:11: John Honker: Yes. Comcast actually did a study on Longmont. Where Comcast launched their gigabit service after Longmont launched theirs. And they they brought their price down about $12 from the surrounding cities, where they were also launching that service. 4:06:28: Council Member Filseth: Actually, the city was the first mover, in that case. 4:06:31: John Honker: They were. They were. 4:06:32: Council Member Filseth: OK. 4:06:34: John Honker: Comcast had already started to deploy. 4:06:36: Council Member Fliseth: OK. 4:06:36: John Honker: But they really accelerated the timeline, once they realized the city was going to deploy. 4:06:40: Council Member Filseth: Sure. Sure. Sure. OK. And the last question. You know, how big an issue was live TV? 4:06:45: John Honker: Um. Live TV. You know, two years ago, it was still a bigger issue. Today, it's much less of an issue. So, there's a couple of -- There's a couple solutions for TV. And, you know, as we work with your community to understand their sensitivities around cord-cutting, as well as their affinity for pay TV. Because, you know, the demographics change, based on age. Right? Under-40 cord-cutters. 40-65 cord-cutters. And then above-65 cord-cutters. Right? And then cord-cutters go way down. Typically. So, we want to understand sort of those three tiers in the demographic. Because you may find that in Palo Alto, you may not -- you might have 10-15-20 percent left in pay TV. For example, Lehigh, Utah, is just building out. You know, very progressive, very young community. They have 14 percent of their population that still has pay TV service. So, in terms of a market -- in terms of providing that service -- it's not enough for them to really to establish the service and the costs, to go after that extra take rate. Right? In some communities, -- like an older community in Tennessee, with BrightRidge -- they felt like -- or, Johnson City Electric Authority -- they felt like they had to, because their cord-cutting rate was only around 40 percent. So 60 percent of their market still had pay TV. And it's a much older demographic there. Not as technologically advanced. So, they decided, we have to offer this as part of our service. I -- My gut tells me, Palo Alto, you probably wouldn't, just given the demographic there. But, you know, the 97 market data will tell us. And the customer interactions will tell us the story. If you did, you would -- There's a number of ways to offer it at very low cost and low overhead, compared to the traditional ways that some of the early municipal providers did. So, those are our options. If you needed to add it on. But the way that it works today is, instead of having a set-top box and a remote control, they'll deliver an Amazon Fire Stick, with a software on it. Plugs into the back of the TV, and the customer's up an running. So, it's a totally different scenario. So, offering TV -- which used to be a really -- very, very, very expensive and challenging endeavor for municipal providers, now has become almost a sort of a -- just an add-on. 4:09:20: Council Member Filseth: All right. Thanks. 4:09:20: John Honker: Sure. 4:09:25: Mayor DuBois: [pause] Sorry. Council Member Tanaka. 4:09:29: Council Member Tanaka: Yeah. I just want to also add my thanks to the -- to everyone -- the UAC, staff, consultants. Very important topic. Even -- you know, today -- this whole week, I've been -- starting last week, I've been having a ton of trouble with my own ISP. And really would want faster, more reliable internet. So, I'm totally into this right now. And, you know, my own kind of personal thing -- I'm just trying to figure out who can I go to. There's not much of a choice. So, I could clearly use AT&T. Some of my neighbors have Comcast, which does have faster internet. But there's, like, a lot of reliability issues. Although I'm facing reliability issues right now as well. So, it's like definitely not many choices going on. 4:10:09: And one of the key things, as I kind of did research in this area, is the need for competition. And it seems like competition is -- So, if you look at a lot of European or Asian countries, where the default model for them is "open access." And so, John, are you familiar with that concept at all? And -- I know, like, -- Ammon, Idaho has done this. And a few other cities. Do you know much this? Can you talk a little bit about "open access"? And -- ### If, per the staff report and presentation, Palo Alto can be successful at implementing citywide municipal FTTP as the sole provider of retail services, why is Council Member Tanaka interested in talking about open access, which the consultant says is harder to be successful at? 4:10:34: John Honker: Sure. 4:10:34: Council Member Tanaka: ** ... 4:10:35: John Honker: Yup. We do. We're actually implementing a big -- large open access right now in Utah. So, open access is a little different from what we're talking about. Because, basically, it allows multiple ISPs to operate on the network at the same time. Right? Instead of having a single ISP. You know. For example, if the City did -- wasn't providing service, and it wanted to have providers actually deliver the retail internet service, then, if -- it could create an open access network, where multiple providers can be on the network and compete for business. It works in Europe well, because it's an established model. ### In Europe, open access works because the EU requires it. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018L1972 98 ### Similarly, in Utah, open access works because Utah requires it of municipal networks. One of the challenges here is that it's very difficult to get those -- it's more difficult to get those networks off the ground. Because each provider is getting a very sm- -- a much smaller share of the market. So, for example, if a single provider -- let's say, the City of Palo Alto -- you're getting 100 percent of the market share. Right? Or, let's say there's 40 percent. Or, the take rate -- Let's say the take rate is 32 percent, like we had talked about. Right? If you introduce three ISPs to the network, each of them can basically get 10-11 percent. Right? ### There's no reason to assume that the retail ISPs on an open access network will share the market on that network equally. There's no reason to assume that a retail ISP on an open network can't compete with a retail ISP on some other network. So, their market share goes down. So, it changes the market incentives for providers to offer service. Because they don't have as much of a market share available. There's not many providers that offer open access.-- or that operate on open access networks. There's just a handful of small providers today. So, another challenge is recruiting the providers, to actually operate -- actually deliver services on the network. The third challenge is that the integration, and the technology behind the open access is not 100 percent mature net. It's still challenged in the U.S. There are some small networks -- like you had mentioned Ammon, which is a very common -- is a very well-known open access network. Where there's multi providers. But a lot of those technologies still are not fully baked. ### I don't understand what Honker is saying. There are several open access networks in the U.S. They are at least "baked" enough to work. 4:12:44: Council Member Tanaka: Hmm. One more, I was wondering whether it would work for our City -- because we have a dark fiber ring -- is: What if we were to give discounts to broadband providers to go the last mile, and then get some sort of discounted rate to our backbone, in exchange for basically making sure that thing is open access to other ISPs? So that consumers actually have a choice between -- any ISP that wants to be on there. So you create kind of an incentive for them to put up the capital. Because they'll get, perhaps, lower access rates. Or cheaper access to infrastructure. And, yet, then we give the consumer more choices than they have today. Have you seen models like that? ### Again, if, per the staff report and presentation, Palo Alto can be successful at implementing citywide municipal FTTP as the sole funder, why is Council Member Tanaka interested in talking about sharing the funding with a partner, which the consultant is harder to be successful at? 4:13:30: John Honker: We have. I think one of the really big challenges in Palo Alto is the construction cost, though. 4:13:34: Council Member Tanaka: Hmm. 4:13:34: John Honker: So, you know, one of the big -- And the root of that is private capital. Right? And the return requirements on private capital. So, when we look at the private providers, -- We have -- You have the fiber ring. Which is great. When you talk about building off that fiber ring, it's -- It's definitely a natural progression. But to do it with private capital is much more challenging, because the return on the investment is so far down the road. And it's so difficult for them to get IRR, ### IRR = Internal Rate of Return. where they can say, yeah, I can bring $30 million to the table. Because they're looking for a 3-5 year return on that, at, you know, a minimum of 10-12 percent. So -- In a year. Right? So, now we're talking, you know. -- It's -- And these networks don't cash flow until years 5, 6, 7, 8. That's when you start getting excess cash generated on the network. So, it becomes very hard to get them to invest in the areas where it's expensive to build. 4:14:31: - 99 Council Member Tanaka: Even -- Even, like, with -- um -- you know, in our case, what if it was free access? Right? Or, you know, maybe Expedia permits. Or, you know, we fund some of their -- some of their construction costs. Right? So, it would save us fronting the whole construction costs. We'd front some of it. But in exchange, you have to make sure it's open access to all providers. So that there's a choice for consumers. 4:14:55: John Honker: Yeah. I mean, you can -- you can -- You could do that. I think -- What we normally see as the challenge is if I'm -- If I'm putting up capital, as a private entity, why do I have to compete with others who are benefiting off of that capital? 4:15:09: Council Member Tanaka: But you get lower construction costs, because the City's helping to fund it. 4:15:13: John Honker: Right. Because -- Yeah. If the City were helping, it might -- I think -- We still see challenges to providers coming to the table when you're looking at them bringing any -- ANY -- funding. I think, also, it's important, though, is -- You have a significant footprint. And we looked at the numbers, again. And, as you saw -- so, you're looking at $66 million in total funding. Or -- total -- you know, to build -- to invest in the plant. Can you get a provider to guarantee, hey, I'm going to build out equitably across the entire City, using this? And we usually find, as we're working with providers and cities that they'll get into the business of cherry picking. Right? Where they're going to go where, you know, it's most profitable for them to go, at the expense of the areas where it's not profitable. 4:16:09: Council Member Tanaka: But -- but -- but -- that's what your models show anyways, as well. Right? We're going to do the easy ones first, and then, the hard ones we're going to do later. My point, more, is, like, a multiplication of capital. Right? Where, right now, we front a whole build with our own service. 4:16:21: John Honker: Um hum. 4:16:21: Council Member Tanaka: Versus, we front a portion of it. We get private companies to fund the rest. But the catch for them is, they have to -- they have to provide open access to other providers, so that our consumers -- our residents -- have a choice. So, it seems like it's the same -- It doesn't seem like any different from us paying ourselves. Because, I mean, you're -- In your rollout plan, where we don't raise a bunch of bonds, that's what we do, as well. 4:16:45: John Honker: Right. 4:16:45: Council Member Tanaka: In this case, with an open access approach, like what Asia or Europe does, we get a multiplication of capital. Right? Because we invest our capital. The ISP -- broadband provider -- also puts their capital in. Because -- Because we're funding a big portion of it, but the catch is, of course, that they have to provide open access. 4:17:05: John Honker: Yeah. You would still be inserting, in that private sector, return. So, you're going to change the dynamics of the network. Right? Meaning that, let's say, it's a 50-50 split. Right? The City's putting in $32 [million]. Or $33 [million]. The provider's putting in $33 [million]. You still have that return requirement, that's in that $33 million, that's going to change the overall profitability of the network. Right? So, with Palo Alto, you don't -- we don't have that. Right? Because there's really no return requirement, at the end of the day. Plus, you're financing that capital at 2.5 percent -- 3 percent. Versus, you know, their hurdle rate on the capital is probably 9 -- 8-9 percent. So, they need to be 100 achieving, again, above that. They need to be achieving a significantly higher rate of return, to get over their hurdle rate, and then get their -- you know, to green-light the project. So, -- I mean, it's always something to look at. We just haven't seen it be successful in a lot of cities, because of those those private-sector, you know, rate of return requirements. 4:18:07: Council Member Tanaka: Um hum. But I guess it's -- I'm not -- I'm realizing I'm over time. So, let me try to finish this thought here. But I guess my point of view is that -- I mean, they are -- there is, for instance, gigabit ethernet in my neighborhood. It's just a little bit flaky, though. So, there is that -- there is that here. So, they have invested in our community. Maybe not to the extent we want. ### Council Member Tanaka seems to be proposing specifically that one of the incumbents -- either AT&T or Comcast -- be the private-sector entity to step in and offer open access and help to fund the infrastructure for it. To my knowledge, this hasn't happened in the U.S. (AT&T allows Sonic to use it wires. But that's different.) But they have invested. Maybe not all the places we want. And maybe not at the rate, or speed, we want. But they have. And so, what this does, though, by putting the City capital on top of it, it lowers that hurdle rate. Right? Because we're -- It's not like they're not investing, because they are. Right? Some of us probably actually have gig ethernet. This lowers the hurdle. Right? 4:18:48: John Honker: Yeah. I think the question becomes, how low can your -- how much can you lower it? Can you lower it enough where they're interested in making those investments? That's -- That's really the question. And then, does -- do the requirements on the open access side -- Do you really get them to buy into that? Because, even if they're only put -- Let's say they're putting in $33 million. They're still having to compete with other ISPs that are putting in NO capital. So, now you have, you know, one IS- -- That's where it gets tricky, because they're competing against themselves. But they're still investing at the same time. 4:19:25: Council Member Tanaka: Well, there's a wholesale rate. Right? And usually that's an auction. Right? ### I don't know how this would work. Has it happened anywhere in the U.S.? So, it's not like it's free to someone else. Right. They put in a bunch of capital, and it's free to someone else. That's - - The other ISP has to pay a wholesale rate. 4:19:34: John Honker: Right. 4:19:34: Council Member Tanaka: There's an auction. Right? And so they still make margin on that. Because it's not like -- It's not like somebody gets to use it for free. There's a wholesale rate. That they have to pay back to the original last-mile provider. 4:19:47: Mayor DuBois: OK. Thank you. Council Member Kou. 4:19:52: Council Member Kou. Thank you, Mr. Honker, for your very thorough presentation tonight. Is "open access" similar to having many partner ISPs? 4:20:04: John Honker: It's a little different, Commissioner [sic] Kou. It's -- So, think of -- Instead of multiple partners, think of -- think about multiple vendors on the network. Meaning that you have -- almost like you have Amazon Web Services, and 101 you have Microsoft Azure. You'll have multiple ISPs. Right? They're all sort of virtualized. Meaning that they all can connect into the network, and then offer service to customers. But the City will own and operate the physical network infrastructure. So, you can have multiple providers, but one underlying network. 4:20:46: Council Member Kou: So, essentially, the disadvantages would be similar to the partner-ISPs? 4:20:52: John Honker: They would. I would say the open access is even -- If we put that on a scale of open access, partner, City retail, the open access would have the most disadvantages. ** ... 4:21:03: Council Member Kou: Hmm. OK. Thank you for -- Can you say that again. I'm sorry. I missed the last statement. 4:21:08: John Honker: Yeah. So, having multiple ISPs, again, because of the competitive market, and these -- And the challenges -- the limited success open access has had, we would -- On the scale of having those three side by side, that would be the one with the most disadvantages. 4:21:26: Council Member Kou: OK. You know, Council Member Filseth had asked a question about TV. And you said "cord- cutters." What does that mean? 4:21:34: John Honker: Oh. I apologize. So, -- Yeah. We all get caught up in our lingo. So, "cord-cutters" are households that no longer subscribe to traditional cable TV. They are either Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime. But they don't subscribe to a cable TV. So, we always call them "cord-cutters," because they've cut the cord. They've cut the cable TV cord. 4:22:02: Council Member Kou: Oh. Oh. OK. Thank you so much. OK. Also, aerial installations -- that's on our power poles. Right? And I noticed that is says here that they might be pole replacements. Now, was that calculated into that [$]1.8 [million] [?] figure on one of the slides? 4:22:29: John Honker: We put it in there as a budget and a contingency. So, there's a $3.5 million of contingency on the backbone -- was -- could be used for pole replacement. 4:22:39: Council Member Kou: For pole replace - -- OK. I see. And that's going to come out of the Fiber Fund? 4:22:46: John Honker: Um. The way that we had worked on -- with the UAC on it, that was sort of the goal. Was to use the Fiber Fund for the backbone. ### Why choose that as a goal? Why not create a funding strategy for everything -- both citywide FTTP and the backbone -- and then vet it thoroughly? To fund a portion -- yeah -- a PORTION of the Fiber Fund to finance the backbone. 4:23:01: 102 Council Member Kou: And then, will half of it come from the Electric Fund, or the pole fund -- you know -- Is that how it's going to work? There's a sharing? 4:23:09; John Honker: That's right. There's a sharing between -- So, the Fiber Fund would contribute. Electric would also contribute. And then -- I think that was it. Director Batchelor, I think we were looking at the two contributors -- Electric and the Fiber Fund for the backbone. 4:23:28: Dean Batchelor: That's -- That is correct. 4:23:29: Council Member Kou: OK. Thank you. Um. And you spoke about speed, price, and brand, right? So, is Magellan going to be doing the pricing and the branding, as well? Or is that going to be separate? 4:23:42: John Honker: We absolutely can. We help cities implement these networks all day. And help you through the sales and marketing process, branding, the competitive orientation, and, you know, setting the right rates for your products and services. 4:23:58: Council Member Kou: OK. And then -- last minute -- so, you're going to be doing the community outreach. How does that look like? 4:24:06: John Honker: So, the -- So, we will work with your communications director and your communications team. Because we understand that you already have some outreach activities going on. So, we want to sort of fall right within that. And use all your existing work that's being done. And the channels. To really, first, educate. Make sure that the community is aware of what high-speed internet really means. And why fiber-to-the-home. Why fiber's important. What the benefits are. Make sure they're educated about the options that are out there for high-speed internet. And then, also, engage them -- and -- through the survey process. So, it's really that first -- that first level of engagement is awareness building. And education. The second is sort of one-on-one. Right? Focus groups and town halls. And we'll follow your communications department's lead -- or, director's lead -- on how to organize those. What's best. But then, we can provide the content. And, you know, obviously, lead or participate in those town halls. However they would like us to do that. And then, the third portion is, you know -- And that really gives you on-the-ground, anecdotal information from opinion leaders, from residents, from businesses, about broadband, that helps support the education process. Then, also, the surveys. Right? The surveys are going to be important for more of a quantitative analysis of the market and demand. So we get a true sense of what the community is interested in, what kind of prices they would support, the types of packages that they want from their internet provider. And also, how they feel about the City providing service. Right? How your brand equity, as a reliable provider of broadba- -- of electric service is -- and other essential services -- is seen in the community. Because that's going to be really critical for you as you move forward. You know, the brand equity that you hold in your community. And this is the same for other municipal broadband providers that have moved forward. They've used that. And it becomes a really competitive advantage for them to win customers and -- Because people trust them. And that is so important when you're going up against companies that aren't well trusted in the industry, and don't have the best reputations all the time. 4:26:40: Council Member Kou: What is the time window that you're going to be providing -- that is going to be for the community engagement? 4:26:48: 103 John Honker: Sure. So, it would be, effectively, the second half of this year. We would look to start, I believe, toward the end of June. And we would finish sort of in the December timeframe. And then, if there's any additional follow-up or additional engagement, that might trail into the first month of -- January 2022. But we expect the majority of it to be complete by the end of the year. 4:27:16: Council Member Kou: That's perfect. Thank you so much for the answers. You know, we have town halls that are being reinstituted again. So it will be something to consider. And, also, reaching out to all of our neighborhood associations will be important as well. Thank you so much. 4:27:30: John Honker: You're welcome. 4:27:31: Dean Batchelor: So, if I could add, Commissioner [sic] Kou. And so, that -- Exactly what you just talked about with -- You know, we have communications out in our neighborhoods. And so, one of the things to look at -- some ambassadors, as we go down through the neighborhood portions of it. And we are also looking at some new tools to enhance the City platforms, so that we can get some two-way communications going. We're also looking at utilizing our GIS platform -- Esri platform. We're thinking that we can get down to the neighborhoods and actually start pinning some of the neighborhoods, and getting out and talking to the neighbors, through some of these efforts of focus groups, discussions, and face-to-face -- in those neighborhoods. So, the idea behind all that is to let folks know -- the residents know -- actually what's going on. Seeing that there's blocks in one area of the City -- that will excite the other areas, as well, too. So, there's a whole platform that we're looking at -- looking to utilize in this area. 4:28:35: Council Member Kou: That's very good to know. You know, as Mr. Honker said, you know, establishing the trust and confidence is foremost. And that's how you do it. Thank you. 4:28:49: Mayor DuBois: I'll jump in to start the second round. So, I don't think it's a secret. I'm a champion for this effort. I've read books. I've talked to experts. I've gone to conferences. And I really believe this is going to pay for itself. It's going to generate money for the City. ### I think it would be better if the City didn't think of its fiber utility as a cash cow for other projects, even if state law doesn't currently forbid it. It's going to save our residents a ton of money. ### Yes. This is a much better goal. And it's going to enable businesses. And I was sitting here listening, just wondering what it was like, like, 25 years ago. That Council didn't know a network would pay off. And 25 years ago, they had the vision to invest in a dark fiber network. And it's paid off in spades. Paid back that investment many times. ### The fiber utility repaid a $2 million loan from electric utility, which was required to start up the dark fiber network. (It did that ONCE.) Since then, it has amassed $35 million, for the purpose, I claim, of starting up citywide municipal FTTP. But staff wants to spend the lion's share -- $22 million -- on dark fiber ring improvements for a variety of reasons. Can citywide municipal FTTP be financed using only what's left after that? So, we have the opportunity to invest in a new City asset -- this expanded fiber network -- that can provide City services, utility services, residential services. And it's not just about the speed. Council Member Tanaka mentioned reliability. It's cost. And it's also the ability to transfer both down to your house and up to the network. And during COVID, we saw kind of what happens with our current networks, when multiple people are trying to send data up. Like a Zoom call. Private networks are not really designed for the speed up. 104 ### Comcast's HFC product can provide downloads up to 1 Gbps but uploads up to only 35 Mbps. AT&T's FTTP product can provide both 1 Gbps downloads and 1 Gbps uploads. AT&T's copper-based products are much slower, and uploads are much slower than downloads. And so, we are also in a pretty rare position, with our existing Fiber Fund. Most of the cities do not have that advantage. And, like I said earlier, I'd really like to see those funds used, not just for the backbone, but to really get us all the way through proof of concept to fiber-to-the-home. ### Very important point. 4:30:22: You know, labor costs are 90 percent of this project. Ninety percent. So, I really think we do need answers to some of these cost challenges that were a barrier to a few years ago when we looked at this. We can't load up all these costs on the fiber effort. It just -- It won't work. So, Council Member Kou mentioned the utility pole -- Pole make-ready and replacement costs. Again, I think those need to be borne by the electric utility for AMI. As well as fiber. But we can't just overload the fiber effort. I think we need to look at our trenching specs. And, like it was said, consider microtrenching where we can. We really need to be cost-conscious all around. If there are other City standards that we can loosen -- It was already mentioned to have the permitting ready, so that the construction doesn't start and stop, and we're not driving up costs on ourselves unnecessarily. And then, it was also mentioned in the staff report about getting multi-dwelling utility changes in place, so that we can make it easy to add additional broadband into our multi-family housing. So, I really want to caution us not to overengineer the network. ### On the subject of overengineering, I'd like to consider the new fiber backbone and FTTP cases separately. In terms of number of ducts, or, you know, whatever it is. And, again, in terms of cost-sharing, I really don't want us to underestimate the value to the City overall. You know, it's going to be used by utilities. We're talking about a separate physical utility network. I'd really like us to consider a 50-50 split between fiber and the other City functions. ### I'm not really clear about this idea. Is Mayor DuBois saying that an analysis can show that the benefit to electric, gas, and water ratepayers should be enough to justify having these utilities pay for half of a deployment of FTTP plus backbone? If so, that would be great. I don't think that the benefit to electric, gas, and water ratepayers should be figured as only the cost of deploying dedicated fiber strands on their behalf. Because I think we're going to see a lot of benefits over time that we really need to account for. 4:32:08: I think staff is proposing the next reasonable step. I think this rigorous assessment of interest is going to be critical. And, like Council Member Cormack said, our community survey showed a lot of unhappiness with current high-speed internet. I'd really like to see us maybe figure out how we're going to phase the build-out, based on critical mass of interest. You know, more than even a survey, I'd be interested be interested in taking deposits, or figuring out how we really get a strong show of interest. A commitment. More than just answering a survey. ### Fine. What should the dollar amount of the deposit be? When should the deposit be required, relative to when service will actually be offered? What will the City promise to offer for service options -- speed, cost, etc. So, maybe, like Longmont did with their charter subscriber. ### Longmont's idea was actually different. Longmont deployed to a neighborhood first, and only then gave neighborhood residents the opportunity to sign up, within 3 months, as a "charter member" for 1-Gbps internet service at $49.95 per month that would otherwise cost $99.95 per month. I mean, I think that that kind of program could be really effective. And so, again, we have an opportunity to expand our leasing business. Increase our dark fiber revenue. I think we can be cash-flow positive, with a very achievable take rate. And then, there are many cities around us that are actually building community-based networks right now. Los Altos Hills has been expanding a network. ### In Los Altos Hills, the FTTP network is being deployed not by the city but by "Los Altos Hills Community Fiber (LAHCF), a 'mutual benefit corporation' under California law similar in organization to a homeowners association." https://www.bbcmag.com/multifamily-broadband/gigabit-fiber-comes-to-los-altos-hills 105 I assume Mayor DuBois is just pointing out that there's interest in FTTP in Los Altos Hills -- not that he wants to consider specifically who the community-based deployer is. Los Gatos. Portola Valley. Woodside. So, we have this opportunity to invest our community, generate money for the City, save the residents money, and really benefit our business community as well. I do believe that, you know, if you look at the trade-offs, the business case is much stronger if we run the network, but we outsource any expertise we don't have, whether it's technical support, or operating the ISP, we can outsource all those things. 4:33:47: And so, I'd like to go ahead and make the staff motion, just to get something on the table, since It's getting late. And I'll stop there. If there's ... 4:33:59: Council Member Kou: I'll second. 4:34:00: Mayor DuBois: OK. Thank you for that. So, again, I think the staff motion outlines right steps. We can save money by combining the engineering for phase 3 and 4. ### The video displays: "MOTION: Mayor DuBois, seconded by Council Member Kou to approve and direct staff to pursue build out of the City fiber backbone in a manner designed to support citywide Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), including the near-term 12-month workplan outlined in the report and establish a City-operated Internet Service Provider (ISP) model to offer FTTH service within five years." It also says, "MOTION PASSED/FAILED: 7-0," but that hasn't happened yet. That we do these surveys, and establish kind of community interest. We complete the business model and the financing model details. That we focus on this ISP model, where we control it, but we can outsource. And we really move to kind of community education and engagement. I think all those steps make a ton of sense. Council Member Kou, do you want to speak to your second? 4:34:39: Council Member Kou: I don't have much to say, except that, you know, this past year, we have seen how much this is needed. All the internet -- the instability -- the instability -- um -- from internet, as we're doing all of these meetings. So, this is a great investment for our community. But I also want to thank the UAC for all the vetting that they did, and all the questions, and recommendation to Council. So, I support this. And I look forward to having this utility infrastructure here. Thank you. 4:35:17: Mayor DuBois: Council Member Cormack. 4:35:20: Council Member Cormack: Thank you, Mayor DuBois. I still have more questions. And so, I'm going to plow ahead with those. With respect to the motion, when it -- when I come back to that, I will be asking -- this is not as it was described in the staff report. I would prefer to wait until we have the results of 1.b) and 1.d) before we do number 2, which is on the staff report, and not reflected in the motion. ### The staff report https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/2021/id-12117.pdf does have the motion displayed in the video at 4:34:00 in its "Recommendation" paragraph on page 1. It also has a more complete description in its "Executive Summary" section, on pages 1 and 2. At 4:41:36, Mayor DuBois changed the wording of the motion to the more detailed description, per Council Member Cormack's request. 106 Um. OK. Super-important. And I completely trust our Communications team to do this, as we have to use real words in our education and in our survey. So, lots of buzz words flying around. And those of us who spent some time reading it, we're going to be able to keep up. But the average person, who is not an engineer, let's just remember to use real words there. Couple questions. So, Mr. Honker, it looked like there was a four-year ramp on the pro-forma for revenue. Is that based on the take rate changing over time, or is that based on the rate at which we build it out? 4:36:24: John Honker: It's based on both, actually, Commissioner [sic] ... 4:36:27: Council Member Cormack: OK. 4:36:27: John Honker: So, we look at a 4-year period. A 2-year build out to get to the first customers. And then, with your first customers coming in in the 2nd year. And then, a 4-year build -- or, a 4-year ramp up in the take rate to get to the 32 percent. So, summarizing, think about your getting to your 32 percent in a maximum of 5 years. 4:36:53: Council Member Cormack: OK. So, that leads me to my next question. Everybody wanted this last year. 4:36:59: John Honker: Um hum. 4:36:59: Council Member Cormack: If we moved ahead with this, when is the first time someone could have 1-gigabit service at their home, provided by the City of Palo Alto? When's the first time? 4:37:07: John Honker: The -- the date? 4:37:09: Council Member Cormack: Um hum. 4:37:10: John Honker: That is what you'd like? Um. [pause] So, can I give you a range? 4:37:17: Council Member Cormack: Sure. 4:37:19: John Honker: [laughs] Let -- let -- let's use a range that works well for this. So, assuming engineering is finished in, you know, let's say the first quarter of next year, you know, moving into construction really quickly and -- Director Batchelor, people, please keep me sane here, because we know construction always is a heavy lift. But we would look at 2023 -- you know, mid 2023 -- as a moderately conservative opportunity to have the first customers connected. Now, we see a lot of cities that want to fast-track a PILOT project. Right? So, in which case, you could maybe, potentially, pull that date in, by, you know, 3-6 months, if you're prepared to do so, and you wanted to really, really show the community dedication, and a mission to get customers connected as quickly as possible. But if --we would say that would be sort of a "soft launch." And then, you would have your "hard launch." Right? Meaning, your full market launch -- in mid-2023. 107 4:38:35: Council Member Cormack: OK. That's helpful. And then, on slide 29, that went through how we would do this if we weren't doing debt. ### Slides 28, 29, and 30 are all relevant. Um. So, if you look at the third group -- 30 percent -- the 7,000 homes. One of the things we haven't talked today about today is the overlap between the service they have available now and the cost it would be to build out. Um. Do we have any way of knowing that other 30 percent -- those last 7,000 homes -- do they already have access, because they have access to underground utilities, to something better than some of the rest of us? ### I don't think anybody in town currently has access to a "better" internet service (from anyone) because they have access to underground utilities. In some of the City's underground districts, the City has already put in conduit for fiber. So the cost to the City to deploy FTTP there would be less than it would be to deploy FTTP in underground districts where conduit for fiber doesn't already exist. 4:39:11: John Honker: We would -- We will be able to find out. From the survey data. Because we'll actually get points -- customer locations. And that will help us understand better what they have and what services are available to them. 3:39:26: Council Member Cormack: OK. But -- Oh. So, we don't know the answer yet. 4:38:30: John Honker: We don't know the answer yet. That's right. 4:39:32: Council Member Cormack: OK. Um. And then a question for, I guess, our finance staff. People are throwing around millions of dollars, and bonding. Is this a Certificate of Participation? Is this a bond against future revenues? Like, what is the methodology we'd be using? Hypothetically. And I realize that that would be a part of 1.e). But if we did borrow for this, what are our range of options? ### I agree that this question would ideally have been answered by "finance staff." 4:40:01: Dave Yuan: This is Dave Yuan. I think one of the options we have is the revenue bonds. That's something we did maybe like 10 years ago, with the emergency water supply bond. 4:40:10: Council Member Cormack: Um hum. 4:40:10: Dave Yuan: So we backed it up with the revenues from our other utilities. Like electric, gas, wastewater. 4:40:17: Council Member Cormack: OK. 4:40:17: Dave Yuan: But ... - 108 4:40:17: Council Member Cormack: And would we be -- OK. Mr. Honker provided a recent estimate of an interest rate. Um. OK. And does that -- just from a debt standpoint -- does that accrue to the City in the same way if it's in the enterprise funds? I mean, do the capital markets look at us as an entity? Or are they going to look at the enterprise funds as their own -- their own entity? 4:40:45: Dave Yuan: I'll look, for that, to Director Nose, if she's available. ### Apparently, Director Nose was not available. 4:40:49: City Manager Shikada: Well, I think, in the broad terms it would be fair to say that we've just started looking at this. 4:40:55: Council Member Cormack: OK. 4:40:55: City Manager Shikada: And we've got a bit of work ahead to identify both the opportunities as well as the restrictions on how this would be structured. ### In view of the fact that, in 2004, staff's concerns about the details of financing were what derailed the citywide FTTP project then, it's worrying that we're only just now starting to look at financing details again. 4:41:03: Council Member Cormack: Um. So, I just realized my time has expired on this round. But I'll just say that, as interested as I am in, you know, doing, shall we say, you know, "everything" -- the whole enchilada, as it were, and making it available to everyone, and going all in, I do think it would be prudent for us to think about doing it without debt. ### Staff's NO-DEBT model would take 10 years to get FTTP to 70 percent of premises, and then Council could hem and haw about what to do next. Staff's NEW-DEBT model would take 5 years to get FTTP to 100 percent of premises. I prefer the latter. So does UAC. So, I'm not going to be prepared to direct staff to establish this model until, you know, we get the results of this next phase. 4:41:36: Mayor DuBois: Yeah. So, **, I did make the motion. And the Clerk was texting me. I did mean the more detailed steps, with the 1 and 2. If we want to put those up. I think it's essentially the same motion. But it's just a little more detailed. It's at the bottom of page 1. Packet Page 157. ### The video shows the motion wording being changed per Mayor DuBois' intent. Right. And then, the rest of that. Yeah. Does that make more sense? All right. Vice Mayor Burt. 4:42:24: Vice Mayor Burt: Thank you. So, I do want to echo a point that the Mayor made earlier about what a success our commercial dark fiber loop has been. Credit to Former Mayor Kniss, who really championed this in the mid-90s. And we were one of the first cities in the nation. It's thrown off, essentially, $35 million in profit. Just about -- oh -- about 6 or 7 years ago, when we were looking at a fiber plan, the projection was that our revenue, and our profit from that fiber loop would evaporate due to competition from other forces. ### I don't know what Vice Mayor Burt is referring to specifically. The 09-28-15 staff report 109 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/year-archive/2015/id-6104-fttp.pdf said (page 6) "Note, however, that the dark fiber enterprise will likely see competition from planned services from AT&T, Comcast and other providers." It cited a footnote 6, that cited a white paper, "Comcast Ethernet V. Dark Fiber - The Dark Side of Dark Fiber." The cited URL no longer works. Obviously, the 09-28-15 staff report shouldn't have been depending on Comcast documents as a source of truth. And it actually went up. And it appears to be sustainable. ### The staff report didn't include a financial analysis of the dark fiber network going forward, so I don't know why it appears to be "sustainable." And as a result, that's also a revenue stream that we could bond against, at these incredibly low interest rates. We're talking interest rates below inflation. And that's a really different concept on borrowing, especially given that our borrowing debt-to-equity ratio is extremely low for -- compared to other cities. 4:43:49: And I would like to touch on a question of some of the assumptions, and the risks involved. The -- There was an assumption in the presentation that competitors could drop their price by 10 percent. And that that could affect our pricing structure. One of the things that I recall from half a dozen years ago -- and I don't know if Mr. Honker has a similar perspective. But the data that we received at that time showed that if there was one competitor -- or, actually, two competitors in the community, pricing was lowered moderately. If there were three, it dropped drastically. And, I think, at the time, the back-of-the-napkin calculation was: if we became a third competitor, to the two existing ones, it would save our ratepayers -- whether they chose our -- us as the ISP or chose one of the private companies -- about -- in aggregate -- about $10 million a year. ### I think he means that our residents and businesses who take internet service (regardless of who they take it from) would save about $10 million a year. So, Mr. Honker, do you have any insights on that? 4:45:08: John Honker: No. ### I think he means yes. Vice Mayor Burt, we see that in almost every municipal network. So, we usually like to do a calculation of the "wallet" -- the dollars that stay in the citizen's wallet, at the end of the day. And you're right, it's generally in the $10 -- you know, it depends on the size of the community. But it usually turns out to be about $10 a month that they save, on average. By having the additional competition in the market. So, you multiply that $10 per month for -- over 10 years, times the number of customers who are subscribing, not to the network, through -- to internet services in the city. Because, remember, it's not just the customers who are on the network that are saving that. 4:45:54: Vice Mayor Burt. It's everybody. 4:45:55: John Honker: The city has brought the cost of broadband down. For ... 4:45:58: Vice Mayor Burt: Right. 4:45:58: John Honker: So, you multiply the number of households times the $10, and you're seeing definitely ... 110 4:46:05: Vice Mayor Burt: Well, I think that's a really important aspect. When we do the education to the public. It's not just looking at that direct benefit. It's also that indirect benefit to them, whether they are on the -- part of the take rate or not. Similar argument, when we -- on the dark fiber value. It not only gave us direct revenue. It increased the value of our location to our businesses in our community. In a real tangible way. And I've heard, over the years, that that was an added value to doing business in Palo Alto. 4:46:43: And so, I guess, the last thing -- sort of wanting to make sure that we're confident on that take rate -- if the competitors will be willing to drop their prices. And then, the other thing that I just want to say: I remain supportive of this. And support the motion. But we are in a period of real competing priorities. And it appears that we have the ability to move forward, as proposed, based upon -- even without borrowing for the initial phase, which we could clearly do. ### Is Vice Mayor Burt saying that the City could complete building an "initial phase" without borrowing? (What "initial phase"?) Or that the City could easily borrow in order to complete this "initial phase"? ### UAC didn't like the idea of building out FTTP incrementally, because it took too long to get less than the whole job done. And I don't like it either. ### I don't like the idea of raiding the Fiber Fund for any non-fiber purpose, no matter how dire or worthy. But I especially don't like doing that before a complete financing plan for citywide municipal FTTP is known to the public. And we could still utilize $4 [million] to $5 million a year -- Or $4 [million] to $5 million -- spread over the next 2 years -- to restore vital City services, that we've had to cut. And do both things. And, for me, they're both a priority. It's not an either-or. And I'm supporting this motion under an understanding that we're going to be open to looking at -- um -- some limited use of this dark Fiber Fund to bridge us through this year and next to full recovery. But thanks. And I'm going to support the motion. 4:48:02: Mayor DuBois: Council Member Stone. 4:48:06: Council Member Stone: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And, yeah, I just wanted to start by concurring with the Vice Mayor on that -- that the additional $5 million that was -- um -- that was kind of identified tonight seems like -- seems like a proper use to be able to put that -- put those funds into bridging the gap. And I -- It seems that we can do both. I don't see why we wouldn't do that. ### I wouldn't do it because it's not fair to the ratepayers of our fiber utility. So, I hope the Finance Committee looks closely into that additional funding. 4:48:33: I also align my comments with the Mayor, when making the motion. I think you articulated the reasons -- the needs for this very well. Ah. Yeah. I think -- you know, a few other thoughts. I do think the issues of equity and being able to meet our climate goals are all kind of a part of this decision-making process. And if we can't -- If we're serious about making sure that we're trying to promote greater telecommuting, and recognizing that that is going to become more and more the norm, as we continue on past this pandemic, it's critical that we -- that we're able to provide the infrastructure, SO people can work from home. I feel -- I can empathize with Council Member Tanaka, at having this spotty interconnection at times, especially when you're trying to be in Council meetings, or teach, it's very frustrating. 4:49:33: And I think another issue that this year has really exposed for the City is the need to have a more diversified portfolio, as far as where we're getting revenue. And this seems like a very consistent form of revenue, that I can't imagine would be too impacted by economic downturns, especially in Silicon Valley, where everyone is going -- where it really is now a -- not just Silicon Valley -- but really is a need to have a good internet connection. So, it's, I guess, a question -- a question - 111 - whether that is, any kind of -- is that the case -- that even in economic downturns or recessions, is this kind of revenue source for cities -- does this stay pretty consistent through those downturns? ### I don't like the idea of the City's creating an FTTP network so that it can serve as a source of cash for things other than serving the customers of the FTTP network. The City doesn't use its other utilities that way, partly because Propositions 218 and 26 forbid it, but partly because it's not compatible with the City's concept of fairness. 4:50:24: John Honker: Commissioner [sic] Stone, I think that's what we've seen. You know, the closer you are to a utility, the more resilient the revenue stream. Electric being the most. Right? People need power in an economic downturn. Regardless. They need internet in an economic downturn. So, it was interesting looking at what happened with COVID, and the fall-out, which actually pushed the envelope the other way. Right? We saw huge, huge increases in internet usage during that. But even when you looked at, like, earlier --for example, during the regular session, you even saw higher usage in the residential markets, because people were staying at home and looking for cheap entertainment. So, they were getting that through the internet. And they were getting that through -- at the time -- cable TV. Which isn't as pronounced today. Now, it would be **, Netfllix, and Amazon Prime. But we've seen that be very resilient, because it's very close -- very close to a utility. 4:51:26: Council Member Stone: Right. Thank you. And, I'm also curious. Do you use -- In other cities that have their own ISP model, are you seeing a greater -- kind of a greater market share for the city-offered ISP, compared to the -- compared to the private sector? 4:51:46: John Honker: You mean -- What would you be comparing it to the partner-ISP? Where the greater market share? Or just ... 4:51:52: Council Member Stone: Yeah. I guess, let me give kind of -- let's just as as an example. Here in Palo Alto. Right? You'd have the hopes that more people would take the Palo Alto service, rather than Comcast or AT&T. Do you see that in other cities that have their own ... 4:52:10: John Honker: I apologize. I misunderstood the question. Yeah. So, we generally see the city take rates -- the municipal take rates -- average around 40-50 percent. Depending on the community. And I use those numbers to represent - - What we see in our clients as being larger cities. Sort of the 50,000 population average. You're looking at between 40 and 50 percent for most of the municipal systems. You have some communities, like Cedar Falls, Iowa, that have 90 percent. But in those cases, again, the providers have really neglected to invest in their infrastructure, and create competitive alternatives. So, the city is basically, you know, taken the -- almost the entire market share. But being conservative, where we are in the planning for 32 percent, you know, thinking about 40-50 is really what most of the municipal utilities are achieving. 4:53:08: Council Member Stone: OK. Yeah. Thank you. And I'd be optimistic for Palo Alto's success on this. I mean, myself, and many people that I know, have been frustrated with this -- with service providers that we do have. And the City of Palo Alto, I do think, also being a smaller -- kind of a smaller agency, with a fairly good track record of customer service. Like, clearly from our last community survey, the confidence in our City's utilities are going up. I think we would see a lot of interest in people wanting to switch over. So, thanks again. I'm happy to support this motion. 4:53:46: Mayor DuBois: Council Member Tanaka. 4:53:50: 112 Council Member Tanaka: I thought of a few questions about the motion. So, on B, it looks like this is, like, final approval. Is that right? ### At this point, the video has changed the designations of the items: 1.a) has become A.i), 1.b) has become A.ii) etc. Or, how -- What does this mean? Like, is it -- Because this is a pretty major decision we're making tonight. And, generally, I'm a big fan of high-speed internet. So, I'd definitely love to see more competition here. But I do have to agree with what [Council Member] Cormack said, about, you know, making sure that we kind of get things right here. So, is it auto? We are like basically approving -- Like, despite what it has on A, B is getting approved? Or, how does this work? 4:54:26: Mayor DuBois: No, I think -- I'll let staff answer this, too. But the staff report says, basically, this is the 12-month workplan. They would come back with all the detailed plans, business model. Council would need to approve ... 4:54:39: Council Member Tanaka: OK. Good. OK. And ... 4:54:42: Mayor DuBois: Why don't we have the Director -- Dean -- 4:54:47: Dean Batchelor: Yes. Thanks, Mayor. As the report said, Council Member Tanaka, this is just to start the -- having Magellan and staff to look into what it's going to take if we were to decide to go with an ISP. ### I assume Batchelor is trying to say that staff and consultant would be studying the City-ISP model, as opposed to the partner-ISP model. From the City's perspective. And then come back to Council with the findings. And then talk a little bit more about what those costs might look like, over that period of time. 4:55:12: Council Member Tanaka: OK. Good. So, even though it doesn't say here, basically, it would be a chance to approve this for real, once we actually have A done. OK. Good. I just want to make sure. And then -- um -- let's see -- you know, I do think that, you know, given the competing priorities that were talked about, and the fact that we're already trying to, you know, look to trim things here and there, that, you know, taking on more debt is a little bit dangerous, right now. I mean, I get that idea about interest rates. But, you know, I think -- We are already kind of struggling as a City. So, I don't know whether taking on more debt right now makes the most sense. So, I would also be leaning in that direction, as well. But it sounds like we're going to make that decision on B later on. So, I'm OK with that. 4:56:06: I think the other thing to think about -- And I think when the fiber network was done in the '90s, it's a little bit different than now. In that -- And I kind of wish we had -- full bore, back in the '90s. Versus kind of stopping, like we did. Because I think, right now, the situation is -- There is 5G coming on board. You know, the whole fixed wireless approach. ### This 06-08-21 article points out that so-called 5G still hasn't outperformed 4G. https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2021/06/08/10g-really/ So, I do worry a little bit about how -- You know, whether -- whether this starts to become, like, obsolete technology. ### No, wireless is not going to make FTTP obsolete. So that's one thing I would worry about. And so, that's something that I would -- you know, I think, before B is is really approved, I would really want to see, and make sure. 4:56:44: 113 I think the other thing that I would want to see is -- And this is something kind of -- I know we do, as a City -- We also look at our costs. I mean, what the ratepayers pay. But we don't factor in the capital costs that we put in. So, like, for instance, we own our own utilities. And so, we have, like, a ton of money invested in it. But then we look at utility rates as if we don't own it -- like, own it. ### State law requires that municipal electric, gas, and water utilities not charge ratepayers more than what it takes to break even. So, what I mean by that -- The analogy is, like, a homeowner may have paid their house off. So their monthly cost is relatively low. But that's because they put a ton of capital into buying that house. Versus a renter, who has an ongoing cost. But it's not a fair comparison. You should look at all. The homeowner's getting a lot lower monthly cost. Versus a renter. Well, that's because the renter didn't put in, you know, a huge down payment, and all the principal. So, I just want to make sure we don't -- we actually have a fair comparison here. We have to factor in the cost of capital. Right? The fact that we're putting tons of money into this. And then -- so when we compare the rates, we've got to factor in, well, here's the cost of that capital that we're putting into it. In terms of monthly rates. Because otherwise we're not looking at an apples-to-apples comparison. And so, I saw the slide you guys are doing, in terms of, well, we could get within 10 percent of the cost, or whatever, like that. But I really would want to see this, before I would want to approve it. To see really what the capital cost is going to be. Right? To the monthly rate. So we have a fair apples-to-apples comparison, and not just a homeowner-versus-renter comparison. Because that's not the right comparison that we should be considering. The cost of capital has to be considered. ### I think the staff report did consider the cost of capital. Yes, it costs a lot to start up a new utility, like FTTP. The staff report shows how Palo Alto can start up a FTTP utility, and get to the point where the utility pays for itself, including its start-up costs. Sure, after Palo Alto's FTTP utility has paid off its start-up costs, there would be an opportunity to reduce the rates of its services. 4:58:12: I think -- And the other two quick questions. I think -- yes or no questions here. But does the plan here encompass anything around -- the difficulty around getting permits? Because I've talked with some of the broadband providers, and they pointed that out as being notoriously hard -- I mean, notoriously hard in our City, compared to any other city they've worked in. And maybe they're exaggerating. But maybe they're not. And I've seen -- I've talked to a lot of people who really think it's pretty bad here. So -- I mean, does it do anything to kind of streamline the permitting process, so people can put in fiber? Because, right now, I hear it's really hard. Can someone answer that quickly, yes or no? 4:58:52: Dean Batchelor: Council Member Tanaka, we are working with the Development Center, as well as with Public Works. Looking at this. As John mentioned, earlier in the presentation, is that, you know, we know that one of the larger costs -- could be in this project -- could be the stop-and-go of holding up the contractor. We have a good rapport when we're working in the streets now. When we do our water, gas, wastewater. With our permit process. We think that we can streamline it the same way that we do that ... 4:59:21: Council Member Tanaka: Well, I'm sorry. ** I don't mean for ourselves. Hopefully, we can streamline for ourselves, because we're the City. Right? What I'm talking about -- even for other ISPs. I think, in general, we should make it easy for people to install fiber. And, the stories I've heard, we're notoriously hard to work with. It's very, very hard to get through our permitting process. And it shouldn't be. We should want to make it easy for people to get fiber-to-the-home. To the business. I mean, even for my own company. I tried to get fiber. You know, it was pretty hard. So I gave up. Right? I was just renting. So I said, screw it. I'm not going to do it. ### I'd be interested in more information about this. If Council Member Tanaka was looking into getting a dark fiber connection from the City for his business, the City charges the customer the entire cost of deploying the connection up-front, which could be tens of thousands of dollars. That usually doesn't make sense for renters. Anyhow, it's a case of the City getting permits from the City, so I assume permitting was not the limiting factor. And so, we've got to make the process not arduous. Like not walking on a bed of coals type of situation. Right? It's got to be easy. Right? And, so -- Does this have it -- Is this contemplated in there? In the plan? Of how do we streamline? Because I think what we want is competition. 114 ### No. Not exactly. What we want, as residences and businesses, is excellent FTTP retail services at affordable prices. I think it's great that we build our own. But I think we should make it easy for everyone to build. Not just ourselves. 5:00:13: Dean Batchelor: I guess -- What I can tell you right now is, Council Member Tanaka, we have not looked at in that direction -- is what you're asking for right now. You know, what if it was done, we were looking at this, and focusing, you know, on working with a contractor that would be building this system for us ... 5:00:31: Council Member Tanaka: OK. Great. I'm running out of time. That's why I'm trying to rush you. Sorry about that. Um. So, I'd like to make a friendly amendment, then. And maybe the maker and seconder could consider this. Is that we look at we look at streamlining the process of fiber-to-the-home. I mean, not just for ourselves, but for anyone that wants -- any broadband provider that's trying to do it. 5:00:53: Mayor DuBois: Again, this seems very specific, Greg. I think we send the plan back. And we have Magellan and Utilities work on it. And, again, I think if we're going to build a City network, we're -- part of this IS going to branding and marketing, and how do we compete. 5:01:12: Council Member Tanaka: But we shouldn't compete by keeping other people out. I mean, a part -- to me, a part of this is to spur competition. So, we want AT&T, and Comcast, and other people to kind of get off their duff and start moving. Right? But we sh- -- But we have this really arduous -- from what -- I talked with both ISPs. And both tell me about -- like, it's almost the same identical stories. We want to make that easier. 5:01:36: Mayor DuBois: You can try this, as an unfriendly. 5:01:38: Council Member Tanaka: OK. Do I have a second on this? [pause] OK. I have one last thing. I don't know if we have another round, or if I can go now, Mayor. 5:01:49: Mayor DuBois: I think we're -- This should be the last round. 5:01:51: Council Member Tanaka: OK. 5:01:51: Mayor DuBois: Do you have another question? 5:01:53: Council Member Tanaka: One last question then. So -- So, for the "dig-once," do we have anything in here about "dig- once" for open trench? Should we make that, kind of like, we put the conduits in that are needed? Whenever there's an open trench? 5:02:09: 115 Mayor DuBois: I think we already have that. 5:02:11: Council Member Tanaka: Is it in here? 5:02:12: Mayor DuBois: I think we already have a City ordinance. A "dig-once" ordinance. 5:02:16: Council Member Tanaka: For open trench? OK. OK. Great. Thank you. 5:02:20: Mayor DuBois: Council Member Cormack. 5:02:23: Council Member Cormack: Thank you, Mayor DuBois. I'm just wondering if the maker and seconder would be willing to just tidy up the language here on B. And then I can probably see my way to supporting it. Again, I -- it -- When we all talk about what we understand, I just worry about people going back and looking at that, and thinking we have made a big decision. 5:02:41: Mayor DuBois: If I could propose something. 5:02:43: Council Member Cormack: Great. 5:02:43: Mayor DuBois: I think -- It says, "establish a model." Maybe, would -- would staff be OK if it said "specify the requirements for a City-operated internet service provider model? I think people are getting hung up on the "establish." 5:02:59: Council Member Cormack: Yeah. I was going to say, just direct staff to return to Council with a model. That way, it just gets the part out in front that we're not making the decision. We're asking them to -- I'm fine with the model. And I understand that. But the "establish" part sounds like we're building it now. 5:03:15: Mayor DuBois: Yeah. So, is that OK with staff, just to come back with a City-operated service provider model? Basically, come back with a plan that would get us to that. So, could the Clerk replace "establishment" -- "return with plans" -- "with a City" -- yup -- I think that's ... 5:03:37: City Manager Shikada: I think -- If I could just clarify, I think Director Batchelor will need to work on the specifics of what would come back. Presumably, both a staffing plan and some options, really, for the Council. Recognizing, as has been discussed, there's a combination of in-house staff versus what might be outsourced, in terms of specific functions, and a general timeline over which the ramp-up would occur. 5:04:04: Mayor DuBois: OK. Is that ... 116 5:04:05: Council Member Cormack: OK. And then, the second thing is, something that doesn't need to be there. It wasn't actually in the motion. I mean, the part after the "five years." I think staff's just going to do that anyway. So, ... 5:04:16: Mayor DuBois: I mean, it was there. I think the formatting was a little weird. On page 2. I think it should be there. 5:04:27: Council Member Cormack: It's more of a statement. But, whatever. OK. Um. That will be fine. Thank you. 5:04:36: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Mayor, if I might -- Meghan Horrigan-Taylor, Chief Communications Officer. Just, related to "B," I think that in the staff report, that second portion really was a "C." 5:04:50: Mayor DuBois: Yeah. I thought it was, too. We could make it a "C." Or just leave it as "B." 5:04:55: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: I just didn't want folks to think that the engagement was only around the model, and not around the rest of project. 5:05:03: Mayor DuBois: OK. Thank you for the clarification. 5:05:05: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Thank you. Yup. 5:05:07: Mayor DuBois: OK. Not seeing any other hands, let's go ahead and vote. ### The MOTION (which didn't fit on the video, but I got this from the draft action minutes) https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/city-council-agendas-minutes/2021/05-24-21-ccm-draft-action-minutes.pdf Mayor DuBois moved, seconded by Council Member Kou to approve and direct Staff to pursue build out of the City fiber backbone in a manner designed to support citywide Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), including approve the near-term 12-month workplan outlined in the report and establish a City-operated Internet Service Provider (ISP) model to offer FTTH service within five years. A. Perform the following tasks by March 31, 2022: i. Combine Phases 2 and 4 of the Magellan contract (C20176363) to provide detailed engineering design of the City’s fiber backbone and FTTH distribution network; ii. Complete a detailed City-operated ISP model, to include a combination of insource and outsource functions; iii. Complete a residential and commercial broadband survey; iv. Complete a risk and mitigation analysis of City-operated ISP model; v. Determine the best financing model, including availability of federal and state funding options; B. Direct Staff to return to Council with a City-operated Internet Service Provider (ISP) model to offer FTTH service within five years; and C. Per Council prior direction as part of the Community and Economic Recovery work plan, Staff will prioritize and accelerate community education and engagement regarding FTTH. 117 I think we're starting with Council Member Filseth. 5:05:14: Council Member Filseth: Yes. 5:05:16: Mayor DuBois: Council Member Kou. 5:05:16: Council Member Kou: Yes. 5:05:17: Mayor DuBois: Council Member Stone. 5:05:19: Council Member Stone: Yes. 5:05:20: Mayor DuBois: Council Member Tanaka. 5:05:21: Council Member Tanaka: Yes. 5:05:22: Mayor DuBois: Vice Mayor Burt. 5:05:24: Vice Mayor Burt: Yes. 5:05:25: Mayor DuBois: Council Member Cormack. 5:05:26: Council Member Cormack: Yes. 5:05:27: Mayor DuBois: And I will vote yes. All right. So, we got to a 7-0. Thank you very much. We're moving on to our last ... 5:05:32: Dean Batchelor: Council, -- 5:05:37: Mayor DuBois: Sorry? 118 5:05:39: Dean Batchelor: I just wanted to say, thank you very much. Thank you. 5:05:42: Mayor DuBois: Thank you, Dean. 5:05:43: END of item. ############################################################################################### 119 Baumb, Nelly From:Jeff Hoel <jeff_hoel@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 5:15 PM To:Council, City; UAC Cc:Hoel, Jeff (external) Subject:TRANSCRIPT & COMMENTS (part 1) -- 05-24-21 Council mtg -- FTTP CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council members and UAC Commissioners, This is the beginning of a transcript of the FTTP item (item 8) in Council's 05-24-21 meeting. With my comments (paragraphs in red beginning with "###"). Thanks. Jeff =================== Jeff Hoel 731 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 =================== ############################################################################################# Audio: https://midpenmedia.org/city-council-152-5242021/ Presentation slides (56): https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/attachments/05-24-2021-id-12117-presentation.pdf ############################################################################################# 2:05:46: Mayor DuBois: Let's move on to Item number 8, which is a review of the fiber network expansion plan and fiber-to-the-home business case. I believe staff has a pretty lengthy presentation on this tonight. 2:06:02: Dean Batchelor: We do ... 2:06:03: City Manager Shikada: Oh, go ahead, Director Batchelor. 2:06:05: Dean Batchelor: Oh, sorry. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor DuBois, Council. Dean Batchelor, Director of Utilities. Tonight, staff, along with President and CEO of Magellan Advisors, John Honker, and VP of Digital Innovations, Jory Wolf, will present the completion of Phases 1 and 3, which you all approved. Which included a high-level design of the FTTH network, expansion of the fiber backbone, a broadband market assessment. And they also developed the cost 120 and revenue models, and different deployment scenarios. John has over 20 years of experience in the broadband ISP market, and is a key founder of Magellan Advisors. They are the "go-to" firm in municipalities, which is over 400 clients, 50 networks, over 100 -- or, 1 million fiber connections. Mr. Wolf has over 35 years of experience in the information technology, and is moving to -- prior to Magellan, worked for the City of Santa Monica, where he launched citywide Wi-Fi for free internet services to the public, and to most of the major commercial transit corridors of the city. He created the Santa Monica City Net. And 100 gigawatt -- megabyte -- ### He probably means 100 Gbps. https://www.magellan-advisors.com/leadership/jory-wolf.stml to support the environment for local business and the economy. And, with that, I'm going to turn it over to John, to start the presentation. And we'll go from there. So, John. 2:07:06: John Honker: Great. Thank you, Director Batchelor. 2:07:31: ### Slide 1 -- cover And it's a pleasure to see you, Mayor, and members of City Council. My name is John Honker. And with me I have Jory Wolf. Thanks for the introductions, again, Director Batchelor. And what I thought I'd do tonight is work through the presentation of the fiber business case and the fiber backbone development. Which really is a combined effort, to accelerate our work and our analysis over the last 6-7 months. Which -- The result of which you will see tonight in our presentation. We're going to try to keep this relatively short, because I know there's going to be a lot of questions. This is a large -- large undertaking. It's a big topic. And I want to leave plenty of room for -- time for questions from members of Council. 2:08:17: ### Slide 2 -- AGENDA So, what we're going to cover tonight is -- Really, Section 1 of the presentation talks about the fiber backbone expansion. And what do I mean when I say "fiber backbone"? I'm really talking about the core infrastructure -- core fiber infrastructure, that the City has owned and operated over the past 25 years. And which has done, frankly, amazing things for the City of Palo Alto. We have a lot of exposure to California local government. So, other cities that have either built or are building. As well as have built throughout the country. And you are one of the leaders in the industry. So, congratulations for that. You've had the ins- -- foresight to build that network over time. And it's done amazing things for the City. And the community. So, Section 1, we'll talk about how -- The analysis that we've done. And the way that you can expand that network to deliver more value to the community. Section 2, we'll talk about fiber-to-the-home. So, whenever you see this -- the FTTH -- is short for fiber-to-the-home. And that will really inform you of the business case analysis that Magellan's completed for expanding the network and bringing broadband to the greater population of Palo Alto. We'll then move into recommendations and next steps. Which are, really, looking to move forward with the fiber backbone engineering and construction. Developing a -- sort of a full business case for fiber-to-the-home. Or, a full business plan for fiber-to-the-home, where the City is potentially operating, and is the provider of fiber-to-the-home services. Completing the community education and engagement. This is a big topic. And it's an important citywide topic. So, we will be engaging with your staff to drive the education down to the residents and the businesses of Palo Alto. Listen to them. Understand their needs. And then, basically, come back to you with a -- a very detailed understanding of broadband demand. The needs of businesses and residents in Palo Alto for high-speed internet and related services. Completing the engineering design for the backbone, and for fiber-to-the-home. A detailed plan for the City-operated ISP model. And, finally, as part of that community engagement, the broadband surveys, which really drive the overall business plan for broadband. 2:11:02: 121 ### Slide 3 --- FIBER BACKBONE EXPANSION So, we'll tackle the fiber backbone expansion first, because it's a little shorter, and it's a little more concise. 2:11:12: ### Slide 4 -- THE ORIGINAL FIBER BACKBONE So, let's look back 25 years, when the City's backbone was originally built. To connect City facilities and provide SOME fiber out there for leasing. You know, the backbone was never envisioned for the uses that you have today. Twenty-five years later, the backbone is creating great benefit for the City, which you can see here on the right-hand side. What was originally intended to just connect City facilities, ### Not true. From the beginning, Council intended it for external customers too. now generates almost $4 million in annual revenue. ### How much annual net revenue -- i.e., revenue minus expenses? Has netted the City an almost $30 million reserve Fiber Fund. Connects all City facilities, and all CPAU substations, as well as water, traffic signals, schools, business parks, and you have over 220 business customers. ### Not true. This Utilities Quarterly Report for the 1st and 2nd quarters of FY 2021 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/uac-informational-reports/2021-informational-reports/6-02-2021/06-02-2021-id-12099-info-item.pdf says there are only 92 "commercial" accounts, plus 1 City account. And there are 191 active connections. (Some customers have multiple active connections.) The report doesn't say how many active connections are for commercial accounts. ### The Utilities Quarterly Report for 4Q2020 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/uac-informational-reports/2021-informational-reports/02-03-2021/id-11731.pdf says there are 94 "commercial" accounts, plus 1 City account. And there are 201 active connections. ### The Utilities Quarterly Report for 3Q2020 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/uac-informational-reports/2020-informational-reports/5-08-2020/id-11370.pdf says there are 93 "commercial" accounts, plus 1 City account. And there are 205 active connections. ### The Utilities Quarterly Report for 3Q2016 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/year-archive/2016/final-staff-report-id-6990_utilities-quarterly-update.pdf says there are 105 "commercial" accounts. And there are 234 active connections. So, when we look at the benefit that it's brought to the City, it's far beyond what was originally envisioned. 2:12:04: ### Slide 5 -- BENEFITS OF THE NEW FIBER BACKBONE And now, it's an opportunity for you to reinvest in that asset, and expand that asset, for new opportunities, to -- As we know, the requirements for cities to connect more things in their -- in their communities is growing ever so fast. So, our scope was really to help you understand how this network could be utilized, as you look at expansion. Where are the City's needs? And what are the City's needs for fiber? And how do we look at that going forward, to really equip the City with the right kind of communications infrastructure that will support its service to the citizens. And we put these in four buckets. Utility Modernization. And -- I'm sorry. Through this process, we met with all of your departments, to really understand each one of their needs, and really build a map. That's what we do. Build a comprehensive map of all the locations that need fiber connectivity, and then design the network based on that. 122 So, we put this into four buckets. 1) Utility Modernization. So, the new network will really help support smart grid, and energy, and electricity -- reliability and resiliency overall. It's -- It will support your current AMI efforts. So, as you're looking to now deploy AMI, -- The fiber backbone will become a major factor in helping you reduce cost. And also getting connectivity closer to the end user. Closer to the resident and the meter. And, finally, being able to manage, generally, your electric plant resources. [2)] Smart City Infrastructure. Right? When we look at cities that are building fiber networks on their own, they use them for a million different things. So, when we look at the city's infrastructure, and the expansion, there's opportunities to connect City IT, parks. We have opportunities for emergency preparedness. Expansion of access to education. Right? For residents that might not have access. Or for neighborhoods around schools. Access could always be enabled very, very easily. For public safety, transportation, and smart parking. So, these, really, we all call smart city applications. And we see those growing daily. And have really inventoried the programs that Palo Alto's looking at. In the future. [3)] Commercial Fiber Leasing is the third bucket. Right? You have -- like I mentioned before -- over 220 customers on dark fiber now. ### Like I mentioned before, it's 92, not over 220. This gives you an expanded capacity, and expanded fiber, to be able to support more fiber leasing for businesses, to help you drive economic development. And, frankly, to lower the cost of doing business in Palo Alto. Right? It creates an opportunity to bring more fiber, at lower cost, to potential -- EXISTING commercial tenants and new commercial tenants. ### Does Honker mean that the City would have the opportunity to lower its prices to dark fiber customers? What would that do to revenues? As far as I know, the City hasn't done a business case analysis of the dark fiber network business for a while. And then, finally, [4)] fiber to the home. Right? We look at the opportunities to use and leverage this new fiber backbone, to lower your costs of building out for fiber-to-the-home. They're significant. Almost -- Investing in the fiber backbone, we see a $4 [million] to $5 million reduction in the FUTURE costs of bringing fiber-to-the-home to your residents. ### I object to the rhetoric. If we build a $22 million (or, worse, a $28 million) all-singing-all-dancing backbone now, then we won't have to build a $4 million to $5 million lean-and-mean backbone to support FTTP later? 2:15:27: ### Slide 6 -- what new fiber backbone could lead to And this is what we think about. So, when you're designing a fiber backbone, you're expanding. And this is -- For example, in Boulder, Colorado, where I live, this is what we're helping the city do right now. Right? They're build- -- they're overbuilding -- called "overbuilding" -- or expanding their existing backbone. And they want -- They're optimizing it for broadband. To be able to provide fiber-to-the-home at lower costs. Similar to what Boulder's doing, your new backbone will create a new foundation for fiber-to-the-home that gives you flexibility on how you deploy. If you decide to deploy. ### I object. The City should be figuring out HOW to deploy citywide municipal FTTP, not whether to deploy it. And it also gives you flexibility of how you do this in an incremental fashion. ### UAC strongly objected to the incremental approach proposed in the staff report, because it took too long and wasn't citywide. Versus without having this network available. So, this is always an important slide, because the fiber backbone becomes a foundation, which, as you add capital to it, it allows you to grow your fiber-to-the-home services as you want to. And then, it also allows you to develop the right business model for actually providing that service out to the community. 2:16:35: - -- - 123 ### Slide 7 -- NEW FIBER BACKBONE DESIGN So, this is just a snapshot of the new fiber to the backbone -- or, new fiber backbone expansion. So, the white outline is the City of Palo Alto. The red lines are the fiber backbone. The new fiber backbone that will be built. So, as you can see, it penetrates pretty evenly throughout the major corridors of the City. And it was designed this way on purpose, because it really helps -- 1) it helps you -- all of your departments have access along major thoroughfares. To connect more sensors. To connect more applications. But then, it also brings much-needed capacity to -- of the electric -- or CPAU -- to connect all of the substations -- smart switches -- AMI -- everything in the field that they have to manage the electric utility. So, this is about a 43 mile backbone total. With dedicated fibers for every department. ### This sounds like a last-century architecture. For -- Also, for fiber leasing. And a reserve of fiber connectivity for fiber-to-the-home, if you choose to do that in the future. ### Again, I object to the "if." And that reserve comes at almost -- a very small marginal cost -- that's built into the overall costs for the backbone. 2:17:53: ### Slide 8 -- FIBER BACKBONE COSTS So, this is an overview of the costs. As we went though this with the UAC, in our last -- April 21st -- presentation, we reviewed the costs in detail. And agreed that these were relevant costs for Palo Alto. Construction is expensive in Palo Alto. that is a known fact. And we spent significant time vetting your construction costs for both the underground and the aerial components of the network, as well as fiber construction, conduits and structures, patch panels, and so on. Our total -- Our subtotal on labor is about $17 million. With about $1 million in materials. Leading to about an $18 million total capital investment for the 43-mile fiber backbone. That will connect about different 200 devices out in the field from day one. And it will also, then, be able to incrementally connect more City sites, facilities, and devices, as you grow, over time. And as you need to connect more. We've also included about a 20 percent construction contingency on the build. We feel that's very reasonable, given the deep level of due diligence we did on the costing. So, the total backbone cost is about $22 million, with that $3 and a -- $3.7 million contingency. So, this really represents the first piece of the network. 2:19:27: ### Back to Slide 7 And as we look back at this -- So, for the $22 million, effectively, the City would be getting its entire bac- -- its entire existing backbone effectively rebuilt. But also diverse from that backbone. And it would then -- what we call "densify" fiber access across Palo Alto. Meaning it's easier to connect businesses. Easier to connect residents, when the time comes. It's easier to connect CPAU's substations and other devices to the network. So this really becomes a very, very long-term asset, that the City can potentially use for, like, again, another 25 years, if we start projecting into the future. 2:20:10: ### Back to Slide 8 So, this covers the first portion of the presentation. I wanted to stop there, if it makes sense. Just to ask any immediate questions. We'll have plenty of time for Q&A at the end. But before we leave the backbone, are there any questions we can answer, Mayor and members of Council? 2:20:28: Mayor DuBois: Does anybody have a quick question on the backbone? I guess I have just one. Is: What if we didn't do any work? Like, what's the state of the current backbone? 2:20:38: John Honker: So, the current backbone is really running low on capacity. 124 ### No doubt, some routes have fewer remaining available strands than others. We did a full inventory of your network with the CPAU staff. ### Would Council be interested in viewing that full inventory in detail? I would. And we found that, to -- 1) there's congestion on the network. You know, when we say "congestion," there's very few fiber stands left. There's very little fiber capacity left. So, if you want to do anything new, it's very difficult to do that. And it also creates a risk to the current services that are out there today. So, for example, if you wanted to go connect a new business to the network, you would run the risk of actually potentially disrupting services on the existing network, if -- Because there's so little capacity. And because it's so congested. And so tight. ### I don't understand. Is Honker saying that to add a new dark fiber customer, the City might ("potentially") have to change the fiber strands that existing dark fiber customers are using? So, we want to be very careful, you know, adding any new services to the network. And the goal of this backbone would be to re- -- sort of build "fidelity" into the existing network. Remove some of those capacity constraints. And then give you new capacity, that you can use for the future. 2:21:40: Mayor DuBois: Vice Mayor Burt. 2:21:41: Vice Mayor Burt: Yeah. Um. Two questions on the backbone. I'm particularly interested on what you've talked about on how this would essentially strengthen the backbone of our EXISTING dark fiber network. Which is to serve businesses. ### The existing dark fiber network is available to serve whoever is willing to pay the City's dark fiber prices. That includes a few residences. 2:21:59: ### Slide 9 -- FTTH BUSINESS CASE And, primarily, larger businesses. And I hadn't appreciated until reading this report that we're nearing the capacity of that system. 2:22:07: ### Back to Slide 8 So, is there a -- Is there a revenue likelihood -- increasing revenue -- from this backbone, from being able, in the near term, to provide greater capacity on the commercial side, even before we're able to then use that as the basis to build out to the premises -- fiber-to-the-home, as you've described it? 2:22:34: ### Back to Slide 7 John Honker: Yeah. Absolutely, Vice Mayor Burt. And there's -- Basically, anywhere there's fiber -- new fiber coming in, that's an opportunity to be able to sell into the business community, along those routes, at a lower cost. ### Again, what does "at a lower cost" mean? Is Honker think about reducing the City's dark fiber pricing? So, we were very conservative when we projected the financial. And we only looked at growing your revenue 2 percent a year. Right? On top of what you're getting today. ### The staff report didn't do an actual analysis of what the dark fiber network's financials would look like in the future. So, I think it's very risky to count on it. - 125 So, it's a very modest amount. But over 10-15 years, you know, it compounds. And that creates a great revenue stream for the City, on top of what you're getting today. So -- Absolutely. It gives you -- It gives you the ability to serve more customers, at a lower cost, even before considering fiber-to-the-home. 2:23:11: Vice Mayor Burt: And my next question -- I don't know if it's you or Utilities Director Batchelor can best answer this. But what you described about enabling essentially smart-grid-related enhancements to our electric utility, do we have the potential to increase the reliability of our electric utility system as a result of having this broader band capability? ### The main point of the proposed new backbone fiber network seems to have nothing to do with increasing bandwidth, but rather providing dedicated fiber connections to lots of things that don't really need a dedicated connection. 2:23:47: Dean Batchelor: John, do you want me to go? Or, you go first? 2:23:50: John Honker: Yeah. I can go -- I can talk about the reliability. So, as we look at the network, it creates -- You know, part of our -- the design, Vice Mayor Burt, is really to fortify the substation connectivity, to make sure that substations are totally connected to each one. ### Is this saying that each of the nine electric substations would have a dedicated connection (of perhaps multiple fiber strands) to each of the other eight electric substations? What purpose would be served by that? And there's really a very high level of redundancy. So that if there was a fiber cut or a communications failure at one, you would have almost instant restoration of service. Versus, what today you may have lower levels of reliability. But, absolutely. We would see that as being an opportunity to improve reliability. 2:24:34: Dean Batchelor: Vice Mayor Burt, if I could add to that, please. Also, too, is that, as John mentioned earlier, you know, getting fiber deeper into the neighborhood portions of it would allow us to start looking at some of these new technologies around smart transformers. Also, too, the launching of smart grid is going to help us with our reliability, since, now, we'll be able to look at everybody's meter. We'll know exactly where the outage occurs, within a block -- period of time. ### Why wouldn't AMI allow you to determine the extent of an outage down to each individual electric customer, within seconds? If we decide not to re-do the backbone, we would end up having to do some cellular backhauling, then, at that period of time, that would cost us some additional dollars. ### Why not do what Chattanooga does -- use FTTP to do AMI? Where if we utilized the backbone -- the new backbone portion of it, the five collectors that have been identified that will need to be put into the systems could be ran off of those new fiber portions. ### If five collectors are all staff thinks they need to do AMI, then AMI shouldn't be determining network architecture. Does the existing dark fiber network have enough strands remaining to support them? (I still think Chattanooga's approach would be better.) 2:25:27: Mayor DuBois: Thank you. Let's continue. 2:25:33: ### Back to Slide 8 • 126 2:25:34: ### Back to Slide 9 John Honker: OK. Great. So, we're going to switch gears a bit and talk through the fiber-to-the-home business case. So, when we say "fiber-to-the-home," we can use that synonymously with "broadband" and "high-speed internet," for the purposes of today's -- tonight's meeting. ### This invites ongoing obfuscation by opponents of municipal FTTP, who say other technologies are good enough. ### For purposes of tonight's meeting, can we assume "high-speed" means that the very first generation of electronics would be capable of supporting speeds of 10 Gbps in both directions? ### For purposes of tonight's meeting, can we assume that internet service is the only service needed in order to meet the financials? 2:25:47: ### Slide 10 -- HOW WE GOT HERE -- THE PROBLEM So, how did we got here? And what are the problems? And I think, you know, as we work with cities, we see this has become such an important issue, as COVID's changed the way that we live, work, and play. Right? I mean, we see this in almost every city that we work with now, where they have -- um -- sort of come to the realization that, hey, this is not a luxury anymore. Our residents and our businesses have to have equitable access to high-speed internet. And they have to have it across the city. Right? And the question becomes, then, 1) is that equitable access available? 2) do they have choice? And 3) are the prices affordable, given the fact that there are only a very small amount of providers, and, in SOME cases, a monopoly? And, finally, what are some additional benefits that citizens and businesses WOULD derive from "broadband" in Palo Alto? ### It would be more accurate, and more politically correct, to say "residents," rather than "citizens." These are all questions that WE wanted to answer in the business case, and we think are very, very important for you to consider, as you're -- as you're evaluating the opportunities for fiber-to-the-home. 2:27:02: ### Slide 11 -- WHAT ARE OTHER COMMUNITIES DOING ABOUT IT? So, if we look on a national scale -- and this map was just updated in November of last year -- ### MuniNetworks publishes a map that looks like the map on Slide 11, so I assume it's the same map. https://muninetworks.org/communitymap It says "(updated January 2020)" -- not November 2020. This source is interactive. You can choose which icons to view. You can pan and zoom. Etc. this is what the market looks like right now for fiber-to-the-home. And cities that are -- that have some type of fiber-to-the-home service. The icons in yellow illustrate cities that have provided -- are providing fiber-to-the-home today. The icons in blue and purple show areas like Palo Alto, where today are providing a dark fiber network. Right? ### Wrong. See comments about Slide 12 below. Fiber to businesses. To commercial entities. But you're not providing retail services over them. 2:27:47: ### Slide 12 -- WHAT ARE OTHER COMMUNITIES DOING ABOUT IT? (CONTINUED) So, if you look at the distribution of those networks, as I mentioned, 63 of them, in the market today, the city is providing ISP services directly. - 127 ### That's NOT what the MuniNetworks map says. It says the yellow icons represent "63 municipal networks serving 125 communities with a publicly owned FTTH citywide network." The Map doesn't say exactly what "citywide" means, but a related article says it means that "The network must cover at least 80% of a city." https://muninetworks.org/content/new-resource-map-list-citywide-ftth-munis It doesn't say anything about who's providing services on the network. It could be the municipality. Or it could be a partner. Or, for "open access" networks, it could be private-sector ISPs. These are cities like Fort Collins, in Colorado; Chattanooga, in Tennessee; BrightRidge -- or Johnson City Energy, in Tennessee, as well; and Longmont, in Colorado. The city provides all the services, and provides, you know, customer support, operations management of retail internet services. There are 286 where the city is a wholesale provider, similar to Palo Alto. ### That's NOT what the MuniNetworks map says. It says the blue icons represent "237 communities with some publicly owned fiber service available to parts of the community (often a business district)." (In this quote, I believe that "fiber" means FTTP.) ### Again, it doesn't say anything about who's providing the services on the network. (So, no, Palo Alto's icon isn't blue. Check it out. Go to the map and zoom in on Palo Alto.) And there are 71 partner ISPs, meaning where the city owns fiber infrastructure, and the partner is providing SOME internet services, but not -- let's say, not citywide. ### That's NOT what the MuniNetworks map says. It says that the purple icons represent "More than 120 communities with publicly owned dark fiber available." It doesn't say anything about whether there's a partner or not, or about whether the partner offers services. it doesn't explicitly say whether the dark fiber network is citywide or not. (Palo Alto's icon is purple.) And, in a lot of partnership models we've seen, there's a limited amount of the city that internet's being provided. Meaning that it's not citywide generally. ### Summary: The Map shows 300 municipal networks that offer FTTP services (63 citywide plus 237 that are not citywide). The Map shows "more than 120" municipal networks that offer dark fiber (but not FTTP services). 2:28:45: ### Slide 13 -- WHAT DOES THE BUSINESS CASE ANSWER? So, what does the business case answer? What were we trying to solve? What was the problem we were trying to solve in the business case? 1), obviously, understanding the benefits. What are the costs? And what advantages and disadvantages drive those costs? Are there ways that we can reduce the costs for broadband? To bring fiber-to-the- home to Palo Alto? What are the minimum take rates needed? Meaning, how many Palo Altans need to sign up for service to make it sustainable? And then, what scenarios would result in a feasible business case for you? So, over the past 6 months, we've worked with your staff and the UAC, to really vet the number of different business cases, which we'll present here in the next 15-20 minutes. And what the summary of those business cases were, and how we've all really come to a consensus on what the best options are for Palo Alto. 2:29:40: ### Slide 14 -- TWO BUSINESS MODEL OPTIONS FOR FTTH There are two real business models that exist for you. And think about the baseline of these -- or the foundation of these -- being the City's fiber-to-the-home network. Right? That you would potentially build. So, the foundation is, the City has to invest in the infrastructure. Right? We've seen in the past, it's very difficult to get partners to come to the table and invest. So, the de facto standard is, the City needs to own the fiber-to-the-home infrastructure, to achieve its goals, if it wants to bring sort of citywide equity to the internet market. But on top of that, there are two options. Right? The City could provide services directly. Or a partner could provide services. Meaning that the City owns and operates. Or the City leases the network to a partner who fulfills all the retail duties. 2:30:33: ### Slide 15 -- TWO BUSINESS MODEL OPTIONS FOR FTTH (CONTINUED) 128 And when we look at that, and the advantages and disadvantages of both. You know, when we look at the "City-ISP," it's total control. Meaning, the City does everything. The City also takes all the risk. Because the City has no partner. The operation- -- operational partner -- the City will build that from scratch. Meaning, it will be responsible for customer service, operations, ** call center, engineering, sales, and marketing. And all the other functions that come with running an internet service provider. So, some of the disadvantages. On the start-up, there's higher execution risk. The culture is not typically accustomed to operating in that environment. There may be some higher operational debt structure -- or, cost structure. And there could be a possible impact to the debt rate. But when we look at these in the lens of the financial -- and we'll go through this momentarily -- we find that some of those risks sort of are teased out, and are not so negative in Palo Alto's case. And we'll show you why. In the "partner-ISP" model, again, the City doesn't have to -- The key aspect of the partner-ISP model is, the City doesn't have to provide service. Right? It doesn't have to staff. It doesn't have to provide retailm customer service, etc. So, in this case, effectively, you're providing the infrastructure that an ISP will come in and operate on. And take all of the retail services. ISP services, that they'll need to provide to the citizenry. ### residents and businesses. As we look at this, again, you lose control -- Some of the disadvantages are, you lose control. Because, you know, you're making the majority of the capital investment, still. Because, as you look at fiber-to-the-home, the most -- Most of the cost is in the plant. Right? It's in building the network. So, 85 to 90 percent of the cost is -- Just like in your electric plant, it's in building the network. Which -- The fiber is effectively almost a duplication of your electric plant. So, the City is responsible for most of the capital investment. But it loses control of the destiny of that capital, because it's shifted that to the partner. Some of the other concerns we've seen with that model -- the partner model -- is, it's relatively new. There's very few cities that that operation is happening in today. And it's happening generally in smaller cities -- say, under 20,000. We haven't seen that create the oper- -- the risk -- Or, we haven't seen that happen in cities the size of Palo Alto yet. 2:33:16: ### Slide 16 -- MARKET RATES -- COMPETITIVE ASSESSMENT So, when we look at what are some important factors for the City to consider in fiber-to-the-home, one is rates. Right? When we looked at -- When we completed our market analysis on rates, we found that the City can be competitive with the existing providers in the market. And, generally, be 5 to 10 percent less expensive. Right? As long as it meets its take rates. Which we'll go through in a moment. So, for example, for the gigabit service. Right? One gigabit to the home. Competitors in Palo Alto offer that at either $95 or $83. It's not widely available. ### AT&T Fiber is available to only 30.9 percent of Palo Alto. https://broadbandnow.com/California/Palo-Alto (That is, it's available to at least one premises in each of 30.9 percent of Palo Alto's census blocks.) (Last month, this URL said it was 28.2 percent. I believe the URL is updated every six months or so, as new Form 477 data becomes available from the federal government.) ### Where AT&T Fiber is not available, AT&T is not offering internet service to new customers at all. And the City could offer it in the range of $85. Right? And be very competitive. ### This misses the point that upload speed is also important. The City could offer 1 Gbps uploads. Comcast is offering 35 Mbps uploads. For the next speed tier down -- So, gigabit is always the gold standard. If we go down to a lower tier -- this would be sort of your mid-tier package -- 600 megabit -- Competitor 1 offers it at $85 per month. Palo Alto could offer that at $75 a month. Right? And make the financial model work. And the lowest tier -- Right? -- For the less -- the less power user, you know, someone who's not as inclined, but still needs good connectivity. Doesn't want to pay as much. You know, that typical rate in the market today -- for Competitor 1 is $45, for Competitor 2 is $59. So, the City could potentially come in on par at $45. So, as we went through and developed multiple financial models for fiber-to-the-home, for the City, you know, we wanted to test the rates that you could potentially charge against the market, to make sure that they're in line, or, potentially, slightly lower. Because we see that as a big opportunity for the City. If we can offer slightly lower rates than the market, that creates a good opportunity. - 129 2:35:06: ### Slide 17 -- TAKE RATES NEEDED TO ACHIEVE BREAK EVEN -- Map So, that's really the crux of the market assessment, is, really, to look at those prices. As we look at take rates. This is really important. And what this slide is showing is Palo Alto broken down into about 60 smaller fiber -- what we call "fiber zones." Right? This would actually sort of -- Think of this in terms of your electric utility, and how your grid is broken up, you know, between substations, covering different neighborhoods. So, we like to slice and dice the City to determine "fiber zones" where fiber deployment would occur. And look at the costs of that -- of those areas, compared to one another. And what this map does is, it illustrates for you kind of an overview of the least ex- -- or, the areas where your take rates could be low. Meaning that those areas are less costly to build. Versus take rates that are -- that you'll -- Versus areas where you'll need higher take rates to warrant that investment. Right? So, for example, the "greens" show you areas -- the best case scenarios to build. Right? The areas that are lowest in cost to build, throughout the City. The areas in "blue" are next-lowest cost. Meaning they have higher take rates, but still reasonable -- between 30 and 50 percent of residents taking service. And then, the "yellows" are much more expensive -- at -- and require higher take rates, above 50 percent. Now, this is all a function, again, of how much -- effectively, how much underground construction would need to be done in these areas, versus aerial. ### The app that made the map apparently doesn't know that some undergrounded neighborhoods already have conduit for fiber. For example, Underground District #41 (bounded by Middlefield, Colorado, Cowper, and Oregon Expressway). Can this be fixed? If not, it shouldn't be used to decide where to build. 2:36:43: So, when we look at the difference between the two, the aerial construction rates are in the $100 -- or, are in the $15 per foot range. While your underground construction rates are almost $100 a foot. So, anywhere we have aerial infrastructure creates a better opportunity to build. Anywhere there's underground, it's more expensive. ### What should the construction rate be for undergrounded neighborhoods that already have conduit for fiber? I have the impression that it might be even less expensive than aerial construction. How many feet of this type of construction do we have? But if you wrap this into the whole, and you look at this across the entire City, there's still a good opportunity to build, with take rates in the 32 percent range. Meaning that the City can create a sustainable business by getting effectively one third of the residents to sign up for service. 2:37:26: ### Slide 18 -- CAPITAL SUMMARY -- CITY ISP & PARTNER ISP Dean Batchelor: Just one second. 2:37:28: ### Back to Slide 17 John, I'm sorry. Can you -- Can you make your slides just a little bit larger, please? 2:37:34: John Honker: Ah -- I -- Let me take it out of presentation mode, and let's just see if we can zoom in more. 2:37:42: Dean Batchelor. All right. Great. 2:37:52: John Honker: Is that any better? 130 2:37:56: Dean Batchelor: I think that's a little bit better. 2:37:58: John Honker: OK. 2:37:59: Dean Batchelor: Thank you. 2:38:00: John Honker: You're welcome. And if anyone has trouble reading, we can also pull up the larger maps. So that might help. ### I think he's recommending viewing the presentation slides https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/attachments/05-24-2021-id-12117-presentation.pdf rather than the Zoom video. Good idea. Um. So, again, what this is intended to show is really that construction costs and overall take rates vary throughout the City. And one dimension you can think about this in is, you know, where do you build first? Versus where do you build later? Whenever you're considering a fiber-to-the-home project, there's a balancing act between building in the least expensive areas first, versus maybe building where there's the greatest digital divide. Where residents don't have access. So, it's got to be a balancing act between the two: 1) to make sure we have good financial stability as we're building, and we're getting, you know, good take rates; but 2) to make sure that the community is served across Palo Alto, as you're building out. ### I believe some municipalities let people sign up in advance, and then use that information when determining where to build first. 2:39:01: ### Back to Slide 18 So, as we went through this analysis on costing, we came to these numbers. And I want to put it back into presentation mode, because I think it's -- Can everyone see that? Well, from the Palo Alto side? 2:39:13: Mayor DuBois: Yes. I think so. 2:39:15: John Honker: OK. Great. Great. So, really, this -- these are the costs for fiber-to-the-home, under both the City-ISP and the Partner-ISP models. We wanted to evaluate both of them, side by side, to give you an understanding of what the total capital costs would be. And then what the underlying financial sustainability would be. So, we're going to first go through the capital costs. So, the fiber feeder distribution network. So, think about that as your electric distribution network. It's very similar. It aggregates customers across neighborhoods. And it's the most costly. It is the bulk of your construction. So, in both scenarios, whether the City's providing service or the partner is, you're looking at about $70 million in those fiber construction costs. Again, I mentioned before that building the new fiber backbone is going to save you about $4.5 million on that, because of the efficiencies we get building extra capacity into the backbone. ### Is this saying, essentially, that if we built a lean-and-mean fiber backbone, designed to support only FTTP, instead of the proposed all-singing-all dancing fiber backbone, it would cost only $4.5 million, rather than $22 million (or $28 million)? I have further questions about why it should cost even that much. For example, how many FTTP substations would have to be supported? Where would they be? Etc. 131 It helps you reduce your over all costs for fiber. So, the revised number is about $65 [million] -- $66 million for the fiber plant. Now, in addition to that, just like you have in electric, you have service drops. Right? From the right-of-way to your house. So, fiber drops are exactly the same. And in this case we have a $9 million capital expense for fiber drops if the City is providing service. And a $12 million if the partner is providing service. We used a slightly higher take rate for the partner, because they may be able to ramp up quicker -- more quickly. Which would lead to more fiber drops being built to homes. The other categories are really data centers, data center installation, and home equipment and installation. There are some differences in there. But these net out to basically a capital cost of about $86 million for the City. And under the -- If the City were going to provide services directly. And $80 million -- $80.5 million if the partner was going to provide services. 2:41:43: ### Slide 19 -- FUNDING SUMMARY -- CITY ISP VERSUS PARTNER ISP So, as we look at these costs, what we wanted to also do, then, is figure out how this -- how a project like could be financed. And the -- To your benefit, some of the existing funding that you have from the current Fiber Fund could easily be leveraged and added to this. So, for example, in both models, we have the capital expenses. So, total of $85 million for the City-ISP. $80 million for the partner-ISP. We also need some set aside for working capital. And when we say "working capital," we mean all those start-up expenses that you have to incur BEFORE the revenues can cover expenses. So, staffing, systems operations, internet -- wholesale internet content -- from the internet. All of those initial expenses, you need to cover the first few years of operation. So, in the City[-ISP] model, because you're hiring, you're spending more on staff, and you're staffing up internally, you're looking at about $12.5 million for the City -- for working capital. And about $6 [million] in the partner[-ISP] model. Because in the case of the partner, they're taking responsibility for most of those activities. So, it gives us a total funding of $98 million for the City[-ISP], and then $86 [million] for the partner[-ISP]. As we worked through this with your staff and the UAC, we looked at the opportunities to use existing funding to bring down the total borrowing costs. Right? So, the Fiber Fund has an existing $30 million in it. So, one use of that could be to fund both the backbone and fiber-to-the-home. With that funding. So, for example, if the backbone was funded -- or a portion of the backbone was funded -- there would be a -- $17.5 million left for fiber-to-the-home. There's also a Special Projects Reserve in electric, that could be utilized as a LOAN to the fiber -- to the new fiber-to-the-home project. And paid back over a 10-year period, which we've built into the financial model. And that gives you a total available funding of $32.5 million, for -- you know, depending on which way you wanted to go -- either retail or a partner. So, that brings our funding down. Right. What -- New borrowings would be reduced to 60 -- about $66 million for the City-owned and -operated model, and about $53 million for the partner model. 2:44:10: ### Slide 20 -- CITY ISP -- Insource & Outsource -- Functions As we looked at this, and we looked at the financials for the two models, we quickly realized there were oppor- -- there were more opportunities on the City-ISP model, for the City to provide services directly, and control the environment, and also, potentially, reap better financial rewards, than if it were going to the ** partner. But, to do that, the City would have to take on new operations. Really, effectively, build a broadband business. And cities do this. Right? There's 71 out there, across the U.S., that have done it. And been successful at it. ### MuniNetworks' map https://muninetworks.org/communitymap says there are 300 municipally-owned FTTP networks in the U.S. (as of January 2020) -- 63 citywide plus 237 that are not citywide. ### Broadband Communities says that, as of October 2017, there were 216 municipal FTTP networks in the U.S. -- of which only 18 were public-private partnerships. https://www.bbcmag.com/community-broadband/a-record-increase-in-municipal-fiber-broadband Broadband Communities used to have an online database of FTTP networks, but they no longer do. ## I don't know why Honker thinks there are only 71. 132 But as you're doing that, it doesn't mean you have to insource everything. We find a lot of cities that decide, hey, we'll outsource some of our work and our services with strategic vendors where we need to, and we'll insource where our core functions are. So, as we took a look at operations of a Palo Alto internet business, these are basically the insource versus outsource options. Things like your customer service. You have existing customer service agents that can be cross-trained to some degree, to support internet. Billing, finance, field services. sales & marketing, and engineering all become really core functions, some of which you do today. Some that you would really need to insource, because it's a core function, like sales & marketing. But there's a number of other things that could be outsourced. In terms of network engineering, network design, installation, and maintenance. A lot of cities outsource that today, at a lower cost than they internalize it, because their overheads are, frankly, a lot lower. So, as you're considering this, think about this as, you know, the City being the provider. It doesn't necessarily have to be that everything is in-house. There are a number of strategic vendors out there, that can assist on these operational roles. 2:46:13: ### Slide 21 -- PRO FORMA SLIDE -- CITY RETAIL 2:46:15: ### Slide 22 -- FTTH & EXISITNG COMMERCIAL DARK FIBER – CITY ISP Um. This -- I'm going to skip over this slide. As we look at the financial model, 2:46:20: ### Back to Slide 21 effectively, the goal was to really look at an overall 20-year build. And this is a slice of the pro-forma that shows the first 5 years of operating performance, as well as a snapshot at Year 10, 15, and 20. Fiber projects are long-term. Your financing, if you're bonding for a fiber project like this, you're looking at 20 to 25 to 30 years. One of our customers, the city of Lehigh, in Utah, which is about the same size as Palo Alto. They own their own electric utility. High-tech community. You know, they're very progressive. Just bonded $64 million for their project, on a 25-year note at 2.75 percent. So, there's a number of active financings going on in fiber-to-the-home today. This P&L really shows you the cumulative revenues. And I mentioned, for example, the existing fiber revenues growing at 2 percent. So, we would see those as contributing to the overall fund. And this becoming sort of an expansion of the fiber business itself. Right? Because the fiber business is already netting $2 million. Which can help you leapfrog into fiber-to-the-home more easily, and borrow less. So, we add those existing revenues to fiber-to-the-home revenues over time, which grow to about $10 million, assuming a 32 percent take rate in the market. Meaning 32 percent of your residents and your businesses take service from the network. Giving us a total revenue projection, all-in, at sort of a steady run rate of about $11 million. Growing about $1 million a year after that. With the fiber revenue and additional connections. if we jump down to our debt service, we made an assumption of the debt service being a straight-line 20-year bond. At 2.5 -- or 3 -- 2.5 percent, which would be paid starting the first year of fiber-to-the-home operations. So, you've got a $3.3 million debt service carry. And then, we also have the repayment of the [Electric] Special Projects Reserves, back to Electric. And it gives us a cumulative funds balance here. You see, we have some negatives in it. But we're carrying a positive fund balance every year. And our most -- our tightest years are, of course, Years 3 and 4, which is typical. The first couple of years, you're always going to be up-side-down -- meaning, your expenses are going to be higher than your revenues. You know, we have a good amount of working capital here -- the $12.5 million -- to be able to cover that shortfall, to keep you above water. And, again -- and this includes that 20 percent contingency on construction costs and operating costs. So, we feel that it's a very conservative estimation. Especially given the fact that most cities that are out there are achieving take rates of between 40 and 50 percent. Versus the 32 [percent] that we modelled. We -- You know, we like to be very, very conservative in the financial analysis, to make sure that, you know, as we're going -- You know, as you're building, it's not just about many customers WANT to take service. Right? It's not what the surveys say, and the market analysis says. You also have to execute on the plan. As the City. And be able to execute successfully. So, as we look at all those factors in determining take rates and demand, we really try to ratchet back the number of subscribers, to present a realistic scenario, but a conservative scenario. 2:50:12: ### Back to Slide 22 So, this, really, to simplify -- excuse me -- To simplify that P&L, this is what that fund balance would look like if you implemented fiber-to-the-home -- again, at that 32 percent take rate. So, you see, here, our fund balance gets down to 133 about a million. But we start to grow after we get through the first four years of operations. And the network then starts to throw off about $3 [million] to $4 million a year. In perpetuity. And you'll always have additional connections coming in from customers, as you're starting to grow the network over time. But the first 3 or 4 years is really the determining factor in meeting those higher take rates. Once you hit that 32 percent. Usually, it takes you 3-4 years. 2:51:01: ### Slide 23 -- FTTH & EXISITNG COMMERCIAL DARK FIBER – PARTNER ISP This is the same financial analysis that we did for the partner-ISP. So, we ran two side-by-side financial models, to understand what the delta would be between the City providing fiber-to-the-home itself, versus letting a partner do it. You can see the graph, then, and the cash flow -- or, let's say, the ending-year fund balances. They're still positive. But our ending-year numbers, at Years 10, 15, and 20, are considerably lower than they are in the retail model. So, for example, at Year 20, you're at a $47 million fund balance with a partner. 2:51:43: ### Back to Slide 22 You're at $71 [million] with -- if you're providing services directly. So, it's almost a $30 million delta between the two. But the investment required by the City is only about $10 [million] less with the partnership. So, you know, City-ISP always generates higher returns for the City. Given the fact that we -- we're not as concerned about financial returns, those funds can be utilized, again, to reduce costs. Right? Reduce pricing to residents. Create low-income programs for disadvantaged Palo Altans. Or reinvested in new network services, and new provider services. 2:52:25: ### Back to Slide 23 ### Slide 24 -- IDENTIFICATION OF KEY RISKS So, you know, as we go through this, and we develop the business case, we shared the key risks with the UAC. Right? What are the key risks that the City would face? Focusing mainly on the retail model. Because there are more risks. But there more opportunities to mitigate those risks, at the same time, because you're in control of them. So, the key risks, as we always see them, are: 1) Retail Prices. Keeping retail prices competitive and minimizing price erosion for the City. Take Rates. As we talked about, 1) making sure the City is selling a quality service, and providing it efficiently. And serving the customer. Right? Operating Costs. Identifying what operating costs can potentially be outsourced. And trying to offset any operating costs that may have a very high overhead attached to it. And, of course, Construction Costs. And I thought this was interesting, because, as we worked with the team, we actually reviewed current construction rates with contractors in Palo Alto. So, we went to about six different leading fiber-to-the-home -- or, I should say, fiber construction contractors -- to really get pricing from them, that we based our engineers' estimates on. But, also, to ask them, how do they feel about fiber builds and construction in Palo Alto. And why are prices high? They gave us a good summary. And you'll have this summary, as well. But they said there are definitely some issues to consider that would help reduce those pricing -- those prices. Such as, you know, increasing permitting and locating resources. Making sure that blanket permits are available. Increasing construction workday hours. And, you know, making sure the permitting process overall is very smooth. Because these are large projects. And, in this case, it would be a potentially citywide project. 2:54:36: ### Slide 25 -- NET REVENUES AT DIFFERENT TAKE RATES – CITY ISP ### The video version of this slide adds a color key for the take rates: orange = 24 percent (break-even), yellow = 30 percent, blue = 35 percent, green = 40 percent, and dark blue = 45 percent. We also went through a number of sensitivity analysis -- analyses -- as we went through both the City-ISP and partner-ISP version. There's a lot more detail behind these. But this is just an example of break-even sensitivity. Looking at take rates. So, as we looked at your financial model, and tried to assess where your break-even take rates were, as well as your -- you know, your ultra-positive take rates, we found that, you know, 24 percent is really a break-even for the 134 network. Again, you can see here -- this is effectively showing you the amount of cash in the funds at the end of the year, at the different take rates. So, you can see, at the 24 percent, we're still a little negative. Right? Meaning that the utility, or the broadband business, needs some cash. But as we grow above that -- even at 30 percent -- you know, we're above the net -- above the zero line. 35 percent, higher, 40 percent, higher, and 45 [percent], higher. So, we went through this analysis on take rates, pricing, and a number of other factors, just so you can understand the sensitivity. And all that data is sort of behind this presentation. ### But not, I take it, available in a report on the City's website. 2:55:59: ### Slide 26 -- BUSINESS CASE SUMMARY So, summing it up, as we worked through the business case, we came down this slide. Which, I think, for you is the most important slide. Right? Again, we talked about, well, the City, you know, needing to invest in the fiber-to-the-home network itself. And the infrastructure. And then, it just becomes a question of whether the City provides services over that, or the partner does. And in the City case, again, $66 million in new funding, with a $71 million fund balance over the 20-year period. Versus $54 million in new funding, and a $47 million balance over the $20 year period. So, financially, there's a -- there's a better opportunity on the City-ISP side. And it gives you full control over pricing, customer quality, and future services. Versus the partner side, where you have no control over those. Right? You're investing the capital, but, ultimately, the partner is responsible for providing those services. And if you're investing a significant amount of money, we've seen most cities say, I want to be in control. If I'm going to invest -- I'm going to be investing in the community -- I want to have control over the outcomes. 2:57:18: ### Slide 27 -- DEPLOYMENT WITHOUT DEBT We also looked at -- because we know that taking on new debt is a sensitive topic. So, we also looked at alternative funding opportunities. And I'm going to go a little quicker through this one, because I know we're getting short on time. But, you know, could the City deploy fiber-to-the-home without taking on new debt? Which would mean building out over a longer period, reinvesting "excess" revenues from the system back into the expansion, and then, potentially, utilizing more companion projects, such as undergrounding, electrification, wherever you can, to reduce construction costs. 2:57:55: ### Slide 28 -- DEPLOYMENT WITHOUT DEBT (MAP) So, we did a similar -- this is a very detailed engineering analysis of where you could build. And how you could build. And how much time it would take to really cover the City. And we found that in the first 3 years, you cover about 12,000 households, about 550 businesses. Then you'd have to take a break. Right? You could build that portion. And then, you know, the years 4-10, you could cover another 7,000 households and about 500 businesses. Then, there would still be some households at the end that wouldn't have service. Because these were the most expensive to build. So, we really oriented this map toward, hey, what can be do with the money? Right? What -- With the funding that we have, what's the best use of that? And how does that -- How can we connect the most potential residents, to drive revenue? And then reinvest that revenue back into more expansion. So, that's really how the map's oriented. You see, the areas in green are the areas you would build first, in Years 1-3. Followed by the yellow areas, Years 4-10. And then, you have the red areas. Which are the most expensive to build. Which we'd have to find another solution for. Right? That could either be, you know, again, the City accelerates funding. Or, you know, you look for companion projects that could reduce cost. But it still becomes a pretty large part of the City. Right? You know, the whole center of town. The south. And, you know, some of the -- some of these enclaves in the south side of town. 2:59:32: ### Slide 29 -- DEPLOYMENT WITHOUT DEBT -- Results (1) So, to summarize that model, you know, if you were -- let's say, the "no-bonding" model -- the results are that the City could reach about 70 percent of all homes and businesses with no bonding. With no bonding. It gives you a deployment of about 46 percent of the total community. You know, you would have service available in the first 3 years to those areas. And, again, that -- $32 million in total funding for that. So, you would effectively use the existing funding streams 135 that you have from the fiber business. Right? The $2 million in revenue. Plus the [Special] Electric Projects Reserve and the existing Fiber Fund. 3:00:23: ### Slide 30 -- DEPLOYMENT WITHOUT DEBT -- Results (2) So, what's left over are about 7,000 homes and 209 businesses. These are the most expensive to build, with a lower density or higher underground, which still requires another $38 million in capital expenses. So, again, this still creates a non-equitable issue. It does get you service to a good chunk of homes and businesses. But it still leaves a large gap at the end of 10 years, to reach those 7,000 homes. 3:00:53: ### Slide 31 -- BUSINESS CASE SUMMARY As we talked through this with the UAC, it wasn't particularly the recommended model. ### UAC clearly advised Council to choose the NEW DEBT option, not the NO DEBT option, because the the NO DEBT option wasn't equitable. It took longer, and didn't finish the job. But it was an alternative. Again, as we developed this business case per, you know, guidelines from the City, there -- we wanted to kind of encapsulate all of the options financially. And determine which ones could be alternatives for the City to consider. So, to summarize, the NEW DEBT option is 100 percent build-out to all homes and businesses over 5 years. For the $66 million. The NO DEBT option is to build out to, effectively, 13,000 homes and businesses in the first 3 years. And then another 7,500 homes [and businesses] in -- over the next 7 years. Right? The Years 4-10. And then, alternative strategies to fund the remaining. So, we wanted to boil this down into saying, hey, if it's a debt -- funding -- issue, then here are the two options. And that -- those are the ones most important to consider. 3:02:03: ### Slide 32 -- EDUCATION & COMMUNICATIONS Finally, one of the next steps in the project will be to -- Our lights just went off here. Sorry. One of the next steps as we look at our -- Oops. Excuse me one second. Let me turn the lights back on. 3:02:26: City Manager Shikada: For the record, John is not in Palo Alto. 3:02:28: John Honker: [laughs] 3:02:35: City Manager Shikada: Should be. ** 3:02:42: John Honker: Yeah. There we go. OK. Um. 3:02:47: ### Back to Slide 31 So -- So, again, this covers the -- really, those options. So, as you're thinking about this, think about, really, the citywide option as the opportunity to provide services as a retail ISP, versus a partnership. I think our rec- -- professional recommendation is, the City-ISP model makes the most sense for Palo Alto, given the benefit of -- um -- total control, a similar capital investment to the partnership, and higher financial returns. We see most cities building out, and using that model, and being successful with that model. Because, again, it gives them the best control of the community. And, at 136 the end of the day, their biggest -- their drivers are really to improve services to the community any way they can. And they find that the best results come through that. 3:03:40: ### Back to Slide 32 ### Slide 33 -- RECOMMENDATIONS As we look back at the next recommendations, as we went through the final analysis with the UAC, a number of recommendations came out of that model. Or, of those meetings. And those recommendations are here. 1) is to really approve and direct staff to pursue the build-out of the fiber backbone, so it will support fiber-to-the-home. And also perform the following tasks, basically, by the end of the first quarter next year. ### That is, by 03-31-22. 1) is to really combine the two phases of our scope that we have with you now. Which is the fiber-to-the-home engineering. And the fiber backbone engineering. Which will give you truth -- ground-truth -- costs for the final network that will be deployed. The backbone would happen starting immediately. And be complete -- The engineering would be complete sort of in the December timeframe. Followed by the fiber-to-the-home, which would be completed sort of end of first quarter of 2022. The next item is, really, to complete residential and commercial broadband surveys, in conjunction with the work that staff has been doing on community engagement so far. You have a number of engagement initiatives going on. And the fiber-to-the-home engagement would layer into that. We would want to integrate into it. And also really work with your communications team, to 1) educate, 2) survey, and 3) really garner interest in fiber-to-the-home from citizens AND businesses. The next item is really creating a mis- -- Or, completing a risk and mitigation analysis of the City-ISP model. Think of that as developing more of a business -- more of a business PLAN for fiber-to-the-home, to identify how the City would actually go about building and managing a broadband utility. And then e) is determining the best financing model, along with any grants that may be available. And, you know, we've seen significant amounts of grant funding coming out from the Biden administration so far this year. We expect those to increase over the -- you know, the next 12 months. And almost every agency that is getting funding is building SOME broadband component into their program. So, we never see grants as a silver bullet for funding these kinds of networks. And we realize Palo Alto's not eligible for lots of grants. But we believe there may a few that will help, and contribute to the overall process. So, we'll be -- Our Vice President of Grants, she's in Washington, and has worked for the federal government for 27 years now. She'll be working with your team to identify any and all grants that are out there. And the final items are, really, to approve and direct staff to establish a city-operated ISP model within 5 years. And, then, finally, to accelerate and complete the community education and engagement regarding FTTH. Which I had mentioned before. So, that really reviews the recommendations for -- and next steps. And that finishes our presentation. So, I'm sure there's questions. I'd love to open it out to the Mayor and members of Council. 3:07:29: Mayor DuBois: Yes. John, thank you for going through that. I know we have some members of the public who have been waiting a long time. So I'm going to suggest we go the public. And then come back and take a break. And then we'll start with the Council questions at that point. City Clerk, could you go to the public, please? 3:07:09: City Clerk Minor: Yes, Mayor DuBois. Any member of the public wishing to speak on this item, please raise your hand at this time. 3:07:55: ### The video shows a list of members of the public signing up to speak. Also a visual of the speaker's remaining time. We will take hands until the first speaker finishes. Our first speaker is Don Jackson, to be followed by Andy Poggio. Don, go ahead. It's your turn. You've got 2 minutes. 137 3:08:11: Don Jackson: Hi. Uh. Can you hear me? 3:08:13: City Clerk Minor: Yes. 3:08:14: Don Jackson: I was hoping to share some slides here, but I guess that's not going to happen. I'm an outgoing UAC commissioner. Served on its budget subcommittee this year. So, I spent many hours contributing to the plans you heard tonight. Again, I was going to show you the slide. Can't do it. So, I had, basically, a one-slide summary that I sent -- emailed to the staff ** and summarizing everything that Magellan said in one slide. And then I was going to show you the options the UAC -- on that slide -- the UAC chose. But can't do that. So, now I'm going to take off my commissioner hat and offer you some personal opinions. A frequent question that is asked of the municipal broadband networks is if they need to provide television or telephone service. My answer is an emphatic no. There's a clear trend towards direct-to-consumer offerings by all the major video content providers and sports leagues. And there are many well-established voice-over-internet telephone providers. Finally, I question why the up-front capital cost of a municipal fiber network is being held to a standard of profitability -- a standard we do not apply to our streets, the new public safety building, or our libraries. That being said, the projections do seem to show that a fiber internet service should become cash-flow positive in around 10 years. So, the costs are reasonable, and manageable. I urge Council to proceed with both fiber projects, and to begin the process of raising funds, so we can begin to build out starting next year. Thank you. 3:09:54: City Clerk Minor: Thank you, Don. We will no longer be taking speaker hands. Our next speaker is Andy Poggio, to be followed by Loren Smith, and then Subodh Iyengar. Andy, go ahead. You have 2 minutes. 3:10:13: Andy Poggio: Hi. Thank you. So, first, I'd like to say that, please, don't try to assess public interest in FTTH until you've completed a successful community awareness and marketing effort. This is just what Magellan suggests. It's the only way to get an accurate assessment. No surveys until you've gone after the community with education. Next, there was an article on PAOnline on FTTH. ### It was a guest opinion by Robert Smith. https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/05/14/opinion-do-we-really-need-a-municipal-broadband-system And the article was SO inaccurate. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was commissioned by AT&T or Comcast. ### Yes. Just mention a couple of quotes. One quote is, "incumbents" are "servicing our community" and "getting better every year." AT&T has said they will NOT provide fiber to locations with underground utilities. Those locations are stuck indefinitely with slow, ancient twisted-pair copper. This is not AT&T getting better. This is AT&T staying bad. Comcast, on other other hand, forbids the residents from providing any internet services. Many residents, for example, use home automation software to control our homes remotely. Comcast forbids this, and so cannot serve these residents. And, even though I've never been a Comcast customer, even I know about Comcast's abysmal customer service record. One more quote. "No one is sure what the future of wired systems will be." Well, some of us are pretty sure, maybe because we're more knowledgeable than the author. Fiber has enormous bandwidth capacity, and is unlikely to be a limiting factor,even decades from now. 5G wireless is proliferating, but it best suits mobile devices. And what do 5G transmission towers use for network backbone? Fiber. So, we all know the advantages of a municipal fiber system for Palo Alto. Attracting start-ups and new businesses, improving age-in-place, enabling better work from home, keeping Palo Alto a uniquely desirable place to live. So, let's take this opportunity to build a 100 percent Palo Alto fiber-to-the-home NOW. Thank you. 3:12:13: 138 City Clerk Minor: Thank you, Andy. Our next speaker is Loren Smith. To be followed by Subodh Iyengar. And our last speaker on the list will be Daniel Dulitz. ### The video of the list shows more speakers. Whatever. Loren, go ahead. You have 2 minutes. 3:12:33: Loren Smith: Good evening. And thank you, City Mayor DuBois, City Council members, and City Manager Shikada. My name is Loren Smith, and I'm a City of Palo Alto resident, and a commissioner of the Utilities Advisory Commission. I also served on the UAC's budget subcommittee, which worked alongside Magellan Advisors and City staff to develop the presentation you have available this evening. I speak hear tonight to support -- to voice support for a citywide implementation of 1) an augmented and more robust fiber backbone and 2) a fully City-owned ISP delivering fiber-to-the-home service. When fully implemented, this service will have a significant impact on the lives of families here in the City of Palo Alto for many years to come. Importantly, a City-owned broadband service via fiber will enable this generation, and the next, and the next to take full advantage of the technologies and capabilities made possible through reliable, resilient, and cost-effective, high-speed, synchronous ### symmetric (not "synchronous"). (That is, uploads are as fast as downloads.) broadband service. As we have all experienced over the last year, the need for broadband services has intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our City -- and the nation -- has been hit hard. Our children, and our community, were forced, overnight, to switch to a work-from-home, school-from-home, life-at-home, quarantine space, all of which significantly increased the demand on our existing broadband networks -- most to unsatisfactory levels. As children and parents all jumped online, existing broadband services were crippled, and buckled under the strain. It is our hope the City of Palo Alto will use this experience. And, just as they looked to increase the resiliency of our electrical grid, look to increase the resiliency and reliability of our community's broadband infrastructure, and our neighborhood connectivity. Taking advantage of the City's current Fiber Fund balance, and leveraging the City's existing dark fiber network, we enable greater capacity, less signal degradation, stronger and more reliable broadband service, secure service, also resistant to electrical noise. And, most importantly, we use existing, AVAILABLE, earmarked funds in an appropriate manner, to benefit the population of the City of Palo Alto. Thank you. 3:14:58: City Clerk Minor: Thank you, Loren. Our next speaker is is Subodh Iyangar. To be followed by Rohit Mediratta. Subodh, go ahead. 3:15:13: Subodh Iyengar: Can you hear me? 3:15:15: City Cleark Minor: Yes. You have 2 minutes. 3:15:16: Subodh Iyengar: Um. I support the fiber-to-the-home expansion. I was recently fortunate enough to get gigabit fiber through a private ISP. And it's been transformative in my ability to work from home during the pandemic. Unfortunately, the fiber connection that I have is expensive. So, I hope that everyone in Palo Alto can also enjoy the benefits of fiber in an affordable way. I was disappointed to see the initial Magellan estimates of gigabit fiber is $85. Other places -- for example, Atherton -- can offer 1 gigabit at $60 a month. I think simple, cheap plans will be the key to the take rate. And the analysis of Magellan ignores the dependence of the price on the take rate. Our City is small, so it's unlikely the market competition will offer significant savings. So, I think the City should own the ISP. If we're going to partner-ISP, Magellan should also investigate open fiber, rather than a single partner ISP. I also agree with Don that we're in a transformative time, where classic cable video is dying. So there's no need to provide cable video services or phone services at all. One of the big expenses of the expansion of a dark fiber network to the home is that, like, fiber is usually always on the inconvenient side of the street. And so, it's really expensive to get it across the street, because it's undergrounded. The Magellan plan should make sure it considers building out and expanding the dark fiber network on both sides of the street, - 139 so it becomes cheaper to expand fiber-to-the-home in the future. I would love to see, also, Magellan come up with creative revenue streams, like using fiber-to-the-home for businesses in Palo Alto, as well. Lots of small businesses are unlikely to be able to run dark fiber leasing by themselves. And might actually like a standard ISP, versus a dark fiber ISP. There's also been some recent op-eds, related to wireless versus fiber technology. However, expansion of fiber technology is key to then deploy any fast wireless technology, like 5G. And there's no comparison to the reliability of fiber. Thank you. 3:17:19: City Clerk Minor: Thank you. Our next speaker is Rohit Mediratta. To be followed by Rebecca Eisenberg, and then David Terrell. Rohit, go ahead. You have 2 minutes. [pause] You need to unmute from your end. 3:17:48: Rohit Mediratta: Thank you. Can you hear me now? 3:17:49: City Clerk Minor: Yes. Go ahead. 3:17:51: Rohit Mediratta: Good evening, Mayor and Council members. Just like some of the previous speakers, I support the fiber-to-the-home program in Palo Alto. I think Palo Alto was decades ahead of most other cities in the country when they started, in 1996, to lay out fiber within Palo Alto. I think we're now at a point in time where it really should be expanded to all the homes in the City. I think a couple of things that I would like to have seen in the presentation was: When fiber-to- the-home is laid out, would the overall bandwidth coming into the City have to be expanded? And how that would happen? Because that's something that was not considered. The other thing that I would have liked to have seen was: What would be the uplink speeds of fiber-to-the-home to neighborhood homes would actually be implemented? Thank you. 3:18:52: City Clerk Minor: Thank you. Our next speaker is Rebecca Eisenberg. To be followed by David Terrell. And our final speaker is Daniel Dulitz. Rebecca, go ahead. You have 2 minutes. 3:19:05: Rebecca Eisenberg: Thank you. Like the other speakers, I strongly support the fiber-to-the-home initiative. And I urge you to consider these measures, while also thinking about two values you claim to honor. One is equity. Two is sustainability. First as to equity. Due to decades of deregulation, AT&T and Comcast now have been able to exert their monopoly power to deprive consumers of choice, while at the same time gouging prices. It will take decades for the U.S. - - if it ever does -- to get this under control. That's why an alternative to this marketplace, such as a MUNICIPAL internet service provider, is greatly needed. Additionally, as to equity, it has been -- it was very frustrating to many of us that Palo Alto -- City Council -- decided to bring fiber to businesses -- especially to BIG businesses -- before bringing it to homes and residents. This was an extraordinarily bad judgment, ### This is a bit harsh. In 1996, I believe there were no municipal FTTP networks in the U.S. (This 2010 article lists the "project start dates" of 88 municipal FTTP networks. The earliest is 1997 -- Holyoke, MA. https://www.bbcmag.com/pub/doc/BBP_MayJune10_ResurgenceOfFiber.pdf But as of 2019, they were still just thinking about FTTH.) https://muninetworks.org/tags/tags/holyoke especially in retrospect, as, over the past 18 months, the empty office buildings and those partly in development had the benefit of fiber internet access. And very few employers and employees were around actually to use. Meanwhile, residents -- in particular, low-income residents -- had to live without reliable internet access in a time where virtually everything important was moved online. This was particularly harmful to children at our public schools, where the race and wealth divide between the haves and have-nots was deeply increased, due to lack of reliable internet access. You need to fix this. And it will be easy to fix this if you invest in a municipal internet service provider, using City funds and providing it to everyone, not just to the wealthy few. As to sustainability -- I'll be super-fast -- you all have talked about the need to work from home, that won't be possible if you don't get every single one of our homes wired as quickly as 140 possible. Please don't make this profitable -- that's my alarm. It doesn't have to be profitable. It needs to be equitable and sustainable. Thank you. 3:21:16: City Clerk Minor: Thank you, Rebecca. Our next speaker is David Terrell, to be followed by our final speaker, Daniel Dulitz. David, go ahead. You have 2 minutes. 3:21:30: David Terrell: Hi. My name is David Terrell. I'm a ten-year Palo Alto resident. And I support bringing fiber-to-the-home as a public ISP in Palo Alto. I've had the privilege of using both Comcast and AT&T for wired internet service. I've had the privilege of using AT&T, Verizon, and -- whatever the latest one is -- for wireless. And I can tell you that the services that I've gotten from Palo Alto Utilities have been vastly superior in terms of customer service and availability. So, I would love to see that delivered for internet service as well. Thank you. 3:22:13: City Clerk Minor: Thank you, David. And our final speaker is Daniel Dulitz. Daniel, go ahead. You have 2 minutes. [pause] Daniel, go ahead. You have 2 minutes. 3:22:44: Daniel Dulitz: OK.. Great. I'm Daniel Dulitz. And I support fiber-to-the-home provided by a City ISP. I've lived in Palo Alto for 20 years. Over 10 of those years on upper Page Mill Road, just beyond the upper reaches of Foothills Park. You provide us with electricity, water, and sewer service, for which we thank you. The presentation we heard tonight was largely about the business sustainability of fiber-to-the-home. That's important. But I want to step back to ask the question of why we should do this project as a City in the first place. For us in the foothills, I prefer the phrase "upper Page Mill," because we're three miles beyond the entrance to Foothills Park. Our internet needs have long been neglected by the City. We were never served by the Palo Alto Cable Co-Op. We were excluded from the contractual service area when the City sold the Cable Co-Op to AT&T. ### The City never owned Cable Co-Op. The City never sold Cable Co-Op to anybody. Wired broadband is not available here. And satellite service -- even Starlink, which we have -- cannot be used for video conferencing or other real-time work. Palo Alto provides us with water pipes and sewer pipes. In the year 2021, Palo Alto should provide us with internet pipes as well. Back in the 1990s, Palo Alto was a leader in providing internet to the home. Thirty years later, it can be again. I've talked to many of my neighbors, and I think the neighborhood would be an enthusiastic partner for the City in developing a fiber-to-the-home project, which I wholeheartedly support. Thank you. ### I think it would have been more community-minded of Dulitz to have asked Council to choose the option that provides FTTP access to 100 percent of premises in Palo Alto within 5 years, rather than the option that provides FTTP access to only 70 percent of premises within 10 years. 3:24:02: City Clerk Minor: Thank you, Daniel. Mayor DuBois, that was our final speaker. 3:24:08: Mayor DuBois: So, we've been here for a while. Can you guys give me a thumbs-up if you'd like to take a break. OK. Let's take a 10-minute break. And then we'll come back. Thanks. Back at 8:35. ############################################################################################### BREAK ############################################################################################### 141 Baumb, Nelly From:Jeff Hoel <jeff_hoel@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 5:15 PM To:Council, City; UAC Cc:Hoel, Jeff (external) Subject:TRANSCRIPT & COMMENTS (Part 0) -- 05-24-21 Council mtg -- FTTP CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council members and UAC commissioners, Thanks, Council, for voting unanimously at your 05-24-21 meeting to make further progress on bringing citywide municipal FTTP to Palo Alto. Here's a transcript of the meeting, Item 8, which was about FTTP and related issues. Due to the limitations of my environment, I have broken the message into three email parts. Part 0 is my top-level comments. Parts 1 and 2 are the actual transcript (with my detailed comments). Please see more comments below. Thanks. Jeff =================== Jeff Hoel 731 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 =================== ######################################################################################## GENERAL COMMENTS: 1. On 09-28-15, a staff report and presentation told Council that citywide municipal FTTP in Palo Alto was not feasible because the take rate required to pay for it was not achievable (72 percent, with no "subsidy" from the Fiber Fund, or 57 percent with a $20 million "subsidy" from the Fiber Fund). So, Council asked staff to come up with another idea. And staff came up with the idea of doing fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and hoping that could lead to FTTP. And that led to the idea of making FTTN (a.k.a. the backbone) do lots of things besides just supporting FTTP, just in case FTTP never happened. On 05-24-21, a staff report and presentation told Council that citywide municipal FTTP in Palo Alto was feasible after all. (The take rate required to pay for itself was something like 24 percent, and municipalities often see a take rates of 40-50 percent, so a 32 percent take rate was "conservative.") I think that's an opportunity to reassess what functions should be done in the backbone network and what functions should be done in the FTTP network. 2. In 2004, staff told Council that there were no viable ways to finance citywide municipal FTTP in Palo Alto. The 05-24-21 staff report sort of assumes that there are viable ways finance citywide municipal FTTP in Palo Alto, but staff hasn't studied the subject in detail yet. So, what's different between 2004 and now? Was staff just wrong in 2004? The Fiber Fund is much larger now. Is that the difference? Staff did propose a specific way to finance the new backbone (Fiber Fund plus ESPR loan), but did not explain that choice. I want Council to make sure that that doesn't make financing FTTP harder. 142 3. Several Council members seemed to be open to the idea that FTTP ought to be used as a cash cow, to fund other City projects. I don't agree. It ought to work like Palo Alto's other utilities: run to provide services at the lowest cost to customers. Even though state law doesn't (yet) require it. 4. I think that "open access" is a great idea in principle, but I take seriously the consultant's view that it's harder to make work financially. Can we design the FTTP network so that it can be "upgraded" easily to open access at a later date? 5. I was disappointed by the presentation of what other communities are doing about municipal FTTP (Slides 11 and 12). See my detailed comments in Part 1 (starting at 2:27:02). But, overall, staff seems to be missing the big-picture point that providing FTTP is better than just providing dark fiber. 6. Council directed staff to go ahead with a detailed design of the backbone and FTTP networks, without even considering how many FTTP substations there should be, and where they should be. 7. Up to now, there hasn't been a public discussion of whether the electronics should be point-to-point (active Ethernet) or point-to-multipoint (PON). It's commonly thought that PON is less expensive, but this article claims active Ethernet is "much cheaper than PON." https://www.bbcmag.com/multifamily-broadband/gigabit-fiber-comes-to-los-altos-hills I think it's also more futureproof. 143 Baumb, Nelly From:slevy@ccsce.com Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 1:25 PM To:Steve Levy Subject:May economic update CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/bay-area-job-watch-55/ This is last month's update, sorry about the delay but it has some new info. Highlights below The Recovery Strengthens June 14, 2021 The Bay Area posted modest job gains in March and April. The outlook for stronger near-term economic gains is positive though long-term challenges remain. The U.S. economic outlook has improved with positive implications for our region. The Bay Area success in battling the pandemic with declining case and hospitalization levels and high rates of vaccination has led to many reopenings with more to come that will be reflected in the May, June and July jobs reports. The highlights: • The Bay Area added 50,100 jobs between January and March 2021 .and the regional unemployment rate fell from 6.6% to 5.9%. Job gains were led by the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. • The U.S, and Bay Area economic outlook has been upgraded by the $1.9 billion COVID relief package that has so far resulted in growth in retail sales and the ISM manufacturing and services indices. • The downward revisions in the Bay Area were comparable in % terms to those statewide. However, the Bay Area and state have now recovered a much smaller share of jobs lost compared to the nation. • Bay Area growth should accelerate now with more businesses reopening including some in-person capacity at sports and tourist venues. • The long-term Bay Area economic challenges remain with only slow progress on housing, transportation and economic competitiveness, challenges at the front of the Bay Area Council policy agenda. 144 Baumb, Nelly From:Kevin Ma <kevinma.sd@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 1:24 PM To:Council, City Subject:Eviction Moratorium CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,    I ask that the Council take up an eviction moratorium as an urgent agenda item. While it's likely that the state will  extend the one that currently ends at the end of the month, and the county is working on something on the 22nd, Palo  Alto should also consider creating one just in case circumstances change.    Catholic Charities has reported that none of the applications for rental assistance for the county has actually been  fulfilled, so we must add more time for the program to resolve its issues so that renters aren't facing eviction threats.    Sincerely,  Kevin Ma  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Lucia Miracchi <lucia.miracchi@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 23, 2021 8:58 AM To:Council, City Subject:Opening California Avenue to traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  My name is Lucia Miracchi, I am the owner and ceo of Massage Therapy Center Palo Alto on California Avenue. We are one of the oldest and largest massage/bodywork rehab facilities in northern California providing professional services to  South Bay communities for nearly 40 years. We are not a spa ~ we are strictly excellently trained bodywork professionals. We’ve been voted Best of Massage in Palo Alto every year since 2011.   We have a staff of 15‐20 therapists that includes acupuncture, neuromuscular retraining, clinical deep tissue, myofascial work, and trigger point release. About 1/3 of our clients are either elderly or have some sort of physical ambulatory ailment.   The closure of California Avenue has put an additional strain on these clients because they can no longer park, or be dropped off, in front of our facility. They must now come from the back parking lot and have to walk down the alleyway to reach our front door ~ that’s an additional 50 feet.  When you have some sort of walking handicap it becomes yet another added painful journey just to reach us. Here are some examples from our clients ~  Jeff 46 – I injured my back falling off a ladder making it difficult to walk. It would really benefit not only myself but many other people with injuries or handicaps if you could open up the parking on California Avenue. I come for massage regularlyand would greatly appreciate being able to park on the street , or be dropped off, so I could walk in thru the front door.    Mary 78 - I’ve been getting massages from Charlie every other week. I’m elderly and use a walker to get around. I find it difficult that I can’t be dropped off on CalAve and instead must go through the alley way to come around to the front door.  Richard ~ 64 years old ~ tore my right hamstring and must use a buggy with wheels to keep the leg bent backwards. I’ve needed to come once a week for a couple of months. Would really appreciate being able to walk thru the front door, aftermy friend drives me in. I See Nestor for neuromuscular massage to help with my healing.   Ethel ~ 94 years old ~ have difficulty getting to my massage appts on cal avenue due to the closures because I use a walker. I use to be able to walk thru the front door after being dropped off from my ride. I come to seeCussaundra for relaxation and lymphatic drainage massage for my inflamed legs.   I myself have undergone several hip surgeries and know the painful process of learning to walk again 4 times in my adult life! Every extra step can be an excruciating event…   I am hopeful that we can reach a win-win situation so that restaurants are able to spill over onto the sidewalks with parklets and we are able to have our clients park, or be dropped off, in front of our Center so they can walkonly a few feet from their cars, thru our front door, without unnecessary hardship…     Warm Regards,    Lucia  2   Lucia C. Miracchi Bodywork & Somatic Psychology Massage Therapy Center www.massagetherapypaloalto.com        3 Baumb, Nelly From:Mj Wolf <mimi.wolf@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:17 PM To:Public Works Public Services; Council, City; Glanckopf, Annette; Lynne Chiapella; TBK Palo Alto Subject:Garbage collection in Midtown on Middlefield Attachments:IMG_0900.jpg; IMG_0899.jpg; IMG_0895.jpg CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Attached are photos, taken on 6/22/2021, of trash receptacles along the sidewalk on Middlefield in front of  Tastebud Kitchen and Como Esta businesses. Is the CPA responsible for the trash pickup for these receptacles? They  have been overflowing for over a week.    Contrast the Midtown trash receptacles with the third photo taken on University Avenue.  ‐‐  Mimi Wolf  745 San Carlos Ct, Palo Alto, CA 94306  650.245.6434    4 Baumb, Nelly From:Palo Alto Renters <paloaltorenters@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:20 PM To:Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Burt, Patrick; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Kou, Lydia; Stone, Greer; Cormack, Alison; Tanaka, Greg Subject:Extend the Eviction Moratorium Attachments:Law-Foundation-County-Moratorium-Letter-06-16-21.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto City Council,      The Palo Alto Renters Association is a volunteer‐led group of renters who aim to support renter protections and increase  renter voices in the civic landscape. We're glad to see that you have included a discussion around the Eviction  Moratorium in the agenda item around lifting the state of emergency.     First, we were disappointed to see that staff had not included the Law Foundation's letter, recognizing that local  jurisdictions can legally apply local protections in some situations. This was part of the Santa Clara County Board of  Supervisors agenda when they discussed the moratorium extension in their meeting this morning. We would have  preferred to see the county include all cities in their extension but unfortunately they have chosen only to cover  unincorporated areas of the County. They have said that their Counsel will work with cities that choose to move forward  though.     The state has only distributed 2% of their rent relief funds so we know that renters need more time. Just this week we  spoke with yet another renter who lost their job during the pandemic and is expecting an eviction notice on July 1st, if  the moratorium isn't extended. Please give renters more time by added a Special Meeting next week to discuss an  urgency ordinance. Palo Alto was a leader in this last year, please be a leader again!     Thanks so much for considering this.     Best,   Angie Evans, PARA Steering Committee member     ‐‐   Palo Alto Renters Association   *All Emails monitored by Steering Committee Members*    Facebook.com/RentersofPA  twitter.com/RentersofPA  And the web: https://bit.ly/PARAweb  4 North Second Street, Suite 1300 | San Jose, CA 95113 Phone: 408-293-4790 | Fax: 408-293-0106 | lawfoundation.org | Tax ID 52-1014754 Advancing Justice Housing | Health | Children & Youth County of Santa Clara Board of Supervisors Office of the County Counsel June 16, 2021 Re: Authority of the County to Enact an Eviction Moratorium To the Board of Supervisors and County Counsel of Santa Clara County: As the June 30, 2021 deadline of California’s eviction moratorium approaches, we write to affirm the legal authority of Santa Clara County to extend an eviction moratorium, with or without a state or local emergency. I. The County has Broad Police Powers to Enact an Eviction Moratorium Without Preemption Concerns Under the California Constitution, “[a] county or city may make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws.” Cal. Const. at XI, section 7. Cities have broad police powers to protect the public health, safety, and welfare of their residents. (See Berman v. Parker (1954) 348 U.S. 26, 32-33.) Those powers extend to the regulation of “the development and use of real property within its jurisdiction,” for which local governments have “broad authority.” (California Building Industry Assn. v. City of San Jose (2015) 61 Cal.4th 435, 455; Cal. Const., art. XI, § 7.) “As a general matter, so long as a land use restriction or regulation bears a reasonable relationship to the public welfare, the restriction or regulation is constitutionally permissible.” (City of San Jose, 61 Cal. 4th at 455.) A local eviction moratorium does not risk preemption by state law, as long it does not attempt to modify the eviction process. Preemption occurs when the local ordinance “duplicates, contradicts, or enters an area fully occupied by general law, either expressly or by legislative implication.” (See Viacom Outdoor Inc. v. City of Arcata (2006) 140 Cal.App.4th 230, 236.) It is well-established that local governments in California are free to regulate the grounds for eviction without any preemption by state laws. (Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley (1976) 17 Cal.3d. 129; Fisher v. City of Berkeley (1984) 37 Cal.3d 644.) For example, local governments may ban certain types of eviction that are allowed under state law, such as no-fault evictions. (See City of Oakland, 171 Cal.App.4th at 764.) Alternatively, local governments can permit eviction only for specific reasons, as both general law cities, such as East Palo Alto, and charter cities, such as San Jose, have done. Only laws that attempt to modify the eviction process are preempted by state law. (See Law • Foundation OF S I LICON VA LL EY 2 of 6 generally Birkenfeld and Fisher.) Although the Governor’s Executive Order N-28-20 purports to suspend any provision of state law that would preempt a local government’s exercise of its police power to regulate residential or commercial evictions, it ignores the fact that state law explicitly gives local jurisdictions authority to “regulate or monitor the basis for eviction” for residential properties, even outside of any declaration of an emergency. (Civ. Code § 1954.52.) More specifically, California State Senate Bill 91 does not preempt any local eviction moratoria effective July 1, 2021. Under California Code of Civil Procedure section 1179.05, local eviction moratoria in response to COVID-19 that occurs between August 19, 2020, and June 30, 2021 shall have no effect before July 1, 2021. Code of Civil Procedure section 1179.05 subsection (b) states that this law does not alter a local government’s authority to regulate just cause for termination of a residential tenancy, “provided that a provision enacted or amended after August 19, 2020, shall not apply to rental payments that came due between March 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021.” Therefore, a local government may enact an eviction moratorium effective July 1, 2021, as long as the moratorium does not impact the right of property owners to collect rental payments that came due between March 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. II. The County’s Police Powers Are Increased During a Declared Local Emergency Even if the Governor does not extend Executive Order N-28-20 past June 30, 2021, the Board of Supervisors has the authority to extend the County’s eviction moratorium for residential evictions. Beyond the broad police power outlined above, the governing body of a city or county may proclaim a local emergency under the Emergency Services Act—so long as the factual circumstances for such a proclamation exist—thereby broadening its powers to adequately address the public health crisis. (Gov. Code § 8630.) Under a proclaimed local emergency, the local governing body may promulgate orders and regulations necessary to provide for the protection of life and property. (Gov. Code § 8634.)1 Oftentimes, this means enacting measures that would exceed the local government’s powers without the existence of an emergency and local declaration. For instance, though the right to travel is constitutionally protected in the United States, the City of Long Beach legally curtailed this liberty by instituting a limited local curfew in response to a “bona fide emergency…” (See In re Juan C. (1994) 28 Cal.App.4th 1093,1101; see also Gov. Code § 8634.) While government must make every effort not to trample on citizens’ rights, a local government's compelling interest in community safety can, in appropriate circumstances, outweigh an individual's liberty interest. (See In re Juan, 28 Cal.App.4th at 1101.) Likewise, Santa Clara County’s compelling interest in 1 The California Attorney General has confirmed that this statute permits counties to issue emergency rules and regulations that apply countywide, including within the incorporated areas of the county. See 62 Ops. Cal. Atty. Gen. 701 (1979). 3 of 6 community safety justifies the extension of the eviction moratorium to prevent widespread residential displacement. The horrific and devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit communities of color the hardest,2 only exacerbated an unprecedented regional housing crisis. The negative environmental impacts of displacement, which can create overcrowded, substandard living situations or homelessness, are significant. Researchers have diligently documented the severe and sometimes lethal consequences that arise from displacement both amidst and outside of a pandemic.3 Furthermore, the economic devastation caused by COVID-19 ravages on despite the fact that case rates in Santa Clara County have been declining. A staggering 30,442 Santa Clara County households are struggling with rent debt topping $196 million -- nearly $6,426 in rent debt per household. 4 Rental assistance programs have not kept up with tenants and landlords’ needs during the pandemic. Now, the state’s flagship program for distributing state and federal rental assistance is mired in delays and vanishingly few tenants and landlords have actually received aid.5 An equitable recovery from the pandemic is not possible without allowing these households a chance to receive rent relief and start earning income for an amount of time sufficient to resume paying their normal rental rate. Tenants and landlords alike are only just beginning the long road to economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. Without an eviction moratorium after June 30, 2021, Santa Clara County households burdened with rent debt are likely to be evicted, suffering displacement and harm to their mental and physical health and placing more strain on our public health system. Therefore, extension of the eviction moratorium is necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of residents in Santa Clara County. Local jurisdictions have the authority under state law to declare a local emergency and to regulate the grounds for residential evictions. Santa Clara County should exercise this power to extend its moratorium on residential evictions by renewing its declaration of a local emergency and amending the moratorium to run concurrently with such extension. 2 COVID-19 hospitalization and deaths by race/ethnicity”, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, (Updated May 26, 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations- discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html 3 Leifheit, Kathryn M., et al., “Elevated Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness with COVID-19”, UCLA (March 8, 2021), available at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.05.21253019v1.full.pdf; See also: Marcus, Justine and Zuk, Miriam, “Displacement in San Mateo County, California: Consequences for Housing, Neighborhoods, Quality of Life, and Health” U.C. BERKELEY INST. GOVT. STUD. (May 2017) available at https://www.urbandisplacement.org/sites/default/files/images/impacts_of_displacement_in_san_mateo_county.pdf. 4 PolicyLink’s National Equity Atlas website. https://nationalequityatlas.org/rent-debt. Based on the April 28-May 10 Census Household Pulse Survey. Accessed June 14, 2021. 5 Louis Hansen, $2 Billion In Federal Aid, But Little to No Relief for Bay Area Landlords, MERCURY NEWS (June 9, 2021, 10:01 AM), https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/09/2-billion-in-federal-aid-but-little-to-no-relief/. 4 of 6 III. Enacting an Eviction Moratorium Would Not Constitute a Taking In a variety of contexts, courts have upheld government restrictions on the use of private property against takings challenges. The U.S. Supreme Court “has often upheld substantial regulation of an owner’s use of his own property where deemed necessary to promote the public interest” (Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan Catv Corp. (1982) 458 U.S. 419, 426) and has consistently upheld land use regulations that destroyed or adversely affected private property interests where public health, safety, morals, or general welfare could be promoted by prohibiting particular uses of land. (Penn Cent. Transp. Co. v. New York City (1978) 438 U.S. 104, 124-25.) A temporary eviction moratorium does not constitute a taking because it does not deprive property owners of their property without just compensation. (U.S. Const., 5th Amend.; Cal. Const., art. XI, § 7(a).) A governmental regulation constitutes a per se taking if either it effectuates a permanent physical invasion of property or deprives a property owner of all economically beneficial or productive use of land. (Lucas v. S.C. Coastal Council (1992) 505 U.S. 1003, 1015- 17.) However, “statutes regulating the economic relations of landlords and tenants are not per se takings.” (Pennell v. San Jose (1988) 485 U.S. 1, 12, fn. 6 (citing FCC v. Florida Power Corp., 480 U.S. 245 (1987)).) A regulation that merely limits the use of property will be analyzed under the ad-hoc, multi- factored balancing test for regulatory takings set out in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York (1987) 438 U.S. 104, 123. Courts asses the relevant facts according to several factors, three of which guide the analysis: (i) the economic impact of the action, (ii) “the extent to which the regulation has interfered with distinct investment-backed expectations,” and (iii) the “character of the governmental action.” Id. Where, as here, a regulation is temporary, “time is indeed a factor in determining the existence” of a taking. (Ark. Game & Fish Comm'n v. United States (2012) 568 U.S. 23, 38.) A. The Economic Impact The economic impact of extending the eviction moratorium will not constitute a taking under the Penn Central test and subsequent case law. Ninth Circuit courts have looked for a severe economic impact in analyzing regulations under Penn Central. We are unaware of any case in which a taking was found to have occurred where the diminution in value of the property was less than fifty percent. (See Colony Cove Props., LLC v. City of Carson (2018) 888 F.3d 445, 450.) Extending the County’s existing eviction moratorium could not possibly diminish the value of any property it impacts to an extent that could be considered a taking. First, an extended eviction moratorium would not cancel a renter’s obligation to pay rent—it would simply extend the period in which the renter is permitted to pay rent as they recover from the pandemic. Second, the eviction moratorium would only apply to those tenants who have been impacted by COVID-19. Third, the 5 of 6 extension would give tenants and landlords who have applied for state and federal rental assistance more time for this rent relief to be disbursed. By preserving landlords’ right to collect rent as a legal matter and improving landlords’ likelihood of actually accessing financial relief as a factual matter, extension of the eviction moratorium could even have a positive economic impact on the properties it impacts. B. Interference with Distinct Investment-Backed Expectations Nor will extension of the eviction moratorium interfere with distinct investment-backed expectations, which any challenge to the eviction moratorium must articulate and prove. Investors in heavily-regulated fields, such as rental housing, “cannot object if the legislative scheme is buttressed by subsequent amendments to achieve the legislative end.'” (Concrete Pipe & Prods. v. Constr. Laborers Pension Tr. (1993) 508 U.S. 602, 645.) Although the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tenants’ incomes may not have been foreseeable, it was certainly foreseeable that local government would seek to use its police powers to protect the health and safety of tenants if such an emergency were to arise. (See MHC Fin. L.P. v. City of San Rafael (2013) 714 F.3d 1118, 1127-1128.) As a temporary measure limited to specific emergency circumstances and intended to stabilize the rental market, the effect of extending the eviction moratorium for COVID-19 impacted tenants would simply be too small to credibly have affected investment decisions. C. The Character of the Action Finally, the character of the County’s action in extending the eviction moratorium would not support a takings claim. This factor’s focus on the degree of physical intrusion reflects the fact that ultimately, the Penn Central test seeks to identify regulations “that are functionally equivalent to the classic taking in which government directly appropriates private property or ousts the owner from his domain.” (Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (2005) 544 U.S. 528, 540.) Like rent control, an eviction moratorium “does not require petitioners to submit to the physical occupation of their land.” (Yee v. City of Escondido (1992) 503 U.S. 519, 530.) As a regulation, it is “much more an "adjust[ment of] the benefits and burdens of economic life to promote the common good…” (MHC Fin. L.P. v. City of San Rafael (2013) 714 F.3d 1118, 1128) and does not amount to a physical taking of property. IV. Conclusion Under its broad police powers, Santa Clara County has legal authority to enact a residential eviction moratorium without preemption concerns. The County also has authority to declare a local emergency, thereby broadening its powers to address the underlying crisis. Lastly, a temporary eviction moratorium does not rise to the level of a taking under the Fifth Amendment and would withstand a constitutional challenge. An eviction moratorium effective July 1, 2021 is urgent, necessary, and within the County’s authority. 6 of 6 Re sp e c t f u l l y s u b m i t t e d , Ja n e W o n g , S t a f f A t t o r n e y , H o u s i n g P r o g r a m Na d i a A z i z , D i r e c t i n g A t t o r n e y , H o u s i n g P r o g r a m r 5 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:17 AM To:Allan Seid Subject:Fwd: [chbb850] [CHOpinion] Fwd: On KQED: The 'Model Minority' Attachments:Larry Jin Lee The 'Model Minority' - KQED.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      Subject: On KQED: The 'Model Minority'  Date: 6/22/21  Fr: Allan Seid, Mary Ann Michel    https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601140733/larry‐jin‐lee‐the‐model‐minority       3/8/21, 7)31 AMLarry Jin Lee: The 'Model Minority' - KQED Page 1 of 9https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601140733/larry-jin-lee-the-model-minority PERSPECTIVES Larry Jin Lee: The 'Model Minority' LISTEN 2 min By Larry Jin Lee Mar 8 Save Article News Politics Education Housing Immigration Criminal Justice Inform. Inspire. Involve.Always free. Sign In 0 3/8/21, 7)31 AMLarry Jin Lee: The 'Model Minority' - KQED Page 2 of 9https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601140733/larry-jin-lee-the-model-minority Violence against Asian Americans comes with a peculiar kind of racism making that community especially vulnerable. Larry Jin Lee has this Perspective. Asian Americans are often called the model minority. Has a nice ring to it doesn’t it? I used to think so. I mean it’s better than being labeled in the negative ways other minorities are, right? It’s always confused me why I can be lauded as a model minority one moment, then on the same day, be told to go back from where I came from. This is the ultimate gaslighting of Asian Americans. The dialectic of the model minority and the perpetual foreigner, subject to shifting sociopolitical climates. Is the current epidemic of violent crimes against Asian Americans nationwide a possible side effect of this myth? Explaining these incidents away as blaming Asian Americans for COVID is low hanging fruit, in spite of how this has been weaponized against us. The problem is more complex and multilayered. It is painful that my 90-year-old mother lives in fear of multiple viruses, racism 3/8/21, 7)31 AMLarry Jin Lee: The 'Model Minority' - KQED Page 3 of 9https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601140733/larry-jin-lee-the-model-minority and COVID, needing to warn me not go out because people hate Chinese and that I may be attacked. I’m especially disheartened that these attacks include perpetrators of color, and this plays right into the existing sense of fear and alienation fueling the divide between us. Ironically, the very qualities that stereotypically make Asian Americans more acceptable to White America, shaped over the course of a racist history, being accommodating, passive, quiet and non-aggressive, are the very same characteristics that can make us a target. Our success has been used to put down other racial groups fueling the perception that we have prospered on the backs and struggles of other minority groups. Our provisional acceptance by White America is perceived as being sellouts, which compounds the sense of betrayal and resentment. There’s a racist saying, Asian Americans are like popcorn, they turn white when under pressure. This leaves us isolated on our own island. Sponsored 3/8/21, 7)31 AMLarry Jin Lee: The 'Model Minority' - KQED Page 4 of 9https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601140733/larry-jin-lee-the-model-minority As an activist, I’m heartened to see how there has also been a surge in Asian American activism and collaboration with other races, born of outrage towards racism, not each other. We do have skin in the game and we need to be allies. I’m hopeful that this will continue to bridge the divide between us and to see how we’ve been used against each other. Please let’s stop the hate. With a Perspective, I’m Larry Jin Lee. Larry Jin Lee is a psychotherapist. He lives in San Francisco. SEE COMMENTS 6 Baumb, Nelly From:Jamie Beckett <jmbeckett@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 5:37 PM To:Shikada, Ed Cc:Council, City; City Mgr Subject:Re: IMPOSSIBLE TO GET PARKING PERMIT Dear Ed,  Thank you very kindly for your speedy response. We have heard from Mr. Kamhi by both phone and email. We are both  very close followers of Palo Alto news, but were not aware that parking enforcement remains paused. That will help  while we wait for the permit.    best regards,  Jamie Beckett and Peter Shuler     On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 3:23 PM Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  Dear Jamie and Peter,     I’m sorry to hear about your experience.  I’m asking our transportation lead Philip Kamhi to follow up with you directly.     Sincerely,  ‐‐Ed       Ed Shikada   City Manager  250 Hamilton Avenue  Palo Alto, CA 94301  (650) 329‐2280  ed.shikada@cityofpaloalto.org           From: Jamie Beckett <jmbeckett@gmail.com>   Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 2:54 PM  CITY Of: PALO ALTO 7 To: City Mgr <CityMgr@cityofpaloalto.org>  Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>  Subject: IMPOSSIBLE TO GET PARKING PERMIT     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mr. Shikada,   Once again, Palo Alto is failing. The construction of the police station a block‐and‐a‐half from our home has made it  impossible for guests and vendors to park in the neighborhood. Because of this, we've been trying to purchase an  additional RPP, but the city has made this impossible to accomplish.      The old website where you could actually order a permit is dead. The current website instructs residents to write to a  certain email address, which we have done. There's been no reply.      We then tried calling ‐‐ first the department of transportation, but the mailbox is full. Then we tried calling the city  clerk's office. BUT HERE, TOO, THE MAILBOX IS FULL.     Your construction project is already blocking streets and sidewalks, making deafening noise and generally making our  lives miserable. Now we are blocked at every attempt to obtain a parking permit.      We need someone to call or email and rectify this problem immediately.  Please call Peter Shuler at 415‐819‐6643  ASAP.     thank you,  Peter Shuler and Jamie Beckett  2577 Park Boulevard, V203  Palo Alto, CA  94306           9 Baumb, Nelly From:Rhoda Fry <fryhouse@earthlink.net> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 5:22 PM To:'BoardOperations'; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; mike.wasserman@bos.sccgov.org; supervisor.lee@bos.sccgov.org; supervisor.simitian@bos.sccgov.org Cc:'Loquist, Kristina'; citycouncil@cupertino.org; council@losaltosca.gov; citycouncil@losaltoshills.ca.gov; Council, City Subject:BOS Agenda #22 Ridgeline Easement Comments Attachments:BOS 20210622.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear BOS,  Please find enclosed BOS Agenda #22 Ridgeline Easement Comments  Thank You,  Rhoda Fry  From: Rhoda Fry on June 21, 2021 To: Board of Supervisors, Santa Clara County, California RE: June 22 BOS Meeting Agenda #22 Ridgeline Protection Honorable Board of Supervisors, Please vote “yes” on Board Referral #22 from Supervisors Lee and Simitian to grant enforcement rights of the 1972 Ridgeline Protection Easement Deed to the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. Lehigh’s documents show that our ridgeline has already crumbled by at least 50 feet.1 Enforcement is overdue and the BOS cannot be permitted to unilaterally overturn our Deed. Protecting the Crumbling Ridgeline The approved 2012 Lehigh Reclamation Plan strengthens the ridgeline with a buttress that is supported by filling the massive quarry pit. The fill is obtained from the adjacent ~218-acre mining-waste site called the West Materials Storage Area (WMSA), the edge of which is visible as a brown line at the ridge from Los Altos City Hall and beyond.2 Lehigh’s 2019 proposal mines ~20 acres of the protected ridgeline,3 imports fill at a rate of “666” trucks per day for 30 years,4 and increases the height of the WMSA by 160 feet.5 The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) allows Lehigh’s cement plant 70,000 trucks per year and the County allows Stevens Creek Quarry 1300 trucks per day.6 Lehigh must be held accountable to the 2012 approved plan. 2007 Quarry Photograph by Jitze Couperus Schematic: WMSA on left in dark blue, Quarry in middle in Yellow, EMSA right on in Brown7 More Requests for Sucess 1. Conduct a survey to determine whether there is sufficient material onsite at WMSA to fill the quarry per plan. Include the East Materials Storage Area (EMSA) before allowing imported fill. Prohibit Lehigh from selling off overburden that could cause a deficit and increase traffic. 2. Guarantee that the taxpayers shall not be burdened with any cost of Lehigh’s remediation work by re-evaluating the cost of reclamation to ensure that FACE (Financial Assurance Cost Estimate) and FAM (Financial Assurance Mechanism) are accurate. FAM is currently ~$60M which, by comparison with the cost of the $93M Permanente Creek Flood Project, seems low. Thank You for Your Consideration, Rhoda Fry 1 2019 Lehigh Reclamation Project Description. Figure 10. Page 51. https://stgenpln.blob.core.windows.net/document/2250_2019RPA_ProjectDescription_EnvironmentalInfo.pdf 2 2012 Approved Lehigh Reclamation Plan. Page 26. https://stgenpln.blob.core.windows.net/document/Lehigh_RPA_20111213_AmendedMainDoc.pdf 3 Ibid footnote 1. Figure 4. Page 26. 4 2019 Lehigh Reclamation Application. Page 5. https://stgenpln.blob.core.windows.net/document/2250_2019RPA_Application.pdf 5 Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. Letter dated July 12, 2019. Page 2. Link opens file containing multiple letters. https://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=4&ID=196274 6 BAAQMD Lehigh Title V Permit. Page 63. https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/engineering/title-v-permits/a0017/a0017_05_05_2020_renewal_final_permit__02-pdf.pdf?la=en Santa Clara County Stevens Creek Quarry Operating Conditions. Page 6. https://stgenpln.blob.core.windows.net/document/1253_SCQ_Agreement_ParcelB_COA.pdf 7 2007 Photo by Jitze Couperus, http://www.couperus.org/Albums/Quarry/; 2012 Lehigh Reclamation Plan Figure 3.3-1 https://stgenpln.blob.core.windows.net/document/Lehigh_RPA_20111213_AmendedMainDoc.pdf Figure 3.3· 1 auany Components 10 Baumb, Nelly From:Rich Green <rich@richgreenink.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 4:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:Letter from Palo Alto Museum regarding Colleagues Memo Attachments:City Council letter 6 21 2021.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Letter attached. I will also be speaking for 2 minutes during public comments on the Colleagues Memo agenda item.  Your support in this matter is deeply appreciated.     Thank you,  Rich    Palo Alto Museum  President, Board of Directors  Palo Alto, CA 94301  650‐799‐1497  rich@richgreenink.com    PALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM | ID 77-0634933 | PO Box 676, Palo Alto, CA 94302 | 650.322.3089 | PaloAltoMuseum.org June 21, 2021 Dear Mayor DuBois and Councilmembers, The Museum Board of Directors thanks you for the funding support to complete the Roth Building rehabilitation, leveraging the $1.8M the Museum has invested in plans and permits as well as the millions of dollars in funding the Museum has previously generated specifically for rehabilitation of the Roth Building for use by the Palo Alto Museum. We also thank Vice Mayor Burt and Councilmembers Kou and Stone for penning the Colleagues’ Memo on your agenda tonight. We note one correction to the Memo in that the Museum was offered and signed a two-year Lease Option Agreement in 2007, not a 40-year lease option in 2005 as indicated on page 2. The Roth Building project presents an exceptional, “do it right now” opportunity to save an important physical asset in the City’s infrastructure portfolio that will otherwise continue to deteriorate rapidly and irretrievably. Advances and updates Recognizing there is an urgency presented in preserving the Roth Building, we’d like to take this opportunity to highlight some advances and updates. The Museum’s contractor, Vance Brown Construction, has already been working with subcontractors in anticipation of starting construction at the Roth Building. As Tim Stitt of Vance Brown has stated previously, the sooner the Museum can start work, the more likely it can take advantage of current market conditions that are anticipated to change as the economy opens up. What we can say with certainty is that any delay will have unpredictable results on costs. The Museum’s attorneys at Wilson Sonsini have been in touch with City Attorney Molly Stump offering their availability to work directly with her and/or her staff to facilitate a timely execution of the Lease Agreement. We’d also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Wilson Sonsini for their pro bono assistance. PO BOX 676 | PALO ALTO, CA 94302 PALOALTOMUSEUM.ORG | 650.322.3089 HONORARY CHAIRS Clayborne Carson, PhD Dean Clark, MD Gloria Hom, EdD David M. Kennedy, PhD Susan Packard Orr, MBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Rich Green, President Patricia Sanders, Vice President Lanie Wheeler, Treasurer Monica Yeung Arima Beth Bunnenberg Kevin Curry John King Doug Kreitz Hal Mickelson John Northway Nelson Ng Steve Staiger STAFF Laura Bajuk, Executive Director Crystal Taylor, Assistant Director Lynette York, Bookkeeper A community-driven effort supported by numerous individuals, corporations, foundations, Santa Clara County and the City of Palo Alto. Founding Supporters: Museum of American Heritage Palo Alto Historical Association Palo Alto-Stanford Heritage University South Neighborhood Association Endorsed by: Alta Housing Canopy Gordon H. Chang, Professor of American History, Sr. Assoc. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford University Pacific Art League Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce Stanford Historical Society Stanford Special Collections & University Archives Woman’s Club of Palo Alto Tax ID No. 77-0634933 PALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM | ID 77-0634933 | PO Box 676, Palo Alto, CA 94302 | 650.322.3089 | PaloAltoMuseum.org Palo Alto Museum to City Council June 21, 2021 Page 2 A sense of urgency There are built-in time pressures that should prompt an additional sense of urgency: the clock will start running on the Museum’s building permit as soon as the COVID Shelter in Place order is lifted; County and foundation grants that are essential to the project may expire with the passage of time and without timely forward progress expressed by the City. As with any substantial project that will provide significant benefits to the City and its residents, the arrangements to be made for the City’s partnership with the Museum will draw on staff resources. The built-in time pressures identified here and as previously stated we think should prompt a sense of urgency. We ask that the City proceed forthwith on a lease agreement with the Museum. The Lease associated with the Lease Option that was previously in place should be significantly accurate and appropriate given that Lease was drafted and vetted based on the Museum response to a City RFP that has not been amended, and the Museum has not deviated from its compliance with City stipulations in that RFP. We appreciate the recent leadership taken by Council, which has come after a sometimes difficult and confusing path. We now look forward to our newly confirmed partnership with the City and to bringing a restored Roth Building and Museum to this community along with the multiple and unique benefits it offers. Sincerely, Richard C. Green President, Board of Directors Palo Alto Museum 11 Baumb, Nelly From:pennyellson12@gmail.com Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 4:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:FW: Cubberley MND Attachments:CSTSC Committee Policy -Charter.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Honorable City Council,     I see that Item 9 on your Consent Calendar this evening is a budget allocation for the Cubberley MND.  I am writing to  ask you to pull this item from Consent in order to consider adding funding for study of traffic safety impacts on Nelson  Drive to the scope of study for this project.      Nelson Drive, which abuts the project site, is a City of Palo Alto Adopted School Commute Corridor and as such, per  Comp Plan Goal T‐4, should be given heightened review for bicycle/pedestrian safety.  Traffic calming and other safety  measures may be necessary to slow traffic and to discourage drivers from using the neighborhood street to bypass  traffic congestion on arterials (Policy T‐4.3).  Drop‐offs for soccer fields create safety problems on Nelson today, as city  staff knows.  Given the scale of the project and the circuitous underground parking off Middlefield that is proposed,  diversion of traffic to this school commute route is a real probability that concerns many in our neighborhood, as the  city learned in the most recent Cubberley outreach process.  I would like to understand what direction has been given to  the consultant about how this traffic and safety analysis is to be done.  From a conversation with Kristen O’Kane today, it  appears staff has decided they won’t study potential safety impacts on this street.    As a member of both previous Cubberley Community Advisory Committees and a resident of the nearby neighborhood  and a 21‐year advocate for Safe Routes to School, I want to understand specifically what will be done to study potential  traffic and safety impacts of the project on Nelson. Bike/pedestrian safety was a clear concern of the neighborhood  coming out of the last round of community meetings.    Kristen O’Kane (copied here) is aware of the sensitivity of Nelson Drive, and previously has assured me that bike/ped  safety impacts would be studied as part of the environmental review process and mitigated as required.  Will you please  share with me what the consultant will be asked to study and what assumptions the consultant starting with?     I see that the budget for this analysis is relatively small, given the scale of the project.  That worries me.  I hope that we  will use those limited funds efficiently. One way to do that is to make sure the consultant is prepared up front to analyze  problems that people are concerned about.    If the city wants Greenmeadow to be happy with the Cubberley project, making sure that the Nelson Drive school  commute route remains safe for people who walk and bike should be part of the environmental review.  Safety  problems occur today when playing fields turn over.  As the project greatly intensifies use of the site, these impacts will  certainly increase.     You might be aware of off‐site use of Georgia and other neighborhood streets behind Gunn for school auto drop‐offs  and pick‐ups that create hazards on school routes for kids who walk and bike.  It has taken decades to fix the traffic  safety problems that  PAUSD created in the Barron Park and Green Acres neighborhoods when they built Gunn and then  increased its enrollment. We know from experience what will happen on nearby neighborhood streets.    12 If the Mitigated Negative Declaration neither studies nor identifies such impacts, they will not be mitigated.  People who  live in Greenmeadow will have to live these unmitigated impacts once the Project is built.   Let’s get this project moving  with positive action to maintain community support.  This is not a good start.    How can we work together to make sure the city studies and mitigates impacts of the project on our neighborhood?    Thanks.  Please read on for a message I sent to Claire Raybould and Kristen O’Kane last week.  I hear back for Ms. O’Kane  only an hour ago, so I must apologize for this late note. Until then, I didn’t know staff’s intent.    Thank you for considering my comments.  –Penny Ellson        From: pennyellson12@gmail.com <pennyellson12@gmail.com>   Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:27 PM  To: claire.raybould@cityofpaloalto.org; Kristen.OKane@cityofpaloalto.org; 'Sylvia Star‐Lack' <sylvia.star‐ lack@cityofpaloalto.org>; 'Mesterhazy, Rosie' <Rosie.Mesterhazy@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: Cubberley MND    Hi Claire,    I understand you are the planner for the Cubberley project and, I assume, are leading the MND process.  I see that a  budget allocation for the MND is on the 6/21 City Council Consent Calendar (Item 9).  I would appreciate an opportunity  to engage with you about some questions re: the traffic analysis component of the environmental review for this  project.     Nelson Drive, which abuts the project site, is a City of Palo Alto Adopted School Commute Corridor and as such, per  Comp Plan Goal T‐4, should be given heightened review for bicycle/pedestrian safety.  Traffic calming and other safety  measures may be necessary to slow traffic and to discourage drivers from using the neighborhood street to bypass  traffic congestion on arterials (Policy T‐4.3).  Drop‐offs for soccer fields create safety problems on Nelson today, as  Kirsten knows.  Given the scale of the project and the circuitous underground parking off Middlefield that is proposed,  diversion of traffic to this school commute route is a real probability that concerns many in our neighborhood, as the  city learned in the most recent Cubberley outreach process.  I would like to understand what direction has been given to  the consultant about how this traffic and safety analysis is to be done. I’d also like to know if you have reached out to  any staff in the Transportation Division re: the Cubberley MND, including those who work on Safe Routes to School or to  the City School Traffic Safety Committee (committee charter is attached).      As a member of both previous Cubberley Community Advisory Committees and a resident of the nearby neighborhood  and a 21‐year advocate for Safe Routes to School, I want to understand specifically what will be done to study potential  traffic and safety impacts of the project on Nelson and nearby residential arterials.    Kristen O’Kane (copied here) is aware of the sensitivity of Nelson Drive, and previously has assured me that bike/ped  safety impacts would be studied as part of the environmental review process and mitigated as required.  Will you please  share with me what the consultant will be asked to study and what assumptions the consultant starting with?     I see that the budget for this analysis is relatively small, given the scale of the project.  That worries me.  I hope that we  will use those limited funds efficiently. One way to do that is to make sure the consultant is prepared up front to analyze  problems that people are concerned about.    Thank you.    Penny Ellson  14 Baumb, Nelly From:Ed Supplee <edsupplee@hotmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 4:16 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fw: Planning for Pensions in a Low Interest World Attachments:Wishful Thinking in a World Without Yield - WSJ.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Hi,    I know one of the problems you are wrestling with is how to fund the pension for Palo Alto employees. I  thought this brief article would be informative (from the Wall Street Journal).    Ed         TURBOTAX: Start today & save up to $15 with TurboTax 2021 H&R BLOCK TAX: H&R Block discount - 35% off new tax prep software TARGET: 20% off sitewide - Target Promo Code 2021 THE HOME DEPOT: Home Depot promo code - 10% off $200 home office furniture MACY'S: Macy's coupon - Sign up to get 25% off next order JCPENNEY: Prime Day JCPenney promo code - Up to 40% off + an extra 35% off sitewide Appeared in the June 19, 2021, print edition as 'There’s No Magic Answer in Our Low-Yield World.' SHOW CONVERSATION (142) SPONSORED CONTENT Refi rates at 1.99% APR. Do you qualify? LendingTree Highest Paying Cash Back Card Has Hit The Market CompareCredit 55 or older? Read our expert guide to 6 sources of retirement income Motley Fool Wealth Management 7 Retirement Income Strategies Once Your Portfolio Reaches $500k Fisher Investments Motley Fool Issues Rare “All In” Buy Alert The Motley Fool Listen in: A Private Chat With Mike Huckabee Banyan Hill SPONSORED OFFERS UPCOMING EVENTS June 24 2021 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT Global Food Forum June 30 2021 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM EDT WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Webinar: Aligning IT and Cybersecurity June 30 2021 7:00 PM - 7:45 PM EDT WSJ+ Live: Daniel Kahneman and His Co-Authors on the Crisis of ‘Noise’ ADD TO CALENDAR MARKETS | THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR Wishful Thinking in a World Without Yield The need for higher returns can breed desperation for anyone with a portfolio—large or small Alex Nabaum By June 18, 2021 10:30 am ET Jason Zweig SAVE SHARE TEXT 142 At first glance, the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, one of the largest pension plans in the U.S., doesn’t sound anything like you or me. It commands $66 billion in net assets, spent $515 million last year on management fees, and has more than 40% of its net assets in exclusive investments like buyout, venture-capital and hedge funds. Yet, at the most basic level, this gigantic retirement plan is just like you and me: It is struggling to raise returns in a low-interest-rate world. That can breed desperation, and wishful thinking, for anyone with a portfolio large or small. Advertisement - Scroll to Continue “The challenge we all face as investors is that the collapse in interest rates makes achieving historical rates of return very difficult,” says John Skjervem, chief executive of Alan Biller and Associates, an institutional investment consulting firm in Menlo Park, Calif. When cash and bonds yield close to zero, “stacking the traditional assets on top of that isn’t enough.” For its part, the Pennsylvania school pension fund, also known as PSERS, for years has pumped billions into hedge funds and private equity. Those strategies purport to be able to thrive even when public markets lag. The giant fund had less than 25% of its assets in publicly traded stocks at last year’s end, even after some of the biggest bull markets in history. To help run its money, mostly in private markets, PSERS uses roughly 170 external managers. The typical public pension plan uses about 55 outside firms, up twofold since 2006 as institutions race to move money outside the public markets. Although a few rare managers (and their clients) will earn superior returns, combining dozens or even hundreds of managers can be a recipe for mediocrity. According to the Public Plans Database compiled by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, PSERS has four times as much of its portfolio in hedge funds and nearly triple the allocation to private-equity funds as other large public pension systems. Even with such a high weight in these alternative assets, as of 2020 PSERS had returned an average of 7.7% annually over the prior 10 years. That ranked it 94th among 133 peers for which data was available. The message for you and me? You can’t earn a higher return from alternative assets just because you need to. Only the earliest and most skillful (or luckiest) can get the best returns. And while it’s flattering to join the exclusive world of private wealth management, just remember to ask: If funds with tens of billions in assets don’t earn superior returns this way, why should I believe anyone who says I can? Richard Ennis, a consultant who has advised pension funds since the early 1970s, estimates in a recent research paper that underperformance at public retirement plans—mainly from overpaying for alternative-asset managers who could be replaced by cheap index funds—totals nearly $70 billion annually. In a statement, PSERS said that it recently trimmed its exposure to private markets and has maintained “strong investment results and a watchful eye on risk.” Another problem PSERS shares with many smaller investors is unrealistic expectations. In mid-2009, the 10-year Treasury note yielded nearly 4%, whereas today it produces only a whisker more than 1.5% in income. Yet public pension plans have barely shaved their assumptions about how much their assets will earn. Advertisement - Scroll to Continue In 2009, the typical pension system was reckoning on an 8% average annual future return. Even after 12 years of relentlessly falling interest rates, that assumption has dropped only slightly to 7%, according to the National Association of State Retirement Administrators. PSERS is assuming it will get 7.25%. That’s roughly what it earned over the past decade—but much of that came from a bond market that now yields next to nothing. Expectations built on little more than hope quickly become targets that are difficult to hit. They can also be hard to resist. Pension trustees are often political appointees or come from other backgrounds without financial expertise, points out Olivia Mitchell, an economist who directs the Pension Research Council at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. So, she says, “it is not surprising that consultants, investment managers and actuaries can suggest ‘new’ investment options without emphasizing the additional costs, liquidity problems and risks.” Against the backdrop of pressure to raise returns, six of PSERS’ 15 trustees recently demanded that its top two officials be fired. The pension plan is being investigated by federal authorities after it released an inaccurate report in 2020 that overstated its returns over a nine-year period. PSERS is also being investigated over multimillion-dollar investments in local real estate. A spokeswoman declined to comment on the investigations. In the face of prolonged low interest rates, all investors face three basic choices, says Mr. Skjervem, the consultant who formerly managed roughly $100 billion as chief investment officer of the Oregon State Treasury. You can raise your existing holdings of traditional risky assets like stocks, even though no one thinks they’re cheap. You can add a bunch of new and exotic bets and hope they don’t blow up on you. Or you can grit your teeth and stay the course, through a period of what may be lackluster returns, until interest rates finally normalize. “People are looking for the silver bullet, the magic wand, the get-out-of-jail-free card,” says Mr. Skjervem. “There isn’t one.” Advertisement - Scroll to Continue Write to Jason Zweig at intelligentinvestor@wsj.com QueueListen to Article 6 minutes)( NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP The Intelligent Investor Jason Zweig writes about investment strategy and how to think about money. PREVIEW SUBSCRIBE Penned In Weighted down by illiquid assets, the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System is struggling to match the returns of its peers. Pension plan total returns Sources: Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System; National Association of State Retirement Administrators Note: Through Dec. 31, 2020 PSERS Median state retirement plan 1 year 3 years 5 years 10 years 0%2.5 5 7.5 10 SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS Have you adjusted your investment-return expectations in recent years? Tell us about it in the comments below. MORE FROM THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR Investor, Trader, Speculator: Which One Are You? June 18, 2021• The Safe, High-Return Trade Hiding in Plain Sight May 28, 2021• Why You Shouldn’t Buy Bitcoin When You’re Hungry May 21, 2021• Want to Get Rich Quick? Who Can Stop You? May 7, 2021• WSJ MEMBER MESSAGE: NEWSLETTER The WSJ Investing Challenge Boost your investing savvy with this five-week newsletter course. LEARN MORE BACK TO TOP Edition WSJ Membership Benefits Customer Center Legal Policies SIGN OUT © 2021 Dow Jones & Company Inc. All Rights Reserved. English DJIA 33876.97 1.76%▲S&P 500 4224.79 1.40%▲U.S. 10 Yr -1/32 Yield 1.499%▼Euro 1.1912 0.06%▼ 15 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 4:03 PM To:CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Scan Attachments:20210621152007837.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 3:22 PM  Subject: DEMONIZING AMERICAN HISTORY OF ITS COLORED MINORITIES:               .Asian Pacific Ammericans, African Americans , Latino Americans and Native Americans.  Source: NYT‐ 6/21/21  From: Allan Seid    DEAR Neighbors and Friends,     Be alert to ongoing attempts to eliminate diversity programs in our k‐12 schools and expanding efforts to terminate hard  won   Ethnic Studies  Departments at colleges and universities. Diversty programs at goverment agencies were shut down by  former   President Trump before President Biden restored them. History and cultural museums exposing Americans to the past  and current   rich experiences  of our American minority comunities would be in danger of elimination from those who believe that  diversty curiculum   and pluralistic educational programs are divisive and unpatriotc. DON'T LET THESE NAYSAYERS FOOL YOU!   Allan Seid    16 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 3:55 PM To:Greer Stone; Pat Burt; Tanaka, Greg; Kou, Lydia; Cormack, Alison; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; chuck jagoda; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; rebecca@winwithrebecca.com; Raj; Planning Commission; Richard Konda; Joe Simitian; Sean James; Lewis. james; city.council@menlopark.org; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Jeff Moore; ParkRec Commission; Cecilia Taylor; Jay Boyarsky; Binder, Andrew; Jeff Rosen; GRP-City Council; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; Tony Dixon Subject:Police Funding ( Daily Post, June 20, 2021) by Aram James CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________  17 Mond Ju 21, 2021 l•l ~ 1~1 C•J~--1----- Police funding Dear Editor: In your June 11 edi- tion there were two related front-page articles. One was about the City of Menlo Park adding one additional po- lice employee. Police Chief Dave Norris was requesting . five additional police employees. In a 3-2 vote the Menlo Park City Council turned down the chief's request ·for the four addi- tional officers. In denying the request council mem- bers Betsy Nash, Cecilia Taylor and Jen Wolosin said they'd rather have discus- sions with each other and the communi- ty about re-imaging policing in Menlo Park before agreeing to add to the de- partment. Taylor said the current pro- posals from the chief seem like the city is going down the same path when it comes to policing as it was before the cuts.. · In the second piece, the city of Palo Alto is proposing that $1.7 million of their proposed budget be allotted to adding six additional police officers to the ranks of the department. Given the PAPD's horrendous re- cord of racially discriminatory polic- ing, several outstanding lawsuits for extreme cases of police brutality, in- • volving people of color, a lack of over- all transparency, incluqing encryption of police radio transmis ions without adequate notice to the public or the press, the ongoing cover-up of the Zack Perron case, wouldn't it be wise for the council to follow the lead of the Menlo Park council and ask the hard questions of the PAPD about whether there has been any measurable refonns before r wardin the d partment by fillin , i p ition ut durin th o id 19 Baumb, Nelly From:Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com> Sent:Monday, June 21, 2021 12:02 PM To:Council, City; Clerk, City; DuBois, Tom; Burt, Patrick; Cormack, Alison; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Kou, Lydia; Stone, Greer; Kou, Lydia Cc:Gerhardt, Jodie; French, Amy; Bilir, Aylin; Lait, Jonathan; Sauls, Garrett Subject:Verizon Wireless Response to Appeal, 20PLN-00118, Approved Small Cells in the Right-of-Way - Council Agenda Item 8, June 22, 2021 [Palo Alto] Attachments:Verizon Wireless Letter 06.21.21.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council Members, attached please find our letter prepared on behalf of Verizon Wireless responding to the appeal of three  small cells in the right‐of‐way approved by the Director of Planning and Development Services.  This item will be heard on your June  22 agenda.    We urge you to reject the appeal, and to approve Verizon Wireless's proposed small cells.    Thank you,  Paul  ‐‐   Paul Albritton  Mackenzie & Albritton LLP  155 Sansome Street, Suite 800  San Francisco, California 94104  (415)288‐4000 pa@mallp.com MACKENZIE & ALBRITTON LLP 155 SANSOME STREET, SUITE 800 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 TELEPHONE 415 / 288-4000 FACSIMILE 415 / 288-4010 June 21, 2021 VIA EMAIL Mayor Tom Dubois Vice Mayor Patrick Burt Council Members Alison Cormack, Eric Filseth, Lydia Kou, Greer Stone and Greg Tanaka City Council City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, California 94301 Re: Verizon Wireless Response to Appeal, File No. 20PLN-00118 Three Approved Small Cells in the Right-of-Way 1221 Middlefield Road (Node 061), 850 Webster Street (Node 204) and 853 Middlefield Road (Node 205) Council Agenda Item 8, June 22, 2021 Dear Mayor Dubois, Vice Mayor Burt and Council Members: We write on behalf of Verizon Wireless to ask you to uphold the approval of three small cells on streetlight poles in the right-of-way (the “Approved Facilities”), and deny the appeal by Jeanne Fleming (“Appellant”). Over the last year, Verizon Wireless worked closely with Planning Division staff to ensure that the Approved Facilities satisfy all City requirements for wireless facilities. The approval by the Director of Planning and Development Services confirms that the Approved Facilities comply with the Palo Alto Municipal Code (the “Code”) and the Council’s Objective Standards for Wireless Communication Facilities in the Public Rights-of-Way on Streetlight Poles (the “Objective Standards”). Verizon Wireless’s small cell design will pose little visual impact on City infrastructure and the local streetscape. Appellant’s objections to the Approved Facilities raise no conflict with the Code or Objective Standards, and provide no substantial evidence to warrant denial as required by the federal Telecommunications Act. Further, denial would constitute an unlawful prohibition of service, according to the Telecommunications Act. The Approved Facilities will provide new Verizon Wireless 5G Ultra-Wideband coverage in Palo Alto, enhancing service for residents, visitors, workers and emergency service personnel in the Palo Alto City Council June 21, 2021 Page 2 of 9 University South area. We urge you to reject the appeal and approve the Approved Facilities. I. The Approved Facilities The Approved Facilities have been thoughtfully designed to minimize any visual impact in compliance with the Objective Standards. For all three nodes, Verizon Wireless will replace an existing City-owned streetlight pole with a pole less than 5.5 feet taller. For Nodes 061 and 204, the new poles will be the stylized “downtown” design with a globe light fixture and decorative base, and for Node 205, the pole and light will closely match the existing streetlight. At the top of each pole, above the luminaire arm, Verizon Wireless will flush-mount two or three directional antennas. Each antenna will be placed within a partial shroud 29.5 inches tall and 10.2 inches wide. With rounded edges, these partial shrouds improve appearance while allowing signal to propagate unobstructed from the front of the antenna. The poles and antennas will be painted green. No other wireless equipment will be placed on the pole. Utility connections will be routed underground. Photosimulations of the Approved Facilities are attached as Exhibit A. Radio frequency exposure reports prepared by Hammett & Edison, Inc., Consulting Engineers, attached as Exhibit B, confirm that the Approved Facilities will operate well below Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) exposure limits. II. The Approved Facilities Satisfy All Requirements for Approval. As confirmed by the Director’s approval, the Approved Facilities satisfy all requirements for a Tier 2 wireless communications facility permit. Code § 18.42.110(g)(2). This includes compliance with the Objective Standards and the criteria for the City to grant exceptions as necessary to avoid conflict with federal or state law. Code § 18.42.110(k)(1). Each small cell qualifies for an “equipment adjustment” for antennas on streetlight poles. This is because the antennas cannot be fully shrouded, as that impedes propagation of high-band 5G frequencies that Verizon Wireless has licensed from the FCC. The antennas meet the adjustment dimension thresholds, as each is 0.85 cubic feet (including its individual partial shroud), and all three total less than 2.6 cubic feet. Objective Standards, p. 6. Because radios are integrated into the antennas, no other wireless equipment is required on the pole. Per the Objective Standards, the streetlight poles must be replaced when adding antennas. Objective Standards, p. 7. The Director approved exceptions for minor differences in pole width, height and appearance as necessary to increase structural capacity or to accommodate the pole components available from the manufacturer, Valmont. For example, the proposed pole diameters exceed the City’s usual specifications, which are too narrow for the overall structural load, so an exception is Palo Alto City Council June 21, 2021 Page 3 of 9 required. These exceptions avoid technically infeasible City requirements that would contradict FCC regulations requiring cities to evaluate small cells under reasonable standards. See Accelerating Wireless Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, Declaratory Ruling and Third Report and Order, 33 FCC Rcd. 9088, ¶¶ 86-87 (September 27, 2018) (the “Infrastructure Order”).1 The Objective Standards generally permit right-of-way facilities in non-residential zones. However, prohibiting small cells along residential zone rights-of-way would contradict federal and state law, as explained in Verizon Wireless’s Exception Request attached as Exhibit C. Therefore, the Director granted an exception allowing the facilities in residential zones. The Approved Facilities comply with the direction to locate over 20 feet from occupied buildings and intersections, and to avoid placement along the central 50% of the adjacent parcel’s front lot line (the “residential zone of exclusion”), and so do not require exceptions from these standards. Each facility is located over 300 feet from public schools, which is an absolute requirement. Objective Standards, pp. 3, 4, 8. In sum, the Approved Facilities comply with all City requirements for approval. III. Verizon Wireless is Authorized to Place the Approved Facilities in the Public Right-of-Way Pursuant to State Law State law entitles telephone corporations such as Verizon Wireless to install telephone equipment, such as the Approved Facilities, “along any public road and highway,” subject only to reasonable local regulations to avoid interference with the public use of the right-of-way. Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 7901. The California Supreme Court has confirmed that telephone corporations maintain the right to erect telephone equipment in the public right-of-way subject to local regulation based on aesthetic considerations. T-Mobile West LLC v. City and County of San Francisco (2019) 6 Cal.5th 1107. IV. Appellant Presents No Substantial Evidence To Warrant Denial. Under the federal Telecommunications Act, a local government’s denial of a wireless facility application must be based on “substantial evidence.” See 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iii). As interpreted under controlling federal court decisions, this means that denial must be based on requirements set forth in local regulations and supported by evidence in the record. See Metro PCS, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco, 400 F.3d 715, 725 (9th Cir. 2005) (denial of application must be “authorized by applicable local regulations and supported by a reasonable amount of evidence”). Generalized aesthetic objections do not amount to substantial evidence upon which a local 1 Last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal upheld the FCC’s requirement for “reasonable” small cell standards. See City of Portland v. United States, 969 F.3d 1020 (9th Cir. 2020), petition for cert. pending, No. 20-1354 (filed March 22, 2021). Palo Alto City Council June 21, 2021 Page 4 of 9 government could deny a wireless facility permit. See City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams (2002) 101 Cal.App.4th 367, 381. Appellant raised 19 objections in their appeal statement, none of which rise to the level of substantial evidence that would support denial. The Director provided the City’s response to each of Appellant’s claims in a supplemental memorandum to the Council (the “Director’s Memo”). Below, we provide Verizon Wireless’s response to Appellant’s various arguments. 1. Community meeting notice. Appellant charges that there was not proper notice of the community meeting. While the Director’s Memo determined that individual apartments at 850 Webster Street may have been overlooked, the Director also noted that the City hand-delivered notice of the approval to those residents, which described the Approved Facilities and the opportunity to appeal to the City Council. Any lack of opportunity to participate in the June 2020 community meeting is cured by the subsequent notice of approval and right to appeal provided by the City. Pursuant to Government Code Section 65010(b), procedural errors in noticing do not affect the validity of permits “unless the court finds that the error was prejudicial and that the party complaining or appealing suffered substantial injury from that error and that a different result would have been probable if the error had not occurred.” Furthermore, “[t]here shall be no presumption that error is prejudicial or that injury was done if the error is shown.” Ibid.; see also Rialto Citizens for Responsible Growth v. City of Rialto (2012) 208 Cal.App.4th 899. 2. Notice content. Appellant complains that the community meeting notice was misleading, but that is merely a subjective assessment. Sent at an early stage in the application process, the notice accurately described the date and time of the June 25, 2020 community meeting, which was an online “open house” due to the California Stay Home Order. The notice simply described the project as “adding small wireless facilities to existing metal streetlight poles,” and more information was provided during the meeting. The community meeting notice is attached as Exhibit D. 3. Application completeness. Appellant wrongly claims that the application is incomplete, but Verizon Wireless has in fact submitted all information required by the City’s Application Submittal Requirements Checklist for Tier 2 facilities in the right-of-way. This includes coverage information provided in the Statement of Verizon Wireless RF Design Engineer Brian Ung, attached as Exhibit E. Verizon Wireless also provided a detailed spreadsheet comparing the number of exceptions required for each proposed facility and its multiple alternatives, even though such diligent review of alternatives is not required. The Planning Division issued several notices informing Verizon Wireless of missing information, and Verizon Wireless responded with information and explanations. Ultimately the Planning Division deemed the application complete in an email dated May 7, 2021. Palo Alto City Council June 21, 2021 Page 5 of 9 4. Shrouding. The Objective Standards provide flexibility on shrouding requirements, and Appellant is mistaken that all Verizon Wireless antennas must be covered in a single integrated shroud. As noted, full shrouding would cover the face of the antennas and impede the 5G signal, so the antennas qualify for an “equipment adjustment” under the Objective Standards, and no exception is required. The equipment adjustment obviates the need for a single integrated shroud. Instead, each antenna is enclosed within a partial shroud. 5. ARB review. While Appellant believes that the Approved Facilities should have been reviewed by the Architectural Review Board, that is at the Director’s sole discretion, and not a firm requirement. Code § 18.42.110(g)(1). 6. Independent consultant evaluation. This is optional at the City’s discretion, not a requirement. Code § 18.42.110(k)(4), Objective Standards, p. 3, n. 1. Contrary to Appellant’s claim, the Director need not justify whether to hire a consultant. In fact, the City contracted with CTC Technology & Energy for technical consultation on factors such as compliance with the FCC’s radio frequency exposure guidelines. Verizon Wireless reimbursed the City $11,753.44 for the cost, which included a 25% contract administrative charge, on February 19, 2021. 7. Tree screening (Node 205). A tree to the northeast of this node will provide screening, and Verizon Wireless did in fact explain why there cannot be a second tree within 35 feet southwest. Our January 29, 2021 letter to Associate Planner Garret Sauls described the obstructions southwest along the sidewalk that are shown on architectural drawings. These include above- and below-ground utility equipment as well as a driveway, all of which render a new tree to be infeasible there. The Director agreed that there are no viable locations for a tree to the southwest. 8. Deciduous tree screening. Appellant overstates the screening standard, which does not require evergreen trees or full “concealment,” but rather “interruption of direct views.” Objective Standards, p. 7. Where feasible, deciduous tree species that are typical along Palo Alto streets satisfy this requirement. 9. RF exposure compliance. Appellant questions the safety of the Approved Facilities with respect to radio frequency exposure compliance. The Hammett & Edison reports attached as Exhibit B confirm that each small cell will fall well below the FCC’s exposure guidelines, including exposure at nearby buildings, and the CTC Technology & Energy report confirms compliance. The City cannot consider the environmental effects of radio frequency emissions because the Approved Facilities will comply with FCC exposure guidelines. 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iv). 10. 20-foot structure setback (Node 061). While the Objective Standards require a 20-foot setback from occupied structures, Appellant is simply wrong that Node 061 is within 20 feet of the residence at 1221 Middlefield Road. The architectural drawings (Sheet A- Palo Alto City Council June 21, 2021 Page 6 of 9 1) confirm that the streetlight pole is 34 feet 3 inches from that residence, well over thesetback. 11.Equipment orientation (Node 061). Appellant seeks justification for the exception allowing one antenna to be oriented toward private property. The Director’s approval explained that surrounding trees will allow the facility to “blend in with the surrounding environment,” and that the antenna will not directly impact pedestrian sight lines. The Director also confirmed that “there were no opportunities where this condition would not apply that required a lesser number of exceptions.” Findings for Approval of Node 061, § III(4). This is consistent with the required exception finding that a facility comply with the Objective Standards to the greatest extent feasible. Code § 18.42.110(k)(1)(A). 12.Views from street and residences. Appellant charges that the Director’s approval does not address views from the street and residences. However, such vague determinations about view impacts are not required by the Objective Standards, which consist of specific, quantifiable criteria to address visibility. The only mention of “view” is the landscaping requirement, which is satisfied by tree screening. As noted, a state court ruled that vague aesthetic objections are not substantial evidence for denial of a wireless facility. 13.Fiber backhaul. Verizon Wireless’s application need not show fiber backhaul, as Appellant alleges. Verizon Wireless will not install the fiber backhaul lines that connect its small cells in Palo Alto, but will be a customer of a fiber company that provides connections for various users along a fiber route. Fiber companies are regulated differently, and generally are registered with the California Public Utilities Commission as wireline telephone companies, whereas Verizon Wireless is a cellular carrier. Further, fiber backhaul networks are beyond the scope of a “small wireless facility” as defined by the FCC. 47 C.F.R. § 1.6002(l). Verizon Wireless’s permits encompass each small cell up to its point-of-connection with the fiber backhaul network, but not beyond. Fiber providers will secure their own permits under applicable regulations. 14.Exception for wider pole (Nodes 061 & 204). As confirmed by the Director’s approval, slightly wider replacement poles are required for sufficient structural capacity to support the addition of antennas. See, e.g., Findings for Approval of Node 061, § III(3). For each node, a report by a California-registered engineer with All States Engineering & Surveying confirms that the wider light pole and foundation have adequate capacity to support the luminaire arm and antennas. Requiring a narrower pole diameter with insufficient capacity would be technically infeasible and unreasonable in contradiction of FCC regulations, so an exception is warranted. 15.Antenna volume limit. As noted, the Objective Standards allow an equipment adjustment for antennas with a cumulative volume less than 2.6 cubic feet. Appellant acknowledges that the antennas are less at 2.55 cubic feet, but believes that the volume calculation must include mounting brackets, pole extensions and a single integrated Palo Alto City Council June 21, 2021 Page 7 of 9 shroud. That is incorrect. According to the Objective Standards, the individual volume limit of 0.85 cubic feet applies only to “equipment that cannot propagate an adequate signal” (which is the antennas). The cumulative volume limit of 2.6 cubic feet applies only to the antennas and “any shrouding.” Objective Standards, p. 6. Mounting hardware does not propagate signal, and is not shrouding, and so should not be included in the volume calculation. As explained above, the Approved Facilities require only a partial shroud for each antenna, not a full integrated shroud for all, and the partial shrouds are included in the 2.55 cubic foot total. 16. Certificate of insurance. Appellant insinuates that the certificate of insurance must include liability for injury from radio frequencies that do not comply with FCC exposure guidelines. As discussed above, the Hammett & Edison and CTC Technology & Energy reports both confirm that the Approved Facilities fall well under the FCC’s exposure limits. The Director’s Memo notes that insurance requirements are mandated by Verizon Wireless’s Master License Agreement with the City. 17. No abandoned equipment. Verizon Wireless has no abandoned facilities in Palo Alto, as all of its facilities are needed to serve the area, and none need to be decommissioned. Appellant’s charge is baseless. 18. Tier category. The Approved Facilities involve collocation of small cell wireless facilities, which is classified as a Tier 2 permit under the Code, as confirmed by the Director’s Memo. Appellant is incorrect that they would be considered Tier 3 facilities. 19. Proof that denial would deprive Verizon Wireless of its rights under federal and state law. Verizon Wireless provided this information in order to secure approval of exceptions. Appellant overlooks Verizon Wireless’s Exception Request addressing federal and state law (Exhibit C), its documentation of a significant gap (the RF engineer’s statement attached as Exhibit E), and the alternatives information on the record. V. Denial Would Constitute an Unlawful Prohibition of Service. The Telecommunication Act provides that local government regulation of wireless facilities “shall not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting” the provision of personal wireless service. 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(i)(II). Under long-established Ninth Circuit case law, a local government’s denial of a permit for a wireless facility violates the “effective prohibition” clause of the act if a wireless provider can show (1) that it has a “significant gap” in service, and (2) that a facility is the “least intrusive means,” in relation to the land use values embodied in local regulations, to address the gap. See T- Mobile USA, Inc. v. City of Anacortes, 572 F.3d 987 (9th Cir. 2009). If a provider proves both elements, the local government must approve the facility, even if there is substantial evidence to deny the permit under local regulations (which is not the case here). This is because federal law preempts local regulations when Palo Alto City Council June 21, 2021 Page 8 of 9 denial of the permit would effectively prohibit the provision of personal wireless services. Id., 572 F.3d at 999. To avoid such preemption, the local government must show that another alternative is available, technologically feasible, and less intrusive than the proposed facility. Id., 572 F.3d at 998-999. Federal law does not require that a proposed facility be the “only” alternative, but rather that no feasible alternative is less intrusive than a proposed facility. See Metro PCS, Inc. v. San Francisco, 400 F.3d at 734-35. In its 2018 Infrastructure Order, the FCC determined that this two-part test is too narrow. Specifically, the FCC confirmed that a wireless carrier need not show an insurmountable barrier, or even a significant gap, to prove a prohibition of service. Infrastructure Order, ¶¶ 35, 38. Instead, “a state or local legal requirement constitutes an effective prohibition if it ‘materially limits or inhibits the ability of any competitor or potential competitor to compete in a fair and balanced legal and regulatory environment.’” Id., ¶ 35. Thus, state or local regulations are preempted if they materially inhibit “densifying a wireless network, introducing new services, or otherwise improving service capabilities.” Id., ¶ 37. In this case, denial would not survive judicial review under either standard. First, denial would violate the two-part test for a prohibition of service claim. As described above, the Statement of Verizon Wireless Radio Frequency Design Engineer Brian Ung provides evidence of a significant gap in Verizon Wireless 5G Ultra-Wideband service in the Downtown and University South areas of Palo Alto. The alternatives information on the record confirms that the Approved Facilities are the least intrusive feasible option in the right-of-way to serve targeted areas of the gap. Second, because Verizon Wireless has satisfied the two-part test to prove a prohibition of service, it has necessarily met the more flexible standard set forth in the FCC’s Infrastructure Order. Whether or not it demonstrates a significant gap in service, the evidence proves at a minimum that the Approved Facilities will provide new Verizon Wireless 5G Ultra-Wideband service in the University South area. Thus, denial of the application would prevent Verizon Wireless from introducing new service and improving its service overall, and therefore it would materially limit or inhibit its ability to compete in a fair and balanced legal and regulatory environment. In other words, denial would effectively prohibit service in violation of the Telecommunications Act. See 47 U.S.C. §§ 253(a), 332(c)(7)(B)(i)(II); Infrastructure Order, ¶¶ 35, 37. Conclusion Verizon Wireless has worked diligently to identify the ideal location and design for its new small cell facilities in Palo Alto. The Approved Facilities will pose minimal visual impact on existing utility infrastructure along the right-of-way, and they are consistent with all City standards for approval. They will bring new Verizon Wireless 5G Ultra-Wideband service to the University South area, benefitting residents, visitors, Palo Alto City Council June 21, 2021 Page 9 of 9 workers and emergency responders. We encourage you to deny the appeal, and to approve the Approved Facilities. Very truly yours, Paul B. Albritton cc: Aylin Bilir, Esq. Jonathan Lait Garrett Saults Schedule of Exhibits Exhibit A: Photosimulations Exhibit B: Radio Frequency Exposure Compliance Reports Exhibit C: Verizon Wireless’s Exception Request Exhibit D: Notice of Community Meeting, June 25, 2020 Exhibit E: Statement of Verizon Wireless Radio Frequency Design Engineer Brian Ung verizon✓ 3/15/21 SF Palo Alto 061 Adjacent to 1221 Middlefield Road Palo Alto, CA Looking Northeast from Middlefield Road View#1 Applied Imagination 51 o 914-0500 Exhibit A verizon✓ 3/15/21 SF Palo Alto 061 Adjacent to 1221 Middlefield Road Palo Alto, CA Looking East from Middlefield Road View#2 Applied Imagination 51 o 914-0500 verizon✓ 3/15/21 CA SJ Palo Alto 204 850 Webster Street Palo Alto, CA •. --: ,;, .. ,. J ;,' . •,-,: Looking South from Webster Street View#2 Applied Imagination 51 o 914-0500 verizon✓ 3/15/21 CA SJ Palo Alto 204 850 Webster Street Palo Alto, CA Looking Northeast from Webster Street View#1 Applied Imagination 51 o 914-0500 verizon✓ 3/15/21 CA SJ Palo Alto 205 853 Middlefield Road Palo Alto, CA Looking North from Middlefield Road View#1 Applied Imagination 51 o 914-0500 verizon✓ 3/15/21 CA SJ Palo Alto 205 853 Middlefield Road Palo Alto, CA Looking Southwest from Middlefield Road View#2 Applied Imagination 51 o 914-0500 Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 425208 “SF Palo Alto 061”) 1221 Middlefield Road • Palo Alto, California C11-Y0Y4.4 Page 1 of 3 ©2020 Statement of Hammett & Edison, Inc., Consulting Engineers The firm of Hammett & Edison, Inc., Consulting Engineers, has been retained on behalf of Verizon Wireless, a personal wireless telecommunications carrier, to evaluate its small cell (No. 425208 “SF Palo Alto 061”) proposed to be sited in Palo Alto, California, for compliance with appropriate guidelines limiting human exposure to radio frequency (“RF”) electromagnetic fields. Executive Summary Verizon proposes to install three small antennas on the municipal light pole sited in the public right-of-way near 1221 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. The proposed operation will comply with the FCC guidelines limiting public exposure to RF energy. Prevailing Exposure Standards The U.S. Congress requires that the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) evaluate its actions for possible significant impact on the environment. A summary of the FCC’s exposure limits is shown in Figure 1. These limits apply for continuous exposures and are intended to provide a prudent margin of safety for all persons, regardless of age, gender, size, or health. The most restrictive limit for exposures of unlimited duration at several wireless service bands are as follows: Transmit “Uncontrolled” Occupational Limit Wireless Service Band Frequency Public Limit (5 times Public) Microwave (point-to-point) 1–80 GHz 1.0 mW/cm2 5.0 mW/cm2 Millimeter-wave 24–47 1.0 5.0 Part 15 (WiFi & other unlicensed) 2–6 1.0 5.0 CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio) 3,550 MHz 1.0 5.0 BRS (Broadband Radio) 2,490 1.0 5.0 WCS (Wireless Communication) 2,305 1.0 5.0 AWS (Advanced Wireless) 2,110 1.0 5.0 PCS (Personal Communication) 1,930 1.0 5.0 Cellular 869 0.58 2.9 SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) 854 0.57 2.85 700 MHz 716 0.48 2.4 600 MHz 617 0.41 2.05 [most restrictive frequency range] 30–300 0.20 1.0 General Facility Requirements Small cells typically consist of two distinct parts: the electronic transceivers (also called “radios” or “channels”) that are connected to the traditional wired telephone lines, and the passive antennas that send the wireless signals created by the radios out to be received by individual subscriber units. The radios are typically mounted on the support pole or placed in a cabinet at ground level, and they are Exhibit B HE HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 425208 “SF Palo Alto 061”) 1221 Middlefield Road • Palo Alto, California C11-Y0Y4.4 Page 2 of 3 ©2020 connected to the antennas by coaxial cables. Because of the short wavelength of the frequencies assigned by the FCC for wireless services, the antennas require line-of-sight paths for their signals to propagate well and so are installed at some height above ground. The antennas are designed to concentrate their energy toward the horizon, with very little energy wasted toward the sky or the ground. This means that it is generally not possible for exposure conditions to approach the maximum permissible exposure limits without being physically very near the antennas. Computer Modeling Method The FCC provides direction for determining compliance in its Office of Engineering and Technology Bulletin No. 65, “Evaluating Compliance with FCC-Specified Guidelines for Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Radiation,” dated August 1997. Figure 2 describes the calculation methodologies, reflecting the facts that a directional antenna’s radiation pattern is not fully formed at locations very close by (the “near-field” effect) and that at greater distances the power level from an energy source decreases with the square of the distance from it (the “inverse square law”). This methodology is an industry standard for evaluating RF exposure conditions and has been demonstrated through numerous field tests to be a conservative prediction of exposure levels. Site and Facility Description Based upon information provided by Verizon, including drawings by All States Engineering & Surveying, dated August 31, 2020, it is proposed to install three Ericsson Model 6701, 2-foot tall, directional panel antennas with integrated radios on top of a new light pole to replace the existing pole sited in the public right-of-way in front of the residence at 1221 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. The antennas would employ no downtilt, would be mounted at an effective height of about 26½ feet above ground, and would be oriented toward 0°T, 120°T, and 240°T. The maximum effective radiated power proposed in any direction is 193 watts in the 28 GHz band. There are reported no other wireless telecommunications base stations at the site or nearby. Study Results For a person anywhere at ground, the maximum RF exposure level due to the proposed Verizon operation is calculated to be 0.0059 mW/cm2, which is 0.59% of the applicable public exposure limit. The maximum calculated level at the second-story elevation of any nearby building* is 1.9% of the public exposure limit. It should be noted that these results include several “worst-case” assumptions and therefore are expected to overstate actual power density levels from the proposed operation. *Including the nearest residence, located at 1221 Middlefield Road, at least 30 feet away based on the drawings. HE HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 425208 “SF Palo Alto 061”) 1221 Middlefield Road • Palo Alto, California C11-Y0Y4.4 Page 3 of 3 ©2020 Recommended Mitigation Measures Due to their mounting locations and height, the antennas would not be accessible to unauthorized persons, and so no measures are necessary to comply with the FCC public exposure guidelines. To prevent occupational exposures in excess of the FCC guidelines, it is recommended that appropriate RF safety training be provided to all workers who have access within 8 feet outward from the antennas. No access within 2 feet directly in front of the antennas should be allowed while the antennas are in operation, unless other measures can be demonstrated to ensure that occupational protection requirements are met. It is recommended that explanatory signs† be posted at the antennas and/or on the pole below the antennas, readily visible from any angle of approach. Conclusion Based on the information and analysis above, it is the undersigned’s professional opinion that operation of the small cell proposed by Verizon Wireless near 1221 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto, California, will comply with the prevailing standards for limiting public exposure to radio frequency energy and, therefore, will not for this reason cause a significant impact on the environment. The highest calculated level in publicly accessible areas is much less than the prevailing standards allow for exposures of unlimited duration. This finding is consistent with measurements of actual exposure conditions taken at other operating small cells. Training authorized personnel and posting explanatory signs are recommended to establish compliance with occupational exposure limits. Authorship The undersigned author of this statement is a qualified Professional Engineer, holding California Registration No. E-21306, which expires on September 30, 2021. This work has been carried out under his direction, and all statements are true and correct of his own knowledge except, where noted, when data has been supplied by others, which data he believes to be correct. Neil J. Olij, P.E. 707/996-5200 September 29, 2020 † Signs should comply with OET-65 color, symbol, and content recommendations. Contact information should be provided (e.g., a telephone number) to arrange for access to restricted areas. The selection of language(s) is not an engineering matter, and guidelines from the landlord, local zoning or health authority, or appropriate professionals may be required. HE HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO FCC Radio Frequency Protection Guide FCC Guidelines Figure 1 1000 100 10 1 0.1 0.1 1 10 100 103 104 105 Occupational Exposure Public Exposure PCS CellFM Po w e r De n s i t y (m W / c m 2) The U.S. Congress required (1996 Telecom Act) the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to adopt a nationwide human exposure standard to ensure that its licensees do not, cumulatively, have a significant impact on the environment. The FCC adopted the limits from Report No. 86, “Biological Effects and Exposure Criteria for Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields,” published in 1986 by the Congressionally chartered National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (“NCRP”). Separate limits apply for occupational and public exposure conditions, with the latter limits generally five times more restrictive. The more recent standard, developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and approved as American National Standard ANSI/IEEE C95.1-2006, “Safety Levels with Respect to Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, 3 kHz to 300 GHz,” includes similar limits. These limits apply for continuous exposures from all sources and are intended to provide a prudent margin of safety for all persons, regardless of age, gender, size, or health. As shown in the table and chart below, separate limits apply for occupational and public exposure conditions, with the latter limits (in italics and/or dashed) up to five times more restrictive: Frequency Electromagnetic Fields (f is frequency of emission in MHz) Applicable Range (MHz) Electric Field Strength (V/m) Magnetic Field Strength (A/m) Equivalent Far-Field Power Density (mW/cm2) 0.3 – 1.34 614 614 1.63 1.63 100 100 1.34 – 3.0 614 823.8/ f 1.63 2.19/ f 100 180/ f2 3.0 – 30 1842/ f 823.8/ f 4.89/ f 2.19/ f 900/ f2 180/ f2 30 – 300 61.4 27.5 0.163 0.0729 1.0 0.2 300 – 1,500 3.54 f 1.59 f f /106 f /238 f/300 f/1500 1,500 – 100,000 137 61.4 0.364 0.163 5.0 1.0 Frequency (MHz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©2020 HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO ----· RFR.CALC™ Calculation Methodology Assessment by Calculation of Compliance with FCC Exposure Guidelines Methodology Figure 2 ©2020 The U.S. Congress required (1996 Telecom Act) the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to adopt a nationwide human exposure standard to ensure that its licensees do not, cumulatively, have a significant impact on the environment. The maximum permissible exposure limits adopted by the FCC (see Figure 1) apply for continuous exposures from all sources and are intended to provide a prudent margin of safety for all persons, regardless of age, gender, size, or health. Higher levels are allowed for short periods of time, such that total exposure levels averaged over six or thirty minutes, for occupational or public settings, respectively, do not exceed the limits. Near Field. Prediction methods have been developed for the near field zone of panel (directional) and whip (omnidirectional) antennas, typical at wireless telecommunications base stations, as well as dish (aperture) antennas, typically used for microwave links. The antenna patterns are not fully formed in the near field at these antennas, and the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Bulletin No. 65 (August 1997) gives suitable formulas for calculating power density within such zones. For a panel or whip antenna, power density S = 180  θBW × 0.1× Pnet π×D ×h , in mW/cm2, and for an aperture antenna, maximum power density Smax = 0.1 × 16 × η × Pnet π × h2 , in mW/cm2, where qBW = half-power beamwidth of antenna, in degrees, Pnet = net power input to antenna, in watts, D = distance from antenna, in meters, h = aperture height of antenna, in meters, and h = aperture efficiency (unitless, typically 0.5-0.8). The factor of 0.1 in the numerators converts to the desired units of power density. Far Field. OET-65 gives this formula for calculating power density in the far field of an individual RF source: power density S = 2.56 × 1.64 ×100 × RFF2 × ERP 4 × π × D2 , in mW/cm2, where ERP = total ERP (all polarizations), in kilowatts, RFF = three-dimensional relative field factor toward point of calculation, and D = distance from antenna effective height to point of calculation, in meters. The factor of 2.56 accounts for the increase in power density due to ground reflection, assuming a reflection coefficient of 1.6 (1.6 x 1.6 = 2.56). The factor of 1.64 is the gain of a half-wave dipole relative to an isotropic radiator. The factor of 100 in the numerator converts to the desired units of power density. This formula is used in a computer program capable of calculating, at thousands of locations on an arbitrary grid, the total expected power density from any number of individual radio frequency sources. The program also allows for the inclusion of uneven terrain in the vicinity, as well as any number of nearby buildings of varying heights, to obtain more accurate projections. H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 425208 “SF Palo Alto 061”) 1221 Middlefield Road • Palo Alto, California Calculated RF Exposure Levels C11-Y0Y4.4Supplemental Figure 2020c No r t h FEET 10 10 200 at Ground, at 10 Feet Above Ground, and at Nearby Buildings Verizon antennas Verizon antennas Legend: less than FCC Public Limit greater than FCC Public Limitless than FCC Occupational Limit greater than FCC Occupational Limit Calculations performed according to OET Bulletin No. 65, August 1997. Base image from Google Maps. Notes: sign on pole below antennas Site No. 425208 The public limit extends about 8 feet from the antennas, not reaching any publicly accessible area. The occupational limit extends about 2 feet from the antennas. No poles, trees, or roofs within 8 feet 24-29 feet above ground at Elevation of Antennas (25 – 28 feet above ground) HE HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS BROADCAST & WIRELESS 0 □ □ □ NOTICE (<•,••>) ~~~~ENCY ANTENNAS Verizon ANTENNAS on this pole DO NOT APPROACH within 8 feet at RF exposure there may exceed FCC General Population Limits Contact Verizon at 1-800-264-6620 Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 566800 “SF Palo Alto 204”) 850 Webster Street • Palo Alto, California B32-R7WJ.4 Page 1 of 4 ©2020 Statement of Hammett & Edison, Inc., Consulting Engineers The firm of Hammett & Edison, Inc., Consulting Engineers, has been retained on behalf of Verizon Wireless, a personal wireless telecommunications carrier, to evaluate its small cell (No. 566800 “SF Palo Alto 204”) proposed to be sited in Palo Alto, California, for compliance with appropriate guidelines limiting human exposure to radio frequency (“RF”) electromagnetic fields. Executive Summary Verizon proposes to install two small antennas on the municipal light pole sited in the public right-of-way near 850 Webster Street in Palo Alto. The proposed operation will comply with the FCC guidelines limiting public exposure to RF energy. Prevailing Exposure Standards The U.S. Congress requires that the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) evaluate its actions for possible significant impact on the environment. A summary of the FCC’s exposure limits is shown in Figure 1. These limits apply for continuous exposures and are intended to provide a prudent margin of safety for all persons, regardless of age, gender, size, or health. The most restrictive limit for exposures of unlimited duration at several wireless service bands are as follows: Transmit “Uncontrolled” Occupational Limit Wireless Service Band Frequency Public Limit (5 times Public) Microwave (point-to-point) 1–80 GHz 1.0 mW/cm2 5.0 mW/cm2 Millimeter-wave 24–47 1.0 5.0 Part 15 (WiFi & other unlicensed) 2–6 1.0 5.0 CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio) 3,550 MHz 1.0 5.0 BRS (Broadband Radio) 2,490 1.0 5.0 WCS (Wireless Communication) 2,305 1.0 5.0 AWS (Advanced Wireless) 2,110 1.0 5.0 PCS (Personal Communication) 1,930 1.0 5.0 Cellular 869 0.58 2.9 SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) 854 0.57 2.85 700 MHz 716 0.48 2.4 600 MHz 617 0.41 2.05 [most restrictive frequency range] 30–300 0.20 1.0 Power line frequencies (60 Hz) are well below the applicable range of these standards, and there is considered to be no compounding effect from simultaneous exposure to power line and radio frequency fields. H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 566800 “SF Palo Alto 204”) 850 Webster Street • Palo Alto, California B32-R7WJ.4 Page 2 of 4 ©2020 General Facility Requirements Small cells typically consist of two distinct parts: the electronic transceivers (also called “radios” or “channels”) that are connected to the traditional wired telephone lines, and the passive antennas that send the wireless signals created by the radios out to be received by individual subscriber units. The radios are typically mounted on the support pole or placed in a cabinet at ground level, and they are connected to the antennas by coaxial cables. Because of the short wavelength of the frequencies assigned by the FCC for wireless services, the antennas require line-of-sight paths for their signals to propagate well and so are installed at some height above ground. The antennas are designed to concentrate their energy toward the horizon, with very little energy wasted toward the sky or the ground. This means that it is generally not possible for exposure conditions to approach the maximum permissible exposure limits without being physically very near the antennas. Computer Modeling Method The FCC provides direction for determining compliance in its Office of Engineering and Technology Bulletin No. 65, “Evaluating Compliance with FCC-Specified Guidelines for Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Radiation,” dated August 1997. Figure 2 describes the calculation methodologies, reflecting the facts that a directional antenna’s radiation pattern is not fully formed at locations very close by (the “near-field” effect) and that at greater distances the power level from an energy source decreases with the square of the distance from it (the “inverse square law”). This methodology is an industry standard for evaluating RF exposure conditions and has been demonstrated through numerous field tests to be a conservative prediction of exposure levels. Site and Facility Description Based upon information provided by Verizon, including drawings by All States Engineering & Surveying, dated September 10, 2020, it is proposed to install two Ericsson Model 6701, 2-foot tall, directional panel antennas with integrated radios on top of a new light pole to replace the existing pole sited in the public right-of-way on the southeast side of Homer Avenue about 100 feet southwest of Webster Street, adjacent to the tall residential building at 850 Webster Street in Palo Alto. The antennas would employ no downtilt, would be mounted at an effective height of about 23 feet above ground, and would be oriented toward 0°T and 240°T. The maximum effective radiated power proposed in any direction is 193 watts in the 28 GHz band. There are reported no other wireless telecommunications base stations at the site or nearby. H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 566800 “SF Palo Alto 204”) 850 Webster Street • Palo Alto, California B32-R7WJ.4 Page 3 of 4 ©2020 Study Results For a person anywhere at ground, the maximum RF exposure level due to the proposed Verizon operation is calculated to be 0.0085 mW/cm2, which is 0.85% of the applicable public exposure limit. The maximum calculated level at any nearby building* is 1.1% of the public exposure limit. It should be noted that these results include several “worst-case” assumptions and therefore are expected to overstate actual power density levels from the proposed operation. Recommended Mitigation Measures Due to their mounting locations and height, the antennas would not be accessible to unauthorized persons, and so no measures are necessary to comply with the FCC public exposure guidelines. To prevent occupational exposures in excess of the FCC guidelines, it is recommended that appropriate RF safety training be provided to all workers who have access within 8 feet outward from the antennas. No access within 2 feet directly in front of the antennas should be allowed while the antennas are in operation, unless other measures can be demonstrated to ensure that occupational protection requirements are met. It is recommended that explanatory signs† be posted at the antennas and/or on the pole below the antennas, readily visible from any angle of approach. Conclusion Based on the information and analysis above, it is the undersigned’s professional opinion that operation of the small cell proposed by Verizon Wireless near 850 Webster Street in Palo Alto, California, will comply with the prevailing standards for limiting public exposure to radio frequency energy and, therefore, will not for this reason cause a significant impact on the environment. The highest calculated level in publicly accessible areas is much less than the prevailing standards allow for exposures of unlimited duration. This finding is consistent with measurements of actual exposure conditions taken at other operating small cells. Training authorized personnel and posting explanatory signs are recommended to establish compliance with occupational exposure limits. *Including the second- and third-floor balconies of the adjacent residential building, located at least 40 feet away based on the drawings.† Signs should comply with OET-65 color, symbol, and content recommendations. Contact information should be provided (e.g., a telephone number) to arrange for access to restricted areas. The selection of language(s) is not an engineering matter, and guidelines from the landlord, local zoning or health authority, or appropriate professionals may be required. H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 566800 “SF Palo Alto 204”) 850 Webster Street • Palo Alto, California B32-R7WJ.4 Page 4 of 4 ©2020 Authorship The undersigned author of this statement is a qualified Professional Engineer, holding California Registration No. E-21306, which expires on September 30, 2021. This work has been carried out under his direction, and all statements are true and correct of his own knowledge except, where noted, when data has been supplied by others, which data he believes to be correct. Neil J. Olij, P.E. 707/996-5200 September 29, 2020 H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO FCC Radio Frequency Protection Guide FCC Guidelines Figure 1 1000 100 10 1 0.1 0.1 1 10 100 103 104 105 Occupational Exposure Public Exposure PCS CellFM Po w e r De n s i t y (m W / c m 2) The U.S. Congress required (1996 Telecom Act) the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to adopt a nationwide human exposure standard to ensure that its licensees do not, cumulatively, have a significant impact on the environment. The FCC adopted the limits from Report No. 86, “Biological Effects and Exposure Criteria for Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields,” published in 1986 by the Congressionally chartered National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (“NCRP”). Separate limits apply for occupational and public exposure conditions, with the latter limits generally five times more restrictive. The more recent standard, developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and approved as American National Standard ANSI/IEEE C95.1-2006, “Safety Levels with Respect to Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, 3 kHz to 300 GHz,” includes similar limits. These limits apply for continuous exposures from all sources and are intended to provide a prudent margin of safety for all persons, regardless of age, gender, size, or health. As shown in the table and chart below, separate limits apply for occupational and public exposure conditions, with the latter limits (in italics and/or dashed) up to five times more restrictive: Frequency Electromagnetic Fields (f is frequency of emission in MHz) Applicable Range (MHz) Electric Field Strength (V/m) Magnetic Field Strength (A/m) Equivalent Far-Field Power Density (mW/cm2) 0.3 – 1.34 614 614 1.63 1.63 100 100 1.34 – 3.0 614 823.8/ f 1.63 2.19/ f 100 180/ f2 3.0 – 30 1842/ f 823.8/ f 4.89/ f 2.19/ f 900/ f2 180/ f2 30 – 300 61.4 27.5 0.163 0.0729 1.0 0.2 300 – 1,500 3.54 f 1.59 f f /106 f /238 f/300 f/1500 1,500 – 100,000 137 61.4 0.364 0.163 5.0 1.0 Frequency (MHz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©2020 HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO ----· RFR.CALC™ Calculation Methodology Assessment by Calculation of Compliance with FCC Exposure Guidelines Methodology Figure 2 ©2020 The U.S. Congress required (1996 Telecom Act) the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to adopt a nationwide human exposure standard to ensure that its licensees do not, cumulatively, have a significant impact on the environment. The maximum permissible exposure limits adopted by the FCC (see Figure 1) apply for continuous exposures from all sources and are intended to provide a prudent margin of safety for all persons, regardless of age, gender, size, or health. Higher levels are allowed for short periods of time, such that total exposure levels averaged over six or thirty minutes, for occupational or public settings, respectively, do not exceed the limits. Near Field. Prediction methods have been developed for the near field zone of panel (directional) and whip (omnidirectional) antennas, typical at wireless telecommunications base stations, as well as dish (aperture) antennas, typically used for microwave links. The antenna patterns are not fully formed in the near field at these antennas, and the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Bulletin No. 65 (August 1997) gives suitable formulas for calculating power density within such zones. For a panel or whip antenna, power density S = 180  θBW × 0.1× Pnet π×D ×h , in mW/cm2, and for an aperture antenna, maximum power density Smax = 0.1 × 16 × η × Pnet π × h2 , in mW/cm2, where qBW = half-power beamwidth of antenna, in degrees, Pnet = net power input to antenna, in watts, D = distance from antenna, in meters, h = aperture height of antenna, in meters, and h = aperture efficiency (unitless, typically 0.5-0.8). The factor of 0.1 in the numerators converts to the desired units of power density. Far Field. OET-65 gives this formula for calculating power density in the far field of an individual RF source: power density S = 2.56 × 1.64 ×100 × RFF2 × ERP 4 × π × D2 , in mW/cm2, where ERP = total ERP (all polarizations), in kilowatts, RFF = three-dimensional relative field factor toward point of calculation, and D = distance from antenna effective height to point of calculation, in meters. The factor of 2.56 accounts for the increase in power density due to ground reflection, assuming a reflection coefficient of 1.6 (1.6 x 1.6 = 2.56). The factor of 1.64 is the gain of a half-wave dipole relative to an isotropic radiator. The factor of 100 in the numerator converts to the desired units of power density. This formula is used in a computer program capable of calculating, at thousands of locations on an arbitrary grid, the total expected power density from any number of individual radio frequency sources. The program also allows for the inclusion of uneven terrain in the vicinity, as well as any number of nearby buildings of varying heights, to obtain more accurate projections. H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 566800 “SF Palo Alto 204”) 850 Webster Street • Palo Alto, California Calculated RF Exposure Levels B32-R7WJ.4Supplemental Figure 2020c 22-26 feet above ground No r t h FEET 10 10 200 at Ground, at 10 feet Above Ground, and at Nearby Buildings Verizon antennas at Elevation of Antennas (21½ – 24½ feet above ground) Verizon antennas Legend: less than FCC Public Limit greater than FCC Public Limitless than FCC Occupational Limit greater than FCC Occupational Limit Calculations performed according to OET Bulletin No. 65, August 1997. Base image from Google Maps. Notes: sign on pole below antennas Site No. 566800 The public limit extends about 8 feet from the antennas, not reaching any publicly accessible area. The occupational limit extends about 2 feet from the antennas. No poles, trees, or roofs within 8 feet Power line frequencies (60 Hz) are well below the applicable range of the radio frequency exposure standards, and there is considered to be no compounding effect from simultaneous exposure to power line and RF fields. 21-25 feet above ground HE HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS BROADCAST & WIRELESS 0 □ □ □ NOTICE (<•,••>) ~~~~ENCY ANTENNAS Verizon ANTENNAS on this pole DO NOT APPROACH within 8 feet at RF exposure there may exceed FCC General Population Limits Contact Verizon at 1-800-264-6620 Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 566801 “SF Palo Alto 205”) 853 Middlefield Road • Palo Alto, California C11-A3VZ.4 Page 1 of 4 ©2020 Statement of Hammett & Edison, Inc., Consulting Engineers The firm of Hammett & Edison, Inc., Consulting Engineers, has been retained on behalf of Verizon Wireless, a personal wireless telecommunications carrier, to evaluate its small cell (No. 566801 “SF Palo Alto 205”) proposed to be sited in Palo Alto, California, for compliance with appropriate guidelines limiting human exposure to radio frequency (“RF”) electromagnetic fields. Executive Summary Verizon proposes to install three small antennas on the municipal light pole sited in the public right-of-way near 853 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. The proposed operation will comply with the FCC guidelines limiting public exposure to RF energy. Prevailing Exposure Standards The U.S. Congress requires that the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) evaluate its actions for possible significant impact on the environment. A summary of the FCC’s exposure limits is shown in Figure 1. These limits apply for continuous exposures and are intended to provide a prudent margin of safety for all persons, regardless of age, gender, size, or health. The most restrictive limit for exposures of unlimited duration at several wireless service bands are as follows: Transmit “Uncontrolled” Occupational Limit Wireless Service Band Frequency Public Limit (5 times Public) Microwave (point-to-point) 1–80 GHz 1.0 mW/cm2 5.0 mW/cm2 Millimeter-wave 24–47 1.0 5.0 Part 15 (WiFi & other unlicensed) 2–6 1.0 5.0 CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio) 3,550 MHz 1.0 5.0 BRS (Broadband Radio) 2,490 1.0 5.0 WCS (Wireless Communication) 2,305 1.0 5.0 AWS (Advanced Wireless) 2,110 1.0 5.0 PCS (Personal Communication) 1,930 1.0 5.0 Cellular 869 0.58 2.9 SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) 854 0.57 2.85 700 MHz 716 0.48 2.4 600 MHz 617 0.41 2.05 [most restrictive frequency range] 30–300 0.20 1.0 Power line frequencies (60 Hz) are well below the applicable range of these standards, and there is considered to be no compounding effect from simultaneous exposure to power line and radio frequency fields. H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 566801 “SF Palo Alto 205”) 853 Middlefield Road • Palo Alto, California C11-A3VZ.4 Page 2 of 4 ©2020 General Facility Requirements Small cells typically consist of two distinct parts: the electronic transceivers (also called “radios” or “channels”) that are connected to the traditional wired telephone lines, and the passive antennas that send the wireless signals created by the radios out to be received by individual subscriber units. The radios are typically mounted on the support pole or placed in a cabinet at ground level, and they are connected to the antennas by coaxial cables. Because of the short wavelength of the frequencies assigned by the FCC for wireless services, the antennas require line-of-sight paths for their signals to propagate well and so are installed at some height above ground. The antennas are designed to concentrate their energy toward the horizon, with very little energy wasted toward the sky or the ground. This means that it is generally not possible for exposure conditions to approach the maximum permissible exposure limits without being physically very near the antennas. Computer Modeling Method The FCC provides direction for determining compliance in its Office of Engineering and Technology Bulletin No. 65, “Evaluating Compliance with FCC-Specified Guidelines for Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Radiation,” dated August 1997. Figure 2 describes the calculation methodologies, reflecting the facts that a directional antenna’s radiation pattern is not fully formed at locations very close by (the “near-field” effect) and that at greater distances the power level from an energy source decreases with the square of the distance from it (the “inverse square law”). This methodology is an industry standard for evaluating RF exposure conditions and has been demonstrated through numerous field tests to be a conservative prediction of exposure levels. Site and Facility Description Based upon information provided by Verizon, including drawings by All States Engineering & Surveying, dated September 1, 2020, it is proposed to install three Ericsson Model 6701, 2-foot tall, directional panel antennas with integrated radios on top of a new light pole to replace the existing pole sited in the public right-of-way in front of the single-story office building at 853 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. The antennas would employ no downtilt, would be mounted at an effective height of about 23 feet above ground, and would be oriented toward 60°T, 180°T, and 300°T. The maximum effective radiated power proposed in any direction is 193 watts in the 28 GHz band. There are reported no other wireless telecommunications base stations at the site or nearby. H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 566801 “SF Palo Alto 205”) 853 Middlefield Road • Palo Alto, California C11-A3VZ.4 Page 3 of 4 ©2020 Study Results For a person anywhere at ground, the maximum RF exposure level due to the proposed Verizon operation is calculated to be 0.0086 mW/cm2, which is 0.86% of the applicable public exposure limit. The maximum calculated level at the second-story elevation of any nearby building* is 1.2% of the public exposure limit. It should be noted that these results include several “worst-case” assumptions and therefore are expected to overstate actual power density levels from the proposed operation. Recommended Mitigation Measures Due to their mounting locations and height, the antennas would not be accessible to unauthorized persons, and so no measures are necessary to comply with the FCC public exposure guidelines. To prevent occupational exposures in excess of the FCC guidelines, it is recommended that appropriate RF safety training be provided to all workers who have access within 8 feet outward from the antennas. No access within 2 feet directly in front of the antennas should be allowed while the antennas are in operation, unless other measures can be demonstrated to ensure that occupational protection requirements are met. It is recommended that explanatory signs† be posted at the antennas and/or on the pole below the antennas, readily visible from any angle of approach. Conclusion Based on the information and analysis above, it is the undersigned’s professional opinion that operation of the small cell proposed by Verizon Wireless near 853 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto, California, will comply with the prevailing standards for limiting public exposure to radio frequency energy and, therefore, will not for this reason cause a significant impact on the environment. The highest calculated level in publicly accessible areas is much less than the prevailing standards allow for exposures of unlimited duration. This finding is consistent with measurements of actual exposure conditions taken at other operating small cells. Training authorized personnel and posting explanatory signs are recommended to establish compliance with occupational exposure limits. *Including the nearest residence, located at 737 Channing Avenue, at least 55 feet away based on the drawings.† Signs should comply with OET-65 color, symbol, and content recommendations. Contact information should be provided (e.g., a telephone number) to arrange for access to restricted areas. The selection of language(s) is not an engineering matter, and guidelines from the landlord, local zoning or health authority, or appropriate professionals may be required. H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 566801 “SF Palo Alto 205”) 853 Middlefield Road • Palo Alto, California C11-A3VZ.4 Page 4 of 4 ©2020 Authorship The undersigned author of this statement is a qualified Professional Engineer, holding California Registration No. E-21306, which expires on September 30, 2021. This work has been carried out under his direction, and all statements are true and correct of his own knowledge except, where noted, when data has been supplied by others, which data he believes to be correct. Neil J. Olij, P.E. 707/996-5200 September 29, 2020 H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO FCC Radio Frequency Protection Guide FCC Guidelines Figure 1 1000 100 10 1 0.1 0.1 1 10 100 103 104 105 Occupational Exposure Public Exposure PCS CellFM Po w e r De n s i t y (m W / c m 2) The U.S. Congress required (1996 Telecom Act) the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to adopt a nationwide human exposure standard to ensure that its licensees do not, cumulatively, have a significant impact on the environment. The FCC adopted the limits from Report No. 86, “Biological Effects and Exposure Criteria for Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields,” published in 1986 by the Congressionally chartered National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (“NCRP”). Separate limits apply for occupational and public exposure conditions, with the latter limits generally five times more restrictive. The more recent standard, developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and approved as American National Standard ANSI/IEEE C95.1-2006, “Safety Levels with Respect to Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, 3 kHz to 300 GHz,” includes similar limits. These limits apply for continuous exposures from all sources and are intended to provide a prudent margin of safety for all persons, regardless of age, gender, size, or health. As shown in the table and chart below, separate limits apply for occupational and public exposure conditions, with the latter limits (in italics and/or dashed) up to five times more restrictive: Frequency Electromagnetic Fields (f is frequency of emission in MHz) Applicable Range (MHz) Electric Field Strength (V/m) Magnetic Field Strength (A/m) Equivalent Far-Field Power Density (mW/cm2) 0.3 – 1.34 614 614 1.63 1.63 100 100 1.34 – 3.0 614 823.8/ f 1.63 2.19/ f 100 180/ f2 3.0 – 30 1842/ f 823.8/ f 4.89/ f 2.19/ f 900/ f2 180/ f2 30 – 300 61.4 27.5 0.163 0.0729 1.0 0.2 300 – 1,500 3.54 f 1.59 f f /106 f /238 f/300 f/1500 1,500 – 100,000 137 61.4 0.364 0.163 5.0 1.0 Frequency (MHz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©2020 HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO ----· RFR.CALC™ Calculation Methodology Assessment by Calculation of Compliance with FCC Exposure Guidelines Methodology Figure 2 ©2020 The U.S. Congress required (1996 Telecom Act) the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to adopt a nationwide human exposure standard to ensure that its licensees do not, cumulatively, have a significant impact on the environment. The maximum permissible exposure limits adopted by the FCC (see Figure 1) apply for continuous exposures from all sources and are intended to provide a prudent margin of safety for all persons, regardless of age, gender, size, or health. Higher levels are allowed for short periods of time, such that total exposure levels averaged over six or thirty minutes, for occupational or public settings, respectively, do not exceed the limits. Near Field. Prediction methods have been developed for the near field zone of panel (directional) and whip (omnidirectional) antennas, typical at wireless telecommunications base stations, as well as dish (aperture) antennas, typically used for microwave links. The antenna patterns are not fully formed in the near field at these antennas, and the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Bulletin No. 65 (August 1997) gives suitable formulas for calculating power density within such zones. For a panel or whip antenna, power density S = 180  θBW × 0.1× Pnet π×D ×h , in mW/cm2, and for an aperture antenna, maximum power density Smax = 0.1 × 16 × η × Pnet π × h2 , in mW/cm2, where qBW = half-power beamwidth of antenna, in degrees, Pnet = net power input to antenna, in watts, D = distance from antenna, in meters, h = aperture height of antenna, in meters, and h = aperture efficiency (unitless, typically 0.5-0.8). The factor of 0.1 in the numerators converts to the desired units of power density. Far Field. OET-65 gives this formula for calculating power density in the far field of an individual RF source: power density S = 2.56 × 1.64 ×100 × RFF2 × ERP 4 × π × D2 , in mW/cm2, where ERP = total ERP (all polarizations), in kilowatts, RFF = three-dimensional relative field factor toward point of calculation, and D = distance from antenna effective height to point of calculation, in meters. The factor of 2.56 accounts for the increase in power density due to ground reflection, assuming a reflection coefficient of 1.6 (1.6 x 1.6 = 2.56). The factor of 1.64 is the gain of a half-wave dipole relative to an isotropic radiator. The factor of 100 in the numerator converts to the desired units of power density. This formula is used in a computer program capable of calculating, at thousands of locations on an arbitrary grid, the total expected power density from any number of individual radio frequency sources. The program also allows for the inclusion of uneven terrain in the vicinity, as well as any number of nearby buildings of varying heights, to obtain more accurate projections. H HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO Verizon Wireless • Proposed Small Cell (No. 566801 “SF Palo Alto 205”) 853 Middlefield Road • Palo Alto, California Calculated RF Exposure Levels C11-A3VZ.4Supplemental Figure 2020c No r t h FEET 10 10 200 Verizon antennas at Elevation of Antennas (21½ – 24½ feet above ground) Verizon antennas Legend: less than FCC Public Limit greater than FCC Public Limitless than FCC Occupational Limit greater than FCC Occupational Limit Calculations performed according to OET Bulletin No. 65, August 1997. Base image from Google Maps. Notes: at Ground, at 10 Feet Above Ground, and at Nearby Buildings sign on pole below antennas Site No. 566801 The public limit extends about 8 feet from the antennas, not reaching any publicly accessible area. The occupational limit extends about 2 feet from the antennas. No poles, trees, or roofs within 8 feet Power line frequencies (60 Hz) are well below the applicable range of the radio frequency exposure standards, and there is considered to be no compounding effect from simultaneous exposure to power line and RF fields. 21-25 feet above ground HE HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS BROADCAST & WIRELESS 0 □ □ □ NOTICE (<•,••>) ~~~~ENCY ANTENNAS Verizon ANTENNAS on this pole DO NOT APPROACH within 8 feet at RF exposure there may exceed FCC General Population Limits Contact Verizon at 1-800-264-6620 Verizon Wireless Small Cell Application – Exception Request The proposed small cells referenced in the accompanying Verizon Wireless application submitted to the City of Palo Alto require one or more exceptions to the City’s Objective Standards for Wireless Communication Facilities in the Public Rights of Way on Streetlight Poles and Wood Utility Poles. Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 18.42.110(k)(1) requires applicants for exceptions to show that: A.The proposed WCF complies with the requirements of this Section 18.42.110 andany other requirements adopted by the City Council to the greatest extent feasible;and either B. As applied to a proposed WCF, the provision(s) from which exception is sought would deprive the applicant of rights guaranteed by federal law, state law, or both; orC. Denial of the application as proposed would violate federal law, state law, or both. This proposed small cells satisfy Item A as they meet the objective standards with respect to design. Notably, the 5G integrated radio/antennas cannot be shrouded because that impedes signal propagation, and they qualify for an equipment adjustment because each is less than 0.85 cubic feet, and all three total less than the 2.6 cubic feet allowed. The proposed small cells satisfy Items B and C because federal and state law compel approval. The federal Telecommunications Act provides that local government regulation of wireless facilities shall not “prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting” the provision of personal wireless service. 47 U.S.C. §§ 253(a), 332(c)(7)(B)(i)(II). Under Ninth Circuit case law, a local government violates Section 332(c)(7)(B)(i)(II) if a wireless provider can show two things: (1) that it has a “significant gap” in service; and (2) that the proposed facility is the “least intrusive means,” in relation to the land use values embodied in local regulations, to address the gap. See T-Mobile USA, Inc. v. City of Anacortes, 572 F.3d 987 (9th Cir. 2009). The accompanying Statement of Verizon Wireless Radio Frequency Design Engineer Brian Ung provides evidence of a significant gap in Verizon Wireless 5G service in Palo Alto. The accompanying alternatives site analysis provides evidence that alternatives to each proposed small cell require as many or more exceptions, or otherwise are infeasible. Federal law does not require that a proposed wireless facility be the “only” alternative, but rather that no feasible alternative is less intrusive. See Metro PCS, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco, 400 F.3d 715, 400 F.3d 715, 734-35 (9th Cir. 2005). In its September 2018 order addressing appropriate small cell approval criteria, the Federal Communications Commission determined that the Ninth Circuit’s two-part test is too narrow, and that a wireless carrier need not show an insurmountable barrier, or even a significant gap, to prove a prohibition of service under the Telecommunications Act. See Accelerating Wireless Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, Declaratory Ruling and Third Report and Order, FCC 18-133 (September 27, 2018) ¶¶ 35, 37-40. Instead, “a state or local legal requirement constitutes an effective prohibition if it‘materially limits or inhibits the ability of any competitor or potential competitor to compete in afair and balanced legal and regulatory environment.’” Id., ¶ 35. Thus, local regulations of small Exhibit C cells are preempted if they materially inhibit “densifying a wireless network, introducing new services, or otherwise improving service capabilities.” Id., ¶ 37. These are Verizon Wireless’s objectives for 5G small cells in Palo Alto. As the need for enhanced services increases, denial would defeat these objectives, leaving the area without 5G service, compromising network access and advanced capabilities for customers as described in the engineer’s statement. The engineer’s statement also explains that the high-band frequencies to be used 5G service have limited propagation characteristics, and require more small cell facilities closer together to provide reliable on-street service for Verizon Wireless customers. A denial of a small cell based on prohibitive standards, such as location restrictions, would materially inhibit Verizon Wireless’s ability to improve service on its network and therefore effectively prohibit service in violation of the Telecommunications Act. To avoid such unlawful prohibition, the City must grant the exceptions. As to state law, California Public Utilities Code Section 7901 grants telephone corporations such as Verizon Wireless a statewide right to place their equipment along any public road or highway, provided that it does not incommode the public use. While the City may exercise limited aesthetic discretion, the proposed small cell design complies with the City’s objective aesthetic standards, and as a result, does not incommode the public’s use of public roads or highways. However, the location restrictions would deprive Verizon Wireless of its right to use any public road or highway, and exceptions are warranted to avoid violating state law. For all of the above reasons, the proposed small cells under this application qualify for an exception under Palo Alto Municipal Code Sections 18.42.110(k)(1)(A), (B) and (C). VERIZON WIRELESS VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE Verizon Wireless is improving wireless service in Palo Alto! We will be adding small wireless facilities to existing metal streetlight poles. Want to learn more? We would like to hear your feedback. Please join us for a virtual open house showcasing Verizon Wireless’ proposed network and design. Date: Thursday, June 25th, 2020 Time: 5pm-7pm Zoom Meeting ID: https://zoom.us/j/93497004577 To RSVP or for more questions, please write or call to Jeremy Stroup: jstroup@vinculums.com (925) 532-5304 Exhibit D verizon1 2785 Mitchell Drive Walnut Creek, CA 94598 June 12, 2020 To: City of Palo Alto From: Brian Ung, Radio Frequency Design Engineer Verizon Wireless Network Engineering Department Subject: Statement in Support of Verizon Wireless’s Proposed Small Cells, Downtown and University South Areas Executive Summary There is a significant gap in Verizon Wireless’s fifth-generation Ultra Wideband (5G) service within the Downtown and University South areas of Palo Alto. 5G is a new technology that Verizon Wireless is deploying nationwide, but has yet to deploy in Palo Alto. The absence of 5G service means that Verizon Wireless customers cannot use 5G-dependent applications or take full advantage of 5G- capable smartphones and other devices. Further, accelerated growth in voice and data use by Verizon Wireless customers has increased the demand on the existing 4G LTE network. 4G operates on limited bandwidth scattered across low- and mid-band frequency spectrum, which poses data management burdens that compromise network performance. In the high-band spectrum to be used for 5G, Verizon Wireless has abundant bandwidth in broad, contiguous blocks that are easier to manage, resulting in improved network performance. For Verizon Wireless customers, high-band 5G service means greater network capacity, reliability and data speeds that improve voice and data communications. The absence of Verizon Wireless 5G service within the Downtown and University South areas of Palo Alto constitutes the “significant gap” Verizon Wireless seeks to serve (the “Significant Gap”). As the initial step in bringing 5G service to Palo Alto, Verizon Wireless has proposed seven 5G small cell facilities in the public right-of-way (the “Proposed Small Cells”). 5G Technology 5G is a new, cutting-edge global communication technology standard that unifies many service applications. It is essential to Verizon Wireless’s vision for smart cities and a more connected world. There are many user cases that will benefit from 5G, such as autonomous vehicles, which require near-real-time communication and instant information to minimize traffic congestion and avoid fatal accidents. 5G is also crucial to improved voice services and voice- Exhibit E verizon✓ dependent applications, including distance learning and virtual meetings, as well as advanced machine-to-machine communications and public safety response. Several factors contribute to 5G’s potential: wide bandwidth, greater data speeds and low latency. In the high-band (over 6 GHz) frequencies to be used for 5G service in the Bay Area, Verizon Wireless has licensed over 700 MHz of bandwidth in the 28 GHz band alone, in two large contiguous blocks. Such large blocks of contiguous-frequency bandwidth are optimal, due to fewer requirements for management and coordination of resources, which place heavy burdens on computing and scheduling power. While high-band spectrum is complex and expensive to operate, with limited propagation characteristics requiring facilities closer together to provide reliable service, high-band 5G service has many benefits for the network and customers alike. The wide bandwidth greatly increases network capacity, with significant improvement in data speed. The improved network performance of high-band 5G also results in lower latency (or delay). The reduction in latency is 3 to 4 times that of current 4G network. By comparison, Verizon Wireless’s 4G network in the area operates on only 55 MHz of bandwidth, distributed in blocks of 10 or 15 MHz across low-band (below 1 GHz) and mid-band (1 GHz to 6 GHz) spectrum. Verizon Wireless uses a technique called “carrier aggregation” to maximize the limited 4G resources through efficient use of spectrum. However, carrier aggregation requires substantial coordination and places great demand on network infrastructure, leading to more latency during the data scheduling process and inefficient use of resources. The combination of 5G’s wide bandwidth, greater data speeds and low latency exponentially increase the network capacity, reliability and performance for Verizon Wireless customers using 5G service. This will greatly improve voice and data communications for Verizon Wireless customers. The virtually real-time performance of 5G service will enable entirely new uses of wireless technology that are not possible with 4G service. While future applications of 5G technology are difficult to predict with certainty, they are likely to include data-intensive applications, such as high-resolution digital imagery, remote telemedicine, and machine-to-machine applications, in addition to autonomous vehicles. With very low latency enabling communication near real- time, 5G is essential for mission-critical applications, including advanced ambulance response and communication of vital information to physicians. Coverage Gap There is no existing Verizon Wireless 5G service coverage in the Downtown and University South areas of Palo Alto. With a complete absence of 5G coverage, there is no service available for 5G-capable devices, including new models of smartphones. The following map demonstrates the total absence of 5G service in the Significant Gap. The second map shows the new 5G service coverage to be provided by the Proposed Small Cells. In total, the Proposed Small Cells will provide reliable 5G service coverage in areas along 2.3 miles of streets in critical portions of the Downtown and University South areas. This will benefit residents, workers and visitors with on-street 5G service. Further, it will add network capacity to relieve demand on the existing 4G network. Coverage plot maps like those below show the anticipated level of signal, and therefore the projected coverage provided by a site at a given location. Referenced signal receive power (RSRP) is a measurement of signal level in decibels (dBm), which decreases due to distance and other factors. The areas in green reflect coverage that meets or exceeds the threshold to provide consistent and reliable 5G on-street coverage. See Coverage Maps on Following Page Current 5G Coverage 5G Coverage with Proposed Small Cells 5G RSRP Coverage On-Street >= -117.8 dBm '---□ __ ,------,I ~'-..... SJ_PAt:OAL T0_202 ,• , "'• ... ~ ,, ••\.., r~,_.:-~ " CA_W ALOAL T0_203 .. , ~ .. c,. ..... .. ~ ~_SJ_,ALOALT0_205 C. ... J_PALOALT0_204 ..,, " .. SF PALO AL TO 061 • ,.,.,. CA_S_,ALOAL TO_ 203 ........ CA_SJ_,ALOAL T0_205 '· ,. "· SF PALO ALTO 061 Conclusion As the existing 4G network matures, and increased demand and new applications require greater network capacity, reliability and data speeds, the network must be enhanced with new 5G technology. The high-band frequencies to be used for Verizon Wireless's 5G service require facilities closer to customers, and currently there are no 5G facilities serving Palo Alto. This results in the Significant Gap in Verizon Wireless 5G coverage in the Downtown and University South areas. Verizon Wireless must deploy the Proposed Small Cells to provide new, reliable 5G service to the Significant Gap. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments regarding Verizon Wireless's proposed facilities. RJ:_ec:ly submitted, �;:g RF Design Engineer Network Engineering Department Verizon Wireless I have 30 years of experience in the wireless industry. I have been in my current role for more than 10 years, and prior to that I was a Principal System Performance Engineer. My responsibilities include designing and maintaining a wireless network to ensure reliable service, and addressing coverage and capacity needs to meet customer expectations. I also help shape the industry and bring technology evolution to everyday lives. I acquired a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from DeVry Institute of Technology, City of Industry, California, and a Master of Science in Telecommunications Management from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California. 20 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:01 PM To:KEN PETERSON; MARC. ALLAN SEID Subject:Fwd: Advocates call for dismissal of spy case against Chinese professor – AsAmNews CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>  Date: Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 11:30 AM  Subject: Advocates call for dismissal of spy case against Chinese professor – AsAmNews  To: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>        https://asamnews.com/2021/06/18/an‐investigation‐found‐the‐fbi‐accused‐professor‐hu‐of‐spying‐ based‐on‐a‐google‐search/  Advocates call for dismissal of spy case against Chinese professor June 18, 2021 Anming Hu, University of Tennessee By Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent 21 Asian American advocates and civil libertarians Friday called for the spy case to be dropped against a Chinese researcher who worked at the University of Tennessee. On Wednesday, a jury deadlocked in the trial against former University of Tennessee at Knoxville associate professor Dr. Anming Hu. It was the first case to be tried under the Trump Administration’s China Initiative. The prosecution must now decide whether to retry or drop the case while a motion to dismiss filed by the defense remains before Judge Thomas Varlan. “It appears that a number of jurors recognize a number of issues in this case including evidence that there was falsified evidence against Dr. Hu about what he did,” John Yang, executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice|AAJC, said at the virtual news conference attended by AsAmNews. An investigation by the Knox News revealed federal agents accused Hu of spying based solely on a Google search. The investigation collaborated defense claims the FBI tried to recruit Hu to spy against China and when he refused, it launched a two year investigation against him beginning in 2018. Top Articles Content byAsAmNews “18 operatives followed him to work, school, grocery store, going through his trash,” said defense attorney Philip Lomonaco. “They couldn’t find anything, but they found a NASA restriction.” That restriction bars the space agency from giving its research dollars to China or Chinese corporations. The FBI accused Hu of intentionally hiding his association with Beijing University because of that restriction. Lomonaco argued the University had assured him that restriction did not apply to him as a faculty member and that Hu did in fact list his ties on many disclosure forms. Frank Wu, President of Queens College, City University of New York, today accused the FBI of assuming ethnic affinity to China. 22 “Ordinary behavior such as scientific cooperation or visiting your mother suddenly become suspicious,” he said. “The denial that ethnicity is not involved is incredible.” The defense alleged the U.S Attorney’s office followed marching orders under the China Initiative to investigate. “The FBI has long history of using racial, national origin as a bias to pursue national security threats,” said Michael German of the Brennan Center for Justice and a former FBI special agent. German said the Hu case distracts from serious efforts to go after China’s misconduct and bad behavior. In addition to calling for the case to be dropped, Asian Americans Advancing Justice is demanding the end of racial profiling of Chinese and Asian Americans and that the Biden Administration review all cases currently being heard or investigated under the China Initiative. It contends the case against Hu is just one of many unjustly being carried out across the country. AsAmNews has Asian America in its heart. We’re an all-volunteer effort of dedicated staff and interns. Check out our new Instagram account. Go to our Twitter feed and Facebook page for more content. Please consider interning, joining our staff, or submitting a story or making a contribution. 23 Baumb, Nelly From:Carol Scott <cscott@crossfieldllc.com> Sent:Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:07 PM To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Kamhi, Philip; Baird, Nathan; Tom DuBois; Filseth, Eric (external); Lydia Kou; Greer Stone; Pat Burt; Greg Tanaka; alisonlcormack@gmail.com Cc:Neilson Buchanan; John Guislin; Allen Akin; Christian Pease; Paul Machado; Mike Eager; Wolfgang Dueregger; Chris Robell; Jocelyn Dong; Gennady Subject:Report on Parking Capacity, Occupancy, and Vacancies in the Cal Ave Commercial District Attachments:Parking Report - June 20, 2021.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council, City Manager, and Mr. Kamhi and Mr. Baird,  Attached is a report which includes recent data collected on parking capacity, occupancy, and vacancies in  public garages and lots and street facings in the California Ave. commercial area.    I have included measurements from May 21 and June 11, 2021, but data collection efforts will continue until  such time as they are no longer needed.  As you can see, on both days, over 900 parking spaces were available in the Cal Ave. commercial area.  These  900 spaces could easily accommodate the 250 non‐resident parking permits allocated to Evergreen Park (125  permits) and Mayfield (125 permits), especially as the 'show rate' is be less than 100% as it has in the past.  In  light of these data, we call upon you to eliminate all‐day employee parking permits in the EP/M RPP.  This is the right thing to do to fulfil the promise of the City's Comprehensive Plan, to make progress toward the  City's S‐Cap goals, to execute Policy T‐5.11*, and to ensure the same level of safety and protection from air  pollution enjoyed by other RPP areas that do not include such permits.  Now is the time to make the decision  to proactively manage and control traffic and parking in this area.  Thank you for considering this data and our request.  Carol Scott  on behalf of other resident volunteers  Policy T‐5.11:    Work to protect residential areas from parking impacts of nearby businesses and uses, recognizing that fully addressing some existing intrusions may take time ‐‐   Carol Scott  1 California Avenue Commercial District Public Parking Executive Summary of RPP Residents’ Survey May 21, 2021 and June 11, 20211 Transmitted June 20, 2021 Included in this report are two eight-page exhibits that show: (1) the capacity of the parking garages, lots, and street faces in the California Avenue commercial district,2 (2) the number of vehicles parked in/or various garages, lots, and streets and in specific zones within those sites, and (3) the number of vacant parking spaces. The first exhibit provides data collected on Friday, May 21, 2021 at mid-day when utilization is presumed to be at a peak given the presence of both employees and visitors at the lunch hour. The second exhibit provides data collected on June 11, 2021, also at mid-day. Even pre-Covid, it was widely known that public parking inventory operated at 66% capacity except during the mid-day period of approximately 11:30 am. to 1:30 pm.3 Thus these snapshots are intended to represent the likely peak demand for parking during the week and day of measurement. At the time of measurement, the City was not enforcing public parking limits in City garages, lots, or street faces, i.e., unlimited parking was free to employees (from California Ave. as well as College Terrace and El Camino Real) and visitors alike. Recommendation: These data show that City garages, lots, and California Ave commercial street facings are operating at only 58% capacity during the peak mid-day time period. At least 900 parking spaces were available on two separate measurement occasions. Therefore, the time has come to deliver on the long-promised removal of all-day commercial parking from Evergreen Park and Mayfield.4 Removing commercial traffic from our neighborhoods not only is consistent with the City’s Comprehensive Plan5, but it also offers a clear path to making these residential streets safer, and supports the related city goals of 1 Document written by Carol Scott based on observational data collected by Nielson Buchanan and other resident volunteers on May 21, 2021 and June 11, 2021. Equivalent data are also available for March and April, 2021. 2 Every effort has been made to verify actual parking inventory with limited records available from the Office of Transportation. Unfortunately, however, these records often provide conflicting information, making reconciliation of observational data with City records currently impossible. 3 Josh Mello, then Manager of City of Palo Alto Office of Transportation and Planning, minutes of the City Council meeting, February 5, 2018, p. 65. 4 A similar analysis of downtown Palo Alto is in preparation. 5 “ It encourages commercial enterprise, but not at the expense of the City’s residential neighborhoods.”, p. 4-5. See also Policy T-5.11: Work to protect residential areas from parking impacts of nearby businesses and uses, recognizing that fully addressing some existing intrusions may take time. 2 reducing SOV trips, reaching our CO2 emission goals and protecting residential quality of life. Further, City policies to move employee parking into the public garages, and in particular the new Sherman Ave garage, would provide convenient parking for employees and also leave closer-in parking spaces for convenient customer parking to stimulate patronage of the businesses along California Ave. It is time for businesses and developers to live up to their promises of transportation demand management. As one current councilman stated in 2017, “Between Caltrain, the Marguerite, El Camino and VTA and so forth, this is A bout as transit rich as it gets. If we can’t get it to work here, we ought to throw In the towel and build giant garages everywhere.”6 Data Highlights • A key summary finding is that on both days of observations, there was a vacancy rate of roughly 58%, meaning that at least 900 parking spaces were available even as many parking spaces have been taken out of service to support UpLift Local. (pages 1-2 of charts for each observation date) • This large number of vacant spaces, however, was not evenly spread throughout the garages, lots and street facings. The new parking garage at 350 Sherman accounted for over 500 of the vacant spaces, with very little usage except on the first floor. (page 3 of charts) • Few cars use the second floor of the 275 Cambridge garage, resulting in vacancy rates between 61% and 67%. (page 4 of charts) • Only the 475 Cambridge garage, as measured on June 11 , showed any significant utilization on the second floor, resulting in the lowest vacancy rate among garages of 40% (in May) and 27% (in June), which is still above the 15% standard for commercial parking lot efficiency (e.g. 85% occupancy). (page 5 of charts) • Surface lots 1, 2, 4 and 9 along Cambridge Ave occupancy rates vary considerably, with lots 1 and 2 showing vacancy rates from 71% to 81%. Only lots 4 and 9, which are closer to the heart of the California Ave. business district and El Camino Real, show relatively low vacancy 6 Council Member Eric Filseth, Council meeting January 23, 2017, when the EP/M RPP was approved, as quoted in the Palo Alto Weekly, January 24, 2017. 1593 1592 932 912 0 500 1000 1500 2000 May June Pa r k i n g S p a c e s California Ave. Public Garages, Lots & Street Parking Spaces Fridays, May 21 and June 11, 2021 Mid-Day Observations Capacity Vacant■ ■ 3 rates -- between 4% and 14%, with Lot 4 showing greater consistency of use. (pages 6-7 of charts) • The only surface lot remaining on Sherman Ave. shows a vacancy rate of 16% to 20%. This lot is sometimes impacted by construction crews working on El Camino Real. (page 8 of charts) • These data indicate that in the absence of any incentives to park in particular places, people prefer to park in lots rather than garages, and on the lower floor of a garage rather than a second or higher floor. Street facing parking is also popular. If customers or visitors have any difficulty finding a place to park during the noon hour, one potential explanation may be that employees who arrive earlier in the day take most of the most convenient lot and garage parking spaces, and there are no directional signs that would direct customers and visitors to other parking areas with ample parking. 4 Note on Observation Data Collection Methodology The data included in this report was collected through personal observation captured and recorded with less than a total of four volunteer hours to survey, record and display the parking patterns. No technology was required except an Excel spreadsheet. The observational process was developed by resident Neilson Buchanan (cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com) and other citizen volunteers in the University Ave. neighborhoods. Mr. Buchanan has offered to transfer this low level, but reliable technology at no cost to the Office of Transportation for its verification and use. Every effort has been made to verify actual parking inventory with limited records available from the Office of Transportation. Unfortunately, these city records often provide conflicting information about public parking capacity. Spreadsheet tables and formulae are subject to further testing and updating of City changes with garages, lots and street faces. For example, the number of parking spaces taken out of the inventory due to the Uplift Local street closures and reservation of some parking spaces for short term pick-up/take-out parking is based on observation at these particular points in time. Nevertheless, the data is substantially correct and consistent with actual conditions. No observations or measurements were made of private parking space capacity in the California Ave. commercial area. Some of these areas continue to be used for parking while some private lots have been closed to parking so as to be used for restaurant/retail activity as part of Uplift Local or are being used for purposes other than parking. 5 Exhibit 1 Parking Data Collected Friday, May 21, 2021 Mid-day Contents Summary for California Ave. Public Garage and Lot Parking page 1 Summary for Street Facing Parking page 2 Detail for 350 Sherman Garage – Lot 7 page 3 Detail for 275 Cambridge Ave Garage – Lot 3 page 4 Detail for 475 Cambridge Ave Garage – Lot 5 page 5 Detail for Surface Lot 1 and Lot 2 – 100 and 400 block of Cambridge Ave page 6 Detail for Surface Lot 4 and Lot 9 – 400 block of Cambridge Ave page 7 Detail for Surface Lot 8 – 400 block of Sherman Ave page 8 6 Exhibit 2 Parking Data Collected Friday, June 11, 2021 Mid-day Contents Summary for California Ave. Public Garage and Lot Parking page 1 Summary for Street Facing Parking page 2 Detail for 350 Sherman Garage – Lot 7 page 3 Detail for 275 Cambridge Ave Garage – Lot 3 page 4 Detail for 475 Cambridge Ave Garage – Lot 5 page 5 Detail for Surface Lot 1 and Lot 2 – 100 and 400 block of Cambridge Ave page 6 Detail for Surface Lot 4 and Lot 9 – 400 block of Cambridge Ave page 7 Detail for Surface Lot 8 – 400 block of Sherman Ave page 8 24 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 6:57 PM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Flyer for the REPEAT of Dr. Seid's Presentation Attachments:Dr. Seid Repeat Performance.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Date: Fri, Jun 18, 2021   Subject: Flyer for the REPEAT of Dr. Allan Seid's Presentation  Repeat Presentation DATE: June 26th, SATURDAY, 10 am (PST)  DEAR NEIGHBORS and FRIENDS,  Attached is a flyer with the announcement of a repeat of my recent  presentation with a longer planned time set aside  for the question and answer period.             The Zoom ID  and passcode for this meeting is the same as the one used  previously. Howerver all the upcoming  "MEETING LINK," and PROGRAM ID NUMBER, and PASSCODE are listed below  and on the attached presentation invitation.   The live link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87208172815?pwd=MUR1NnZ2czNGbVp6amlPOEZCV0dodz09  The meeting ID  872 0817 2815  and  Passcode 850  I look forward to sharing with you at the presentation by zoom on June 26th, Saturday, 10 am (PST)  Warmly,  Allan  REPEAT OF DR. ALLAN SEID’S ZOOM PRESENTATION ON REFLECTIONS on ANTI-ASIAN DISCRIMINATION and VIOLENCE: 1850s to the PRESENT Because our Zoom link could only accommodate 100 participants, many people were unable to access Allan Seid’s talk. Fortunately, the talk was recorded and will be replayed with a question- and-answer session followed with Allan “live and in person.” REFLECTIONS on ANTI-ASIAN DISCRIMINATION and VIOLENCE: 1850s TO THE PRESENT New Date: Saturday, June 26, 10:00 AM Zoom ID: 872 0817 2815 Pass Code: 850 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87208172815?pwd=MUR1NnZ2czNGbVp6amlPOEZCV0dodz09 Dr. Allan Seid Among the many contributions to our community by Allan and Mary Seid, residents on Channing House’s 7th Floor, is the founding in 1973 of the Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI). This vital organization is even more pertinent today. Co-sponsored by the Channing House Speakers’ and Racial & Social Justice Committees 25 Baumb, Nelly From:Dominique Piché <nano.piche@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, June 18, 2021 9:24 AM To:Council, City Subject:Name an unmarked side lane CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     I am writing in regards to an unmarked lane which serves as the only entrance to my residence as well as several other  properties. This lane has no name, hence my address (and others) is incorrectly listed as one of the neighboring named  roads. This makes it very difficult for any postal service to find the address and 75% of my mail gets returned to the  sender.  More worryingly however, emergency services are unable to find the address. I recently asked a police officer to check  whether it was on his system, it was not. There are young children and elderly who live down this lane, I am concerned  that in the event of an emergency, an ambulance would not be able to find where they live. I am therefore asking  whether this lane can be given a name so that it is 'on the map'. I have attached the lane in question below!    Thank you very much for your consideration!      ,co .. l's library~ Parkinson Ave ,, Community Ln Go gle Hopkins Ave 1121 Parkinson Ave " Community Ln 111'1 Hogkins Ave '" ... 11111 Parkinson Ave Park I >) '"' 1233 Community Ln 165 + '' • ... ~ 26 Baumb, Nelly From:Rice, Danille Sent:Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:18 AM To:Council, City Cc:Gaines, Chantal; Nose, Kiely; Kamhi, Philip; Lait, Jonathan; Shikada, Ed; Minor, Beth Subject:Palo Alto grade separation project earmark request letter from Anna Eshoo Attachments:6.11.21 Palo Alto Member Designated Project response.pdf Good morning Mayor and Council Members,  Please find attached letter from Anna Eshoo’s office regarding the formal denial letter to Palo Alto’s Grade Separation  Project earmark request.  Respectfully,  Danille  Danille Rice  Executive Assistant to the City Manager  (650)329‐2105 | Danille.Rice@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org From: Henshall, Eric <Eric.Henshall@mail.house.gov>   Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 3:12 PM  To: Gaines, Chantal <Chantal.Gaines@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: Palo Alto Avenue Grade Separation Project  CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Chantal,   This week the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed a reauthorization of the FAST Act, and  unfortunately, the Committee was unable to include funding for the Palo Alto Grade Separation Project. However, we  hope that the bill’s significant investments in public transit through formula funds and competitive grants will provide  future opportunities for the city to seek federal funding for this project.   I’ve attached a letter from Rep. Eshoo to formally notify the city. Please let me know if there’s anything else we can do  to be of assistance.   Thanks,  Eric Henshall  Senior Legislative Assistant | Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (CA‐18)  Phone: (202) 225‐8104 | Website   Click here to sign up for Rep. Eshoo’s Weekly Newsletter  27 Baumb, Nelly From:bretth@foreigneventonline.com Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:32 PM Subject:Modular, Prefab & Construction Tech Senate Austin Texas October 2021 Attachments:Modular Texas.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________  Modular, Prefab & Construction Tech Senate Austin Texas October 2021  The combination of emerging construction technologies, shifts in the economy, loss of skilled workforce in the industry  and the increased cost of skilled trades have made the rapid growth of modular and prefabrication construction all but  inevitable. With the continuing growth and evolution of the construction industry, companies must stay up‐to‐date if  they want to remain competitive.  The modular construction market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.9% from $112.4 billion  today to $157 billion by 2023. Right now, about 3% of construction in America is modular and factory built and projected  to reach 10% over the next five years due to the rise in demand for complex structures at affordable rates, rapid  urbanisation, and industrialisation.  Modular, Prefab & Construction Tech is aimed to create a premier destination for professionals working across the built  environment to gain insights and experience first‐hand the latest innovations and opportunities in modern methods of  construction to streamline workflows, improve productivity, expand the scope of projects, expand access to data,  enhance collaboration and generate stronger profit margins.  Key Benefits of Attending:  •Addressing the causes of the productivity gap in the global construction industry and introducing the right tools and strategies to overcome it •Exploring innovations to improve processes and workflow to drive efficiency, safety and sustainability of your modular and prefab projects •Delving into the cutting‐edge ideas, processes and systems being developed in the construction industry across single‐trade, multi‐trade and modular manufacturing processes •Enhancing collaboration between project stakeholders in from planning and design to improving fabrication efficiency and streamlining logistics and job site operations •Exploring the latest in construction technology shaping from drones and laser scanning, to robotics and AR, to IoT and automation and how you can leverage them in your business For more information regarding the event, the pdf is enclosed  If you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact me as per the details on the pdf  Limited seats are allocated for this event. Group booking package available with terms and conditions applied.  To register for this international conference, kindly fill in the registration form and fax or email it back to me.  Regards  Modular, Prefab and Construction Tech Senate 27 - 28 october 2021 | Austin, Texas TH TH Reinventing practices for faster, leaner and higher quality construction through cutting-edge innovations ' I i I I I f I ~-I 1/ ---:::__~ . -~-----.: -~----~ ---~ --------~~----.I -"'----::--. =l:.:====-=- J --:::,..._ 1-~-------~_,__""""-~ I -J/ . . ~~ -----. 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This event is targeted but not limited to: • CEOs, CIOs, & COOs• Chief Construction Ocers• Chief Manufacturing Ocers• VPs/ Directors/ Heads/ General Managers/ Managers of:• Construction• Modular Construction• Osite Construction• Osite Manufacturing• Operations• Project Management• Osite & Prefabrication• Civil Engineering• Structural Engineering• Project Engineering• Property Development• Quantity Surveying• Infrastructure• Architecture• Drafting Design• On-site Delivery• Procurement• Strategic Sourcing From the following industries: • Government entities• Construction companies• Real Estate developers• Contractors• Building Materials Suppliers• Building Service Providers• Technology solution providers• Design & Architecture rms• Construction Project Management rms• Real Estate consultants• Transportation & Logistics Service Providers• Other industries involve in new property development, which can benet from o-site construction, such as Healthcare, Hospitality, Data Centers, Education and Retail EVENT OVERVIEW The combination of emerging construction technologies, shifts in the economy, loss of skilled workforce in the industry and the increased cost of skilled trades have made the rapid growth of modular and prefabrication construction all but inevitable. With the continuing growth and evolution of the construction industry, companies must stay up-to-date if they want to remain competitive. The modular construction market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.9% from $112.4 billion today to $157 billion by 2023. Right now, about 3% of construction in America is modular and factory built and projected to reach 10% over the next five years due to the rise in demand for complex structures at affordable rates, rapid urbanisation, and industrialisation. Modular, Prefab & Construction Tech by Trueventus is aimed to create a premier destination for professionals working across the built environment to gain insights and experience first-hand the latest innovations and opportunities in modern methods of construction to streamline workflows, improve productivity, expand the scope of projects, expand access to data, enhance collaboration and generate stronger profit margins. WHY YOU CANNOT MISS THIS EVENT • Addressing the causes of the productivity gap in the global construction industry and introducing the right tools and strategies to overcome it • Exploring innovations to improve processes and workow to drive eciency, safety and sustainability of your modular and prefab projects • Delving into the cutting-edge ideas, processes and systems being developed in the construction industry across single-trade, multi-trade and modular manufacturing processes • Enhancing collaboration between project stakeholders in from planning and design to improving fabrication eciency and streamlining logistics and job site operations • Exploring the latest in construction technology shaping from drones and laser scanning, to robotics and AR, to IoT and automation and how you can leverage them in your business John Karras T: +603-2775 0067 | E: johnk@trueventus.com For further details, contact pg. 2 CONFERENCE AT GLANCE Registration & coee Opening keynote address Plenery OneOsite Construction Technology: Purely a disruptor or a major progressive step? Plenary TwoRedening Preconstruction: Proving and maximising the value of preconstruction services for your prefab project Speed networking Morning refreshment Plenary ThreeAccelerating value creation for modular and prefab projects with state-of-the-art construction technologies Plenary FourExploring the added value of lean manufacturing as a transformative step in modern construction Networking luncheon 0800 0850 0900 0945 1030 1045 1115 1200 1245 Session One Streamlining the use of BIM across stakeholders for smooth project lifecycle Session Two Integrating automated systems for repetitive and critical construction processes Afternoon refreshment Session Three Getting the most from your capital construction projects with osite construction Session Four Using simulation applications for project forecast and production optimization Session Five Mitigating logistics & transportation issues for assembly of prefab components End of day one 1400 1445 1530 1600 1645 1700 1730 1400 1445 1530 1600 1645 1700 1730 1400 1445 1530 1600 1645 1700 1730 Session One Prefab Homes: Addressing the shortage of aordable housing in a revolutionary way Session Two Converting empty commercial buildings into co-living spaces through modular home system Afternoon refreshment Session Three Micro Hospitals: Advancing osite construction to address healthcare evolution Session Four Prefab Data Centers: Installing osite built data centres using tech innovation Session Five Modular Hotel: Integrating prefab elements to deliver project on time and on budget End of day one Session One Enabling construction sites to be digitally controlled through IoT technologies Session Two Revolutionising 3D printing for AEC industry using cellular fabrication technology Afternoon refreshment Session Three Developing recongurable robotic system for modular construction and digital fabrication Session Four Discovering the roles of drones smart modern construction Session Five Leveraging the use of VR and AR for construction execution End of day one Stream 1 – Project Management Stream 2 – Prefab Applications Stream 3 – Construction Tech Day One: Wednesday, 27 October 2021th Modular, Prefab and Construction Tech Senate Reinventing practices for faster, leaner and higher quality construction through cutting-edge innovations 27 - 28 October 2021 | Austin, Texasth th John Karras T: +603 2775 0067 | E: johnk@trueventus.com For further details, contact th th pg. 3 Registration & coee Plenery One Setting Up for Project Success: Grappling with the ‘Catch-22’ of nancing modular builds Plenary Two Prefabricated, Green and Smart: Towards cost-eective, ecient and sustainable project development Speed networking Morning refreshment Plenary Three Digital Design and Delivery: Leveraging a digital approach across the project lifecycle Plenary Four Overcoming skill shortage in Modular Construction: Upskilling labour force to adopt new construction systems Networking luncheon Day Two: Thursday 28 October 2021 0800 0850 0900 0945 1030 1100 1145 1230 Session One Contractor’s Perspective: Using project specications to bridge the gap between design & construction Session Two Looking into out-of-the-box solutions to nish a modular project on time & within budget Afternoon refreshment Session Three Identifying ways to prevent high-rise building envelope system failures Session Four Incorporating CLM to systemise contracts for increased project protability End of conference 1400 1445 1530 1600 1645 1730 1400 1445 1530 1600 1645 1730 1400 1445 1530 1600 1645 1730 Session One Grasping the multi-trade elements for eective partnerships to improve prefab execution strategies Session Two Solving business expansion challenges using modular and prefab construction Afternoon refreshment Session ThreeModular retail building: Reducing project operating costs for sleek and stylish outlet Session FourAdapting sustainable modular through high performance building (HPB) initiative End of conference Session OneTransforming the way we build by delving into the design and performance of timber framing Session TwoDiscovering the benets of digital twins application in a construction project Afternoon refreshment Session ThreeMaximizing the protability of Laser Scanning at construction sites Session FourMobile Apps: Integrating data and bridging the gap across departments in a construction project End of conference Stream 1 – Project Management Stream 2 – Prefab Applications Stream 3 – Construction Tech th Modular, Prefab and Construction Tech Senate Reinventing practices for faster, leaner and higher quality construction through cutting-edge innovations 27 - 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TERMS & CONDITIONS -----------------------------------------------------L---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------L---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------r------------- -----------------------------------------------------~---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------L---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------r------------- ------------------------------------------------------•----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- □ □ □ □ 29 Baumb, Nelly From:David Coale <david@evcl.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 3:55 PM To:Lait, Jonathan Cc:UAC; Shikada, Ed; Batchelor, Dean; Gennady Sheyner; Council, City; Abendschein, Jonathan Subject:Re: Permitting in Palo Alto Attachments:Solar activists wield hammer in city fixated on being greenest.pdf; Permiting in Palo Alto, Palo Alto Weekly.pdf; Comments to Palo Alto Weekly article.pdf; In the Public Interest. Solar Permitting In Palo Alto by City of Palo Alto PaloAltoConnect May, 2021 Medium.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Jonathan,  Thanks for the link explaining how you will be addressing the permitting problem.  I did see this as a friend of mine that used  to be on the UAC sent it to me.  I am very disappointed with this.  This is similar to what happened the last time this was addressed with Peter Pirnejed, the  last director of Planning seven years ago.  Peter had an even larger group of stakeholders and had on‐going meetings for many  months.  The final solution was to remove Rhonda from residential PV inspections and permitting.  This was after survey  results of stakeholder showed just how bad it was and only when the results were made semi‐public.  Peter promised the  solar contractors that Rhonda would not do residential inspections any more.  But, even before he left, Peter broke his  promise to the solar installing community and Rhonda was back on the job.  Now, seven years later, you are doing the same thing and expecting different results.  But it is even worse than that.  You are  having the inspector that is causing all the problems, to train all the other inspectors how to be just like her!  This is an about  face and running fast in the wrong direction!  I think the only way to really fix this, is to take out all the Palo Alto only solar requirements and then outsource the permitting  and inspections to 4Leaf Inc.  The City already uses 4Leaf Inc, in this capacity for inspections and permitting so this is nothing  new and is a known pathway for the City.  This will also probably be cheaper as well so this will give all sides immediate relief  in this area. I think this is the only way you will ever get contractors to return to Palo Alto.  This should happen with all electrification projects/permits.  As we start to really address our 80 by 30 CO2 reduction goals,  there will be a lot more inspections required and right now the City is already behind in this, especially for solar PV and  storage.  So instead of going down the business as usual and applying the Palo Alto process that will likely take a lot of time to produce  results that fall far short of what is needed to really address the problem and meet our 80 by 30 goals, I would suggest you  should be working on how to outsource this to 4Leaf.  This will be faster, cheaper and is the only way to get contractors to  return to Palo Alto.  It will also help to address the City’s scofflaw approach to expedited PV and EVSE permitting as required  by state law.  Sincerely,  David Coale  30 PS. I have attached an article about what happened seven years ago.  Note, Pat Bert was in on the stakeholders meetings so  he knows what happened then.  PPS. Should you decide to keep the permitting and inspections in house, there is another possible solution that could get  contractors to return to Palo Alto and streamline the permitting and inspection processes.  NREL, the National Renew Energy  Labs, has come up with a web site to do just that.  All the data is entered into the web site for the solar PV system to be  built.  Once the submittal process is complete, and any errors are addressed, the solar design is correct and code compliant by  design.  This takes the place of the plan check and is completely automated. This also means that the contractors can submit  plans 24/7 and are not limited to normal working hours.    The web site then produces a checklist to be used by the inspector for inspection.  This ensures that all inspections are the  same and relevant to the PV system design.  By eliminating the plan check and producing a checklist for the inspector to use,  this should really streamline the process and reduce cost at the same time as well as speeding up the process.  Since this was  developed by NREL, you know it will be code complaint and will be constant across jurisdictions such that it should be familiar  to contractors once this is widely used and accepted.  And, what's more, this is free to jurisdictions.  Pleasant Hill is already using this and it will also do EVSE permits and more.  See:  https://solarapp.nrel.gov/jurisdictions/learn_more for more info on this.  You can also view the presentation done by BayREN on Building permits and Clean Technology.  They had a great half‐day  session on this and best practices from many different jurisdictions.  Go to: https://www.bayrencodes.org/events/ and scroll  down to the June 9th event to view this.  There is also a session on the Solar App from NREL there as well.  Here is a  presentation by NREL on how the Solar APP works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE4TbjgVAjs      On Jun 9, 2021, at 9:34 AM, Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote:    David –      Thanks for including in me in your message below. I know we have long way to go to convince you and  others with actions that we can turn this around but we are making progress. I’ll return to the UAC on  August 4th with a more complete update but in the meantime, please take a few minutes to read what  we have been up to since our last conversation:https://medium.com/paloaltoconnect/in‐the‐public‐ interest‐245aff70bafb.      Jonathan         <image002.png>JONATHAN LAIT   Director  Planning and Development Services  (650) 329‐2679 | jonathan.lait@cityofpaloalto.org  www.cityofpaloalto.org  <image003.png>   <image004.png>   <image005.jpg>   <image006.jpg>   <image007.png>              From: David Coale <david@evcl.com>   Sent: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 2:42 PM  To: UAC Public Meetings <UACPublicMeetings@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Shikada, Ed  31 <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: Permitting in Palo Alto     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments  and clicking on links.  ________________________________    Hi UAC,    I am including the May 21 article that appeared in the Palo Alto Weekly about permitting and  inspections in Palo Alto and the comments that followed, here in this e‐mail, so that there is a record on  this important issue.  This article and comments are akin to a study session and public comment on  these issues.    This article and comments can also be found at this link as well:    https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/05/21/palo‐alto‐takes‐heat‐over‐solar‐permitting    I look forward to hearing the response from staff on the UAC meeting of April 7th where this issue was  discussed.    Sincerely,    David Coale          Comments Ev charger Registered user Midtown 11 hours ago Thx for this article. My contractor called twice for a final inspection for EV charger and never got one. Frustrating for people trying to follow rules. Allen Akin Registered user Professorville 11 hours ago Good story. Based on my experience installing two PV systems with backup in Palo Alto, it's quite thorough and accurate. Here's hoping it helps motivate improvement in City personnel and processes. Neal Registered user Community Center 10 hours ago The permitting process is totally broken. It's not just about solar installations. I recently remodeled my kitchen and bathroom and had a unconditioned storage shed built in my back yard. Time and time again inspectors made unreasonable requests. The electrician had to deal with Rhonda Parkhurst and I totally agree with following comments made about inspector Rhonda Parkhurst. >In recent interviews, Coale was one of several contractors who singled out inspector Rhonda Parkhurst, a national expert in electric systems whose passion for imposing requirements that don't exist anywhere else has helped drive contractors out of the city. Some inspectors, Coale said, won't leave a job unless they find something wrong and make you fix it. Parkhurst, he said, seems to go out of her way to make things difficult for solar installers. (Several other contractors echoed that assessment.) Other inspectors are also over zealous and relish the power they have over the contractors and homeowners. When I protested a unreasonable $2,700.00 requirement to the head of the building department I was told he wasn't going to question the inspectors judgement. I whole heartedly agree with the following statement. >"The city stands by their people no matter what, to the end," Coale said. "There's no downside to the city if they make it more difficult for contractors, no downside if a contractor charges extra $2,500 for permitting. They don't get dinged in any way. I hope I never have to deal with the building department again. Rhodoreae Registered user Ventura 10 hours ago I concur with the statements expressed in this article. The solar permitting and especially inspection issues have been going on for many many years. Council needs require that Palo Alto's Development Center's performance should be modeled after the best jurisdictions in the Bay Area! Online Name Registered user Embarcadero Oaks/Leland 10 hours ago Love how Mr. Lait blames the problems on working remotely due to the pandemic for problems that pre- date the pandemic and go back years and often decades because systems apparently aren't tested before going live and the city doesn't communicate with its highly paid contractors like those administering the RPP program. Examples abound but a few include hundreds of people complaining about the parking permit renewal process, my old plumber trying for hours to file for the rebate for a new water heater -- does the city have a clue what plumbers cost with hourly rates WAY more than the promised rebate?? -- the password reset on city surveys, the roadwork/ construction alert app to help drivers avoid traffic backups in the obviously pre- pandemic era ... Weifeng Pan Registered user Midtown 10 hours ago My permitting process went smoothly and quickly earlier this year without me aware of anything because LA Solar handled it. jguislin Registered user Crescent Park 9 hours ago Great article that really just lays out the tip of the problem. We have multiple neighbors who are dealing with extensive delays because of Palo Alto's permitting office. It has discouraged us from installing solar at our home. Jonathan Lait says, "Rolling out solar energy in the city is a council priority," implying that our Council has coherent policies to achieve priority goals; that is a mischaracterization of what really occurs. Council should be suffering severe cognitive dissonance since much of what they say is contrary to the actions they take - reduce car traffic / build a new parking garage, discourage SOV commuting / reduce parking permit costs, etc. Leadership falters and we all pay the price. Solar Renegade Registered user another community 9 hours ago We purchased our solar panels privately and had them installed ourselves with no building permits or inept municipal bureaucracies to deal with. My brother is a building contractor in the Central Valley and along with his crew of undocumented workers, our panels were completely mounted and aligned with the grid within two days. We don't waste our time with City Hall and the City of PA has absolutely no knowledge or whereabouts of our doings. Just go rogue and thumb your nose at these useless paper pushers. Local Resident Registered user Duveneck/St. Francis 9 hours ago Gennady, great reporting and article! My electrical contractor (who is great) also reported having problems specifically with Palo Alto Building Permitting & Inspection and specifically cited Rhonda Parkhurst and her torque test. No other department on the peninsula does that. Please stop imposing requirements on contractors that none of the other jurisdictions around us have. Also, please dramatically improve the response times. commonsense Registered user Professorville 8 hours ago The building and planning departments have talked every few years about fixing their problems. It now takes almost two years to get a building permit for a new house. Planning is so unpredictable that it may add another year before you can even submit for the building permit. So far nobody has been willing to take this project on, fixing planning and building, and unless someone does, and has the full support of staff and the city council, the problems will persist and continue to worsen. Annie B Registered user Midtown 8 hours ago This is so spot on. We have had three different solar systems over the past 20 years, first panels, then battery backed up panels, then more efficient panels. We had to go through many contractors to find someone who would do it. Luckily Cobalt took us on. The requirements are completely over the top, and especially for a city that prides itself on being green. There is no reason it should be so onerous. The Building department is supposed to make sure that houses are safe so the insurance companies can count on our houses being up to code and not burning down and giving us better rates as a result. Instead, it's some weird power process where we are charged the maximum we can be, for poor service. Rhonda P did not provide ANY extra expertise, but instead cost us an extra twenty thousand dollars and 100 extra hours of labor by us and our contractors. For what benefit? She didn't understand basic electrical processes, and it in no way made our system any better then what we submitted. If you re going to be so onerous, at least you could add benefit. The documentation requirements were laughable if they weren't so time consuming. We also had to submit documentation on screws, tools, manuals... it's all over the counter stuff used all across the country. Twice she lost what she had and we had to resubmit. Ugh!!!! It made us completely lose faith in the building department. I miss Bud Starmer, former lead of the department. At least he had reasons for his careful rules and could articulate them. Bert Registered user Another Palo Alto neighborhood 8 hours ago Yep, this article seems to reflect the experiences of a lot of residents who have gone through the PV and/or energy storage process. My PV system was installed several years ago, and there must have been at least 3 rounds of inspections, with the "failures" being largely trivial things, like fixing the orientation of the "map" showing the house and location of various pieces, adding more labeling (the count is now 15+ separate bright red "caution" and description labels on the various pieces of equipment), etc. Three disconnect switches for PV and storage (not including the main breaker). Not to mention how long the inspection / re-inspection process takes. As a customer, it just takes a lot longer, and there are more visits by the contractors and for inspections - but in speaking with the contractors, they consistently talk about our "unique" requirements. Bystander Registered user Another Palo Alto neighborhood 8 hours ago We did a remodel about 10 years ago. Our contractors estimated 10 months to do the work. The remodel was completed in almost 2 years due to waiting for inspections and various other permitting problems. It was so bad that I doubt we will ever want to do any more home improvements. The City wants people to upgrade but makes it very difficult to do so. I have been told that some contractors are refusing to work in Palo Alto. This needs to be taken up with Council, although they will probably make it worse! Online Name Registered user Embarcadero Oaks/Leland 7 hours ago A friend who used to build one nice spec house a year for the last few decades refused to build again in PA after a horrible and costly experience with the PA Planning Dept and then concentrated on building in Los Altos, Menlo Park and Los Altos Hills instead. Consider Your Options. Registered user Another Palo Alto neighborhood 7 hours ago City Manager Shikada, everyone I know with a project is complaining about permitting and inspection difficulties. It got worse under Hillary Gitelman, and has since devolved into a management problem that needs your attention. My family tried to get an estimate for solar installation and some electrical upgrades for energy efficiency. The estimates were all were crazy high compared to what friends got in nearby towns because contractors said that they were planning for delays caused by Palo Alto Planning. We decided we couldn't afford the project at the "Palo Alto premium." Not everyone in our town is rich. In fact, many people are struggling to make ends meet. Mr. Shikada, good managers connect with the people who work for them at every level and they actively connect with customers to understand their perspective. Customer outreach and skilled staff management is needed here. The system is broken. Mr. Lait either does not prioritize or does not know how to fix these fundamental problems in the Planning Department. Some supervisory investigation and guidance appears to be required to fully understand the problems and find a path to fixing them. Please come down for your ivory tower and work the problem. Talk with some customers and contractors who have had problems. Talk with counter staff and inspectors to understand their perspective. Talk with Mr. Lait to understand his perspective and work out a solution. This really cannot continue. The present situation is awful for everyone. Garry Wyndham Registered user Midtown 6 hours ago My wife and I had been very keen to add an ADU to our property in midtown Palo Alto. She had been one of the last teachers able to live in our neighborhood. We imagined our ADU enabling a young teacher to live nearby. Then we recalled our prior experiences with the Palo Alto planning authorities. We concluded that life is too short for foolish and unnecessary bureaucratic grief. No ADU for us. Left of Boom Registered user Another Palo Alto neighborhood 6 hours ago It took SIX MONTHS to get permission to connect to the grid from Rhonda after our 3.3kwh system was complete. Palo Alto is one of the least green cities in the area because of this ridiculous process. Andrew Boone Registered user another community 6 hours ago It would be interesting to see just how far behind Palo Alto is falling on solar power compared to neighboring cities. 115 installations per year sounds like a very low number for a city the size and wealth of Palo Alto. Bring some data on installations in other cities to the City Council and perhaps they’ll change their anti-solar policies. Thank you David Coale for your long-term efforts advocating for sensible reforms. This type of work is super frustrating when the city is so unreasonable and so uncommitted to its own stated environmental goals. Bearded Solar User Registered user Old Palo Alto 5 hours ago Beard - I got so frustrated with the Palo Alto inspection situation that I decided to let my beard grow while waiting for inspection delays. I had a smallish system (14 panels) installed by a great contractor starting in late 2018. When the system was not finished by the estimated date (due to exactly what is described in the article - multiple City inspection issues), I decided to let my beard grow as a way of marking time (and my frustration). Several months of delay (and several thousand dollars of increased cost for me) resulted in a vigorous beard growth. (With pictures to document it!). I even remember personally calling some of the City of PA managers named in the article to see what the delays were being caused by. Luckily, my excellent contractor persisted and the job was eventually completed (in a new tax year…) and continues to do well (and charge my car) today. I heartily endorse the recommendations to change the ‘culture’ of that office - I remember concluding that they were seemed capricious and rather inept at the time but my system was complete and I moved on to other things. And, I finally shaved my beard when my solar system was done in 2019. (Pictures available on request.) Carol Scott Registered user Evergreen Park 5 hours ago Something must be wrong with the culture among City Staff. One would think that a City of this kind would create strong morale among the City staff based on a culture of excellence. It is fun to work around smart colleagues who get things done and are proud of being good at what they do. I wish we had that in our City. The sad part is that a lot of City staff I talk to would like to do a better job, but they are stymied by those above them in the hierarchy. Many would like to treat residents better, but the 'tone at the top' is that the City is controlled by a few large property owners and developers. All else is unimportant. So, the willing Staff are demoralized instead of energized to do their best work. As in any organization, the direction is set at the top -- from Council to City Manager to Senior Staff on down. Online Name Registered user Embarcadero Oaks/Leland 4 hours ago @Carol Scott, absolutely! It would be special for the highly paid City Manager to respond substantively on the city's their inability to manage programs like this and/or the RPP program that's generating so many posts on Next Door. It's especially timely now before they rush to "streamline" the now $98,000,000 Fiber-to-the-Home project AND/or embark on a new initiative for the community to talk to each other!! (as per #9 lon Monday's City Council agenda). Web Link While communicating with each other is ducky and something many of us have already mastered individually ans via neighborhood assns etc. -- it would be preferable to get Mr. Shikada and his direct reports to communicate WITH US in a forum where they actually responded to our questions. Thoughts? Too radical? Too soon? Too late? Mark Registered user Old Palo Alto 3 hours ago This article accurately reflects my experience. Palo Alto was responsive, reasonable and timely in permitting and inspections overall, except for the solar panel. It was very hard to convince the installer to agree to work in Palo Alto, and we did run into long response times for permits and inspections, as were required to undertake additional work. For example, we were required to have a structural engineer conduct and document wind shear calculations to confirm that the stand-downs, frame and panels would not fly off in a windstorm. Electrical panels are supposed to be torque set, so that is not in and of itself unreasonable. But, in speaking to several in the electrical trades, they felt that the mentioned inspector treats them on a demeaning way -- i.e., a hostile work environment -- so they don't want to work in Palo Alto and don't need to. Separately, I would urge the Palo Alto utility department to offer electrical usage meters that display clearly whether the solar panels on the roof are operating or not. (Sometime the inverters go offline.) It was easy to see which way the meter was spinning on the old meters. It is almost impossible to see via the digital ones Palo Alto spec'd. I would have thought that Palo Alto Utility would have specified meters that are designed specifically to display both street power and solar power clearly. (And, our billing should as well.) Anna Registered user Green Acres 2 hours ago This echoes an experience I had with a solar installation. 1000% agree that the city should outsource the entire permitting department. That my tax dollars fund such smug, inept, bureaucrats who's own agendas and power issues are legitimately impeding people trying to do the right thing and do some good for the planet is absolutely maddening. Would the council just take a straight vote on this? Do we need a ballot initiative? The latter sure sounds like a lot of work just to get out of a hole we shouldn't be standing in in the first place. >> Lait assured the commission that he is taking the report's recommendations and the contractors' comments "very seriously." Why am I not reassured by Mr. Lait's platitudes? In the private sector he'd be long fired before t. but to be fair he may be unable to purge his department of toxic actors so even if he wants results he cannot get them. Thanks for the article and please keep this in the public eye. Seer Registered user Greenmeadow on May 22, 2021 at 1:15 am The entire planning department and approval is a mess in Palo Alto. It's slow, they lost our plans, want everything in paper. Paper. But solar is the worst. We had to work with Cobalt because they're one of the few games in town and so they can charge lots for it. I mean substantially more expensive above and beyond the $2500 extra fee. Outsource of the department already It will be cheaper for both the city and the residence. Bob Wenzlau Registered user Crescent Park on May 22, 2021 at 7:42 am Correcting this approval process would do more toward the goals of our Sustainability / Climate Action Plan than scheming new goals and programs. We might have lofty goals, but if we have a broken process, we can never achieve to good work our community desires to achieve on climate. Bravo to David Coale for taking the risk to call this to our attention, and to the Weekly for investing the time to help the City move forward on climate. (An equivalent climate obstacle is the process of shifting from gas water heaters to heat-pump electric based water heaters. The "switch" to these heaters occurs when the old one breaks, yet the City can require up to 8 weeks to permit and inspect a replacement heat pump water heater - not a viable option when the heater is broken. The City needs to partner with their contractors to enable a switch that can occur in a manageable timeframe, otherwise we will never get off gas. Imagine the climate impact if 1,000 water heaters a year upon failure are replaced in Palo Alto by heat pump water heaters. A huge opportunity on climate progress we miss by precluding the switch due to our careful Palo Alto "process".) Chris C. Registered user Community Center on May 22, 2021 at 9:24 am I wish this was fixed. I want to upgrade the solar system on my house (add more panels), but I can't even get a contractor to quote me on it, let alone get to permitting. I can only assume this is because of a lack of contractors willing to work in our city (and the huge runaround our original contractor got when they installed the system I have...). Anonymous Registered user Charleston Meadows on May 22, 2021 at 10:56 am Rhonda Parkhurst wrote a manual called: Photovoltaic Power Systems for Inspectors & Plan Reviewers. When you literally write the book on how to do inspections, you probably hold yourself to a higher standard. People would do well to buy the book and follow it exactly. Then at least you can quote Rhonda back to Rhonda when she argues with you. Local Resident Registered user Community Center on May 22, 2021 at 11:48 am @Anonymous "Rhonda Parkhurst wrote a manual called: Photovoltaic Power Systems for Inspectors & Plan Reviewers." Actually that manual was written by John Wiles. Search Google or Amazon. A simple search shows she did not write a publication with that title or if she did then it is obscure. Me 2 Registered user Old Palo Alto on May 22, 2021 at 2:16 pm "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. " Steve Dabrowski Registered user Duveneck/St. Francis on May 22, 2021 at 6:00 pm Part of the issue stems from inspector's fears of being held responsible for anything going wrong after the work is approved. Many inspectors are called on to sign off on things that are beyond their expertise and to compensate resort to over the top requirements in order to feel safe. I recall an instance when my company was installing a microwave radio link in another city and an inspection was required on an antenna placed on an existing radio tower. This was a small dish antenna and a pipe mount attached to one of the tower legs using commercial components long common in the industry. I had scheduled the inspection and had driven about halfway to the site for the appointment when I got a call from the city inspector who informed me that I would have to get an engineering firm to certify the installation was done properly because he was not an expert. I replied that I had paid his city for the inspection and that I expected it to be done. He showed up and admitted he had gotten stuck with a job for which he had no knowledge. I showed him how it all went together and he checked the grounding and signed it off-but it just shows that permitting is little more than a cash cow for cities-it adds little value. In years past inspectors were willing to help by just pointing out issues that might go unnoticed, but power has gone to their heads. The city manager and the managers in the building department should be severely taken to task for this, but don't hold your breath. Online Name Registered user Embarcadero Oaks/Leland on May 22, 2021 at 7:08 pm "The city declined to make Parkhurst available for an interview for this article. Planning Director Jonathan Lait said he is unable to discuss personnel issues involving individual employees, though he noted that the city has recently made moves to reform and improve its inspection process. Under one recently adopted procedure, building inspectors now work in pairs — an approach that allows them to learn from each other and that aims to "reinforce a common approach to customer service."" 1) Why is Parkhurst still employed there? 2) What else could Mr. Lait possibly need to "manage" his employees? 3) How much does /will this double-teaming of staff cost applicants? 4) What does it take to make the city improve and hold them accountable -- lawsuits for the extra incurred costs? 5) Does Mr. Lait's boss Mr. Shikada have any comments? 6) What's City Council doing about this? Neal Registered user Community Center on May 24, 2021 at 6:40 am The question is......will the building department fire RP or will they circle the wagons? Banes Registered user Palo Alto Hills on May 24, 2021 at 11:24 am Alert! Warning Signs! Does anyone know where these over zealous inspectors came from? I will tell you first hand that there are some county’s & city inspectors where their entire departments are corrupted and takes bribes or you get no permit sign off. Little ever gets done because the Permit Resource management inspectors expect major bribes from the local contractors and homeowners. Sonoma County for well known for this practice. Don’t waste your time going to their Supervisors, they are probably getting their share also. Go to the elected County or City Supervisors. Collect stories through Social media, Nextdoor, FB or begin a searchable FB page for communicating these crimes of the permit inspectors. Once it gets out of control, there is no going back. Sonoma County is the most corrupt I have ever seen as their Supervisors and the county sheriff department are all part of it. They issue liens if you have not paid them off (But how do you ask what’s your bribe number right up front) after you have done everything possible to comply jumping through their hoops, getting expensive, unnecessary surveys they still harass you. They probably issued several thousand abatement liens during 2020, a worldwide no work year, rendering as many homes uninsured, un replaceable in wake of the next fire season (or floods) — For which they have no problem calling the federal government for financial assistance, Fema and the national guard routinely every year. Don’t let pristine Palo Alto turn into “Deliverance” Sonoma County. Don’t take this, start searchable social media pages. Ask Them right up front what their bribe cost is and make sure you have a recorder on you ha ha. It is very easy for them to turn corrupt when they are given God like unquestionable powers. Law suits are expensive and so are “experts” but communicating this before it goes entirely south is essential! DUI in Sonoma County? The sheriffs park in wait for visitors at wine events, Bystander Registered user Another Palo Alto neighborhood on May 24, 2021 at 12:12 pm Over the weekend I heard of one place that has been waiting for inspection/permit to be granted to upgrade and make more safe a children's play area. It is completely mind boggling that upgrading safety and outdated children's play areas are being prevented by red tape. Palo Alto, get your planning department sorted out! Online Name Registered user Embarcadero Oaks/Leland on May 24, 2021 at 12:14 pm How wonderful that Palo Alto can afford to double-team inspectors to cover up for a poorly performing staffer when we can't "afford" to open our libraries with a full schedule.(I just checked Rinconada hours and found it's totally closed THREE full days a week and only partially open the rest of the time and only open ONE evening a week and ONE weekend day. So much for working families!) I'd love to see a salary comparison of the librarians and the "Planning" Dept and the solar permitting team that have cost so many people so much time and money! I also wonder if they're slow-walking those permits to keep the CPAU's coffers full by delaying the transition to solar. The Facts Registered user Crescent Park on May 24, 2021 at 1:11 pm "Power Play. Adversarial. Extraordinary demands not in the Code. Etc." The neighboring City of Los Altos recently saw the following City agents dismissed the past couple+ years: City Manager Chris Jordan, Asst City Manager Jon Biggs, Building Official Kirk Ballard, Planning Directors David Kornfield and Zach Dahl, City Attorney Chris Diaz. That's just a start as there are several more that were fired. On Council former Mayor Jean Mordo was booted out as was Bruins, Prochnow, etc. Why? City agents engaged in power play tinged with racism, bigotry and such against a homeowner. The homeowner was prohibited from what was permitted in the Code, required to comply with extraordinary demands NOT in the Code and penalized for failure to comply immediately, etc. Meanwhile the City granted permits to (white) homeowners that were prohibited by the Code, approved fraudulent project plans misrepresenting setbacks, overlooked failures to comply with the Fire Code, and retaliated against those who filed complaints concerning those violations. All this was endorsed and approved by four (white) Council members and given legal cover by the City Attorney and his law firm, evidence of which is available via the City's own records and thus irrefutable. Add to that fraud on the Court committed by the City's officials abetted by the City's attorneys (all now former, having been terminated) to which the Building Official admitted: perjury, false testimony, fraudulent evidence, etc. A Federal Judge stripped the City Manager and Building Official of immunity. i.e., those two are now personally liable. At trial we can expect Mayor Mordo and former Council members and the former City Attorneys, including white homeowners that were part of this conspiracy, to be questioned and held to answer, under penalty of perjury. All it takes is for one person to stand up and hold the bad actors to account. And that is happening in Los Altos. When would it happen in Palo Alto? Or other cities? And as long as we don't do something these City officials and those we entrust to oversee them (i.e., Council members) would continue to operate with complete disregard for us and our rights. Craig Registered user Barron Park on May 24, 2021 at 6:32 pm The department was a nightmare, inventing requirements in 1992 when I did an addition. Two years ago when I put in an EV charger, permitting took hours of my time an weeks of delay. And, yes, there was the infamous torque requirement that’s unique to Palo Alto! I’m quite confident the electrician charged me more for the hassle. DTN Paul Registered user Downtown North on May 25, 2021 at 3:15 pm I have to agree with the commenter from Embarcadero Oaks/Leland who was commenting about the absurdity of having two inspectors do inspections together when the issue is that inspections take too long. I'm not a genius, but cutting capacity in half is rarely the answer for increasing throughput. Larry Registered user Downtown North on May 25, 2021 at 8:13 pm Sounds like we need to change the Planning Department staff and management compensation to minimum wage plus a hefty bonus for each completed project. That will change their culture overnight, guaranteed. David Registered user Crescent Park on May 26, 2021 at 7:05 am I am trying to reduce my energy consumption from the grid and decarbonize my house and cars. I feel like CPAU's renewable electricity program is not good enough since it ties into PG&E's grid which is supplied with mixed energy sources. While the city contributes clean energy and tries to do its part, this still feels like greenwashing to me. Accordingly, I was really excited to install solar panels to offset almost all of my electricity needs and Powerwall units to buffer my usage during peak hours. I was even willing to pay an energy premium even after taking the Federal solar tax credit into account. However, after waiting an entire year from when I signed with my solar installer and being stalled in the permitting process for 6+ months, I gave up and cancelled the project (and forfeited my deposit). Despite my desire to significantly reduce my emissions, I don't know if I have the stomach to try again here in Palo Alto. I would love to see statistics on how many solar permits are requested but end up being cancelled, rather than how many were approved. That would show how badly our permitting process is hurting the City Council's goal for an 80% reduction by 2030. The man Registered user Old Palo Alto on May 26, 2021 at 12:31 pm Speaking from Extensive Experience with the Building Dept There’s 2 basic kinds of Inspectors The inspectors that want to help and to try really hard to assure a great job is done and are not looking for excuses to fail or insist on work not legally required The inspectors that is always trying to prove that they are knowledgeable about being able to read the code book but have little or no actual real work experience on the work itself and want to fail so they can return again and again Unfortunately the inspectors are NOT liable for any inconvenience and or mistakes they make costing the contractor/homeowners more money when they do make mistakes and they do make mistakes requiring extra materials and labor not legally required by code It’s NOT their money they only make the following most inspectors make between $140,000 & $200,000 The man Registered user Old Palo Alto on May 26, 2021 at 10:42 pm Costing Taxpayers over $196,000 Last year RP Rhonda Parkhurst is just one example of How insane the Building Dept has become while the city is cutting our children Theater & library hours Wow I’m sure $200,000 could certainly provide better services to our children & replace her with outside contract inspectors several individuals have already expressed doubts about her in particular Why is she still on the payroll Just curious Seer Registered user Barron Park on May 27, 2021 at 1:20 pm I think I said before. The planning department lost our plans. Their attitude is "FU, your problem", so we replaced the plans and added a couple weeks while they trundled them through + more than a hundred dollars for new paper. Who cares right? Citizens have no power to complain because they'll stick it to you and we talked to the then-mayor -- he wouldn't touch the issue. During the pandemic, the city planner came up with the brilliant idea of cutting inspectors. Not only do we pay for inspectors by fees, pay extra via delays ... but the delays cause tax revenues to be lost. Brilliant! Solar is a whole other issue, but our over-regulated minded, slow and sloppy department increases the cost by thousands to tens of thousands of dollars. The department and city planner could give a rats arse. The city council is responsible for this. FIX IT! SKGFM Registered user Palo Verde on May 27, 2021 at 6:48 pm 100% agree with this article. I recently had Tesla Solar out and the guy told me the city has basically made it impossible to find a suitable location to put a Tesla Powerwall - has to be so many inches from a window, door, electric panel etc. Tesla told me they will not take on the project. The city is forcing us to burn more fossil fuels with these burdensome regulations. At least we have low electricity rates so let's just keep consuming those non renewable resources. Common Sense Speaks Registered user Another Palo Alto neighborhood on May 28, 2021 at 7:24 pm My Experience with inspectors is that they face pressure from industry and the "The Facts from Crescent" is a bully. As someone who has dealt with unscrupulous 1 to 10 level of 10 contractors, they all buck at following the minimal rules required to keep our county safe and homeowners safe. Just think of the homeowners who would have bought home unknowingly and/or trustingly over a wetland drained swamp with unstable soil and sea level rise. The rules are the minimum for safety: fire, earthquake.... They are doable. Loss of documents in underfunded departments happens. Guess what paying fair progressive equitable taxes means a better working government administration. They need to be held accountable but also be given the resources they need. Firing these people I hope was done hesitantly. Pursuing individual inspectors for liability is abusing the judicial system 90% of the time. Knowing how people in the penninsula can throw their money bag weight around - this is all shenanigans trying to get away with lower quality and safety in building. Other advanced countries have more rules. Which road the high road or the low road. GB all those who stand up to bullies esp the city inspectors, and elected officials. Chris brown Registered user Community Center on May 29, 2021 at 7:39 am I agree 100% with these comments. We had a furnace/AC unit installed and many contractors we contacted refused to bid in Palo Alto due to the city reputation for being difficult to work with. The citys poor reputation probably adds 10-20% to the cost of any construction project due to lesser amount of contractors willing to bid the project. The city was difficult on our project too. A garden variety furnace/AC installation, the wanted special fuses to be installed that were not required by the California building code. Resulted in a delay in the project which was a pain as it was cold in the winter and we had no heat for additional 5 days. The head of the inspection department should be fired for his poor customer service attitude. So should the City Councel. Online Name Registered user Embarcadero Oaks/Leland on May 29, 2021 at 10:42 am "The head of the inspection department should be fired for his poor customer service attitude. So should the City Councel." So should the City Manager and head of Planning. As for the City Council, it was the previous Council under former Mayor Liz Kniss who insisted that the present City Manager be the ONLY candidate interviewed AND that he be granted an extra year's salary, benefits and pension vesting if he were to be fired for cause or forced to resign under pressure. (Look it up!) With that kind of money on the table, he's got absolutely no incentive to perform well. In the Public Interest Solar Permitting In Palo Alto City of Palo Alto Follow May 28 ·7 min read Learn more about recent changes made and what’s in the works to streamline the process and increase customer service By Jonathan Lait, Palo Alto Planning and Development Services Director I take the recent concerns raised about the City of Palo Alto’s solar permitting processes seriously and through this communication, would like to both acknowledge several issues raised through a recent article and also directly to me, and share my commitment to customer service and safety as key areas of focus looking forward. Solar installations are an important aspect of the City’s overall focus on sustainability and addressing climate change. The City’s Utilities, Planning, Building and Fire departments have key roles implementing this priority. Together we are making changes to our permit and inspection procedures to streamline our review, offer consistent guidance, and balance our obligation to ensure these systems are installed safely while supporting the expansion of solar energy throughout the City. Below I share specific changes we have made and are working on to reaffirm our commitment to customer service and improve our solar permitting and inspection CI TY OF PALO ALTO efforts. I provide an email address where customers can connect with me directly on issues they are faced with or ask questions and lastly, offer a look forward on other areas of focus. RECENT CHANGES IMPLEMENTED, MORE TO COME Solar energy is a rapidly changing field and we are doing our best to keep up with technology despite declining budgets and reduced staff levels. The pandemic has exacerbated existing issues with our approach to permitting and our efforts to stand up a remote permitting operation, while largely successful, created new problems. Some of the problems included onerous requirements for applicants to ‘bookmark’ electronic plan sets. Another technical glitch resulted in some plans being relegated into a digital black hole where the application was not visible to staff. Though the bookmarking practice has since been abandoned and technical issue resolved, for many applicants this created significant delays and understandable frustration. We are making other changes to our permitting process and have recently reduced and recommitted to our plan review timelines for electrification-related permits, which include solar panels, energy storage systems, vehicle chargers, heat pump water heaters, and heat pump furnaces. Residential electrification permit applications filed today will receive an initial response from the City within 14 days and some within five days. Larger installations greater than 10kw or commercial installations are reviewed within 30 days. We have also improved our internal performance tracking of these permits to ensure we meet these targets. SHORTENING PERMITTING PROCESSING, INCREASING CONSISTENCY & MINIMIZING WAIT TIMES We have heard complaints about excessive resubmittals to obtain a building permit, which adds time and costs to solar permit processing. I agree, and here is how we will address this. For starters, we are offering virtual meetings with applicants and any City department that has outstanding corrections after the second resubmittal. The intent of these meetings is to shortcut further resubmittals and focus our efforts on building permit issuance, when feasible. Additionally, we are currently working on a consolidated plan review checklist for each residential and commercial electrification project type. This checklist will include requirements from each reviewing department and posted online so homeowners and contractors know in advance what is required to obtain an electrification permit. We will review these requirements and reference them to applicable State and local codes to verify what we are asking for is supported by a regulatory framework. A similar process is underway for our inspection program. Our aim with inspections is to clearly share with contractors what we are going to look at in the field. For installations that meet these basic minimum safety requirements, no further inspection will be required. A failed inspection will specifically focus on those items that did not pass. However, as a regulatory agency committed to public safety, our inspectors will continue to exercise their professional judgement when needed to address other obvious compliance deficiencies. We will continue to strive to balance the need for safety, quality craftsmanship and the efficient processing of these electrification permits. To improve consistency in our approach to inspections we are, for a limited duration, pairing up inspectors for technical cross training purposes and to reinforce a culture of professionalism and a commitment to customer service that reflects our shared interest to advance solar energy solutions in our community. Moreover, our building inspectors are now being trained by Utility and Fire department staff to verify compliance with certain residential solar projects to consolidate inspections and minimize the time a contractor needs to be onsite for these projects. For larger projects we are exploring opportunities to coordinate City inspection times for the same purpose of minimizing wait times. IMPLEMENTING STATE CODES & SURVEYING OTHER JURISDICTIONS Another complaint we hear is that Palo Alto has different requirements than other jurisdictions. All California jurisdictions are expected to follow the State’s International Building (Fire and Residential) Codes and Uniform Mechanical (Plumbing) Codes and National Electric Codes. Municipalities can adopt local amendments to the State codes and Palo Alto has done that in the past with its aggressive energy reach and green building codes. These amendments reflect local policy interests in the area of sustainability to reduce our carbon footprint. To the extent our local amendments are different from other jurisdictions in this regard reflects local policy direction. Palo Alto is also different from most jurisdictions in that it provides its own utility service where most properties within the City are not served by Pacific Gas & Electric. This comparison to PG&E, which does have different requirements for alternating current disconnects, it does present an opportunity for evaluation of our local requirements. The City’s Utility department is conducting a survey of other utility providers to better understand ways the City’s requirements differ. We intend to present those findings and make any recommendations to the City’s Utility Advisory Commission (UAC) on August 4, 2021. At the UAC meeting, we also intend to identify other locally unique regulations or policies and recommend possible changes to the City’s zoning regulations to facilitate the installation of electrification equipment. COMMITMENT TO IMPROVE Criticism that Palo Alto’s permitting and inspection services have driven away solar contractors and increased the cost to Palo Altans to install solar infrastructure is a significant concern. I am committed to improving these processes to facilitate the installation of all electrification equipment, including solar energy, vehicle charging stations, battery storage and heat pump installations. While the profit margin for some solar installers may be too low to work in Palo Alto due to the City’s lower user utility rates compared to PG&E, additional costs associated with protracted permit processing times and unpredictable inspection services are mitigable and should not be a barrier to those interested in doing work in the City. To those contractors who now decline work in Palo Alto, I encourage you to reconsider this decision and give us another chance to show our commitment to the industry and our commitment to the Palo Alto owners and occupants who we ultimately serve. While we have made progress implementing several changes, there remains much work still to do. We are in transition and working every day to improve our service delivery, ensure safe systems and streamline our processes. To help us achieve continued improvement, we are finalizing an online survey to gain real time service level feedback. In addition, I have set up a dedicated email address to answer questions about our program, the changes we are making and to follow-up on concerns regarding any active, pending or anticipated installation, including concerns about excessive inspections. Please email me at pdsdirector@cityofpaloalto.org. LOOKING FORWARD Until we are able to demonstrate improvement to our permitting and inspection process, our performance understandably will remain vulnerable to criticism. This does not mean however that we will compromise our integrity, accept poor quality construction or fail to inspect minimum safety or performance standards. This is a responsibility we ------------ have to our profession, Palo Altans, and installers doing work in this City. We can make changes to streamline our operations and also set reasonable expectations for contractors to perform at their best in Palo Alto. Feedback on our performance is an area we will continue to expand upon for all customer touchpoints and this information will be shared online. After we have established some of the changes noted above, we will reach out to solar contractors and others involved in electrification efforts to encourage their work in Palo Alto and we will review our performance and feedback regularly and adjust. We will continue to check in with the UAC through next Spring to report on our efforts, successes, and continued opportunities for improvement. Further, we have some upgrades to make to our website to centralize information online, including technical details that aid contractors in meeting certain requirements. We will explore technological solutions and applications that facilitate permitting and participate with regional entities focused on electrification efforts at the local level. In the nearer term, our permitting process will soon transition into a hybrid in-person and remote service offering customers a choice in how they want to engage with our permitting staff. We currently offer virtual appointments for application submittal, which based on early survey results, has been a positive experience for our users. We hope to expand this service. In closing, it is my goal to implement sustained reforms that make it clear what it takes to pull an electrification permit in Palo Alto, provide a measure of predictability in our inspection procedures and transparency in our performance to reach and maintain our review timelines. As we roll out new changes soon, I would appreciate hearing from the community and contractors working with us to learn how it is going. - Jonathan Lait Silicon Valley Construction Solar Climate Change Community About Help Legal Get the Medium app lilllii.... GET ITON I ,..... Google Play Palo Alto takes heat over solar permitting As contractors opt out, city looks to tame its unruly process by Gennady Sheyner / Palo Alto Weekly Uploaded: Fri, May 21, 2021, 6:59 am Barry Cinnamon is a true believer when it comes to solar power. For the past 20 years, his Campbell-based company, Cinnamon Energy Systems, has been installing solar panels and energy storage systems all over the Peninsula — with one notable exception. About 10 years ago, he decided to stop working in Palo Alto — stifled by the high costs and city's chronic permitting delays. "Palo Alto is so bad with solar permitting that every single reputable solar company has basically abandoned and refused to do solar and solar storage work in Palo Alto," Cinnamon told this news organization in a recent interview. "It's so expensive, time consuming and frustrating." He recalled the 2010 incident that made him throw in the towel. First, the city requested that he provide them with a printed installation manual for the solar inverter that his company was installing, even though it was available online. After he submitted one — and waited more than three weeks for a response — the city requested a specification for a bracket he would use to attach the inverter to the wall.He provided that and waited a few more weeks. Then he was asked to provide engineering drawings for the screws he would use to attach the bracket that affixes the inverter to the wall. Then more waiting. By the time Cinnamon was asked for specifications for the torque tool his company was using to drill in the screws for the bracket, he had accumulated a 5-inch-thick loose-leaf notebook of engineering plans and supporting documents. And he'd had enough. "I called the customer and said, 'We're done.' We walked away and gave the customer's deposit back," Cinnamon said. "We saw thatthis is never going to end." Cinnamon is hardly alone. Contractors and Palo Alto residents are awash with horror stories about the city's permitting process, whether for solar systems, generators or electric vehicle chargers. Some companies, like Cinnamon's, now stay away from Palo Altoaltogether. Others, like Cobalt Power, add a $2,500 surcharge when installing in Palo Alto, according to emails from the company that the Utilities Advisory Commission saw last month. "It's a shame because Palo Alto has so many residents who really care about the environment, are concerned about climate changeand want to do something to help," Cobalt CEO Mark Byington told this news organization in an email. Cobalt, he noted, has "hung in there" and continues to work in the city. There are people in Development Services who really care about what they do and try to serve the community, Byington said. "But other times personalities get in the way, and it seems to take on a life of its own, and becomes a power play or an adversarial situation," he said. While Palo Alto's permitting snafus are far from new, they have become more pronounced as more residents switch to electric vehicles, put up solar panels and install energy solar systems like Tesla's Powerwall — a trend that the city ostensibly encourages. The City Council's plan to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2030, with 1990 as the baseline, banks on widespread electrification of cars and buildings. The city's implementation plan includes the policy: "Increase energy resilience by assessing opportunities for local distributed energy resources, energy storage, microgrid installations, and home-to-grid." The goal, already viewed by many as aspirational, will be practically impossible if the cost of going electric remains prohibitively high for potential customers and area contractors. The Utilities Advisory Commission acknowledged that at its April 7 meeting when it discussed the city's permitting process and generally agreed that it needs to be reformed. "This issue does appear to be acute at this point," Chair Lisa Forssell said. "Taken specifically in light of the city's sustainability goals — 80x30, (with) electrification being a major component of that — it's really important to make it as streamlined as possible." Contractors and residents offer a variety of reasons for the delays: confusing rules; uniquely rigorous requirements; and inspectors whoseem to go out of their way to make the process as long and as painful as possible. Several contractors, including Cinnamon, speculate that the city has a financial incentive not to approve solar installations. Palo Alto, after all, owns its own municipal utility, which sells electricity to customers. More solar panels and energy storage systems, the thinkinggoes, means less reliance by local homeowners on the city's utilities. "I have to hand it to the city. It's commendable that electric rates in Palo Alto are cheaper than electric rates in PG&E. That's great. But the city makes money by selling electricity, and that money goes to support everything going on in the city," Cinnamon said. David Coale, a solar installer and board member in the advocacy group Carbon Free Palo Alto, thinks the issues have more do with City Hall culture. Coale has been advocating for reforms to Palo Alto's permitting process for nearly two decades. He suggested at the April 7 meeting of the utilities panel that it's time for the city to simply outsource permitting. The city, he said, has proven that it either doesn't want to — or can't — fix the problems. "It will be difficult to fix it with the same culture and same personnel that are still there," Coale said at the hearing. "And it's an ongoing problem. It's a proven problem that's long overdue to be fixed." In recent interviews, Coale was one of several contractors who singled out inspector Rhonda Parkhurst, a national expert in electric systems whose passion for imposing requirements that don't exist anywhere else has helped drive contractors out of the city. Some inspectors, Coale said, won't leave a job unless they find something wrong and make you fix it. Parkhurst, he said, seems to go out of her way to make things difficult for solar installers. (Several other contractors echoed that assessment.) "The torque test that they do on mechanical and electrical systems — no other jurisdiction does that. And if you have Rhonda as an inspector, she'll point at the most difficult panel to reach 100% of the time," Coale said. The city declined to make Parkhurst available for an interview for this article. Planning Director Jonathan Lait said he is unable to discuss personnel issues involving individual employees, though he noted that the city has recently made moves to reform and improve its inspection process. Under one recently adopted procedure, building inspectors now work in pairs — an approach that allows them to learn from each other and that aims to "reinforce a common approach to customer service." The city has also taken steps to improve coordination between inspectors from different departments. For smaller projects, a building inspector can now perform inspections that previously required separate visits from Development Services, Fire and Utilities. For larger and more complex ones, the departments are coordinating their visits to avoid having to perform inspections at different times of the day — a move that he said will save customers time. "We want to perform this work with a focus on customer service that is consistent, professional and respectful of our time and their time," Lait said. Lait also rejected any insinuation that the city's status as a seller of electricity creates an incentive for its inspectors to slow down solar panel installations. Delaying installations, he said, would run completely against the city's values and its focus on sustainability, he said. "Rolling out solar energy in the city is a council priority. It's a priority shared by Utilities and the Planning and Development Services departments, and we're committed to serving these efforts." But environmental activists like Coale, who is working with Palo Alto to help reform its permitting process, say the city has historically made it hard to even broach the subject of easing some of the existing requirements. "When you start, they immediately go to, 'You want us to make it more unsafe?' That's the type of conversations they hold. At one meeting I was called an arsonist — like I wanted to burn houses down," Coale said. That conversation, however, is starting to evolve. Last month, city staff and the Utilities Advisory Commission acknowledged that PaloAlto's requirements for solar installations are indeed tougher than they are elsewhere and that the city needs to reform — and speed up — its permitting process. There's little doubt, however, that the city's ownership of its utilities contributes to the permitting snags that customers often experience.Permit approvals in Palo Alto require coordination between the Development Services, Fire and Utilities departments, which until recently often entailed multiple inspections by representatives from the different departments. In addition to the building permit application, Palo Alto customers are required to submit an interconnection agreement with detailed information about the photovoltaic system for review by the Utilities Department. This review includes confirmation by Utilities that thesystem meets a long list of requirements, including the ability to shut off the power in each battery or powerwall and a dedicated disconnect system for the photovoltaic system — requirements that do not exist in neighboring jurisdictions. Don Jackson, who concluded his term on the Utilities Advisory Commission last week, compared the experience of installing a solarinstallation in Palo Alto and meeting all the interconnection requirements to refinancing a mortgage. At the April 7 discussion, Jackson urged the city to take a close look at these requirements and revise them so as to "optimize the cost of complexity of electrification projects." "We're really trying to push the envelope on electrification," Jackson said. "We have aggressive goals. We're trying to be a leader to theregion, to the rest of the state, to the rest of the country, and our interconnection requirements and code have to support that. ... We're really shooting ourselves and our residents in the feet here." For Jackson, the issue hits particularly close to home. In a recent interview, he recalled his own experience in looking for a contractor toinstall an electric storage system at his home. "When I went to bid, I had who I would consider to be a very qualified contractor in the area say, 'I'm not going to bid your job in Palo Alto because we don't serve Palo Alto,'" said Jackson, who was speaking as an individual and not as a representative of the commission. "They don't go into a lot of reasons why, but when you put that experience with what you've heard, it's easy to see whythey're saying that. There are easier places for them to do business and they prefer to do business in those areas." To be sure, customer experiences aren't uniformly bad. Permits to install small photovoltaic systems — up to 10 kilowatts — can be obtained quickly through an over-the-counter process. Larger and more complex systems, however, have to go through the "express" or "regular" process, with the latter reserved for more complex projects, including those that contain multiple systems (such as solar panels, electric vehicle charging stations and storage systems). And despite the procedural maze that contractors are often forced to run through, many residents remain committed to electrifying their homes, cars and appliances and to install solar panels. According to a report from TRC, a firm that the city commissioned to review its permitting process, the city approved 115 permits forphotovoltaic systems in 2020, up from 99 in 2019 and 100 in 2018. The report does not list the number of permits it has approved for electric storage systems, though Jackson estimated that there are about 20 such installations in Palo Alto. Nancy Cohen, a resident of Barron Park, said she was able to get through the permitting process for solar panels at her home in just afew weeks. The process was so easy that the only problem she had encountered with her system was when one of her grandchildren hit the GFCI button, which knocked off power. Cohen, who installed her panels in 2017, said enjoys both the environmental and economical benefits of generating electricity at her own home. "I go many months of the year with no electric bill," Cohen said. Jackson also noted that he had no problems with the city's permitting process when undertaking other projects — namely, installations of an electric HVAC unit and an electric water heater — but things became more opaque and difficult when he began to plan out his solar project, which includes panels and a storage system. Much of the difficulty, he said, stems from the fact that both solar panels and electric storage systems are relatively new technologies. The building code is "outmoded" and does not keep up with the latest advances, he suggested. "Rapidly evolving space is not something that building codes are optimized around," Jackson said in an interview. The report from TRC, which surveyed 13 county jurisdictions, largely supports the prevalent view that Palo Alto's permitting process is longer, more complex and more difficult than it is elsewhere. It includes a "pre-application" phase, which other cities lack, and a host ofrequirements that go "above and beyond neighboring jurisdictions," the report states. These include a dedicated AC disconnect for photovoltaic systems; separate shutoffs for photovoltaics and energy storage systems in projects that include both components; and a requirement that utility applications be submitted during the building permit process, even though key details of the new system — including size and specification — may not yet be finalized. The TRC report notes that the city's inspection checklists are also "longer than (in) other jurisdictions" and include requirements for a placard diagramming where all the shutoffs are located. The report concluded that while Palo Alto's "over-the-counter" process is comparable to that in other jurisdictions, it's timelines for both "express" and "regular" plan reviews are generally longer by comparison. Contractors who were interviewed by TRC "consistently reported that inspections for residential PV, EV charging, and ESS were excessively detailed and onerous compared to other jurisdictions, including requirements such as torquing all connections," the report states. "Because of those detailed inspection procedures, contractors also reported that the electrical inspector often splits inspections for PV systems into two separate visits (not counting re-inspection for correcting errors), contrary to the state mandates requiring a single inspection for small residential PV systems," the report states, alluding to Assembly Bill 2188, a 2014 law that requires a streamlined, over-the-counter process with a single inspection for solar installations with up to 10 kilowatts. (The law still provides for longer time-frames when larger systems are involved.) The pandemic has only worsened the city's permitting problems by forcing Development Services to close its counters and shift its services online, according to city staff and TRC. Removing face-to-face counter hours, the report noted, "inevitably slows the review process for some permit types and limits opportunities for collaboration and problem solving with customers, within the department, andwith other departments such as Utilities." Lait also suggested at the April 7 meeting that the pandemic has made the process more complicated. "For the kind of work we would've done in office, we have to do three times as much remotely," Lait said during the April 7 discussion. Now, in response to complaints from customers — some of whom had been trapped in the permitting system for six months or longer — and commissioners, the city is trying to avoid the pitfalls by encouraging more interactions between inspectors and contractors.Under a new procedure, the city now schedules virtual meetings with contractors whose applications require more than one submission, with the goal of resolving any snag early in the process. Lait said the city is also reviewing the plan-check requirements from all of the departments and will be posting them online so thatcontractors "will not get caught off guard." He acknowledged that better coordination between departments is key. Just recently, Lait said, he spoke to a contractor who was complaining about the fact that three different departments required him to include a disconnect on his system — which resulted in him having three disconnects. After a conversation that involved the chief building official and building inspectors, the city determined thatthe project actually requires just one disconnect, though another one may be needed in the future if the system is redesigned. "These are the kinds of things we're working out," Lait said. "We're at a place where we're not out of the woods yet, but over time — and not over a long period of time — I'd expect the system to be a lot smoother than it has been, certainly over the past year, but even better than it was before. Because we expect a lot more applications to come in." While COVID-19 exacerbated the city's permitting problems, numerous contractors have maintained that many of the issues — namely, the city's onerous requirements and rigid City Hall culture — precede the pandemic and will likely outlive it. The TRC report concluded that Development Services staff "lack clean guidance on plan review for new electrification technologies" and that Palo Alto's excessiveinspection practices fail to comply with the state's inspection mandates for photovoltaic systems. TRC recommended that the city "comply with state-mandated single inspection for PV systems and reduce the burden of electrical inspection by limiting the scope of the inspection to what is accessible at the time of inspection." It also urged the city to "eliminaterequirements that exceed code or ordinance requirements" and that the city "improve communications with customers and contractors by consolidating information documents in a more accessible location." Lait assured the commission that he is taking the report's recommendations and the contractors' comments "very seriously." He said he is working with the Utilities and Fire departments to eliminate the delays that continue to plague the process. He also pledged to talk tomanagers in the various departments about "what their responsibilities and authorities are" and suggested that recently hired inspectors will help address the cultural issues cited by Coale and others. "While I acknowledge we still have a lot of familiar faces that are part of our program for a number of years — we also have some newpeople who are engaged in this and are motivated to make some changes," Lait said. "I'm a little bit more optimistic, but I understand why others might not be, about our ability to make some changes in this regard." The Utilities Advisory Commission overwhelmingly agreed that the Palo Alto permitting process needs an overhaul, with numerous commissioners recommending that the city bring its requirements for photovoltaic systems into alignment with other cities'. Jacksonsuggested that the TRC report may have underplayed the city's permitting problems. "It's not in the best interest of contractors to criticize the Palo Alto planning department on the record," Jackson said. "The report, as decent and good as it is — it's pretty seriously underestimating the size of the issue here." Michael Danaher, who like Jackson concluded his commission tenure last week, recommended that the city "immediately suspend any requirements that aren't enforced by neighboring jurisdictions." The city, he said, should have "a high bar" for reinstating those requirements, or any new ones that aren't in place anywhere else. "We need a procedural way to counterbalance institutional tendencies to be extra cautious," Danaher said. Commissioner A.C. Johnston concurred and said the city should have a procedure for requiring the Utilities Department to "justify" anyrequirements that are not imposed by other jurisdictions. Commissioner Lauren Smith made a similar point. "If it's OK in nearby jurisdictions, it should be OK in Palo Alto," Smith said. "That mostly makes sense to me. There's no reason to think that safety is no more of a priority in other local communities." Lait committed to returning to the commission in about four months with a report about the progress the city has made in streamlining its permitting process. He also assured the commission that the city will address the "truly outrageous" turnaround times of four to five months that some customers have reportedly experienced over the past year. "If we're asking for requirements that go above and beyond state law, clearly there's an area there that we need to take a look at and see why we're doing that," Lait said. While Palo Alto is working to speed up its internal process, state legislators are also exploring ways to speed up permitting for solarinstallations across the Golden State — a key component in California's ambitious goal to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 40% by 2030, with 1990 as the baseline. Senate Bill 617, which is authored by State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would require cities and counties to establish online systems that instantaneously issue permits for solar energy systems no larger than 38.4 kilowatts. Under the proposed legislation, cities with populations of 50,000 and higher would need to adopt such platforms by Sept. 30, 2022. Wiener noted in a statement that numerous Bay Area cities, including Pleasant Hill and San Jose, already use online permitting forsolar installations. According to Wiener's office, San Jose has seen a 600% increase in approvals since it upgraded its permitting system in 2016. During an April 26 hearing of the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications, Wiener argued that SB 617 is above all "a climate bill" and suggested that automated permitting systems are needed to help California achieve its climate goals. "Currently only 10% of ratepayers have solar energy. That number needs to triple in the next decade if we expect to meet our clean energy goals," Wiener said before the committee voted 12-2 to support the legislation and forward it to the Appropriation Committee. Lait said that regardless of whether the bill passes or not, he is interested in having the city explore technology that speeds up the process. Conceptually, he said, doing online permitting for small projects is a good idea, provided that the system can address the city's safety concerns. "I think the idea of leveraging our permitting system in that manner is positive," Lait said. While the utilities commission lauded staff's ongoing push to speed up the process, neither Cinnamon nor Coale are entirely convincedthat these efforts will bear fruit any time soon. Last summer, Cinnamon returned to Palo Alto to perform a solar installation after a nearly decadelong hiatus to see if anything had changed. To his chagrin, the application was still making its way through city permitting as of last week. He compared the process to San Jose, where his company has completed entire installations within a week. Both San Jose and Saratoga, he said, take between two and three hours to approve a solar battery permit. All Palo Alto has to do if it wants to improve the situation is copy what those cities are doing. "I have very little confidence that this admirable (reform) effort will be successful," Cinnamon said. "Simplifying the process is somethingevery surrounding community has done. All they have to do is adopt best practices." Lait said the city is doing exactly that. Staff is now surveying other utilities to see what kinds of requirements they have for things like AC disconnects. Energy storage, he noted, "is a rapidly changing field," and the city wants to make sure that any new systems haveproper safeguards to ensure that they can be switched off when employees are checking meters or performing maintenance on its electric system. "We're doing our best to keep up with technology to make sure we have safe energy systems," Lait said. Some problems, he noted, had already been fixed. The TRC report cited Palo Alto's peculiar practice of requiring contractors to follow stringent formatting requirements when submitting documents, which includes bookmarking and indexing. Lait said that the city has already scuttled these requirements. Building officials are also looking at easing some zoning rules to encourage electrification, which may include relaxing setback requirements from property lines to allow electric storage systems and heat pump water heaters in side yards, Lait said. The city is also committing to getting things done faster, he said. Its newly adopted timelines call for completing small projects withintwo weeks and to get larger ones approved within 30 days. He encouraged contractors who face complications to email him (pdsdirector@cityofpaloalto.org). He also suggested that contractors who tried to apply during the pandemic and experienced massive delays try again. They will see that "it's a different story" now. "If it's not, then I've got a bigger problem," Lait added. Coale, for his part, believes that the city must improve the culture within the Development Services department as part of the reform process. Even if the city follows the commission's direction to require staff to "justify" Palo Alto-only requirements, expert inspectors willalways find ways to justify even the most useless requirements. To do otherwise, Coale said, would be to imply that employees had been wrong to impose those requirements. That, he suggested, is unlikely to happen at City Hall. "The city stands by their people no matter what, to the end," Coale said. "There's no downside to the city if they make it more difficult for contractors, no downside if a contractor charges extra $2,500 for permitting. They don't get dinged in any way. "The ding comes to contractors or installers and homeowners. They have to pay the price — in time and money." © 2021 Palo Alto Online. All rights reserved. Chancellor moves to fire UW-P whistleblower professor The Government Watchdog Education Energy First Amendment Health Care Nanny State Regulations State Government Technology California Solar Savings (http://watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir Solar activists wield hammer in city fixated on being greenest By Tori Richards  /   June 17, 2014  /   News  /   3 Comments Part 9 of 11 in the series SolarCity (http://watchdog.org/series/solarcity/) By Tori Richards | Watchdog.org The solar energy industry, led by billionaire Elon Musk’s SolarCity , has been dictating the building codes of a Silicon Valley city hell- bent on being the greenest city in America, a Watchdog investigati on has revealed. This was spurred on by the powerful solar lobby, which threatened to withhold a Green Power Conference award from a top Palo Alto city official unless something drastic was done to change its permit process, according to emails between city officials and the solar in- dustry. During the past six months, the city of Palo Alto has started signin Like 43   Ca ifornia l9Jatchdog.org Muc Ca Your Roof Save You? En Z, & Co f't 11'1tAa f"!n. In. anl-ar..r,..mvn,a nrn,~nl-ar !:1111111 rJ .. ID ~ Im ~ /1/files/2014/06/Musk-shrugging-AP100629118199_3.jpg) Elon Musk SOLARCITY RULES: Owner Elon Musk’s car company, Tesla, i s located in Palo Alto where the solar bloc dictated building code policy and who gets to inspect its panels. (http://watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir /1/files/2014/06/Palo-Alto-sign.jpg) THIS WAY TO HEAVEN: Palo Alto loves its reputation for clean and green g off on solar panel building inspections with lightning speed after removing an electrical expert from those duties and replacing her with an inspector with less expertise, a former employee said. All of this was done to placate the solar energy industry, which co mplained of cumbersome inspection processes. “Is this dangerous? Absolutely,” said Rick McManus, who worked as a Palo Alto building inspector before resigning in No- vember and going to work for the city of East Palo Alto. “It was such a disaster and they had so many complaints, they pull ed in another inspector.” McManus said the complaints came from other building department employees who felt the permits were just pushed throu gh with no thought, and even a few customers who said the critical onsite inspection lasted only a few minutes. Going green — recycling, solar, the whole eco-sensitive agenda —  is a kind of civil religion in Palo Alto. Five months ago, the city hi red a chief sustainability officer to lead that quest (http://transformgov.or g/en/Article/104003/Palo_Alto_CA_Names_First_Chief_Sustainability_Officer) . Th e City Council has adopted mandatory green building requirement s (http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/ds/green_building/default.asp) for new h omes and businesses regarding energy efficiency, landscaping and materials usage. And the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated it a Green Power Community (http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/communities/com‐ munities/paloaltocacommunity.htm) , meaning Palo Alto’s publicly owned electric utility emits zero carbon dioxide while some 5,000 homes and businesses here operate 100 percent on solar energy. You would think Palo Alto’s vision of a green utopia meant that e very home had a green light to install pricey solar energy systems. In fact, the opposite was true. Disgruntled solar companies were either charging customers inflated rates or refusing to work in Palo Alto altogether, clai ming the city’s solar building inspector was impossibly meticulous and created huge delays. “They had overly burdensome and unreasonable plan checks and inspections that were out of keeping with other jurisdictio ns,” said Mark Byington, founder of Cobalt Power Systems Inc., a leading solar provider in the San Francisco Bay area. “T hey were known far and wide as the most difficult jurisdiction. We had to charge more to work there.” SolarCity spokesman Jonathan Bass offered this: “Palo Alto was one of the most difficult solar-permitting environments in the country for many years. The entire local indu stry has been asking the city for years to reconsider its processes to streamline permitting requirements. Given that the state of California doesn’t even require a permit for an oil derrick, this seems like an extremely reasonable ask. “To the city’s credit, I think they honestly took a hard look at their processes and realized the problem was ‘systemic,’ as the (http://watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir /1/files/2014/06/Musk-at-Nasdaq-w-partners- AP214917535919_1.jpg) GREEN DOMINATION: SolarCity officers Peter Rive, Elon Mus k , Lyndon Rive at the New York Stock Exchange in 2012. SolarC ity is traded on NASDAQ (http://watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir /1/files/2014/06/Solar-Panels-shutterstock_145099798.jpg) NEW RELIGION: City leaders in Palo Alto want to win the title of greenest city in America y said in a recent article, and was unnecessarily preventing people fro m going solar, and they decided to make the process more straightfor- ward, to more closely resemble the process in many other cities and to wns in California,” Bass said. SolarCity grew to be one of the nation’s largest solar contractors on th e basis of an innovative business model — installation of pricey solar systems for little or no money down with a 20-year lease. The company has never earned a profit in its eight-year history, but ha s kept afloat with approximately $1 billion in state and federal subsidi es and tax incentives, SEC filings show (http://watchdog.org/133536/solarcity-l oses-166m/) . Those subsidies are scheduled to dramatically decrease, an d in two years may disappear altogether if a congressional bill is enact ed (http://watchdog.org/134336/solar-industry-faces-disaster/#sthash.yDWui2bf.dpbs) . A Watchdog investigation revealed (http://watchdog.org/130098/solarcity-horror -stories/) that SolarCity’s installation process is surrounded by criticism. A top-ranking building official in a neighboring coun ty declared, “SolarCity seems to be the biggest offender” among solar providers. You can fight city hall Situated 35 miles south of San Francisco near the bay, Palo Alto is prime real estate. It has been home for billionaire invent ors and entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Larry Page. With homes pushing a median of $1 milli on and family income median at $119,124 (http://www.city-data.com/city/Palo-Alto-California.html) , Palo Alto is one of the richest cities in America. It’s easy to see how 5,000 homes and businesses operate 100 perce nt on solar energy. The transformation of Palo Alto’s building department began at th e end of 2012, when Peter Pirnejad (https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?i d=96774830&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=5x75&locale=en_US&srchid= 545154841399324715816&srchindex=2&srchtotal=2&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&tr kInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A545154841399324715816%2CVSRPtargetId%3A9677483 0%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary) was hired to serve as director of Develop- ment Services. Pirnejad immediately took on the battle between his building inspe ction department and the solar-energy businesses that hated it. He created the Solar Photovoltaic Committee to get to the bottom of the complaints. Pirnejad said the committee included “homeowners, PV advocates, and a full range of installers to create online tools, forms, checklists, and flowcharts to help customers through the building permit process.” The committee worked to find ways to shorten the review process, then averaging 122 days. Ultimately, they’d slash the pro cess to five days. The committee included five solar contractors, the advocacy group Clean Coalition, an architect and a nationally renowned solar energy expert. “The stakeholders in this effort took great strides to ensure the process was fair, transparent and code-compliant,” Pirnejad s aid. “Meanwhile we improved the efficiency of our service-delivery model by posting information on the web and in hando uts, as well as having qualified inspectors at hand to assist our applicants.” It appeared Palo Alto’s new process was a success after just a few months. A June 3, 2013, city news release was turned int o an article on the consumer site SolarReviews (http://www.solarreviews.com/news/Palo-Alto-Streamlines-Permitting-Process-Solar-6-3-13/) her alding the achievements of the new, streamlined process. “The city has made impressive reforms in expediting … approvals ,” Kurt Newick, system designer with Cobalt Power Systems, was quoted as saying. But a month later, the solar energy bloc was upset again, their ire focused on a single building inspector. That inspector, Rho nda Parkhurst, is an electrical engineer widely regarded as among the nation’s best. President of the southwestern section of the International Association of Electrical Inspectors (http://iaeisw.com/about_us) and an i nstructor with the International Code Council (http://www.iccsafe.org/Education/Courses/Documents/2014-EduCode.pdf) , Parkhurst was m eticulous — maybe extremely meticulous — in her job as Palo Alto’s solar building inspector. “Sometimes she can be too picky. Sometimes she can drill it down to the most finite point,” said McManus, the East Palo Al to chief building official. He said he saw this firsthand while working with her as a building inspector in the city of Palo Alto before resigning in Nov ember. “Like the height of a disconnect handle is supposed to be 6-feet 7-inches, and in one case it was an inch too high. In another case, it was not the right attachment screw,” McManus said. “Whether the screw is brass or stainless steel, it still creates the same amount of bonding.” That sort of attention to detail frustrated solar rooftop installers. “First there is the plan check and then there is the inspection,” said Gary Gerber, founder of Sun Light & Power, a Berkeley- based solar provider. “We had to do it two or three times to get it through. We would follow the code and wouldn’t be gettin g our permits. It makes it impossible to do business.” The United States has a uniform electrical code that changes every thr ee years as technology evolves. It is partially written by John Wiles (htt p://solarprofessional.com/articles/industry-interviews/john-wiles-southwest-technology-de‐ velopment-institute) , arguably among of the nation’s leading electrical eng ineers and program manager at the Southwest Technology Developme nt Institute at New Mexico State University. Wiles said Parkhurst likely drew unwanted industry attention because (http://watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir /1/files/2014/06/Palo-Alto-greenery.jpg) PALO ALTO STREET: Typical of what you find in the San Franc isco-area dot com bastion installers have never seen anyone like her. “Rhonda Parkhurst is probably one of the top inspectors in the nation f or knowing codes and standards to be enforced,” Wiles said. “When s he asks those questions that no one else is asking, it slows things down because those contractors have never had to answer t hose questions” in other jurisdictions. Wiles, who said he followed the controversy in Palo Alto, said Parkhurst was “trying to protect public safety and contractor s hate that. It delays their contract. It delays their installation.” The solar industry has only been around about a decade. Wiles said he is starting to see power failures due to poor installati on by contractors who don’t keep up with the codes. “Rhonda holds them to a higher standard so people don’t get shocked, electrocuted or their house doesn’t burn down,” Wile s said. Despite Pirnejad’s best efforts to appease them with a streamlined inspection process, solar rooftop installers remained miff ed that Parkhurst remained on the job. She might be there still if not for that award. Palo Alto was on tap to receive the solar industry’s best collaboration award (http://esnews.wapa.gov/wordpress/category/events-funding -opportunities/) , an honor bestowed upon city officials who work well with industry. Pirnejad was also offered a high-profile gig, heading a panel discussion at the February Green Power Conference (http://www.gr eenpowerconferences.com/home/aboutus) in San Diego. Appearing at Green Power would be a marketing score for Pirnejad and the City of the Future, a global clearinghouse for gr een market intelligence and training organization with 27,500 members in 161 countries. Pirnejad attempted to plan the panel discussion with an email chain that included the solar industry lobby and contractors su ch as SolarCity. Then trouble emerged. David Coale, a board member at the Palo Alto-based healthy planet group Acterra (http://www.acterra.org/) , was first to lower the boom. “I would not want the (Palo Alto inspection) process to be upheld for others to see as a standard to be aimed for,” Coale wro te in a July 15, 2013, email. “At this time the Palo Alto PV process is not yet an award-winning process for others to follow. ” Bruce Gordon, owner of contractor Horizon Solar Power, chimed in with all caps, saying Parkhurst “is still on the same pro- gram . . . . She is still using the PALO ALTO CHECKLIST, which DOES NOT exist in any other jurisdiction.” Next, SolarCity operations manager Gregory Starke blasted Palo Alto’s efforts with a lengthy follow-up email. “We let Peter know that things were not changing in the trenches about one and a half months ago,” he wrote. “We have pre tty much given up here at SolarCity and will just continue to charge more for now, however there is discussion about pullin g out of Palo Alto entirely. We all know that one person is the main problem … “We all want quality and a safe installation … any and every detail that can be found will result in comments for rejection n o matter how minor … It is smoke and mirrors to give the illusion of progress,” Starke said. One of the groups included in the email discussion was Vote Solar, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing solar energy into the m ainstream by lobbying efforts. Its yearly fundraiser in February featured California Gov. Jerry Brown (http://www.renewableenerg yworld.com/rea/blog/post/2014/02/9-great-reasons-why-vote-solars-equinox-party-is-a-must-attend-for-anyone-in-solar) , a huge supporter of green e nergy. A few months after receiving the emails, Pirnejad removed Parkhurst from her duties involving solar installations. These days, plan checks are signed off immediately at a walk-in counter, McManus said, and site inspections are rushed thr ough. Pirnejad characterized the changes as business efficiencies. An inspector with less experience was handling the workload, b ut two months later another inspector with 20 years of experience was hired to handle the solar projects. When asked why he had to hire someone else when he had an expert in house, Pirnejad said, “I cannot comment on specific personnel.” The past six months have been happy times for the solar industry, as Palo Alto has been rapidly approving solar installations given that Parkhurst was reassigned. But one veteran building inspector who asked not to be named said painstaking review s protect the consumer from fire hazards and electrocution. “You have a huge amount of electricity flowing unchecked across a roof,” the inspector said. “If it’s not done correctly it co uld burn your house down. And I’ve seen a house with bad wiring where the entire roof became electrically charged during a rainstorm and could’ve electrocuted someone.” Apparently the solar lobby was placated. When Feb. 4-5 rolled around this year, Pirnejad traveled to San Diego to pick up h is award on behalf of Palo Alto. Only one industry provider contributed to the city news release trumpeting Palo Alto’s 2014 Best Solar Collaboration Awar d (http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/39289) at the Annual Solar Power Generation USA Congress in San Diego: S olarCity. “The City of Palo Alto deserves a tremendous amount of credit for listening to the needs of solar customers and making dire ct changes based on those needs,” said Jefferson Silver, senior commercial project manager for SolarCity. “Palo Alto has m ade the most dramatic improvements to its permitting process of any of the jurisdictions we work in.” Contact Tori Richards at tori@watchdog.org (mailto:tori@watchdog.org) and on twitter @newswriter2. Part 9 of 11 in the series SolarCity (http://watchdog.org/series/solarcity/) Click here to LEARN HOW TO STEAL OUR STUFF! Like 43   Tori Richards Tori formerly served as staff reporter for Watchdog.org. 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