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HomeMy Public PortalAbout20210614plCC701-32 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: 06/14/2021 Document dates: 05/26/2021 – 06/02/2021 Set 1 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, June 2, 2021 7:12 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: 21 Years After the Arrest of Dr. Wen Ho Lee, Asian American Scientists Still Find Themselves under Scrutiny | by Advancing Justice | AAJC | Advancing Justice | AAJC | Medium CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Neighbors and Friends,     Here is the first of five articles reporting on high level patriotic Americans citizens of Chinese descent wrongfully  investigated by missguided U.S.government policies and practices.    From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>  Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2021   Subject: 21 Years After the Arrest of Dr. Wen Ho Lee, Asian American Scientists Still Find Themselves under Scrutiny |   Source:  Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)  From: Allan Seid        https://medium.com/advancing‐justice‐aajc/21‐years‐after‐the‐arrest‐of‐dr‐6098b921589a  21 Years After the Arrest of Dr. Wen Ho Lee, Asian American Scientists Still Find Themselves under Scrutiny Advancing Justice | AAJC By Vivin Qiang 2 Today marks the day over two decades ago when Asian American scientist Dr. Wen Ho Lee became the target of racial scapegoating and profiling by his own country, and faced injustice as a result of a failure on all levels of government. On December 10, 1999, Dr. Lee was arrested and accused of providing nuclear secrets to the government of China. Despite lacking any evidence of economic espionage, Dr. Lee was jailed in solitary confinement for nine months without bail. Dr. Lee was only allowed to see his family for one hour every week, and was constantly shackled hand and foot, a different treatment from other prisoners at the Santa Fe jail. After a five-year investigation that involved polygraphs, interrogations, and even incarceration, the FBI did not find any evidence that Dr. Lee was a spy for the government of China. After 278 days of solitary confinement without bail, Dr. Lee was finally freed after the government’s case crumbled, lacking any merit and settled on a plea bargain for just one count of mishandling restricted data. In the aftermath, the government was heavily criticized for their handling of the case. To obtain the warrant to search Dr. Lee’s home, the FBI claimed that “Dr. Lee was more likely to have committed espionage for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because he was “overseas ethnic Chinese.”” One FBI witness even admitted that he gave inaccurate testimony to make Dr. Lee appear more deceptive. As a testament to the grave injustice done to Dr. Lee, U.S. District Judge James A. Parker apologized to Dr. Lee and harshly condemned the government’s prosecutorial tactics: “I believe you were terribly wronged by being held in custody pretrial in the Santa Fe County Detention Center under demeaning, unncessarily punitive conditions… Dr. Lee, I tell you with great sadness that I feel I was led astray last December by the executive branch of our government through its Department of Justice, by its Federal Bureau of Investigation and by its United States attorney for the district of New Mexico, who held the office at that time. I am sad for you and your family because of the way in which you were kept in custody while you were presumed under the law to be innocent of the charges the executive branch brought against you.” Although Dr. Lee was eventually released with the government finding no evidence of espionage, the scars of his nine months of solitary confinement, the widespread racial scapegoating from his own country, and the treatment by the United States government stayed with not only him but his family as well. 3 Dr. Wen Ho Lee’s case sparked conversations about racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies. In 1999, Robert S. Vrooman, the former head of counterintelligence at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Dr. Lee was formerly employed, said in an interview that Dr. Lee was unfairly singled out for Federal investigation because of his ethnicity. Vrooman said that ethnicity “was a key factor…There were 83 people who went to China” from the New Mexico weapons laboratory in the 1980’s, and that many Caucasians who had contact with the same people that Dr. Lee did were not investigated. Even the FBI’s former China espionage analyst admitted the presence of racial bias and profiling on Dr. Lee’s case stating that they “concentrate on ethnic Chinese.” Federal investigators who worked on Dr. Lee’s case were also criticized by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in a report on the China espionage investigation, stating that investigators had failed to review other possible suspects early on and focused instead on Dr. Lee, without providing compelling evidence to indicate that he should be the prime suspect of the investigation. Dr. Lee fought hard to maintain his innocence and won, but what he has gone through left detrimental impacts on his career, his personal life and the lives of his family. Now 21 years later, Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists, researchers, and scholars, particularly those of Chinese descent, are facing a resurgence of targeting based on their ethnicity by the government. As tensions have increased between the U.S. and China on trade in recent years, coupled with legitimate national security concerns about the Chinese government, Asian American scientists and researchers are once again being caught up in a broad sweep of investigations launched by the government. In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched the “China Initiative” for the purported purpose of combating Chinese economic espionage. Under the “China Initiative”, the federal government has essentially stated that all Asian American and immigrant scientists and researchers with any relationships to people in China are suspects. The FBI and the NIH have made communications to US universities indicating that people with connections to China could be spies. “Connections” include having a family member in China or visiting China for professional obligations or personal reasons. As a result, scientists and researchers who have historically been encouraged to participate in international research collaboration with other countries, including China, are now being discouraged to engage in the same research activities as other Americans. Federal prosecutors across the country are charging Asian Americans and Asian immigrants with federal crimes based on administrative errors or minor offenses such as failure to disclose in university 4 forms and other activities that are not normally treated as crimes under the pretext of combating economic espionage. The DOJ’s own press releases indicate that the government is investigating Asian scientists based on their ethnicity rather than investigating crimes that lead to perpetrators of economic espionage. As government agencies face increasing pressure to prosecute people under the “China Initiative”, many Asian Americans, despite never having engaged in espionage, are being targeted based on their ethnicity under the pretext of economic espionage, as in the case of Dr. Feng “Franklin” Tao. Dr. Tao’s prosecution along with that of other notable scientists such as Dr. Xiaoxing Xi, who was wrongly accused of espionage due to the FBI’s limited understanding of technology, and Sherry Chen, who faced a false statement charge after the FBI’s failure to find any evidence of espionage, reveal that racial bias exists in the investigation, charging, and prosecution of Asian Americans and immigrants. Just like what happened to Dr. Lee over 20 years ago, the Asian American community is still treated as “perpetual foreigners” — reflected by our country’s long history of suspicion against Asian Americans that resulted in the Japanese incarceration, as well as the racial and religious profiling of Arab Middle Eastern Muslim and South Asian communities after 9/11. Government agencies are still choosing to rely on gross generalizations and racial profiling tactics over facts and evidence on their search for suspects, leaving Asian Americans and immigrants in constant fear that their careers and lives can be upended at any moment. In response to the increased concern and heightened fear from community members, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC launched the Anti‐Racial Profiling Project that offers educational resources and legal referrals for those impacted by the government’s targeting and profiling of Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists, researchers, and scholars. Vivin Qiang is the Program Coordinator of the Anti‐Racial Profiling Project at Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC. 5 Baumb, Nelly From:Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 4:16 PM To:Lait, Jonathan Cc:Clerk, City; Council, City; Planning Commission; Architectural Review Board; 'Tina Chow'; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com Subject:RE: Planning Dept.'s failure to inform public re cell tower applications Dear Jonathan, Thank you for your response. As I read your letter, I believe you are confusing pro forma compliance with statutory transparency requirements—e.g., sending what amounts to bulk mail to the “Occupant” of residences within 600 feet of a proposed cell tower—with the actual principle of transparency, a principle that is a cornerstone of democracy.   It was in the interest of true transparency that Palo Alto, like many other cities, established a Wireless Hot Topics website—a website Staff was meant to keep up-to-date and to further support by sending email alerts to residents who’d signed up to be notified when up-dates were posted. But close to two years ago, City Manager Shikada instructed Staff to stop maintaining the Wireless Hot Topics website, even though 1) cell towers are, as you know, an important issue to a great many residents, 2) new cell tower applications are being submitted all the time, and 3) these applications must be turned around within a relatively short time frame. In response to specific points in your email, I would like to point out that: 1. While there are, as you note, project websites that residents can access which include some of the information about cell tower applications that residents seek, these sites are not kept up-to-date. To pick one example: On the Planning Department’s project website there is no record that the applications for the project you approved on May 25th were ever deemed complete. In other words, the first a resident checking your department’s website would have learned that the set of applications resubmitted on April 27th were deemed complete was after you approved them. Moreover, residents checking only Building Eye would still not know today, June 1st, that you had approved the project—this despite the fact that a 14 day appeals clock started ticking seven days ago. (Perhaps you are unaware of these problems. If so, I would be happy to send you the copies I made of the website pages so you can see what I’m referencing.) 2. Building Eye, which is intended to provide alerts to employees and residents regarding development projects, still doesn’t work for residents, not with respect to cell tower projects.   3. As your letter acknowledges, you and your colleagues in the Planning Department are, from my regular emails on behalf of United Neighbors, well aware that I repeatedly asked to be kept updated on the status of cell tower applications. Indeed, Staff assured me that I would be, and the last time I wrote to remind you of my interest was on April 15, 2021. Yet, when twelve days later the application you subsequently approved was resubmitted and then deemed complete, no one in your Department chose to let me know. It is difficult for United Neighbors not to 6 conclude that, rather than keeping us up-to-date, as had been promised, your Department chose to keep us in the dark.  4. For the first time ever, a Palo Alto Planning Director chose to approve a set of cell tower applications without first submitting them to the Architectural Review Board (ARB) for their recommendation. How is it possible that no one in the Planning Department thought interested residents might like to know, before the project was approved, that you were in the process of unilaterally approving a set of applications without the input—and without the open-to-the-public hearings—of the ARB?   5. In your email, you say your decision wasn’t made in haste. Yet you a) deemed the resubmitted set of applications complete and b) approved them, all within twenty business days of receiving the resubmitted applications. That seems hasty to me … plus it was unnecessary given the number of days on the shot clock. In closing, I’d like to call your attention to a theme that comes through loud and clear throughout your email, namely: your complete lack of interest in soliciting the views of residents before you made a decision, even though residents have been actively engaged for the past five years in establishing Palo Alto’s cell tower policy. Indeed, I fear it never occurred to you, not only that residents might like to know what was going on before their only option was to appeal your decision, but also that Palo Alto’s Director of Planning ought to know—and ought to want to know—what residents are thinking before making a decision of the magnitude of this one. Sincerely, Jeanne   Jeanne Fleming, PhD JFleming@Metricus.net 650-325-5151     From: Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>   Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2021 6:57 PM  To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>  Cc: chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com; City Mgr <CityMgr@cityofpaloalto.org>  Subject: RE: Planning Dept.'s failure to inform public re cell tower applications     Ms. Fleming,     Thank you for your email. I’d like to share a different perspective. Since this application was filed one year ago, our staff  has sent nearly 5,000 mailed notices to owners and occupants within 600 feet of these three wireless facilities with our  last mailing occurring one month ago. We have updated and maintained a project website with access to project plans  and contact information to the project planner. Our staff helped troubleshoot your technical problems accessing the  City’s application platform (BuildingEye) and responded to your many emails. And, as you have noted, you received a  copy of the decision letter, which was also shared with the school district. All of these actions go beyond the municipal  code requirements for application processing, which we have also complied with, and include site posting, mailed  notification when an application is filed and when a decision is made, and an applicant‐sponsored community meeting.   7   To succinctly answer your question, there is no statutory requirement to provide additional notification when a project  is deemed complete. I appreciate from your email that you would have preferred notice when the project status  changed and will explore options to inform you accordingly for future wireless applications.     I am sorry that you find our outreach efforts unsatisfactory. I disagree with the suggestion that our efforts represent an  egregious lack of transparency or that the decision was made in haste. I believe the administrative record suggests  otherwise. If you disagree with the administrative decision that has been made, you may file an appeal.     Sincerely,     Jonathan      JONATHAN LAIT   Director  Planning and Development Services  (650) 329‐2679 | jonathan.lait@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org                         From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>   Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 6:32 PM  To: Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Clerk, City <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission  <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org>; Architectural Review Board <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;  chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com  Subject: Planning Dept.'s failure to inform public re cell tower applications     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Jonathan, Earlier today I received an email from the Planning Department’s Amy French informing me that you have approved three new small cell node wireless installations in Palo Alto. (Ms. French’s email is appended below.) As you can imagine, residents have many questions about the process you employed in approving these installations and about the basis for your decisions. But for the time being, I would very much appreciate it if you would answer just one question: Why didn’t you inform the public when the Planning Department deemed the applications for these facilities complete—that is, reveal to residents weeks ago that the applications were now under active consideration by the Planning Department for approval? • 8 This would have afforded residents the opportunity to review the completed applications ourselves and make our views known to you, to City Council and to the Architectural Review Board—an opportunity that is a core City of Palo Alto policy and value. Instead, only now, after the fact, are residents being told 1) that you have approved, at breakneck speed, applications no one knew had even been deemed complete, and 2) that residents’ only option is to pay a $600 plus fee and—within fourteen days, no less—file an appeal of your decision. As you know, I have repeatedly asked to be kept informed about wireless installation applications, including this set. And the last I was told about this set is that it was deemed incomplete. That was in February, 2021. (Ever since City Manager Shikada made the decision not to keep the Wireless Hot Topics updated, information provided directly by your department has been the only realistic way for residents to keep abreast of the status of cell tower applications.) Please understand that my question—namely, why were residents not told weeks ago that these applications had been deemed complete?—is not rhetorical. I, and many others, would like you to explain this egregious lack of transparency, a lack of transparency which has had the effect of cutting residents out of the cell tower approval process. Sincerely, Jeanne   Jeanne Fleming, PhD JFleming@Metricus.net 650-325-5151       From: French, Amy <Amy.French@CityofPaloAlto.org>   Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 10:42 AM  To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>  Cc: Sauls, Garrett <Garrett.Sauls@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Atkinson, Rebecca <Rebecca.Atkinson@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: City of Palo Alto: Tentative Approval of a Wireless Antenna Approval    Hello Ms. Fleming,  Please see link below to latest Tentative Approvals of three nodes.      https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/planning‐amp‐development‐services/new‐development‐ projects/wireless‐projects/20pln‐00118/20pln‐00118‐vinculums‐cluster‐4‐decision‐letter.pdf.     The letter includes information on how an interested party may appeal this decision to the City Council. If an appeal is  filed, it is anticipated it would occur on Tuesday, June 22, 2021.          9 Baumb, Nelly From:Jeff Levinsky <jeff@levinsky.org> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 1:22 PM To:DSFNA Cc:Council, City Subject:Nipping Fireworks in the Bud CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Below is a letter sent today by the Crescent Park Neighborhood Association to the city. You can email the City Council yourself directly at city.council@cityofpaloalto.org,    From: crescent-park-pa@googlegroups.com [mailto:crescent-park-pa@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of TC Rindfleisch Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2021 12:03 PM To: Palo Alto City Council; City Manager; PAPD Non-Emergency Cc: CPNA Subject: [CPNA] Nipping Fireworks in the Bud Dear City of Palo Alto Leaders, On behalf of members of the Crescent Park Neighborhood Association, we ask that City security personnel be as vigilant as possible to prevent the outbreak of fireworks events in the coming month as we approach the July 4th celebrations. Based on the frequent, annoying, and dangerous fireworks explosions we have had around this time in previous years, and with the opening up of society after COVID-19 constraints, it is likely that people will be extra anxious to let off steam this year. We have already begun to hear late night fireworks detonations. For example, this past Memorial Day weekend, I recorded four 90-100 dB events in about 15 minutes just after midnight Sunday morning, with a sound monitor in my backyard that I use to track aircraft overflight sounds (see below). There were five other events around 3:00 AM that night that were farther away and less loud. I'm afraid this is just a prelude to what will happen the next month... We realize that tracking down these highly mobile and secretive events is difficult, but we will appreciate your efforts to keep things under control. Thanks for your consideration and best regards, Tom Rindfleisch Crescent Park Neighborhood Association 10 -- BU~INE$S; (;LARK COMIVUNICATICN5 INSTRUMENT 10: 1 SSl / Name : RindAeisch-d 8-A-2 / Model; NSRrw_m<3 I SEt'ial number. CPi•Dd2Yd2fAPC681..xvD flllltu-1\t'S TIM~ :0- -o7HOO Gotopoitrut ZQl21-1a,oa.mz,~3002,,o 11 Baumb, Nelly From:TC Rindfleisch <tcr@stanford.edu> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:03 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr; Police Cc:CPNA Subject:Nipping Fireworks in the Bud CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City of Palo Alto Leaders,  On behalf of members of the Crescent Park Neighborhood Association, we ask that City security personnel be as vigilant  as possible to prevent the outbreak of fireworks events in the coming month as we approach the July 4th celebrations.  Based on the frequent, annoying, and dangerous fireworks explosions we have had around this time in previous years,  and with the opening up of society after COVID‐19 constraints, it is likely that people will be extra anxious to let off  steam this year. We have already begun to hear late night fireworks detonations. For example, this past Memorial Day  weekend, I recorded four 90‐100 dB events in about 15 minutes just after midnight Sunday morning, with a sound  monitor in my backyard that I use to track aircraft overflight sounds (see below). There were five other events around  3:00 AM that night that were farther away and less loud. I'm afraid this is just a prelude to what will happen the next  month...  We realize that tracking down these highly mobile and secretive events is difficult, but we will appreciate your efforts to  keep things under control.  Thanks for your consideration and best regards, Tom Rindfleisch  Crescent Park Neighborhood Association  12 BUSINESS: CLARK COMMUNICATIONS INSTRUMENT ID: 1552 /Name : Rindfleisch-dB-A-2 / Model : NSR1W_mk3 / Serial number: CPj+Dd2Ye%2fALPC68LxvD Instrument's Time Zone: Go to points: -07HOO 2021-05-29 18,00-2021-05-30 02,00 B 13 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, May 28, 2021 3:23 PM To:Honky Subject:President Trump's Latest Interview CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear Neighbors and Friends,     I will be forwarding to you over the next week about a dozen news articles relating to prejudicial, discriminatory and  wrongful actions against top Chinese‐American Scientists employed for years at our  U.S.Universities. Flawed FBI  investigations influenced by xenophobia, racism and poor governmental policies destroyed the careers of invaluable  Americans of Chinese/Asian descent protecting and advancing our nation.    Allan Seid    From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>  Date: Wed, May 28, 2021     Subject: 21 Years After the Arrest of Dr. Wen Ho Lee, Asian American Scientists Still Find Themselves under Scrutiny.    https://medium.com/advancing‐justice‐aajc/21‐years‐after‐the‐arrest‐of‐dr‐6098b921589a  21 Years After the Arrest of Dr. Wen Ho Lee, Asian American Scientists Still Find Themselves under Scrutiny Advancing Justice | AAJC By Vivin Qiang 20 Today marks the day over two decades ago when Asian American scientist Dr. Wen Ho Lee became the target of racial scapegoating and profiling by his own country, and faced injustice as a result of a failure on all levels of government. On December 10, 1999, Dr. Lee was arrested and accused of providing nuclear secrets to the government of China. Despite lacking any evidence of economic espionage, Dr. Lee was jailed in solitary confinement for nine months without bail. Dr. Lee was only allowed to see his family for one hour every week, and was constantly shackled hand and foot, a different treatment from other prisoners at the Santa Fe jail. After a five-year investigation that involved polygraphs, interrogations, and even incarceration, the FBI did not find any evidence that Dr. Lee was a spy for the government of China. After 278 days of solitary confinement without bail, Dr. Lee was finally freed after the government’s case crumbled, lacking any merit and settled on a plea bargain for just one count of mishandling restricted data. In the aftermath, the government was heavily criticized for their handling of the case. To obtain the warrant to search Dr. Lee’s home, the FBI claimed that “Dr. Lee was more likely to have committed espionage for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because he was “overseas ethnic Chinese.”” One FBI witness even admitted that he gave inaccurate testimony to make Dr. Lee appear more deceptive. As a testament to the grave injustice done to Dr. Lee, U.S. District Judge James A. Parker apologized to Dr. Lee and harshly condemned the government’s prosecutorial tactics: “I believe you were terribly wronged by being held in custody pretrial in the Santa Fe County Detention Center under demeaning, unncessarily punitive conditions… Dr. Lee, I tell you with great sadness that I feel I was led astray last December by the executive branch of our government through its Department of Justice, by its Federal Bureau of Investigation and by its United States attorney for the district of New Mexico, who held the office at that time. I am sad for you and your family because of the way in which you were kept in custody while you were presumed under the law to be innocent of the charges the executive branch brought against you.” Although Dr. Lee was eventually released with the government finding no evidence of espionage, the scars of his nine months of solitary confinement, the widespread racial scapegoating from his own country, and the treatment by the United States government stayed with not only him but his family as well. 21 Dr. Wen Ho Lee’s case sparked conversations about racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies. In 1999, Robert S. Vrooman, the former head of counterintelligence at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Dr. Lee was formerly employed, said in an interview that Dr. Lee was unfairly singled out for Federal investigation because of his ethnicity. Vrooman said that ethnicity “was a key factor…There were 83 people who went to China” from the New Mexico weapons laboratory in the 1980’s, and that many Caucasians who had contact with the same people that Dr. Lee did were not investigated. Even the FBI’s former China espionage analyst admitted the presence of racial bias and profiling on Dr. Lee’s case stating that they “concentrate on ethnic Chinese.” Federal investigators who worked on Dr. Lee’s case were also criticized by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in a report on the China espionage investigation, stating that investigators had failed to review other possible suspects early on and focused instead on Dr. Lee, without providing compelling evidence to indicate that he should be the prime suspect of the investigation. Dr. Lee fought hard to maintain his innocence and won, but what he has gone through left detrimental impacts on his career, his personal life and the lives of his family. Now 21 years later, Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists, researchers, and scholars, particularly those of Chinese descent, are facing a resurgence of targeting based on their ethnicity by the government. As tensions have increased between the U.S. and China on trade in recent years, coupled with legitimate national security concerns about the Chinese government, Asian American scientists and researchers are once again being caught up in a broad sweep of investigations launched by the government. In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched the “China Initiative” for the purported purpose of combating Chinese economic espionage. Under the “China Initiative”, the federal government has essentially stated that all Asian American and immigrant scientists and researchers with any relationships to people in China are suspects. The FBI and the NIH have made communications to US universities indicating that people with connections to China could be spies. “Connections” include having a family member in China or visiting China for professional obligations or personal reasons. As a result, scientists and researchers who have historically been encouraged to participate in international research collaboration with other countries, including China, are now being discouraged to engage in the same research activities as other Americans. Federal prosecutors across the country are charging Asian Americans and Asian immigrants with federal crimes based on administrative errors or minor offenses such as failure to disclose in university 22 forms and other activities that are not normally treated as crimes under the pretext of combating economic espionage. The DOJ’s own press releases indicate that the government is investigating Asian scientists based on their ethnicity rather than investigating crimes that lead to perpetrators of economic espionage. As government agencies face increasing pressure to prosecute people under the “China Initiative”, many Asian Americans, despite never having engaged in espionage, are being targeted based on their ethnicity under the pretext of economic espionage, as in the case of Dr. Feng “Franklin” Tao. Dr. Tao’s prosecution along with that of other notable scientists such as Dr. Xiaoxing Xi, who was wrongly accused of espionage due to the FBI’s limited understanding of technology, and Sherry Chen, who faced a false statement charge after the FBI’s failure to find any evidence of espionage, reveal that racial bias exists in the investigation, charging, and prosecution of Asian Americans and immigrants. Just like what happened to Dr. Lee over 20 years ago, the Asian American community is still treated as “perpetual foreigners” — reflected by our country’s long history of suspicion against Asian Americans that resulted in the Japanese incarceration, as well as the racial and religious profiling of Arab Middle Eastern Muslim and South Asian communities after 9/11. Government agencies are still choosing to rely on gross generalizations and racial profiling tactics over facts and evidence on their search for suspects, leaving Asian Americans and immigrants in constant fear that their careers and lives can be upended at any moment. In response to the increased concern and heightened fear from community members, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC launched the Anti‐Racial Profiling Project that offers educational resources and legal referrals for those impacted by the government’s targeting and profiling of Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists, researchers, and scholars. Vivin Qiang is the Program Coordinator of the Anti‐Racial Profiling Project at Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC. 23 Baumb, Nelly From:julianneasla@sonic.net Sent:Wednesday, June 2, 2021 9:43 AM To:'michal shalon'; 'Qin Iris Wang' Cc:'Dan Feldman'; 'Elaine Andersen'; 'Rita Vrhel'; Council, City; City Mgr; Police; 'TC Rindfleisch'; 'CPNA' Subject:RE: [CPNA] Nipping Fireworks in the Bud CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi all We live across from E. Pardee Park and I will try to be better at calling the police when our local rebel rousers set off fireworks there. One of our dogs is terrified by the noise/booms and we lose sleep. Julianne   From: crescent‐park‐pa@googlegroups.com <crescent‐park‐pa@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of michal shalon  Sent: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 8:04 AM  To: Qin Iris Wang <qiniriswang@gmail.com>  Cc: Dan Feldman <dfeldman@dfeldman.com>; Elaine Andersen <elaine.a@onemail.com>; Rita Vrhel  <ritavrhel@sbcglobal.net>; Palo Alto City Council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; City Manager  <citymgr@cityofpaloalto.org>; PAPD Non‐Emergency <pd@cityofpaloalto.org>; TC Rindfleisch <tcr@stanford.edu>;  CPNA <crescent‐park‐pa@googlegroups.com>  Subject: Re: [CPNA] Nipping Fireworks in the Bud    I add my voice to the choir. Aside from us humans being woken in the middle of the night which is beyond annoying, my  dog suffers nightly from the noise and by 7 pm she is hiding under the clothes in the closet in fear. It affects all of us as  we love our dog  and want her companionship. It takes months to get her over her anticipatory fear every night, and  then it all starts again. It really affects the value of this location as people will start moving away if it doesn't stop, myself  included.     Michal Shalon  155 Island    On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 12:59 AM Qin Iris Wang <qiniriswang@gmail.com> wrote:  I fully support all the points mentioned here. During the past memorial weekend, my 3‐year old  son was woken up by  the loud explosion noise around midnight a few times. When he asked me what sound was that, I told him it was  fireworks... hopefully some action can be taken to stop this craziness    Iris  Sent from my iPhone    On Jun 1, 2021, at 8:40 PM, Dan Feldman <dfeldman@dfeldman.com> wrote:    24 I completely agree and support all these points. Those of us  living next to the San Franquito Creek might remember the fire  started in the Creek some years ago.    Apparently, the city of Seaside has solved the problem, though  implementing such a program with three neighboring cities  involved would be tough; still,some ideas to think about.  https://www.ci.seaside.ca.us/649/Illegal‐Fireworks‐ Enforcement    Dan    On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:27 PM Elaine Andersen <elaine.a@onemail.com> wrote:  We agree with all the points made below. The fireworks are dangerous, interrupt sleep, and send our  dogs into a total panic.  It would seem that a coordinated effort with neighboring cities to curtail these would be very wise.  Elaine & Dudley Andersen    Sent from my iPhone    On Jun 1, 2021, at 3:19 PM, Rita Vrhel <ritavrhel@sbcglobal.net> wrote:    I support Tom's letter and request. The last week has been marked by loud noise and explosions; unsure if they were firecrackers or bullets. Has sounded like what I imagine to be similiar to a war zone. Last year was unacceptable to most Palo Alto and East Palo Alto residents; constant loud explosions. With the area so dry and fire danger so great I remain concerned for unintended consequences. This activity is almost impossible to pin point and stop but something must be done. Maybe working with East Palo Alto's City Council and Police, instituting an educational program and offering rewards for information regarding offenders could help? This issue is likley to be a multi-year problem so best to start now. Only when these activities are deemed "uncool" and unacceptable will they decrease. Thank you so much. Rita C. Vrhel Phone: 650-325-2298 25 On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, 12:03:00 PM PDT, TC Rindfleisch <tcr@stanford.edu> wrote: Dear City of Palo Alto Leaders, On behalf of members of the Crescent Park Neighborhood Association, we ask that City security personnel be as vigilant as possible to prevent the outbreak of fireworks events in the coming month as we approach the July 4th celebrations. Based on the frequent, annoying, and dangerous fireworks explosions we have had around this time in previous years, and with the opening up of society after COVID-19 constraints, it is likely that people will be extra anxious to let off steam this year. We have already begun to hear late night fireworks detonations. For example, this past Memorial Day weekend, I recorded four 90-100 dB events in about 15 minutes just after midnight Sunday morning, with a sound monitor in my backyard that I use to track aircraft overflight sounds (see below). There were five other events around 3:00 AM that night that were farther away and less loud. I'm afraid this is just a prelude to what will happen the next month... We realize that tracking down these highly mobile and secretive events is difficult, but we will appreciate your efforts to keep things under control. Thanks for your consideration and best regards, Tom Rindfleisch Crescent Park Neighborhood Association <image (12).png> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crescent Park PA" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to crescent-park-pa+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    What’s it going to take to solve this multi‐year, multi‐month public safety crime, that violates the law and basic  community standards?     Why can’t the city or others step up their efforts to address this before it elevates and escalates into even a greater  problem than it is?    For instance,    1‐ Can patrol cars or volunteers park at strategic locations to spot these person(s) doing this?    2‐ Can technology be used to photograph or narrow down the location with sound technology?    3‐ Should a neighborhood meeting be called, such as at the Duveneck Elementary School auditorium to share thoughts,  brainstorm ideas and learn more?    4‐ Can funds be used to purchase the fireworks from legal sources to limit the supply to the wrong persons?    5‐ Can a better coordinated effort be made between cities and counties to address this?    6‐ Nationally what are the best practices in mitigating this annual illegal activity?    7‐ Can drones be used to spot those doing this?    8‐ Are the same people doing this each year or are new people doing it?    9‐ Are stepped up penalties created by some jurisdictions making any difference at all, such as those recently passed by  the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors?    10‐ How many fires and injuries are there as a result of the fireworks and perhaps gun shots?    I’m sure question # 11 ‐ 100 could easily be made if necessary. In the meantime it would be great for the benefit of  children, adults and pets if more could be done.    ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐      On Jun 2, 2021, at 8:10 AM, Dan Feldman <dfeldman@dfeldman.com> wrote:  28 Amen, Michal!  Dan    ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐       On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 8:03 AM michal shalon <michalshalon@gmail.com> wrote:  I add my voice to the choir. Aside from us humans being woken in the middle of the night which is  beyond annoying, my dog suffers nightly from the noise and by 7 pm she is hiding under the clothes in  the closet in fear. It affects all of us as we love our dog  and want her companionship. It takes months  to get her over her anticipatory fear every night, and then it all starts again. It really affects the value of  this location as people will start moving away if it doesn't stop, myself included.      Michal Shalon  155 Island    ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐      On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 12:59 AM Qin Iris Wang <qiniriswang@gmail.com> wrote:  I fully support all the points mentioned here. During the past memorial weekend, my 3‐year old  son  was woken up by the loud explosion noise around midnight a few times. When he asked me what  sound was that, I told him it was fireworks... hopefully some action can be taken to stop this craziness     Iris  ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐       On Jun 1, 2021, at 8:40 PM, Dan Feldman <dfeldman@dfeldman.com> wrote:  I completely agree and support all these points.  Those of us living next to the San Franquito Creek  might remember the fire started in the Creek some  years ago.    Apparently, the city of Seaside has solved the  problem, though implementing such a program with  three neighboring cities involved would be tough;  still,some ideas to think about.  https://www.ci.seaside.ca.us/649/Illegal‐Fireworks‐ Enforcement    29 Dan    Daniel Feldman, MD, PhD  555 Bryant Street, #260  Palo Alto, CA 94301  Phone 650‐326‐4353  Fax 650‐649‐2888    ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐  ‐ ‐ ‐      On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:27 PM Elaine Andersen <elaine.a@onemail.com> wrote:  We agree with all the points made below. The fireworks are dangerous, interrupt  sleep, and send our dogs into a total panic.   It would seem that a coordinated effort with neighboring cities to curtail these would  be very wise.  Elaine & Dudley Andersen    ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐       On Jun 1, 2021, at 3:19 PM, Rita Vrhel <ritavrhel@sbcglobal.net>  wrote:  I support Tom's letter and request. The last week has been marked by loud noise and explosions; unsure if they were firecrackers or bullets. Has sounded like what I imagine to be similiar to a war zone. Last year was unacceptable to most Palo Alto and East Palo Alto residents; constant loud explosions. With the area so dry and fire danger so great I remain concerned for unintended consequences. This activity is almost impossible to pin point and stop but something must be done. Maybe working with East Palo Alto's City Council and Police, instituting an educational program and offering rewards for information regarding offenders could help? This issue is likley to be a multi-year problem so best to start now. Only when these activities are deemed "uncool" and unacceptable will they decrease. Thank you so much. Rita C. Vrhel Phone: 650-325-2298 11 30 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐     On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, 12:03:00 PM PDT, TC Rindfleisch <tcr@stanford.edu> wrote: Dear City of Palo Alto Leaders, On behalf of members of the Crescent Park Neighborhood Association, we ask that City security personnel be as vigilant as possible to prevent the outbreak of fireworks events in the coming month as we approach the July 4th celebrations. Based on the frequent, annoying, and dangerous fireworks explosions we have had around this time in previous years, and with the opening up of society after COVID-19 constraints, it is likely that people will be extra anxious to let off steam this year. We have already begun to hear late night fireworks detonations. For example, this past Memorial Day weekend, I recorded four 90-100 dB events in about 15 minutes just after midnight Sunday morning, with a sound monitor in my backyard that I use to track aircraft overflight sounds (see below). There were five other events around 3:00 AM that night that were farther away and less loud. I'm afraid this is just a prelude to what will happen the next month... We realize that tracking down these highly mobile and secretive events is difficult, but we will appreciate your efforts to keep things under control. Thanks for your consideration and best regards, Tom Rindfleisch Crescent Park Neighborhood Association 31 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 2, 2021 8:43 AM To:Tanaka, Greg; Council, City; Rebecca Eisenberg; Human Relations Commission; Planning Commission; Roberta Ahlquist; chuck jagoda; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; winter dellenbach; Greer Stone; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Joe Simitian; mark weiss; city.council@menlopark.org; ParkRec Commission; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com Subject:California commission to study reparations CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Follow the link below to view the article.  https://mercurynews‐ca‐app.newsmemory.com/?publink=65b51629b_1345dce      Sent from my iPhone  32 Baumb, Nelly From:Amber Rose <amber.rose@expoleadsretrieval.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 2, 2021 7:15 AM To:Council, City Subject:RE: Increase your buyers - The Fit Expo CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      Hi,     Hoping that you had a chance to review my previous email.    May I send Cost and Count details for the list?    Best regards,  Amber    From: Amber Rose   Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 11:25 AM  To: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org  Subject: Increase your buyers ‐ The Fit Expo     Hello, nice to meet you!    I hope you are doing great!    Are you interested in get direct contact information The Fit Expo 2021 database?    Job titles:‐   Consumers   Personal trainers   Instructors   Distributors   Gym and store owners    Each record in the list contains ‐ First Name, Last name, Company Name, Job Title, Phone Number, Email Address,   Company Website, LinkedIn Profile etc...,    Please let me know your thoughts? so that I can send you the number of contacts available and the pricing for it.    Thank you,  Amber Rose / Global Marketing  USA & EUROPE    33 Baumb, Nelly From:Faraaz Chekeni <fchekeni@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 2, 2021 7:08 AM To:Council, City Subject:Concern about parking permits CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi,  I recently relocated to Palo Alto, and have been particularly frustrated by the lack of service in the transportation  department. For weeks now, we have been trying to get a parking permit for our in‐home child care provider, but we  have been told too many times that there is a high volume of requests and there is no way to service our permit request  in‐person. I am disappointed that the City of Palo Alto has chosen to enforce parking regulations while it is unable to  handle simple requests for parking permits. I appreciate the hard work that everyone in the City is doing and I definitely  understand the challenges presented by the COVID‐19 pandemic, but this is simply unacceptable. Palo Alto should either  consider hiring contract workers to help with the backlog or should revisit their decision to enforce parking permit  regulations.  Thank you for considering my feedback.  Faraaz Chekeni  34 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Wednesday, June 2, 2021 1:56 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; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; Steven Feinstein; 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; sanchezphilip21 @gmail.com; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; lalws4@gmail.com Subject:Fwd: Dr. Campbell- "Vaccination rates in the US are really not where we would like to see.." 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 10:26 PM  Subject: Dr. Campbell‐ "Vaccination rates in the US are really not where we would like to see.."  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                  Tues. June 1, 2021              On Monday, May 31, 2021 Dr. Campbell in the UK                 He discusses cases of the India variant in the UK.  Especially at risk are those with no vax or with only one dose.                                  He says he told them to halt flights in from India and they would not act.                                Opening up scheduled for 21 June will not happen now in the UK due to the spread of the India variant there.                 He discusses the Viet Nam variant.  A new variant has emerged in Viet Nam.                      Concerns from Vietnam ‐ YouTube                 Spain is not anywhere as far ahead as the UK and US. King Philipe just got his first shot (!). I'm way ahead of the  King‐  LH                Dr. Campbell:    "The Viet Nam variant has the worst characteristics of the UK and the India variants. It is the most  transmissible variant that has arisen so far".  Highly contagious. If it escapes, it could become the dominant variant in  the world.    35                Good report in a vid from Australia at the end. Love her accent. People now queing up there to get vaccinated.  Complacency is gone.                 L. William Harding             Fresno, Ca.      36 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Wednesday, June 2, 2021 1:43 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; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; Steven Feinstein; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; 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; sanchezphilip21 @gmail.com Subject:Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 8:25 PM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:46 PM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 2:16 PM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, May 31, 2021 at 1:24 AM  37 Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, May 31, 2021 at 1:17 AM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, May 31, 2021 at 1:09 AM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, May 31, 2021 at 12:36 AM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, May 30, 2021 at 9:33 PM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, May 30, 2021 at 9:12 PM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, May 30, 2021 at 8:53 PM  38 Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, May 30, 2021 at 3:19 PM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, May 30, 2021 at 3:04 PM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, May 30, 2021 at 4:55 AM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, May 30, 2021 at 4:49 AM  Subject: Fwd: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, May 30, 2021 at 4:13 AM  Subject: Cities Americans are abandoning the most: LOTS covered. ERS leave, so do people  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                 Sunday, May 30, 2021    39          To all‐   This is very interesting, if you are an American. I recommend this to Mayors and City Councils especially.  Cities that people are leaving and why. Crime, endless shootings, drugs dealing and drug addiction, poverty,  homelessness, no jobs, lousy schools are big items. No doubt tough winters too. I'll bet pot‐hole filled streets and a high  and ever rising sales tax are reasons too.  High State income taxes, as in California, cause people to leave too. Big  employers move to Mexico and China and the city goes to hell. What a surprise. Then add that our federal government  consists of a Nazi regime determined to ruin the lives of white men, and people seek greener pastures  Then, with all of  the things we need, Americans are bled white so we can spend $2 billion per day to defend ourselves AND all of Europe,  Japan, S. Korea, and more. We make certain that those people, the people who count, can live the good life and don't  have to fight any wars. We fight them for them. Biden's Sect. of Defense went over to NATO and told them that the US  will not be withdrawing any of its thousands of troops from Germany. A cheer went up across Europe. You saw that on  DW and BBC. Trump had told them to start paying their fair share of the cost of NATO.                You will be glad you watched this. It is well done and shows what the US has become in very many places: In the  comments after the video, someone said "I live in a poor area of Eastern Europe, but I'll stay here after seeing how so  many places look in the US".   LH‐ Notice that you will not see this on American networks, which serve as jockstraps for  our government. This would make a good "Frontline", but you won't see it there.  What we do see on the networks are  the well‐dressed people inside the beltway, often mouthing inanities. They get their rich salaries whether they say, or  do, anything beneficial for the American people. You do not see on the networks the depth to which thousands of  American communities have sunk.                   Here are the cities Americans are abandoning the most ‐ YouTube              They did not mention Fresno. They will if the rich Republicans here succeed in stopping HSR. HSR Fresno to even  "just"  Diridon Station in San Jose will make a HUGE difference to Fresno: A 45‐min. ride on a luxurious train. Home  prices in Fresno will triple when that connection is in sight. CHSRA  needs $8 billion to do Fresno to San Jose. If you can  tell a potential buyer of your home that in a few more years he can get Fresno to San Jose in 45 minutes, your home will  be worth more. He can then walk across the platform at Diridon and take CalTrain to San Franisco. Try that in a little  town in Ohio.  hsr.ca.gov.                One huge factor that dooms cities is horrific crime, and Fresno sure has that. Endless shootings now. Seems like it  has worsened in the past 5 years. Parts of the Bay Area are plagued with it too, Oakland, e.g.                   Just for the fun of it, here are the worst places to live in the United States in 2021:                           The WORST Places You Can Live in the United States in 2021 ‐ YouTube              Elko, Nevada and towns in Ohio and Tenn. and Kansas can't build a train that will get their people to Silicon Valley  in 45 minutes. But we CAN. But people like Kevin McCarthy herniate themselves trying to deny HSR to the people of  California. I have suggested that he should be returned to Bakersfield to resume his career digging potatos. That is the  one talent he seems to have in abundance.                 I  notice that due to some court decision, our sales tax is about to go up in Fresno, a sure way to keep decent  people here. We got a big hit in our vehicle license fee and a big hit in our gas tax, all for streets and roads in California.  But, in one of the mysteries of the sea, it's a slow process getting the streets repaired in Fresno. I'd favor a State audit to  see what Fresno does with the money.            Re a sales tax hike, the sales tax is the most regressive of taxes. It falls hardest on those least able to pay. Rich  Republicans don't care about some small percentage of the cost of items they buy here. Instead of a sales tax hike, we  should adopt a City income tax in Fresno. Have every taxpayer submit his 1040 to the City each year. The City would  then impose a graduated City income tax on those with an AGI higher than, say, $100,000.  That would cause the  wealthy citizens of Fresno living in enormous homes north of Herdon Ave. to start to pay their fair share. To raise the  40 sales tax in Fresno is just a blatant demonstration of the contempt the people who own Fresno have for the people who  make them rich. We are a bunch of scum to be exploited at every turn. Well, read some history.            Valentine Ave. is a minefield of potholes northbound between Logan Park and W. Browning. East on W. Browning  from Valentine there are a couple of bad potholes. Go north to take Valentine up to Bullard, and you have to dodge a  couple of long‐standing potholes just short of Bullard on Valentine. They repaved Bullard from Marks clear east to  Blackstone seveal years ago and that was a Godsend. Recently, they repaved Shaw eastbound from Fruit to Blackstone,  denying the tire and suspension shops a lot of business. So some work does get done. Take Willow, which swings west  and joins Chestnut as one goes south past FYI, and go on south. Just north of E. Kings Canyon the street, for a couple of  blocks, would not be tolerated in any third world country, at least as it was a year ago.                            I get my dental care, entertainment, dining, whenever possible in the Bay Area. Some clothing, like  Stanford alumni T‐shirts too.                  Wait till ever more highly educated white American men move to Germany, where the Nazis are out of power.  The US will be in trouble when that happens. Munchen is already a big American tech center. Intel, Apple, Nvidia,  Microsoft, Google, IBM, Cicso, Qualcomm, Amazon, HP, Oracle, Adobe, Red Hat all have big ops there.                                     See  Silicon Valley in Europe | Why Apple building Silicon Design Center in Munich? ‐ YouTube   That is an  eye‐opener. Don't miss it. I just subscribed to her YouTube channel:  Anastasi in Tech.  Those are American companies  getting out from under the Nazi employment laws of the United States government. And that, BTW, is how a LOT of  Germans speak Inglish. Dass ist wie viele Deutsche Inglish sprechen. They take it in school, apparently a requirement.  Neat, because you can learn German from them since they speak English.  I went. Ich ging. No other way to say that. Ich  ging. The verb is gehen‐ to go. First person, past tense.               I notice that Anastasi is not a German. She says she is taking a course to improve her German.                  Deutsch ist schwer zu lernen, aber nicht unmoglich. Wenn Mann lebt da, es kommt schnell. If Edward Teller and  Wehner Von Braun got fliessend auf Inglish, educated Americans can learn Deutsch. I think Teller was a Hungarian.  Imagine speaking the Hungarian language all your life and then coming here and learning English, but he did it. At least  he cound‐can sit and discuss something in English.  Deutsch can be tricky. We have the article "a" in English. A cat. But in  German, it is ein, einer, einen, eines, eine, einem. OMG. It's Die Katze, feminine noun, so it's eine Katze, not ein  Katze.  And a new cat would have to be eine neue Katze. One slip and they'll correct you.  I've always thought that it  must be easier to come from German to English than to go from English to Deutsch.               You'll pay more for electronics in Germany, but the prices do include tax. This is from December, 2017:                      We Visited a Tech Store in Germany ‐ YouTube    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Photo by Brian Feinzimer/SIPA USA via AP Images | Sierra Magazine | Racial Justice Is Environmental Justice "Whether in Minneapolis, New Orleans, Chicago, or Standing Rock, communities that are overpoliced are also the same communities that are overburdened by toxic pollution,” says Leslie Fields, the Sierra Club’s National Director of Policy, Advocacy, and Legal. “Those communities are suffering from a syndemic—many epidemics happening all at once—as they grapple with the threat multiplier of racial injustice.” Learn how the Sierra Club is reimagining public safety amid syndemics. 42 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Read more! Photo courtesy of Jessica Dean | Pride Month | Celebration and Resistance Pride Month is a time of celebration and resistance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and other LGBTQI+ people. This Pride Month, we're uplifting stories from LGBTQI+ community leaders, Sierra Club staff and volunteers, and partner organizations to remember our history, celebrate the individuals and advocates in this space, and learn about the work that remains to be done. Read more. To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.RSVP! | RSVP: Livestream | Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit From June 2 to 4, the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth US will be hosting a Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit to bring together activists from around the world. This summit will feature grassroots leaders from 17 countries who will discuss climate and energy access issues in their communities and their demands for the Biden administration. 0 0 43 Take a look at our agenda and join the virtual summit. To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Read more! Photo courtesy of the White House | Michael Brune | Iconic Ford Pickups Going Electric “Ford holds an important place in our economy and our collective imagination,” says Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune. “That's why it was such a big deal when the company unveiled a new all- electric version of its pickup, the F-150 Lightning, to be manufactured using union labor. As an archetypal American automaker, Ford could spark a major shift in public perception of electric vehicles." Read all about it. 44 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Sign up! Photo by iStock.com/Pheelings Media | Take Action | No Time to Think Small Right now, President Biden and Congress are negotiating the details of the upcoming infrastructure plan—a bold, sweeping proposal to invest in critical infrastructure, address the climate crisis and racial injustice, and create family-sustaining jobs. Their decisions will decide how trillions of dollars are spent, and will shape our society and economy for decades to come. Let’s fill congressional mailboxes with letters saying now is not the time to scale down our ambition—it's time to go all in. Sign up to write a letter to your members of Congress. To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Read more! Photo by iStock.com/Halfpoint | Article | Anxious? Burned Out? Ready to Let Out a Primal Scream? Working to end the climate crisis can be a joyful process. But it can also take a big toll on your mental health. To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month this May, we asked Sierra Club staff to share the tools, practices, and sources of inspiration they use to take 45 care of their mental health while fighting the climate crisis. Here’s what they recommend. To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Read more! Photo by Justin McAffee | Article | Memories of My Father "I was raised by a wise and kind man who taught me about our place in time and on this planet, and our role in it all,” reflects Christian Gerlach, an organizer for the Sierra Club’s Our Wild America campaign. “I learned at a young age that we borrow resources from future generations, and for that reason we need to be good stewards of the land." Learn how Gerlach honors his father’s legacy by protecting public lands. 46 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Take action! 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Fifteen states have passed bills criminalizing environmental protests since 2017, and according to the American Civil Liberties Union, nearly 100 anti-protest 47 bills were introduced in 36 states in the past year alone. Learn how Republicans are cracking down on environmental and Indigenous-led protest. To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Read more! Photo by iStock.com/Elenathewise | Sierra Magazine | Meet Six Species That Need Federal Protections There are approximately 1,700 species protected by the Endangered Species Act. But that list provides only a tiny glimpse of our nation’s imperiled flora and fauna. Here are six endangered-yet-unlisted species that need protecting. To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Read more! 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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   0 51 Baumb, Nelly From:Kimberley Wong <sheepgirl1@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 4:10 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr Subject:Road closures in Palo Alto 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 members    Keeping University and California Avenues closed has brought back such a nice walkable feel to Palo Alto... places for  neighbors to gather and chat at a safe distance. The outdoor parklets are essential to our enjoyment of restaurant dining  because many of us are still not comfortable being inside despite lifted bans on indoor dining. I would venture a guess  that the garages in downtown are not fully parked either. Why it that everyone has become so car dependent that they  need to park directly in front of the establishment they are going to?     Drive less, walk more. Enjoy Palo Alto! Remember the pre‐pandemic days of inching along University Ave to get  anywhere? Is this what we as a city really want again?    I understand that those with limited mobility may want to Park closer, but there are many back doors to establishments  that could open for someone with a special need.    Many restaurants used significant funds to create parklets to keep their business in survival mode. It would be a shame  to ask them to remove them just as they are close to finally breaking even. It may be even the breaking point to shutting  down permanently.    Thank you for your consideration to keeping outdoor dining and road closures in place until the fall as was originally  intended and not in the summer as has been suggested.    I look forward to many pleasant strolls along the two main streets this summer and well into the fall to visit my favorite  restaurants local businesses.    Kimberley Wong      52 Baumb, Nelly From:H Y Wong <sheepgirl888@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 3:49 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr Subject:Heritage tree protection and removal 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 members    I am sad to hear of two fallen heritage oaks, over 200+ years on 1849 Webster just yesterday and 2353 Webster Street  about 10 days ago.    And as I drive through the neighborhoods I notice an increasing number of stumps where there were glorious big trees  before.    I am asking the City Council members and the City Manager, what can you do to make it tougher to build in locations  that will not jeopardize a heritage tree’s health? What means of enforcement can we put in place that requires a  homeowner or business owner to protect these special trees.    Palo Alto planners and city council members must work on protecting our natural resource, Palo Alto’s vast tree canopy  no matter what the project is presented before them. Overriding considerations should not be considered unless there  is threat to safety, well being and general health of the public that this tree poses on a community.    Thank you for your considerations!    Kimberley Wong    53 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 3:38 PM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: It's Wrong to Target Asian-American Scientists for Espionage Prosecution - Scientific American 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: Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 3:31 PM  Subject: It's Wrong to Target Asian‐American Scientists for Espionage Prosecution   Source:‐ Scientific American 3/22/21        https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/prosecuting‐asian‐american‐scientists‐for‐espionage‐is‐a‐ shortsighted‐strategy/  It’s Wrong to Target Asian‐American Scientists for Espionage Prosecution A reckless antispying campaign against China has caused enormous damage to U.S. citizens Alicia LaiMarch 22, 2021 To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.It's Wrong to Target Asian-American Scientists for Espionage Prosecution Credit: Luyao Yan When trying to catch spies, it is tempting to cast a broad net despite the risk of making false accusations. Recently the U.S. Department of Justice has done just that. In an effort to crack down on what it depicts as an intellectual espionage campaign by China, it has revved up its prosecution of Asian-American citizens for scientific espionage and intellectual-property theft—from the notable case of Wen Ho Lee of Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1999 to Gang Chen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this past January. 54 The cycle is familiar yet somehow shocking every time: Immigrant or naturalized scientists are accused of disloyalty. Many are preemptively imprisoned and stripped of professional positions. Accusations of espionage are often found to be erroneous and ungrounded in science and are then dropped. Targeted scientists have raised plausible claims of racial profiling under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, and at least one such case is currently pending in federal court. What is driving this harsh crackdown? One answer is high economic stakes. Intellectual capital sits at the heart of the U.S. economy: an analysis of data from 2014 showed that industries relying on intellectual property directly accounted for 28 million jobs and $6.6 trillion in value. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. reacts aggressively to foreign threats to its source of wealth. And there have been real threats tied to the Chinese government—for instance, inducements offered by the Thousand Talents recruitment program, the Equifax data breach of consumers' personal information and the SolarWinds hack of U.S. government data. Because of long-standing concerns, the Obama administration heightened penalties under the Economic Espionage Act. The Trump administration began the China Initiative to fight what it portrayed as an epidemic of intellectual theft. The Biden administration has already made high-profile arrests. Politicians on both sides of the aisle struggle to avoid appearing “weak on China.” It is a persuasively simple narrative: stop foreign spies from stealing America's intellectual property. But there is more to it. Too often prosecutions are mistargeted, and rhetoric ignores clear exculpatory evidence, capitalizing on the perception of Asian-Americans as perpetual foreigners. The sentiment can be traced back to the 1790 Naturalization Act (forbidding Asians and other nonwhite individuals from holding U.S. citizenship) and the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act (essentially prohibiting all Chinese immigration, initially for 10 years and later indefinitely). And it extends to the current wave of anti-Asian crimes tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas overall hate crimes in the U.S. decreased by 7 percent during 2020, anti-Asian hate crimes increased by 149 percent. Recent news cycles are studded with violence: a two-year-old toddler stabbed in a Texas wholesale store, a woman doused with acid on her front porch in Brooklyn, a man knifed in Manhattan's Chinatown, a couple beaten with a rock in a sock in Seattle, a mother and her eight-year-old daughter stabbed to death while asleep in their California home, six women gunned down in a mass shooting in Atlanta. Although China presents a legitimate national security concern—and genuine instances of espionage should be prosecuted—there is evidence that the U.S. is haphazardly conflating nationality with ethnicity. Representative Ted Lieu of 55 California states that erroneous espionage prosecutions are “the latest example of our government's unfortunate inability to distinguish between American citizens and foreign adversaries.” One study found that the proportion of defendants charged under the Economic Espionage Act who were Chinese or Chinese-American rose from 17 to 52 percent between 2009 and 2015. More crucial is the rate of false positives: defendants of Chinese ethnicity have been unjustly accused at twice the rate of non-Chinese defendants. Many of these false positives—cases where the defendant is acquitted at trial, prosecutors drop all charges before trial, or the defendant pleads guilty to minor offenses and receives only probation—could be prevented by carefully examining the evidence before bringing charges, consulting a scientific expert on the merits, and avoiding biased, conclusory rhetoric. The side effects of such a crude policy do more harm than good. Having spent my childhood in an idyllic Pennsylvania university town, I witnessed firsthand the community's reaction when a family friend—a Chinese-American physics professor who was a U.S. citizen—was erroneously accused, arrested and hustled away at gunpoint. Months later the Justice Department realized it had entirely misinterpreted the situation: it had accused him of sending schematics for sophisticated “pocket heater” technology to a colleague in China, but experts later clarified that the confiscated blueprints did not depict a pocket heater at all. The charges were dropped. But the professional, financial and reputational damage was done. The Asian-American community at the university buzzed with apprehension, fearing that no one was safe from unfounded accusations. The current approach sweeps broadly and baselessly. Not only do rash prosecutions subject U.S. citizens to potential civil rights violations, but this climate causes a “brain drain” of intellectual capital. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, immigrants make up a significant proportion of U.S.-based inventors and have won a third of the Nobel Prizes given to Americans. But now many immigrant scientists and inventors are choosing to leave the U.S. for other countries on the promise of higher pay, prestigious positions, looser regulatory schemes and—most notably—no federal prosecutions for legitimate research activity. Brian Sun, a renowned litigator who successfully represented Lee in his civil lawsuit, explains: “If you're criminally prosecuted and disgraced in this way ... it's an academic death penalty: What are you left to do but go back to China?” The long-term effect is rather perverse. As Princeton University molecular biologist Yibin Kang notes, “What's happening is doing a great service for the Chinese government. If you turn this into a toxic environment, you're actually helping the Chinese government to then recruit back to China.” 56 Advertisement The U.S. loses in this situation any way you look at it. The country stifles its own innovation ecosystem by discouraging international partnerships, obstructing access to nonclassified federally funded research, renouncing immigrant intellectual capital and rejecting investments in innovations from certain other countries. On the international stage, it compromises its diplomatic standing by failing to recognize the diverse legal needs of other countries and forcing the harmonization of patent law. But these harms have gone largely unrecognized. In 2018 the National Institutes of Health—the main source of funding for many academic labs—instructed around 10,000 U.S. research institutions to continue cracking down. Sun calls these “gotcha” cases: they apply disproportionately heavy criminal penalties for mere administrative missteps. Several institutions, such as Emory University in Atlanta and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, subsequently fired a number of their Asian-American researchers. The myopia is astounding. Tensions and violence are escalating every day in courtrooms and on city streets. But at least in the scientific community, prosecutors, legislators, agencies and directors of research institutions have the power to slow down and consider the hard facts of each case. Jumping to conclusory prosecutions and terminations does no good for anyone. By treating Asian-American citizens as perpetual foreigners and prosecuting them without merit or nuance, the U.S. will continue down a self-destructive path, harming its own citizens, innovation and economy. 57 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 3:28 PM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Department of Commerce Misconduct May Have Targeted Chinese Employees, According to Fact Sheet – AsAmNews CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS,      I believe that the next few years will continue to be difficult and challenging  for Chinese Americans and  AAPI people in  the United States. From history we have learned that each and every time there are increased tension  and  conflict between the United States and China, American citizens of AAPI descent are adversely affected.from  questioning of our patriotism to open hostility, assaults and collective suspicion as foreign spies. Enhanced surveillance  of our  benevolent community organizations and wrongful investigations of our ethnic scientists, professors and  technological experts solely based on their ethnicity  escalate to a state of paranoia. From Trump's 2016 "China  Initiative" targeting Chinese American academic researchers, diplomats and  business executives, many careers and lives  of Americans of Chinese descent have been destroyed. In the next few days, I will humbly offer a few examples of  overreaching by our government in its zeal to root out internal enemy agents among us . First up will be Dr. Wen Ho Lee,  followed by five other patriotic Americans.   Allan Seid                                                                                                     From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>  Date: June 1, 2021   Subject: Department of Commerce Misconduct May Have Targeted Chinese Employees, According to Fact Sheet  Source: POLITICO 3/18/21; Asam News 5/26/21      https://asamnews.com/2021/05/26/department‐of‐commerce‐misconduct‐may‐have‐targeted‐chinese‐ employees‐according‐to‐fact‐sheet/  Department of Commerce Misconduct May Have Targeted Chinese Employees, According to Fact Sheet May 26, 2021 Photo via Wikimedia CommonUs.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss) released a fact sheet Monday that revealed Department of Commerce employees with Chinese ancestry may have been unfair targets of internal investigations.  Senator Wicker is the ranking member of the Senate Committee 58 on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. He launched an inv between the United Statesestigation into alleged misconduct in the Investigations and Threat Management Service (ITMS) at the Department of Commerce back in February 2021. The fact sheet Sen. Wicker released Monday is a precursor to a full committee report on the investigation. It details a number of instances of misconduct, including misconduct that targeted employees of Chinese ancestry. According to the fact sheet, ITMS once spent hours interrogating a Chinese-born scientist who worked for the Department on suspicion of espionage. She was arrested, but criminal charges against her were dropped after officials found insufficient evidence. Whistleblowers also stated ITMS used racial profiling to launch investigations about threats to national security. The fact sheet states the whistleblowers allege this practice disproportionately impacted employees of Chinese ancestry. Top Articles Content byAsAmNews The Washington Post previously reported on ITMS investigations into Asian American employees. According to the Post, ITMS once searched Commerce servers for certain Chinese words and began monitoring Asian American employees over benign conversations as a result. 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 making a financial contribution to support us. 59 Baumb, Nelly From:slevy@ccsce.com Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 3:00 PM To:Wong, Tim; Lait, Jonathan Cc:Council, City; Planning Commission Subject:unused retail space and housing opportunities CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/01/california-eyes-shuttered-malls-stores-for-new-housing/ Tim, I think this article would be of interest to the HE group Steve 60 Baumb, Nelly From:Nelson's Rudolph <celticpridebird@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 1:17 PM To:Council, City; Keith Crosby Subject:In response to Hillside pastor Crosby's letter. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  He was incorrect.  The Trump anti shelter protestors were the first to flood the streets not the BLM protestors.      He also had Rod Dreyher on his show who had sympathy for the New Zealand massacre shooter who murdered 51  Muslims while they were worshipping.   61 Baumb, Nelly From:Tracy Mallory <tracymallory@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 10:45 AM To:Council, City Subject:Building inspections and permits CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    I have now personally spoken with a few contractors working on local jobs, and all the stories are true. Palo Alto is the  worst city in the area, likely the entire SF Bay Area, perhaps all of California, and in the 99th worst percentile in the  country when it comes to getting permits and inspections. Yet residents are hounded to convert to all‐electric heating,  install solar panels(likely the worst in the country!), etc. In the neighboring cities permits can be had in two days, entirely  online. A nearby project took THREE WEEKS! What’s wrong with Palo Alto? Neighboring cities observe a California law  stating that only a single inspection is needed for modest solar installation is observed, yet in Palo Alto it takes two.    Palo Alto should be leading, not slowing down electric conversions and solar installations, and not making permits and  inspections as expensive as historically corrupt NY City practices. I’m not saying it’s that way now in NY, I’m saying it’s  that way now in Palo Alto. Not corrupt, but inexcusably slow and expensive.    FIRE people that cannot make the system better(for example implementing rules not needed any where else), and hire  people that can to the job better and quickly while saving money at the same time. Do NOT listen to why it can’t be  done, because other cities are doing it with less people and for less money, with happier citizens and more successful  businesses.    Enable the future instead of preventing it.    Tracy Mallory  650‐279‐0037    62 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 10:39 AM To:Honky Subject:important video CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://neuro-times.com/life/neuronx/?cep=9EhJhdfPy-px8E2mgWGB27qLaWfHsXbSobgjCem2_suwOqtACxLn-MtMvYmAJ0G9QE5WHV5oywj0oNjFAT-BI5p8QgxeYJzZjdS_zkhx5unBY- sOS60HS0ja0DbzTM9RNkKujDXy2qjGaqY_zDk4eHiEJLYgOInDoRR8BczSvkYdqDHbgYruMIbXhiY-jWLqehrcz9D_GNKxgkBqFqXPfoiIuQ0rx-WQbTw1LROU7z5FSWfVf16BmSw- fVD7P2d22SKa6cO9yfyt3ZWbFY4VuZ7KhMoB_oTVZnH4eQXJT-0KLTxjRHpxh1wi3IjfQzpk0ReUZEGLm51N3hAZQM7ioW0rpwbwQ3WsFRfP00kMcXiBH99T_jf1Iec_mbego4EZN1qIiGxX MslH-m2V8eu1l2CA4BGgxLIV_EfJrU-Mn5nwcASvp3fjV70MnWdjhaUCK2a88PE4uErd5S0wDVuXFg&lptoken=16df22fc57fa05804553&collection=5273&vertical =&keyword=ad1&typ=typ&transid=%7Btransaction_id%7D&tgid=&tid= China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu     To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu The man, a resident of the city of Zhenjiang, was hospitalised on April 28 after developing a fever and other sy...    Important video: https://omny.fm/shows/on-point-with-alex- pierson/new-peer-reviewed-study-on-covid-19-vaccines-sugge   63 Baumb, Nelly From:Arlene Goetze <photowrite67@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 10:30 AM To:Sara Cody Subject:GoodBye Immunity: Shots can Ruin it CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Elected Officials: Please stop telling people to get a virus shot--tell them to sit in the sun everyday and take Vitamin D, C and zinc. The sun can keep them healthy and not ruin their immunity. Arlene Goetze MA, witer/editor since 1955. No Toxins for Children. Pfizer and Moderna both have made over $5 BILLION on these 'shots' and never have had a successful product.....lots of lawsuits!! ----------------- This information is becoming known by many doctors who are blocked . .-------------------- -- Vaccine Instructs your Body to Make 'Spike' Bioweapon, May 29, 2021. from Mercola Newsletter by Dr. Mercola While the natural COVID-19 spike protein is bad, the spike protein your body produces in response to the vaccine is even worse - as the synthetic RNA has been manipulated to take out your innate immunity and induce neurological damage. It's the nightmare we predicted. In Brief: \* COVID-19 vaccines are capable of causing damage in a number of different ways. Disturbingly, all these different mechanisms of harm have synergistic effects when it comes to dysregulating your innate and adaptive immune systems and activating latent viruses * The worst symptoms of COVID-19 are created by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and that is the very thing gene-based COVID vaccines are instructing your body to make * While the natural spike protein is bad, the spike protein your body produces in response to the vaccine is even worse, as the synthetic RNA has been manipulated in such a way as to create a very robust and unnatural spike protein * The spike protein is toxic in and of itself, and has the ability to induce vascular, heart and neurological damage * The COVID-19 vaccine disables the Type I interferon pathway, which explains why vaccinated patients are reporting herpes and shingles infection following COVID-19 vaccination Subheads in the long article The Spike Protein Is the Bioweapon The Spike Protein Produced in Your Body Is Highly Unnatural 64 Reality Is Exponentially Worse Than Predicted Latent Viruses May Flare if You Receive the COVID Vaccine The Importance of Type I Interferon SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Engineered With HIV How mRNA Can Alter Your DNA SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein May Be a Prion Are Viral Vector Vaccines Better or Worse? You've got 8%of the human genome of another human in J&J and Astra Zeneca. You only need 1 shot because it is the most toxic. Can COVID Vaccines ‘Shed’ or Transmit Infection may also cause trouble for those who decide not to get the shots but spend time in close proximity to people who did. Which Vaccine Is Most Dangerous? For kids.the MRA vaccines are..they have many other vaccines and can mess up their immunity What Can We Expect to See More Of? . . .a significant rise in cancer, accelerated Parkinson's-like diseases, Huntington's disease, and all types of autoimmune diseases and neurodegenerative disorders. . . .more sudden death by crippling the immune system. Highly vaccinated kids are ticking timbombs. What Are the Solutions after Vaccines? ( Some are printed here) Here is help. As noted by Mikovits, remedies to maladies that might develop post- vaccination include: ** Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin treatments ** Low-dose antiretroviral therapy to reeducate your immune system ** Low-dose interferons such as Paximune, developed by interferon researcher Dr. Joe Cummins, to stimulate your immune system ** Peptide T (an HIV entry inhibitor derived from the HIV envelope protein gp120; it blocks binding and infection of viruses that use the CCR5 receptor to infect cells) ** Cannabis, to strengthen Type I interferon pathways ** Dimethylglycine or betaine (trimethylglycine) to enhance methylation, thereby suppressing latent viruses -- ** Silymarin or milk thistle to help cleanse your liver. ---More solutions at the end. Conclusion: Never get a vaccine again. If the entire world never again took another shot, even the most susceptible populations could stay well … Every Friday, VAERS makes public all vaccine injury reports between Dec. 14 May 21, a total of 65 ** 262,521total adverse events\ ** 4,406 deaths — up 205 over the previous week — and ** 21,537 serious injuries, up 3,009 since last week. ** 3,449 total adverse events, up over 943 last week, (58 in12-17 age) - ---------------------------- Here starts the article which is very long. Other doctors back this info. Iby Dr. Mercola: (His column ran 15 or more years before the pandemic blocked him) In this interview, Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., and Judy Mikovits, Ph.D., a dream-team in terms of deep insights into the scientific details, explain the problems they see with gene-based COVID-19 vaccines. There is a load of highly useful technical information that you can use to defend your opposition to these dangerous vaccines. However, unless you have deeply studied molecular biology and genetics, it would be wise to view the video two or three times, as with each review, you will learn more and understand just how dangerous these vaccines are. I recently interviewed Seneff about the excellent paper1 she published on this topic. That interview was featured in “COVID Vaccines May Bring Avalanche of Neurological Disease.” In May 2020, I also interviewed Mikovits about the possibility of these vaccines causing reproductive harm and other health problems. At the time, Mikovits warned that fertility rates may drop thanks to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein creating antibodies that attack syncytium, and indeed, we’re now starting to see that. Still, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending pregnant women get these vaccines, as well as children as young as 12, which is unconscionable, considering the potential lifelong risks and impairment of fertility. The Spike Protein Is the Bioweapon As noted by Mikovits, we now know that the worst symptoms of COVID-19 are created by the SARS- CoV-2 spike protein, and that is the very thing these gene-based vaccines are instructing your body to make. But it’s far worse, as the vaccines do not cause your body to make the same spike protein as SARS-CoV-2 but one that has been genetically modified, making it far more toxic. So, it’s no wonder things are going wrong. > “The SARS-CoV-2 infection never was what they said it was,” Mikovits says. “There was no infection asymptomatically. It's a monkey virus coming out of a monkey cell line and that's the problem, but the spike protein is clearly [causing] the disease. > So, you just injected the envelope of HIV … a syncytin gammaretrovirus envelope, and a SARS S2 receptor binding domain. That's not a vaccine. It is the disease-causing agent. It's a bioweapon. So now your cells are all producing that bioweapon and you're going to take out the innate immunity, NK [natural killer] cells and dendritic cells … > You're going to disrupt your white blood cells, your immune response. You're going to turn on an anti- inflammatory cytokine signature in every cell of your body. It exhausts your NK cells' ability to determine infected cells. It's the nightmare we predicted.” The Spike Protein Produced in Your Body Is Highly Unnatural `In her paper, “Worse Than The Disease: Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19,” published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research in collaboration with Dr. Greg Nigh,2 Seneff explains that a significant part of the problem 66 is that while the natural spike protein is bad, the spike protein your body produces in response to the vaccine is even worse. The reason for this is because the synthetic RNA has been manipulated in such a way as to create a very unnatural spike protein that result in it not collapsing on itself into the cell once it attaches to the ACE2 receptor, as it normally does. Instead it stays open and attached to the ACE2 receptor, disabling it and causing a host of problems leading to heart, lung, and immune impairment. As explained by Seneff: > “They modified the RNA to make it really sturdy so the enzymes can't break it down … Normally, enzymes that are in your system would just break down that RNA. RNA is very fragile, but they've made it sturdy by putting in PEG [polyethylene glycol], by adding this lipid membrane, and the lipid is positively charged, which causes the cell to be very upset when that goes into the membrane of the cell. > But I think maybe the most disturbing thing is they actually modified the [RNA] code so that it doesn't produce a normal version of the spike protein. It produces a version that has a couple of prolines in it, side by side at the critical place where this spike protein normally would fuse with the cell that it's infecting. > So, the spike protein binds to the ACE2 receptor once it's produced by the human cell … but it's a modified version of the spike protein. It has these two prolines that make it very stiff so that it can't reshape. Normally it would bind to the ACE2 receptor and then it would reshape and go straight into the membrane like a spear. > Because of this redesign, it can't do that, so it sits there on the ACE receptor, exposed … That allows the immune cells to produce antibodies specific to that place where it should be fusing with the cell, the fusion domain. It messes up the fusion domain, keeps the protein open, and prevents the protein from getting in, which means the protein will just stick there on the ACE2 receptor, disabling it. > When you disable ACE2 receptors in the heart, you get heart failure. When you disable them in the lungs, you get pulmonary hypertension. When you do it in the brain, you get stroke. Lots of nasty things happen when you disable ACE2 receptors … > The other thing they've done with the RNA is they've stuck in a lot of extra Gs (guanine) and Cs (cytosine), which makes it much better at making proteins. It's turned up the gain on the natural virus 1,000-fold, making the RNA much more willing to make a protein. So, it'll make a lot more spike protein than you would've had from a natural RNA virus.” Reality Is Exponentially Worse Than Predicted With the added information provided by Seneff, Mikovits now believes the reality of these vaccines may be exponentially worse than she initially predicted a year ago. Not only is the lipid nanoparticle a serious hazard, as we’ve seen with Gardasil and some of the newer hepatitis B vaccines, but we now also have t he added issue of unnatural mRNA, made more robust so as to evade its natural breakdown. As explained by Mikovits, free RNA acts as a danger signal inside your body, so now your system is on red alert for however long the RNA remains viable. Now, by manipulating the RNA code to be enriched in G a nd C, and configured as if it’s a human messenger RNA molecule ready to make protein by adding a polyA tail, the spike protein’s RNA sequence in the vaccine looks as if it is part bacteria,3 part human4 and part viral at the same time. > “We use poly(I:C) [a toll-like receptor 3 agonist] to signal the cell to turn on the type I interferon pathway,” Mikovits explains, “and because this is an unnatural synthetic envelope, you're not seeing poly(I:C), and you're not [activating] the Type I interferon pathway. > You've bypassed the plasmacytoid dendritic cell, which combined with IL-10, by talking to the regulatory B cells, decides what subclasses of antibodies to put out. So, you've bypassed the communication between the innate and adaptive immune response. You now miss the signaling of the endocannabinoid receptors … 67 > A large part of Dr. [Francis] Ruscetti’s and my work over the last 30 years has been to show you don't need an infectious transmissible virus — just pieces and parts of these viruses are worse, because they also turn on danger signals. They act like danger signals and pathogen-associated molecular patterns. > So, it synergistically leaves that inflammatory cytokine signature on that spins your innate immune response out of control. It just cannot keep up with the myelopoiesis [the production of cells in your bone marrow]. Hence you see a skew-away from the mesenchymal stem cell towards TGF-beta regulated hematopoietic stem cells. > This means you could see bleeding disorders on both ends. You can't make enough firetrucks to send to the fire. Your innate immune response can't get there, and then you've just got a total train wreck of your immune system.” With respect to Mikovits’ comment that pieces and parts of the virus are actually worse than the whole virus, that is precisely what we have with the COVID vaccines. In last week’s interview with Seneff, she explained how the manufacturing process leaves fragmented genetically modified RNA in the vaccine. They are not filtered out and assumed to be harmless, but as Mikovits states, this is not the case. This is being completely missed as one reason why this vaccine is so dangerous. Latent Viruses May Flare if You Receive the COVID Vaccine As noted by Seneff, her and Mikovits’ findings mesh well to explain many of the problems we’re now seeing from these gene-therapies. For example, vaccinated patients are reporting herpes and shingles infection following COVID-19 vaccination, which you’d expect if your Type I interferon pathway is disabled. > “Basically, you've got these latent viruses that are not bothering you at all until your immune system gets completely distracted by this crazy thing going on in the spleen with all this messenger RNA and all these spike proteins,” Seneff says. > “Immune cells are distracted from their other job of keeping these viruses in check. So, you get these other conditions showing up, and there are several. There's Bell’s palsy (facial palsy), for example. There are over 1,200 cases of Bell's palsy reported after the vaccine in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). > And when you look at the research of what causes that, they really point to the herpes virus and the varicella virus as being the source of Bell's palsy. The Type I interferon system is what you need to keep these guys in check, and so those viruses are getting enabled and they're causing symptoms. > That is actually a very bad sign. If a woman who's pregnant has a herpes flare-up during pregnancy, she has a twofold increased risk of producing an autistic son. > Also, in a study on 200 Parkinson's patients, compared to 200 age- and gender-matched controls, six of those Parkinson's patients had at least one episode of Bell's palsy in the past, whereas none of the controls had. So, it looks to me like the Bell's palsy is an indicator of a future risk of Parkinson's disease.” To summarize, . So, please, be careful out there and spread the word. The best way to treat any disease is to prevent it. These vaccines simply are not decreasing COVID-19 but radically decreasing the health of those who receive it, especially pregnant women that the CDC merely a month ago encouraged to get vaccinated without a shred of safety evidence. The Importance of Type I Interferon Mikovits has done a great deal of research on interferon for the last 40 years. Innate immune interferon 68 makes up your entire frontline defense. People with HIV/AIDS have dysregulated Type I interferon, which allows parasites to gain a solid foothold. Interestingly enough, antiparasitic drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin have been shown to be effective against COVID-19, both prophy- lactically and in treatment. COVID-19 vaccines are capable of causing damage in a number of different ways. Disturbingly, all these different mechanisms of harm have synergistic effects when it comes to dysregulating your innate and adaptive immune systems and activating latent viruses. Mikovits cites a research paper5 titled “War and Peace Between Microbes,” which details how HIV-1 interacts with coinfecting viruses, thereby accelerating the disease. Herpes viruses in particular have been implicated as a cause of AIDS. Human herpesvirus 6 (HHVS-6) has also been implicated in myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME-CFS). In short, these diseases, AIDS and ME-CFS, don’t appear until viruses from different families partner up and retroviruses take out the Type 1 interferon pathway. In short, the COVID-19 vaccines are capable of causing damage in a number of different ways. Disturbingly, all these different mechanisms of harm have synergistic effects when it comes to dysregulating your innate and adaptive immune systems and activating latent viruses. “It's just an explosion of a nightmare of crippling every area of your immune response,” Mikovits says. SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Engineered With HIV According to Mikovits, there’s evidence showing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was engineered by integrating HIV and XMRV proteins. XMRV stands for xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, a human retrovirus that is very similar to endogenous retroviruses also found in other mammals. XMRV has been linked to ME-CFS. HIV, which can cause AIDS, is another human retrovirus (although as mentioned earlier, HIV does not appear to trigger AIDS all by itself. It needs a coinfection.) > “Our endogenous gammaretrovirus is called human endogenous retrovirus-W (HERV-W). HERVW is all the way back in genesis in our original endogenous genome. It's a gammaretrovirus that expresses only the envelope, because in retroviruses, the envelope alone is enough to cause the disease. That envelope protein is called syncytin. They're [now] calling it ‘spike protein’ just to throw us all off,” Mikovits says. According to Mikovits, the SARS-CoV-2 virus was created by introducing a mutation into a molecular clone. Vero E6 monkey tissues are known to be infected with SIV and other gammaretroviruses, and the SARS-CoV-2 virus has markers suggesting it was grown in a Vero E6 cell line, she says. > “So syncytin is the gammaretrovirus; it cross-reacts with the mouse and monkey gammaretroviruses. Monkeys, mice all have syncytin. Endogenous viruses express, especially during hormonal cycles. When it's expressed in the wrong place, like in the brain or the spinal cord, it's long been associated with the inflammatory disease and the destruction of the myelin sheet in multiple sclerosis (MS). > So, syncytin expressed it in the wrong place gives you the paralytics diseases. We know Parkinson's is associated with Type I interferon responses. We're now starting to appreciate that there is low-level expression of our endogenous virome all the time, and that in our innate immune response it's trying to shape and educate our Type I interferon pathways … > The final and biggest problem is these exosomes, because your body's exosomes are like your cells' response to express its regulatory RNAs, small inhibitory RNAs, long-chain non-coding RNA — which Ritchie Shoemaker has long associated with chronic Lyme and ME/CFS — and the TGF-beta I pathway. > TGF-beta I, that's the master switch to turn on which Type I interferon, which [is needed for] myelopoiesis. But these exosomes are packaging not only RNA that you're making, but now you've dysregulated the methylation so you've woken up your endogenous virome, and then syncytin is going to be expressed.” How mRNA Can Alter Your DNA 69 In her paper, Seneff also describes how mRNA can, in fact, alter your DNA, essentially integrating the instructions to make spike proteins into your genome. Typically, mRNA cannot be integrated directly into your genes because you need reverse transcriptase. Reverse transcriptase converts RNA back into DNA (reverse transcription). However, there’s a wide variety of reverse transcriptase systems already embedded in our DNA, which makes this possible. This is an area that Mikovits has studied for decades, so, commenting on Seneff’s findings, she says: > “When you activate latent and defective viruses, you turn on reverse transcriptase; you turn on the virome. But you also need an integrase gene. So how are retroviruses silenced? [Through] DNA methylation. [When] you throw in a lot of GC-rich regions — you've got that synthetic viral particle [i.e., the vaccine- induced spike protein RNA] — now you've woken up your herpes viruses. > [Latent viruses] are silenced [through] DNA methylation, but as our soil is depleted in minerals, we have people with methylation defects. This is why I said the first people who are going to die are people with inflammatory conditions and cancer.” SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein May Be a Prion In her paper, Seneff also discusses evidence suggesting the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein may be a prion, which is yet another piece of really bad news. “It’s absolutely terrifying to me,” she says, adding: > “I'm now thinking that may be the worst aspect of these mRNA vaccines, because they're producing this abnormal spike protein that doesn't want to go into the membrane. Prion proteins are known to be membrane proteins. They're alpha-helices in the membrane and then they misfold, becoming beta-sheets in the cytoplasm, and that's what leads to the prion problem. > They form a crystal that draws in other proteins and makes this big mess and builds fibrils and Alzheimer's plaque. The main prion protein is PrP, which is in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of mad cow disease. It's a sort of protein-source infection. It's quite wild because there's no DNA involved, no RNA involved, just protein. > But the thing is, when you have produced a version of mRNA that knows how to spew out tons of a prion protein, the prion proteins become problematic when there's too many of them and the concentration is too high in the cytoplasm. > And the spike proteins that these mRNA vaccines are producing … isn't able to go into the membrane, which I think is going to encourage it to become a problematic prion protein. Then, when you have inflammation, it upregulates alpha-synuclein [a neuronal protein that regulates synaptic traffic and neurotransmitter release]. > So, you're going to get alpha-synuclein drawn into misfolded spike proteins, turning into a mess inside the dendritic cells in the germinal centers in the spleen. And they're going to package up all this crud into exosomes and release them. They’re then going to travel along the vagus nerve to the brainstem and cause things like Parkinson's disease. > So, I think this is a complete setup for Parkinson's disease. What may happen is that because they got this vaccine, they get Parkinson's disease five years earlier than they would have gotten it otherwise. It's going to push forward the date at which someone who has a propensity towards Parkinson's is going to get it. > And it's probably going to cause people to get Parkinson's who never would have gotten it in the first place — especially if they keep getting the vaccine every year. Every year you do a booster, you bring the date that you're going to get Parkinson's ever closer.” Are Viral Vector Vaccines Better or Worse? Two of the four COVID-19 vaccines on the market in Europe and the U.S., AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, are using viral vectors and DNA rather than using nanolipid-coated mRNA. Unfortunately, while potentially slightly less dangerous than Moderna’s and Pfizer’s mRNA versions, they can still 70 cause significant problems through mechanisms of their own. As explained by Mikovits: > “As mentioned, it's an adenovirus vector expressing the protein. So, the HIV, the XMRV envelope, t he syncytin, the HERV-W envelope and the ACE2 are already being expressed in the vector. > With respect to the RNA component, it's less dangerous because you're not going to see much of the mechanisms we've been talking about. But these adenovirus vector protein-producing vaccines are grown in an aborted fetal tissue cell line, so now you've got human syncytin [in there]. You've got 8% of the human genome of another human. > So, again, looking at the communication that has to regulate your Type I interferon response, it’s going to give you autoimmunity. In immunocompromised people, it's going to continue to express and that will give you a live infection, and you already have your firetrucks fighting another [infection]. You can't fight a war on three fronts. > I say, ‘You only need one shot because it's the most toxic.’ It’s the most toxic in that sense. We hav e many mechanisms to degrade RNA, and we can restore methylation machinery. It's a nightmare, but I believe our immune system can break it [the synthetic vaccine mRNA) down.” Can COVID Vaccines ‘Shed’ or Transmit Infection? Disturbingly, it appears the COVID-19 vaccines may also cause trouble for those who decide not to get the shots but spend time in close proximity to people who did. While it cannot be viral shedding , as none of the vaccines use live or even attenuated virus, there appears to be some sort of spike protein transmission going on. While the spike protein cannot replicate or multiply like a virus, it is toxic in and of itself. In her paper, Seneff details how the spike protein acts as a metabolic poison, capable of triggering pathological damage leading to lung damage and heart and brain diseases:6 > “In a series of papers, Yuichiro Suzuki in collaboration with other authors presented a strong argument that the spike protein by itself can cause a signaling response in the vasculature with potentially widespread consequences. > These authors observed that, in severe cases of COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 causes significant morphological changes to the pulmonary vasculature … Furthermore, they showed that exposure of cultured human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein S1 subunit was sufficient to promote cell signaling without the rest of the virus components. > Follow-up papers showed that the spike protein S1 subunit suppresses ACE2, causing a condition resembling pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a severe lung disease with very high mortality … > Suzuki et al. (2021) went on to demonstrate experimentally that the S1 component of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, at a low concentration … activated the MEK/ERK/MAPK signaling pathway to promote cell growth. They speculated that these effects would not be restricted to the lung vasculature. > The signaling cascade triggered in the heart vasculature would cause coronary artery disease, and activation in the brain could lead to stroke. Systemic hypertension would also be predicted. They hypothesized that this ability of the spike protein to promote pulmonary arterial hypertension could predispose patients who recover from SARS-CoV-2 to later develop right ventricular heart failure. > Furthermore, they suggested that a similar effect could happen in response to the mRNA vaccines, and they warned of potential long-term consequences to both children and adults who received COVID-19 vaccines based on the spike protein. > An interesting study by Lei et. al. (2021) found that pseudovirus — spheres decorated with the SARS- CoV-2 S1 protein but lacking any viral DNA in their core — caused inflammation and damage in both the arteries and lungs of mice exposed intratracheally. > They then exposed healthy human endothelial cells to the same pseudovirus particles. Binding of these particles to endothelial ACE2 receptors led to mitochondrial damage and fragmentation in those endothelial cells, leading to the characteristic pathological changes in the associated tissue. > This study makes it clear that spike protein alone, unassociated with the rest of the viral genome, is sufficient to cause the endothelial damage associated with COVID-19. The implications for vaccines intended to cause cells to manufacture the spike protein are clear and are an obvious cause for concern.” 71 As explained by Mikovits, the transmission that appears to be occurring from vaccinated individuals to unvaccinated ones is the transmission of exosomes, basically, the spike protein. The problem is these exosomes look like a virus to your immune system, and “If that synthetic nanoparticle is a virus-like particle and they're literally self-assembling, then you've got yourself a synthetic nightmare,” she says. Which Vaccine Is Most Dangerous? As for which vaccine might be the most dangerous, Mikovits believes the vector-based DNA vaccines (AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson) are the most dangerous for those with chronic Lyme disease or any inflammatory disease associated with an abnormal host immune response, such as shingles, viral infections or cancer, women who have already received the Gardasil vaccine (as this may predispose them to problems with the lipid nanoparticle), and those with Parkinson’s or Huntington-like diseases. Seneff, meanwhile, worries that children may be susceptible to either type of COVID vaccine, simply because they’ve already received so many different vaccines. Mikovits agrees, but believes the mRNA vaccines may be more harmful in this age group: > “The most dangerous to the children are the mRNA vaccines because their immune systems are growing, growing, growing, growing. You introduce or you turn on a fire, what happens? All the stem cells that are important for growing that say, ‘OK, all is calm in the immune system, go build bone, go build brain cells, go do the pruning with the macrophages.’ You can't have your macrophages clearing all the viruses. > And yes, reverse transcriptase is ‘on,’ it's expressed in telomeres. You're growing. That's the whole idea of everything. All the brakes are off. Same thing in pregnancy. That's why we don't do anything in pregnancy because you've got to stay unmethylated in order to respond to your environment, that endogenous genome of the virome. That's your Type I interferon responses. > You don't want myelopoiesis, you want embryonic development. We're going to see things like Down syndrome … Rett syndrome. Rett syndrome, that's inappropriate DNA methylation in little girls. So, for the kids, the worst thing in the world is the RNA vaccines.” What Can We Expect to See More Of? While the variety of diseases we may see a rise in as a result of this vaccination campaign are myriad, some general predictions can be made. Seneff believes we’ll see a significant rise in cancer, accelerated Parkinson's-like diseases, Huntington's disease, and all types of autoimmune diseases and neurodegenerative disorders. Mikovits suspects many will die rather rapidly. “We have evidence in the HTLV-1 associated myelopathy that these things go from long latency periods to [putting] you in a wheelchair in six months,” she says. “So, with all these other toxins combined hitting you, it's not going to be ‘live and suffer forever.’ It's going to be suffer five years and die.” She likens the COVID-19 vaccines to a “kill switch” for all who have been previously injured by vaccines, whether they actually realize it or not. As noted by Mikovits, it’s been shown that 6% of the American population are asymptomatically infected with XMRVs and gammaretroviruses from contaminated vaccines. The COVID shot will effectively accelerate their death by crippling their immune function. “The kids that are highly vaccinated, they're ticking time bombs,” she says. What Are the Solutions after Vaccines? While all of this is highly problematic, there is help. As noted by Mikovits, remedies to the maladies that might develop post-vaccination include: Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin treatments ** Low-dose antiretroviral therapy to reeducate your immune system ** Low-dose interferons such as Paximune, developed by interferon researcher Dr. Joe Cummins, to stimulate your immune system ** Peptide T (an HIV entry inhibitor derived from the HIV envelope protein gp120; it blocks 72 binding and infection of viruses that use the CCR5 receptor to infect cells) ** Cannabis, to strengthen Type I interferon pathways ** Dimethylglycine or betaine (trimethylglycine) to enhance methylation, thereby suppressing latent viruses ** Silymarin or milk thistle to help cleanse your liver ** From my perspective, I believe the best thing you can do is to build your innate immune system. To do that, you need to become metabolically flexible and optimize your diet. You’ll also want to make sure your vitamin D level is optimized to between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL (100 nmol/L to 150 nmol/L), ideally through sensible sun exposure. Sunlight also has other benefits besides making vitamin D. ** Use time-restricted eating and eat all your meals for the day within a six- to eight-hour window. ** Avoid all vegetable oils and processed foods. Focus on certified-organic foods to minimize your glyphosate exposure, and include plenty of sulfur-rich foods to keep your mitochondria and lysosomes healthy. ** Both are important for the clearing of cellular debris, including these spike proteins. You can also boost your sulfate by taking Epsom salt baths. ** To combat the toxicity of the spike protein, Seneff suggests optimizing autophagy, which may help digest and remove the spike proteins. Time-restricted eating will upregulate autophagy, while sauna therapy, which upregulates heat shock proteins, will help refold misfolded proteins. They also tag damaged proteins and target them for removal ** Sauna video included here It is important that your sauna is hot enough (around 170 degrees Fahrenheit) and does not have high magnetic or electric fields. Last but not least, Mikovits recommends never getting another vaccination. > “We knew the flu shot would drive the disease,” she says. “It's the combinations. That's a ticking time bomb sitting there in every cell. So never get another vaccine and be very careful about drugs that compromise your immune system. > The answer is, don't hyper-immune activate. Don't eat GMO. Don't ingest it and don't inject it. And don't put it on your skin. Don't use toxins on your hair. Use essential oils, use antimicrobials … ozonated balms and creams break apart the lipid particles, cannabis balms and creams normalize skin, [which is part of] your immune system … > Remember, immune dysfunction accelerates every time you add an immune activation event. So, if the entire world never again took another shot, even the most susceptible populations, they could stay well … We really have to say no more shots because they're the single biggest toxin to anyone, and an immune dysregulator.” By Dr Mercola, Mercola Newsletter May 29,2021 Forwarded and Subheads highlighted by Arlene Goetze, MA, writer/editor, with 15 years of writings and 2 books in the Archives of Santa Clara Univ. and libraries to Harvard & Notre Dame. No Toxins for Children. Author of 10 books. Former Communication Dir. for Bishop of Sana Jose. 73 Baumb, Nelly From:Raphael Semeria <raphael.semeria@icloud.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 10:03 AM To:Council, City Subject:Art center budget cuts CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Alison Cormack, Eric Filseth, Lydia Kou, Greg Tanaka, and Greer Stone,   Hello, my name is Raphael Semeria and I am writing to you Palo Alto City Council members today regarding the significant budget cuts made this year, and more specifically why you should reconsider the most recent ones regarding Palo Alto’s Art Center.   Throughout the course of this year, we have all seen the immense consequences the pandemic has had on virtually every aspect of everyday life. Following the crash of the economy, it is understandable why so many cities like Palo Alto have implemented severe budget cuts. One of the many departments who has seen and continues to see significant cuts to their budget in Palo Alto, is the department of community services.   Although it is justifiable why the city has made this decision, you should reconsider the severity of the cuts made to the Art Center’s budget due to its significance in the community. If the city were to continue reducing the funds allocated to the Art Center, the negative repercussions will be seen on its employees, students, programs, as well as its overall future.   Since the beginning of 2020, I have been taking wheel throwing pottery classes at the Art Center. Because of the pandemic and the shift to online classes, I was given the unique opportunity to keep a pottery wheel at my home whilst taking the classes virtually. Having a wheel at home enabled me to spend more time practicing, thus resulting in significant progress. Throughout the many uncertainties of the pandemic, having the option to sit down, express myself, and destress, meant the world to me and helped me get through a big portion of the year. I am extremely grateful for all the amazing people at the Art Center who made that possible for me, as well as for all the other students who participated in the program.   However, having this opportunity also came with a flipped side: Seeing the full extent of the budget cuts and how it affected those affiliated with the Art Center. Following the start of Covid-19, the Art Center has had to let go a majority of its incredible staff. Now, their numbers are the smallest in history. This, combined with the $572,000 less in city funding compared to previous years, hinders survival of many courses held at the Art Center. Despite the fact that the programs are supported by numerous sources of funding, they still can not function without the city’s aid. Losing these courses (like the one I am currently enrolled in) could have a plethora of negative consequences on both staff members as well as many students enrolled in them.   Firstly, the loss of these programs would increase the uncertainties many instructors already have relating to their employment status during the pandemic. Secondly, it could have numerous consequences on students: limiting the possibility for them to express themselves and the risk of negatively affecting youth mental health during a pandemic, to name a few. According to the American Art Therapy Association, artistic expression is shown to decrease anxiety, feelings of anger, and depression. Already, in the past year, I have seen firsthand a decrease in resources available for students due to the inadequate funds designated to the Art Center. As a consequence, this has significantly reduced the variety of art us students can create, overall limiting the expanse of our artistic expression.  If the decrease in funds were to continue, it would lead to the definite loss of many programs, further impacting youth mental health. The pandemic and its stressors have amplified the necessity to provide teenagers with adequate mental support and and has emphasized the importance of activities tied to relieving stress. As many rely on artistic expression as a source to help maintain mental wellness, the absence of the Art Center’s programs could have significant consequences on the community, in particular, younger populations.   As summer camps, group activities, and other events resume this summer, we are reminded of the importance and necessity community services, especially the Art Center, have in Palo Alto. If the city continues to neglect their presence by inadequately funding these services, we will no longer have access to them and to their countless benefits.     Sincerely,      Raphael Semeria    74 Baumb, Nelly From:LWV Palo Alto VOTER <publicity@lwvpaloalto.org> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 7:01 AM To:Council, City Subject:LWVPA June VOTER - Thank You From All of Us! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    View this email in your browser.        To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.     Visit us on www.lwvpaloalto.org and on our Facebook Page   Subscribe to our Google Calendar         June VOTER June 1, 2021     In this Issue  Message From Our President  Thank you from all of us  100 Community Conversations on Race  LWVPA High School Civic Engagement Club Caucus  Promise of Carbon Neutrality by 2050  Virtual Speaker Luncheon  May 2021 Board Meeting Highlights 75    Advocacy Reports  Honoring Three Former LWVPA Presidents  Asian American Racism through the Eyes of Claudine Wong  2021 Climate Change Risk and Resilience Forum  LWV California 68th State Convention  America Talks: A Weekend of Connection in the Midst of Deep Divison  National Week of Conversation 2021  LWVUS For the People Act June Friendbank  Healthcare: How Can We Bring Costs Down?  Deliberations.US: The Electoral College  LWVPA Annual Meeting: Video Recording of Pastor Kaloma Smith's Talk  Sea Level Rise and Regional Responses  Observer Corps  Bay Area Monitor       Message from our President   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Dear League members, I want to thank everyone for your support as I take on the leadership of the LWVPA for the next year. Your enthusiasm and dedication as a group is so GI 76   admirable. You are tackling very relevant issues that include gun control, climate change, campaign finance, and of course voter services which are essential to our community and to our mission. The League has a reputation for studying issues carefully, analyzing the data, and moving forward with recommendations. We are an influential and important voice in Palo Alto, the Bay Area, and the nation. In particular, I want to call out Nancy Shepherd for her superb guidance during this very difficult past year. When we all had to learn Zoom, depend on Google docs, and not see each other for weeks at a time, Nancy kept pushing forward. A great deal was accomplished, and she has continued to support the League and me in this transition period. It was a heavy load, slogging through the COVID months, and I particularly want to thank Nancy again for her persistence and patience. I am so looking forward to working with all of you as we go into a new and different phase, the “post-COVID phase” which portends a very different way to live, work and play. We are living in history every day - our League will be very involved in shaping that history. Thank you once again for your support as I take on the presidency. I am so enjoying working with such a smart, fair and committed group of people. Sincerely, Liz Kniss     77   Thank you from all of us! To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. A big THANK YOU to all of our donors for your generous support in an especially challenging year! We rely on your donations to support our local League's work in Palo Alto, and we are extremely grateful for your investment in our work to empower voters and defend democracy. Please see a list of our donors from June 2020 to May 2021 here. Haven't yet had a chance to donate? Click here. - Lynne Russell, Abbie Dorosin and Heike Enders, Fundraising Co-Chairs       LWVPA Events   GI 78   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 100 Community Conversations on Race Have you signed up either as a host or a participant for the 100 Community Conversations on Race? It’s not too late. The Palo Alto Human Relations Commission is still looking for hosts. LWV Palo Alto Equal Justice Committee can help match you with a group, as either host or participant, through this very brief survey. If interested, please take the survey by Friday, June 4. If you choose to be a host, please also sign up at the HRC’s website. If you choose to be a participant, you will be contacted by a host assigned to work with you. The conversation will then be scheduled at a date and time that works for everybody. These conversations will take place in a small group setting facilitated by trained hosts. We hope you join us in this important journey to explore race and belonging. - LWVPA Equal Justice Committee     LWVPA High School Civic Engagement Club Caucus at the LWV California State Convention 79   Monday, June 7, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Great news: The LWVPA High School Civic Engagement Club Caucus has been accepted by LWVC for the State Convention in June! Our presenters, Jenn Wagstaff Hinton, Co-Chair of Civics at LWVPA, and Rachael Kaci, Palo Alto Unified School District Teacher, welcome you to join an engaging and inspirational caucus on June 7. In the fall of 2020, LWVPA President Nancy Shepherd envisioned a partnership between the League and our local high schools to expand students' civic-engagement knowledge and influence in an elective Civic Engagement Club structure. The student-led club model is based on the CA Department of Education’s "State Seal of Civic Engagement" (SSCE) award criteria that were adopted in September 2020. The SSCE criteria include five areas of exploration, culminating in the call for students to share their retrospective learnings with broader school and community groups. The caucus will be held on Zoom and is open to the public for free. Join us to support the great work our high school students are doing!   Register Now     80   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. The Promise of Carbon Neutrality by 2050: A Community Discussion of a National Carbon Pricing Climate Solution Hosted by LWVPA Natural Resources Committee and Citizens' Climate Education Wednesday, July 21, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Putting a price on carbon may be the single most powerful tool we have to reduce America’s carbon pollution to net zero by 2050. But which carbon pricing and policy options will best serve the American people in an equitable manner? Join team members from Citizens’ Climate Education (CCE) for a short presentation on carbon pricing and policies. Then, join a facilitated breakout group to discuss carbon pricing, including equity implications, and how carbon pricing policies fit with other carbon reduction initiatives. CCE strongly believes that successful climate solutions need broad public buy-in from the American people who understand how they will work. Results of the breakout group discussions will be shared with all attendees at the end of the event. The LWVUS supports pricing carbon emissions but does not advocate for one method or legislation over another. For more information, please refer to the League’s officially endorsed website regarding carbon pricing.   81 Register Now       LWVPA Virtual Speaker Luncheon   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Wednesday, August 4, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Guest Speaker: Larry Diamond HOW TO REPAIR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY American democracy is under more intense challenges than at any time in the last half century. Two of the key challenges are interrelated: severe political polarization and partisan assaults in the independence, integrity, and fairness of the electoral process. Larry Diamond is an American political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. He is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University’s main center for research on international issues. Save the date and stay tuned for more info! 82   - Myra Lessner, Events Chair       May 2021 Board Meeting Highlights   The following motions were approved: 1) Approval of appointed directors for 2021-22  Ellen Forbes, Webmaster  Myra Lessner, Events  Hannah Lu, Communications  Raven Malone, At Large  Sigrid Pinsky, Parliamentarian 2) Approval of Emergency Action Committee members for 2021-22  Liz Kniss  Lisa Ratner  Ellen Forbes  Nancy Shepherd  Karen Kalinsky  Alternate: Kathy Miller  Alternate: Hannah Lu 3) Approval of one Off-Board appointment: Cari Templeton, Membership Chair 4) Approval of Natural Resources team's request to extend the Citizens’ Climate Education team’s cosponsor status for the July 21, 2021, event to include two To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 83 Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) local chapters – Silicon Valley North and San Mateo. 5) Approval of the Natural Resources team’s request to add 350SV Palo Alto Climate Team, Cool Block, and the Peninsula Interfaith Climate Action Network as 'publicity only' partners for the July 21, 2021, CCL climate event; the Board also approves asking Acterra to publicize this event. 6) Approval to invite the ACLU and AAUW to cosponsor our August 4th Virtual Speaker Event with guest speaker Larry Diamond. 7) Approval of an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) letter: presidential signature on PAEA letter to PAUSD regarding racial injustice. 8) Approval to adopt a letter to be signed by the president and submitted to the City Council urging completion of the safe gun storage ordinance. 9) Approval of revisions to Sponsorship & Cosponsorship Policy for Level 3 ‘publicity only’ backing to allow greater flexibility for the Communications Team to publicize other organizations’ events. 10) Approval to authorize Alice Smith on behalf of our board to contact Dora Rose, who directs advocacy for the state League, on strategies to support Senate Bill 1 and states confronting voter suppression. Board Discussion and Other Business: The following members will serve as our delegates for the State Convention: 84    Liz Kniss  Nancy Shepherd  Cari Templeton  Karen Kalinsky  Ellen Forbes  Alice Smith  Kathy Miller - Megan Swezey Fogarty, Secretary       Advocacy Reports   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. National LWVUS issued a statement condemning the recent surges in antisemitism and Islamophobia, as appalling and unacceptable. “Certain people, motivated by politics, bigotry, or both, have taken advantage of international conflict to promote hateful and violent acts against Jewish and Muslim Americans…the exploitation of overseas conflict to promote religiously-motivated hate is despicable and weakens America as a nation…” 85 LWVUS issued an election impact report on its activities in the 2020 election, noting that the League joined in more than 70 federal lawsuits to protect and expand the right to vote. With a victory rate of 78% in federal election lawsuits, the League’s court victories protected voting rights for more than 25 million voters. The League also provided trusted election information on its award- winning election website, VOTE411.org, for the first time in Spanish, and worked in the critical Georgia Senate runoff elections. LWVUS issued a statement commending President Biden’s support for the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in his Joint Address to Congress. These measures would protect expansions that made voting more accessible, including vote by mail. These fixes are in jeopardy by state legislatures which have introduced bills that would roll back voter access and create more barriers for voters, making passage of these two federal laws essential to protect the right to vote. The For the People Act also addresses fair and transparent redistricting processes nationwide, to ensure all voters’ voices are heard. State LWV California issued a call to action to support AB 796 (Berman) which would protect gains won in the League’s lawsuits against the DMV to implement the National Voter Registration Act, which requires a state to offer a simultaneous voter registration application at the time of an application for a driver’s license. AB 796 would require the DMV to transmit the voter registration application to the Secretary of State (SOS) by a deadline and provide the SOS information regarding delays, as well as require the SOS to designate an employee to 86   ensure compliance with the National Voter Registration Act and California’s New Motor Voter Program. We urge you to take action to improve Voter Registration at the DMV. The new Racial Justice Act for All (AB 256, Kalra) will extend the Racial Justice Act protections to those who have already been harmed by unjust convictions and sentences. AB 256 is up for a crucial vote on the Assembly floor – tell your Assembly member to vote YES on the Racial Justice Act for All. Local LWV Palo Alto approved a letter to the City Council urging the Council to complete work on a local safe storage of firearms ordinance, which Council authorized back in December 2020. The ordinance would require firearms to be stored unloaded and locked when not in use. - Lisa Ratner, 2nd Vice President and Advocacy Chair     Honoring Three Former LWVPA Presidents Our League lost three former presidents, all long-time LWVPA members, in 2021: Crystal Gamage, Geri Stewart, and Janet Lyman. All were active leaders in our local community and will be greatly missed. 87 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Crystal Gamage (center) with fellow past League Presidents Ellen Forbes (left) and Mary Alice Thornton (right). Crystal Gamage passed away on February 18 at the age of 101. She had served as President of the LWVPA (1957-59), the Palo Alto Historical Association, La Comida and the Avenidas Women’s Auxiliary, as well as Vice President of AAUW and board member of the Museum of American Heritage. She worked on the committee that founded three Palo Alto libraries and later founded the Friends of the Library. She served on the board of Channing House for 23 years and was its first woman president. Read more about Crystal’s contributions to our community from this Palo Alto Weekly article about her Avenidas Lifetime of Achievement Award. "My mother was her authentic self - no hidden agendas - she loved her involvement with her community and all the people she met along the way. She enjoyed her time with the LWVPA and often referred to its good work. She has always inspired me and my sisters and will be in our hearts forever." - Cynthia Gamage, Crystal’s daughter. 88 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Geraldine (Geri) Stewart passed away on April 23 at the age of 100. She joined the LWV in the late 1950’s and was President of LWVPA (1997-98) and also President of the LWV of the Bay Area. She led many initiatives related to publicly-funded health care, preserving open spaces, reclaiming the baylands, and school finance. Geri also served as an election poll worker and captain for over 70 years. Ellen Smith, long-time LWVPA member, recalls that “Geri personified the League in so many ways, and I treasured her and her knowledge of League and so much more. She served as President of LWV Bay Area, for several years I think. The last time I saw her was at a Pro and Con presentation at Channing House, where she was as engaged as ever, reminding us not to let any personal inclinations show through!” To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Janet Lyman passed away on March 18 at the age of 95. She supported her faith in democracy by serving as President of both the 89   LWVPA (1954-55) and the AAUW of Los Altos. She also gave to the community as a committed monthly blood donor and by lending her vocal gifts to dozens and dozens of audio books for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic in Palo Alto. - Lynne Russell, Fundraising Co-Chair       Events from Other Leagues and in the Community   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.page7image3870867440 Asian American Racism through the Eyes of Claudine Wong: One Woman's Journey Tuesday, June 1, 2021 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm The LWV Solano County invites the community to an online event about an important topic: racism and violence directed at the Asian-American community. Presenter and KTVU Anchor Claudine Wong, is uniquely qualified to speak about this vital topic. She helped launch the first weekend morning news show at KTVU, which she still anchors. She also started the station’s first podcast and hosted the 30- 90   minute show Bay Area People, and continues to work on special assignments and reports in addition to anchoring. Claudine Wong has received three news Emmys, a Peabody Award, and a national award from the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as awards from the Associated Press. Wong says, "It has been remarkable to anchor and report in the place I call home. I was born in Oakland, went to elementary school in San Francisco and went to middle and high school in Benicia. I have a great love for the complexity and diversity of the Bay Area and I'm passionate about the role journalists play in society’s conversations. I still consider it a great privilege to shine the light and tell the stories that need to be told."   Register Now     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 2021 Climate Change Risk & Resilience Forum: Countywide Wildfire Risk and Resilience Thursday, June 3, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm The San Mateo County Flood & Sea Level Rise Resiliency District (also known as OneShoreline) is partnering with League of Women Voters in San Mateo County, for a program of public online forums on climate change risk and 91   resiliency. Each forum will focus on a specific region of the Bay shoreline, Pacific Coast, or on wildfires, and will include brief presentations by panelists from the specific region, followed by a Q&A moderated by the League of Women Voters. Forums are held on Thursdays, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. For recordings of past events and information on future joint forums, see this OneShoreline page.   Register Now     To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. The 68th State Convention of the LWV of California Monday, June 7, 2021 - Sunday, June 13, 2021 Last call! It’s not too late to register as a nonvoting attendee, enabling you to attend a wide variety of June 8-10 workshops and observe June 11-13 plenary sessions, for only $25. And anybody, even non-Leaguers, can attend the caucuses for free. Highlights of the caucuses include: June 7 (Monday) 12:00 - 1:00 pm -- Caucuses & Meetings  Health Care: Inequities and Opportunities  Immigration & Deportation 2021: Hope vs. Reality  Caucus for Environmental Justice 92   5:00 - 6:00 pm -- Caucuses & Meetings  High School Civic Engagement Club (Don’t miss LWVPA’s Caucus!) If you register as a nonvoting attendee, please send us a note at lwvpaoffice@gmail.com.     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. America Talks: A Weekend of Connection in the Midst of Deep Division Saturday, June 12, 2021 - Sunday, June 13, 2021 In America today, it can feel difficult to bridge our divides. We might feel tempted to give up or not even try. But this puts America on a shaky path, as we increasingly demean, demonize, and dehumanize each other. Political gridlock and dysfunction, as well as societal and cultural rifts, are only deepening. America Talks is a powerful two-day event that invites Americans to connect one-on-one, face-to-face on video across our political divides. By doing so, we remind ourselves that the “other” is – just like us – a person with family, friends, hopes, fears, values, beliefs, and intrinsic worth. One simple conversation, even if multiplied thousands of times, won’t transform our country. But it’s a start. Face-to-Face Conversations Repair Divides. GI 93   Join this powerful event and speak directly with other Americans seeking to repair divides, restore connection, and find common cause.   Register Now       To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. National Week of Conversation 2021 Monday, June 14, 2021 - Sunday, June 20, 2021 National Week of Conversation 2021, the fourth annual, is powered by the #ListenFirst Coalition of 300+organizations and invites Americans of all stripes to listen, extend grace, and discover common interests. Another courageous step following America Talks, we hope you’ll join this hopeful mission to defeat toxic polarization and heal America by transforming division and contempt into connection and understanding. Together, the #ListenFirst Coalition built and powers National Conversation Project, an overarching, collaborative movement platform to reach farther and impact greater than any one organization, to mainstream conversations in which we #ListenFirst to understand. For a condensed listing of great programs, see here.   GI 94 Register Now       To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. LWVUS For the People Act June Friendbank Wednesday, June 23, 2021 1:30 pm The For the People Act is the most expansive democracy reform legislation we have seen since the Voting Rights Act. This bill will protect voting rights, eliminate dark money in our elections, restore transparency and accountability in our government, and curb partisan and racial gerrymandering once and for all. It is crucial that we all know what it is and how to advocate for its passage. Join us for a friendbank where we will invite our friends, families, and networks to join in this important work to ensure we pass the For the People Act!   Register Now     95   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Healthcare: How Can We Bring Costs Down While Getting the Care We Need? Saturday, Jun 26, 2021 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm LWV Santa Clara County Civil Discourse Committee presents an interactive online forum that delves deep into the following questions:  What do you know about the US healthcare system?  Is it a system or a jumble of uncoordinated, expensive and ineffective elements?  Will the new California healthcare bill fix its problems? Join us for an online discussion to learn and understand the options and tradeoffs.   Register Now     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Deliberations.US: The Electoral College 96   Saturday, June 26, 2021 Multiple one-hour sessions to select from In the United States, we elect our president through the Electoral College. This system has governed presidential elections for our nation’s entire history and, for much of that history, it has been the subject of some controversy. Deliberations.US is bringing Americans together to begin a national discussion on the way we elect presidents—for the first time in American history. You’ll be a part of an hour-long discussion on a specially designed video chat platform. On this platform, you will be assigned to a small, diverse group of fellow Americans. In this group, you’ll learn how the Electoral College works, some of the proposals for changing it, and the arguments for and against those proposals. Read more details here. The first thousand participants who complete the process can request a free coupon for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream!   Register Now       In Case You Missed It   97   LWVPA Annual Meeting A big Thank You to our members who attended the LWVPA Annual Meeting on May 15. It was great to see so many of you and hear your ideas, suggestions and what’s important for your League. To hear Pastor Kaloma Smith’s compelling message on the Power of Community, watch the video recording here.     To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Sea Level Rise and Regional Responses On April 29, the North and Central San Mateo County League of Women Voters and the South San Mateo County LWV hosted a Sea Level Rise forum, the third in a series on climate risk and resilience in San Mateo County. Watch the video recording here. The purpose of the forum was to discuss sea level rise and its effects on residents, businesses, and ecosystems along the bay shoreline from Redwood City to East Palo Alto. OneShoreline CEO Len Materman presented slides showing sea level rise projections as well as planned projects designed to advance flood protection and ecosystem restoration. The areas under discussion were the Cargill Salt ponds, Bayfront Canal, Atherton Channel, and San Francisquito Creek. The Bayfront Canal/Atherton Channel project will begin To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 98   construction in mid-May. East Palo Alto City Council member Lisa Gauthier described how EPA’s residents are disproportionately affected by rising tides and why she joined the OneShoreline board. 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From Voter Recipient List Our mailing address is: League of Women Voters Palo Alto 3921 E Bayshore Rd Ste 209 Palo Alto, CA 94303-4303 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp          105 Baumb, Nelly From:Sierra Club <reply@emails.sierraclub.org> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 4:25 AM To:Council, City Subject:Save the memories... not the car CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. 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.Donate your vehicle to the Sierra Club Foundation. Dear Supporter, Donating a vehicle you no longer need to the Sierra Club Foundation can have a lasting impact on our work advancing climate solutions, fighting for clean air and water, and keeping our wild places wild. Together, we can build a future we all want to share. It's Easy! Donate Today. Donate today by calling 855-337-4377 or visit sierraclubfoundation.careasy.org. Our partners at CARS will handle the rest— including picking up your vehicle from any location, no matter its condition, and at no cost to you. Whether it's running or not, CARS accepts your truck, trailer, boat, motorcycle, or other vehicle. And you may qualify for a tax deduction. Thank you, The Sierra Club Foundation GI GI 107 Baumb, Nelly From:Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 1:56 AM To:Aram James Cc:Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Planning Commission; ParkRec Commission; Joe Simitian; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; chuck jagoda; Roberta Ahlquist; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; city.council@menlopark.org; DuBois, Tom; GRP-City Council; Cormack, Alison Subject:Re: Chair’s letter of Solidarity with the People of Palestine | Anthropology CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Although I was cc'd on this note, I do not support it.  There are several factual errors in this letter. First, Israel has not  expanded its lands at any time since founding except to the extent that it gained some land after defending wars that  were started by Jordan and other Arab neighbors (most notably the War of 67).      Second, Palestinians have the same color skin as most Israelis ‐ the race "divide" is nothing like the United States.     Third, the balance of inequities is backwards. It is Jews who were slaves in the Middle East, while Arabs often were the  slaveholders. Arabs (the category to which Palestinians belong) have a history of persecuting Jews over centuries that  cannot be denied. Palestinian Arabs complain of one "injustice" ‐‐ the fact that Jews were allowed to return to the  Jewish homeland in 1948 after being nationless ‐‐ and subject to genocide ‐‐ for centuries.     Fourth, calling Palestinians refugees belies the fact that the very reason for the creation of the state of Israel was that no  country in the world was willing to accept Jewish survivors after the Holocaust ‐‐ not the UK, not the US, and certainly  not any Arab nation. When Jews were allowed to settle in their historic homeland, they did displace 750,000 Arabs who  had been living there at the time. Those 750,000 Arabs, however, came from families that previously had displaced  Jews! How does one return a homeland to its people without displacing those who displaced the indigenous  people.  Because Jews ARE the people indigenous to Israel.     Fifth, the reference to the millions of displaced Palestinians is a fraction of the number of Jews who were exiled from  Arab countries and Israel. For example, in the 10 years after the founding of the state of Israel, more than a million Jews  who had been peacefully living in nearby Arab countries and Iran were exiled, even though there was no reason for that  exile other than spite. See. e.g. https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1881&context=ilj  (which is  not an Israeli source but rather, a US law review article).     Sixth, and most troubling, is the continued reference to Israel's existence as "occupation." Jews have a historic claim to  the land of Israel (a claim older than Muslims), and Jews ‐‐ who amount to 13 million total as contrasted with the world's  1.8 billion Arab population ‐‐ require a Jewish state in order to avoid extinction, given the fact that Jews lack anywhere  else to live safely.     Most importantly ‐ this must be understood ‐ rhetoric such as in the letter Aram sent around demands the destruction  of the state of Israel. According to the Free Palestine movement, Palestininians cannot be "free" as long as Jews are  allowed to have their small Jewish state ‐ a postage stamp size plot of land on a football field of Arab countries. And if  Israel is destroyed, there is no safe place for Jews to go.      See this quora thread for a chorus of insight:   https://www.quora.com/When‐people‐say‐Free‐Palestine‐do‐they‐mean‐West‐bank‐and‐Gaza‐or‐the‐whole‐region‐of‐ Palestine  108   And watch this troubling documentary video:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgwtQlwK‐hA    Finally, although I am not a fan of many actions taken by the current Israeli government, I find it frightening that once  again the dominant caste is using Israel's current right‐wing, but *democratic* government as a justification to destroy  the country in totality. When the United States had a terrible President ‐ most recently, Trump ‐ no one seriously argued  that the US should be eliminated as a country for that reason.     If the Free Palestinian movement gets its wish and Israel is destroyed, half of the world's Jewish population ‐ which  currently resides in Israel ‐ will likely be murdered, for the second time in less than a century. Let's try to avoid that.     I'm not sure what this has to do with the Palo Alto City Council, but I send my response regardless, despite the fact that  doing so is likely to result in my being called lots of mean names, and possibly threatened with harm as well, as  happened last time I attempted to speak out on this issue. I survived then, and I'll survive this time too.    Thanks,   Rebecca    Rebecca L. Eisenberg Esq.  www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg  www.winwithrebecca.com  rebecca@winwithrebecca.com  415-235-8078      On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 9:16 PM Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote:  FYI:   https://anthropology.berkeley.edu/chair’s‐letter‐solidarity‐people‐palestine      Sent from my iPhone  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: 06/14/2021 Document dates: 05/26/2021 – 06/02/2021 Set 2 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 109 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Monday, May 31, 2021 10:48 PM To:alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; Loran Harding; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; Steven Feinstein; 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; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net; sanchezphilip21@gmail.com; lalws4@gmail.com Subject:Fwd: Duration of immunity to Covid19. Hopeful. Dr. John Campbell, UK 5-30-21 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, May 31, 2021 at 10:34 PM  Subject: Fwd: Duration of immunity to Covid19. Hopeful. Dr. John Campbell, UK 5‐30‐21  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, May 31, 2021 at 10:23 PM  Subject: Fwd: Duration of immunity to Covid19. Hopeful. Dr. John Campbell, UK 5‐30‐21  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, May 30, 2021 at 5:15 PM  Subject: Duration of immunity to Covid19. Hopeful. Dr. John Campbell, UK 5‐30‐21  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                   Monday, May 31, 2021     Big News!!                      To all‐   This is hopeful. Dr. Campbell discusses the duration of immunity to Covid19 after infection and/or the  vaccine.  The best is infection, recovery and then both shots.      110             He discusses the immune system in detail and shows how it is more than antibodies that provide protection. He  discusses cells in the bone marrow providing protection.                 Important study is discussed. Anybody involved in Covid19 research will want to see this.                Am I communicating that this vid. is worth watching?  You'll soon see that this is important. If you have been fully  vaccinated, this vid. may well change your thinking about how good your protection will be going forward. Is that worth  30 min. of your time?              Sunday update ‐ YouTube                 L. William Harding              Fresno, Ca.  111 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, May 31, 2021 10:33 PM To:Honky Subject:PLEASE ADVISE ME IF YOU WANT TO BE TAKEN OFF MY LIST LCfor9/11.org (9/11 EXHIBITS NOW IT'S IN THE COURTS HANDS) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  THANK YOU FOR FRIENDING ME BROTHERS AND SISTERS If ever a QUESTION or just need a chat LEAN ON ME I'll back atcha ASAP In Any Event KEEP STRONG BROTHERS AND SISTERS DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS PLEASE SHARE ALL THE TRUTH YOU DISCOVER WITH EVERYONE ALL YOUR LIFE ................,............. .........................THAT NEVER ENDS :) <3 WE ARE OVER A MILLION STRONG NOW David R. Meiswinkle Esq. Hosts the Lawyers' Committee 9/11 Anniversary Event 2020    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In David R. Meiswinkle Esq. Hosts the Lawyers' Committee 9/11 Anniversary E...    https://youtu.be/ltSOTkWsAfA Patriots Pushing Back: "The Post 9/11 Police State" 112    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In Patriots Pushing Back: "The Post 9/11 Police State"    Lawyers Committee for 911 Inquiry, Supporting LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR 9/11 INQUIRY INCORPORATED    Lawyers Committee for 911 Inquiry, Supporting LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR 9/11... The Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry is a non profit organization dedicated to government transparency and acc...    9/11 REMEMBER NEVER FORGET 19 YEARS HAVE PASSED AND NOW WE ARE CLOSE TO REVEALING MANY TRUTHS ABOUT 9/11 IN A COURT OF LAW THAT IF AMERICANS ARE AWARE WILL CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY * LETS GO VIRAL WITH READILY AVAILABLE INFORMATION OF THE EXHIBITS PROVIDED TO THE COURTS FOR A GRAND JURY RULING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHtCRFCmwmQ&feature=youtu.be 113 Ongoing Suppression Of 9/11 Truth -The Last American Vagabond interviews David R. Meiswinkle 4/18/20    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In Ongoing Suppression Of 9/11 Truth -The Last American Vagabond interviews...    https://www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org/ NY Fire Commissioner Christopher Gioia at Lawyers' Committee 9/11 Anniversary Event 2020    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In NY Fire Commissioner Christopher Gioia at Lawyers' Committee 9/11 Annive...    The Anthrax Petition - Lawyers' Committee at Justice Rising 9/11 with Richard Gage 114    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In The Anthrax Petition - Lawyers' Committee at Justice Rising 9/11 with Ri...       To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In The Anthrax Petition - Lawyers' Committee at Justice Rising 9/11 with Ri...    LC Announces New Grand Jury Petition Seeking Anthrax Probe on Jason Goodman's Crowdsource the Truth    115 To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In LC Announces New Grand Jury Petition Seeking Anthrax Probe on Jason Good...    https://www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org/ Ongoing Suppression Of 9/11 Truth -The Last American Vagabond interviews David R. Meiswinkle 4/18/20    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In Ongoing Suppression Of 9/11 Truth -The Last American Vagabond interviews...   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQbEeExutR4vR4pEFmQUJw/ So a friend says to me "It was only two years ago that I decided to click on a FB link and see if I might be convinced 911 was an inside job. Of course, it's undeniable with so much evidence. You actually feel stupid for not seeing it then but now, you see it everywhere. Clear as day. Funny how it only takes one little wake up call and you can never go back" And another friend RESPONDED to my friend says " I wish more people had your objectivity and would be willing to just spend ten minutes reading the facts that show exactly that 9/11 was an inside job. Too many people, I think out of fear, refuse to even listen to someone who merely suggests these facts to them. If they would, they know their safe little bubble would cease to exist and they would be forced to face the reality of what we are dealing with in this country. Only "magical thinking" that if one denies a truth, it no longer exists, which has permeated our society with the pop psychology of "that is YOUR reality, not mine" that leads the sheep to this denial of fact and therefore blissful apathy and willful ignorance" * * * RE-THINK 9/11 FIND IT IN YOUR HEARTS TO SHARE THIS DISCOVERY AND "CHANGE" THE WORLD WITH ME BROTHERS AND SISTERS ࢚࢛࢜࢝࢞࢟ࢠ ࢚࢛࢜࢝࢞࢟ࢠ ANATOMY OF A GREAT DECEPTION (NEW and UPDATED Sept 2014 David Hooper) ANATOMY OF A GREAT DECEPTION (NEW and UPDATED Sept 2014 David Hooper) 116    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In ANATOMY OF A GREAT DECEPTION (NEW and UPDATED Sept 2014 David Hooper)    9 11 BURNED CARS POINT to BROOKHAVEN Energy Weapon    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In 9 11 BURNED CARS POINT to BROOKHAVEN Energy Weapon    bollyn.com https://www.bollyn.com/ “Today, the United States of America is by all appearances an Israeli-occupied state. The U.S. Congress dutifully authorizes the annual payment of an immense tribute to Israel, some three thousand million dollars a year. Like a subservient colony, the United States provides hundreds of thousands of young men and women to fight and die as mercenaries in Zionist-planned wars in the Middle East * * "We are led to believe that we are in a democracy with a free press. When the evidence shows that we have neither. We're in a very serious situation.” * * * “It's very painful... I see a lot of poverty. I see a lot of spiritual poverty. This is a nation that has been deceived and abused. And you can't be a happy people when your reality is based on deception... we're causing incredible harm to countries like Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan... but the other side of the sword is cutting us.” * * * “Zionist control of the media was essential in shaping public opinion and directing the anger and blame at Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida. The controlled politicians dutifully parroted the media version, which quickly became the “party line” of both parties. Dissent was quashed. Politicians, academics, and journalists who expressed doubts or raised questions about what really happened were treated like pariahs and removed from their positions.” * * * “We have evidence of thermite. Osama bin Laden didn't put thermite in the ~------ 117 buildings.” “Ninety-five percent of the work of the intelligence agencies around the world is deception and disinformation," * * * “Although 9-11 is disguised and interpreted by the government and media as an act of terrorism carried out by Islamic fanatics, the evidence indicates that it was a carefully planned false-flag attack carried out by the Israeli military after years of planning and preparation.” * * * Hellerstein and Chertoff have both facilitated the 9/11 cover up and obstructed justice for the families of the victims with their improper conduct. Brazen and shameless, they are confident their misdeeds will be ignored and that they will be remain protected and supported by the larger Zionist network that controls the U.S. government.” * * * “If Osama Bin Laden and 19 Arab hijackers truly brought down the World Trade Center, why was a network of Israeli intelligence agents engaged in a concerted effort to destroy the evidence?” “Both Werthebach and von Bülow said the lack of a complete "blue ribbon" investigation, with congressional hearings, into the events of September 11 was incomprehensible. These men made more sense to me than anyone in the U.S. government or media.” * * * “Only by understanding that Blair and his New Labour Party were financed and controlled by Israeli interests can one understand how Blair was manipulated to support such a reckless and criminal scheme. Similar Zionist forces were at work on Bush.” * * * “Odigo, an Israeli-owned company, had its U.S. headquarters two blocks from the World Trade Center, but the forewarned Odigo employees did not pass the terror warning on to the authorities in New York, an act that would have saved thousands of lives." * * * “I'm sorry if Fox news hasn't told you this.... that doesn't mean it's not true.” * * * * https://www.holdmyark.com/.../christopher-bollyn-explains Chris Bollyn: Israel behind the 9-11 attacks-- and Iraq wars.    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In Chris Bollyn: Israel behind the 9-11 attacks-- and Iraq wars.    9/11 MASTER TRUTH TELLER - CHRISTOPHER BOLLYN    118 9/11 MASTER TRUTH TELLER - CHRISTOPHER BOLLYN    Christopher Bollyn: Making Sense of the War on Terror    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In Christopher Bollyn: Making Sense of the War on Terror    9/11 Facts: The World Trade Center and The 9/11 Attacks * 911Truth.Org provides investigative reporting, scholarly research and public education regarding the September 11th attacks since 2004 * * 9/11 Facts: The World Trade Center and The 9/11 Attacks | 911Truth.Org 9/11 Facts: The World Trade Center and The 9/11 Attacks | 911Truth.Org 911Truth.Org provides investigative reporting, scholarly research and public education regarding the September 1...     David R. Meiswinkle Esq. Hosts the Lawyers' Committee 9/11 Anniversary Event 2020 David R. Meiswinkle Esq. Hosts the Lawyers' Committee 9/11 Anniversary Event 2020 119    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In David R. Meiswinkle Esq. Hosts the Lawyers' Committee 9/11 Anniversary E...    https://youtu.be/ltSOTkWsAfA 120 Baumb, Nelly From:Winter Dellenbach <wintergery@earthlink.net> Sent:Monday, May 31, 2021 3:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:Public comment - Matadero Creek - needed update CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi Council members ‐     Perhaps the City Manager will have news Tuesday about the Matadero Creek spill, but if not, here is my reminder  so this matter doesn’t slip off the radar.     I won’t be at Tuesday’s Council meeting and there hasn’t been a City update issued since Friday eve, May 21.      The spill containment booms remain in place as of Monday, May 31,  Three and a half weeks since the spill.     There has been no actual water or soil test data given to you or the public. Obviously an array of test results are  known because responders need it to ‐ well ‐ respond and clean‐up. It’s surely been released by the VAs contract  testing service to it, Fish and Game and our City’s lead, the Fire Dept., and to our City Mgr. If it’s good enough for  them, its good enough for you, our elected representatives, and the people of Barron Park and the rest of the public.     Updates should parallel new information and be posted to us. Conclusions are not information. Conclusions follow  information and are based on it. No more of this “within normal limits” vagueness.    As I keep saying ‐ location of testing, scaling of results (don’t know I am using the correct term but you get the idea)  interpretation of test results so the public can understand what the tests showed of water and soil over time and  location, up and down stream.     I hope this does turn out better than worse, but we will only know if we are fully informed with real data,  information etc. Please don’t accept less.     Thanks‐   Winter Dellenbach  Barron Park            121 Baumb, Nelly From:Tom Holzer <tom.holzer@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, May 31, 2021 1:35 PM To:Council, City Subject:Hello again CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Yesterday I emailed you a complaint about the noisy and illegal fireworks in San Mateo County in the Newell Street  Bridge area. I had an idea this morning while walking my dog Bailey along Edgewood Drive near Newell.  Around 10:45  AM (Yes, in the morning), someone detonated an especially loud firework. Not only did it spook Bailey, I could hear dogs  barking in many nearby houses.     My suggestion is that Palo Alto offer a significant reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the  scofflaws that are setting off these fireworks.    Tom Holzer (and Bailey)  15 Phillips Road  122 Baumb, Nelly From:Jennifer Landesmann <jlandesmann@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, May 30, 2021 4:15 PM To:Rohini Chakravarthy Cc:Deborah S Rose M.D.; Bob Wenzlau; crescent-park-pa; Council, City Subject:[CPNA] Fwd: Meeting of May 24 - Agenda Item 7 - Objection to GreenWaste Contract CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Awhile back I signed up for what looked like a promising way to handle frequently used items that come in plastic, it  wasn’t available in our area and now I can’t find the link. It was a way to turn say my Tide plastic containers back to a  store for re‐use.    It may have been related to Terracycle or Loop.     https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/12/business/loop‐reusable‐shopping‐national‐launch‐risk‐ takers/index.html    It will ultimately matter on how much this is of value to people and the more who are interested the more options will  hopefully appear.    Jennifer       On Sunday, May 30, 2021, Rohini Chakravarthy <rohini.chakravarthy@gmail.com> wrote:  There was a recent CBS program on an innovative young woman in Kenya working on making bricks from plastic waste..  https://www.cbsnews.com/video/innovative-young-kenyan-scientist-is-turning-nairobis-mountain-of-plastic-waste-into-paving-bricks/   The sight of the mountains of waste choking Kenyan rivers is chilling and it is about to get worse as the US is making  accepting US plastic waste a condition of the new US Kenya trade deal.    As Bob has articulated, it is imperative that we figure out how to keep our waste here and find ways to solve the waste  problem rather than just shipping it overseas. Many of these countries don’t want our waste as they are already  drowning in theirs, but “he with the gold makes the rules” if we choose to not stop it at the point of waste production  here in Palo Alto (and the rest of the  US)  Rohini        ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Bob Wenzlau <bob@wenzlau.net>  Date: Sat, May 22, 2021 at 11:23 AM  Subject: Meeting of May 24 ‐ Agenda Item 7 ‐ Objection to GreenWaste Contract  To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>    Council members,     123 I object to the approval of the GreenWaste Recovery contract without provision to  address and assure that our mixed paper and plastics do not go overseas.  This issue  has been raised as  a comment to the Negative Declaration, a comment that was  discounted by the consultant to allow the contract to proceed.    GreenWaste has not addressed the question raised for several years by Staff and  community about the disposition of waste materials shipped overseas.  Palo Alto  celebrates the recovery of these materials in our sustainability and compliance  documents, but it is very likely these materials cause social and environmental  impact.  GreenWaste will claim that the materials are handled by brokers, and once in  the hands of a broker, they cannot assure or control final disposition.  Their reports on  the fate of materials have been inadequate, and not shared with Council or the  community.  Staff reports have been anecdotal, and Council should ask where is the  report that was promised by Staff to Council. This should be reviewed prior to  contract approval.    We have a strong Sustainability and Climate Action Plan.  However, there is a  likelihood (we simply do not know) that the mixed waste paper and portions of our  plastic wastes are burned, poorly disposed and cause climate impact as well as  pollution.  This has been well documented, and covered both by the Weekly, and  international press. We chose not to calculate this impact in our S/CAP.    The GreenWaste contract be amended to prohibit the shipment of any recovered  waste products internationally.  This would include mixed plastic pellets that are now  created from our mixed plastics (we don't know where they go), and mixed or  corrugated paper (likely sent to the Philippines or Vietnam).  This fulfillment of this  requirement should be documented by the contractor as a contract provision.    While Staff disagrees that landfilling of mixed paper or plastic is preferable to sending  overseas, I disagree.   To hold our own wastes regionally rather than consign them to  a ship internationally is ethically and likely environmentally superior.   International  transportation creates climate impact, and then disposing paper and plastics into  economies with primitive environment standards and no enforcement.  Imagine our  plastic pellets being used as fuel ‐ we simply do not know. This is a classic out‐of‐sight,  out‐of‐mine escape of responsible environmental management.    The Negative Declaration associated with my comments merely reflected the  importance to staff to obtain a contract, and much more effort was placed with a  consultant arriving at a rationale to discount the concern than working with  GreenWaste to implement a reasonable policy and contract requirement.     I urge the Council to direct Staff to adjust the contract to reflect no international  shipments of Palo Alto's solid waste.  This contract does not begin until January 2022,  there is time to get these policies inserted.     Thank you for considering my comments to the GreenWaste contract.     Bob         ‐‐   124   Bob Wenzlau  bob@wenzlau.net  650‐248‐4467        ‐‐     Bob Wenzlau  bob@wenzlau.net  650‐248‐4467        ‐‐     Bob Wenzlau  bob@wenzlau.net  650‐248‐4467  ‐‐   You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crescent  Park PA" group.  To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to  crescent‐park‐pa+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.  To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/crescent‐ park‐pa/CAGEuHN6‐ 9bJhCJr%2BQZamOW8b5PAj7ULPVHADCqDR%2BEnBKk%3DpcQ%40mail.gmail.com.  ‐‐   You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crescent Park PA" group.  To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to crescent‐park‐ pa+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.  To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/crescent‐park‐ 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CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    All I heard booing was one or two arseholes over in the corners. Some were whistling in approval, but most were  chattering amongst themselves that something so wonderful had happened to liven up a distracting and painfully boring  baseball game.  Just like the football and basketball leagues, we now know that the baseball leagues stand with those  who would take a knee.  This is more evidence that the sports leagues were started to keep Americans stupid and  distracted from the real issues !!!   I wonder how many of these baseball fans, who know all the stats of the players,  know that as of 2015, that $21 TRILLION has gone missing from the DOD & HUD, and will be tacked onto the National  Debt for their GGGGrandchildren to deal with. And would they even care ?   Not as long as they can watch other people  playing a game, and eat a hot dog with gawd knows what in it.  Anyway, KUDOS to the guys with the banner, and it’s a shame there aren’t millions more like them !!!    https://www.westernjournal.com/trump‐supporter‐handcuffed‐kicked‐yankee‐stadium‐displaying‐trump‐won‐banner/      Best Regards, & Stay Healthy, Wealthy & Wise.  RJS  126 Baumb, Nelly From:Tom Holzer <tom.holzer@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, May 30, 2021 1:46 PM To:Council, City Subject:Noises in the night CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council members    I am writing on behalf of the silent majority that is extremely irritated each night by the "pirate" fireworks in San Mateo  County near San Francisquito Creek (Newell Street Bridge area). Many of these are set off close to the creek so the noise  is very loud in Palo Alto. I realize the ignitions are in another jurisdiction, but I would hope that you are working with  authorities in San Mateo County to curtail the fireworks.  The explosions are not only irritating to humans, but are often  scary to pets (my dog being one example), to say nothing of the potential fire danger. I suspect that non  participatory San Mateo County residents are equally irritated and sleepless    These fireworks have been a problem for years. It is my understanding that fireworks like this are illegal in California so  that the challenge is one of enforcing the law. Please give enforcement (along with an appropriate sound source  technology) a priority!     Thank you for your attention to this vexing challenge.    Tom Holzer  15 Phillips Road   127 Baumb, Nelly From:Rohini Chakravarthy <rohini.chakravarthy@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, May 30, 2021 12:38 PM To:Deborah S Rose M.D.; Bob Wenzlau Cc:crescent-park-pa; Council, City Subject:Re: [CPNA] Re: Meeting of May 24 - Agenda Item 7 - Objection to GreenWaste Contract CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  There was a recent CBS program on an innovative young woman in Kenya working on making bricks from plastic waste..   https://www.cbsnews.com/video/innovative-young-kenyan-scientist-is-turning-nairobis-mountain-of-plastic-waste-into-paving-bricks/   The sight of the mountains of waste choking Kenyan rivers is chilling and it is about to get worse as the US is making  accepting US plastic waste a condition of the new US Kenya trade deal.    As Bob has articulated, it is imperative that we figure out how to keep our waste here and find ways to solve the waste  problem rather than just shipping it overseas. Many of these countries don’t want our waste as they are already  drowning in theirs, but “he with the gold makes the rules” if we choose to not stop it at the point of waste production  here in Palo Alto (and the rest of the  US)  Rohini        ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Bob Wenzlau <bob@wenzlau.net>  Date: Sat, May 22, 2021 at 11:23 AM  Subject: Meeting of May 24 ‐ Agenda Item 7 ‐ Objection to GreenWaste Contract  To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>    Council members,     I object to the approval of the GreenWaste Recovery contract without provision to  address and assure that our mixed paper and plastics do not go overseas.  This issue  has been raised as  a comment to the Negative Declaration, a comment that was  discounted by the consultant to allow the contract to proceed.    GreenWaste has not addressed the question raised for several years by Staff and  community about the disposition of waste materials shipped overseas.  Palo Alto  celebrates the recovery of these materials in our sustainability and compliance  documents, but it is very likely these materials cause social and environmental  impact.  GreenWaste will claim that the materials are handled by brokers, and once in  the hands of a broker, they cannot assure or control final disposition.  Their reports on  the fate of materials have been inadequate, and not shared with Council or the  community.  Staff reports have been anecdotal, and Council should ask where is the  report that was promised by Staff to Council. This should be reviewed prior to contract  approval.    128 We have a strong Sustainability and Climate Action Plan.  However, there is a likelihood  (we simply do not know) that the mixed waste paper and portions of our plastic wastes  are burned, poorly disposed and cause climate impact as well as pollution.  This has  been well documented, and covered both by the Weekly, and international press. We  chose not to calculate this impact in our S/CAP.    The GreenWaste contract be amended to prohibit the shipment of any recovered  waste products internationally.  This would include mixed plastic pellets that are now  created from our mixed plastics (we don't know where they go), and mixed or  corrugated paper (likely sent to the Philippines or Vietnam).  This fulfillment of this  requirement should be documented by the contractor as a contract provision.    While Staff disagrees that landfilling of mixed paper or plastic is preferable to sending  overseas, I disagree.   To hold our own wastes regionally rather than consign them to a  ship internationally is ethically and likely environmentally superior.   International  transportation creates climate impact, and then disposing paper and plastics into  economies with primitive environment standards and no enforcement.  Imagine our  plastic pellets being used as fuel ‐ we simply do not know. This is a classic out‐of‐sight,  out‐of‐mine escape of responsible environmental management.    The Negative Declaration associated with my comments merely reflected the  importance to staff to obtain a contract, and much more effort was placed with a  consultant arriving at a rationale to discount the concern than working with  GreenWaste to implement a reasonable policy and contract requirement.     I urge the Council to direct Staff to adjust the contract to reflect no international  shipments of Palo Alto's solid waste.  This contract does not begin until January 2022,  there is time to get these policies inserted.     Thank you for considering my comments to the GreenWaste contract.     Bob         ‐‐     Bob Wenzlau  bob@wenzlau.net  650‐248‐4467        ‐‐     Bob Wenzlau  bob@wenzlau.net  650‐248‐4467        ‐‐   129   Bob Wenzlau  bob@wenzlau.net  650‐248‐4467  ‐‐   You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crescent  Park PA" group.  To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to  crescent‐park‐pa+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.  To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/crescent‐ park‐pa/CAGEuHN6‐ 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Date: Sunday, may 30, 2021  Subject: Asian American Power Is Necessary to Make AAPI Women Fully Visible ‐   Source: Ms. Magazine    MAKE AAPI WOMEN FULLY VISIBLE    https://msmagazine.com/2021/05/28/asian‐american‐power‐aapi‐women/      131 Baumb, Nelly From:Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> Sent:Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:17 PM To:rua Cc:Council, City; markhamplazata@gmail.com; vagabondinnsunnyvale@gmail.com; david.rose@aog.ca.gov Subject:Please Publish CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      Begin forwarded message:  From: Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>  Date: 5/29/2021  To: gary.goodman@pdo.sccgov.org  Cc: jeff.smith@ceo.sccgov.org,Christopher Welsh  <cwelshlaw@gmail.com>,supreme.court@jud.ca.gov,Bill Robinson  <bill@sdap.org>,sixth.district@jud.ca.gov,joe.simitian@bos.sccgov.org,karim.kahwaji@ssa.sccgov.org,ro bert.rocca@hhs.sccgov.org,Brian McComas <mccomas.b.c@gmail.com>,markhamplazata@gmail.com  Subject: Gary Goodman ‐ ( Securities & Exchange Commission )  Hi Gary,    PC 1368 requires substantial evidence & there most certainly was substantial delays going to trial &  substantial injuries incurred by Heidi.   As you may recall,  there was internal affairs complaint ‐ 2015‐09  & each alegsation sent to IA, was also forwarded to the public defender for investigation for the usual  reasons: Parallel investigations with continent data should yield continguent results?   Somehow  however , the results of the IA complaint yielded  number of findings inconsistent with number of  allegations so something is not lining up.    There are also significant gaps in the fact that the Public Defender did not even conduct an investigation  , ( aside from the quasi investigation by George Abel in 1‐12‐CV226958 , which is civil case , which  contained the fraudulent declaration by Robert Ridgeway , naming person named "Andrew Crittenden" ,  which of course, is not me.  Nor was he police officer at the time.    I may not be an attorney,  but there  was no reference to any law enforcement duties & the bastard did not appear in court. Neither did  "Andrew Crittenden" , I should know.  I was witness.     So without an investigation being conducted by the public defenders office , and incomplete output  from IA investigation, how did you ariive at the conclusion that there was "substantial evidence" enough  to claim doubt , yet none of this evidence ever materialized in discovery?     Aleksandra Ridgeway reported seeing people that were not there & detective David Carroll validated  there existsance in his police false police report.    Carroll was somehow cleared and became crime  scene investigator over officer involved shootings & cleared the officers.  If Alexandra Ridgeway had  shot at one of the "imaginary people", and killed a child, or whatever, Carroll would have cleared her.     132 Now we have an issue with recent "Measure" regarding "Laura's Law" ,  which requires all voting  members of board of suoervisors, if there is conflict,  are obligated to recuse themselves from.    And Jeff  Smith carefully used the phrase "Magic Bullet" instead of "Magic Cure".     A few days later,  there is massacre at Guadape Bus Yard  and "all that ammunition stored up", etc.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUwyLnCYdsI    Am I missing something or are you?    I     Also, I sent an email, to you a while back mentioning possible interest in this issue by the Secuties and  Exchange Commission.     It is quite interesting how there is corruption investigation into sheriffs department by DA regarding  "secure companies and gun permits" and also noted that "Robert Ridgeway:, who fraudulently procured  HUD subsidies in collusion with public guardian worked for security company & with SVSP security hired  by "KY LE" ,     At the vagabond Inn, everything seamed OK for the most part except for the food.   Their was very  peculiar change in behavior of the operational staff which docurntation verifies,  occurred in August of  2020, when Ky LE was promoted to Deputy County Executive.   This wreaks of fish worse than the food  wreaks of vomit.     There was was sudden change in security companies & on the first day, they were acompanied by Adult  Protective Services.  This pattern was offset by a split between the silvertrak reporting systems used by  the two companies.  The second security company, documented coexistent behavioral problems.      Funding provided for behavioral health services is separate from the FEMA funding and allocated  separately.    This may explain why security guards & staff document "behavioral issues"  while Sunnyvale PD  documents the same as a "FISCAL" matter.    There aopears to be a viral epidemic of procurement fraud spreading, which if not properly diagnosed,  may have  severe socio ecomenic impact.       BTW, The gun problem at Markham Plaza , which Detective David Carroll covered up & was then made  into "mental health issue" to fraudulently procure HUD funding, is not something that can be ignored at  this point.     It needs to be known, and I must make the record by reminding you all, that ;last II knew, Carroll was  working for VTA, sheriff division.                   Begin forwarded message:  133 From: Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>  Date: 5/29/2021  To: Christopher Welsh <cwelshlaw@gmail.com>  Subject: Additional discovery  Hi Chris,     Brian McComas claims to have discovered new evidence that fraud was committed &  that I was homeless and mentally ill during trial.   I need discovery of which particular  days I was "mentally ill' and which particular days I was "homeless". ‐  There was no  mental health diagnosis, and I was also tending to Heidi 's care & her medication  required refrigeration.   I was barely able to testify because I was on medication .    I had no diagnosis or mental health condition & any doctor who would have prescribed  medication should have warned me of side effects of not being able to  testify.  Misdiagnosis of course, would be cause for malpractice law suit.   Proof of this  homelessness is needed because it would have meant that the refrigerator that Heidi's  medication was being stored in was unplugged from being out doors, and she certainly  could not carry it our drag ig around without incurring injury.  I could not bring  refrigerator to court because it would have been too big to fit through metal detector.    If Brian McComas is telling the truth, the above must also be true.  My responsibility to  keep track of dosages ( and other measurements ) such as time , space , docket registry  unit , etc, are continguent to each other in (BOTH CASES), with DV and previous     Brian McComas stetted these as matter of fact & that he was captain of the  ship.  Therefore, "as facts", he would not conceal them would he?  Surely the captain ,  having my best interest in heart would not go overboard.     Also, what if I missed a dose or two?   He must have bee.n keeping track better than me  to have been able to over ride my statements.  If McComas's statement is true, that  judges and attorneys statements count as evidence?  Evidence of Fact or evidence of  "Malpractice?"      If any sort of malpractice caused Heidi's situation, it needs be brought to light.     Thank you,  Cary Andrew Crittenden            Regards,  Cary Andrew Crittenden    Begin forwarded message:  From: Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>  Date: 5/29/2021  To: derrick.brigham@pts.sccgov.org  Cc: knguyen@sunnyvaleca.gov  Subject: Follow up  134 Hi officer Brigham,    We are supposed to meet with Federal Agents next week as we are still  not being allowed into our home.    Constitution guarantees one can not be deprives of property, including  alocation of federal subsidies without due process ( Extortion by  mobsters is not due proccess ). and feds are engaging because of  constitutional deprivation & also because county is fraudulently  procuring federal funds & misallocating these resources..    I am informing you because yesterday, while trying to enjoy breakfast at  Denny's , we were approached by SVSP Security Guard , followed by  County Social Workers from Vagabond Inn ‐ 816 West Ahwanee Avenue,  Sunnyvale.    For our safety and protection, I videotaped the incident &  one of the social workers claimed that we were kicked out because I  was "Selling Drugs" ‐  A video of one of the Sunnyvale Police officers,  "Kelly Gnuyen"  gave entirely different reasons , referiing  to fiscal  matters.  and both of these differ from what was presented on paper (  Felony falsification of public record ) with fabricated circumstances ,  which in reality, were completely  out of my control. )      If there were any truth to it:     1.)   I would not be insisting on due process,      2.). They would have followed through with request for proof.  They  have nothing.                              (Btw, this was 7 months ago)    Respectfully,   Cary Andrew Crittenden  135 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, May 29, 2021 3:14 PM To:Tanaka, Greg; Joe Simitian; Human Relations Commission; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Planning Commission; ParkRec Commission; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Raj; chuck jagoda; Council, City; Rebecca Eisenberg; city.council@menlopark.org; winter dellenbach; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Greer Stone; DuBois, Tom; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; GRP-City Council; Roberta Ahlquist; Binder, Andrew Subject:California’s Novel Attempt at Land Reparations | The New Yorker. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    FYI: Can Palo Alto step to the plate can Santa Clara County step to the plate and have a thoughtful and intelligent  conversation coming from integrity on reparations owed African Americans and their descents right here in Palo Alto  and in Santa Clara County?  Please ‐ain’t it well past time ‐to confront this issue? I can promise u it won’t go away ..the longer we wait the more the  reparations will justifiably cost ...if LA County and the state of California can do the right thing for the Black decedents of  the Bruce Family in Tony Manhattan Beach‐we need to do the same. BTW see just how lame the Manhattan City Council  acted in this matter. If it seems eerily similar to the actions of the Palo Alto City Council on all but the most token and  symbolic gestures re race issues in our city with non action re our rogue police department —and our county DA’s  continued failure to file appropriate criminal charges against racist and repeat offenders of the PAPD...don’t be  surprised!!!    Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend!    Aram “let’s stop the coverup of the Zack Perron matter”James    https://www.newyorker.com/news/us‐journal/californias‐novel‐attempt‐at‐land‐reparations      136 Baumb, Nelly From:Kelly Kobza <kkobza@mac.com> Sent:Saturday, May 29, 2021 2:41 PM 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.  ________________________________    There is no reason to open University to cars. The way traffic flows now is working just fine. There is plenty of parking in  public parking lots. The calm community sense of being whilst walking both University Ave and Cal Ave without cars is so  much more valuable to Palo Alto, than the perceived convenience of allow cars on the closed roads. This is a silver lining  of the pandemic and should be made the new norm. How lovely to have these two pedestrian zones.  Keep them closed to cars please.  Kelly Kobza  543 Everett Court  Palo Alto    Sent from my iPhone  137 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, May 29, 2021 11:09 AM To:Allan Seid Subject:Fwd: Biden-Harris to join closing celebration of AANHPI Heritage Month – 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: Sat, May 29, 2021 at 11:05 AM  Subject: Fwd: Biden‐Harris to join closing celebration of AANHPI Heritage Month – AsAmNew      https://asamnews.com/2021/05/29/star‐studded‐celebrities‐from‐hollywood‐broadway‐and‐politics‐ will‐take‐part/  Biden‐Harris to join closing celebration of AANHPI Heritage Month May 29, 2021 To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. A star-studded line up from Hollywood, Broadway and politics will take part Monday in a closing celebration of Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. President Joe Biden, along with First Lady Jill Biden will be joined by Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff for an evening celebrating the diversity and culture of the AANHPI communities. The night promises to uplift AA and NHPI voices, acknowledge the harm and suffering anti-Asian violence has caused this year, and look toward a future of continued healing, strength, and solidarity. Those participating include Yo Yo Ma, Lea Salonga, Auliʻi Cravalho, Sally Wen Mao, Daniel Dae Kim, Kal Penn, Phillipa Soo, and Tamlyn Tomita. 138 Some of the highest profile Asian Americans in politics on both sides of the aisle will also take part such as Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-27), Secretary Elaine Chao, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Sen Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Rep Andy Kim (NJ-3), Rep Young Kim (CA-39), Rep Grace Meng (NY-6) and Rep Michelle Steel (CA-48). The evening is produced by the Center for Asian American Media, Kontent Films, Pacific Islanders in Communications, and the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. Top Articles Content byAsAmNews Amna Nawaz of PBS will host. The one-hour program will stream live on Facebook and YouTube on May 31 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT/2 PM HT. 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. 139 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, May 28, 2021 11:17 PM To:city.council@menlopark.org; Council, City; Jeff Moore; Planning Commission; Human Relations Commission; chuck jagoda; Rebecca Eisenberg; ParkRec Commission; Greer Stone; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Roberta Ahlquist; Joe Simitian; DuBois, Tom; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; GRP-City Council Subject:The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre | 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/news/us‐journal/the‐women‐who‐preserved‐the‐story‐of‐the‐tulsa‐race‐massacre      Sent from my iPhone  140 Baumb, Nelly From:mary gallagher <marygallagher88@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, May 28, 2021 6:04 PM To:Jo Ann Mandinach Cc:Council, City; Lydia Kou; Tanaka, Greg; Cormack, Alison; DuBois, Tom; Burt, Patrick; Stone, Greer; Filseth, Eric (Internal) Subject:Re: #12 Keep Retail at Town & Country. We need the sales tax revenue! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Great letter Jo Ann.   Ellis knows the formula for creating thriving shopping centers. They’ve done it many times in the past.    What they’re not stating and attempting to camouflage is that THEY have changed their priorities for T&C. They want to  morph it into something completely different from what it is meant to be ‐ a town shopping village.    MG      On May 28, 2021, at 10:03 AM, Jo Ann Mandinach <joann@needtoknow.com> wrote:     Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor and City Council, Please do not replace retail -- which generates sales tax revenue -- with medical offices which do NOT generate sales tax revenue at a time when the city is pleading poverty and cutting VALUED community services because of the decline IN SALES TAX REVENUE. Note that the long-term MEDICAL office of Dr. Lisa Berkowitz recently left Town & Country BECAUSE of ill-treatment by the landlord while Ellis tries to find more lucrative tenants. The hypocrisy of this is stunning. The landlord's UNSUPPORTED claim that people going to their medical appointments will also go shopping defies common sense! When was the last time people swollen from novacaine or sweating from their gym workouts decided to go try on clothes or go dine? Ellis' claim is so absurd it's laughable! 141 At your last CC meeting on this, the Planning Department couldn't even define "medical services" so why are you rushing this through prematurely just when the economy is opening back up?? Thanks to Lydia Kou for speaking to past and present Town & Country tenants. I urge the rest of you to do the same! Why reward a greedy landlord with a long and shabby history of mistreating tenants? We've lost too many long-term treasured businesses because of Ellis. Are you trying to encourage us to drive more to get to Menlo Park and Los Altos while you preach conservation to us? Just say NO to yet another soulless office park. There are plenty of empty offices for medical; let them go there. Jo Ann Mandinach 142 Baumb, Nelly From:Kenneth Streib <ken_streib@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, May 28, 2021 3:53 PM To:Council, City Subject:City operated ISP CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Greetings City Council, I viewed some of last weeks council meeting. A city operated internet service provider sounds like a great idea. I am all for it. Ken Streib 143 Baumb, Nelly From:Arlene Goetze <photowrite67@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, May 28, 2021 12:00 PM To:Sara Cody; hendrickscouncil@sunnyvale.ca.gov Subject:V-Cases/Deaths Go UP after Shots CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Virus starts in Cambodia after it vaccinates . . . Mass Vaccination Triggers Spike in Cases, Deaths  Analysis by Mike Whitney, Mercola Newsletter, May 27, 2021    STORY AT-A-GLANCE   * COVID cases have risen sharply in nearly every country that has launched a mass vaccination campaign * Cambodia began its vaccination campaign in early February after having compiled zero fatalities; after it started its vaccination program, the deaths started piling up * It could be that something in the vaccine itself is killing people * Salk researchers confirmed that the main damage from COVID is caused by the spike protein not the virus; if that’s the case, then why are we injecting people with vaccines that teach their cells to make spike proteins * 118 million Americans have now been injected with a clot-generating spike protein; no one knows how long these potentially lethal proteins remain trapped in the lining of the blood vessels or what damage they might eventually do * Now that cases have dropped sharply across the U.S., why not ease up on the vaccinations until there is a better grasp of the long-term risks . See Mercola Newsletter, May 27, 2021 for the whole article COVID cases have risen sharply in nearly every country that has launched a mass vaccination campaign.    Impact of COVID Vaccinations on Mortality  Mass vaccination was supposed to reduce the threat of COVID but — in the short term — it appears   to make it much worse. Why? And why is COVID now “surging in 4 of 5 the most vaccinated countries?” According to Forbes magazine:2  144 > “Countries with the world’s highest vaccination rates — including four of the top five most vaccinated — are fighting to contain coronavirus outbreaks that are, on a per-capita basis, higher than the surge devastating India, a trend that has experts questioning the efficacy of some vaccines … and the wisdom of   easing restrictions even with most of the population vaccinated.”  Worse than India? How can that be? And why have eight “fully vaccinated” members of the New York Yankees tested positive for COVID? Here’s the story from the Associated Press:3  ` > “New York Yankees shortstop Gleyber Torres tested positive for Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated and having previously contracted the coronavirus during the offseason. Torres is among eight so-called  breakthrough positives among the Yankees — people who tested positive despite being fully vaccinated.”  -- Cambodia began its vaccination campaign in early February after having compiled zero fatalities. : The country had no COVID deaths until March 2021, a few weeks after it started its vaccination program. And that’s when the deaths started piling up as you can see in the eye-popping chart below.    Subheads in this long article:: Zero COVID Fatalities, Until After Vaccination Campaign (Cambodia)     FDA Knew Vaccinated People More Likely to Contract COVID  Reason to Doubt Vaccine Makers’ Reassurances  Main Damage From COVID Caused by Spike Protein  Closing: The sharp rise in cases and deaths following mass vaccination is NOT related to COVID “the respiratory illness,” but COVID “the vascular disease.” The vascular component is mainly the result of spike proteins produced by cells in the lining of the blood vessels (endothelium) that are activating platelets that cause blood clots and bleeding. The other main factor is autoimmune reaction in which the killer lymphocytes attack one’s own body triggering widespread inflammation (and potential organ failure.). In short, the post-injection fatalities are caused by the spike proteins produced by the vaccines and not by COVID. Once again, look at the chart of Cambodia. There were no deaths prior to vaccination. All the deaths came afterwards. That suggests that the fatalities are attributable to the vaccines. One final thought: 118 million Americans have now been injected with a clot-generating spike protein. At present, no one seems to know how long these potentially lethal proteins remain trapped in the lining of the blood vessels or what damage they might eventually do. 145 For full articles go to. Mercola Newsletter, MASS VACCINATION TRIGGERS SPIKE IN DEATHS To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Forwarded by Arlene Goetze, MA, writer/editor, No Toxins for Children. 15 years of my writings are in the Archives of Santa Clara U and libraries of Harvard, Dayton and Notre Dame. photowrite67@yahoo.com 146 Baumb, Nelly From:Michael Brune <reply@emails.sierraclub.org> Sent:Friday, May 28, 2021 11:19 AM To:Council, City Subject:BREAKING: Biden greenlights Alaskan drilling 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. The Biden administration just backed the Trump administration's approval of a disastrous drilling project in Alaska. We need to start permanently protecting lands—not continuing the Trump administration's destructive legacy. Rush your monthly membership to help us fight back against land exploitation and the climate crisis today >> To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. RUSH YOUR MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP >> Supporter, we've always said elections matter—especially when it comes to protecting the planet we love—but accountability matters even more. In what seems like a bad dream, the Biden administration just backed the Trump administration's approval of a disastrous drilling project that would extract 100,000 barrels of oil per day from Alaska's north shore. While the Oval Office's occupant may have changed, the risks to the Arctic—which is already heating up at three times the rate of the rest of the planet—have not. The looming climate crisis, which Joe Biden promised to confront, has not. Supporter, we must hold the Biden administration to its promise to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. We must push Congress to enact permanent 147 protections for lands in the Arctic and across the country. We must fight for an end to the climate crisis. Can we count on your help at this crucial moment for the Arctic's wildlife and indigenous communities? Please, start your emergency monthly membership today, so that we can scale up our legal teams and fight for permanent protections for lands from the Arctic. Climate experts, Indigenous nations and others in our coalition opposed ConocoPhillips' Willow Project for important reasons. Over its lifetime, the project would create nearly 260 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions—just about equivalent to what 66 coal-fired power plants would produce!1 Environmental advocates also fear the project would divert the migration of caribou, impacting local communities' ability to provide food for their families. Moreover, the project—which would include 250 wells, a processing facility, hundreds of miles of pipelines and roads, even an airstrip—could negatively impact polar bears, fish and other vulnerable species, and change Alaska's pristine northern reaches forever.2 Public lands across the country were carved up and divvied out to the highest bidder by the Trump administration. This is a time to protect and heal these lands, not open them wide for more drilling and spilling. Please, help us protect vulnerable ecosystems and vulnerable communities—and stop projects like these with an emergency gift now. Thanks for your attention and commitment at this critical moment. President Biden promised to do better by the planet—and with your support, we're going to hold him to it. With determination, 148 To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Michael Brune Michael Brune Executive Director Sierra Club 1 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/climate/biden-alaska-drilling.html 2 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/27/biden-administration-alaska-oil-gas-drilling-project 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 149 Baumb, Nelly From:Clive Rodgers <clive@apple.com> Sent:Friday, May 28, 2021 9:20 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 disappointed to read in the news today that Palo Alto is considering re‐opening California avenue for traffic from  July, and no longer allowing the restaurants there to continue outdoor dining. I think it is a major assumption that  people are ready to dine indoors, even when the state supposedly opens up in mid June.    Also, the closure of California avenue has been extremely positive for the restaurants and more importantly the  community as a whole. The street is bustling and has a great energy, which it rarely had pre‐pandemic. Now is the time  to realize that closing this street to allow outdoor dining and pedestrian only access is what the community wants and  needs. There is no need for cars to park long this street any more.. with the new garage and older garages, there is  plenty of parking.    I urge the council to continue keeping California avenue closed until at least the end of this year, and in parallel look at  options to make this permanent, allowing more permanent outdoor spaces for restaurants and cafes like many  European cities have ‐ this is an opportunity to really make a difference in Palo Alto.    Regards    Cliver Rodgers  150 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Friday, May 28, 2021 2:30 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; Steven Feinstein; 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; sanchezphilip21@gmail.com; lalws4@gmail.com Subject:Fwd: Dr. Campbell, Thurs. May 27, 2021: Disinformation re vaccines-Russ and Chinaa 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: Fri, May 28, 2021 at 2:21 AM  Subject: Dr. Campbell, Thurs. May 27, 2021: Disinformation re vaccines‐Russ and Chinaa  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                 Thursday, May 27, 2021             To all‐   Very interesting and important. The WH and Congress should see this.              An arm of the EU has issued a report about Russia and China issuing disinformation (lying) about vaccines  developed in the west in order to sell more of the vaccines they have developed.  Dr. Campbell says that all that is at  stake here are human lives, so why not go ahead and do everything possible to sell your vaccines.                     Big push now to determine the origin of the Covid19 virus. He discusses Biden's ordering of a report in 90 days  from the US intelligence community. A group of scientists has also called for a further investigation of the matter.                  He discusses once again the highly suspect report issued by the WHO on the topic. He shows his contempt for  that document.                 Thursday update ‐ YouTube                L. William Harding             Fresno, Ca.                                  151 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 10:27 PM To:Honky Subject:Hey America Ya been HAD LIED to HOODWINKED BAMBOOZLED HOKUS POKUS DOMINOKUS LOL THE ELECTION IS BROKEN (ON PURPOSE) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2021/05/boom-georgia-1st-to-decertify-2020-election-q-trump-i-caught-them-things-will-get-very-interesting-watch-az-3751105.html 152 Baumb, Nelly From:sophia liu <sophialiu@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 5:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Cal Ave and University Ave CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please keep them closed for more outdoor dining options.     Sophia  2255 Rakona St        Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone    153 Baumb, Nelly From:Arthur Keller <arthur@kellers.org> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 3:34 PM To:City Mgr Cc:Council, City Subject:Bringing VOCA to Palo Alto CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi City Manager Shikada,    My name is Arthur Keller and I am one of your constituents. I have been using VOCA (www.voca.vote), a community  engagement platform where I participate in the state’s largest focus group once a week by answering short “micropolls”  on current events. VOCA’s goal is to strengthen democracy by raising awareness, collecting feedback, and connecting  individuals with lawmakers, organizations, and one another to bring about positive change ‐ all through text messaging.    They are launching a beta program for local governments, and I would love Palo Alto to be a part of it. You can learn  more and apply at www.voca.vote/for‐organizations by 6/6/21, or reach out to the VOCA team directly at  contact@voca.vote.    Thank you!    Best regards,  Arthur  154 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D. <blichman@buchalter.com> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 3:18 PM To:Council, City Subject:Recent Developments in Aviation/Airport Law and Regulations - May 27, 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.   If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online.   Share this: 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. 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.Aviation & Airport | Development Law News To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the Inwebsite To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the Inblog LATEST NEWS AND ANALYSIS - AIR AND SURFACE TRANSPORTATION, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT FAA Loosens Restrictions on Drone Flights Over People, Automobiles, and at Night By Barbara Lichman on May 27, 2021 On April 21, 2021, the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) took the next step toward what it calls the “further integration of Unmanned Aircraft (UA) in the National Airspace System.” However, that description somewhat understates the impact of FAA’s action. By amending 14 C.F.R. Part 107 to allow previously prohibited operation over unrelated populations and moving vehicles, both during the day and at night, FAA may have opened the flood gates to UA without adequate consideration of their impacts on underlying populations. Specifically, FAA has divided UA into categories based upon size, construction and regulatory requirements. Category 1 applies to UA .55 lbs. or less that also contain no rotating parts that could cause lacerations, and must be able to use a system for communicating with FAA called “Remote ID.” Categories 2 and 3 allow UA weighing more than .55 lbs. to fly over people if they meet certain eligibility criteria, although they may not fly over open-air assemblies or people in general unless those populations are aware in advance, or are part of the UA operation itself. Finally, in order to qualify for Category 4, the UA must have a relevant operating certificate under 14 C.F.R. Part 21 (see Final Rule, Executive Summary, 86 Fed.Reg. 4314, 4316). FAA received more than 900 comments in response to publication of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on February 13, 2019. 86 Fed.Reg. 4319. Most involved safety concerns, including: (1) lack of enforceability of the limiting conditions imposed by the Rule; (2) lack of safety data supporting the Rule; (3) lack of redundancy in safety infrastructure; and (4) unskilled remote pilots. As anticipated, FAA dismissed those concerns based on the expectation that the “benefits” of the new Rule would exceed its costs, 86 Fed.Reg. 4318, and acknowledged only some costs related to the training of remote pilots. Benefits, on the other hand, are purported to include: (1) facilitation of innovation and growth across a variety of sectors of the economy such as construction, infrastructure and insurance. Moreover, FAA foresees a potential increase in operations because operators of UA, with some exceptions for Category 3, would not need to avoid flying over people or clear an area before operating. 86 Fed.Reg. 4318. Although FAA acknowledges some safety risk resulting from the increase in operations over people, it relies on the 155 application of the proposed restrictions in every category to mitigate that risk. 86 Fed.Reg. 4318. Safety, however, while critically important, is not the only potential issue raised by the Final Rule. What is notably missing from FAA’s analysis is any mention of privacy or noise concerns. Obviously, the increased opportunity to fly over people implicates both, as the 900 public comments confirm. Finally, FAA argues that, although risk may increase with increased operations and dispersion of aircraft, based on its issuance of 175 waivers from prior restrictions, none resulted in injuries to persons or property worth more than $500,000 on the ground. 86 Fed.Reg. 4321. While the conclusion is apparently correct as a mathematical extrapolation, it fails to acknowledge the increased chances of an accident resulting from vastly increased numbers of UA occupying the National Airspace System, or the potential of far greater damage from each such incident. Of course, only the passage of time will reveal the true impact of these rule changes. The best the public can do is stay tuned for the ultimate result. To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D., J.D. 18400 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 800 Irvine, CA 92614-0514 (949)224-6292 www.aviationairportdevelopmentlaw.com © Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D., J.D. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent to city.council@cityofpaloalto.org. To ensure that you continue receiving our emails, please add us to your address book or safe list. manage your preferences | opt out using TrueRemove®. Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future emails. To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.powered by emma   156 Baumb, Nelly From:Kim Raftery <rafterykim@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 3:10 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fire station #2 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members, I have owned a house in the College Terrace neighborhood for 31 years. It has come to my attention that our local Fire Station #2 might be closed. This seems very short sighted given the increase in forest fires in CA and the fact that this station is the closest station to the Palo Alto foothills, where the danger of forest and brush fires is the most prevalent. Also, why would you eliminate the ability of EMTs to respond quickly to the needs of the residents in College Terrace, the Palo Alto Foothills, and nearby neighborhoods? Isn't this the most important use of our tax dollars, to save lives and property? I hope you will reconsider closing Station # 2 and the elimination of services on nights and weekends that has already happened. Thank you! Kim Kim Raftery  2290 Harvard Street  Palo Alto, CA 94306  650-776-1885  157 Baumb, Nelly From:TC Rindfleisch <tcr@stanford.edu> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 2:05 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr Subject:Bringing VOCA to Palo Alto CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council members,    My name is Tom Rindfleisch, and I am one of your constituents. I have been using VOCA (www.voca.vote), a community  engagement platform where I participate in the state’s largest focus group once a week by answering short “micropolls”  on current events. VOCA’s goal is to strengthen democracy by raising awareness, collecting feedback, and connecting  individuals with lawmakers, organizations, and one another to bring about positive change ‐ all through text messaging.    They are launching a beta program for local governments, and I would like Palo Alto to be a part of it. You can learn  more and apply at www.voca.vote/for‐organizations by 6/6/21, or reach out to the VOCA team directly at  contact@voca.vote.    Thank you!    Tom Rindfleisch  31 Tevis Place  Palo Alto, CA    158 Baumb, Nelly From:Arlene Goetze <photowrite67@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 12:39 PM To:cindy chavez; joe simitian Subject:$600 offers for 5-G Antenna on houses CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Radiation in 5G Please be aware....and warn your neighborhoods..... Have you had a phone call about $600 to put 5G Antenna on your house? Dangers: by Susan Downs, MD. https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/110603/5g-wireless-depopulation-of- the-planet Research shows that wireless radiation such as from cell phones can result in brain cancer (Hardell), brain changed in the brain (hippocampus) of the offspring (Kaplan Suleyman). Wi -fi disrupts inter-cellular communication, opens the blood brain barrier and the intestinal lining) leading to every disease imaginable. It affects human ovaries and sperm so some predict that human reproduction will stop within a few generations. 5G and the internet of things takes this one step further with very low frequencies that disrupts many bodily functions. The US military has been researching this for years and has developed uses for crowd control (active denial) and transmitting frequencies to any targeted individual to create any desired disease. It also can be used for surveillance. Ms Pu sees this as a race between those of us who wish to preserve the human race vs those who want to make a quick profit before they are inundated with law suits as happened with the tobacco industry. -------------------- From: Children's Health Defense <team@childrenshealthdefense.or, May 25, 20 Help Us - Were You Contacted by Wireless Companies? Have you received a flyer, email, or any other communication offering you money in exchange for installing an antenna on your home? Please read this even if you haven’t, because you may receive one soon. 159 \ Hi All, We need your help. On March 29, 2021, the FCC’s OTARD rule amendment went into effect. As a result, fixed wireless companies can now install base station antennas (for 5G, voice, and wi-fi) on private homes. Companies don’t need to get a permit or even notify neighbors that an antenna will be installed. They only need to. contract with the homeowner. This rule change will be used to enable the most significant proliferation of wireless and 5G ever, creating a wireless “Wild West.” ``Since the rule went into effect, wireless companies covered by OTARD (known as fixed wireless companies) have been contacting people to ask if they would be interested in installing an antenna on their house in exchange for payment. Here is an example of a flyer we got a hold of: “Earn $600 - Get paid for doing nothing while helping your community. Be the first person to provide. the Internet of Things coverage in your neighborhood.” As part of CHD’s efforts to slow down OTARD antennas deployment, we are tracking the areas in which these companies are looking to install antennas on homes. Please complete this form if you received such a communication, whether a flyer, an email, a text, or a call. Complete Form Please consider donating to our case against the OTARD rule. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Children's Health Defense Children's Health Defense depends on generous donations from our community. Large or small, every donation gets us closer to achieving our goals. CHD LED by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Atty. Become a Member | Donate Now Our mission is to end the childhood health epidemics by working aggressively to eliminate harmful exposures, hold those responsible accountable, and establish safeguards to prevent further harms. Children’s Health Defense 1227 North Peachtree Pkwy, Suite 202 Peachtree City, Georgia 30269 Contact us. childrenshealthdefense.org 160 Baumb, Nelly From:Joyce Cartun <jcartun@mac.com> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 11:10 AM To:Council, City Subject:Outdoor Street Dining CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,   I saw on the news that the city manager has recommended re‐opening streets and taking away street dining this  summer.  I strongly oppose this recommendation and urge you to reject the recommendation if the manager does not  reconsider.    The ability to walk on University and California avenues and enjoy eating outside has been a huge attraction to coming  to those districts, in addition to being critical survival assistance and one of the few positive developments of the last  year.  My husband even started enjoying going to those districts after years of avoiding them whenever possible.      Furthermore, and more importantly, changing the rules at this late date after businesses have invested heavily in  outdoor infrastructure in reliance on the former plan to keep street dining open through the summer (see authorization  reported here: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/04/20/palo‐alto‐looks‐to‐keep‐university‐and‐california‐ avenues‐car‐free)‐ giving them a chance to recover some from the terrible last year ‐ is just not fair.  It puts another  burden on them after a year of struggling just to survive in the already difficult restaurant business.    While I understand that some non‐restaurant businesses and commuters might support re‐opening the streets, foot  traffic is more often seen as a benefit for businesses near destination restaurants, and a couple more months of driving  on the parallel streets is not too huge a burden for commuters to save our vibrant restaurant scene.      Indeed, a pedestrian street could be a wonderful permanent addition ‐ just look at Stanford Mall and the pedestrian  areas of Santana Row in San Jose for proof that all businesses can flourish without cars having to drive through the  middle of the shopping district, and at Mountain View’s consideration of keeping Castro closed  (https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/04/08/castro‐street‐could‐stay‐closed‐to‐traffic‐after‐the‐covid‐19‐ pandemic).  Our mild climate makes outdoor dining very attractive, and having a pleasant place to walk and shop would  help keep shoppers in Palo Alto instead of neighboring places ‐ it would especially improve the experience on University,  which was frequently backed up and hard to park on.    If you can’t consider a permanent pedestrian street, please at least keep the summer street dining available to us  citizens, and reject the manager’s reported recommendation to pull the rug out from under the restaurants that have  invested in and relied on street dining for the summer.    Thank you.    Joyce Cartun  Emerson Street    161 Baumb, Nelly From:Jim Fox <jimafox@pacbell.net> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 9:36 AM To:Council, City Subject:Keep Restaurants in the Streets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Palo Alto City Council,    I enjoy and appreciate street dining on University and California Avenues ‐ and would not feel comfortable dining  indoors ‐ and will not be comfortable dining indoors for a long time from now.    Keep those short sections if these two streets closed to promote restaurant businesses ‐ there is ample car access on  Lytton, Hamilton, College, and Sheridon streets for traffic, and ample nearby parking structures to support retail  businesses even with the street closures.    As a Palo Alto resident and voter,  I urge you to support our local restaurants, promote community feeling, and keep University and California Avenues  closed to cars.  Jim Fox      162 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Moss Keller <bmosskeller@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 8:17 AM To:Council, City Subject:Cal an University Ave CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    As a longtime resident, I appreciate the closure of Cal and University Ave with the addition of outdoor dining and do. Not  want them reopened especially University Ave should stay closed.  More conducive to going downtown and not bumper to bumper in cars.  Thanks.    Barbara Moss Keller  Bryant ST    163 Baumb, Nelly From:Sierra Club <reply@emails.sierraclub.org> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 4:06 AM To:Council, City Subject:Supporter, be prepared for any adventure CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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In solidarity of our planet, The Sierra Club 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 165 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 3:40 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; Steven Feinstein; 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; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. Campbell Wed. May 26, 2021 UK leads in vaccinations. Canada not so good. 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, May 26, 2021 at 10:49 PM  Subject: Dr. Campbell Wed. May 26, 2021 UK leads in vaccinations. Canada not so good.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>               Wed. May 26, 2021              To all‐   Dr. Campbell discusses the ongoing disaster in India.   4,000 deaths per day there, and we know that's an  undercount. That would be 120,000 deaths per month, or two Viet Nams per month. But then, Viet Nam was man‐made  and should not have happened.                            Next year the UK will produce 700 million doses of Covid vaccine.  UK has ~65 million people, so a lot of export  next year.  They are bringing 3 new production plants online.  Until all are safe, none are safe.   And this will happen  around the world, esp. in countries that had no domestic production‐ Canada, e.g.                 Vaccinations in the US are down, Dr.Campbell shows.  Now over 50% with one dose in US and about 40% fully  vaccinated. But the rate of vaccinations in the US is down. Bad. He shows the charts for new cases, hospitalizations,  deaths by country.                Dr Fauci says "We're not there yet. We need vaccinations to continue at a high rate".  Every Mayor, every  Governor, when they have a mic. should say "We need our population to get vaccinated" "You will be much safer and so  will everyone in your community". "Let's beat this thing".                LH‐  Let's show the world what we can do. Australia has almost no Covid problem they have been so thorough  and tough. The vaccination rates by country are public information and they are followed.   If we slacken here near the  end, the world will think we are a bunch of morons who can't even follow the experts' advice in a deadly pandemic. It's  bad to have the world perceive us that way.            166             Wednesday update ‐ YouTube             L. William Harding         Fresno, Ca.                167 Baumb, Nelly From:Jean <jeanetteclark1999@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, May 26, 2021 11:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Increase your web traffic more than daily life CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi, Hope you are doing well! I was surfing through your Profile city.council@cityofpaloalto.org then I saw your www.cityofpaloalto.org website and realized that it was not ranking on any of the search engines for most of the keywords. I was wondering if you would be interested in getting the SEO done for your website. There is a simple equation that is applicable to the online world. Ethical SEO -> Better Traffic -> Higher Sales Let me know if you are interested I will be happy to send the “SEO Proposal” and “Pricing” furthermore... Kind regards, Jean  168 Baumb, Nelly From:Laura Agigian <lmagigian@icloud.com> Sent:Wednesday, May 26, 2021 10:47 PM To:Council, City Subject:California Ave CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council Members,    I want to put in a ‘vote’ for keeping California Ave. open to street dining and closed to cars even after the state gives the  green light for indoor dining. It is absolutely lovely walking on Cal Ave with no cars to worry about. There is a relaxed,  festive spirit in the air that was not there before, with the exception of the times when the farmer’s market is open.    It has become our new, Palo Alto ‘tradition’ to go and eat in the open air.  Also, many people will still not feel comfortable dining indoors, and the restaurants may lose many customers (such as  myself).    Please consider keeping the street open only to foot traffic. It makes living here a bit more relaxed‐ which we all need.    Thank you,    Laura Agigian  3030 Price Ct.  169 Baumb, Nelly From:dbmoos1 <dbmoos1@earthlink.net> Sent:Wednesday, May 26, 2021 9:07 PM To:Council, City Subject:I oppose pre summer Reopening of California Ave and University Ave CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Esteemed members of the PA city council‐ For a number of reasons I would happily articulate to you I strongly oppose  the pre summer reopening plan the City Manager has reportedly proposed to the PA city council.  Has he provided evidence supporting that it is a good idea for the city?  Many thanks for your response;  Daniel Moos  Clara Drive  Palo Alto    Sent from my iPhone  170 Baumb, Nelly From:John Dawson <dawsonjohnp@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, May 26, 2021 8:38 PM To:Council, City Cc:dawsonjohnp@gmail.com Subject:please continue to support outdoor dining and streets partially closed to cars! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    the current condition of Calif Ave and University ave is *so much  nicer* than it has ever been. Other cities have done this intentionally, like Boulder, Santa Monica, etc. Even though we  did it by happenstance, it would be good to recognize that we accidentally made nice business districts and keep them  that way    Even Mountain View has a nicer business district than pre‐covid Palo Alto.  Let's not go back to car‐centric business  districts, they should be people‐centric, and it is OK for people to use a parking structure.    171 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, May 26, 2021 8:18 PM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Joe Simitian's District Five News CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Supervisor Joe Simitian <supervisor.simitian@bos.sccgov.org>  Date: Wed, May 26, 2021 at 12:51 PM  Subject: Joe Simitian's District Five News  To: MARY <allanseid734@gmail.com>             May 2021 Learn more about the County            County Supervisors Opt-In to Assisted Outpatient Treatment (Laura's Law) On May 25, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to opt-in to Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT), also known as Laura’s Law, a program that would allow the County to provide court- ordered outpatient mental health treatment to residents with severe mental illness. County Supervisor Otto Lee and I made the recommendation to opt-in following a special Health To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 172 and Hospital Committee session on March 24th, 2021, dedicated exclusively to discussing AOT (Laura's Law). The program is targeted specifically to individuals whose illnesses are so severe that they don’t recognize the need for treatment, have a history of refusing or abandoning treatment services, and are unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision. “These are folks who continue to suffer from untreated illness. They’re folks whose families have been told again and again that there is nothing we can do to help them if their loved ones don’t agree to accept care. They have a right to mental health care, and now, we have the chance to finally get them some help." Read more about it in the newsroom. To listen to public comment about this agenda item, click here.             To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Don't miss our last Understanding the Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience panel tomorrow night with Philip Yun, Thuy Thi Ngyuen and Pawan Dhingra. Learn more and register now! If you missed our previous two events, I invite you to learn more and watch the recordings here.         To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.      Affordable Transportation for Seniors       To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.      Santa Clara County Makes Progress on COVID The County's Public 173 Health Officer announced a new public health order this month. Read the summary. 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To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.     Copyright © 2021 Silicon Valley Community Foundation   View in browser | Unsubscribe         177 Baumb, Nelly From:Salvador Gala <salvador.gala.a@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, May 26, 2021 6:12 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  178 Baumb, Nelly From:Avery Wang <avery@rault-wang.com> Sent:Wednesday, May 26, 2021 4:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: Solar storage CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hello,  Currently there are no vendors who will install solar storage in Palo Alto, and even permitting for PV without storage is  onerous.  Here’s an article that describes the situation in depth.  https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/05/21/palo‐alto‐takes‐heat‐over‐solar‐permitting    As the Palo Alto City Councill, is there anything you can do about this?    It is ironic given Palo Alto’s commitment to green energy and incentive programs to go solar.  In Palo Alto, the left hand  doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.    Thanks,  ‐Avery        179 Baumb, Nelly From:Bert <liuxuchun@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, May 26, 2021 3:59 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr Subject:Sharing a short movie for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month from our family in the community CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mr. City Manager Ed Shikada, Councilmembers of Palo Alto:     Good afternoon!  We are a family living in the neighboring Foster City with Asian American background. This month is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month which is celebrated by many communities locally and nationwide. My son, Brandon, 10 has recently participated in a short movie to help raise awareness of StopAsianHate activity and appreciation of Asian culture. I am very proud of him for his involvement as a young member of Asian Pacific American Community and would like to share the short movie with you and thank you for all you have done for helping and protecting Asian Pacific American community during this period of unprecedented and difficult time. https://youtu.be/7GYV1PDPOQw  or https://youtu.be/7GYV1PDPOQw Thank you very much for your support! Bert Liu   1 Baumb, Nelly From:LAURA CLAUSEN <lauraclausen18@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:34 PM To:Council, City Subject:Traffic concerns Attachments:PA City Council.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Thank‐you for your consideration    Laura Clausen  2625 Middlefield Rd #402, Palo Alto, CA  94306  Cell: (50) 575‐0663, Landline: (650) 493‐2071 Lauraclausen18@gmail.com  June 1, 2021 City Council Members, I am writing to you to voice a concern about the “signage configuration” of 2 very dangerous street hazards. Every day I witness, vehicles entering the wrong way into the Midtown Shopping Center area off Southbound Middlefield. The first hazard is the ONE way “alley” between “Como Esta” and “Baskin and Robbins Ice Cream Parlor”. The second hazard is yards further southbound between CVS entrance and the exit by the Palo Alto roasting company. These 2 , one-way exits are continually violated, and it is only a matter of time that someone speeding on Middlefield not paying attention will be the victim (car or pedestrian) of the driver going against the flow of traffic. I have seen some cars reverse direction, stopping traffic, others continue on and have to do 3 point turns to fit into the parking spaces (as they are against the flow of movement). My suggestion is to : 1. REPAINT the one-way arrows (change colors?) 2. Move the one-way signs further out to the StreetSide on the sidewalk 3. Install one-way directional spikes 4. Paint “NO left turn” in the left south bound lane on Middlefield near these EXITS Something must be done and quickly as it is a common, hourly occurrence and it is just a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or worse. Respectively submitted, Laura Clausen 2 Baumb, Nelly From:Bill O'Connor <contactbilloconnor@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 11:52 AM To:Shikada, Ed; Council, City Cc:Rob Fischer Subject:Re-opening PA Streets Attachments:PAC letter to Ed Shikada.docx; Reposado letter to Ed Shikada.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please re‐open. See attached letters.     Thanks,    Bill O'Connor  for   Rob Fischer (Restaurants from Scratch)  May 21, 2021 To: Ed Shikada CITY of PALO ALTO ed.shikada@cityofpaloalto.org city.council@cityofpaloalto.org From: Rob Fischer Palo Alto Creamery Re: Street Re-Opening Hi Ed, Thank you in advance for your efforts on behalf of local businesses in downtown Palo Alto. Palo Alto Creamery has been part of this community for 98 years. We’re doing everything we can to get through this extraordinary time but the street closure is having a huge impact on our business. Foot traffic is vital to our business, which is down 40% since the streets closed. The closure of University has created an unfair business advantage for businesses on University, who (1) don’t have to cope with increased traffic and (2) are able to greatly increase their seating capacity above the city regulations. I realize that these impacts were unintended consequences of your policies, however, we’ve seen and now have measurable results. It’s time to end this and reopen the streets. I consider myself fortunate to have made it through the last year and we’re all working very hard to get our businesses back to profitability. Please stress to City Council that re-opening is vital to the success of our local businesses. Thank you! Rob Fischer Owner, Palo Alto Creamery May 21, 2021 To: Ed Shikada CITY of PALO ALTO ed.shikada@cityofpaloalto.org city.council@cityofpaloalto.org From: Rob Fischer Reposado Restaurant Re: Street Re-Opening Hi Ed, I am writing to reinforce the general sentiment I’m hearing from other business owners in Palo Alto. I will be candid. The street closures are killing our businesses. Business at Reposado is down 70% since the streets closed. The closures have increased vehicular traffic on Hamilton. This is not great for our customers, who like sitting outside. The noise and exhaust are both a nuisance and a health hazard. I’m sure you’ve heard that emergency vehicles are having to re-route in transit. Last week an ambulance had to turn around on Ramona and divert around via Emerson and Hamilton; lights and sirens blaring! Obviously, in the case of a serious trauma like heart or stroke, a few minutes can be the difference between life and death. Many businesses have closed permanently and many more are on the brink. Reposado has been here since 2009 and we hope to continue operating. How many for lease signs do you need to see before you change this? PLEASE re-open Palo Alto’s streets! Thank you! Rob Fischer Owner, Reposado Restaurant 3 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, May 31, 2021 11:08 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Scan Attachments:20210531073421597.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear Neighbors and Friends,     It is with gratitude and solemnity that I recall the courageous Chinese pioneers who thrived and prospered despite the  mysterious fire deliberately set which destroyed the fifth of five original  Chinatowns in San Jose, California in the 1880s..     I salute two former San Jose Mayors of San Jose, Tom Mchenry and Mayor Susan Hammer,  representatives Dr. Gary  Okihiro and Mary Chan Seid of Asian for Community Involvement (AACI), and  Jeanette Zane, Gilbert Chang, and Irene  Tai of the Association of Concern Ethnic Chinese (ACEC) for their leadership to create and install the commemorative  plaque on the front wall of the San Jose Fairmont Hotel ‐‐  the actual site of the 5th Chinatown. The plaque was  mounted on the 100th anniversary, May 4,1988, to        remember the disappearance of this flourishing fifth and largest  of the Chinatowns south of San Francisco at the time.     Allan Seid, M.D.  A  founder of AACI (1973)  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, May 31, 2021 6:17 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: It's 2021. Attachments:It is 2021.4.6.2021.doc CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear Neighbors and Friends,     Mary and I have permission to share this poem from an honored and dear friend Ms.Flo Oy Wong, nationally recognized  artist, poet, author and early board member of Asian Americans for Community Involvement of Santa Clara County  (AACI). This poem is her third since January 2021 in response to the recent surge in anti‐Asian hate crimes.    Allan and Mary Seid    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Flo Oy 2  Date: Sun, May 30, 2021   Subject: It's 2021.    Allan:  Here is my third poem, It's 2021. I have included portions of Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land . . . I sing a portion  of it. I have a recording that I can send you. If you give me your IPhone # then you can receive the recording from me.  Thanks for asking for my poems, which I read in public often. I have a voice. I will use it.  Flo  It is 2021 It is 2021. During the Covid 19 pandemic, an explosive time of rising anti-Asian violence in america, Asians are attacked and killed. This land is your land and this land is my land From California to the New York island, In Oakland Chinatown a 91 year old man is violently shoved to the ground from behind. A few minutes later, the attacker then pushes a 60 year old man and a 55 year old woman onto the sidewalk. From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters this land was made for you and me. In New York, a 65 year old Asian woman, battered by a man on the street, collapses in front of an apartment building. The perpetrator, a man who killed his mother in 2002, stomps on the 65 year old woman repeatedly. Doormen shut the door to the apartment building. They do nothing to stop the stomper. As I went walking that ribbon of highway I saw above me that endless skyway, Saw below me that golden valley, This land was made for you and me. In Atlanta, six Asian women are shot by a white man who could not control his sex addiction. Blood flowing from the women's lifeless bodies flood the spa floor. I roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts, This land was made for you and me. Is is 2021. The words in italics are lyrics written by Woodie Gruthrie, American singer and songwriter. His song, 'This Land is My Land' was written in 1940. The song is one of the famous folk songs in this country. Flo Oy Wong April 6, 2021 5 Baumb, Nelly From:UTL-Customer Service Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 5:52 PM To:Russell Siegelman Cc:Council, City; City Mgr Subject:RE: problems with power grid causing damage to home owners Attachments:Claims Against the City.pdf Dear Russell Siegelman,    Thank you for your email.  We are sorry to hear of the damages you have recently experienced.  I have been informed  that Electric Utilities has been in meetings to determine how to address the situation of recent outages.    Please find attached a claim form and informational letter.    Thank you,            Michael Dehlinger  Utilities Customer Service  250 Hamilton Avenue, 2nd Floor | Palo Alto, CA 94301  P: 650.329.2161  F: 650.321.2786  Please think of the environment before printing this email – Thank you!  To access or create your utilities account online, go to our website  https://myutilitiesaccount.cityofpaloalto.org       From: Russell Siegelman <russell.siegelman@gmail.com>   Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 10:32 AM  To: UTL‐Customer Service <UtilitiesCustomerService@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; City Mgr <CityMgr@cityofpaloalto.org>  Subject: problems with power grid causing damage to home owners    CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To City of Palo Alto Utilities, copy to City Council and City Manager,  I want the City of Palo Alto to know that the recent disruptions to the electric grid have caused significant damage and  cost to my home systems.  The March 27 outage resulted in a non‐functional Lutron controller which caused us to be  without lights for 3 weeks before the system was replaced at a cost of over $30,000.  Yesterday, May 24 the surge in  voltage caused a blown fuse which will need to be replaced by an electrician which will require a further repair bill.    There have been 4 recent disruptions to the electrical grid in Palo Alto, which is an inordinate number of outages and  disruptions for a utility of this size and sophistication.  Please address whatever issues are behind these disruptions and  get the system back to the normal reliability we expect and pay for.  6   Russell Siegelman  650‐245‐4142  Dear Claimant: Re: POSSIBLE CLAIM AGAINST THE CITY OF PALO ALTO Pursuant to Government Code 910, subject to certain limited exceptions, a claim must be filed in duplicate with the City of Palo Alto within six (6) months of the incident. Completed claims must be mailed or hand-delivered to the City Clerk's Office, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California, 94301. E-mailed or faxed claims will not be accepted. Please complete each section and print clearly. This claim form is a public record and shall be provided upon request in conformance with the Public Records Act, Government Code Sec. 6250 et seq. With limited exception, all claims against the City and any document attached thereto involving any other alleged cause of action must be filed in duplicate and mailed or hand-delivered to the City Clerk's Office, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California, 94301, within six (6) months of the occurrence of the alleged incident. The furnishing to you of the claim form is not an admission by the City of any liability on the part of the City or any officer, agent or employee thereof. Attach copies of itemized receipts, estimates, photographs or other documentation to support your claim. Sincerely, Claim Letter CITY OF PALO ALTO OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY 250 Hamilton Avenue, 8th Floor Palo Alto, CA 94301 650.329.2171 Ja~~~ Claims Investigator 061220 jp 710022 CLAIM AGAINST THE CITY OF PALO ALTO Please Submit form to the City Clerk’s Office. (Attach additional Pages as Necessary) CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR PRESENTING A FALSE OR FRADULENT CLAIM IS IMPRISONMENT OR FINE OR BOTH. (PENAL CODE §72) 1. Claimant’s Name and Home Address (Please Print Clearly) City Zip Telephone (Daytime) (Evening) 2. Send Official Notices and Correspondence to: City Zip Telephone (Daytime) (Evening) 6. Location of Incident or Accident 4. Date of Incident 7. Claimant Vehicle License Plate #, Type and Year 8. Basis of Claim. State in detail all facts and circumstances of the incident. Identify all persons, entities, property and City departments involved. State why you believe the City is responsible for the alleged injury, property damage or loss. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name and Department of city employee who allegedly caused injury or loss Type of City Vehicle Vehicle License Number ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Witnesses Name(if any) Address Telephone 1.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Description of Claimant’s injury, property damage or loss ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 10. Amount of Claimant’s property damage or loss and method of computation. Attach supporting documentation. ITEMS ________________________________ $ ____________________ ________________________________ $ ___________________ ________________________________ $ ___________________ ________________________________ $ ___________________ TOTAL AMOUNT $ ___________________ Court Jurisdiction: (Check one) Limited Civil: □ Unlimited Civil: □ 5. Time of Incident (AM or PM) 3. Date of Birth (optional) 12. ___________________________________ _________________ Signature of Claimant or Representative Date ___________________________________ _________________ Print Name Relationship to Claimant Do Not Write In This Space (Clerk Stamp) 7 Baumb, Nelly From:John Guislin <jguislin@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, May 27, 2021 4:29 PM To:Council, City Subject:Action to reduce damage and dangers from illegal fireworks Attachments:News Flash • Menlo Park, CA • CivicEngage.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council Members:     Please note the actions being taken by East Palo Alto and Menlo Park to mitigate the damage and dangers from illegal  fireworks. I applaud their efforts and encourage you to engage with these leaders to see how Palo Alto can support their  efforts. The risks posed by illegal fireworks do not recognize city boundaries and neither should our efforts to reduce  their use and the harms they bring on nearby communities.    Please let EPA and MP that you applaud their efforts and ask how Palo Alto can support them.    Proactive team effort to take fireworks off the street A multi-jurisdictional team is already in operation comprised of officers from East Palo Alto and Menlo Park Police Departments, and the Menlo Park Fire Protection District. The purpose of this team is to strike early at the root of the fireworks epidemic that impacts our area every year. In just a few weeks, this team has already seized over 1,500 pounds of fireworks, removing them from our community and preventing fire damage, injury, and trauma that could have been caused. While we are aware that the activity continues, our team is continuing to work diligently in the background to prevent as much of this illegal activity as possible, and hold those responsible accountable. Attached is a photo of a small portion of the fireworks seized this season, with more updates to come. Acting Chief Jeff Liu, East Palo Alto Police Chief Dave Norris, Menlo Park Police Fire Marshal Jon Johnston, Menlo Park Fire Protection District FULL RELEASE: https://www.menlopark.org/civicalerts.aspx?AID=642 Sincerely,  John Guislin  Next Police and ABC agents cite clerks for selling alcohol to minors Other News in Menlo Park Police News Tools RSS Notify Me® Categories All Categories Menlo Park PoliceNews Menlo Park City News Menlo Park COVID-19Pandemic News Menlo Park COVID-19vaccine news Menlo Park Police News Posted on: May 27, 2021 Joint Media Release – Fireworks in the area in advance of Fourth of July As regularly happens this time of year, our area has begun to report increasing incidences of fireworks across both cities of East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. We recognize that fireworks are not only a nuisance for their disruptive noise, but they are also particularly disturbing to sensitive pets and residents within our community. This is in addition to the potential fire, damage and injury danger created by these destructive devices. Our agencies are actively preparing messaging to our community on awareness, reporting, and safety measures related to fireworks – please keep tuned for additional information. In the meantime, we want you to report incidences of fireworks to your local jurisdiction. If you view active use of illegal fireworks and can direct us to a specific location, please call us via 9-1-1 so that we can respond as quickly as possible. General noise of fireworks may be reported via the non-emergency lines for either East Palo Alto Police Department or Menlo Park Police Department. East Palo Alto Police Non-Emergency Line 650-321-1112 Menlo Park Police Non-Emergency Line 650-330-6300 Proactive team effort to take fireworks off the street A multi-jurisdictional team is already in operation comprised of officers from East Palo Alto and Menlo Park Police Departments, and the Menlo Park Fire Protection District. The purpose of this team is to strike early at the root of the fireworks epidemic that impacts our area every year. In just a few weeks, this team has already seized over 1,500 pounds of fireworks, removing them from our community and preventing fire damage, injury, and trauma that could have been caused. While we are aware that the activity continues, our team is continuing to work diligently in the background to prevent as much of this illegal activity as possible, and hold those responsible accountable. Attached is a photo of a small portion of the fireworks seized this season, with more updates to come. Acting Chief Jeff Liu, East Palo Alto Police Chief Dave Norris, Menlo Park Police Fire Marshal Jon Johnston, Menlo Park Fire Protection District Contact Nicole Acker ⇒ Police and ABC agents cite clerks for selling alcohol to minors Posted on: May 15, 2021 Police and ABC agents cite servers for selling alcohol to minors Select Language ▼ 0 0 _____ 1_ 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, June 2, 2021 8:53 AM To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion@googlegroups.com Subject:Fwd: I Am An American, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - YouTube Attachments:hqdefault.jpg; hqdefault.jpg; hqdefault.jpg; hqdefault.jpg; hqdefault.jpg; hqdefault.jpg 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: Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 8:44 AM  Subject: I Am An American, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month ‐ YouTube        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7_‐TkXNpU        SKIP NAVIGATION          0:02 /        1:13NOW PLAYING        2   1:16NOW PLAYING          9:39NOW PLAYING          12:26NOW PLAYING          10:42NOW PLAYING          5:11NOW PLAYING      New      3 12:22NOW PLAYING          1:03NOW PLAYING          11:31NOW PLAYING          13:15NOW PLAYING          5:14NOW PLAYING      New      9:06NOW PLAYING          1 Baumb, Nelly From:Dave Warner <dwar11@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 1:05 PM To:Council, City Cc:Dailey, Karla; Bilir, Lisa Subject:June 7 Council Meeting Agenda Item 13 regarding the 2020 Urban Water Management Plan Attachments:Letter to city council 2021-06-01 re June 7 agenda item 13.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor Dubois and Council Members, Thank you for your service! For June 7th item 13: Please review the attached letter requesting you to ask the utilities department to reduce its water demand projection in the proposed 2020 Urban Water Management Plan. There are significant downsides to overestimating demand. Sincerely, Dave Warner 1 June 1, 2021 Mayor Tom Dubois and Council Members Palo Alto City Council City.Council@cityofpaloalto.org Re: June 7 Council Meeting Agenda Item 13 regarding the 2020 Urban Water Management Plan Dear Mayor Dubois and Council Members, At your June 7th meeting you will be asked to approve Palo Alto’s 2020 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP). Unfortunately, the 25 year water demand projections are overestimated. Please direct the utilities department to recast their demand projections to be more in line with Palo Alto’s behaviors. Overestimating our demand for water: - Drives investment in unneeded supplies, further adding to our already high cost of water. - Harms the environment, including aiding opposition to the Bay Delta Plan - Causes unrealistic rationing scenarios which can impact new housing development Palo Alto has historically overestimated its demand for water as Figure 1 below shows. Figure 1: Past Palo Alto Urban Water Management Plans (UWMP) all overestimated demand (note how the UWMP dashed lines are above the actuals solid line). 10,000 11,000 12,000 13,000 14,000 15,000 16,000 17,000 18,000 19,000 20,000 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 Ac r e F e e t p e r Y e a r ( A F Y ) Palo Alto's UWMP's Have All Overestimated Demand 1990 UWMP 1995 UWMP 2000 UWMP 2005 UWMP 2010 UWMP 2015 UWMP Actual demand (solid line) •-----------•----• -------. ._,.,-----• 2 For the last 30 years Palo Alto’s demand has been on a declining trend despite the population growing by 20% during that time. Even since 2015, a drought year where demand was reduced, Palo Alto’s demand has continued to drop, despite the population growing by 2% during that time. But as you can see from figure 2 below, Palo Alto’s UWMP expects the downward trend to stop and instead projects water demand to grow for the next 25 years. Figure 2: 2020 UWMP demand compared to trends. The 2020 UWMP looks to be overestimating demand, with a particularly large difference from the trend in 2045. 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 18000 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 Ac r e F e e t p e r Y e a r 2020 UWMP forecast compared to Actual against 2020-2045 trend based on 2015-2020 change Historical demand 2020 UWMP demand (solid brown line) Trend based on 2015-20 rate of change (dashed black line) Exponential trend line -- declining rate of change (dotted brown line) ---.... __ ........ -•-----.. ···························· 3 It could be argued that part of the reason that the UWMP projects increased demand is because of the large population growth projected in Palo Alto’s comprehensive plan. The UWMP projects Palo Alto’s population to grow from 68,819 in 2020 to 84,259 in 2045. This level of growth seems aggressive particularly with the California Department of Finance reporting that Palo Alto’s population declined by 488 people in 2020. However, we can remove the impact of population growth by looking at Gross Per Capita Demand (GPCD). GPCD is defined at Palo Alto’s total demand divided by Palo Alto’s population. Comparing the projected GPCD in the 2020 UWMP to historical actual use and trends, figure 3 shows that Palo Alto’s UWMP is overestimating Gross Per Capita Demand. Figure 3: Gross Per Capita Demand (GPCD) compared to actual and trends show that the 2020 UWMP GPCD projections are high. 144 139 136 133 131 257 186 207 196 181 153 146 139 132 125 117 109 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 Ga l l o n s p e r D a y 2020 UWMP forecasted GPCD compared to Actual and Trend based on 2015-2020 change Actual GPCD (black line) 2020 UWMP GPCD (brown line) Trend based on 2015-20 rate of change (dashed black line) Exponential trend line -- declining rate of change (dotted brown line)...... ·············· ....... ········· ......... ·························· 4 Palo Alto Average Palo Alto has high gross per capita demand compared to others. Figure ES-9 below taken from BAWSCA’s 2019-20 annual survey, shows that in 2020 Palo Alto had the fourth highest Gross Per Capita Water Use of the 28 BAWSCA agencies. Palo Alto’s GPCD in 2020 was 146 gallons per day, substantially higher than 105 gallons per day average across all BAWSCA agencies Figura, ES .. 9 : BAWSCA. M,ernl:uil't Agency Per Capita 'Water Use i)a!r Q•r lml ""'"' l'lorih ~oart Cv-1> WMfborol.ijjl'i ""1} San B,una !-ffDf'e4 d U1i.l'■1:1.ity• Mi .... , r-ocn:I C'WS-.t/iicl_,~,,-,.1., <:WS-~ SF hd-Ot, Coos! <1a ewe d-f'.41,inrA> W D AV,El!AGE ~ Abn..,l,;, ,;w,i, ~=11n V•PJ"N :s..,,.,1-#·• DurlllG(IMI, 1ts:!on:,MO $an J- Sante1 Clcra !!<liba · /GYMID 11"<,\a . N;t<>L, l'r;r~ <;W~-1,rt,ir~h HI f ,bo,r,:,oo 11 P...rtYA""' Hli. \/ID J J ~ • D .SIJ 100 200 250 I Reo!d Oil Por C:-.,1111 Con,ump11!!<! I T-o.tal (Gro2<I Pu C:!IIP ta Cc,nw«..ilon "Cv, 11;-111 ~IW' ••,,..~ er~ "•u=hp.nlir:I li,ltlr r:;r.r-~ ~nwmli'ti=m fClf° Stwnc,r::I q; ..,~ Iii, ... "I ... .. JOO 5 The UWMP is projecting Palo Alto’s gross per capita water demand will decrease by 10% over the next 25 years (0.38% per year). Figure 4 compares the UWMP’s projected changes in GPCD to historical rates of change. From 2010 to 2020 per capita demand decreased by 19% (1.8% per year). Measuring from 2015, a drought year, per capita demand from then to 2020 still decreased by 4.6% (0.91% per year). Given our recent history of reducing per capita demand substantially more than the UWMP projections, the fact that the reductions in the last 5 years were against a baseline of a drought year (2015), and the fact that Palo Alto has the fourth highest per capita demand of any of the BAWSCA agencies (meaning plenty of room for improvement), the UWMP appears to be substantially overestimating projected Gross Per Capita Demand. What if the UWMP used a Modest “Middle of the Road” GPCD Decline? If the UWMP instead had used a 0.9% annual reduction in per capita demand as we saw from 2015 to 2020, this would translate to a 25% reduction in per capita demand by 2045. It would mean our 2045 GPCD would be 109 gallons per day, still above BAWSCA’s 2020 average GPCD of 105 gallons per day, and 2045 overall water demand would have been 10,300 acre feet per year (AFY), down 2,100 AFY or 17% from the UWMP projection of 12,400 AFY. If all BAWSCA agencies were able to reduce their 2045 demand projections by 17%, BAWSCA’s 2045 demand projection on the SFPUC’s supply from the Tuolumne would drop from 163 million gallons per day (mgd) to 135 mgd, a 28 mgd reduction. The need for additional supplies that would have further driven up costs, would be substantially reduced. The SFPUC’s alarmist rationing scenarios would also be substantially reduced. Figure 4: The 2020 UWMP projects that Palo Alto will reduce its GPCD at a rate less than a third of its long-term historical rate of decline, and less than half of its rate of decline in the last 5 years, even when the base year (2015) was a low demand drought year. -1.20% -1.80% -0.91% -0.38% -2.00% -1.50% -1.00% -0.50% 0.00% 0.50% Cu m u l a t i v e A n n u a l G r o w t h R a t e ( C A G R ) Palo Alto's Average Annual Change in Gross Per Capita Demand 2010 to 2020 2015 to 2020 2020 to 2045 per UWMP 1990 to 2020 6 It's About Projecting More Accurately, NOT Changing Residents’ Behavior Palo Alto residents have been consistently reducing their per capita demand for 30 years. It is highly likely Palo Alto will continue to do so. If the GPCD trend since 1995 are plotted as an industrial process bounded by a 99% confidence interval where the underlying assumption is that there is no substantial change (meaning residents will continue such things as continuing to implement conservation measures and responding well to droughts while the city, county and State continue to advance conservation), the result is Figure 5. This chart shows that as an industrial process, it is highly unlikely GPCD would exceed the upper range limit and it is also highly unlikely GPCD would go below the lower range limit. The chart projects that in 2045 GPCD would fall in the range between 85 and 110 gallons per day, with a most likely case of 97 gallons per day. Figure 5 also overlays the UWMP’s projected per capita demand (the red line) and the extrapolation of the 2015-2020 rate of per capita demand reduction (the green line) Figure 5: Using the most likely case that 2045 GPCD will be 97 gallons per day based on the industrial process projection, the current 2020 UWMP projection for 2045 is overestimating GPCD by 34 gallons per day (35%). If the 2015-2020 extrapolation were used, the projected 2045 GPCD of 109 gallons per day would still be high by 12 gallons per day (12%), but at least within the upper range limit of the industrial process projection. 97 110 85 131 109 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 Ga l l o n s p e r D a y UWMP Projected GPCD compared to Trend Projected Trend Line Projected Upper Range Limit Projected Lower Range Limit 2020 UWMP projection 2015-2020 trend extrapolated ··•·· ---~ .. -- .... .... .... .... .... ...... . . . . .... .... -■ .... .. .. .... .. . . .... .. ••• .. . . ...... ----.... . . .. . .. .... . . .. ....... .. .... .. .. .. ••■ .... ..... 7 against the industrial process bounds. Based on the most like case of GPCD of 97 gallons per day in 2045, the 2020 UWMP would have overestimated 2045 demand by 35%. If the UWMP were to use the extrapolated 2015-2020 GPCD reduction, 2045 would still be overestimated by 12%, but much closer do what 2045 demand is most likely to be. The point is that reducing the UWMP projection for 2045 is NOT asking Palo Alto to do more, it is only increasing the projection’s accuracy. Conclusion Realistic demand projections are a vital component to managing our water supply and balancing human and environmental needs. Making Palo Alto’s demand projection for 2045 more realistic doesn’t change behaviors, but it does have vast benefits for residents and the environment. From multiple perspectives Palo Alto’s projected water demand in its draft 2020 UWMP is substantially overestimated. Please direct the Utilities department to revise downward its 2020 UWMP demand projection. Sincerely, Dave Warner 1 Baumb, Nelly From:mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, May 31, 2021 5:16 PM To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed; Stump, Molly Subject:Term limits for BCCs CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.        Term Limits for BCCs and Brown Act Council will deliberate Tuesday an agenda item about term limits for commissioners, boards and committees- sometimes called “BCCs”. Generally speaking, leadership in Palo Alto comprises elected council members (seven, although it was nine until 2014), appointed BCCS (forty, although it was 44 until 2016) and paid staff. My qualifications to comment here include being a recent candidate for the Public Art Commission — in fact I have been candidate for commission or board a total of nine times since 2010. Although I am curious to hear the debate, more to the point I would like to know if the current composition of appointed leaders was enacted within the rules of the Brown Act, to protect transparency in government in California. Or is there a significant and disturbing amount of illegal and backroom lobbying for certain types of BCC’s at the expense of more qualified, more representative and more receptive leaders? A bit more personal testimony: when I applied to HRC in 2012 I got a call from Tom Dubois who asked “What did you say to Pat Burt?” If I understood the question, and if I recall the conversation, Pat Burt had contacted Tom Dubois to lobby against my appointment to commission. I immediately contacted, in person, Karen Holman, to share this anecdote. I received two votes, from Dubois and Greg Schmid, and was not seated. (Mr. Burt, for whatever reasons, abstained from the interview session that included me). So the obvious question would be: to what extent did Pat Burt lobby against me, in violation of the Brown Act, in the recent selection process? More fundamentally: do some BCC members get seated specifically to thwart or displace the potential Council candidacy of other more qualified and capable candidates? Who decided to limit commissions from 44 to 40 persons? (meaning, what non-elected power told current leadership to consider such?) Who decided to limit Council from 9 to 7 members? Who decided to move elections from odd to even years (i.e. to limit debate, even if it, arguably, encourages participation)? Why don’t we tax corporations? The San Jose Business Journal reported recently that San Jose gets $70 in business taxes (and $30m in TOT); arguably, we would make at least $50m per year if we had a business tax. To the extent we don’t make our best efforts to train leadership, is it any wonder that in Palo Alto, children and adults step in front of moving trains, police dogs bite sleeping innocents, the police beat people of color, two current electeds supported a racist rebuttal by petition to a lawsuit by the NAACP, several more council members said they opposed the NAACP lawsuit but for reasons other than their racism, and builders do what they will — the County Assessors office says that Palo Alto has more than $50 Billion on the tax rolls — does that imply that an organized cartel of such special interests spend millions each year lobbying council and leadership, and dictate everything from their density bonuses to my role in the arts here? A recent Grand Jury Report — during Burt’s previous term but not that of Dubois — implies that they do. Does the fact that trillions of dollars worth of ‘created wealth” in high tech, IPOs and SPACs indicate that democracy suffers here? Are capitalism and democracy inconsistent here? I think PAC should a) expand back to 7 not 5 members and add myself and Shiraaz Bhabha to their ranks; b) delete private development and Stanford Industrial Park from the Percent for Art programs; and c) add performing arts such as concerts to the PAC charter: Palo Alto Public Arts Commission sic. We don’t need term limits for BCCs; we need sunshine. As a disinfectant. Mark Weiss 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Nguyen, Vinhloc Sent:Tuesday, June 1, 2021 2:46 PM To:Council, City Cc:Clerk, City; Minor, Beth; Baumb, Nelly; Brettle, Jessica Subject:PTC Chair Letter to City Council Attachments:PTC Feedback RE Handbook.pdf Hello,    Please see attached letter from PTC Chair to City Council. Thank you.    Kind regards,        Vinh Nguyen | Administrative Associate III  Planning & Development Services  250 Hamilton Ave | Palo Alto, CA 94301  P: 650.329.2218 | E: Vinhloc.Nguyen@cityofpaloalto.org      CITY OF PALO ALTO Dear City Council Members, The Planning and Transportation Commissioner reviewed and discussed the “City Boards, Commissions, and Committees Handbook” (Handbook) at its regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday May 26, 2021. Overall, the Commissioners welcome the Handbook and guidance it provides to the PTC. The PTC does want to provide feedback on three areas of concern: (1) verbatim minutes, (2) quasi-judicial matters, and (3) annual work plan. The PTC understands the suggestion for boards and commissions to publish sense minutes and the discouragement of verbatim minutes. The PTC members, however, believe that there is great value in verbatim PTC minutes for the Council. We are a purely advisory body to the Council, and the recommendations we make are frequently nuanced beyond what can be captured in our bare motions. The availability of the complete text in written form allows Council members to understand the dialogue and discussion regarding a policy or project recommendation more efficiently than by reviewing the corresponding video. This provides far greater clarity than the sense minutes alone. The PTC plans to continue the transcription of verbatim minutes while also publishing a sense minutes document. This can provide opportunities for those who want to review the summary while also maintaining the richness of the verbatim minutes. The PTC also appreciates the discouragement of commissioners speaking with applicants/appellants who have a quasi-judicial matter before the PTC. We recognize and acknowledge that it is important to avoid the appearance of any impropriety or bias in our hearings. That said, PTC members gain insight into quasi- judicial matters from site visits and/or discussions with applicants as well as discussions with project opponents (or proponents). These communications help us develop fully informed recommendations to the Council. PTC members as a matter of course disclose all communications that occur with such matters and also disclose if any additional information has been gained outside of the hearing that might influence their decision making. We believe this is the Council’s practice, and the common practice among planning commissions and councils in general. Again, the PTC understands the Council’s discouragement of such communication, but encourages the City Council to reconsider how this is worded in the Handbook. Perhaps the City’s decision-making process may be better served if the Handbook outlines how Commissioners should disclose any ex parte communication for quasi-judicial items. The PTC looks forward to reviewing its draft work plan on June 9, 2021. Due to the timing of submitting the draft to the City Clerk, the PTC was not able to review the draft before its submission. Following our discussion on June 9, the PTC will provide an updated work plan to the Council for its discussion on June 22, 2021. The PTC recognizes its work plan may be different than other boards or commissions. The PTC is primarily a responsive body. The PTC responds to applications intermittently as they are submitted by applicants and responds to City Council referrals to the PTC. The 2021-2022 work plan focuses on referrals the PTC has received from Council and known transportation projects or planning efforts. The PTC hopes this meets the expectations of the City Council. The PTC plans to consider prioritizing long-term work plan items and hopes to see if the PTC items for the coming year can align with the City Council’s priorities. Such feedback regarding alignment may come through the Council’s review of the work plan. Thank you for your time, efforts, and your consideration of the PTC feedback. Chair, Planning and Transportation Commission DocuSign Envelope ID: C5E610EC-B614-4E7E-8A4A-43C6D3590A35 Certificate Of Completion Envelope Id: C5E610ECB6144E7E8A4A43C6D3590A35 Status: Completed Subject: Please DocuSign: PTC Feedback RE Handbook Source Envelope: Document Pages: 1 Signatures: 1 Envelope Originator: Certificate Pages: 2 Initials: 0 Vinhloc Nguyen AutoNav: Enabled EnvelopeId Stamping: Enabled Time Zone: (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) 250 Hamilton Ave Palo Alto , CA 94301 Vinhloc.Nguyen@CityofPaloAlto.org IP Address: 199.33.32.254 Record Tracking Status: Original 6/1/2021 11:33:23 AM Holder: Vinhloc Nguyen Vinhloc.Nguyen@CityofPaloAlto.org Location: DocuSign Security Appliance Status: Connected Pool: StateLocal Storage Appliance Status: Connected Pool: City of Palo Alto Location: DocuSign Signer Events Signature Timestamp Barton Hechtman cbhechtman@att.net Security Level: Email, Account Authentication (None) Signature Adoption: Pre-selected Style Using IP Address: 173.167.114.205 Sent: 6/1/2021 11:34:53 AM Viewed: 6/1/2021 11:37:50 AM Signed: 6/1/2021 12:00:58 PM Electronic Record and Signature Disclosure: Not Offered via DocuSign In Person Signer Events Signature Timestamp Editor Delivery Events Status Timestamp Agent Delivery Events Status Timestamp Intermediary Delivery Events Status Timestamp Certified Delivery Events Status Timestamp Carbon Copy Events Status Timestamp Rachael Tanner Rachael.Tanner@CityofPaloAlto.org Assistant Director of Planning and Development Services Security Level: Email, Account Authentication (None) Sent: 6/1/2021 12:00:59 PM Electronic Record and Signature Disclosure: Not Offered via DocuSign Witness Events Signature Timestamp Notary Events Signature Timestamp Envelope Summary Events Status Timestamps Envelope Sent Hashed/Encrypted 6/1/2021 11:34:53 AM Certified Delivered Security Checked 6/1/2021 11:37:50 AM Signing Complete Security Checked 6/1/2021 12:00:58 PM DocuSign· COPIED Envelope Summary Events Status Timestamps Completed Security Checked 6/1/2021 12:00:59 PM Payment Events Status Timestamps screen out sex offenders and recent violent felons ... " (emphasis added).2 The following cities currently screen out sex offenders and violent felons from their program: • Cupertino3 • Culver City4 • Fullerton5 • Los Angeles6 • Monterey7 • Morgan Hill8 • Redwood City/San Jose9 • San Diego10 • San Luis Obispo11 • Santa Barbara (City ofLompac)12 • Santa Cruz13 • Walnut Creek14 t r Unlike programs in other cities, all three of the proposed SPP sites in Palo Alto are close to schools or parks (see attached maps). Having unscreened individuals in these areas during the daytime --especially close to safe biking routes --poses a clear risk to the children in our school communities. 3. There is no enforcement of the ½ mile rule. The current SPP at religious institutions is for overnight hours only. During non-operational hours, participants are supposed to park half a mile from the program site. However, there is no enforcement of this rule under the current program. In fact, City Planning has said that a vehicle could simply drive half a mile away and immediately park close to the program site. This poses an obvious danger to the school community, as these (presently unscreened individuals) can park next to the 2 https:/ /socialinnovation.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Safe-Parking-Literature-Review.pdf 3 Safe Parking Guidelines provided by the Winter Faith program. 4 https://www.culvercity.org/Services/Housing-Health-Human-Services/Safe-Park-Program 5 https://www.cityoffullerton.com/documents/Safe%20Parking%20FAQ.pdf 6 https:/ /www.safeparkingla.org 7 http·//www onestarfishsaf«a>arkjn~.0WJ2ro1WWJ-requirements html 8 FOCUS Program: http://ca-morganhill.civicplus.com/DocumentCenterNiew/23469/Focus-Safe-Parking-Program_PDNewsletter_Fall2 01 9 https://www.2 l l ca.org/detaiV?idServiceAtLocation=2 l l santacl-70563584&location=santa%20cruz%20county%20c a&user= 10 https://www.jfssd.org/our-services/adults-families/safe-parking-program/safe-parking-north-county/ 11 This is required by ordinance. bttps-//www siocjty oc~lhome/showdocument?jd-2540 12 https://www.cityotlompoc.com/home/showpublisheddocument?id=27025 (Section I.D(2)). 13 https·//www afcsantacruz or~/safespaces-pro~ram html (under procedures link) 14 https://trinitycenterwc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Safe-Parking-Program-Description.pdf. This program appears to currently be on pause, possibly due to funding, but was operational for nine months. 2