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HomeMy Public PortalAbout20210119plCC701-32 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: 1/19/ 2021 Document dates: 12/16/2020 – 12/23/2020 Set 1 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Building Sent:Tuesday, December 22, 2020 4:16 PM To:Sal Gts; Council, City Cc:Brian Steen; Reynolds, Brian; French, Amy Subject:RE: 851 and 847 Moana Cort - Illegal construction Good afternoon Mr. Khan,    I located your 311 request dated December 11, 2020 regarding 851 Moana Court but found nothing for 847 Moana  Court. I have finished my research for the Airbnb and found that they have listed this for a minimum five (5) night stay.  Brian Reynolds, lead code enforcement officer will be sending out a Notice of Violation for the short‐term rental as  short‐term rentals are not permissible in residential zones. The Zillow ad does not list this as a short‐term rental only as  an apartment for rent.    As for the bedroom with kitchen, a permit was issued on March 3, 2020 and finaled by the building inspector manager  on October 15, 2020 . The scope of this permit was as follows; “BRING TO CONFORMANCE WORK DONE WITHOUT  PERMIT. INCLUDES ADDITIONAL (3) BATHROOMS AND CONVERT PART OF HOME TO JUNIOR ADU. TOTAL REMODEL  WORK 500 SF”.    Please feel free to give me a contact me at (650) 329‐2603 or by email if you have any questions.     Regards,      eÉu|Ç XÄÄÇxÜ Administrative Associate III  Planning & Development Services  (650) 329‐2603 | robin.ellner@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org                   The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.             From: Sal Gts <slowgts@gmail.com>   Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 12:09 PM  To: Building <Building@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>  Cc: Brian Steen <blsteen@yahoo.com>  Subject: Re: 851 and 847 Moana Cort ‐ Illegal construction    CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  2 Hello City of Palo Alto Council   I have reported illegal activity at 851 Moana Court.   Reference no is  9231463     There has been NO RESPONSE from the city.   Our neighbor turned a single family home into a 3 apartments   Each apartment is 1 BR + Kitchen + 1 Bath  unit.   It is also listed as an apartment for rent on Zillow and  AirBNB as an Apartment Rental.     I expect a written response from the City.        My information   Sal Khan   650‐665‐0480   Neighbor.               3       851 and 847 Moana Cort ‐ Illegal construction    On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 6:29 PM Sal Gts <slowgts@gmail.com> wrote:  My neighbor at 851 is building extra bathrooms and changing the layout of the house so it is converted to 4  apartments.   Which is not allowed in this area.   There is construction going on after 5 00 pm ‐ right now it is 6:22 PM  and construction is still working.    Here is a picture I just took.      PLEASE DO SOMETHING.      House next door ‐ 847 Moana Ct ‐‐ owned by the same family  ‐ Just added one additional bedroom ‐   We do not know if the room was added in the garage or they have modified the existing Family room  They have also added one additional bathroom also.     Since I dont see any permits online ‐ I am assuming that this done without permits and  I am afraid of FIRE HAZARD due  to electrical work.      847 Moana Ct  Palo Alto, CA 94306    4     5         My information   Sal Khan   650‐665‐0480   Neighbor.             On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:52 AM City of Palo Alto <news@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  A monthly newsletter about "All Things Palo Alto"      View this email in your browser       6      May 2019 April Showers Bring May Flowers We all know the saying, “April showers bring May flowers” like the beautiful tulips that pop up each Spring in Gamble Garden. This year those April showers lingered into May, giving us nearly 18 inches of rain since January and keeping our Foothills green a little while longer. Likewise, we have some good “green” news to share with you this month.       7  Message from the Mayor One of the Council Priorities this year is Climate Change and I am happy to say we are working on many levels to confront this challenge of our times.       A Cleaner, Greener Way: Ceremony to Usher in New Wastewater Treatment Plant On Wednesday, June 5, the City will mark an environmental milestone when it ushers in a more sustainable form of wastewater treatment at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant (RWQCP) on Embarcadero Way. I hope you will join me at the 10 a.m. ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of our new dewatering facility.       As we bring that facility online, we will simultaneously pull the plug on the sludge- burning incinerators on the site. The updated treatment process will reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 15,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year– another step in the City’s goal to reduce greenhouse gasses 80% by 2030.     Learn More   8     Bike to Work Day's Road to Success More sustainability inroads were made at this year’s Bike to Work Day held on May 9. I joined the record 2,400 bicyclists who pedaled through one of the four Energizer Stations sponsored by the City. That’s a 2.1% increase from the record Bike to Work Day numbers set in Palo Alto last year. I hope to see you in the bike lane burning carbs instead of carbon again soon.             All Things Palo Alto            On Track with Connecting Palo Alto The Connecting Palo Alto rail program continues to move full steam ahead on this year’s Grade Separation Council Priority. On May 13, Council voted to eliminate a citywide tunnel scenario that 9  carried an estimated price tag between $2.5 and $3.8 billion... [more]     Call for Entries to Spice Up the Chili Cook Off Think you have a sizzling chili recipe that packs the heat and could take home a prize? Then come compete in the 38th Annual Chili Cook Off that’s held every 4th of July at Mitchell Park.... [more]     Celebrate World Music Day Get ready to celebrate dads, grads, and music makers at the 11th Annual Palo Alto World Music Day taking place on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16 from 3-7:30 p.m.... [more]       10   We are Social If you mention @CityofPaloAlto or #PaloAlto in a social post, we might feature it here. Be sure to LIKE, SHARE, RETWEET and FOLLOW us!                                     11             The beautiful photo featured at the top of this newsletter was provided by one of our subscribers, @walkingpaloalto. If you have a photo you think could go in this newsletter or on one of our social media accounts, please use the hashtag #ExplorePaloAlto and we just may feature it.       Copyright © 2019 City of Palo Alto, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Ave # 7 Palo Alto, CA 94301-2531 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.       12     ‐‐   Sal Khan   Personal Email         ‐‐   Sal Khan   Personal Email     13 Baumb, Nelly From:Aire Hjelle <AHjelle@thefishmarket.com> Sent:Tuesday, December 22, 2020 9:38 AM To:Council, City Subject:RE: Federal WARN Act Notice; California WARN Act Notice CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  December 22, 2020 RE: Federal WARN Act Notice; California WARN Act Notice To Whom It May Concern: This notice is being provided in compliance with the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 United States Code section 2102 et seq. (“WARN”), and the California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, California Labor Code section 1400 et seq. (“Cal-WARN”), both of which require official notice to certain government units or officials of a pending plant closure or mass layoff that falls within statutory notice requirements. The pandemic’s economic impact has caused Fish Market Restaurants, Inc. (“Fish Market”) to incur unforeseeable financial losses. The pandemic’s overwhelming economic impact has been sudden, rapidly escalating, and unforeseeable. This notice is to inform your agency that due to the regional Shelter-in-Place order that went into effect on December 16, 2020, The Fish Market has or intends to temporarily furlough employees at the following California worksites: 1. The Fish Market San Mateo, 1855 S Norfolk Street, San Mateo, CA 94403 These furloughs due to restriction to takeout and delivery will impact 28 employees at this location. Fish Market has provided notice to its employees on the effective date of their furloughs, which began on December 17, 2020. In addition to the furloughs, due to the closures of our other two restaurants in the area, 2 managers were laid off at The San Mateo location. The effective date of the lay offs were December 9, 2020. Fish Market is providing as much advance notice of the present furloughs and layoffs as possible under these unprecedented circumstances. Unfortunately, 60-days’ notice of the present furloughs was impossible given the sudden onset of the coronavirus pandemic and related government orders, including recent developments. Accordingly, Fish Market provides this notice and notice to affected employees in compliance with Governor Gavin Newsom’s March 17, 2020 Executive Order, number N-31-20 as well as the Governor’s reopening plan. None of the affected employees are represented by a union. Attached to this notice is a list of the affected job titles and the number of affected employees in each job classification. 14 For more information regarding the worksite closure, please feel free to contact me at the address indicated above. My telephone number is (619) 232- 8862 x 313. The information provided herein represents the best information available to Fish Market at the time this notice was issued. Sincerely, Dwight Colton President Fish Market Restaurants, Inc. 15 Job Title # of Affected Employees BARTENDER 3  Busser 6  Cook 1  Host 3  Market 1  Server 12  Support 2  Managers (laid off) 2                                                                         16 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, December 22, 2020 9:34 AM To:Honky Subject:FOL;OW THE MONEY America just got played!!! WHO OWNS WHO?? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Looks Like America Got Played. U DECIDE ! either way tha's a lot of con wink ya denses LOL Might this be true? Kindest regards, Eileen Dannemann Director, National Coalition of Organized Women Founder, VaccineLiberationArmy.com 319 855-0307 "A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate" -Thomas Jefferson 17 America JUSt got 1-'LAYt:U !!! The Chinese biological laboratory in Wuh who { ! by coincidence) owns Pfizer! {thE for the virus that { ! by coincidence) star Wuhan, which { ! by coincidence) was fu coincidence) promoting the vaccine!} GlaxoSmithKline { ! by coincidence) is m who { • by coincidence) manages the fin• Company {Soros Foundation) which { ! b AXA! ! . By coincidence Soros owns the Germa by coincidence) built the Chinese laborat the German Allianz which { ! by coincide shareholder which { ! by coincidence) is which ( ! by coincidence) controls the ce one third of the global investment capital Black Rock ( ! by coincidence) is also an the property of Bill Gates, who ( ! by coir Pfizer (selling the miracle Vaccine) and ( _first sponsor of WHO • • .. 18 19 Baumb, Nelly From:Sal Gts <slowgts@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, December 18, 2020 12:09 PM To:Building; Council, City Cc:Brian Steen Subject:Re: 851 and 847 Moana Cort - Illegal construction CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello City of Palo Alto Council   I have reported illegal activity at 851 Moana Court.   Reference no is  9231463     There has been NO RESPONSE from the city.   Our neighbor turned a single family home into a 3 apartments   Each apartment is 1 BR + Kitchen + 1 Bath  unit.   It is also listed as an apartment for rent on Zillow and  AirBNB as an Apartment Rental.     I expect a written response from the City.        My information   Sal Khan   650‐665‐0480   Neighbor.           20           851 and 847 Moana Cort ‐ Illegal construction    On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 6:29 PM Sal Gts <slowgts@gmail.com> wrote:  My neighbor at 851 is building extra bathrooms and changing the layout of the house so it is converted to 4  apartments.   Which is not allowed in this area.   There is construction going on after 5 00 pm ‐ right now it is 6:22 PM  and construction is still working.    Here is a picture I just took.      PLEASE DO SOMETHING.      House next door ‐ 847 Moana Ct ‐‐ owned by the same family  ‐ Just added one additional bedroom ‐   We do not know if the room was added in the garage or they have modified the existing Family room  They have also added one additional bathroom also.     21 Since I dont see any permits online ‐ I am assuming that this done without permits and  I am afraid of FIRE HAZARD due  to electrical work.      847 Moana Ct  Palo Alto, CA 94306        22         My information   Sal Khan   650‐665‐0480   Neighbor.             On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:52 AM City of Palo Alto <news@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:       View this email in your browser     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Our Palo Alto logo     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.    May 2019 23   April Showers Bring May Flowers We all know the saying, “April showers bring May flowers” like the beautiful tulips that pop up each Spring in Gamble Garden. This year those April showers lingered into May, giving us nearly 18 inches of rain since January and keeping our Foothills green a little while longer. Likewise, we have some good “green” news to share with you this month.     To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Message from the Mayor One of the Council Priorities this year is Climate Change and I am happy to say we are working on many levels to confront this challenge of our times.     To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.The new Regional Water Quality C ontrol Plant. A Cleaner, Greener Way: Ceremony to Usher in New Wastewater Treatment Plant On Wednesday, June 5, the City will mark an environmental milestone when it ushers in a more sustainable form of wastewater treatment at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant (RWQCP) on Embarcadero Way. I hope you will join me at the 10 a.m. ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of our new dewatering facility.   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.City staff view the soon-to-be decommissioned sewage incinerator.As we bring that facility online, we will simultaneously pull the plug on the sludge- burning incinerators on the site. The updated 24  treatment process will reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 15,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year– another step in the City’s goal to reduce greenhouse gasses 80% by 2030.   Learn More     To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.A young biker enjoys a tote bag at Bike to Work Day.Bike to Work Day's Road to Success More sustainability inroads were made at this year’s Bike to Work Day held on May 9. I joined the record 2,400 bicyclists who pedaled through one of the four Energizer Stations sponsored by the City. That’s a 2.1% increase from the record Bike to Work Day numbers set in Palo Alto last year. I hope to see you in the bike lane burning carbs instead of carbon again soon.         All Things Palo Alto   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.City of Palo Alto's 125th Birthday logo     To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. On Track with Connecting Palo Alto The Connecting Palo Alto rail program continues to move full steam ahead on this year’s Grade Separation Council Priority. On May 13, Council voted to eliminate a citywide tunnel scenario that 25  carried an estimated price tag between $2.5 and $3.8 billion... [more]   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Call for Entries to Spice Up the Chili Cook Off Think you have a sizzling chili recipe that packs the heat and could take home a prize? Then come compete in the 38th Annual Chili Cook Off that’s held every 4th of July at Mitchell Park.... [more]   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Celebrate World Music Day Get ready to celebrate dads, grads, and music makers at the 11th Annual Palo Alto World Music Day taking place on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16 from 3-7:30 p.m.... [more]   We are Social 26   If you mention @CityofPaloAlto or #PaloAlto in a social post, we might feature it here. Be sure to LIKE, SHARE, RETWEET and FOLLOW us!                             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 protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.         To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. The beautiful photo featured at the top of this newsletter was provided by one of our subscribers, @walkingpaloalto. If you have a photo you think could go in this newsletter or on one of our social media accounts, please use the hashtag #ExplorePaloAlto and we just may feature it.     Copyright © 2019 City of Palo Alto, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Ave # 7 Palo Alto, CA 94301-2531 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.     27       ‐‐   Sal Khan   Personal Email         ‐‐   Sal Khan   Personal Email     28 Baumb, Nelly From:Reich, Russ Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:06 AM To:David Coale; Hoyt, George Cc:Wyndon Trinidad; Lait, Jonathan; Shikada, Ed; Elaine Baskin; Council, City; UAC; Pat Burt; Benatar, Lisa Subject:RE: 757 GREER RD/20000-01596: Hello David,  Thank you for your inquiry.  You may want to check in with Michelle in customer care with Lundy solar.  I believe you are  working with Lundy Solar?  There may be an internal communication issue there.  The project coordinator has been in  communication with Michelle from Lundy Solar all week.  Fire has completed their review early, on Monday, as we said  they would, and staff has been in communication with the applicant, Lundy Solar on this.  There has been a series of  communication about the fees with the applicant this week and the permit could have been issued sooner if the fees  had been paid right away.  The fee was finally paid yesterday and the permit is set to be issued today.  Please let me  know if you have any further questions.    Best,    Russ Reich  Development Services Permit Manager  Planning and Development Services  (650) 617‐3119 | russ.reich@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org                 The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.                                                      From: David Coale <david@evcl.com>   Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 9:28 AM  To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>; Reich, Russ <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan  <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Elaine Baskin  <elaine@theprocessworks.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; UAC <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org>; Pat  Burt <patburt11@gmail.com>; Benatar, Lisa <Lisa.Benatar@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: Re: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:     Hi George,  29   Another week has gone by and still no word from you on this.  Not sure how to light a fire under the fire department or  others in the loop.  It feels like I am pushing a rope here.  I know in light of everything else the city is doing with covid,  etc. one permit for a solar installation with storage is not big deal but it has now been nearly 4 months (new people on  the list see e‐mail thread below) and is beyond ridiculous.    Please provide Status on this ASAP.  I will send another email tomorrow, as once a week has not produced any results on  this.    Also please let me know if there is anything you need on our side for this.    Thanks,    Sincerely,    David Coale        On Dec 11, 2020, at 4:12 PM, Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote:    David,     We will have Fire review the project on Monday and the applicant should hear from us early next  week.  I apologize that this third review was not performed sooner as I had indicated it would be.     George     <image001.png>    The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.        From: David Coale <david@evcl.com>   Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:09 PM  To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>; Reich, Russ <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org>;  Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: Re: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      Hi George,     It has been another week since I checked on the status of a solar permit that has taken 3 months.     Please provide an update on this and please move this along ASAP.     Thanks,     David     30    On Dec 3, 2020, at 7:28 AM, Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote:     Correction:  The resubmittal was submitted during our Thanksgiving break at 17:50 on  Thanksgiving.     <image003.png>    The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.           From: Hoyt, George   Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 7:22 AM  To: David Coale <david@evcl.com>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>; Reich, Russ  <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: RE: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      David,     This project was routed for 30 days and 10 day second review because it also includes  battery storage.   The second review was completed on due date of 11‐13‐2020 and  comments were sent on 11‐16‐2020.   The applicant resubmitted for a third review to  address Fire Department’s comments 11‐24‐2020 at 17:50 which was after hours on the  eve of the Thanksgiving break.       I will ask staff to coordinate a virtual OTC review for this project at our earliest  opportunity.     George     <image003.png>    The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.        From: David Coale <david@evcl.com>   Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 10:01 PM  To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>  Subject: Fwd: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      Hi George,     31 As you can see this PV installation was routed for a 30 day review.  As of this email  Lundy Solar still does not have a permit and now the client is likely to loose 4% in the  federal tax credit and it has been 3 and a half months!     Please look into this ASAP as this is way over due!     Thanks,     David Coale     PS. I work with Lundy Solar and roofing and Wyndon Trinidad is the owner.     Begin forwarded message:     From: <customercare@lundysolar.com>  Subject: FW: 757 GREER RD/20000-01596:  Date: December 2, 2020 at 9:43:01 PM PST  To: "'David Coale'" <david@evcl.com>           From: Tamale, Diana <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>   Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 1:59 PM  To: customercare@lundysolar.com  Subject: RE: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      This project has been routed for 30 days review.    Application Submittal  Submitted - PC Required  08/18/2020  DIANA TAM...     Planning Review           Public Works Eng. Review           Water Quality Review           WGW Utilities Review           Landscape Review           Urban Forestry Review           Transportation Review           PWD Zero Waste Review           Building Review  Routed  08/18/2020  DIANA TAM...     Elect Utilities Review  Routed  08/19/2020  RAMANDEEP...     Fire Review  Routed  08/18/2020  DIANA TAM...     Review Consolidation           Ready To Issue           Permit Issuance              <image005.png>        DianaTamale  Project Coordinator   Development Services Center   O: 650‐329‐2535 F:650‐329‐2240  32 E: diana.tamale@cityofpaloalto.org       From: customercare@lundysolar.com <customercare@lundysolar.com>    Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 3:53 PM  To: Tamale, Diana <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      Hi Diana,     Good afternoon.  I checked the portal and followed the process below  and it seems the permit and approved plan have not been uploaded.  The attachments that appear are the documents we submitted for the  application.  Kindly update or send me the permit and approved copy of  plans so that we can proceed, or please let me know next step.  Thanks!     Best Regards,  Michelle  From: Tamale, Diana <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>   Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 4:24 PM  To: customercare@lundysolar.com  Subject: RE: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596: Fees Due, Action Needed     The revision has been issued, here is instruction on how to download the approved plans.    TO DOWNLOAD APPROVED OR CORRECTED DOCUMENTS:  1. CLICK: MY RECORDS (next to dashboard)   2. CLICK on: Red highlighted permit number   3. CLICK on RECORD INFO, (the blue down arrow)   4. Select: ATTACHMENTS   5. CLICK: Blue Name of Document to download and save to your computer.      <image005.png>        DianaTamale  Project Coordinator   Development Services Center   O: 650‐329‐2535 F:650‐329‐2240  E: diana.tamale@cityofpaloalto.org       From: customercare@lundysolar.com <customercare@lundysolar.com>    33 Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 1:17 PM  To: Tamale, Diana <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596: Fees Due, Action Needed     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Hi Diana,     Good afternoon.  We already made the payment for this (on Tuesday), I  just wanted to check on the next steps for the permit application.  Will  the permit and approved plans be emailed or do we pick them up? Also,  about when should we expect the approval/release/comments?  Please  let me know.  Thanks!     Best Regards,  Michelle     From: PDS City of Palo Alto <donotreply@cityofpaloalto.org>   Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 9:06 AM  To: customercare@lundysolar.com  Subject: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596: Fees Due, Action Needed     Applicant - customercare@lundysolar.com;,  Record#: 20000-01596 Opened Date: 8/16/2020 Address: 757 GREER RD, PALO ALTO, CA 94303 Project Type: Project - Building Permit Description of Work: INSTALL A NEW ROOF MOUNTED 8.14kW Solar PV SYSTEM CONSISTING OF 22pcs SOLARIA POWERXT-370R-PD MODULES, 22 SOLAR EDGE OPTIMIZERS (SLRE P370), ONE (1) SOLAREDGE INVERTER (SLRE SE7600A-USS2RNCB2 STOREDGE 2958.861/EA 2958.86 INVERTER 7.6KW AFCI 5 YEAR CELLULAR PLAN -25C), ONE(1) LG Chem RESU10H-SEG Li-ION BATTERY.  ***PLEASE READ ENTIRE EMAIL TO REVIEW NEXT STEPS TO HELP AVOID DELAYS IN THE REVIEW PROCESS***  This email is to notify you that fees are due for application 20000-01596. Please click here to access your application record to pay fees City of Palo Alto ACA . City staff will process your application after your payment has been completed.   34 If you have any questions, please contact your Project Coordinator, DIANA TAMALE-650-329-2535 at diana.tamale@cityofpaloalto.org    Thank you for using our online permitting system and we look forward to working with you.    Building Division Planning and Development Services Department (PDS) City of Palo Alto     <image006.jpg>     <image007.jpg> Virus-free. www.avg.com    35 Baumb, Nelly From:Minor, Beth Sent:Wednesday, December 16, 2020 2:41 PM To:Irina Beylin Cc:Council, City Subject:RE: Foothills Referendum Thank you Irina for letting me know.      Thanks and stay healthy.      BETH MINOR  City Clerk  (650)329‐2379 | Beth.Minor@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org                         From: Irina Beylin <irina.beylin@gmail.com>   Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 2:38 PM  To: Minor, Beth <Beth.Minor@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>  Subject: Re: Foothills Referendum    Hi Beth,    due to COVID‐19 restrictions we had enormous constraints and were not able to collect the required 2,561 physical  signatures. We would definitely have the required amount if e‐signatures were allowed under these emergency  circumstances.      Please cancel our meeting.    Thank you.    Irina    On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 8:56 AM Minor, Beth <Beth.Minor@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  Hi Irina,      36 I am required to follow the Charter of the City and it states that the signature has to be done in front of the person  collecting signature, that cannot be done electronically.  Additionally, the Registrar of Voters has no way to verify the  electronic signature against the signature they have on file.     Thanks and stay healthy.        BETH MINOR  City Clerk  (650)329‐2379 | Beth.Minor@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org                             From: Irina Beylin <irina.beylin@gmail.com>   Sent: Monday, December 7, 2020 8:51 AM  To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>  Cc: Minor, Beth <Beth.Minor@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: Foothills Referendum     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello City Council members,      We are circulating the Referendum to Rescind the Ordinance approved by the Council on 16 November.  In light of  updated States COVID‐19 restrictions  and rising COVID‐19 danger, we can't follow the city rules to collect  signatures in person.  We are getting hundreds of  Palo Alto residents' emails with requests for electronic signatures.   37 We are asking you to temporarily change the in person signature rule to electronic.  As it would take time to set up an  electronic system, please extend the Referendum deadline until 23 December 2020.  We want to stop unsafe way of in person signatures as soon as possible and set up a safe   e‐signature way, it would be great if you get back with the answer today‐tomorrow.     Thank you for your help.   Irina Beylin  771 Ames Ave  38 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 9:57 AM To:Roberta Ahlquist; Winter Dellenbach; Greer Stone; Raven Malone; chuck jagoda; Steven D. Lee; rebecca@winwithrebecca.com; Cormack, Alison; Cari Templeton; Council, City; Ed Lauing; Human Relations Commission; greg@gregtanaka.org; Fine, Adrian; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; DuBois, Tom; eric.filseth@cityofpaloalto.com; Dave Price Subject:Vong, Perez: Youth suicide, homelessness have common solution - San José Spotlight CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    FYI: important piece!!!  https://sanjosespotlight.com/vong‐perez‐youth‐suicide‐homelessness‐have‐common‐solution/      Sent from my iPhone  39 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 3:03 AM To:Loran Harding; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; David Balakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; dlfranklin0@outlook.com; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; bballpod; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; huidentalsanmateo; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net; jerry ruopoli Subject:Fwd: Trump at his best- What's in the $900 billion Covid relief B: Plenty for foreign countries 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, Dec 23, 2020 at 2:43 AM  Subject: Trump at his best‐ What's in the $900 billion Covid relief B: Plenty for foreign countries  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>           Late Tues. Dec. 22, 2020              Here is Trump re the Covid relief bill:  It is indeed a scandal.  Every foreign dictator will get millions to lard into his  Swiss bank accounts. I have tried for years to see how those dictators get Congress to do this and I just can't figure it  out.               This process turned into a grab‐bag for every special interest group, including lots of foreign ones!              Bottom line: The American people, the suckers, will get next to nothing.              Trump demands bigger stimulus checks in Covid relief bill (cnbc.com)                 It's probably time for another big, bloody 8‐year war in Asia to really put us in our place.                The American people should see this vid. and then demand that Congress re‐work the bill and give the foreign  money to us instead. Threaten them with losing the next election.   Just listen to the millions and billions the bill gives to  foreign countries when it's called a "Covid Relief Bill".                    L. William Harding               Fresno  40 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, December 22, 2020 11:14 PM To:chuck jagoda; Winter Dellenbach; Roberta Ahlquist; gstone22@gmail.com; Shikada, Ed; Raven Malone; Steven D. Lee; Cari Templeton; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Bains, Paul; Council, City; Cormack, Alison; DuBois, Tom; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Ed Lauing Subject:Tombstones honor 196 homeless people who died in Silicon Valley - San José Spotlight CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://sanjosespotlight.com/tombstones‐honor‐196‐homeless‐people‐who‐died‐in‐silicon‐valley/      Sent from my iPhone  41 Baumb, Nelly From:Ecer Buyer Service <mrrabbi164.8380@cmcadditive.com> Sent:Tuesday, December 22, 2020 7:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: About all in one pc digital signage CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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Ecer.com helps global buyers source directly from China factory warehouses. Ecer.com Buyer Service Team       To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In   45 Baumb, Nelly From:Ardan Michael Blum <ardan.michael.blum@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, December 22, 2020 6:49 PM To:tomforcouncil@gmail.com; lydiakou@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Filseth, Eric (external); gstone22@gmail.com; patburt11@gmail.com; Clerk, City; Council, City Subject:Emergency Foil Mylar Thermal Blankets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Fellow Palo Altans, I would like to ask you to discuss an issue of some urgency. You were all for painting black lives matter right next to city hall and if BLACK LIVES matter then I would like to draw your attention to several African American homeless people who are shivering nightly outside of the 7 Eleven on Waverly and who do not profit greatly by your large statement of concern. Sadly the issue of homelessness in Palo Alto is (from an informal demographic point of view) a majority African American issue. Maybe with a few exceptions. What I am getting at is that you are ready to invest huge amounts to be seen by the press as WOKE but the idea of a mobile bus which offers both foil mylar thermal blankets, ponchos, bedding, already warm soup, some pocket change, and a way for these people to be cared for IS SIMPLY NOT TAKING PLACE as these are the people that no one wants to see and ignores. The tragic fate of these, largely African American men should urgently be met with a budget. I am willing to provide 400 dollars cash a month to a fund if such a fund is set up, as you may be out of money with the painting budget for the next mural. Being woke is fine. You are fed, housed and have central heating in one of the richest towns on earth where the city manager makes almost HALF A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR - which is madness, well, only in Palo Alto! 46 Anyhow ... As you will be discussing Covid related issues may you please organize that some service of the city drive about for a few hours each night to help the homeless. DO NOT FORGET: When Covid started you set up some washing stations and some people would put our bread and cans of food for the homeless. That is over. The washing stations are still there. What the man shivering at the 7 Eleven needs is help. I would venture to suggest that in the short term the office of Emergency Services might be asked to hand out these blankets till someone / a service can be set up. Stay safe, and stop for heaven's sake your wasting budget money on BLM murals; use the money to feed kids in need and the homeless. Your several hundreds or thousands spent on a mural may not warm anyone that you claim matters. Sincerely, Ardan Michael Blum 47 Baumb, Nelly From:Matthew Lefkowitz <matt@lefkowitzsys.com> Sent:Tuesday, December 22, 2020 4:45 PM To:Council, City Subject:Message from the City Council Home Page - Benjamin Lefkowitz Adobe Creek under-crossing replacement CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Palo Alto City Council,    I congratulate you and the City of Palo Alto for the Adobe Creek over‐crossing project. I watched its conception and  financing from afar, I attended the ground‐breaking ceremony and now, weekly, I see construction progress. The project  appears to me to be near completion.    The Palo Alto City Council dedicated the existing bicycle and pedestrian under‐crossing at the foot of Adobe Creek to my  father, Benjamin Lefkowitz, in 1989 shortly before his death. My father, an avid cyclist, bird‐watcher and south Palo Alto  resident, lobbied the City (and his friends Mayor Larry Klein and Councilman Leland Levy) to improve the creek bed to  allow seasonal passage under Highway 101 to the bay lands. The creek bed was improved with a concrete shelf that is  accessible to bicycles and pedestrians during the dry months.    Now an all‐season over‐crossing nears completion, a development I am certain my father would have endorsed had he  lived to see it happen.    I write to ask about the disposition of my father's name at the site.  Will his name remain in some way or disappear? Is there some way his name can be preserved on the site or transferred  to the new project?    The under‐crossing is, for us Lefkowitzs and assorted cousins and old friends, the most important monument to my  father's memory, more so than his burial site in Colma. There are still a few of us around including my 91‐year‐old  mother, Mrs. Rosalie Lefkowitz, my father's widow, who still lives in our family home on Greer Road not far from the  foot of Adobe Creek. My mother does not get out of the house much these days. She did go to the ground‐breaking  ceremony. She sends you her good wishes.    It is not the duty of the Palo Alto City Council to honor individual Palo Altans but, in 1989, the City Council did just that  for my father and I hope today's City Council can find a suitable way to keep faith with the wishes of your predecessors. I  and my sister Debbie Lefkowitz are happy to help in any way the City of Palo Alto wishes.    Sincerely,  Matthew Lefkowitz  Tel: 415/305‐8502  matt@lefkowitzsys.com      48 Baumb, Nelly From:b. beekman <cranberrysauce23@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, December 22, 2020 1:30 PM To:Mayor Lily Mei.; D3. Jenny Kassan; yshao@fremont.gov; D5. Raj Salwan; D6. Teresa Cox; D2. Rick Jones; D1. Teresa Keng.; Mayor Sam Licarrdo; Mayor's office. Lee Wilcox; Mayor's office. Paul Pereira; C.Mgr. David Sykes; C.Attrny. Nora Frimann; city attorney Shasta Green; cl.d1. Charles "Chappie" Jones; cl.d2. Sergio Jimenez; cl.d3. Raul Peralez; cl.d4. Lan Diep; cl.d5. Magdelena Carrasco; cl.d6. Devora. Davis; cl.d7. Maya Esparza; cl.d8. Sylvia Arenas; cl.d9. Pam Foley; cl.d10. Johnny Khamis; cDoT.Dir.John Ristow; cDOT Laura Wells; c.mgr.Jim Ortbal; C. Manager Angel Rios; OES Director.Ray Riordan; OES.Office of Emergency Services; Police Ofc. Anthony Mata; Police Ofc. David Knopf; Police Lt. Ellen.Washburn -s.op.; Police Lt. Heather Randol; Supervisor Cindy Chavez; Supervisor Otto Lee; Supervisor Joseph Simitian; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Supervisor Mike Wasserman; Dana Reed; d.District Attorney; s.PIO; supervisor.carson@acgov.org; Wilma.Chan@acgov.org; Nate.Miley@acgov.org; richard.valle@acgov.org; Scott.Haggerty@acgov.org; David Haubert; amy.shrago@acgov.org; Anika Campbell Belton.; Perkins, Cheryl, CAO; info@alcoda.org; pio@alamedacountysheriff.org; mayor; D1.; D2.; D3.; D4.; D5.; D6.; D7.; D8.; City Clerk.Brkly.; C.Mgr.; attorney@cityofberkeley.info; O.E.S.; planning; Transportation; p.r.c.; berkeley. p.d.; FPD chief. Kim Peterson; John Lindsay-Poland; Sameena Usman; Victor Sin; Roxana Marachi; tessa.darc@gmail.com; council@redwoodcity.org; city.council@menlopark.org; Council, City; cityadministratorsoffice@oaklandca.gov; cityclerk@oaklandnet.com; Craig Dziedzic; Janell Myhre; Phillip White; Corinne Bartshire; Mikyung Kim-Molina; Baker, Ethan (ECD); Lloyd Shand; Maryellen Carroll; Gary Malais; atlarge@oaklandnet.com; Niki Fortuno Bas; campaign@electdavidcohen.com; matt@mahanforsj.com; Sheng Thao; c.mgr.CCEC. Elise Doan; Stephanie Cabrera; CADRE; Phillis Onstad Subject:Blair Beekman. Tuesday. December 22, 2020. ___Local Bay Area community energy. 2021-2030. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.        Dear local govts and communities, of the SF Bay Area,          My first letter, today, is a revised speech, to the sj city council, Dec.15, item 2.2.      My second letter, I will send, next week. It is a revised, longer letter, initially sent to, EBCE BoD & CAC persons, to follow  up, on their December 16, 2020, EBCE BoD meeting.      I am learning, it is important to prepare, local community energy, renewable ideas, as most community projects ‐  within the framework & possibility, of a natural disaster.      I feel, these are subjects, local govt. can already understand, and try to explain, to the everyday public.      I hope my letters, at this time, can help connect yourselves, to each other, as needed.           Sincerely,   49      Blair Beekman      _____________________________________________            Dear community of San Jose, and city govt.,         The mayor's, recent community energy planning, with new, hydrogen fuel cell storage, and its use of natural gas, may  be an interesting trade off, in comparison to, the large amount of carbon pollutants, from the fossil fuel of diesel.     Yet, the continual 24 hr. use, and leakage issues, with the natural gas, in hydrogen fuel cell conversion, and it's overall  high costs ‐ does not seem to make this, a large scale, viable option, in the future.     But it may offer, a few  choices, to develop as, back‐up generator needs, at this time, in the event of a natural disaster.     I hope, the sj mayor, and others, will make it a point, at this time ‐ to always try, to openly talk about, the continual  growth & use, of solar power, and its storage capacity.       In the possibility, of a large, Bay Area natural disaster event, like a large earthquake or continual wildfires, in the next 5‐ 10 years ‐ brown energy and dirty fuels, will be demanded, in the following days, weeks, months and years, under the  guise, as needed back‐up generator use.     I hope, there can simply be, determined, good efforts, from all of us, at this time, to want to continue to build, solar, its  storage, and other positive renewable energy ideas, over the next few years.     As this can work to continue, an important, determined, progression, away from diesel, brown energy, and dirty fuels.      In the event, of a large scale, natural disaster, in the SF Bay Area ‐ to invest more, in renewables ideas, at this time, can  then offer, a smoother, quicker transition, to return to, a renewable energy course.       As the year, 2023, is considered, an important benchmark, I hope community efforts, of the next few years, will want to  continue, to better focus, on local, renewable ideas, and ideas, like Just Transition.      And to better consider, local renewable energy practices, that can include, local procurement & employment.       From all of this, I hope we can simply continue, to learn how, to more openly talk about, and plan for, the many difficult  choices & options, of city govt. & community decision making, in the next 5‐10 years.     Positive, long term, sustainable, renewable energy practices, and its growing storage capacity ‐ should continue to be,  an important focus, for the next few years.      This is the work, of how to prepare ourselves, and continue good efforts, in clear, positive, renewable energy terms, for  both, the 1st & 2nd half, of this upcoming decade.  50         Sincerely,      Blair Beekman    51 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, December 21, 2020 8:51 PM To:Fine, Adrian; chuck jagoda; Winter Dellenbach; Roberta Ahlquist; Steven D. Lee; Raven Malone; gstone22@gmail.com; Shikada, Ed; Cari Templeton; Ed Lauing; Human Relations Commission; Cormack, Alison; Jeff Rosen; Jethroe Moore; Council, City; Rebecca Eisenberg; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Gennady Sheyner; Dave Price Cc:Perron, Zachary Subject:Can we continue to be silent about the coverup by the city of Palo Alto and the Palo Alto Police department of the Zack Perron matter? You be the judge. You say it can’t happen here? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    FYI:    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/world/europe/germany‐far‐right‐neo‐nazis‐    https://padailypost.com/2019/05/22/cops‐use‐of‐n‐word‐led‐to‐investigation‐that‐never‐became‐public/amp/    Sent from my iPhone  52 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, December 21, 2020 3:35 PM To:Pc User Subject:Re: JUSTICE: St. Louis Judge Removes Soros-Funded Prosecutor Kim Gardner From Political Hack Job Against McCloskeys - Big League Politics CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://youtu.be/jRxZau2YGVA SPREAD FAR AND WIDE On Monday, December 21, 2020, 12:22:32 PM EST, Pc User <pc77user@aol.com> wrote: This news is a little stale by about 2 weeks, but it just warms the cockles of my heart to read it once again. Now I would like to hear that she was either deported or hung for what she put the McKloskys thru. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/justice-st-louis-judge-removes-soros-funded-prosecutor-kim-gardner-from-political-hack-job- against-mccloskeys/ Best Regards, & Stay Healthy ! RJS 53 Baumb, Nelly From:slevy@ccsce.com Sent:Monday, December 21, 2020 2:46 PM To:Council, City; Planning Commission Cc:Lait, Jonathan; Council, City Subject:attachment CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. https://abag.ca.gov/news/plan-bay-area-2050-final-blueprint-analysis-released Blueprint file too large to send so here is link 54 Baumb, Nelly From:FY <daney68@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, December 21, 2020 2:44 PM To:Council, City Cc:City Attorney Subject:Complain letter for car towing ordered by police CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto Mayor,    Due to Covid‐19 impact, I and my family leave out of town between August 1st to August 12th and parked the car  (License No. 6YLX255 and VIN: 1YVHZ8BH7B5M25175) at 4264 Wilkie Way and Whitclem Dr. at Palo Alto, which was  near my friend's apartment. However, the Bill's Towing company received the order from the Palo Alto police to tow my  car on August 11th.    According to the Palo Alto Parking Summer Program, the city suspended Residential Preferential Parking enforcement  services since March 2020 and allowed cars to park in the residential area with a fee waiver. Thus, parking at the towing  address is not against the City parking policy, and towing my car without notice beforehand is illegal. That is the main  reason that I requested a full refund for the car release fee $140, the towing fee $502.11, and also the additional jumper  starter fee. I attached the related documents  here:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13pUyTSzPQY_uI9M6gHcWKMm_KKm_YQBC?usp=sharing      I did send the letter to the police department as well. Since I lost my job in March, I'm wondering, if I may validate the  parking policy, could I get a partial refund from the police department and the towing company?  ‐‐   Thank you    Lian Yang  55 Baumb, Nelly From:Jonathan Lewis <jonathan1300@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, December 21, 2020 2:44 PM To:Council, City Subject:Put Colorado on a road diet CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Adrian, Alison, Tom, Eric, Liz, Lydia, and Greg,     I live on the 700 block of Colorado Avenue, near mid‐block.  This is near where Colorado intersects with Middlefield at  the Midtown Shopping Center area.  Both Middlefield and Colorado, as all residential streets in Palo Alto, have a 25mph  speed limit.  This particular stretch of Colorado has a bike lane on one side of the street which is frequently blocked by  delivery trucks, gardening or city service vehicles pulling trailers that don't want to bother maneuvering into the 7‐11  parking lot for their morning coffee, and folks stopping to use the mailbox at the end of the block.  Cars park in bike  lanes, news at 11, I know.  The other side of the street has sharrows and has free street parking, which is always near  capacity.  Colorado, being so close to Oregon Expressway, should be used almost exclusively by local traffic and not  through traffic as there is a major thoroughfare two blocks away.  Cars speed excessively up and down Colorado at all  hours, racing from stop sign to stop sign.  The last two nights in a row I've heard screeching tires of someone "peeling  out" from the direction of the shopping center, likely the Safeway or 7‐11 parking lot.  This past weekend I stepped out  in front of my house to get something from my street‐parked vehicle.  A young man jogging towards me diverted into  the street to social distance, and a car going far too fast for conditions had to brake and gave him a good angy honk to  boot.  Whether it's walking the dog or trying to maneuver a stroller I am constantly having to pop in and out of the road  to maintain appropriate social distance.      Colorado's straight, flat and wide roadway combined with building setbacks condition drivers to travel faster than they  think they are.  I'm not a traffic engineer (thank goodness) but there are a number of traffic calming measures that can  be implemented to reduce traffic speed.  According to the data I have available there has been at least one pedestrian  death in Palo Alto every year since 2014, and three in 2017.  I'm sure you're all familiar with this, but here are some of  the Policy Goals set out in the 2017 report on traffic safety & operations:    Policy T‐1.19 Provide facilities that encourage and support bicycling and walking.     Goal T‐6 Provide a safe environment for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists on Palo Alto streets.     Policy T‐6.1 Continue to make safety the first priority of citywide transportation planning. Prioritize pedestrian, bicycle  and automobile safety over motor vehicle level of service at intersections and motor vehicle parking     Policy T‐6.2 Pursue the goal of zero severe injuries and roadway fatalities on Palo Alto city streets.     Policy T‐6.6 Use engineering, enforcement and educational tools to improve safety for all users on City roadways.     Policy T‐6.7 Use appropriate technology to monitor and improve circulation safety throughout the City. Policy     T‐6.8 Vigorously and consistently enforce speed limits and other traffic laws for both motor vehicle and bicycle traffic.      Colorado connects the Ross slow street to the Bryant bike boulevard, both of which need more permanent signage by  the way.  It provides a safe alternative to anyone travelling on foot, bike, scooter, wheelchair, stroller, skateboard, etc  parallel to Oregon Expressway.  The intersection of Colorado and Middlefield is precisely where Google Maps places the  56 "Midtown" neighborhood label.  I know it isn't the same as the commercial corridors along University or California that  were successfully converted this summer to reflect a more equitable sharing of road space among all users, but the  Midtown commercial district draws Palo Altans that use all forms of transportation, and the infrastructure of our roads  should allow safe access for everyone.      Thank you for your time and consideration.     Sincerely,       Jonathan  57 Baumb, Nelly From:Debbie <debbie@mit.edu> Sent:Monday, December 21, 2020 2:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please consider Foothills park entrance fee CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,     I am a Palo Alto resident and am in support of implementing an entrance fee for Foothills Park now that there is more  traffic and visitors to maintain the park and help preserve habitats and the animals that live there. During my visit on Sat  Dec 19, the park was extremely crowded, making it hard to maintain social distancing on narrow paths with people  walking in both directions and many of whom were not wearing masks. People were not following signs for one‐way  trails and walking into areas that are prohibited. It was so bad that I saw several people walk right past clearly marked  “Sensitive Habitat Stay Out” signs to then urinate in the restricted zone. I worry about the impact on the wildlife that  normally roam freely with all this noise and disturbance. I am in favor of charging an entrance fee so that we have more  funds for rangers who can help educate visitors, educational resources, bathrooms, trash cans etc. so we can preserve  our beautiful park and wildlife for all to enjoy. I don’t think it’s that unusual to charge an entrance fee given that other  parks do the same (ex. Coyote Point has a $6 vehicle fee). I feel strongly that when opening the park to more foot traffic  and trash, we must take appropriate measures to upkeep the park and preserve the land and its wildlife. It's one thing if  Foothills was a simple park with nothing to damage or destroy, but Foothills is a preserve with a lot of wild animals and  it's sad to see the destruction of their habitat. Another alternative would be to significantly limit the number of visitors  overall to the park to help mitigate any damages before a better system is put in place.     Thanks for your consideration,  Debbie    58 Baumb, Nelly From:Patti Walters <pattijwalters@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, December 21, 2020 9:24 AM To:Council, City Cc:Open Space Subject:Foothills Park open policy CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear members of the City Council,    I write with grave concern about the new situation at Foothills Park. I visited the park on Dec. 20 and found the park overwhelmed by an almost steady stream of cars. After entering and approaching the lake cars were stacked along the road approaching the lake and all lake parking was taken. We proceeded to drive wishing to turn around and get out of the park but there is little place to turn and cars kept coming behind us. As we proceeded through the park we saw children riding their bikes on the grass at the lake, and adults cutting across the embankments to the right side of the lake. Approaching the picnic area we found an opportunity to turn around and leave the chaotic situation. We could not wait to leave the park. Very upsetting to imagine the impact for the animals and landscape. Very disappointing as a Palo Alto senior citizen trying to find solace from the current lockdown and trying a visit to one of the only nearby spaces that historically offered safe distancing space between people.     I have already written with concern about the non-transparent process that was a part of the opening of the park, and a disagreement with the premises that were used to open the park to all. I now write concerning the fact that I see no apparent evidence of racial and economic equity being improved and only a sad overrun in usage of the park. I am appalled by the lack of careful consideration as to how to manage the increased number of individuals. Clearly the roadways and parking are not adequately laid out. Clearly there are not adequate walking spaces between the lake and clearly now is NOT the time to adequately educate new persons as to the importance of staying on trails and limiting the use of bikes on grassy areas, etc. Clearly number of people that are entering is WAY BEYOND the CAPACITY of the park.     I implore you to revisit this situation before the park is ruined and wildlife suffers. The entire question of opening the Park should be revisited and debated by the citizenry in a proper forum. As for equity, all I see is people with the means to have fine cars, bikes, boats, running freely around across the hills and off trail and overly impacting the lake area. Better to bus students in from underprivileged areas and allow them to canoe on the lake. Oh, that would take coordination impossible in the time of Covid-19. What were you thinking City Council of Palo Alto? Were you simply avoiding a lawsuit?    And please consider what equity there is to turning away seniors at the gate who travel from Palo Alto because the park is filled with people perhaps driving from far away locales? The idea of spontaneous use of the park appears to be in jeopardy. Was any consideration given to the complication that it will likely be impossible for 59 Palo Alto residents to actually use the park ?? Will someone have to develop an APP so that we know when we can use the park?     Sincerely,  Palo Alto Resident  Patti J. Walters    60 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Monday, December 21, 2020 2:58 AM To:Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; David Balakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; bballpod; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; huidentalsanmateo; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4 @gmail.com; leager; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; nick yovino; newsdesk; paul.caprioglio; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Now 2:40 AM Mon. Dec. 21, 2020. U.S. still not banned UK flights in. 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, Dec 21, 2020 at 2:44 AM  Subject: Now 2:40 AM Mon. Dec. 21, 2020. U.S. still not banned UK flights in.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>               Dec. 21, 2020               To all‐  Now early morning hours on Monday and the U.S. has still not banned flights from UK. Gov. Cuomo is irate  about it. I wonder if they can even find Trump. Where is he? He is rarely seen now. We need a quick decision on this.  Bunch of o. countries have now acted on this.           More Countries Impose U.K. Travel Restrictions Amid Concern Over Virus Mutation ‐ The New York Times  (nytimes.com)               This article came out ~2 AM PT Monday. The Brits will be pouring in here with the new Covid variant. Faster, easier  spread. All we need. If the British had any morals THEY would ban flights leaving there and coming to the U.S.              News media‐ this is a huge story. Trump has not acted on this early on Monday, 12‐21.  Forward to Newsom  please.  Can't Pence and NIH act?                  LH  61 Baumb, Nelly From:Leonard Ortolano <ortolano@stanford.edu> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 6:15 PM To:Council, City Cc:Open Space Subject:unbelievable crowding at Foothills Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear members of the City Council, I write as a resident of Palo Alto for more than 50 years and a homeowner for the last 30 years. Throughout that period, I could always count on Foothills Park as a place to find peace and enjoy a natural setting that was clearly more of a nature preserve that a park per se. As the City of Palo Alto website puts it, the Park is “a nature lover's paradise.” I just returned from an attempt to hike in Foothills Park to find a respite from the conditions of lockdown during this period of rampant COIVD -19 contagion. However, I was so repulsed by the crowded conditions and the impossible parking situation that I found a place to turn around and left the park without leaving my car. In fact, it took me quite some time to find a place to turn around. The idea of finding a parking place was not even a consideration. Why bother?   I realize that the question of opening up Foothills has been discussed from time to time during the pasrt five decades. Prior members of the City Council have wisely rejected the idea, partly on the grounds that a nature preserve like Foothills Park could not accommodate large numbers of people. Based on what I observed, and what should have been self-evident without observation, those earlier council members were correct in their judgement. My understanding is that this opening was intended as an “experiment.” Clearly the experiment is failing. I urge the Council to take steps to reverse what was clearly a wrong-headed decision. At the least, a carrying capacity study should be conducted to determine the maximum number of users that can be accommodated without turning a visit to Foothills Park into an experience that is not at all special. At best, the entire question of opening the Park should be revisited and debated by the citizenry in a proper forum. I cannot help but wionder what prompted the Council to make this decision during a pandemic, whan high levels of citizen participation in City of Palo Alto decision making could not be assured. Yours truly, Leonard Ortolano Palo Alto, CA 94306   62 Baumb, Nelly From:Kat A <1kattams@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 6:10 PM To:Council, City Subject:Consider reducing capacity at Foothills Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hello,    I hope this email finds you well. I recognize this weekend is a time of transition for Foothills Park.    But I write asking the governing body that supports the park to reduce the capacity. I went today at 3pm or so and the  ranger told me that they had just reached capacity (I guess this is currently 750) and would likely close the gate to  newcomers.    I drove a lap around the park but left with a strong feeling that I’d much rather be denied entry than see it so crowded.  Perhaps you could get data about what the typical use numbers were before (I’m sure it wasn’t remotely close to 750‐ 1000 at any given time for the vast majority of days) and set up capacity rules with that overarching ballpark in mind to  preserve the park.    I think the low (realized) capacity is what has made it an incredible nature preserve. I understand the number of folks  visiting will go up quite a bit, but hopefully this can be flexibly monitored by the rangers, etc. with the goal of  maintaining the health of the park as closely as possible as it has been.    Also, new signage is needed to make sure folks don’t walk on the roads as it is quite unsafe. Families were getting stuck  trying to pass a line of cars on the vary narrow, winding road.    Best wishes,  Kat        63 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 4:58 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; newsdesk; nick yovino; david pomaville; Mark Standriff; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: New Corona variant in England. Trump should ban all travel from there today. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 4:47 PM  Subject: Fwd: New Corona variant in England. Trump should ban all travel from there today.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 4:46 PM  Subject: New Corona variant in England. Trump should ban all travel from there today.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>            Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020               To all‐  Here is Dr. John Campbell in England discussing the new variant of the Covid virus discovered there.  You  don't get any sicker with this variant, but IT DOES SPREAD MORE EASILY.  That is a problem! We are already  overwhelmed in the U.S with Covid, the HC system is on the verge of collapse, and local officials, at least in California,  will not enforce lock down orders from the Governor. One loud mouth on the Fresno City Council and another loud  mouth on the Fresno Co. Bd of Supervisors who wanted to open all businesses a couple of months ago are now oddly  silent.                 (20+) Facebook                Is it in the U.S. already? We don't know. In England, he says, they are vigilant to keep sequencing the genome of  the circulating viruses, and so they picked it up.  I don't know if we are as good at that.  We will soon know if it is here  too.  64             No evidence that it is resistant to the two vaccines approved so far.  BUT if it spreads a lot faster, how can that be  anything but a disaster?               Trump should ban all flights from England today, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020.                       Various European countries have already done so.            Recipients of this email should get it to the WH if they can. Also to Gov. Newsom, and all 50 Governors. I'll send this  to the media.               If this variant does get here, and of course it will get here, we will need the monoclonal antibodies like the one  from Eli Lilly even more. Trump should issue an E.O. today ordering the DPA into action to produce the Lilly monoclon.  antibody.                  L. William Harding             Fresno, Ca.                  Funny that I have to act as a clearing house for these developments and not the WH.                                    65 Baumb, Nelly From:George Herman <george.e.herman@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 4:13 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: ADU Permit Process CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Sorry for the late response…. but I never received a response to my email from anyone on the city council. Realizing that  I was not going to get help from my local city officials, I sent an email to the state.  I received a response from the state  within 48 hours. They told me that the city was in violation of needing to approve the permit within 60 days. They said  that I should consider it approved if it exceeded the 60 days. When I informed the appropriate parties of the state’s  response, my permit was approved within 48 hours.       I was very disappointed that the council ignored my request for help. I thought the city was encouraging the building of  ADU. It seems to have been all words, and no action. The city was clearly in violation of the state law stated in your own  declaration back in January. (https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/62938) I don’t know if the  process has changed since October, but I still think that this needs to be looked into.        Thanks      ‐George Herman      On Sep 21, 2020, at 2:26 PM, George Herman <george.e.herman@gmail.com> wrote:    There has been a large amount of evangelization from the city encouraging the building of ADUs. The  state is also been making law changes favorable for the building of an ADU. One such change was that  cities must provide ministerial approval (or denial) of ADUs within 60 days of receiving the application.  (The prior time was 120 days.)  I submitted an application on May13th and still waiting for approval. The most frustrating part of the  process is that there is little to no information from the project coordinator. All the communication is  thorough Accela. I’ve had to bother management for questions that should be answered by the  coordinator. (I send emails and get no response from the coordinator.) In addition, timeframes quoted,  or due dates given in Accela are almost never met. The last two‐week review period ended up being 25  days. This is a common complaint from other residents. (There a number of complaints on NextDoor.)   I understand that this is a direct result of the cutbacks taken by the city. I ask… Why was a department  that is (/should be) self‐funded part of the reduction? The cost of getting permit approval fees should  more than cover the expenses. (If not, raise them!) The new law even stipulates the city can increase  fees to cover the increase expenses for meeting the timelines. Once I do get approval and get started,  66 the next concern is in doing inspections. I also understand the inspections are taking longer for the same  reasons.  We all agree that the city needs more housing. Why are we reducing the staffing of department that are  critical to that need and should be self‐funded? If the city insists on making the process of ADUs slower,  why is there continued publicity from the city on ADUs?   Can the city council please look into this issue?   Thanks!   ‐George Herman    67 Baumb, Nelly From:Sky Posse Post <skypossepost@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 3:58 PM To:scscroundtable@gmail.com Cc:Council, City Subject:SCSC Roundtable - GBAS Information - Soliciting comments and questions CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear SCSC Roundtable,     In response to your recent communication about GBAS, we applaud your efforts to get clarification from SFO about their project. We remind you that we have sent GBAS-specific questions to you, SFO, and the City of Palo Alto for follow up; these have not been answered and we reiterate them in our questions below.    Of grave concern is the potential for new precision technologies like GBAS to further negatively impact the health and wellbeing of people who are affected by the unresolved problems of Nextgen. We are alarmed that the FAA has been absent from any community involvement on GBAS as the FAA develops GLS procedures. FAA’s absence is contrary to all we have heard from the FAA since 2018 when they launched a Community Involvement Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Desk Guide and FAA's representations to you that roundtables have a say in PBN development including that they look to you for what level of community involvement to perform.     As we've learned with PIRAT, getting public disclosures after procedures are published is nearly impossible. Thus the time for ensuring fair disclosure of GBAS’ estimated impacts is now.     As we respond to your request, please note that we have many more questions for the FAA about environmental review and FAA community involvement, and ask you to please organize a review of these with the FAA.     At this time, per your request, we provide questions for your outreach to SFO.     Questions:      Please ask SFO to substantiate the information they shared with the SFO Roundtable in November 2020 that the GLS procedures listed in FAA’s “IFP Production Plan” with a scheduled publication date of October 7, 2021 on the IFP Gateway were issued a CATEX in 2018 based on the sole criteria of it being an “overlay.” If a CATEX has been published, does SFO have a copy?      We would like to know how SFO informed the FAA's decision to not consider anything but SFO’s explanation of an “overlay” for the CATEX if it is verified. Per FAA Order 1050.1F, “overlay” is on a list of FAA categorical exclusions that states: “An action included within this list of categorically excluded actions is not automatically exempted from environmental review under NEPA. The responsible FAA official must also review Paragraph 5-2, Extraordinary Circumstances, before finalizing a decision to categorically exclude a proposed action.” Was there nothing more that SFO provided but “overlay” that led to the FAA's determination?    68  Did SFO do any of their own impact estimates analysis? If so, what methodology do they use? Their presentations to the roundtables have analysis of only one aircraft, one flight, and a metric that the FAA does not use for NEPA reviews. What assumptions are they making for their project? Is an increase in SFO’s capacity from GLS considered? Or the ability to land planes during fog thus increasing impacts to communities? Or the potential for concentration and increased vectoring?        SFO has presented that they can control GBAS so that if it causes harm they won’t use it. While the Honeywell equipment is financed by SFO, the GLS procedures are the FAA’s and part of a national infrastructure project; see NAC powerpoint Item 37 Page 54 (the NAC was asked to list their top priorities from the IFP gateway which has thousands of procedures and SFO GLS is among the 48 chosen by the NAC). Therefore, once the GLS publication/switch goes “on” it’s part of national infrastructure. What agreement would assure that SFO does not use GBAS if it causes harm and who would define harm? SFO and FAA have dismissed an agreement they made in 2000 with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo to maintain SFO arrivals above 5000 feet near the waypoint MENLO now SIDBY; what assurances can we count on for agreements involving FAA and SFO beyond casual comments?     Last but not least, these are our GBAS Questions to SFO submitted to Mr. Daniel Lee at SFO daniel.lee@flysfo.com, per SFO’s request after an SFO GBAS presentation in Palo Alto in October 2018. As an update, regarding the question about 2012 CATEX legislation, we have sufficient confirmation now in 2020 that 2012 CATEX legislation has never been applied and is probably not applicable to GLS unless SFO has other information. We will reserve our questions on this matter for FAA.         Thank you,     Sky Posse Palo Alto   www.skypossepaloalto.org      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Evan Wasserman <EWasserman@esassoc.com>  Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 18:47  Subject: SCSC Roundtable ‐ GBAS Information ‐ Soliciting comments and questions  To: SCSC Roundtable <scscroundtable@gmail.com>  Cc: Chris Sequeira <CSequeira@esassoc.com>, Steven Alverson <SAlverson@esassoc.com>    Dear SCSC Roundtable Members and Interested Parties,     On behalf of SCSC Roundtable Chairperson Bernald, and as discussed at the SCSC Roundtable Technical Working Group (TWG)  meeting on 12/15/2020, the following information is being provided as a notification to SCSC Roundtable members, and  members of the public regarding the use of the Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) procedure at the San Francisco  International Airport (SFO).     69 This material on GBAS may be of interest to member jurisdictions of the SCSC Roundtable for future consideration as  additional information becomes available. Please submit any comments or questions to the SCSC Roundtable regarding  clarification from SFO on GBAS. The SCSC Roundtable will then submit to SFO. Please provide your comments and questions  to the scscroundtable@gmail.com email address by Wednesday 12/23 for review and incorporation into a consolidated list of  questions to be sent to SFO.      The following information is being provided for your reference regarding GBAS.     The link below is to the GBAS presentation given at the TWG of the SFO Roundtable on October 7, 2020.  The video of the  GBAS presentation can be found at this link starting approximately at video timestamp 1:10:50. For your information we  suggest all members and interested parties to please review the recording of the presentation.       Additional info is available on the SFO Community Roundtable website with a video recording from the November 19,  2020 meeting, and agenda materials.  The GBAS presentation starts at approximately the 00:9:10 mark of the video  timestamp and continues until about 01:33:30. Again, we suggest all members and interested parties to please review  the materials/recording of these presentations for reference.      Thank you,     Evan Wasserman  Senior Associate - Community Development Group  ESA | Environmental Science Associates  Celebrating 50 Years of Work that Matters!  2600 Capitol Avenue, Suite 200  Sacramento, CA 95816  916.564.4500 main  916.231.1166 direct  EWasserman@esassoc.com | esassoc.com  Follow us on LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Vimeo     70 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 3:25 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; bballpod; David Balakian; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; nick yovino; david pomaville; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; vallesR1969@att.net; terry Subject:Fwd: Brit. Dr. John Campbell, Sat. Dec. 19, 2020 re the AZN- Oxford vaccine mostly CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 3:10 PM  Subject: Fwd: Brit. Dr. John Campbell, Sat. Dec. 19, 2020 re the AZN‐ Oxford vaccine mostly  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 2:51 PM  Subject: Brit. Dr. John Campbell, Sat. Dec. 19, 2020 re the AZN‐ Oxford vaccine mostly  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>           Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020             To all‐    Here is Brit. Dr. John Campbell discussing on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, yesterday, the Pfizer, Moderna and  the AZN‐Oxford vaccines, when rolled out, number of doses to be available where, how they work. He touches on  monoclonal antibodies.  He says that because of the time to produce, distribute and treat, "We'll lose people in February  and March just when the vaccines are becoming widely available, which is ironic.  They will make it through a year of the  pandemic and then die of the virus just as a vaccine is available to them. That could happen to recipients of this mail.                 LH‐ The monoclonal antibodies, such as the one from Eli Lilly, should be widely available to cut the number of  people dying in that scenario. Keep demanding to know from top health officials in Washington why that monoclonal  antibody is not being rushed into production via a DPA order and why the studied silence about what it can do‐  save  huge numbers of lives, persists.              Sorrento Therapeutics,  SRNE,  says their second version of a monoclonal antibody is fifty times more potent than  their first version, and it has been approved for a human trial.      71            Highly reommended. I know nothing of his role in British medicine, but it must be impressive.  NOT ONCE in 32  minutes did he bastardize the English language by saying "you know".    32:14 long:                          Excellent vaccine news ‐ YouTube                               L. William Harding              Fresno, Ca.   72 Baumb, Nelly From:Camden Ramsay <camdendr@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 1:07 PM To:Council, City Subject:Resident glad foothills park is being shared CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Just wanted to share what is most likely an opposing opinion to many of the emails you have received. As a resident of  Palo Alto I have been to Foothills park a handful of times. I am glad that we no longer exclude other people in the area  who may wish to explore it's beautiful hills without living here.     This was the right decision and hopefully volunteer stewardship groups and pick up some of the habit restoration and  maintenance that will need to be done due to increased traffic.    Cheers,  Camden  73 Baumb, Nelly From:Mark <cs@otcprwire.com> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 1:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:MARKET NEWS from OTC for 12/20/2020 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.          78 Baumb, Nelly From:Mary Gallagher <livebuoyantly@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 10:24 AM To:Council, City Subject:Fair Practices to Use Foothill Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Members of the City Council: I hope this email finds you and your loved ones well during this pandemic. Yesterday, I posted suggested terms of use for Foothills Park on NextDoor. With the Park now open to non-residents, many folks have expressed their views of residents and non-resident behavior while visiting the Park now. I suggest reading the thread with their views. One thread suggested folks submit our views to our council, so I am. My suggested terms of use is as follows: Perhaps, this would be a good idea to assuage the contentious issues clouding the joyous use of the park for all life--wild and domestic life. I propose residents and non-residents be required to pay annual 'dues' in the form of stewardship as a Friend of Foothills Park. Stewardship would mean a resident or non-resident, ideally a group of friends/family would schedule a minimum amount of time, possibly an hour or two a month or per year, to complete a supervised maintenance or nature interpretive center support task to beautify the Park/Center-- before gaining access privileges. I welcome your feedback. May peace, joy, and love prevail in 2021. Namaste. I appreciate you hearing my suggested practice for the fair and conservation-minded use of the Park.    Respectfully,    Mary    ‐‐   Mary Gallagher, B.S. Aquatics Professional 650-683-7102 (cell)    Copyright 2020   79   Security Alert Notice  The information contained in this e-mail is confidential information, presumed to be virus free, and intended only for use by the individual or entity named above. Virus protection is the responsibility of the recipient. If the reader of this email is not the intended recipient, dissemination or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete the material from your computer.   80 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 10:07 AM To:Honky Subject: HOLY SHIT !!!!! MEDIA GOING DOWN. ‘Prostitutes, Pimps, Handlers & The [4am] Cable.’ CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://twitter.com/WarNuse/status/1214899579625365505 When You’re Sitting Comfortably In Front Of Your TV, Keep In Mind That The Actual Patent For The Television Was Filed As Electromagnetic Nervous System Manipulation Apparatus. To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the InImage 81 Baumb, Nelly From:Meg Galloway <megedther@aol.com> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 10:05 AM To:Council, City Subject:kudos to Palo Alto for opening Foothills Park to all CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members, I truly believe that Palo Alto has finally done the right and good deed by opening Foothills Park to all. I believe parks belong to all of us and that excluding other cities was elitist and racist in implication. I am aware that some, but not most, Palo Alto residents are railing against this change. I have read horrifying rants on NextDoor that are very thinly veiled racist and classist bigotry. I believe these people are not aware of how bigoted their posts sound, but it pains me as a resident of Palo Alto, too, to read these not too subtly hate-filled responses. I hope that Palo Alto can grow in its understanding of the reasons for opening Foothills Park. I hope that any small changes in park polices and certainly any rules enforcing officers can see the bigger picture and not sink to any actions that encourage more racism or classism. There is already too much of both in this world. I also hope that Palo Alto stays the course of opening to more inclusiveness and that members of City Council remain resolute in their striving for a better Palo Alto, including continuing to fight for equality for all. Sincerely, Margaret L. Galloway 401 Fulton Street Palo Alto 94301-1326 650-326-8174 PS I have owned my home here for over 31 years. I have seen many changes in Palo Alto during that time. This change is one of the most hopeful. 82 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 2:48 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; bballpod; David Balakian; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; david pomaville; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net; nick yovino Subject:Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.              Late Saturday night, December 19, 2020                   To all‐    Now, 48 hours after my increasingly TOUGH complaints were emailed about the silence re. monoclonal  antibodies, we got a reaction Saturday in official Washington from Adm. Brett Giroir, Assistant Secretary for Health at  HHS.  (Pronounced "jir‐WAH). See my emails below. I just saw him on Wiki and it takes 45 min. to read his degrees,  positions held, faculty positions, honors‐  he is a true heavy‐weight. He appeared tonight on "America This Week",  apparently a rabid right‐wing talk show.  I saw him at 5:31 PM on Saturday 12‐19‐20 only because the ABC and CBS  network news is now replaced on weekends in Fresno with football, and the stations doing that should lose  their broadcast licenses.  His comments were taped sometime today, Sat. 12‐19‐20. You've seen him standing with  Trump's pandemic task force during briefings, before Trump dropped out of sight.                Giroir only spoke for about 1 minute max. He said "We have monoclonal antibodies, so remember, if you have  Covid, if you are old and have an underlying condition, tell your health care provider about monoclonal antibodies. We  have lots of that and it can keep one from being hospitalized".  My best recollection of what he said.                   So it took my raving about Lilly's monoclonal antibodies‐  see the vid. below of the CEO of Eli Lilly talking about  getting an EUA for that Nov. 9, 2020‐  it took my sharply worded email late on Thurs. Dec. 17, 2020 and my very sharply  worded emails of 3:48 AM on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020 to get the news media, or somebody, to remember  (!)  (!)  monoclonal antibodies that can save the lives of people who test positive for Covid, have not received the Pfizer  or Moderna vaccines, are showing worsening symptoms, and are about to enter a hospital. Me, Loran William Harding, a  white male U.S. citizen, who is not one of the brilliant Wim  Min,  and who is not a minority, but does have a degree in  Biological Sciences from Stanford, I raised the alarm, screamed the recommendation to get the Eli Lilly monoclonal  antibodies into production and distribution NOW and start saving some of the 3,800 Americans who are dying every day  now from Covid. The Big Gun medical experts at Stanford, UCSF, Mass. General Hospital, USC, John Hopkins, the NIH,  CDC, FDA, NONE of them have uttered one single word about monoclonal antibodies as the pandemic has become a  tidal wave!  Trump should start at the top of the public health system in the U.S. and just fire experts wholesale. A bunch  of them should be kicked out of the medical profession.                                What is this, deliberate murder, for the fun of it? I guess it's fun to think that your silence about  monoclonal antibodies is killing thousands of people per day in the United States, and more thousands abroad.      83                  Trump should have monoclonal antibodies explained to him‐  show him the video in my email below of the  CEO of Lilly explaining  it‐  and then he should sign an E.O. invoking the DPA to get this medicine produced, distributed  and infused as fast as possible. He should be signing firing orders for dozens of highly paid federal health officials. We  have a medication available that will save many of the 3,800 Americans who are dying each day of Covid and they have  remained silent about it.                      And that appearance of Adm. Giroir tonight was the ONLY discussion I have heard in the media since I sent out  my tough emails very early on Friday. I sent them to ABC, NBC, CBS TV affiliates in Fresno, to KPIX TV and KCBS radio in  San Francisco and urged them to forward them to CBS News headquarters in New York.  I sent them to the Fresno Co.  Dept. of Public Health, to a doctor at Stanford and one at Kaiser. Not one word from Newsom. He should be ordering the  purchase of the monoclonal antibodies against Covid19 produced by Lilly. So keep up the silence. People are going to be  angry when they find out that government officials have killed their family member. This starts to look like another Viet  Nam.                Loran William Harding            Fresno, Ca.       ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 3:48 AM  Subject: Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>, Cathy Lewis  <catllewis@gmail.com>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>, Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>,  huidentalsanmateo <huidentalsanmateo@gmail.com>, Joel Stiner <jastiner@gmail.com>, Mark Kreutzer  <mlkreutzer@yahoo.com>, leager <leager@fresnoedc.com>, Mayor <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark Standriff  <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, nick yovino <npyovino@gmail.com>, city.council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Irv  Weissman <irv@stanford.edu>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 2:47 AM  Subject: Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, Irv  Weissman <irv@stanford.edu>, kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>,  <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>, Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>,  <eappel@stanford.edu>, <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>, <George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu>, <jason.alvarez@ucsf.edu>,  david pomaville <pomaville165@sbcglobal.net>, tsheehan <tsheehan@fresnobee.com>, terry <terry@terrynagel.com>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 1:53 AM  Subject: Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>,  <antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov>, David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, beachrides <beachrides@sbcglobal.net>,  bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, Leodies Buchanan <leodiesbuchanan@yahoo.com>, <bearwithme1016@att.net>,  84 paul.caprioglio <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, city.council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Cathy Lewis  <catllewis@gmail.com>, Chris Field <cfield@ciw.edu>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, Doug Vagim  <dvagim@gmail.com>, Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>,  <dlfranklin0@outlook.com>, <eappel@stanford.edu>, <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>, <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>,  <fmerlo@wildelectric.net>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, <grinellelake@yahoo.com>, <George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu>,  huidentalsanmateo <huidentalsanmateo@gmail.com>, hennessy <hennessy@stanford.edu>, Irv Weissman  <irv@stanford.edu>, Joel Stiner <jastiner@gmail.com>, jerry ruopoli <jrwiseguy7@gmail.com>, <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>,  kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, Mark Kreutzer <mlkreutzer@yahoo.com>, <lalws4@gmail.com>, <margaret‐ sasaki@live.com>, Mayor <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, newsdesk  <newsdesk@ksee.com>, nick yovino <npyovino@gmail.com>, david pomaville <pomaville165@sbcglobal.net>,  <russ@topperjewelers.com>, tsheehan <tsheehan@fresnobee.com>, <vallesR1969@att.net>, Zoosk  <mail@messaging.zoosk.com>                                     Late, Thurs. Dec. 17, 2020                    To all‐                 The news media, among others, should ask Sect. Azar, Francis Collins, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Hahn‐ head of the FDA, and  the WH, why is this medicine from Lilly not being produced and distributed and used to save the lives of the thousands  of Americans who are dying every day from Covid. 3,600 per day now, 150 per hour. What is this?  WTF?  Read and  watch the video in this email and start demanding answers.  KPIX and KCBS in San Francisco‐ please forward this to your  headquarters in New York.  Fresno Bee‐ please look into this.         Apparently the Lilly antibody medicine was given an EUA in early November. Why is it not being used to save  thousands of lives? Ask the CEO of Lilly too.            Please forward this to Gov. Newsom and see if he has any answers about this. If not, he should get answers.          I'll send this to one doctor at Kaiser, to a doctor at Stanford, to Francis Collins. To Fresno Bee, KPIX and KCBS in SF.  To  City officials in Fresno and Fresno Co., to the Palo Alto City Council,, to the Fresno Co. Dept. of Public Health.              What is the hold up here?  More bungling in Wash. D.C.   The news reported tonight that Pfizer says it has a  warehouse full of its vaccine and nobody is telling it where to ship it.  Start firing people until you find somebody that  wants to do their job, is my suggestion. Congress should investigate.  Congress should ask about the Lilly antibody  med.  If Trump likes to fire people who really need it, here is his chance.                If the Lilly med is not being produced and distributed even though Lilly got an EUA for it on November 9, 2020.,  firing is not good enough for the bums who are holding it up.             L. William Harding          Fresno                    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:13 PM  Subject: Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>    85   ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:55 PM  Subject: Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:38 PM  Subject: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>              Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020                To all‐        Look at this!  Chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly:  Lilly is producing antibodies for Covid. Not a vaccine, although maybe they  are working on that too. Here, they produce antibodies as a med.  A vaccine is not a medicine. These antibodies are a  medicine. These can neutralize the virus just as the antibodies produced in response to a vaccine can.              This is from November, 2020 and they apparently got an EUA for it on Nov. 9, 2020. He says later that it could be  approved. I think he means there full‐blown approval, not an EUA. If it got an EUA, why is this not being produced and  distributed big‐time? We now have 3,600 Americans dying per day or 150 per hour.  There is a huge need for this Lily  antibody therapy right now. The virus is out of control in Germany and many other places too.              Where is the FDA on this Lily antibody med? The media should be posing this question to the FDA, HHS etc. !!!!       Eli Lilly Antibody Drug Will Reduce Hospitalizations: CEO ‐ YouTube             I B some LLY on Nov. 13, 2020 at $142.13.  At that price I'm getting a DIV yld of 2.39%.  LLY closed today at $172.63,  a gain of 21.5% in 34 days, which is acceptable to me. It is 43 years of bank interest in a month.                Lily is not the only Co. producing antibodies to Covid.  Sorrento Therapeutics,  SRNE, is too. I own 200 shares of  SRNE. Lily is Big Pharma, of course.             So if this gets approved, and it probably will be, they can treat a pt.. who has come down with Covid. Too late for a  vaccine at that point. With all of the news re the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines being approved, the media is not  reporting on this approach. Great to know that it is coming. If you get sick before you get a vaccine, they can give you  this antibody therapy and keep you out of the hospital. You know where that can lead.                SRNE is in various trials of its antibody treatment. But this article says they had better step on the gas because  once big numbers are vaccinated, there will be less need for a med. If the virus is stopped via vaccines, not many people  will be coming down with the disease. It mentions too that Lily's antibody med has to be administered via an IV, which is  more time consuming than a shot.      86              Sorrento Therapeutics Cleared to Start Trial for Its Next‐Generation Coronavirus Antibody Treatment | The  Motley Fool                  The outcomes of various studies of monoclonal antibodies in treating Covid19 pts:  I sat through twice. Listen,  look. You'll see that the monoclonal antibodies keep some pts. out of the hospital. That is big news. So why would they  go on with endless trials once they know that? They should get these meds out there now and save some lives with  them! Anything else is murder.                     Monoclonal Antibodies: Evidence‐Based Health Information Related to COVID‐19 ‐ YouTube              L. William Harding           Fresno                 87 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, December 19, 2020 10:08 PM To:Greer Stone; Greg Tanaka; chuck jagoda; Steven D. Lee; Rebecca.Tanner@cityofpaloalto.org; Sara Tabin; Raven Malone; Steven D. Lee; Dave Price; City Mgr; Cari Templeton; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Roberta Ahlquist; Winter Dellenbach; WILPF.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Joe Simitian; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Gennady Sheyner; Dennis Upton; rebecca@winwithrebecca.com; Human Relations Commission Subject:Talk about a poll tax-here it is on any church that wants to assist car dwellers....seems like the city can’t help but invite lawsuits ( slight edits from version version) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.            12/19/2020 ( What would Jesus say)?      Hi Chuck,    Here is the city of Palo Alto’s ‐we don’t want   Safe Parking Programs in Palo Alto ‐registration maze.    Includes a poll tax of $610. As I said before: 10 years after we,STB, tried to enroll the city in the concept of establishing a  robust safe parking programs, finally here’s the city’s bogus response.     Not only does the city NOT want to fund a responsible Safe Park Program, for example, like the Santa Barbara project,  that the two of visited circa 2013, they want to poll tax faith organizations here in PA a fee to assist.    Palo Alto has a reputation for being one of the meanest and most exclusionary cites on the planet. What’s next, an iron  gate around the entirety of Palo Alto ?     Aram   What is Safe Parking? Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 18.42.160 (Ordinance 5490) allows churches and religious institutions to operate safe parking programs within the city of Palo Alto. The safe parking programs provide interim assistance to households using vehicles as their residence by providing a safe place to park, access to restroom facilities, connection to social service programs, and other support to transition households into permanent, stable housing. For more information on Safe Parking, please see Ordinance 5490, the September 10, 2019 Policy and Services Committee Staff Report and the January 13, 2020 Council Staff Report. 88 Safe Parking Applications Received 3373 Middlefield Road – Highway Community Submitted: November 9, 2020 Request for a Safe Parking Program permit to allow overnight parking of up to four (4) vehicles as incidental to the existing religious institution. File Number: 20PLN-00261 3505 Middlefield Road – Peninsula Bible Church Submitted: November 9, 2020 Request for a Safe Parking Program permit to allow overnight parking of up to four (4) vehicles as incidental to the existing religious institution. File Number: 20PLN-00260 Community Meeting Safe Parking Neighborhood Check-In December 15: 7-8:30 p.m. Zoom Link: https://cityofpaloalto.zoom.us/j/91315751801 Phone Number: (669) 900-6833 Meeting ID: 913 1575 1801 The City of Palo Alto, Peninsula Bible Church, and Highway Community Church invite you to a Neighborhood Check-In meeting regarding Safe Parking. This meeting is in response to neighbor comments on the City’s tentative approval of a Safe Parking program that allows four (4) vehicles at both 3505 Middlefield Road (Peninsula Bible Church) and 3373 Middlefield Road (Highway Community Church). The meeting will be held via video conference. By using video conference, we can slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and comply with associated public health orders. You can join by following this link: https://cityofpaloalto.zoom.us/j/91315751801. You can also join by calling +1 (669) 900-6833 and entering Meeting ID: 913 1575 1801 Representatives from the City of Palo Alto, the two churches, and MOVE Mountain View (the non-profit operating the safe parking facilities), will be there to answer questions about this compassionate service that will help individuals and families find stable housing. For more information, email Emily.Foley@cityofpaloalto.org or Jodie.Gerhardt@cityofpaloalto.org 89 Safe Parking Application Process All Safe Parking permit applications will be reviewed by Planning Staff for conformance with PAMC 18.42.160. A decision on the application will be made as described in PAMC 18.42.160 (2), and may be appealed as described in PAMC 18.42.160(3)-(5): How to File An Appeal: Should you or any other resident within 600 feet of the proposed safe parking location desire to file an appeal of the permit, please follow the steps below. 1. Potential appellants must fill out the City’s appeal form (bit.ly/appealformPA), and email (1) the completed form along with (2) a letter stating their reasons for the appeal to the Manager of Current Planning (Jodie.Gerhardt@CityofPaloAlto.org) and Planning Support Staff (Alicia.Spotwood@CityofPaloAlto.org & Vinhloc.Nguyen@CityofPaloAlto.org) within 14 days of the date the notice is mailed. 2. Staff will review the appeal for timeliness and completeness. They will contact you to collect the appeal fee, which is currently $610.50. The fee can be paid online. If the appeal fee is not paid within 5 calendar days of the request, the appeal will be considered withdrawn. 3. The appeal will be assigned to appropriate staff for next steps. The item will be placed on the City Council’s consent calendar. If passed on the consent calendar, the permit issuance will be upheld. If 3 members of the Council vote to remove the item from consent, another hearing will be scheduled.           https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/news/display news.asp?NewsID=5048 90 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, December 19, 2020 9:27 PM To:chuck jagoda; Roberta Ahlquist; Raven Malone; DuBois, Tom; eric.filseth@cityofpaloalto.com; Council, City; Steven D. Lee; Greer Stone; Gennady Sheyner; rebecca@winwithrebecca.com; Cari Templeton; Shikada, Ed; Ed Lauing; Human Relations Commission; Winter Dellenbach; Joe Simitian; Jethroe Moore Cc:Emily Mibach; Shikada, Ed Subject:Talk about a poll tax-here it is on any church that wants to assist car dwellers....seems like the city can’t help but invite lawsuits CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  What is Safe Parking? Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 18.42.160 (Ordinance 5490) allows churches and religious institutions to operate safe parking programs within the city of Palo Alto. The safe parking programs provide interim assistance to households using vehicles as their residence by providing a safe place to park, access to restroom facilities, connection to social service programs, and other support to transition households into permanent, stable housing. For more information on Safe Parking, please see Ordinance 5490, the September 10, 2019 Policy and Services Committee Staff Report and the January 13, 2020 Council Staff Report. Safe Parking Applications 12/19/2020 ( What would Jesus say)?      Hi Chuck,    Here is the city of Palo Alto’s ‐we don’t want   Safe Parking Programs in Palo Alto ‐registration maze.    Includes a poll tax of $610. As I said before: 10 years after we,STB, tried to enroll the city in the concept of establishing a  robust safe parking programs ‐and finally here’s is the city’s response.     Not only does the city NOT want to fund a responsible Safe Park Program model, for example, like the Santa Barbara  project, that the two of visited circa 2013, they want to poll tax faith organizations here in PA a fee to assist. Palo Alto  has a reputation for being one of the meanest and most exclusionary cites on the planet. What’s next, an iron gate  around the entirety of Palo Alto?    Aram     3373 Middlefield Road – Highway Community 91 Submitted: November 9, 2020 Request for a Safe Parking Program permit to allow overnight parking of up to four (4) vehicles as incidental to the existing religious institution. File Number: 20PLN-00261 3505 Middlefield Road – Peninsula Bible Church Submitted: November 9, 2020 Request for a Safe Parking Program permit to allow overnight parking of up to four (4) vehicles as incidental to the existing religious institution. File Number: 20PLN-00260 Community Meeting Safe Parking Neighborhood Check-In December 15: 7-8:30 p.m. Zoom Link: https://cityofpaloalto.zoom.us/j/91315751801 Phone Number: (669) 900-6833 Meeting ID: 913 1575 1801 The City of Palo Alto, Peninsula Bible Church, and Highway Community Church invite you to a Neighborhood Check-In meeting regarding Safe Parking. This meeting is in response to neighbor comments on the City’s tentative approval of a Safe Parking program that allows four (4) vehicles at both 3505 Middlefield Road (Peninsula Bible Church) and 3373 Middlefield Road (Highway Community Church). The meeting will be held via video conference. By using video conference, we can slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and comply with associated public health orders. You can join by following this link: https://cityofpaloalto.zoom.us/j/91315751801. You can also join by calling +1 (669) 900-6833 and entering Meeting ID: 913 1575 1801 Representatives from the City of Palo Alto, the two churches, and MOVE Mountain View (the non-profit operating the safe parking facilities), will be there to answer questions about this compassionate service that will help individuals and families find stable housing. For more information, email Emily.Foley@cityofpaloalto.org or Jodie.Gerhardt@cityofpaloalto.org Safe Parking Application Process 92 All Safe Parking permit applications will be reviewed by Planning Staff for conformance with PAMC 18.42.160. A decision on the application will be made as described in PAMC 18.42.160 (2), and may be appealed as described in PAMC 18.42.160(3)-(5): How to File An Appeal: Should you or any other resident within 600 feet of the proposed safe parking location desire to file an appeal of the permit, please follow the steps below. 1. Potential appellants must fill out the City’s appeal form (bit.ly/appealformPA), and email (1) the completed form along with (2) a letter stating their reasons for the appeal to the Manager of Current Planning (Jodie.Gerhardt@CityofPaloAlto.org) and Planning Support Staff (Alicia.Spotwood@CityofPaloAlto.org & Vinhloc.Nguyen@CityofPaloAlto.org) within 14 days of the date the notice is mailed. 2. Staff will review the appeal for timeliness and completeness. They will contact you to collect the appeal fee, which is currently $610.50. The fee can be paid online. If the appeal fee is not paid within 5 calendar days of the appeal is denied?   Sent from my iPhone  93 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, December 19, 2020 3:33 PM To:Human Relations Commission; Tanner, Rachael; Rebecca Eisenberg; Steven D. Lee; gstone22 @gmail.com; Cari Templeton; chuck jagoda; Ed Lauing; Roberta Ahlquist; Raven Malone; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Cormack, Alison; greg@gregtanaka.org; Winter Dellenbach; DuBois, Tom; Dave Price; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com Subject:The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America’s Middle Class – Rolling Stone CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    As Palo Alto debates whether the city can move beyond arguably the stingiest Safe Parking Program proposal known to  humankind....here is a good starter article to review re Santa Barbara’s national model ...for safe parking programs. The  piece is a bit dated ....but most of the points stressed are still applicable today. Let the debate begin re what Palo Alto  can do in 2021 to be part of the solution...instead of an ongoing problem re solutions to homelessness.    Thanks, aram          https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture‐news/the‐sharp‐sudden‐decline‐of‐americas‐middle‐class‐234917/      Sent from my iPhone  94 Baumb, Nelly From:post office <opost337@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, December 19, 2020 8:58 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Kedves Kedvezményezett    Ezt a levelet egy hónappal ezelőtt küldtem el Önnek, de nem hallottam rólad, nem vagyok biztos benne, hogy megkapta‐e, és ezért mondom el újra: Először is, Mrs. Christine Lagarde vagyok, ügyvezető A Nemzetközi Valutaalap igazgatója és elnöke.    Valójában áttekintettük a befejezetlen tranzakciót körülvevő összes akadályt és problémát, valamint azt, hogy képtelen volt‐e megfelelni az Ön ellen felszámított átutalási díjaknak a múltbeli átutalási lehetőségekért. Erősítse meg webhelyünket megerősítéséhez 38 ° 53′56 ″ É 77 ° 2 ′ 39 ″ ny    Mi, az Igazgatóság, a Világbank és a Nemzetközi Valutaalap (IMF), Washington, DC, az Egyesült Államok Pénzügyminisztériumával és néhány más releváns nyomozó ügynökséggel együtt itt, az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban. megparancsolta a külföldi pénzforgalmi átutalási egységünknek, az Afrikai Egyesült Banknak, a Lome Togo‐nak, hogy állítson ki egy VISA‐kártyát, ahova az alapod 800 000,00 dollár kerül feltöltésre, az alap további visszavonásához.    Vizsgálatunk során döbbenettel fedeztük fel, hogy kifizetését szükségtelenül késleltették a Bank korrupt tisztviselői, akik önző vágyaik miatt próbálják átutalni pénzeszközeiket magánszámlájukra.    És ma értesítjük Önt arról, hogy az UBA Bank jóváírta az alapját a VISA kártyán, és készen áll a szállításra is. Most vegye fel a kapcsolatot az UBA Bank titkárnőjével, Mr. Tony Elumelu, e‐mail: (Ubacard30540@hotmail.com)  Küldje el neki a következő információkat az akkreditált ATM VISA kártya kézbesítéséhez.    95 Teljes név ====================  Származási országod ============  Az Ön otthoni címe =============  A nemed ======================  Az Ön kora ======================  Foglalkozása ================  Telefonszáma =============    Tisztelettel,  Mrs. Christine  96 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, December 19, 2020 9:24 AM To:Honky Subject:Discussing current events with Dr. Carrie Madej - YouTube CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    SORRY TO HEAR IT IS HAPPENING ON AOL TOO? Are you part of ANY yahoo group? or do you SHARE INFO with ANY yahoo groups? ALL YAHOOGROUPS WERE SCUFFED ON THE 15TH OF THIS MONTH? I LOST OVER 50,000 CONTACTS IN ONE DAY ON YAHOO ACCOUNTS ? BUT it's worse than that because those yahoo groups had a MINIMUM 500 members in EACH GROUP The AVERAGE number of members per group for me was 2300 members? We were able to REACH MILLIONS of people that way. BTW many of those yahoogroups were 9/11 MOVEMENTS I would suggest getting a GOOGLE, BLOGGER, LINKEDIN, TWITTER, MEWE, PINTEREST, even CIA FACEBOOK PEOPLE are becoming AWARE from what we are doing, just BOMBARDING the PUBLIC timeline DAILY because if those VENUES don't want our posts and take them down IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE because ENOUGH people in a 5 or 10 minute window CAN SHARE immediately AND it just SNOWBALLS. THE DWEEBS can NOT keep up with us LOL DISAPPEAR FEAR PEACE LOVE LIGHT https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xVWdxsMMvGY&feature=youtu.be On Saturday, December 19, 2020, 08:33:33 AM EST, Pc User <pc77user@aol.com> wrote: They don't want this info released. They have scuttled my email !!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xVWdxsMMvGY&feature=youtu.be Best Regards, & Stay Healthy ! RJS 97 Baumb, Nelly From:Paul-Xavier Charlopin <paul-xavier.charlopin@u-pec.fr> Sent:Saturday, December 19, 2020 8:26 AM Subject:Contract Placement CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,    We  would like to hire you as a part time staff acting as a Representative to our clients in your expanse.    Kindly revert back for more information.    Sincerely  Paul Xavier c/o  PCC Group  98 Baumb, Nelly From:Niki Aurora <nikiaurora@outlook.com> Sent:Saturday, December 19, 2020 6:16 AM Subject:full Proposal CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi,      Hope you are doing great      We can get your website on page one of Google, yahoo, Bing. Please reply on this e-mail for more info      If you can give me a website URL I can do a detailed analysis and send quotes accordingly      Email us back to get a full Proposal      Kind Regards      PS: I will be happy to send the “Proposal” and “Pricing” furthermore     99 Baumb, Nelly From:Stacey Ashlund <stacey@zachary.com> Sent:Friday, December 18, 2020 12:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: Support for safe storage of firearms ordinance CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Councilmembers,     Thank you for your support to have city staff move forward on the safe firearm storage ordnance ‐ I especially  appreciate your dedication & diligence to stay on the zoom council meeting past midnight!    Sincerest thanks ‐ and happy holidays!    Stacey      On Dec 11, 2020, at 4:34 PM, Stacey Ashlund <stacey@zachary.com> wrote:    Council members Fine & Cormack,     Thank you for your “Dear Colleagues” letter, which is agendized for the Monday 12/14 council meeting.     All council members,    I am involved in 3 different organizations that all support a safe storage of firearms ordinance. They are  Palo Alto League of Women Voters Responsible Gun Owners committee, Moms Demand Action  (Peninsula & San Jose chapters), as well as Palo Alto PTA Council.     Safe storage of firearms reduces preventable injury & death by guns in the homes. Securing firearms by  lock, & storing ammunition separately, reduces access to guns that may fall into the hands of a young  person or a person in distress, and prevent it from being used in suicide.     I wish to express my support for this ordinance to Council, and request that the ordinance not include a  criminal penalty, and this has been shown to disproportionally harm people of color.     There are more guns in our Palo Alto community than many residents are aware of. It is falsely/naively  assumed that Palo Alto homes do not contain guns, though the numbers are not obtainable and can  quickly fluctuate. It is particularly important that adults in our community know that they have a role in  keeping young people safe by complying with such an ordinance. This education program provided by  Moms Demand Action & Everytown for Gun Safety is exemplified in the “Be SMART”  program: https://besmartforkids.org    Thank you for discussing this ordinance & I respectfully urge your support.     Sincerely,    100 Stacey Ashlund  4065 Campana Drive  650 494 0355      101 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Friday, December 18, 2020 3:48 AM To:dennisbalakian; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; Cathy Lewis; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; huidentalsanmateo; Joel Stiner; Mark Kreutzer; leager; Mayor; Mark Standriff; nick yovino; Council, City; Irv Weissman; bballpod Subject:Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med. 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, Dec 18, 2020 at 2:47 AM  Subject: Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, Irv  Weissman <irv@stanford.edu>, kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>,  <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>, Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>,  <eappel@stanford.edu>, <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>, <George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu>, <jason.alvarez@ucsf.edu>,  david pomaville <pomaville165@sbcglobal.net>, tsheehan <tsheehan@fresnobee.com>, terry <terry@terrynagel.com>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 1:53 AM  Subject: Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>,  <antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov>, David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, beachrides <beachrides@sbcglobal.net>,  bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, Leodies Buchanan <leodiesbuchanan@yahoo.com>, <bearwithme1016@att.net>,  paul.caprioglio <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, city.council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Cathy Lewis  <catllewis@gmail.com>, Chris Field <cfield@ciw.edu>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, Doug Vagim  <dvagim@gmail.com>, Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>,  <dlfranklin0@outlook.com>, <eappel@stanford.edu>, <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>, <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>,  <fmerlo@wildelectric.net>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, <grinellelake@yahoo.com>, <George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu>,  huidentalsanmateo <huidentalsanmateo@gmail.com>, hennessy <hennessy@stanford.edu>, Irv Weissman  <irv@stanford.edu>, Joel Stiner <jastiner@gmail.com>, jerry ruopoli <jrwiseguy7@gmail.com>, <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>,  kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, Mark Kreutzer <mlkreutzer@yahoo.com>, <lalws4@gmail.com>, <margaret‐ sasaki@live.com>, Mayor <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, newsdesk  <newsdesk@ksee.com>, nick yovino <npyovino@gmail.com>, david pomaville <pomaville165@sbcglobal.net>,  <russ@topperjewelers.com>, tsheehan <tsheehan@fresnobee.com>, <vallesR1969@att.net>, Zoosk  <mail@messaging.zoosk.com>                                     Late, Thurs. Dec. 17, 2020    104 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Friday, December 18, 2020 1:53 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; beachrides; bballpod; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; dlfranklin0 @outlook.com; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; nick yovino; david pomaville; russ@topperjewelers.com; tsheehan; vallesR1969@att.net; Zoosk Subject:Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.                                   Late, Thurs. Dec. 17, 2020                    To all‐                 The news media, among others, should ask Sect. Azar, Francis Collins, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Hahn‐ head of the FDA, and  the WH, why is this medicine from Lilly not being produced and distributed and used to save the lives of the thousands  of Americans who are dying every day from Covid. 3,600 per day now, 150 per hour. What is this?  WTF?  Read and  watch the video in this email and start demanding answers.  KPIX and KCBS in San Francisco‐ please forward this to your  headquarters in New York.  Fresno Bee‐ please look into this.         Apparently the Lilly antibody medicine was given an EUA in early November. Why is it not being used to save  thousands of lives? Ask the CEO of Lilly too.            Please forward this to Gov. Newsom and see if he has any answers about this. If not, he should get answers.          I'll send this to one doctor at Kaiser, to a doctor at Stanford, to Francis Collins. To Fresno Bee, KPIX and KCBS in SF.  To  City officials in Fresno and Fresno Co., to the Palo Alto City Council,, to the Fresno Co. Dept. of Public Health.              What is the hold up here?  More bungling in Wash. D.C.   The news reported tonight that Pfizer says it has a  warehouse full of its vaccine and nobody is telling it where to ship it.  Start firing people until you find somebody that  wants to do their job, is my suggestion. Congress should investigate.  Congress should ask about the Lilly antibody  med.  If Trump likes to fire people who really need it, here is his chance.                If the Lilly med is not being produced and distributed when Lilly got an EUA for it in Nov., firing is not good enough  for the bums who are holding it up.             L. William Harding          Fresno                    105 ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:13 PM  Subject: Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:55 PM  Subject: Fwd: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:38 PM  Subject: Eli Lily and its antibody therapy for Covid. They grow the antibodies as a med.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>              Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020                To all‐        Look at this!  Chairman and CEO of Lilly:  Lily is producing antibodies for Covid. Not a vaccine, although maybe they are  working on that too. Here, they produce antibodies as a med.  A vaccine is not a medicine. These antibodies are a  medicine. These can neutralize the virus just as the antibodies produced in response to a vaccine can.              This is from November, 2020 and they apparently got an EUA for it on Nov. 9, 2020. He says later that it could be  approved. I think he means there full‐blown approval, not an EUA. If it got an EUA, why is this not being produced and  distributed big‐time? We now have 3,600 Americans dying per day or 150 per hour.  There is a huge need for this Lily  antibody therapy right now. The virus is out of control in Germany and many other places too.              Where is the FDA on this Lily antibody med? The media should be posing this question to the FDA, HHS etc. !!!!       Eli Lilly Antibody Drug Will Reduce Hospitalizations: CEO ‐ YouTube             I B some LLY on Nov. 13, 2020 at $142.13.  At that price I'm getting a DIV yld of 2.39%.  LLY closed today at $172.63,  a gain of 21.5% in 34 days, which is acceptable to me. It is 43 years of bank interest in a month.                Lily is not the only Co. producing antibodies to Covid.  Sorrento Therapeutics,  SRNE, is too. I own 200 shares of  SRNE. Lily is Big Pharma, of course.             So if this gets approved, and it probably will be, they can treat a pt.. who has come down with Covid. Too late for a  vaccine at that point. With all of the news re the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines being approved, the media is not  reporting on this approach. Great to know that it is coming. If you get sick before you get a vaccine, they can give you  this antibody therapy and keep you out of the hospital. You know where that can lead.    106             SRNE is in various trials of its antibody treatment. But this article says they had better step on the gas because  once big numbers are vaccinated, there will be less need for a med. If the virus is stopped via vaccines, not many people  will be coming down with the disease. It mentions too that Lily's antibody med has to be administered via an IV, which is  more time consuming than a shot.                   Sorrento Therapeutics Cleared to Start Trial for Its Next‐Generation Coronavirus Antibody Treatment | The  Motley Fool              L. William Harding           Fresno                 107 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 9:31 PM To:Rebecca Eisenberg Cc:chuck jagoda; Dennis Upton; mark weiss; Fine, Adrian; Kniss, Liz (internal); Greer Stone; Ed Lauing; Raven Malone; Steven D. Lee; Cari Templeton; Cary Andrew Crittenden; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Roberta Ahlquist; Cormack, Alison; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Winter Dellenbach; Dave Price; Sara Tabin; Greer Stone Subject:Re: Palo Alto HRC meeting at 7 pm tonight dec 17 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi Rebecca,     You spoke brilliantly, and on point, on numerous critical issues at the HRC meeting tonight. Thanks so much for your  powerful  activism, powerful words.    And the community thanks you!     Best,     Aran           On Dec 17, 2020, at 7:03 PM, Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@privateclientlegal.com> wrote:     I'm on it right now! Rebecca Eisenberg, Esq. Principal & Founder Private Client Legal Services www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg rebecca@privateclientlegal.com 415-235-8078 PLEASE NOTE: The information in this e-mail message is confidential. It may also be attorney-client privileged and/or protected from disclosure as attorney work product. If you have received this e-mail message in error or are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use, copy, or disclose to anyone this message or any information contained in it. Please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message. Thank you.   108   On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:19 PM Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote:  FYI:          FYI: If you wish to comment re the ongoing Palo Alto city council cover up in the Zack  Perron matter, the failure of the city to demand the release the 44 page DTS report  allegedly covering up a DTS sexual harassment scandal, the stingiest proposed Safe  Parking Program on the planet ‐celebrate the end of segregation & exclusion at  Foothills Park after more them 50 years of exclusion ....lack of affordable housing in  Palo Alto....over paid administrators in this city...a mayor that routinely violates  community members 1st amendment rights ‐by falsely claiming speakers can’t criticize  individual council members....a city manager who routinely puts critical city issues on  the consent calendar when the items should more appropriately be placed on the  calendar as action items ‐and who frequently manipulates the council to vote for items  against the public interest ‐by frequently speaking in nearly incomprehensible city  manager talk ‐tonight is your opportunity to speak‐up.         the zoom meeting begins at 7 pm.....below is the agenda for this evening.     Aram         https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/79617    Shared via the Google app    Sent from my iPhone  109 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 7:51 PM To:Pc User Subject:Re: Open Letter To President Trump CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY GOOD I will NOT curb your enthusiam LOL I will SHARE it GOING VIRAL On Thursday, December 17, 2020, 08:58:32 PM EST, Pc User <pc77user@aol.com> wrote: In light of the dangerous straits we are in today, this open letter to President Donald Trump sums up what this country faces today, and probably delineates what must be done to save us from the evil we find ourselves up against. God save our Constitutional Republic !!! In 1776 a mere 3% did it then, and we can do it again. Even their ChiCom troops will fall !!! Best Regards, & Stay Healthy, Wealthy, Wise, and FREE !!!!! RJS Begin forwarded message: From: "Ok" <oksupport@oathkeepers.org> Date: December 17, 2020 at 17:07:00 EST To: "Robert Simmons" <pc77user@aol.com> Subject: Open Letter To President Trump Reply-To: oksupport@oathkeepers.org 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.    “The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.” – General George Washington, Address to the Continental Army Before the Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776 110 President Trump, We now face a moment of peril as great, or greater, as what General Washington and his men faced in 1776. The very survival of our nation as a free Constitutional Republic hangs in the balance. We have but one last chance to save it. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on your conduct, the conduct of the current members of our armed forces, and the conduct of we the many millions of American veterans and patriots who are still loyal to our Constitution. When you were sworn in, you took the following oath, as mandated by Article II of the Constitution: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” It’s time to honor that oath by defending the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. This is your moment of destiny. Will you take your place in history as the savior of our Republic, right up there with President Washington and Lincoln? Or will you fail to act, while you still can, and leave office on January 20, 2021, leaving We the People to fight a desperate revolution/civil war against an illegitimate usurper and his Chicom puppet regime? Here are the facts: We are already at war with communist China and its willing American agents, puppets, and co- conspirators who seek to overthrow our Constitution, as well as the international elites and other foreign enemies who have aided and abetted this war on our nation. They have infiltrated and taken over every branch of government at every level, state and federal. War isn’t coming – war is already here. Communist China could never defeat us in open battle, so instead, it infiltrated and subverted our institutions, bought and blackmailed American elites, and made allegiance with willing domestic enemies of our Constitution, to defeat us from the inside out, without having to fire a shot, by using what is commonly referred to as “Fourth Generation Warfare” doctrines and methods. This is war by other means, but it is war nonetheless. Through well-orchestrated mass vote fraud, the Communist Chinese and their domestic enemy allies are about to install their illegitimate puppet, Joe Biden, and his equally illegitimate puppet running mate, Kamala Harris, into the White House, with their treasonous fingers on the nuclear launch codes. You must act NOW as a wartime President, pursuant to your oath to defend the Constitution, which is very similar to the oath all of us veterans swore. We are already in a fight. It’s better to wage it with you as Commander-in-Chief than to have you comply with a fraudulent election, leave office, and leave the White House in the hands of illegitimate usurpers and Chinese puppets. Please don’t do it. Do NOT concede, and do NOT wait until January 20, 2021. Strike now. If you fail to act while you are still in office, we the people will have to fight a bloody civil war and revolution against these two illegitimate Communist China puppets, and their illegitimate regime, with all of the powers of the deep state behind them, with nominal command of all the might of our armed forces (though we fully expect many units or entire branches to refuse their 111 orders and to fight against them) and with their foreign allies also joining in to assist in the suppression of American patriots. Without clean elections, we no longer have a Republic, and you are charged by the Constitution with preserving a republican form of government wherein the people actually elect their own representatives in clean elections. Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution clearly commands you in this, when it states: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” “Shall” is command language. And that command applies to all three branches of the federal government, including the executive branch which you run. And that command applies directly to you. You are commanded by the Constitution to take whatever action you must to ensure that we have a Republican form of Government – and that means clean elections. In the current dire circumstances where complicit traitors have been put into place in every branch of government (legislative, executive, judicial) at every level (local, state, federal), through fraudulent elections over many years, it means YOU will have to fix it, with the full support of loyal military service members and millions of military and police veterans, as well as millions of patriotic average Americans who stand with you 100% in doing what must be done. It won’t be fixed by corrupted legislatures, Governors, or the courts. The recent refusal by all but two of the Supreme Court Justices (including all of your own Supreme Court picks) to hear the Texas election fraud case shows that the cancer of cowardice, compromised officials, and treason has spread even to the Supreme Court. The disclosures of the corruption and blackmailing of Hunter Biden and the corruption of Rep. Swalwell by a Communist Chinese Spy, as well as the blackmail ring run by Jeffery Epstein, are the tip of the iceberg in how the deep state and its Chicom allies have taken over our establishment elites. That corrupted establishment won’t fix it, but We the People shall, one way or another and we need you to lead us in this great battle to save our Republic. Further, the US Constitution states in Article I, Section 8 that Congress has the power: "To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions" Congress long ago provided for just that by passing the Insurrection Act which delegates that decision and power to you, as President and Commander-in-Chief. The Insurrection Act, 10 U.S. Code, Section 252 - Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority, states: Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion. Section 253 of the Insurrection Act then states: 112 The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it— (1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; (2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws. In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution. Section 254 then states: Whenever the President considers it necessary to use the militia or the armed forces under this chapter, he shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes within a limited time. Clearly an unlawful combination and conspiracy in multiple states (indeed, in every state) has acted to deprive the people of the fundamental right to vote for their representatives in a clean, fair election as is required in a free nation, striking at the very heart of what it means to have a republican form of government, and disenfranchising them. You, and you alone, are fully authorized by the Insurrection Act to determine that such a situation exists, and to use the U.S. military and the militia to rectify that situation. And the militia includes not only the National Guard units of each state, called into federal service, but also includes the body of the people, age 17-45, and especially us military veterans, who are by federal statute subject to call up for service as the militia until age 65, due to our prior training and experience. As Article II declares, “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” You must call us up, and command us. We urge you to do the following simultaneously as both the chief law enforcement officer of the nation, and as the commander in Chief: 1. INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT: Issue a Presidential Proclamation, directly invoking the Insurrection Act, declaring an insurrection, rebellion, and coup to be in effect by domestic enemies of the U.S. Constitution and traitors who are in collusion with and/or acting as agents of a foreign enemy (specifically Communist China, but also other known or unknown foreign enemies) and to call up the militia (including the National Guard, us veterans, and patriotic Americans of military age) and US military to suppress the insurrection. That proclamation should declare that domestic traitors have conspired with a foreign enemy, specifically Communist China, and have been either bribed or blackmailed by that enemy, and together they have subverted our electoral system from top to bottom to rig elections at every level, and to steal elections with the intent of overthrowing our Constitution and our way of life. A. Order the data seized: Pursuant to that proclamation, order SOCOM and other trusted military units, to seize all databases of the CIA, FBI, NSA, DNI, etc and the records held by all 113 state electoral systems and administrators. And order them to take possession of and preserve all evidence of the insurrection/rebellion/coup wherever it is housed or held and to counter and suppress any attempt by the insurrectionists to prevent the seizing of the data. B. Order a mass declassification of the dirty secrets: Order SOCOM Intelligence officers and other trusted and loyal patriot intelligence officers to carry out your orders to declassifying ALL the dirty secrets and evidence of crimes by all the corrupt and compromised elites (in both major parties) to expose them all, and especially to expose their treason and their willing service to communist china and other foreign powers, as spies, agents, and puppets. Of course, those loyal intelligence officers should not declassify and disclose data that could put at risk loyal American operatives and allies in foreign nations, who are on legitimate missions that are related to our legitimate national interests. Only disclose data on traitors and their treason. C. Within all that data will be the evidence needed to expose the vote fraud and who is behind it, as well as expose all the corrupt judges, state Attorney Generals, governors, legislative leaders, election officials, etc. D. Order a massive public “Wikileaks” style data-dump to put all the dirty secrets of the compromised elites on display to the American people. Those secrets are the very “swamp water” that the DC swamp creatures swim in. Those dirty secrets both control and shield them all. Throw the doors open, and dump all the skeletons out of the closets and onto the streets for all the people to see, and for all the world to see. E. Pardon and free Julian Assange and ask him to assist in this massive data-dump public disclosure. He is a hero who has dedicated his life to battling the deep state and deserve our thanks and a chance to serve not just America, but all humanity by assisting in this great cause. F. Fire Barr and remove him from office immediately (UPDATE: Barr has resigned, but needs removal immediately. Don’t let him run the clock out even a day more). The replacement should not come from within the beltway. You must appoint a REAL patriot Attorney General who will actually fight and actually clean house. Look outside the beltway for a real patriot. We will help you find one who will actually fight for the Republic. This is a populist movement, and the people are still being locked out, which is why you keep getting betrayed over and over. Appoint REAL patriots who are outsiders. G. Appoint a special prosecutor and task force. The new Attorney General should appoint a special prosecutor with a full task force to investigate and indict all those involved in the vote fraud and to go after the Deep State from top to bottom, including within the DOJ, prosecuting all traitors in all branches, and all levels H. Fire Wray and put a patriot in place as FBI Director to clean house in the FBI and to actually do their jobs, to root out all who are actively committing treason, and who have been compromised, blackmailed, or bought out by Communist China and/or other foreign enemies. 2. Order the U.S. Military to go to Defcon 2, or even Defcon 1, to defend our nation from external threats while we suppress this internal insurrection. It is imperative that we maintain strict control of our nuclear arsenal in patriot hands and that our armed forces stand ready to repel foreign attack and interference while we handle this necessarily drastic domestic house cleaning. 3. Call the militia into federal service. Pursuant to your powers as Commander-in-Chief to call forth the militia, call up all National Guard units into federal service, and likewise call up all military veterans up to age 65 into federal service as the militia to assist in keeping the peace here at home. Also call up all able-bodied Americans between the ages of 17-45 who are still loyal to the Constitution to likewise report for duty, bearing their own arms. You have the 114 power to command them and order them to report for duty at their nearest military base or National Guard armory in their state. All of the above, as the militia, can be used to keep the peace in our local and state communities, under your direct command, to suppress the expected riots, terrorism, and armed insurrection by the radical left in the United States (who have been armed and equipped for months now by our foreign and domestic enemies). 4. CONDUCT A CLEAN ELECTION. We will post advise on this shortly. Stay tuned. It is both simple, and very complex, given the advanced cancer of corruption in our voting system. CONCLUSION: WE ARE IN FOR A FIGHT, NO MATTER WHAT. LET’S GET IT DONE WITH YOU AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF There is no way out but through. And we will NOT submit to a Chicom puppet regime. You must stand tall and use your constitutional powers to fight this war against enemies foreign and domestic while you are still President and Commander-in-Chief. If you fail to do so, we the people will have to fight a bloody revolution/civil war to throw off an illegitimate deep state/Chinese puppet regime. You must use both your authority to invoke the Insurrection Act and your absolute power to declassify any and all secrets. Because of the machinations of the complicit mainstream media, most Americans are ignorant of just how corrupted and compromised the establishment has become. They have no idea how many political, legal, media, and business elites are now compromised puppets of Communist China with the aid of the deep state traitors within our own intelligence and federal law enforcement agencies. That is why you must use SOCOM and other loyal military units to do a mass data seizure, declassification, and mass data-dump to throw all the skeletons out into the streets, exposing all the dirty secrets that are used to control American elites, and show the American people all the evidence that will show them who is dirty, who is a traitor, and who is a criminal. This will destroy the credibility of the traitors and make it far easier to defeat them, with the people themselves being the judge, and with our military service-members also clearly seeing who has turned traitor and who must not be obeyed. It is critical. You must do both. Expose them all, and then bring them to justice. Know this: millions of American military and law enforcement veterans, and many millions more loyal patriotic American gun owners stand ready to answer your call to arms, and to obey your orders to get this done. Stewart Rhodes Yale Law 04 Kellye SoRelle Texas attorney and former prosecutor       Link to Oath Keepers website     Link to Support Oath Keepers     Link to Join Oath Keepers     Oath Keepers, 9012 Sawgrass Ct, Granbury, TX 76049, United States You may unsubscribe or change your contact details at any time.    Powered by: 116 Baumb, Nelly From:C Ya <ckyana@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 7:29 PM To:Council, City Subject:Message from the City Council Home Page CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Why is there only one building code inspector?   If anything hasn't slowed down this year, its construction.  Inspection is relatively safe as it can be done socially distanced and masked, not to mention its outside.  Lets get people back to work.    Same holds true for 311 services. More residents are at home now and quality of local life is very important.        Craig Yanagisawa  117 Baumb, Nelly From:Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@privateclientlegal.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 7:03 PM To:Aram James Cc:chuck jagoda; Dennis Upton; mark weiss; Fine, Adrian; Kniss, Liz (internal); Greer Stone; Ed Lauing; Raven Malone; Steven D. Lee; Cari Templeton; Cary Andrew Crittenden; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Roberta Ahlquist; Cormack, Alison; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com Subject:Re: Palo Alto HRC meeting at 7 pm tonight dec 17 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I'm on it right now! Rebecca Eisenberg, Esq. Principal & Founder Private Client Legal Services www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg rebecca@privateclientlegal.com 415-235-8078 PLEASE NOTE: The information in this e-mail message is confidential. It may also be attorney-client privileged and/or protected from disclosure as attorney work product. If you have received this e-mail message in error or are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use, copy, or disclose to anyone this message or any information contained in it. Please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message. Thank you.     On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:19 PM Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote:  FYI:          FYI: If you wish to comment re the ongoing Palo Alto city council cover up in the Zack Perron matter,  the failure of the city to demand the release the 44 page DTS report allegedly covering up a DTS sexual  harassment scandal, the stingiest proposed Safe Parking Program on the planet ‐celebrate the end of  segregation & exclusion at Foothills Park after more them 50 years of exclusion ....lack of affordable  housing in Palo Alto....over paid administrators in this city...a mayor that routinely violates community  members 1st amendment rights ‐by falsely claiming speakers can’t criticize individual council  members....a city manager who routinely puts critical city issues on the consent calendar when the  items should more appropriately be placed on the calendar as action items ‐and who frequently  manipulates the council to vote for items against the public interest ‐by frequently speaking in nearly  incomprehensible city manager talk ‐tonight is your opportunity to speak‐up.         118 the zoom meeting begins at 7 pm.....below is the agenda for this evening.     Aram         https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/79617    Shared via the Google app    Sent from my iPhone  119 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 6:19 PM To:chuck jagoda; Dennis Upton; mark weiss; Rebecca Eisenberg; Fine, Adrian; Kniss, Liz (internal); Greer Stone; Ed Lauing; Raven Malone; Steven D. Lee; Cari Templeton; Cary Andrew Crittenden; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Roberta Ahlquist; Cormack, Alison Cc:paloaltofreepress@gmail.com Subject:Palo Alto HRC meeting at 7 pm tonight dec 17 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  FYI:          FYI: If you wish to comment re the ongoing Palo Alto city council cover up in the Zack Perron matter, the  failure of the city to demand the release the 44 page DTS report allegedly covering up a DTS sexual  harassment scandal, the stingiest proposed Safe Parking Program on the planet ‐celebrate the end of  segregation & exclusion at Foothills Park after more them 50 years of exclusion ....lack of affordable  housing in Palo Alto....over paid administrators in this city...a mayor that routinely violates community  members 1st amendment rights ‐by falsely claiming speakers can’t criticize individual council  members....a city manager who routinely puts critical city issues on the consent calendar when the  items should more appropriately be placed on the calendar as action items ‐and who frequently  manipulates the council to vote for items against the public interest ‐by frequently speaking in nearly  incomprehensible city manager talk ‐tonight is your opportunity to speak‐up.         the zoom meeting begins at 7 pm.....below is the agenda for this evening.     Aram         https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/79617    Shared via the Google app    Sent from my iPhone  120 Baumb, Nelly From:David Coale <david@evcl.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 5:28 PM To:Reich, Russ Cc:Hoyt, George; Wyndon Trinidad; Lait, Jonathan; Shikada, Ed; Elaine Baskin; Council, City; UAC; Pat Burt; Benatar, Lisa; Michelle Trinidad Subject:Re: 757 GREER RD/20000-01596: Hi Russ,    Thanks for your prompt reply.  I did talk to Michelle this morning before I sent out my e‐mail.  She said the city had  requested an additional fee, but she had not heard anything about the permit being issued.  If anything, I think the  communication issue is with the city.  How is it OK that this permit should take 4 months?!  Yes, there are probably some  delays on each side, but this is unacceptable no mater how you look at it.  If anything, the city should be refunding any  permitting fees at this point.  Even if we get the permit today, it is unlikely that we could order the equipment and get  the installation completed and inspected by the end of the year when the federal tax laws change and our client will be  out thousands of dollars!    Thanks again for your prompt reply but it is too little and way to late.    Sincerely,    David      On Dec 17, 2020, at 10:05 AM, Reich, Russ <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote:    Hello David,  Thank you for your inquiry.  You may want to check in with Michelle in customer care with Lundy solar.  I  believe you are working with Lundy Solar?  There may be an internal communication issue there.  The  project coordinator has been in communication with Michelle from Lundy Solar all week.  Fire has  completed their review early, on Monday, as we said they would, and staff has been in communication  with the applicant, Lundy Solar on this.  There has been a series of communication about the fees with  the applicant this week and the permit could have been issued sooner if the fees had been paid right  away.  The fee was finally paid yesterday and the permit is set to be issued today.  Please let me know if  you have any further questions.     Best,     <image002.png>Russ Reich  Development Services Permit Manager  Planning and Development Services  (650) 617‐3119 | russ.reich@cityofpaloalto.org  www.cityofpaloalto.org  <image004.png>   <image006.png>   <image008.jpg>   <image010.png>   <image012.png>  The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We 121 remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.                                                             From: David Coale <david@evcl.com>   Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 9:28 AM  To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>; Reich, Russ <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait,  Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Elaine  Baskin <elaine@theprocessworks.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; UAC  <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org>; Pat Burt <patburt11@gmail.com>; Benatar, Lisa  <Lisa.Benatar@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: Re: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      Hi George,     Another week has gone by and still no word from you on this.  Not sure how to light a fire under the fire  department or others in the loop.  It feels like I am pushing a rope here.  I know in light of everything  else the city is doing with covid, etc. one permit for a solar installation with storage is not big deal but it  has now been nearly 4 months (new people on the list see e‐mail thread below) and is beyond  ridiculous.     Please provide Status on this ASAP.  I will send another email tomorrow, as once a week has not  produced any results on this.     Also please let me know if there is anything you need on our side for this.     Thanks,     Sincerely,     David Coale           On Dec 11, 2020, at 4:12 PM, Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote:     David,     We will have Fire review the project on Monday and the applicant should hear from us  early next week.  I apologize that this third review was not performed sooner as I had  indicated it would be.     George  122    <image001.png>    The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.        From: David Coale <david@evcl.com>   Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:09 PM  To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>; Reich, Russ  <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: Re: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      Hi George,     It has been another week since I checked on the status of a solar permit that has taken 3  months.     Please provide an update on this and please move this along ASAP.     Thanks,     David        On Dec 3, 2020, at 7:28 AM, Hoyt, George  <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote:     Correction:  The resubmittal was submitted during our Thanksgiving  break at 17:50 on Thanksgiving.     <image003.png>    The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID- 19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.           From: Hoyt, George   Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 7:22 AM  To: David Coale <david@evcl.com>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>; Reich, Russ  <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: RE: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      David,     123 This project was routed for 30 days and 10 day second review because it  also includes battery storage.   The second review was completed on  due date of 11‐13‐2020 and comments were sent on 11‐16‐2020.   The  applicant resubmitted for a third review to address Fire Department’s  comments 11‐24‐2020 at 17:50 which was after hours on the eve of the  Thanksgiving break.       I will ask staff to coordinate a virtual OTC review for this project at our  earliest opportunity.     George     <image003.png>    The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID- 19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.        From: David Coale <david@evcl.com>   Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 10:01 PM  To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>  Subject: Fwd: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      Hi George,     As you can see this PV installation was routed for a 30 day review.  As of  this email Lundy Solar still does not have a permit and now the client is  likely to loose 4% in the federal tax credit and it has been 3 and a half  months!     Please look into this ASAP as this is way over due!     Thanks,     David Coale     PS. I work with Lundy Solar and roofing and Wyndon Trinidad is the  owner.     Begin forwarded message:     From: <customercare@lundysolar.com>  Subject: FW: 757 GREER RD/20000-01596:  Date: December 2, 2020 at 9:43:01 PM PST  To: "'David Coale'" <david@evcl.com>           124 From: Tamale, Diana  <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>   Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 1:59 PM  To: customercare@lundysolar.com  Subject: RE: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      This project has been routed for 30 days review.    Application Submittal  Submitted - PC Required  08/18/2020  DIANA TAM...     Planning Review           Public Works Eng. Review           Water Quality Review           WGW Utilities Review           Landscape Review           Urban Forestry Review           Transportation Review           PWD Zero Waste Review           Building Review  Routed  08/18/2020  DIANA TAM...     Elect Utilities Review  Routed  08/19/2020  RAMANDEEP...     Fire Review  Routed  08/18/2020  DIANA TAM...     Review Consolidation           Ready To Issue           Permit Issuance              <image005.png>        DianaTamale  Project Coordinator   Development Services Center   O: 650‐329‐2535 F:650‐329‐2240  E: diana.tamale@cityofpaloalto.org       From: customercare@lundysolar.com <customercare@l undysolar.com>   Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 3:53 PM  To: Tamale, Diana <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      Hi Diana,     Good afternoon.  I checked the portal and followed the  process below and it seems the permit and approved  plan have not been uploaded. The attachments that  appear are the documents we submitted for the  application.  Kindly update or send me the permit and  approved copy of plans so that we can proceed, or  please let me know next step.  Thanks!     Best Regards,  Michelle  125 From: Tamale, Diana  <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>   Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 4:24 PM  To: customercare@lundysolar.com  Subject: RE: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596: Fees Due,  Action Needed     The revision has been issued, here is instruction on how to download the approved plans.    TO DOWNLOAD APPROVED OR CORRECTED DOCUMENTS:  1. CLICK: MY RECORDS (next to dashboard)   2. CLICK on: Red highlighted permit number   3. CLICK on RECORD INFO, (the blue down arrow)   4. Select: ATTACHMENTS   5. CLICK: Blue Name of Document to download and save to your computer.      <image005.png>        DianaTamale  Project Coordinator   Development Services Center   O: 650‐329‐2535 F:650‐329‐2240  E: diana.tamale@cityofpaloalto.org       From: customercare@lundysolar.com <customercare@l undysolar.com>   Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 1:17 PM  To: Tamale, Diana <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596: Fees Due, Action  Needed     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Hi Diana,     126 Good afternoon.  We already made the payment for this  (on Tuesday), I just wanted to check on the next steps  for the permit application.  Will the permit and  approved plans be emailed or do we pick them up?  Also, about when should we expect the  approval/release/comments?  Please let me  know.  Thanks!     Best Regards,  Michelle     From: PDS City of Palo Alto  <donotreply@cityofpaloalto.org>   Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 9:06 AM  To: customercare@lundysolar.com  Subject: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596: Fees Due, Action  Needed     Applicant - customercare@lundysolar.com;,  Record#: 20000-01596 Opened Date: 8/16/2020 Address: 757 GREER RD, PALO ALTO, CA 94303 Project Type: Project - Building Permit Description of Work: INSTALL A NEW ROOF MOUNTED 8.14kW Solar PV SYSTEM CONSISTING OF 22pcs SOLARIA POWERXT-370R-PD MODULES, 22 SOLAR EDGE OPTIMIZERS (SLRE P370), ONE (1) SOLAREDGE INVERTER (SLRE SE7600A-USS2RNCB2 STOREDGE 2958.861/EA 2958.86 INVERTER 7.6KW AFCI 5 YEAR CELLULAR PLAN -25C), ONE(1) LG Chem RESU10H-SEG Li-ION BATTERY.  ***PLEASE READ ENTIRE EMAIL TO REVIEW NEXT STEPS TO HELP AVOID DELAYS IN THE REVIEW PROCESS***  This email is to notify you that fees are due for application 20000-01596. Please click here to access your application record to pay fees City of Palo Alto ACA . City staff will process your application after your payment has been completed.   127 If you have any questions, please contact your Project Coordinator, DIANA TAMALE-650-329- 2535 at diana.tamale@cityofpaloalto.org    Thank you for using our online permitting system and we look forward to working with you.    Building Division Planning and Development Services Department (PDS) City of Palo Alto     <image006.jpg>     <image007.jpg> Virus-free. www.avg.com    128 Baumb, Nelly From:b. beekman <cranberrysauce23@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 2:30 PM To:Mayor Lily Mei.; D3. Jenny Kassan; D4. Yang Shao; D5. Raj Salwan; D6. Teresa Cox; D2. Rick Jones; D1. Teresa Keng.; Mayor Sam Licarrdo; Mayor's office. Lee Wilcox; Mayor's office. Paul Pereira; C.Mgr. David Sykes; C.Attrny. Nora Frimann; city attorney Shasta Green; cl.d1. Charles "Chappie" Jones; cl.d2. Sergio Jimenez; cl.d3. Raul Peralez; cl.d4. Lan Diep; cl.d5. Magdelena Carrasco; cl.d6. Devora. Davis; cl.d7. Maya Esparza; cl.d8. Sylvia Arenas; cl.d9. Pam Foley; cl.d10. Johnny Khamis; cDoT.Dir.John Ristow; cDOT Laura Wells; c.mgr.Jim Ortbal; C. Manager Angel Rios; OES Director.Ray Riordan; OES.Office of Emergency Services; Police Ofc. Anthony Mata; Police Ofc. David Knopf; Police Lt. Ellen.Washburn -s.op.; Police Lt. Heather Randol; Supervisor Cindy Chavez; Supervisor Otto Lee; Supervisor Joseph Simitian; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Supervisor Mike Wasserman; Dana Reed; d.District Attorney; s.PIO; supervisor.carson@acgov.org; Wilma.Chan@acgov.org; Nate.Miley@acgov.org; richard.valle@acgov.org; Scott.Haggerty@acgov.org; David Haubert; amy.shrago@acgov.org; Anika Campbell Belton.; Perkins, Cheryl, CAO; info@alcoda.org; pio@alamedacountysheriff.org; mayor; D1.; D2.; D3.; D4.; D5.; D6.; D7.; D8.; City Clerk.Brkly.; C.Mgr.; attorney@cityofberkeley.info; O.E.S.; planning; Transportation; p.r.c.; berkeley. p.d.; FPD chief. Kim Peterson; John Lindsay-Poland; Sameena Usman; Victor Sin; Roxana Marachi; tessa.darc@gmail.com; council@redwoodcity.org; city.council@menlopark.org; Council, City; cityadministratorsoffice@oaklandca.gov; cityclerk@oaklandnet.com; Craig Dziedzic; Janell Myhre; Phillip White; Corinne Bartshire; Mikyung Kim-Molina; Baker, Ethan (ECD); Lloyd Shand; Maryellen Carroll; Gary Malais Subject:2. Blair Beekman. Thursday. December 17, 2020. ___ Questions of BAUASI project fund structuring, CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      Dear Fremont police chief Kim Peterson,          To fix, an earlier typo, from my letter, of 1:30 pm, today ‐       The current, 1‐3 year, BAUASI funding patterns, works in steps and stages, along the way, that can work, to limit or  confuse, the open public process.        I hope, I can be written back to. And, there can also be dialogue, amongst yourselves ‐ how open, public policy ideas,  can develop, at the local, and federal, BAUASI level, in the different stages, of project approval and planning.        These are issues, that will take time, into 2021.             Sincerely,         Blair Beekman  129 Baumb, Nelly From:b. beekman <cranberrysauce23@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 1:30 PM To:Mayor Lily Mei.; D3. Jenny Kassan; D4. Yang Shao; D5. Raj Salwan; D6. Teresa Cox; D2. Rick Jones; D1. Teresa Keng.; Mayor Sam Licarrdo; Mayor's office. Lee Wilcox; Mayor's office. Paul Pereira; C.Mgr. David Sykes; C.Attrny. Nora Frimann; city attorney Shasta Green; cl.d1. Charles "Chappie" Jones; cl.d2. Sergio Jimenez; cl.d3. Raul Peralez; cl.d4. Lan Diep; cl.d5. Magdelena Carrasco; cl.d6. Devora. Davis; cl.d7. Maya Esparza; cl.d8. Sylvia Arenas; cl.d9. Pam Foley; cl.d10. Johnny Khamis; cDoT.Dir.John Ristow; cDOT Laura Wells; c.mgr.Jim Ortbal; C. Manager Angel Rios; OES Director.Ray Riordan; OES.Office of Emergency Services; Police Ofc. Anthony Mata; Police Ofc. David Knopf; Police Lt. Ellen.Washburn -s.op.; Police Lt. Heather Randol; Supervisor Cindy Chavez; Supervisor Otto Lee; Supervisor Joseph Simitian; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Supervisor Mike Wasserman; Dana Reed; d.District Attorney; s.PIO; supervisor.carson@acgov.org; Wilma.Chan@acgov.org; Nate.Miley@acgov.org; richard.valle@acgov.org; Scott.Haggerty@acgov.org; David Haubert; amy.shrago@acgov.org; Anika Campbell Belton.; Perkins, Cheryl, CAO; info@alcoda.org; pio@alamedacountysheriff.org; mayor; D1.; D2.; D3.; D4.; D5.; D6.; D7.; D8.; City Clerk.Brkly.; C.Mgr.; attorney@cityofberkeley.info; O.E.S.; planning; Transportation; p.r.c.; berkeley. p.d.; FPD chief. Kim Peterson; John Lindsay-Poland; Sameena Usman; Victor Sin; Roxana Marachi; tessa.darc@gmail.com; council@redwoodcity.org; city.council@menlopark.org; Council, City; cityadministratorsoffice@oaklandca.gov; cityclerk@oaklandnet.com; Craig Dziedzic; Janell Myhre; Phillip White; Corinne Bartshire; Mikyung Kim-Molina; Baker, Ethan (ECD); Lloyd Shand; Maryellen Carroll; Gary Malais Subject:Blair Beekman. Thursday. December 17, 2020. ___ Questions of BAUASI project fund structuring, CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.        Dear Fremont police chief Kim Peterson,            It can be interesting to consider, an issue initially addressed to Fremont, can actually pertain to, the entire SF Bay Area.      I have recieved, the Fremont Police Dept. staff report, and information, of your BAUASI project asks and funding, from  November 2017, for small trailers, with cameras, that would include ALPRs.      A project ask, of BAUASI, fully completed, by December 2019.      There was an issue, around March of 2018, of the camera trailers, already in use in Fremont. As I read, in a Mercury  news article, of that time.      I'm sure, you have gone over this issue, with the Fremont  community, many times, at this point, in the past few years.       I am now better understanding, how this can, very much help consider, my own recent letters, and concerns, in the  overall public accountability, of state and federal funding, for local law enforcement projects, like BAUASI.      130  I attend, BAUASI public approval authority meetings, regularly, each year.      As I regularly write to them, in matters of concern, and with the future, of technology and surveillance accountability,  for local Bay Area neighborhoods.     It may be time, for themselves, to begin, to think & plan, how there can possibly be, slightly updated revisions, to their  current funding patterns & practices, with local Bay Area cities.     The staff of BAUASI, usually like, public process questions, to be the efforts, of the local level.      But I feel, there may be, some good efforts, of better community transperancy ideas, at the local level, at this time, that  may impress, BAUASI staff.        To also mention, Mayor Sam Liccardo of San Jose,  in their own, recent, city council, yearly approval of BAUASI funding ‐  interestingly asked about, important, secondary, yearly BAUSI funding, for large Bay Area cities ‐ and after it is split  among, smaller, regional cities, of the Bay Area.     This is an important, additional question, in how to define, overall, yearly BAUASI funding questions, about its  openness, transparency, and accountability.         In this beginning time, of re‐imagine and equity, I hope, learning to ask questions, of open public policy ‐ can begin to  allow us, a process of better reasoned choices, community harmony & sustainably, for the future.     The current, 1‐3 BAUASI funding patterns, works in steps and stages, that can work to limit or confuse, the open public  process, along the way.     I hope, I can be written back to. And, there can also be dialogue, amongst yourselves ‐ how open, public policy ideas,  can develop, at the local, and BAUASI level, in the different stages, of project approval and planning.      These are issues, that will take time, into 2021.           Sincerely,       Blair Beekman  131 Baumb, Nelly From:Mark <cs@otcprwire.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 1:03 PM To:Council, City Subject:MARKET NEWS from OTC for 12/17/2020 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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You can update your preferences or unsubscribe below.  Unsubscribe      To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 140 Baumb, Nelly From:David Coale <david@evcl.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 9:28 AM To:Hoyt, George Cc:Wyndon Trinidad; Reich, Russ; Lait, Jonathan; Shikada, Ed; Elaine Baskin; Council, City; UAC; Pat Burt; Benatar, Lisa Subject:Re: 757 GREER RD/20000-01596: Hi George,    Another week has gone by and still no word from you on this.  Not sure how to light a fire under the fire department or  others in the loop.  It feels like I am pushing a rope here.  I know in light of everything else the city is doing with covid,  etc. one permit for a solar installation with storage is not big deal but it has now been nearly 4 months (new people on  the list see e‐mail thread below) and is beyond ridiculous.    Please provide Status on this ASAP.  I will send another email tomorrow, as once a week has not produced any results on  this.    Also please let me know if there is anything you need on our side for this.    Thanks,    Sincerely,    David Coale        On Dec 11, 2020, at 4:12 PM, Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote:    David,     We will have Fire review the project on Monday and the applicant should hear from us early next  week.  I apologize that this third review was not performed sooner as I had indicated it would be.     George     <image001.png>    The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.        From: David Coale <david@evcl.com>   Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:09 PM  To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>; Reich, Russ <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org>;  141 Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: Re: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      Hi George,     It has been another week since I checked on the status of a solar permit that has taken 3 months.     Please provide an update on this and please move this along ASAP.     Thanks,     David        On Dec 3, 2020, at 7:28 AM, Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> wrote:     Correction:  The resubmittal was submitted during our Thanksgiving break at 17:50 on  Thanksgiving.     <image003.png>    The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.           From: Hoyt, George   Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 7:22 AM  To: David Coale <david@evcl.com>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>; Reich, Russ  <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: RE: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      David,     This project was routed for 30 days and 10 day second review because it also includes  battery storage.   The second review was completed on due date of 11‐13‐2020 and  comments were sent on 11‐16‐2020.   The applicant resubmitted for a third review to  address Fire Department’s comments 11‐24‐2020 at 17:50 which was after hours on the  eve of the Thanksgiving break.       I will ask staff to coordinate a virtual OTC review for this project at our earliest  opportunity.     George     <image003.png>    The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We 142 remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.        From: David Coale <david@evcl.com>   Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 10:01 PM  To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Wyndon Trinidad <wyndon@lundysolar.com>  Subject: Fwd: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      Hi George,     As you can see this PV installation was routed for a 30 day review.  As of this email  Lundy Solar still does not have a permit and now the client is likely to loose 4% in the  federal tax credit and it has been 3 and a half months!     Please look into this ASAP as this is way over due!     Thanks,     David Coale     PS. I work with Lundy Solar and roofing and Wyndon Trinidad is the owner.     Begin forwarded message:     From: <customercare@lundysolar.com>  Subject: FW: 757 GREER RD/20000-01596:  Date: December 2, 2020 at 9:43:01 PM PST  To: "'David Coale'" <david@evcl.com>           From: Tamale, Diana <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>   Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 1:59 PM  To: customercare@lundysolar.com  Subject: RE: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      This project has been routed for 30 days review.    Application Submittal  Submitted - PC Required  08/18/2020  DIANA TAM...     Planning Review           Public Works Eng. Review           Water Quality Review           WGW Utilities Review           Landscape Review           Urban Forestry Review           Transportation Review           PWD Zero Waste Review           Building Review  Routed  08/18/2020  DIANA TAM...     Elect Utilities Review  Routed  08/19/2020  RAMANDEEP...     143 Fire Review  Routed  08/18/2020  DIANA TAM...     Review Consolidation           Ready To Issue           Permit Issuance              <image005.png>        DianaTamale  Project Coordinator   Development Services Center   O: 650‐329‐2535 F:650‐329‐2240  E: diana.tamale@cityofpaloalto.org       From: customercare@lundysolar.com <customercare@lundysolar.com>    Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 3:53 PM  To: Tamale, Diana <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596:      Hi Diana,     Good afternoon.  I checked the portal and followed the process below  and it seems the permit and approved plan have not been uploaded.  The attachments that appear are the documents we submitted for the  application.  Kindly update or send me the permit and approved copy of  plans so that we can proceed, or please let me know next step.  Thanks!     Best Regards,  Michelle  From: Tamale, Diana <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>   Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 4:24 PM  To: customercare@lundysolar.com  Subject: RE: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596: Fees Due, Action Needed     The revision has been issued, here is instruction on how to download the approved plans.    TO DOWNLOAD APPROVED OR CORRECTED DOCUMENTS:  1. CLICK: MY RECORDS (next to dashboard)   2. CLICK on: Red highlighted permit number   3. CLICK on RECORD INFO, (the blue down arrow)   4. Select: ATTACHMENTS   144 5. CLICK: Blue Name of Document to download and save to your computer.      <image005.png>        DianaTamale  Project Coordinator   Development Services Center   O: 650‐329‐2535 F:650‐329‐2240  E: diana.tamale@cityofpaloalto.org       From: customercare@lundysolar.com <customercare@lundysolar.com>    Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 1:17 PM  To: Tamale, Diana <Diana.Tamale@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596: Fees Due, Action Needed     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Hi Diana,     Good afternoon.  We already made the payment for this (on Tuesday), I  just wanted to check on the next steps for the permit application.  Will  the permit and approved plans be emailed or do we pick them up? Also,  about when should we expect the approval/release/comments?  Please  let me know.  Thanks!     Best Regards,  Michelle     From: PDS City of Palo Alto <donotreply@cityofpaloalto.org>   Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 9:06 AM  To: customercare@lundysolar.com  Subject: 757 GREER RD/20000‐01596: Fees Due, Action Needed     Applicant - customercare@lundysolar.com;,  Record#: 20000-01596 Opened Date: 8/16/2020 Address: 757 GREER RD, PALO ALTO, CA 94303 Project Type: Project - Building Permit Description of Work: INSTALL A NEW ROOF MOUNTED 8.14kW Solar PV SYSTEM CONSISTING OF 22pcs SOLARIA POWERXT-370R-PD MODULES, 22 SOLAR EDGE OPTIMIZERS (SLRE P370), ONE (1) SOLAREDGE INVERTER (SLRE SE7600A-USS2RNCB2 STOREDGE 2958.861/EA 2958.86 INVERTER 7.6KW AFCI 5 YEAR 145 CELLULAR PLAN -25C), ONE(1) LG Chem RESU10H-SEG Li-ION BATTERY.  ***PLEASE READ ENTIRE EMAIL TO REVIEW NEXT STEPS TO HELP AVOID DELAYS IN THE REVIEW PROCESS***  This email is to notify you that fees are due for application 20000-01596. Please click here to access your application record to pay fees City of Palo Alto ACA . City staff will process your application after your payment has been completed.   If you have any questions, please contact your Project Coordinator, DIANA TAMALE-650-329-2535 at diana.tamale@cityofpaloalto.org    Thank you for using our online permitting system and we look forward to working with you.    Building Division Planning and Development Services Department (PDS) City of Palo Alto     <image006.jpg>     <image007.jpg> Virus-free. www.avg.com    146 Baumb, Nelly From:Thiebaut Method <newsletter@thiebautmethod.org> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 8:15 AM To:Council, City Subject:Support Our Holiday PASSIONS Drive CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Toys are great but passions are a passport to the future. Give today to support a student's passions!    "Before Thiebaut Method (TM), I didn't know how much Leo liked technology. I didn't know he could build these ideas on his own. I am so 147   happy and proud to give my kids the opportunity to focus on their passions." ‐TM Parent       To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Leo describes how TM cultivated his passion for coding & creating video games   Passion Drive Goals  Loaner Computers for Mentees: Purchase 25 Chromebooks for our mentees who don't have access to a computer at home.  Mentoring Materials: Raise funds for materials and supplies needed by mentees to explore their passions (e.g. art, engineering, presentation supplies, books, website subscriptions, loaner equipment, such as a 3D printer).  Passion Exploration Field Trips: Raise funds for event stipends. These stipends will support parents with event costs so they can take their children on field trips to experience their passions in the real world.   Give Students Access To Their Passions!   148   Artist Sergio     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.     Hi! I'm Sergio and through TM I've learned how to illustrate my first book! I need more drawing supplies.       The Passions Opportunity Gap In our community of East Palo Alto:  95% of children and parents who start our program don’t know what interests the child beyond TV, playing with friends, and other recreational and entertainment activities.  Nearly of 90% students aren't taught skills beyond basic skills because they are so far behind academically in school.  The biggest middle school only offers 7 basic electives, versus more than 30 electives offered in neighboring Palo Alto. We work with students and parents beyond academics, directing students toward aspirations through their passions. Learn more     149   MORE PASSIONATE STUDENTS     Geologist Jose     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.     Hi! I'm Jose and TM showed me how to create a rock collection box for my favorite rocks. Next, I want to learn about Mohs Hardness Scale.     Engineer Kevin     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Hi! I'm Kevin. TM has helped me explore my passion for tanks. I need electronics to make it remote controlled.   Social Activist Citlaly     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.     Hello! I'm Citlaly. I LOVE dogs. TM helped me learn how dogs are rescued. Now, I want to build a website to promote dog rescue in my community.   Give Students Access To Their Passions!     Chef Emiliano   150   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Emiliano wants to be a chef!   GET INVOLVED!      Virtual Volunteer Mentor: Consider becoming a mentor. No experience required other than being willing to learn alongside your mentee. Learn more  Give Expertise: We are always looking for professionals who want to contribute their expertise. Reach out: info@thiebautmethod.org  General Volunteering: We have many ongoing needs and projects you can support our staff with. We have used volunteer power for more than a decade! Reach out: info@thiebautmethod.org     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.                                                 151   Copyright © 2020 | Thiebaut Method, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: info@thiebautmethod.org Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.          152 Baumb, Nelly From:Cynthia Irvine <cynthiaairvine@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 8:17 AM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Park: thank you! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Palo Alto City Council:    I am a Palo Alto resident who hikes the trails in Foothills Park, but has long been disturbed by the “residents and their  guests only” policy. Today is a cause for celebration, as equal access is granted. We who are fortunate enough to live in  this privileged part of the Bay Area do indeed need to share our bounty with the rest of our local communities,  especially now, during COVID.    As I celebrate this, I am reminding friends to please follow all local regulations, to mask up, keep distance, etc., so that  we can continue to use our beautiful outdoor resources to support health.    Well done, and congratulations on a vote that resulted in the right ethical position. It was about more than equal access  to nature; it was a vote against racism and discrimination against those in less fortunate socioeconomic groups.    Cynthia Irvine  256 Durand Way  Palo Alto, CA 94304  510‐908–1565    Sent from my iPad  153 Baumb, Nelly From:D Martell <dmpaloalto@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:13 AM To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed; Jonsen, Robert; Stump, Molly; Supervisor Simitian; AnnaEshoo@mail.house.gov; anne.ream@mail.house.gov; Kou, Lydia; Greer Stone; Drekmeier, Peter; Kleinberg, Judy; RA@alexanderlaw.com; Lee, David; Kan, Michael Subject:Many more Covid cases - downtown Lytton Gardens I, II, III, & Webster House (all Covia owned & on the same block) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.        Today, December 16, late afternoon, a notice was posted in Lytton Gardens elevators, with the facility's latest Covid  positive test results, for staff and residents.      Please note, the date on the notice is nearly a week old ... December 11 !!!           ‐  Lytton Gardens I, Independent Living                &  Lytton Gardens II, Assisted Living:                       2 staff         ‐  Lytton Gardens III ‐Webster House Heath Center‐, Skilled Nursing:                     14 residents                      2 staff         ‐  Webster House:                        1 staff      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  In my opinion, it is negligent for Lytton Gardens to do apartment inspections, during this dangerous time.      Today and tomorrow, Lytton Gardens staff has been, and will be, entering ALL Lytton Gardens apartments for  inspections, in preparation for the merger with Front Porch, at the beginning of January.     Residents were given a 24‐hour written notice, posted on apartment doors, which had no mention of the increased  Covid outbreak.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐      Danielle Martell  dmPaloAlto@gmail.com  155 Baumb, Nelly From:Alice Smith <alice.smith@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 16, 2020 11:41 PM To:Council, City; Elizabeth Schmidt Subject:Fwd: City of Palo Alto, Saved Credit Cards! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    This looks like a fraudulent email in the name of the city.  ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Lucie Stern Community Center <noreply@rec1mail.com>  Date: Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 1:02 AM  Subject: City of Palo Alto, Saved Credit Cards!  To: <asmith36@sbcglobal.net>    To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In  Enjoy! Online, City of Palo Alto  1305 Middlefield Road  Palo Alto, CA 94301  6504634900  https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/enjoy  Hi there!  We hope you are staying safe and warm this holiday season.  When we first switched over to our new online registration system, you may remember we let you know that you can  add your credit card to your accounts and save it. We later found out that the feature had not been configured properly.  We are excited to announce that after a lot of trial and error, we have been able to get the saved credit card feature  correctly configured and can now permit saved cards on file. This does mean, to prevent confusion and errors when  checking out, if you saved your credit card prior to December 9, 2020 (12/9/2020) you will need to login and delete all  cards on file that were added before 12/9/2020. You can add a new card at the same time.  To check if you have a card on file, login to your account and click on “Manage Payment Accounts” on the right side. A  list of saved cards will appear, the “Created On” column will tell you when you added it, the red X under “Tools” will  delete it, and the green button that says add card on file will walk you through how to add a card on file.  If you need help or have questions, please feel free to call us at 650.463.4949.  **PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE CARDS SAVED ON FILE ARE FOR USE ONLY WITHIN THE CIVICREC SYSTEM AND CANNOT BE USED TO PROCESS PAYMENT FOR ANYTHING  OUTSIDE OF THIS SYSTEM**    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.   156    Thank you!     If you do not wish to receive further emails, click here to unsubscribe.  157 Baumb, Nelly From:D Martell <dmpaloalto@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 16, 2020 5:36 PM To:Shikada, Ed; Stump, Molly; Council, City Cc:Jonsen, Robert; Lee, David; Kan, Michael Subject:😷MedCram.Com | COVID-19 vaccines ... 💉 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.      I found this useful link to MedCram.com.    See list:                https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ_IRFkDInv_zLVFTgXA8tW0Mf1iiuuM_      Because 50% of Covid cases are transferred through folks without symptoms, it may be prudent to have a blood test,  which will detect if one has already contracted it.  People without symptoms are either infected and too early to detect,  or they're one of the lucky ones with natural immunity.    I'm leaning towards waiting six months, at least, then do something about vaccination.    ‐Daniella Martell               158 Baumb, Nelly From:Jennifer Landesmann <jlandesmann@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 16, 2020 1:12 PM To:scscroundtable@gmail.com Cc:Council, City; Karen.Chapman@mail.house.gov; Eric.Henshall@mail.house.gov; supervisor.simitian@bos.sccgov.org; Kristine.Zanardi@bos.sccgov.org; editor@paweekly.com Subject:Thank you and Request that you please add time today to address Environmental Review for the GLS procedures on the IFP Gateway CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear SCSC members,     First, I want to THANK YOU and ESA for the efforts to work together to address concerns that impact so many Bay Area  constituents and indeed around the country.     As I conveyed yesterday, I find it alarming that a lot of time goes into identifying ways to improve the future while the  current issues associated with GBAS and current projects are going unnoticed.    The legislative committee may in fact be part of the problem and not helping, if matters get kicked to "for future  legislation" when citizens could use your HELP now.      Please set some time aside today to discuss the GLS items on the IFP Gateway. Verification of the FAA's CATEX (that only  SFO has been informed about) needs verification and then urgent steps to understand how this happened and then to  explore how it can be addressed.    Thank you,    Jennifer                      1 Baumb, Nelly From:William Ross <wross@lawross.com> Sent:Tuesday, December 22, 2020 9:59 PM To:Maqbool, Erum; Council, City Subject:Agenda Item No. 1; City Council Special Meeting December 23, 2020 Attachments:City of Palo Alto Council (Agenda Item 1) 12.22.20.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please see attached communication. Thank you. William D. Ross, Esq. Law Offices of William D. Ross A Professional Corporation 400 Lambert Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306 Tel: (650) 843-8080; Fax: (650) 843-8093 E-Mail: wross@lawross.com  William D. Ross David Schwarz Kypros G. Hostetter Law Offices of William D. Ross 400 Lambert Avenue Palo Alto, California 94306 Telephone: (650) 843-8080 Facsimile: (650) 843-8093 Los Angeles Office: 11420 Santa Monica Blvd #25532 Los Angeles, CA 90025 File No: 1/10 December 22, 2020 VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION city.council@cityofpaloalto.org erum.maqbool@cityofpaloalto.org City Council City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Attention: Erum Maqbool Re: Agenda Item No. 1; City Council Special Meeting December 23, 2020; Proposed Amendment to Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Fiscal Year 2020-21 Annual Action Plan Mayor and Council: As a resident, taxpayer and business owner within the City of Palo Alto (“City”), I respectfully maintain there has been inadequate notice for the hearing for amendments to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Fiscal Year Annual Action Plan (the “Plan”) and that additional consideration should be given for adequately funding the demonstrated need of increased Emergency Medical Service (“EMS”) Advanced Life Support (“ALS”) transport by the City Fire Department in the proposed Plan amendments. First, with respect to notice, although the Staff Report contends that there has been adequate notice by publication among other things through The Daily Post in late October 2020, it is respectfully noted that critical changes in the County Health Orders have created different obligations with respect to the homeless community and the spread of COVID-19 and needed EMS ALS transport since that time. The State’s December 3, 2020 Required Stay-at-Home Order and the resulting County Health Officer’s Mandatory Directive effective until January 4, 2021, reflect very different circumstances from late October 2020 concerning greater impacts of COVID-19 requiring greater notice to ensure efficient and effective use of available CDBG funds. City Council December 22, 2020 Page 2 For example, there is no indication that notice was given to the Santa Clara County Local Emergency Medical Services Agency (“LEMSA”), an agency responsible for assuring adequate EMS ALS response in designated Exclusive Operating Areas adjacent to the City or to the San Mateo County LEMSA which has the same function. On the substantive issue of allocation of CDBG funds, it is noted in several locations in the Staff Report that the amount of “$43,290”…“can only be used to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the spread of COVID-19.” (Emphasis added) Conversations with existing Fire Department employees indicate an increase in EMS ALS response on COVID-19 issues. More specifically, Medic 66, Medic 63 and Medic 61 units run numerous homeless transports in recent reporting cycles. Personal observation has seen such transports being accomplished at the University Avenue Railroad Station. Further, until the COVID-19 vaccine, whether the Pfizer-BioNTech version or Moderna version is dispensed to all members of the understaffed Fire Department, those funds should be allocated specifically for that purpose. These comments are offered in the real world of City Fire Department periodic closure of Station 2 which impacts the Fire Department EMS ALS response time Citywide. It is respectfully requested that the $43,290 amount be allocated to the City Fire Department to increase Staffing for EMS ALS Ambulance response and to assure vaccination of all Fire Department First Responder personnel. Very truly yours, William D. Ross WDR/as 2 Baumb, Nelly From:Martin J Sommer <martin@sommer.net> Sent:Tuesday, December 22, 2020 7:49 PM To:CalMod@caltrain.com Cc:Board (@caltrain.com); Council, City; Pat Burt Subject:Re: University Ave Beige Pole Color Attachments:IMG_20201208_072647.jpg CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  +cc: Pat Bert    Brent, please take a look at the attached photo. I don't think this is what the City, nor the design engineers, had in mind.    Please tell me, how I can help correct this situation.    Thank you,  Martin    On 11/25/20 10:05 AM, martin@sommer.net wrote:  Hi Brent,  Perhaps your new funding source obtained on Nov 3rd can help this situation. Can you please look into  this, and let me know? The visual impacts you are creating, are not good.  Thank you,  Martin  -- Martin Sommer 650-346-5307 martin@sommer.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinsommer "Turn technical vision into reality."   On 2020‐11‐25 09:50, CalMod@caltrain.com wrote:     Hi Martin,   3 Unfortunately, the project budget does not accommodate camouflaging of the poles. Caltrain worked  with Cities and regulatory agencies to mitigate the impacts of the infrastructure through the Project's  Environmental Impact Report in 2014.     Thanks,   Brent Tietjen, Government and Community Relations Officer SamTrans | Caltrain | TA 1250 San Carlos Ave. San Carlos, CA 94070-1306 tietjenb@samtrans.com       From: martin@sommer.net [mailto:martin@sommer.net]   Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:55 PM  To: CalMod@caltrain.com  Cc: Board (@caltrain.com) <BoardCaltrain@samtrans.com>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org  Subject: Re: University Ave Beige Pole Color Thanks Brent, What about the idea of camouflaging the upper part of the poles, similar to what is done with cell towers? For some reason, these poles have been created with an extremely hard industrial look. This is nothing like, the esthetics put into other electrified rails systems throughout the world. Martin -- Martin Sommer 650-346-5307 martin@sommer.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinsommer "Turn technical vision into reality." On 2020-11-13 10:09, CalMod@caltrain.com wrote: Hi Martin,   Thank you again for contacting Caltrain on this question. As Jim previously mentioned, the selection of  the pole color was done in coordination with the City of Palo Alto and the Historic Resources Board and  Architectural Review Board in 2019. These color selections are final and poles cannot be replaced or  painted a different color after installation.    Thanks,   Brent Tietjen, Government and Community Relations Officer 4 SamTrans | Caltrain | TA 1250 San Carlos Ave. San Carlos, CA 94070-1306 tietjenb@samtrans.com     From: martin@sommer.net [mailto:martin@sommer.net]   Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020 10:20 AM  To: CalMod@caltrain.com; Board (@caltrain.com) <BoardCaltrain@samtrans.com>  Cc: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org  Subject: Re: University Ave Beige Pole Color Dear Caltrain Board, The more beige poles that go up at University Ave station, the more unsightly it becomes. At ground level, you might think the beige color matches the station, but from the view of local buildings, you are completely destroying the view of our Santa Cruz Mountains, and local green vegetation on Stanford campus. Can you please look into a way to fix this? Perhaps, painting any height above 10 feet, to be the standard forest green? Telecom poles can be camouflaged, the same applies here. Please look in to it, and let me know some options. Thank you, Martin -- Martin Sommer 650-346-5307 martin@sommer.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinsommer "Turn technical vision into reality." On 2020-09-30 12:05, calmod@caltrain.com wrote: Dear Martin, Thank you for contacting Caltrain Electrification. The selection of the beige color was done in coordination with the City of Palo Alto and is a common color for poles located near stations. Most poles are a neutral chrome color along the project area but in some cases, such as near stations, Caltrain staff worked with local cities to identify pole colors that aligned with certain station areas. Once the poles have been procured and placed, we are not able to change the colors of those poles. Thank you again for reaching out to us. Best, The Caltrain Team 5 On 2020-09-25T10:17:50-07:00, Martin J Sommer <martin@sommer.net> wrote: Good morning, Please see the attached picture, of a beige pole placed last night. This creates a real eye sore!! Questions: 1) Why are you using a beige color vs the std forest green (that blends with the trees), and 2) can these beige poles please be painted forest green, before electrification occurs? I know that this is a "big ask". Thank you, Martin -- Martin Sommer 650-346-5307 martin@sommer.net <mailto:martin@sommer.net>www.linkedin.com/in/martinsommer <http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinsommer> "Turn technical vision into reality."     -- Martin Sommer 650-346-5307 martin@sommer.net www.linkedin.com/in/martinsommer "Turn technical vision into reality." 6 Baumb, Nelly From:slevy@ccsce.com Sent:Monday, December 21, 2020 2:40 PM To:Council, City; Planning Commission Cc:Lait, Jonathan; Shikada, Ed Subject:Update RHNA allocationsa Attachments:abag_draft_rhna_methodology_release_december2020.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council, PTC and staff On December 18, 2020 ABAG published the final 2020 Plan Bay Area Blueprint and updated RHNA allocations to Bay Area jurisdictions. While the methodology at the regional and allocation level was unchanged (the same regional total allocation, the same allocation criteria and the continued use of the 2050 forecast household growth), there was one major change that had the effect of lowering Palo Alto's unit allocation by 3,972 units a 39% decline. The change was an update to the 2050 projected HH growth by jurisdiction. In the draft 2050 HH projections, Palo Alto had a 36% projected HH increase between 2020 and 2050. In the final HH projections Palo Alto's increase was reduced to 22%. A selection of cities' data is shown below. Revised 2050 Blueprint Household Growth 2020‐2050                            Draft     Final                       Palo Alto     36%   22%                      Mt View   33%   33%                      Redwood City 17%   15%                      San Jose   20%   19%                      Sunnyvale 22%   21%                      San Francisco 19%   22%                      Oakland   17%   16%                    7   Concord   9%   11%                      Pleasanton 18%   22%                      Cupertino 31%   23%  San Francisco and some East Bay cities got an increase and most Santa Clara County cities got a decrease though not as much as Palo Alto. As a result of these new HH projections, the RHNA allocations were adjusted using the same methodologies as before. The pattern of changes mirrored the changed in HH projections. Change in Housing Unit Allocations                                 Units   % Change                      Palo Alto      ‐3972    ‐39%                      Mt View   ‐142   ‐1%                      Redwood City ‐570   ‐11%                      San Jose   ‐3761    ‐6%                      Sunnyvale ‐1032    ‐8%                      San Francisco 10760   15%                      Oakland   ‐793   ‐3%                      Concord   1231   32%                      Pleasanton 1178   25%                      Cupertino ‐1634    ‐32%  I am attaching the final Blueprint and updated RHNA allocation PDFs. Our city's task as before is to develop a new Housing Element that identifies site s and policies that will lead private and non profit developers to be able to help Plao Alto meet its RHNA goals at all income levels. The RHNA PDF includes a series of questions and answers regarding the methodology and comments received. 8 I continue to encourage the council, PTC and staff to get briefed on laws and policies related to review of Housing Elements and enforcement of RHNA targets. Stephen Levy Director Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | December 18, 2020 | Page 1 RELEASE OF ABAG DRAFT RHNA METHODOLOGY AND FINAL SUBREGIONAL SHARES December 18, 2020 What is RHNA? The Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) is the state-mandated1 process to identify the share of the statewide housing need for which each community must plan. As the Council of Governments (COG) for the Bay Area, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is responsible for developing a methodology for allocating a share of the Regional Housing Need Determination (RHND) the Bay Area received from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)2 to every local government in the Bay Area. The RHNA methodology is a formula that quantifies the number of housing units, separated into four income categories,3 that will be assigned to each city, town, and county in the region. The allocation must meet the statutory objectives identified in Housing Element Law4 and be consistent with the forecasted development pattern from Plan Bay Area 2050.5 Each local government must then update the Housing Element of its General Plan and its zoning to show how it can accommodate its RHNA allocation. How was the Draft RHNA Methodology for the 2023-2031 RHNA Cycle Developed? ABAG convened an ad hoc Housing Methodology Committee (HMC) from October 2019 to September 2020 to advise staff on the methodology for allocating a share of the region’s total housing need to every local government in the Bay Area. The HMC included local elected officials and staff as well as regional stakeholders to facilitate sharing of diverse viewpoints across multiple sectors.6 At its final meeting on September 18, the HMC voted to recommend Option 8A: High Opportunity Areas Emphasis & Job Proximity with the 2050 Households baseline allocation as the Proposed RHNA Methodology. On October 1, the ABAG Regional Planning Committee voted to recommend this methodology for approval by the Executive 1 See California Government Code Section 65584. 2 In a letter dated June 9, 2020, HCD provided ABAG with a total RHND of 441,176 units for the 2023-2031 RHNA. 3 State law defines the following RHNA income categories: • Very Low Income: households earning less than 50 percent of Area Median Income (AMI) • Low Income: households earning 50 - 80 percent of AMI • Moderate Income: households earning 80 - 120 percent of AMI • Above Moderate Income: households earning 120 percent or more of AMI 4 See California Government Code Section 65584(d). 5 See Government Code Section 65584.04(m)(1). 6 The HMC roster is available at https://abag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/hmc_roster_06_16_2020_0.pdf. ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | December 18, 2020 | Page 2 Board, and the Board approved its release as the Proposed RHNA Methodology for public comment on October 15, 2020. Materials related to the Proposed RHNA Methodology have been posted on ABAG’s website since October 24 (https://abag.ca.gov/our-work/housing/rhna-regional-housing-needs-allocation). As required by law, ABAG held a public comment period from October 25 to November 27 and conducted a public hearing at the November 12 meeting of the ABAG Regional Planning Committee. ABAG heard 29 oral comments and received 106 written comments on the Proposed Methodology during the public comment period. These comments provided perspectives from over 200 local government staff and elected officials, advocacy organizations, and members of the public, as some letters represented multiple signatories. Appendix 1 summarizes the public comments received and initial staff responses. What is the Draft RHNA Methodology for the 2023-2031 RHNA Cycle? ABAG-MTC staff considered the comments received during the public comment period and is not proposing to make any adjustments to the baseline allocation or factors and weights in the Draft RHNA Methodology. The components of the Draft RHNA Methodology are the same as the Proposed RHNA Methodology (Figure 1). However, the Draft RHNA Methodology incorporates future year 2050 households data generated from the Plan Bay Area 2050 Final Blueprint, which is being released concurrently with the Draft RHNA Methodology. As noted in the Proposed Methodology, the illustrative allocations reflected baseline data on 2050 households from the Plan Bay Area 2050 Draft Blueprint, with updates slated throughout fall 2020 to reflect the revised Strategies and Growth Geographies approved by the ABAG Executive Board and Commission in September 2020 for the Final Blueprint. Integrating the updated data about future year 2050 households from the Final Blueprint into the Draft RHNA Methodology results in changes to the illustrative allocations to local jurisdictions. ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | December 18, 2020 | Page 3 Figure 1: Proposed RHNA Methodology Overview7 There are two primary components to the Draft RHNA Methodology: 1. Baseline allocation: 2050 Households (Blueprint) The baseline allocation is used to assign each jurisdiction a beginning share of the RHND. The baseline allocation is based on each jurisdiction’s share of the region’s total households in the year 2050 from the Plan Bay Area 2050 Blueprint.8 Using the 2050 Households baseline takes into consideration the number of households that are currently living in a jurisdiction as well as the number of households expected to be added over the next several decades. 2. Factors and weights for allocating units by income category: Table 1 shows the factors and weights in the Draft RHNA Methodology. Each factor represents data related to the methodology’s policy priorities: access to high opportunity areas and proximity to jobs. The factors and weights adjust a jurisdiction’s baseline allocation 7 The RHNA Proposed Methodology Report provides more details about the methodology. 8 Plan Bay Area 2050 is the Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy for the Bay Area. Table 1: Factors and Weights for Proposed RHNA Methodology Very Low and Low Units Moderate and Above Moderate Units 70% Access to High Opportunity Areas 15% Job Proximity – Auto 15% Job Proximity – Transit 40% Access to High Opportunity Areas 60% Job Proximity – Auto ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | December 18, 2020 | Page 4 up or down, depending on how a jurisdiction scores on a factor compared to other jurisdictions in the region. The weight assigned to each factor (i.e., the percentages shown in Table 1) determines the share of the region’s housing need that will be assigned by a factor. How do the Results from the Draft RHNA Methodology Compare to those from the Proposed RHNA Methodology? As noted above, the Draft RHNA Methodology uses data from the Plan Bay Area 2050 Final Blueprint. Whereas the Plan Bay Area 2050 Draft Blueprint featured 25 strategies that influenced the location of future growth, the Final Blueprint features 35 revised strategies adopted by the ABAG Executive Board and Commission in fall 2020. These strategies shift the regional growth pattern, with generally small to moderate impacts on RHNA allocations. Additionally, the Final Blueprint features updated baseline data based on consultation with local jurisdictions in summer and fall 2020. Therefore, incorporating the Final Blueprint into the Draft RHNA Methodology results in changes to the illustrative allocations to local jurisdictions. ABAG-MTC staff has developed several resources to help local jurisdictions, stakeholders, and members of the public better understand how the illustrative allocations from the Draft RHNA Methodology (which uses the Final Blueprint as the baseline allocation) compare to those from the Proposed RHNA Methodology (which used the Draft Blueprint as the baseline allocation). The maps in Appendix 2 show each jurisdiction’s growth rate and total allocation and Appendix 3 shows illustrative allocations for each jurisdiction. Note: the allocation results for jurisdictions are only illustrative. Local governments will receive their final allocations in late 2021. As noted previously, Housing Element Law requires that the RHNA methodology meet the five statutory objectives of RHNA and that it be consistent with the forecasted development pattern from Plan Bay Area 2050. ABAG-MTC staff developed a set of performance metrics to evaluate how well a methodology does in meeting the RHNA objectives. Evaluation of the Draft RHNA Methodology shows that it furthers all of the RHNA objectives. Appendix 4 compares the results for the Draft RHNA Methodology and Proposed RHNA Methodology. ABAG-MTC staff also developed a framework for evaluating consistency between RHNA and Plan Bay Area 2050. RHNA and Plan Bay Area 2050 are determined to be consistent if the 8-year growth level from RHNA does not exceed the 35-year growth level at the county and sub- county geographies used in the Plan. Staff evaluated the Draft RHNA Methodology using this approach and determined that RHNA and Plan Bay Area 2050 remain consistent.9 9 The Draft RHNA Methodology and Plan Bay Area 2050 are consistent for all nine counties and in 33 of 34 superdistricts (i.e., sub-county areas) using the methodology developed during the HMC process. In the one superdistrict flagged during the consistency check, the Final Blueprint reflects the loss of more than 1,000 homes in ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | December 18, 2020 | Page 5 Final Subregional Shares Housing Element Law allows two or more neighboring jurisdictions to form a “subregion” to conduct a parallel RHNA process to allocate the subregion’s housing need among its members.10 ABAG must assign each subregion a share of the Bay Area’s RHND, which represents the total number of units, by income category, the subregion must allocate to its member jurisdictions. The ABAG Executive Board approved the release of Draft Subregional Shares for public comment on October 15, 2020. ABAG received no comments on the Draft Subregional Shares during the public comment period. The Final Subregional Shares have been updated based on the integration of the Final Blueprint into the Draft RHNA Methodology. Appendix 5 provides more details about the Final Subregional Shares. Winter Office Hours Local jurisdiction staff and partner organizations are invited to book office hours with MTC- ABAG planners to discuss the Final Blueprint outcomes and the Draft RHNA Methodology updates in more detail. Winter Office Hour appointments are available for booking from December 21, 2020 to January 15, 2021. Visit bit.ly/2VpczrC to book your appointment. Please note Winter Office Hour appointments are limited to local jurisdiction staff and partner organizations. Individual members of the public are encouraged to submit questions or comments via email to rhna@bayareametro.gov. RHNA Next Steps The ABAG Regional Planning Committee will consider the Draft RHNA Methodology and make a recommendation to the ABAG Executive Board at its meeting on January 14, 2021. The ABAG Executive Board is slated to take action on the Draft RHNA Methodology at the January 21, 2021 meeting. After a Draft RHNA Methodology is adopted by the Executive Board, ABAG will submit the methodology to HCD for review and then use the state agency’s feedback to develop a final methodology and draft RHNA allocation in spring 2021. Release of the draft allocation will be followed by an appeals period in the summer of 2021, with the final RHNA allocation assigned to each of the Bay Area’s local governments in late 2021. wildfires since 2015. Anticipated reconstruction of these units during the RHNA period does not yield significant net growth in housing units, making these allocations consistent with the Final Blueprint long-range projections. 10 Government Code Section 65584.03. ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 1 | December 18, 2020 | Page 1 Appendix 1: Summary of Public Comments Received and Preliminary Responses from ABAG-MTC Staff Public Comment Period for the Proposed RHNA Methodology Housing Element Law requires ABAG to hold a public comment period and conduct at least one public hearing to receive oral and written comments on the Proposed RHNA Methodology1 and Draft Subregional Shares2 prior to adoption of the Draft RHNA Methodology and Final Subregional Shares. The written public comment period began on October 25 and ended on November 27 per the Notice of Public Hearing published in newspapers and an ABAG press release. Additionally, ABAG held a public hearing at the November 12 meeting of the Regional Planning Committee, where 29 local government representatives, advocacy organizations, and members of the public provided oral comments on the proposed methodology. Geographic Representation and Respondent Types for Comments Received During the public comment period, ABAG received 106 written comments on the Proposed RHNA Methodology. These letters provided perspectives from over 200 local government staff and elected officials, advocacy organizations, and members of the public, as some letters represented multiple signatories. In total, 42 of ABAG’s 109 jurisdictions were signatories on letters received during the public comment period. Table 1 shows the number of written and oral comments received from advocacy organizations, members of the public, and various public agencies across the nine-county Bay Area.3 ABAG received no comments on the Draft Subregional Shares. 1 California Government Code 65584.04 (d) 2 California Government Code 65584.03 (c) 3 The sum of the number of letters received in Table 1 exceeds 106, as two letters had signatories from public agencies across multiple counties. Similarly, the sum of the number of oral comments in Table 1 exceeds 29 because one of comments came from a special district that represents both San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 1 | December 18, 2020 | Page 2 Table 1. Share of public comments received from different types of respondents Type of Respondent Number of Letters Received Number of Oral Comments from Public Hearing Public Agency – Alameda 5 0 Public Agency – Contra Costa 3 0 Public Agency – Marin 11 1 Public Agency – Napa 2 0 Public Agency – San Francisco 0 0 Public Agency – San Mateo 11 2 Public Agency – Santa Clara 8 2 Public Agency – Solano 1 0 Public Agency – Sonoma 1 0 Advocacy Organizations 9 8 Members of the Public 57 17 Most Common Themes from Comments Received Table 2 below summarizes the key themes that are most prevalent across the comments received about the Proposed RHNA Methodology. The themes are ordered roughly in terms of how many letters and oral comments mentioned them, though it is worth noting that some letters represented comments from multiple jurisdictions, advocacy organizations, and/or individual members of the public. The table also includes a brief, preliminary response about the Draft RHNA Methodology (which incorporates data from the Plan Bay Area 2050 Final Blueprint) from ABAG staff responding to the different topics in the comment letters. Comment letters on the Proposed RHNA Methodology will receive a more specific response in the coming weeks, with responses to local jurisdictions slated prior to the January ABAG Executive Board meeting. Table 2. Most common themes from written comments received 1. Jurisdiction is built out and/or lacks infrastructure to accommodate its allocation: Comments noted a lack of developable land and the inability to provide the services and infrastructure that would be needed as a result of growth from RHNA. Some residents objected to any new housing growth. Preliminary ABAG Response: Housing Element Law requires RHNA to increase the housing supply and mix of housing types for all jurisdictions. ABAG-MTC staff worked with local governments to gather information about local plans, zoning, physical characteristics and potential development opportunities and constraints. This information was used as an input into the Plan Bay Area 2050 Blueprint, which is used as the baseline allocation in the Draft RHNA Methodology. The Final Blueprint that was integrated into the Draft RHNA Methodology includes a number of updates based on corrections to local data provided by jurisdiction staff. The Blueprint allows additional feasible growth within the urban footprint by increasing allowable residential densities and expanding housing into select areas currently ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 1 | December 18, 2020 | Page 3 zoned for commercial and industrial uses. Ultimately, by law, ABAG cannot limit RHNA based on existing zoning or land use restrictions. The statute also requires ABAG to consider the potential for increased residential development under alternative zoning ordinances and land use restrictions. 2. The methodology should focus more on transit and jobs to better align with Plan Bay Area 2050 and the statutory RHNA objective to promote infill development and achieve greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets: Comments suggested that proposed methodology directs too much RHNA to jurisdictions without adequate transit and/or with few jobs. These comments also argued that changing the RHNA methodology’s baseline allocation to household growth from the Blueprint would better align the methodology with Plan Bay Area 2050 and statutory goals related to greenhouse gas emission reductions and sustainability. Preliminary ABAG Response: The Draft RHNA Methodology directly incorporates the forecasted development pattern from the Plan Bay Area 2050 Blueprint as the baseline allocation. The Blueprint emphasizes growth near job centers and in locations near transit, as well as in high-resource areas, with the intent of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The strategies incorporated into the Blueprint help improve the region’s jobs-housing balance, leading to shorter commutes—especially for low-income workers. The inclusion of job proximity by both automobile and transit as factors in the Draft RHNA Methodology also furthers the RHNA objective related to efficient development patterns and greenhouse gas emission reductions by encouraging shorter commutes for all modes of travel. The job proximity factors allocate nearly half of the total number of housing units assigned to the Bay Area by the State. This includes allocating 15% of the region’s lower-income units based on a jurisdiction’s proximity to jobs that can be accessed by public transit. Accordingly, the performance evaluation metrics indicate that the Draft RHNA Methodology performs well in meeting all five of the RHNA statutory objectives. This analysis shows that the draft methodology results in jurisdictions with the most access to jobs and transit as well as jurisdictions with the lowest vehicle miles traveled per resident experiencing higher growth rates from their RHNA allocations than other jurisdictions in the region. In contrast, the performance evaluation metrics also show that, while using Plan Bay Area 2050 household growth as the RHNA methodology’s baseline performs marginally better on the RHNA objective related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it may fall short in achieving statutory requirements related to affirmatively furthering fair housing. Staff evaluated the 8-year allocations from the Draft RHNA Methodology and the 35-year housing growth from Plan Bay Area 2050 at the county and subcounty levels and determined that RHNA and the Plan are consistent.4 4 The Draft RHNA Methodology and Plan Bay Area 2050 are consistent for all nine counties and in 33 of 34 superdistricts (i.e., sub-county areas), using the methodology approved during the HMC process. Relatively unique circumstances exist in the one superdistrict flagged during the consistency check (superdistrict 28). In this superdistrict, net housing growth between 2015 and 2050 is less than the eight-year RHNA for the associated jurisdictions. However, wildfires prior to the 2023 to 2031 RHNA cycle destroyed more than 1,000 homes. Because of the loss in housing units early in the 35-year analysis period, the eight-year allocations remain consistent with the ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 1 | December 18, 2020 | Page 4 3. Methodology needs to directly incorporate hazard risk: Comments suggested the methodology allocated too much growth near areas with high wildfire risk and exposure to other natural hazards such as sea-level rise. Others felt the Blueprint needs to better incorporate hazard data, particularly related to wildland-urban interface (WUI) maps and FEMA floodways. Preliminary ABAG Response: Including the Blueprint in the RHNA methodology addresses concerns about natural hazards, as the Blueprint excludes areas with unmitigated high hazard risk from Growth Geographies. The Blueprint Growth Geographies exclude CAL FIRE designated “Very High” fire severity areas as well as county-designated WUIs where applicable. The Blueprint strategies focus future growth away from the highest fire risk zones, support increased wildland management programs, and support residential building upgrades that reduce the likelihood for damage when fires occur in the wildland urban interface. The Blueprint incorporates strategies to mitigate the impacts of sea level rise, protecting nearly all communities at risk from two feet of permanent inundation. Riverine flooding is not yet integrated into the Blueprint because existing research does not provide guidance on how to model impacts of temporary riverine flooding to buildings and land value. Communities can choose to take these risks into consideration with where and how they site future development, either limiting growth in areas of higher hazard or by increasing building standards to cope with the hazard. 4. Support for proposed methodology: Comments from residents, local jurisdictions, and a diverse range of advocacy organizations supporting the methodology emphasized its importance for furthering regional equity. Preliminary ABAG Response: Staff’s analysis aligns with these comments and indicates the Draft RHNA Methodology successfully furthers all five of the statutory objectives of RHNA, including requirements related to affirmatively furthering fair housing. 5. Need to account for impacts from COVID-19: Comments generally focused on the effects of the pandemic and suggest either delaying RHNA or reconsidering the focus on proximity to jobs. Preliminary ABAG Response: Staff appreciates concerns about the significant economic and societal changes resulting from COVID-19, and these concerns were relayed to the State in early summer. However, the Regional Housing Need Determination (RHND) from HCD has been finalized at this point in time. ABAG is obligated by state law to move forward with the RHNA process so jurisdictions can complete updates to their Housing Elements on time. Additionally, the eight-year RHNA cycle (which starts in 2023) represents a longer-term outlook than the current impacts of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The potential impacts of the trend toward telecommuting in the longer term are incorporated into the RHNA methodology through the integration of the Plan Bay Area 2050 Blueprint, which includes long-range projections for this portion of the Bay Area, as the reconstruction of units during the RHNA period does not lead to significant net growth from 2015 levels. ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 1 | December 18, 2020 | Page 5 strategies to expand commute trip reduction programs through telecommuting and other sustainable modes of travel. 6. Concerns about allocation to unincorporated areas: Comments argued that the methodology allocates too much growth to unincorporated areas that are rural and lack infrastructure to support development. Preliminary ABAG Response: The Plan Bay Area 2050 Blueprint forecasts very little growth in unincorporated county areas, and that growth is focused inside urban growth boundaries. The RHNA allocations to these areas are driven, largely, by the number of existing households in unincorporated county areas, since the 2050 Households baseline in the Draft RHNA Methodology is the sum of existing households and forecasted household growth. Use of the Final Blueprint as the baseline allocation in the RHNA methodology resulted in smaller allocations for most of the counties in the region compared to the Proposed RHNA Methodology, which relied on the Draft Blueprint. ABAG-MTC will continue discussions with local jurisdictions about opportunities to direct additional RHNA units to incorporated areas, including the use of the provisions in Housing Element Law that allow a county to transfer a portion of its RHNA allocation to a city or town after it receives its RHNA allocation from ABAG.5 7. Support for adding the “equity adjustment” proposed by some HMC members to the methodology: Comments were generally supportive of the methodology but noted the HMC-proposed equity adjustment should be included to advance the statutory requirement to affirmatively further fair housing. Preliminary ABAG Response: Staff notes the importance of meeting all statutory requirements, including the mandate to affirmatively further fair housing. However, staff’s analysis indicates the Draft RHNA Methodology does successfully achieve all five statutory objectives of RHNA. At the final HMC meeting, staff recommended that the HMC not move forward with the proposed equity adjustment as this change would increase the complexity of the methodology for minimal impact on RHNA allocations. The proposed equity adjustment would shift less than 2 percent of the region’s lower-income RHNA to the jurisdictions identified by an HMC-proposed composite score as exhibiting above-average racial and socioeconomic exclusion. However, the underlying methodology for the composite score and adjustment approach would make it more difficult for local policy makers and members of the public to understand the RHNA methodology. Ultimately, the HMC chose not to move forward with the proposed equity adjustment in its recommended RHNA methodology. 8. Concern that HCD’s Regional RHND calculation was inaccurate and too high: Comments from several members of the public and one local jurisdiction expressed the belief that HCD’s RHND calculations may have been flawed and resulted in ABAG receiving an allocation from the state that was too large. Preliminary ABAG Response: The determination provided by HCD is based on a population forecast from the California Department of Finance (DOF), which is then modified by staff at DOF and HCD to tackle overcrowding and make other adjustments as specified in law. The 5 Government Code Section 65584.07. ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 1 | December 18, 2020 | Page 6 procedures for calculating the RHND are clearly specified in state law and the grounds for an appeal were narrowly designed by the Legislature. ABAG staff have reviewed HCD’s calculation methodology and believe it adheres to applicable legal requirements. The ABAG Board ultimately decided not to appeal the RHND in June 2020. At this time, the window of appeal of the RHND is now closed. Further feedback on this element of the process is most appropriately provided to HCD, rather than ABAG. 9. Jurisdiction-specific issues with Plan Bay Area 2050 Blueprint: Some jurisdictions had concerns about the accuracy of the Blueprint’s underlying data. Others felt the Blueprint needs to better incorporate hazard data, particularly related to wildland-urban interface (WUI) maps and FEMA floodways. Preliminary ABAG Response: Local jurisdiction staff were provided with several months to comment on the BASIS data used as the input for the Blueprint, as well as the additional public comment period on the Draft Blueprint during Summer 2020. ABAG-MTC staff appreciates jurisdictions’ feedback on Blueprint data and has worked directly with local jurisdiction staff to address these concerns. Next Steps Staff will consider comments and will recommend any necessary adjustments for integration into the Draft RHNA Methodology, which is scheduled for release in the next week. The ABAG Regional Planning Committee will consider the Draft RHNA Methodology and make a recommendation to the ABAG Executive Board the Draft RHNA Methodology at its meeting on January 14, 2021 and the ABAG Executive Board is slated to take action on the Draft RHNA Methodology at the January 21, 2021 meeting. After a Draft RHNA Methodology is adopted by the Executive Board, ABAG will submit the methodology to HCD for review and then use the state agency’s feedback to develop a final methodology and draft RHNA allocation in spring 2021. Release of the draft allocation will be followed by an appeals period in the summer of 2021, with the final RHNA allocation assigned to each of the Bay Area’s local governments in late 2021. 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ABAG will issue Final Allocations by the end of 2021. Almd4.9k Albny1.2k AmrcnCnyn0.5k Antch2.5k Athrtn0.3k Blmnt1.8k Blvdr0.2k Bnc0.9k Brkly7.7k Brntwd1.5k Brsbn2.8k Brlngm3.4k Clstg0.2k Cmpbll4.0k Clytn0.6k Clvrdl0.3k Clm0.2k Cncrd3.9kCrt Mdr0.7k Ctt0.3k Cprtn6.2k Dly Cty4.8k Dnvll2.2k Dxn0.4k Dbln3.6k Est PlAlt0.9k El Crrt1.2k Emryvll1.5k Frfx0.5k Frfld3.6k Fstr Cty2.0k Frmnt14.3k Glry1.5k Hlf MnBy0.3k Hywrd4.2k Hldsbrg0.4k Hrcls0.7k Hllsbrgh0.6k Lfytt1.7k Lrkspr1.0k Lvrmr4.0k Ls Alts2.3kLs AltsHlls0.5k Ls Gts1.9k Mrtnz1.4k Mnl Prk3.1k Mll Vlly0.8k Mllbr2.4k Mlpts6.6k Mnt Srn0.2k Mrg1.1k Mrgn Hll1.1k Mntn Vw11.4k Np2.1k Nwrk1.8k Nvt2.1k Oklnd27.3k Okly0.9kOrnd1.1k Pcfc1.9k Pl Alt10.1k Ptlm2.1k Pdmnt0.6k Pnl0.6k Pttsbrg1.6k PlsntHll1.9k Plsntn4.8k PrtlVlly0.3k Rdwd Cty5.2k Rchmnd4.2k R Vst0.2k RhnrtPrk1.3k Rss0.1k Sn Anslm0.7k Sn Brn2.1k Sn Crls2.4k SnFrncsc72.1k Sn Js66.5k Sn Lndr3.1k Sn Mt6.7k Sn Pbl0.8k Sn Rfl2.8k Sn Rmn4.7k Snt Clr12.0k Snt Rs6.5k Srtg2.1k Sslt0.7k Sbstpl0.4k Snm0.3k Sth SnFrncsc4.0k St. Hln0.2k Ssn Cty0.6k Snnyvl13.0k Tbrn0.6k Unc Almd4.5k Unc CntrCst5.8k Unc Mrn3.8k Unc Np0.8k Unc SnMt2.9k Unc SntClr4.1k Unc Sln1.0kUnc Snm5.3k Unn Cty2.2k Vcvll2.0k Vllj3.2k Wlnt Crk5.7k Wndsr0.7k Wdsd0.3k Yntvll0.1k Almd5.4k Albny1.1k AmrcnCnyn0.5k Antch3.0k Athrtn0.3k Blmnt1.8k Blvdr0.2k Bnc0.8k Brkly9.0k Brntwd1.5k Brsbn1.6k Brlngm3.3k Clstg0.1k Cmpbll3.0k Clytn0.6k Clvrdl0.3k Clm0.2k Cncrd5.1kCrt Mdr0.7k Ctt0.2k Cprtn4.6k Dly Cty4.4k Dnvll2.2k Dxn0.4k Dbln3.7k Est PlAlt0.8k El Crrt1.4k Emryvll1.8k Frfx0.5k Frfld3.1k Fstr Cty1.9k Frmnt12.9k Glry1.3k Hlf MnBy0.3k Hywrd4.7k Hldsbrg0.3k Hrcls0.7k Hllsbrgh0.6k Lfytt2.1k Lrkspr1.0k Lvrmr4.4k Ls Alts2.0kLs AltsHlls0.5k Ls Gts2.0k Mrtnz1.4k Mnl Prk2.9k Mll Vlly0.8k Mllbr2.2k Mlpts6.7k Mnt Srn0.2k Mrg1.1k Mrgn Hll1.0k Mntn Vw11.2k Np2.0k Nwrk1.9k Nvt2.1k Oklnd26.5k Okly1.1kOrnd1.4k Pcfc1.9k Pl Alt6.1k Ptlm1.9k Pdmnt0.6k Pnl0.5k Pttsbrg2.0k PlsntHll1.6k Plsntn6.0k PrtlVlly0.2k Rdwd Cty4.6k Rchmnd3.6k R Vst0.5k RhnrtPrk1.6k Rss0.1k Sn Anslm0.8k Sn Brn3.2k Sn Crls2.7k SnFrncsc82.8k Sn Js62.8k Sn Lndr3.9k Sn Mt7.1k Sn Pbl0.8k Sn Rfl3.3k Sn Rmn5.1k Snt Clr11.7k Snt Rs4.7k Srtg1.7k Sslt0.7k Sbstpl0.2k Snm0.3k Sth SnFrncsc4.0k St. Hln0.2k Ssn Cty0.6k Snnyvl12.0k Tbrn0.6k Unc Almd4.8k Unc CntrCst7.7k Unc Mrn3.5k Unc Np0.8k Unc SnMt2.9k Unc SntClr3.2k Unc Sln0.9kUnc Snm3.9k Unn Cty2.3k Vcvll1.9k Vllj3.0k Wlnt Crk5.9k Wndsr0.7k Wdsd0.3k Yntvll0.1k 0 2,500 5,000 7,500 10,000 15,000 20,000 100,000 Jurisdiction Growth (Units) Proposed RHNA Methodology (Baseline: 2050 Households (Draft Blueprint)) Draft RHNA Methodology (Baseline: 2050 Households (Final Blueprint)) ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 2 | December 18, 2020 Appendix 2: Illustrative Results of Proposed RHNA Methodology (Draft Blueprint) and Draft RHNA Methodology (Final Blueprint) Note: the jurisdiction-specific allocations shown are for illustrative purposes only. ABAG will issue Final Allocations by the end of 2021. Appendix 3: Jurisdiction Illustrative Allocations Draft RHNA Methodology (Final Blueprint) 2015-2023 RHNA (Cycle 5) Proposed RHNA Methodology(Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (Final Blueprint) Bay Area Households (2019)Bay Area Jobs (2017) Alameda 88,985 23%19%20%21%20% Contra Costa 48,932 11%10%11%14%10% Marin 14,380 1%3%3%4%3% Napa 3,523 1%1%1%2%2% San Francisco 82,840 15%16%19%13%19% San Mateo 47,321 9%11%11%10%10% Santa Clara 129,927 31%33%29%24%27% Solano 11,097 4%3%3%5%4% Sonoma 14,171 4%4%3%7%5% BAY AREA 441,176 100%100%100%100%100% ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 3 | December 18, 2020 Illustrative Allocations by County Jurisdiction Illustrative Allocations by Income Category Note: the jurisdiction-specific allocations shown are for illustrative purposes only. ABAG will issue Final Allocations by the end of 2021. Draft Blueprint Final Blueprint Very Low Income Low Income Moderate Income Above Moderate Income Total Very Low Income Low Income Moderate Income Above Moderate Income Total Unit Change from Proposed to Draft Percent Change from Proposed to Draft Alameda 0.994% 1.100%1,318 759 786 2,033 4,896 1,455 837 868 2,246 5,406 510 10% Albany 0.211% 0.206%324 187 180 464 1,155 315 182 175 453 1,125 (30) -3% Berkeley 1.452% 1.701%2,148 1,237 1,211 3,134 7,730 2,504 1,441 1,416 3,664 9,025 1,295 17% Dublin 0.687% 0.705%1,060 611 547 1,413 3,631 1,085 625 560 1,449 3,719 88 2% Emeryville 0.399% 0.493%377 217 249 646 1,489 462 265 308 797 1,832 343 23% Fremont 2.694% 2.434%4,040 2,326 2,214 5,728 14,308 3,640 2,096 1,996 5,165 12,897 (1,411) -10% Hayward 1.393% 1.571%980 564 726 1,880 4,150 1,100 632 817 2,115 4,664 514 12% Livermore 1.130% 1.269%1,109 639 620 1,606 3,974 1,240 714 696 1,799 4,449 475 12% Newark 0.578% 0.609%453 260 303 784 1,800 475 274 318 824 1,891 91 5% Oakland 6.503% 6.338%6,880 3,962 4,584 11,860 27,286 6,665 3,838 4,457 11,533 26,493 (793) -3% Piedmont 0.099% 0.098%166 96 94 243 599 163 94 92 238 587 (12) -2% Pleasanton 0.909% 1.135%1,405 810 717 1,855 4,787 1,750 1,008 894 2,313 5,965 1,178 25% San Leandro 0.913% 1.137%713 411 561 1,451 3,136 882 507 696 1,802 3,887 751 24% Unincorporated Alameda 1.347% 1.419%1,221 704 726 1,879 4,530 1,281 738 763 1,976 4,758 228 5% Union City 0.702% 0.727%565 326 370 957 2,218 582 335 382 988 2,287 69 3% Alameda County 20.011% 20.942%22,759 13,109 13,888 35,933 85,689 23,599 13,586 14,438 37,362 88,985 3,296 4% Antioch 1.032% 1.270%661 380 402 1,038 2,481 811 467 493 1,275 3,046 565 23% Brentwood 0.618% 0.647%395 228 237 614 1,474 411 237 247 641 1,536 62 4% Clayton 0.115% 0.111%176 102 87 227 592 170 97 84 219 570 (22) -4% Concord 1.306% 1.725%1,006 579 643 1,662 3,890 1,322 762 847 2,190 5,121 1,231 32% Danville 0.410% 0.424%632 365 328 848 2,173 652 376 338 875 2,241 68 3% El Cerrito 0.339% 0.405%289 166 203 524 1,182 342 197 241 624 1,404 222 19% Hercules 0.240% 0.264%164 95 115 297 671 179 104 126 327 736 65 10% Lafayette 0.297% 0.382%468 269 255 659 1,651 599 344 326 845 2,114 463 28% Martinez 0.381% 0.383%357 205 220 569 1,351 358 206 221 573 1,358 7 1% Moraga 0.193% 0.204%302 174 163 422 1,061 318 183 172 445 1,118 57 5% Oakley 0.395% 0.450%251 145 152 393 941 286 165 172 446 1,069 128 14% Orinda 0.197% 0.235%313 180 181 468 1,142 372 215 215 557 1,359 217 19% Pinole 0.209% 0.183%142 82 99 256 579 124 71 87 223 505 (74) -13% Pittsburg 0.630% 0.787%419 242 273 707 1,641 518 298 340 880 2,036 395 24% Pleasant Hill 0.423% 0.368%522 300 293 758 1,873 451 261 254 657 1,623 (250) -13% Richmond 1.403% 1.227%988 569 731 1,891 4,179 860 496 638 1,651 3,645 (534) -13% San Pablo 0.261% 0.248%187 108 139 359 793 177 102 132 341 752 (41) -5% San Ramon 0.898% 0.975%1,382 796 708 1,830 4,716 1,497 862 767 1,985 5,111 395 8% Unincorporated Contra Costa 1.658% 2.203%1,609 928 917 2,373 5,827 2,131 1,227 1,217 3,147 7,722 1,895 33% Walnut Creek 1.118% 1.148%1,655 954 869 2,247 5,725 1,696 976 890 2,304 5,866 141 2% Contra Costa County 12.124% 13.638%11,918 6,867 7,015 18,142 43,942 13,274 7,646 7,807 20,205 48,932 4,990 11% Proposed RHNA Methodology (Baseline: 2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (Baseline: 2050 Households - Final Blueprint) Comparison of Total RHNA Jurisdiction Share of 2050 Households* Jurisdiction ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 3 | December 18, 2020 Jurisdiction Illustrative Allocations by Income Category Note: the jurisdiction-specific allocations shown are for illustrative purposes only. ABAG will issue Final Allocations by the end of 2021. Draft Blueprint Final Blueprint Very Low Income Low Income Moderate Income Above Moderate Income Total Very Low Income Low Income Moderate Income Above Moderate Income Total Unit Change from Proposed to Draft Percent Change from Proposed to Draft Proposed RHNA Methodology (Baseline: 2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (Baseline: 2050 Households - Final Blueprint) Comparison of Total RHNA Jurisdiction Share of 2050 Households* Jurisdiction Belvedere 0.033% 0.032%49 28 23 61 161 49 28 23 60 160 (1) -1% Corte Madera 0.135% 0.138%209 121 106 274 710 213 123 108 281 725 15 2% Fairfax 0.104% 0.098%158 91 75 195 519 149 86 71 184 490 (29) -6% Larkspur 0.197% 0.189%303 175 150 390 1,018 291 168 145 375 979 (39) -4% Mill Valley 0.161% 0.164%248 142 124 320 834 252 144 126 326 848 14 2% Novato 0.669% 0.672%582 335 332 858 2,107 583 336 332 860 2,111 4 0% Ross 0.023% 0.022%35 20 17 44 116 33 19 16 41 109 (7) -6% San Anselmo 0.149% 0.167%226 130 108 280 744 253 145 121 314 833 89 12% San Rafael 0.895% 1.048%752 433 446 1,154 2,785 877 504 521 1,350 3,252 467 17% Sausalito 0.125% 0.125%200 115 115 296 726 200 115 114 295 724 (2) 0% Tiburon 0.123% 0.126%186 107 91 236 620 193 110 93 243 639 19 3% Unincorporated Marin 0.893% 0.822%1,157 666 557 1,440 3,820 1,063 611 512 1,324 3,510 (310) -8% Marin County 3.507% 3.605%4,105 2,363 2,144 5,548 14,160 4,156 2,389 2,182 5,653 14,380 220 2% American Canyon 0.190% 0.176%124 72 81 209 486 115 67 75 194 451 (35) -7% Calistoga 0.090% 0.052%58 32 33 86 209 32 19 19 50 120 (89) -43% Napa 0.815% 0.769%550 317 339 876 2,082 516 298 319 825 1,958 (124) -6% St. Helena 0.073% 0.068%46 27 27 71 171 43 24 26 66 159 (12) -7% Unincorporated Napa 0.288% 0.279%218 126 125 323 792 210 121 120 312 763 (29) -4% Yountville 0.031% 0.029%20 12 12 32 76 19 11 12 30 72 (4) -5% Napa County 1.487% 1.373%1,016 586 617 1,597 3,816 935 540 571 1,477 3,523 (293) -8% San Francisco 12.394% 14.304%18,637 10,717 11,910 30,816 72,080 21,359 12,294 13,717 35,470 82,840 10,760 15% Atherton 0.065% 0.072%74 43 51 130 298 81 47 56 144 328 30 10% Belmont 0.302% 0.305%485 280 282 728 1,775 488 281 283 733 1,785 10 1% Brisbane 0.742% 0.423%573 330 534 1,382 2,819 324 187 303 785 1,599 (1,220) -43% Burlingame 0.572% 0.546%926 534 555 1,434 3,449 883 509 529 1,368 3,289 (160) -5% Colma 0.047% 0.052%40 24 33 86 183 45 26 37 96 204 21 11% Daly City 1.040% 0.945%1,150 661 841 2,175 4,827 1,039 598 762 1,971 4,370 (457) -9% East Palo Alto 0.219% 0.206%179 104 169 437 889 169 97 159 410 835 (54) -6% Foster City 0.349% 0.327%556 320 321 831 2,028 520 299 300 777 1,896 (132) -7% Half Moon Bay 0.147% 0.149%93 54 54 141 342 93 54 54 141 342 - 0% Hillsborough 0.107% 0.097%169 97 95 245 606 153 88 87 223 551 (55) -9% Menlo Park 0.500% 0.481%773 445 517 1,340 3,075 740 426 496 1,284 2,946 (129) -4% Millbrae 0.375% 0.350%618 356 386 999 2,359 575 331 361 932 2,199 (160) -7% Pacifica 0.359% 0.356%557 321 294 761 1,933 551 317 291 753 1,912 (21) -1% Portola Valley 0.045% 0.045%70 41 39 101 251 70 40 39 99 248 (3) -1% Redwood City 1.102% 0.984%1,284 739 885 2,291 5,199 1,141 658 789 2,041 4,629 (570) -11% San Bruno 0.486% 0.730%481 278 382 989 2,130 721 415 573 1,483 3,192 1,062 50% San Carlos 0.398% 0.455%647 372 383 991 2,393 739 425 438 1,133 2,735 342 14% San Mateo 1.338% 1.419%1,722 991 1,111 2,873 6,697 1,819 1,047 1,175 3,040 7,081 384 6% South San Francisco 0.923% 0.929%892 513 717 1,856 3,978 892 514 720 1,863 3,989 11 0% Unincorporated San Mateo 0.827% 0.809%852 490 443 1,148 2,933 830 479 433 1,121 2,863 (70) -2% Woodside 0.057% 0.058%90 52 51 133 326 90 52 52 134 328 2 1% San Mateo County 10.002% 9.740%12,231 7,045 8,143 21,071 48,490 11,963 6,890 7,937 20,531 47,321 (1,169) -2% ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 3 | December 18, 2020 Jurisdiction Illustrative Allocations by Income Category Note: the jurisdiction-specific allocations shown are for illustrative purposes only. ABAG will issue Final Allocations by the end of 2021. Draft Blueprint Final Blueprint Very Low Income Low Income Moderate Income Above Moderate Income Total Very Low Income Low Income Moderate Income Above Moderate Income Total Unit Change from Proposed to Draft Percent Change from Proposed to Draft Proposed RHNA Methodology (Baseline: 2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (Baseline: 2050 Households - Final Blueprint) Comparison of Total RHNA Jurisdiction Share of 2050 Households* Jurisdiction Campbell 0.741% 0.563%1,017 585 659 1,703 3,964 770 444 499 1,292 3,005 (959) -24% Cupertino 0.980% 0.724%1,619 932 1,023 2,648 6,222 1,193 687 755 1,953 4,588 (1,634) -26% Gilroy 0.523% 0.461%410 236 228 590 1,464 359 207 200 519 1,285 (179) -12% Los Altos 0.348% 0.301%580 333 377 977 2,267 501 288 326 843 1,958 (309) -14% Los Altos Hills 0.084% 0.076%139 81 91 234 545 125 72 82 210 489 (56) -10% Los Gatos 0.326% 0.335%523 301 311 804 1,939 537 310 320 826 1,993 54 3% Milpitas 1.228% 1.257%1,653 952 1,108 2,866 6,579 1,685 970 1,131 2,927 6,713 134 2% Monte Sereno 0.032% 0.032%51 30 31 80 192 51 30 31 79 191 (1) -1% Morgan Hill 0.444% 0.410%291 168 189 488 1,136 268 155 174 450 1,047 (89) -8% Mountain View 1.772% 1.754%2,876 1,656 1,909 4,939 11,380 2,838 1,635 1,885 4,880 11,238 (142) -1% Palo Alto 1.541% 0.935%2,573 1,482 1,673 4,330 10,058 1,556 896 1,013 2,621 6,086 (3,972) -39% San Jose 15.242% 14.426%16,391 9,437 11,344 29,350 66,522 15,444 8,892 10,711 27,714 62,761 (3,761) -6% Santa Clara 2.184% 2.135%3,020 1,739 2,031 5,257 12,047 2,940 1,692 1,981 5,126 11,739 (308) -3% Saratoga 0.343% 0.280%556 321 341 882 2,100 454 261 278 719 1,712 (388) -18% Sunnyvale 2.262% 2.088%3,227 1,858 2,206 5,707 12,998 2,968 1,709 2,032 5,257 11,966 (1,032) -8% Unincorporated Santa Clara 1.065% 0.815%1,113 641 664 1,719 4,137 848 488 508 1,312 3,156 (981) -24% Santa Clara County 29.114% 26.591%36,039 20,752 24,185 62,574 143,550 32,537 18,736 21,926 56,728 129,927 (13,623) -9% Benicia 0.286% 0.271%222 127 143 370 862 208 120 135 351 814 (48) -6% Dixon 0.159% 0.146%103 58 62 159 382 93 54 57 146 350 (32) -8% Fairfield 1.438% 1.226%938 540 596 1,544 3,618 796 458 508 1,314 3,076 (542) -15% Rio Vista 0.098% 0.207%62 36 36 94 228 130 75 76 197 478 250 110% Suisun City 0.242% 0.246%158 91 101 260 610 160 92 101 264 617 7 1% Unincorporated Solano 0.420% 0.381%270 155 165 426 1,016 243 140 149 385 917 (99) -10% Vacaville 0.828% 0.775%535 308 328 848 2,019 498 286 305 791 1,880 (139) -7% Vallejo 1.190% 1.117%794 457 535 1,385 3,171 741 426 501 1,297 2,965 (206) -6% Solano County 4.662% 4.368%3,082 1,772 1,966 5,086 11,906 2,869 1,651 1,832 4,745 11,097 (809) -7% Cloverdale 0.126% 0.120%80 46 47 121 294 76 44 45 116 281 (13) -4% Cotati 0.105% 0.092%68 39 44 116 267 61 35 39 101 236 (31) -12% Healdsburg 0.145% 0.121%93 54 59 153 359 78 45 49 128 300 (59) -16% Petaluma 0.781% 0.716%560 323 342 885 2,110 511 295 313 810 1,929 (181) -9% Rohnert Park 0.492% 0.625%322 186 209 541 1,258 408 235 265 686 1,594 336 27% Santa Rosa 2.404% 1.745%1,727 993 1,064 2,754 6,538 1,247 718 771 1,995 4,731 (1,807) -28% Sebastopol 0.163% 0.086%106 61 67 175 409 56 32 35 92 215 (194) -47% Sonoma 0.143% 0.133%91 53 54 140 338 85 49 50 130 314 (24) -7% Unincorporated Sonoma 2.058% 1.540%1,424 820 840 2,173 5,257 1,060 610 627 1,622 3,919 (1,338) -25% Windsor 0.283% 0.260%184 106 118 305 713 168 97 108 279 652 (61) -9% Sonoma County 6.700% 5.440%4,655 2,681 2,844 7,363 17,543 3,750 2,160 2,302 5,959 14,171 (3,372) -19% 100.000% 100.000% 114,442 65,892 72,712 188,130 441,176 114,442 65,892 72,712 188,130 441,176 * Jurisdiction-level forecasts from Plan Bay Area 2050 Final Blueprint are intended solely for use in crafting the RHNA baseline allocation; official Plan Bay Area 2050 growth pattern focuses on county- and subcounty-level forecasts. ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 3 | December 18, 2020 ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 Appendix 4: Performance Evaluation Metrics The RHNA allocation methodology must meet five objectives identified in Housing Element Law.1 To help ensure that any proposed methodology will meet the statutory RHNA objectives and receive approval from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), ABAG-MTC staff developed a set of evaluation metrics to assess different methodology options. These metrics are based largely on the analytical framework used by HCD in evaluating the draft methodologies completed by other regions in California, as evidenced by the approval letters HCD provided to the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG), San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), and Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG).2 Other metrics reflect input from members of the Housing Methodology Committee (HMC). In the evaluation metrics, each statutory objective has been reframed as a question that reflects the language Housing Element Law uses to define the objectives. Each statutory objective is accompanied by quantitative metrics for evaluating the allocation produced by a methodology. The metrics are structured as a comparison between the allocations to the top jurisdictions in the region for a particular characteristic – such as jurisdictions with the most expensive housing costs – and the allocations to the rest of the jurisdictions in the region. Metrics Based on Lower-Income Unit Percentage vs. Metrics Based on Total Allocation Several of the metrics focus on whether jurisdictions with certain characteristics receive a significant share of their RHNA as lower-income units. These metrics reflect HCD’s analysis in its letters evaluating RHNA methodologies from other regions. However, HMC members advocated for metrics that also examine the total number of units assigned to a jurisdiction. These HMC members asserted that it is ultimately less impactful if a jurisdiction receives a high share of its RHNA as lower-income units if that same jurisdiction receives few units overall. Accordingly, each metric that focuses on the share of lower-income units assigned to jurisdictions with certain characteristics is paired with a complementary metric that examines whether those jurisdictions also receive a share of the regional housing need that is at least proportional to their share of the region’s households. A value of 1.0 for these complementary metrics means that the group of jurisdictions’ overall share of RHNA is proportional relative to its overall share of households in 2019, while a value below 1.0 is less than proportional. Evaluation of Draft RHNA Methodology Compared to Proposed RHNA Methodology The graphs below compare the performance of the Draft RHNA Methodology and Proposed RHNA Methodology in achieving the five statutory RHNA objectives based on the evaluation metrics. Although there are some variations on individual metrics, the results indicate that both the Proposed RHNA Methodology and the Draft RHNA Methodology perform well in advancing all of the statutory objectives. 1 See California Government Code Section 65584(d). 2 For copies of letters HCD sent to other regions, see this document from the January 2020 HMC meeting agenda packet. METRIC 1a.1: Do jurisdictions with the most expensive housing costs receive a significant percentage of their RHNA as lower-income units? Percent of RHNA as lower income units METRIC 1a.2: Do jurisdictions with the most expensive housing costs receive a share of the region's housing need that is at least proportional to their share of the region's households? Ratio of share of total RHNA to share of region's households Proposed RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Final Blueprint) 0.000 0.050 0.100 0.150 0.200 0.250 0.300 0.350 0.400 0.450 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 25 jurisdictions with most expensive housing costs All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with most expensive housing costs All Other Jurisdictions Group All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with most expensive housing costs Comparison between the top 25 jurisdictions with the most expensive housing costs and the rest of the region OBJECTIVE 1: Does the allocation increase the housing supply and the mix of housing types, tenure, and affordability in all cities and counties within the region in an equitable manner? ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 METRIC 2a: Do jurisdictions with the largest share of the region's jobs have the highest growth rates resulting from RHNA? Average growth rate resulting from RHNA Proposed RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Final Blueprint) 0.000 0.050 0.100 0.150 25 jurisdictions with the largest share of regional jobs All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with the largest share of regional jobs All Other Jurisdictions Group All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with the largest share of regional jobs Comparison between the top 25 jurisdictions with the most jobs and the rest of the region OBJECTIVE 2: Does the allocation promote infill development and socioeconomic equity, the protection of environmental and agricultural resources, the encouragement of efficient development patterns, and the achievement of the region's greenhouse gas reductions targets? ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 METRIC 2b: Do jurisdictions with the largest share of the region's Transit Priority Area acres have the highest growth rates resulting from RHNA? Average growth rate resulting from RHNA Proposed RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Final Blueprint) 0.000 0.050 0.100 0.150 25 jurisdictions with largest share of the regional Transit Priority Area acres All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with largest share of the regional Transit Priority Area acres All Other Jurisdictions Group All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with largest share of the regional Transit Priority Area acres Comparison between the top 25 jurisdictions with the most transit access and the rest of the region OBJECTIVE 2: Does the allocation promote infill development and socioeconomic equity, the protection of environmental and agricultural resources, the encouragement of efficient development patterns, and the achievement of the region's greenhouse gas reductions targets? ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 METRIC 2c: Do jurisdictions whose residents drive the least have the highest growth rates resulting from RHNA? Average growth rate resulting from RHNA Proposed RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Final Blueprint) 0.000 0.050 0.100 0.150 25 jurisdictions with lowest VMT per resident All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with lowest VMT per resident All Other Jurisdictions Group All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with lowest VMT per resident Comparison between the top 25 jurisdictions with the lowest VMT per resident the rest of the region OBJECTIVE 2: Does the allocation promote infill development and socioeconomic equity, the protection of environmental and agricultural resources, the encouragement of efficient development patterns, and the achievement of the region's greenhouse gas reductions targets? ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 METRIC 3a.1: Do jurisdictions with the most low-wage workers per housing unit affordable to low-wage workers receive a significant percentage of their RHNA as lower-income units? Percent of RHNA as lower income units METRIC 3a.2: Do jurisdictions with the most low-wage workers per housing unit affordable to low-wage workers receive a share of the region's housing need that is at least proportional to their share of the region's households? Ratio of share of total RHNA to share of region's households Proposed RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Final Blueprint) 0.000 0.050 0.100 0.150 0.200 0.250 0.300 0.350 0.400 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 25 jurisdictions with most low- wage jobs per housing unit affordable to low-wage workers All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with most low- wage jobs per housing unit affordable to low-wage workers All Other Jurisdictions Group All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with most low- wage jobs per housing unit affordable to low-wage workers Comparison between the top 25 jurisdictions with the most unbalanced jobs- housing fit and the rest of the region OBJECTIVE 3: Does the allocation promote an improved intraregional relationship between jobs and housing, including an improved balance between the number of low-wage jobs and the number of housing units affordable to low-wage workers in each jurisdiction? ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 METRIC 4: Do jurisdictions with the largest percentage of high-income residents receive a larger share of their RHNA as lower-income units than jurisdictions with the largest percentage of low-income residents? Percent of RHNA as lower income units Proposed RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Final Blueprint) 0.000 0.050 0.100 0.150 0.200 0.250 0.300 0.350 0.400 0.450 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households above 120% Area Median Income 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households below 80% Area Median Income 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households above 120% Area Median Income 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households below 80% Area Median Income Group 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households below 80% Area Median Income 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households above 120% Area Median Income Comparison between the top 25 most disproportionately high-income jurisdictions and top 25 most disproportionately low-income jurisdictions OBJECTIVE 4: Does the allocation direct a lower proportion of housing need to an income category when a jurisdiction already has a disproportionately high share of households in that income category? ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 METRIC 5a.1: Do jurisdictions with the largest percentage of households living in High or Highest Resource tracts receive a significant percentage of their RHNA as lower-income units? Percent of RHNA as lower income units METRIC 5a.2: Do jurisdictions with the largest percentage of households living in High or Highest Resource tracts receive a share of the region's housing need that is at least proportional to their share of the region's households? Ratio of share of total RHNA to share of region's households Proposed RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Final Blueprint) 0.000 0.050 0.100 0.150 0.200 0.250 0.300 0.350 0.400 0.450 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households in High Resource or Highest Resource Tracts All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households in High Resource or Highest Resource Tracts All Other Jurisdictions Group All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households in High Resource or Highest Resource Tracts Comparison between the top 25 jurisdictions with the most access to resources and the rest of the region OBJECTIVE 5: Does the allocation affirmatively further fair housing? ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 METRIC 5b: Do jurisdictions exhibiting racial and economic exclusion receive a share of the region's housing need that is at least proportional to their share of the region's households? Ratio of share of total RHNA to share of region's households Proposed RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Final Blueprint) 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 31 Jurisdictions with above- average divergence scores and % of households above 120% Area Median Income All Other Jurisdictions 31 Jurisdictions with above- average divergence scores and % of households above 120% Area Median Income All Other Jurisdictions Group All Other Jurisdictions 31 Jurisdictions with above- average divergence scores and % of households above 120% Area Median Income Comparison between jurisdictions that have both above-average divergence scores and disproportionately large shares of high-income residents and the rest of the region OBJECTIVE 5: Does the allocation affirmatively further fair housing? ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 METRIC 5c: Do jurisdictions with the largest percentage of high-income residents receive a share of the region's housing need that is at least proportional to their share of the region's households? Ratio of share of total RHNA to share of region's households Proposed RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Final Blueprint) 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households above 120% Area Median Income All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households above 120% Area Median Income All Other Jurisdictions Group All Other Jurisdictions 25 jurisdictions with largest % of households above 120% Area Median Income Comparison between the top 25 most disproportionately high-income jurisdictions and the rest of the region OBJECTIVE 5: Does the allocation affirmatively further fair housing? ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 METRIC 5d.1: Do jurisdictions with levels of racial and socioeconomic exclusion above the regional average receive a total share of the region's very low- and low-income housing need that is at least proportional to their total share of the region's households? Ratio of share of lower-income RHNA to share of region's households METRIC 5d.2: Does each jurisdiction exhibiting racial and socioeconomic exclusion above the regional average receive a share of the region's very low- and low-income housing need that is at least proportional to its total share of the region's households? Jurisdictions receiving at least a proportional lower-income allocation Proposed RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Draft Blueprint) Draft RHNA Methodology (2050 Households - Final Blueprint) 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 49 Jurisdictions with levels of racial and socioeconomic exclusion above the regional average All Other Jurisdictions 49 Jurisdictions with levels of racial and socioeconomic exclusion above the regional average All Other Jurisdictions Group All Other Jurisdictions 49 Jurisdictions with levels of racial and socioeconomic exclusion above the regional average Comparison between the top 49 jurisdictions exhibiting above average racial and socioeconomic exclusion and the rest of the region OBJECTIVE 5: Does the allocation affirmatively further fair housing? ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 4 | December 18, 2020 ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 5 | December 18, 2020 | Page 1 Appendix 5: Final Subregional Shares State Housing Element Law allows two or more neighboring jurisdictions to form a “subregion” to conduct a parallel RHNA process to allocate the subregion’s housing need among its members.1 A subregion is responsible for conducting its own RHNA process that meets all of the statutory requirements related to process and outcomes, including developing its own RHNA methodology, allocating a share of need to each member jurisdiction, and conducting its own appeals process. For the 2023–31 RHNA, subregions were formed in: 1. Napa County: includes City of American Canyon, City of Napa, Town of Yountville, and the County of Napa (does not include City of Calistoga or City of St. Helena) 2. Solano County: includes City of Benicia, City of Dixon, City of Fairfield, City of Rio Vista, City of Suisun City, City of Vacaville, City of Vallejo, and County of Solano ABAG must assign each subregion a share of the Bay Area’s Regional Housing Need Determination (RHND), which represents the total number of units, by income category, the subregion must allocate to its member jurisdictions. Each subregion’s portion of the RHND has been removed from the units allocated by ABAG’s process for the rest of the region’s jurisdictions. On May 21, 2020, the ABAG Executive Board adopted the methodology for assigning a subregion its share of the RHND. The adopted methodology stipulates that the share of the RHND for each subregion will be based on the sum of the default allocations, by income category, from the ABAG RHNA methodology for each jurisdiction in the subregion. Using ABAG’s RHNA methodology as the input into the subregion shares ensures every jurisdiction that is a member of a subregion receives the same allocation it would have received if it were not part of a subregion. This approach ensures that formation of a subregion does not confer any harm or benefit to member jurisdictions or to other jurisdictions in the region. On October 15, 2020, the ABAG Executive Board approved release of the Draft Subregional Shares.2 The Draft Subregional Shares were based on the Proposed RHNA Methodology, which reflected baseline data on 2050 households from the Plan Bay Area 2050 Draft Blueprint. Applying the subregional share methodology to the Bay Area’s RHND of 441,176, the Draft Subregional Share for the Napa County subregion is 0.78 percent of the region’s housing needs and the Draft Subregional Share for the Solano County subregion is 2.7 percent of the region’s housing needs. Table 1 shows each subregion’s draft share by income category. 1 Government Code Section 65584.03. 2 For more information, see https://mtc.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4665721&GUID=6B565EC3-A706-4695-8A87-277F6791A1DB&Options=&Search= ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | Appendix 5 | December 18, 2020 | Page 2 Table 1: Draft Subregional Shares, Total Units by Income Category Subregion Very Low Low Moderate Above Moderate TOTAL Napa County 912 527 557 1,440 3,436 Solano County 3,082 1,772 1,966 5,086 11,906 Housing Element Law requires ABAG to hold a public comment period and conduct at least one public hearing to receive comments on the Draft Subregional Shares3 prior to adoption of the Final Subregional Shares. The written public comment period began on October 25 and ended on November 27 per the Notice of Public Hearing published in newspapers and an ABAG press release. Additionally, ABAG held a public hearing at the November 12 meeting of the Regional Planning Committee. ABAG received no comments on the Draft Subregional Shares. The Final Subregional Shares are based on the Draft RHNA Methodology, which incorporates updates made throughout fall 2020 to reflect the revised Strategies and Growth Geographies approved by the ABAG Executive Board and Commission in September 2020 for the Final Blueprint. Integrating the updated data about future year 2050 households from the Final Blueprint into the Draft RHNA Methodology results in changes to the allocations to local jurisdictions, and thus the subregional shares. In December 2020, the jurisdictions who were members of the Napa Subregion decided to dissolve their subregion. As a result, these jurisdictions will participate in the RHNA process ABAG is conducting and will receive allocations based on the RHNA methodology adopted by ABAG. Accordingly, ABAG-MTC staff has only identified a Final Subregional Share for the Solano County subregion. Applying the subregional share methodology to the Bay Area’s RHND of 441,176, the Final Subregional Share for the Solano County subregion is 2.52 percent of the region’s housing needs. Table 2 shows the subregion’s final share by income category. Table 2: Final Subregional Shares, Total Units by Income Category Subregion Very Low Low Moderate Above Moderate TOTAL Solano County 2,869 1,651 1,832 4,745 11,097 3 California Government Code 65584.03 (c) 9 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, December 21, 2020 2:22 PM To:Honky Subject:HUNGER & CRISIS ALL OVER THE WORLD By Eric V. Encina Attachments:HUNGER & CRISIS.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE YOU THERE NOW? I JUST SEND YOU AN ARTICLE. YOU MAY POST MY ARTICLES AND SEE IF ANYONE COULD CONSIDER TO HELP IN PITTANCE? POLITICIANS HERE DON'T LISTEN TO ME here. I AM INDEBTED TO INTERNET CAFES HERE IN TOWN THE TOTAL OF PHP200 or $5 value for few days already. COULD anyone PLEASE HELP ME PHP200 ONLY TODAY, this time, VIA WORLDREMIT.COM WWW.WORLDREMIT.COM I need money to pay for them or else they won't allow me to get online anymore. PRESSURES ARE MOUNTING AND TOO HEAVY FOR ME PRAY FOR ME ALSO. WITH ALL THANKS AND GRATITUDE. SINCERELY YOURS, ERIC V. ENCINA PHILIPPINES HUNGER & CRISIS ALLOVER THE WORLD    (In the Debacles of US$500 Trillion GlobalDebt Of The Corona New World Order)      By Eric V.Encina    “A hungry stomach has no ears.” - Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)  French writer and poet. Fables, "LeMilan et le Rossignol"    When you’re caught in the turbulenceof a strategic inflection point, the sad fact is that instinct and judgment areall you’ve got to guide you through. - Andrew S. Grove (1936 - )Hungarian-born U.S. business executive.    Is hunger part of the NEW NORMALworld’s policies?     10 While, reportedly, along with theunbelievable wanton waste of money and economic resources bereft of thescruples of conscience for increasingvelocity of the heinous crimes againsthumanity and human life such as wars, and other chemical weapons, or killing ofthe innocent unborn and the poor, etc., thereis a colossal US$675 BILLION COVID-19 VACCINE INVESTMENTS globally, that eachone nation has already invested so significantly as if of extreme expedienciesor emergencies by NATIONAL ALLOCATIONSboth from people’s money and or from domestic and foreign borrowings above all other allocated budgets for PEOPLE’SNEEDS for their ANNUAL EXPENDITURES,hence, each country-government even of those poor and developing nationsstruggling of their PEOPLE in hunger and starvation in this planet has the luxuriously expensive US$ Billion of mandatory budget allocations in the continuum for such vaccine procurements, certainly forhuge profits to rake up for the GLOBALVACCINE COMPANIES, hence, for vaccinating citizens, despite of the ongoingprobability of the adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccine trials vis-à-vis with the touted boon of benefits - instead of feeding people withgood quality food and providing good nutrition for real good health, but ironicallyor brutally, continuously and unnecessary tragedies of hunger and crisis of all sorts are now ubiquitously particularly aggravated so insanely by theSUCCESSIVE LOCKDOWN AND QUARANTINE MEASURES all over the world due to CORONAVIRUSCOVID-19 pandemonium in questions that horrendouslycause global economic depression, andalarmingly increase the numbers ofMENTAL ILLNESS, SUICIDE CASES, AND ADDICTION TRAGEDIES, etc. daily all over the world. I have interestingly heard, read, and partly seen in videos, in disbelief and in great dismay, howunnecessary hunger, crisis of all sorts,poverty, homelessness, other than of the bankruptcies of small businesses and companies, andunemployment of people by the hundreds of millions all over, and the brutal aftermaths of all these continue asunabated and as dehumanizing anddemoralizing the humanity of human beings, the children of God, the sons anddaughters of God, all over theworld in this planet including thecountries of the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia,and even all across the European Union countries and in the Middle Eastregions, not only in African regions, orin the Indian continent, and in the third and developing regions ofSouth America, and in Asian region likePhilippines and Bangladesh.    Luckily, withthe installed FOOD BANKS on provisions being financed on programs by the GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE AGENCIES ANDdomestic and international INSTITUTIONSOR INDIVIDUALS, of the so-called public-private partnerships, etc., surreptitiouslyby propaganda and cover-up with some sorts of strings-attached policies, of the real causes of hunger, for food for the hungry and starving, THOSE COUNTRIES, although IN SHAME of theEXISTENCE OF HUNGER AMIDST PLENTY, likeUSA, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, and EU countries like Ireland, they could provide food meals for thefinancially and economic poor anddistraught hungry and starving citizens daily or asneeded on good quality and rations, however, unfortunately, many countries in AFRICA or scarcely in INDIA, or in the Philippines, THE EXISTENCE OF FOOD BANKS is only in the figment of the IMAGINATION OF THE HUNGRYAND THE STARVING, except merely on occasions such as CHRISTMASTIME by some private individuals oragencies or foundations offering food aid, FOOD MEALS once-in-a-blue-moon, or in times of great catastrophes.     The hungryand starving poor people along with thecompeting scavenging famished animals inthose shanties, or areas, regions orcountries where FOOD BANK isnon-existent, or hardly in existence, areable, by chance, or by luck, to eatby peculiar personal schemes or by wayof personal survival strategies such asscavenging on garbage areas in searchfor food, or even of expired canned foodstuff, some by way of foraging edible or wild foodin the mountains, or in the rural areas, through foraging or hunting is getting scarce since it is, by 11 law, already prohibited by the Government authorities toforage wild plants, catch wild animals and birds, or any other amphibian kindsfor food, or even in the urban areassuch as those food-rejects and left-overs at the marketplaces, groceries, food eateries, restaurants and fromhouseholds who usually throw their rejects outside their homes, and some sadly,ironically, are forced even against their will, or in one way or another BY WAYOF STEALING food or the common food theft from stores, groceries, or evenfrom farming or agricultural plantationsof others, etc. This is what I call, “NECESSITY SUPERSEDESTHE  LAW”‐ “NECESSITAS VINCIT LEGEM” (?) but of course, stealing or food theft,just  like anything, isn’t consented if we are talking about ethics and moralityor legality  of things.  However, thiscould be an excuse in times of extraordinary hunger‐ situations since food isfor all created from the beginning by God, the Creator.      Continually being caused by the brutalcontrol of money by way of debt finance and interest, the furtive losing value of money, and its forexfluctuations run by the same criminals,hence, of the criminally-schemed increasing prices of basic needs particularlyfood, water, fuels, and services under the incorrigible current financial- economic system running hopelessly unreformed or deformed economics at the height of the CORNAVIRUS COVID-19PLANNED-DEMIC SCANDALS, whereby the victims are known to have been HUNDREDS OFMILLIONS ALREADY as debatable, and infact, in Hades of despair, with thetotal US$500 Trillion in excess GlobalDebt at US$700 Billion interest for theprofits of the voracious of the BANKERS, hence, of the 400 global elites, of the 2,700 Billionaires, and 35 Million millionaires,with the total of US$10 Trillion assets, HUNGER continues to be a brutal scandalous outrage for all humanity, even, still, in this age ofglobal plenty, that, as I recall, ina report by the UN  Development Programme (UNDP) (PDI/07/25/2014) that wasreleased in Tokyo, Japan on July 24, 2014 said that more  than 2.2 Billionpeople in this planet are “poor or nearpoor”. Hence, according to UNDP, nearly 1.5 Billion in 91  developing stateslive in “poverty” whileanother 800 Million are teetering on the edge as seriously affected  andcontinuously threatened by financial crises, natural and man‐made disasters,soaring food prices and violent  conflicts. Hungeris continually getting worse during the CORONA NEW WORLD ORDER NEW NORMALPOLICIES.      Tens of Trillionsof Dollars for the Bankers but hugedebts,  hunger, poverty, calamities,crisis, bankruptcy, etc. of stress‐ related diseases, war‐related damages  for the poor citizens  in trying to survive andgetting only a pittance of below  12 minimum wage, salary, profit, commission, etc. of a trickle money supply of which is losing its value in front of the  rising prices of basic needs, servicesand commodities.      In anarticle, “CanMonetary Policy be Unjust?” By Austin Rogers, December 16, 2020, as quoted inthis URL: https://tifwe.org/can‐monetary‐policy‐be‐unjust/?utm_source=IFWE+Subscriptions&utm_campaign=abcc9609fd‐ Weekly_Digest_2020_12_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ffd80135f‐abcc9609fd‐ 127034625&mc_cid=abcc9609fd&mc_eid=fb9ceb5cba,“Howelse can Christians interpret these actions  besides a form of favoritism towardthe rich and prejudice against the poor?”      As quoted,  “Dr. Anne Bradley has said,      “When we show partiality to the rich andaffluent, we violate God’s rules on economic and relational levels. We arecalled to encourage flourishing, not stifle creativity.” “While there’s nothingunbiblical about inequality per se, there is something unjustabout inequality that has been caused and compounded by purposeful governmentpolicy decisions.”    The lack and absence of money, income at the hands of the majority athand-to-mouth-situation is completely outrageous and deplorable in the 21st centuryin this age of global plenty. Monetary monopoly due to debt finance andusury that makes life too difficult is completely absurd and that is gettingworse in the CORONA NEW NORMAL POLICIES.    Our very dire situation in the Philippines and in this planet, is this: The money power issues money asloans, at interest. Thus, there isalways more debt than money in circulation.   Thus, they artificially createscarcity where none actually exists.There is no shortage of anything, except the money tokens that we need forexchange.   There are countries exporting their production and food to world markets for profit, but people are starving to death.   The reason for this is that the farmers and their families are in huge debt at usury to the money power. They have to sell cashcrops in order to repay the loans, or they would lose their farms on the vergeof suicide. Thus, they cannot help the starving ones.   Those in richer countries are so loaded with impossible levels of debt,that they cannot make ends meet while those in poorer countries are indesperate situations.   13 “Not to share one’s goods with the poor isto rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess,but theirs.” – St. John Chrysostom.    PLEASE HELP THE FOODSHARINGEVENTS:   In the countdown, this coming December 25, 2020, Friday,Philippine time, CHRISTMAS DAY, and in January 01, 2021, likewise, Friday, Philippinetime, NEW YEAR DAY, as before, in thelast 10 years, I will be having FOODSHARING EVENTS with ordinary food mealslike soups and bread, if not rice and local viands with the poor families,villagers in the provinces of Quezon and Capiz, my two provinces here in thePhilippines. Earlier before the scheduled dates, I need the amount of US$400 in Peso valuefinancial raising before DECEMBER 23, literally this week already, to do so, with the influx of the comingpoor people or families in both villages of the two provinces, that is$200 food-sharing BUDGET to OUR BRGY. BALAYBALA VILLAGE, MAUBAN, QUEZONPROVINCE, and $200 for our BRGY.LAWA-AN VILLAGE, ROXAS, CAPIZ PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES, hence, to also hearand listen to my messages and information in substantial addition to my talks last December 18, to comprehensive prepare for the brutal days of the year2021. Also, in the countdown, I pray for the last ditch-resort, toraise $1,000 in Peso value funding in preparatory schemes for the year2021, and its brutal days. Although I amalways trying to be optimistic, but the hope to raise this amount isfluctuating between hope and despair. MAY GOD, THROUGH ANYONE, GENEROUSLY PROVIDE ME THIS AMOUNT at theearliest possible time FOR THESECHRISTMAS FOODSHARING EVENTS this end of 2020, and at the very start of the2021. If anyone has surplus or excess amounts of money, please share any littlecrumbs to obtain and prepare the foodstuff in support to thisCHRISTMAS & New Year Food-Sharing events. Please share money for food for the hungry and the starvingeverywhere to show that we are still humans, not demons. Food means life itself to poor people, and taking it away from them ismurder. - Sirach 34:21.    When thou give a feast, invite the poor, crippled, the lame, and the blind;and blessed shall you be, because they have nothing to repay thee with. – Luke, 14:13-14.    Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shaltfind it again. - Eccl. 11:1.   A good person knows the rights of the poor, but wicked people cannotunderstand such things. - Proverbs 29:7 96.   14 Speak up for people who cannot speak for themselves, protect the rights ofall who are helpless. Speak for them and be righteous judge. Protect the rightsof the poor and the needy. - Proverbs 31:8   Eric V. Encina  Filipino FreelanceWriter/Author/Campaigner/Activist/FIGHTER  FILIPINO SOCIAL CREDITER/MONETARY REFORMER  Quezon Province, Philippines  Email Addresses: eric_encina@yahoo.com,encinaverzo@gmail.com  Paypal: eric_encina@yahoo.com, ericvencina@gmail.com       HUNGER & CRISIS ALL OVER THE WORLD (In the Debacles of US$500 Trillion Global Debt Of The Corona New World Order) By Eric V. Encina “A hungry stomach has no ears.” - Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) French writer and poet. Fables, "Le Milan et le Rossignol" When you’re caught in the turbulence of a strategic inflection point, the sad fact is that instinct and judgment are all you’ve got to guide you through. - Andrew S. Grove (1936 - ) Hungarian- born U.S. business executive. Is hunger part of the NEW NORMAL world’s policies? While, reportedly, along with the unbelievable wanton waste of money and economic resources bereft of the scruples of conscience for increasing velocity of the heinous crimes against humanity and human life such as wars, and other chemical weapons, or killing of the innocent unborn and the poor, etc., there is a colossal US$675 BILLION COVID-19 VACCINE INVESTMENTS globally, that each one nation has already invested so significantly as if of extreme expediencies or emergencies by NATIONAL ALLOCATIONS both from people’s money and or from domestic and foreign borrowings above all other allocated budgets for PEOPLE’S NEEDS for their ANNUAL EXPENDITURES, hence, each country-government even of those poor and developing nations struggling of their PEOPLE in hunger and starvation in this planet has the luxuriously expensive US$ Billion of mandatory budget allocations in the continuum for such vaccine procurements, certainly for huge profits to rake up for the GLOBAL VACCINE COMPANIES, hence, for vaccinating citizens, despite of the ongoing probability of the adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccine trials vis-à- vis with the touted boon of benefits - instead of feeding people with good quality food and providing good nutrition for real good health, but ironically or brutally, continuously and unnecessary tragedies of hunger and crisis of all sorts are now ubiquitously particularly aggravated so insanely by the SUCCESSIVE LOCKDOWN AND QUARANTINE MEASURES all over the world due to CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 pandemonium in questions that horrendously cause global economic depression, and alarmingly increase the numbers of MENTAL ILLNESS, SUICIDE CASES, AND ADDICTION TRAGEDIES, etc. daily all over the world. I have interestingly heard, read, and partly seen in videos, in disbelief and in great dismay, how unnecessary hunger, crisis of all sorts, poverty, homelessness, other than of the bankruptcies of small businesses and companies, and unemployment of people by the hundreds of millions all over, and the brutal aftermaths of all these continue as unabated and as dehumanizing and demoralizing the humanity of human beings, the children of God, the sons and daughters of God, all over the world in this planet including the countries of the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and even all across the European Union countries and in the Middle East regions, not only in African regions, or in the Indian continent, and in the third and developing regions of South America, and in Asian region like Philippines and Bangladesh. Luckily, with the installed FOOD BANKS on provisions being financed on programs by the GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE AGENCIES AND domestic and international INSTITUTIONS OR INDIVIDUALS, of the so-called public-private partnerships, etc., surreptitiously by propaganda and cover-up with some sorts of strings- attached policies, of the real causes of hunger, for food for the hungry and starving, THOSE COUNTRIES, although IN SHAME of the EXISTENCE OF HUNGER AMIDST PLENTY, like USA, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, and EU countries like Ireland, they could provide food meals for the financially and economic poor and distraught hungry and starving citizens daily or as needed on good quality and rations, however, unfortunately, many countries in AFRICA or scarcely in INDIA, or in the Philippines, THE EXISTENCE OF FOOD BANKS is only in the figment of the IMAGINATION OF THE HUNGRY AND THE STARVING, except merely on occasions such as CHRISTMAS TIME by some private individuals or agencies or foundations offering food aid, FOOD MEALS once-in-a-blue-moon, or in times of great catastrophes. The hungry and starving poor people along with the competing scavenging famished animals in those shanties, or areas, regions or countries where FOOD BANK is non-existent, or hardly in existence, are able, by chance, or by luck, to eat by peculiar personal schemes or by way of personal survival strategies such as scavenging on garbage areas in search for food, or even of expired canned foodstuff, some by way of foraging edible or wild food in the mountains, or in the rural areas, through foraging or hunting is getting scarce since it is, by law, already prohibited by the Government authorities to forage wild plants, catch wild animals and birds, or any other amphibian kinds for food, or even in the urban areas such as those food-rejects and left-overs at the marketplaces, groceries, food eateries, restaurants and from households who usually throw their rejects outside their homes, and some sadly, ironically, are forced even against their will, or in one way or another BY WAY OF STEALING food or the common food theft from stores, groceries, or even from farming or agricultural plantations of others, etc. This is what I call, “NECESSITY SUPERSEDES THE LAW”- “NECESSITAS VINCIT LEGEM” (?) but of course, stealing or food theft, just like anything, isn’t consented if we are talking about ethics and morality or legality of things. However, this could be an excuse in times of extraordinary hunger-situations since food is for all created from the beginning by God, the Creator. Continually being caused by the brutal control of money by way of debt finance and interest, the furtive losing value of money, and its forex fluctuations run by the same criminals, hence, of the criminally-schemed increasing prices of basic needs particularly food, water, fuels, and services under the incorrigible current financial-economic system running hopelessly unreformed or deformed economics at the height of the CORNAVIRUS COVID-19 PLANNED-DEMIC SCANDALS, whereby the victims are known to have been HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS ALREADY as debatable, and in fact, in Hades of despair, with the total US$500 Trillion in excess Global Debt at US$700 Billion interest for the profits of the voracious of the BANKERS, hence, of the 400 global elites, of the 2,700 Billionaires, and 35 Million millionaires, with the total of US$10 Trillion assets, HUNGER continues to be a brutal scandalous outrage for all humanity, even, still, in this age of global plenty, that, as I recall, in a report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) (PDI/07/25/2014) that was released in Tokyo, Japan on July 24, 2014 said that more than 2.2 Billion people in this planet are “poor or near poor”. Hence, according to UNDP, nearly 1.5 Billion in 91 developing states live in “poverty” while another 800 Million are teetering on the edge as seriously affected and continuously threatened by financial crises, natural and man-made disasters, soaring food prices and violent conflicts. Hunger is continually getting worse during the CORONA NEW WORLD ORDER NEW NORMAL POLICIES. Tens of Trillions of Dollars for the Bankers but huge debts, hunger, poverty, calamities, crisis, bankruptcy, etc. of stress-related diseases, war-related damages for the poor citizens in trying to survive and getting only a pittance of below minimum wage, salary, profit, commission, etc. of a trickle money supply of which is losing its value in front of the rising prices of basic needs, services and commodities. In an article, “Can Monetary Policy be Unjust?” By Austin Rogers, December 16, 2020, as quoted in this URL: https://tifwe.org/can-monetary-policy-be- unjust/?utm_source=IFWE+Subscriptions&utm_campaign=abcc9609fd- Weekly_Digest_2020_12_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ffd80135f-abcc9609fd- 127034625&mc_cid=abcc9609fd&mc_eid=fb9ceb5cba, “How else can Christians interpret these actions besides a form of favoritism toward the rich and prejudice against the poor?” As quoted, “Dr. Anne Bradley has said, “When we show partiality to the rich and affluent, we violate God’s rules on economic and relational levels. We are called to encourage flourishing, not stifle creativity.” “While there’s nothing unbiblical about inequality per se, there is something unjust about inequality that has been caused and compounded by purposeful government policy decisions.” The lack and absence of money, income at the hands of the majority at hand-to-mouth-situation is completely outrageous and deplorable in the 21st century in this age of global plenty. Monetary monopoly due to debt finance and usury that makes life too difficult is completely absurd and that is getting worse in the CORONA NEW NORMAL POLICIES. Our very dire situation in the Philippines and in this planet, is this: The money power issues money as loans, at interest. Thus, there is always more debt than money in circulation. Thus, they artificially create scarcity where none actually exists. There is no shortage of anything, except the money tokens that we need for exchange. There are countries exporting their production and food to world markets for profit, but people are starving to death. The reason for this is that the farmers and their families are in huge debt at usury to the money power. They have to sell cash crops in order to repay the loans, or they would lose their farms on the verge of suicide. Thus, they cannot help the starving ones. Those in richer countries are so loaded with impossible levels of debt, that they cannot make ends meet while those in poorer countries are in desperate situations. “Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.” – St. John Chrysostom. PLEASE HELP THE FOODSHARING EVENTS: In the countdown, this coming December 25, 2020, Friday, Philippine time, CHRISTMAS DAY, and in January 01, 2021, likewise, Friday, Philippine time, NEW YEAR DAY, as before, in the last 10 years, I will be having FOODSHARING EVENTS with ordinary food meals like soups and bread, if not rice and local viands with the poor families, villagers in the provinces of Quezon and Capiz, my two provinces here in the Philippines. Earlier before the scheduled dates, I need the amount of US$400 in Peso value financial raising before DECEMBER 23, literally this week already, to do so, with the influx of the coming poor people or families in both villages of the two provinces, that is $200 food-sharing BUDGET to OUR BRGY. BALAYBALA VILLAGE, MAUBAN, QUEZON PROVINCE, and $200 for our BRGY. LAWA-AN VILLGE, ROXAS, CAPIZ PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES, hence, to also hear and listen to my messages and information in substantial addition to my talks last December 18, to comprehensive prepare for the brutal days of the year 2021. Also, in the countdown, I pray for the last ditch-resort, to raise $1,000 in Peso value funding in preparatory schemes for the year 2021, and its brutal days. Although I am always trying to be optimistic, but the hope to raise this amount is fluctuating between hope and despair. MAY GOD, THROUGH ANYONE, GENEROUSLY PROVIDE ME THIS AMOUNT at the earliest possible time FOR THESE CHRISTMAS FOODSHARING EVENTS this end of 2020, and at the very start of the 2021. If anyone has surplus or excess amounts of money, please share any little crumbs to obtain and prepare the foodstuff in support to this CHRISTMAS & New Year Food-Sharing events. Please share money for food for the hungry and the starving everywhere to show that we are still humans, not demons. Food means life itself to poor people, and taking it away from them is murder. - Sirach 34:21. When thou give a feast, invite the poor, crippled, the lame, and the blind; and blessed shall you be, because they have nothing to repay thee with. – Luke, 14:13-14. Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again. - Eccl. 11:1. A good person knows the rights of the poor, but wicked people cannot understand such things. - Proverbs 29:7 96. Speak up for people who cannot speak for themselves, protect the rights of all who are helpless. Speak for them and be righteous judge. Protect the rights of the poor and the needy. - Proverbs 31:8 Eric V. Encina Filipino Freelance Writer/Author/Campaigner/Activist/FIGHTER FILIPINO SOCIAL CREDITER/MONETARY REFORMER Quezon Province, Philippines Email Addresses: eric_encina@yahoo.com, encinaverzo@gmail.com Paypal: eric_encina@yahoo.com, ericvencina@gmail.com 15 Baumb, Nelly From:Aimee Casteel <AimeeC@mountaincascade.com> Sent:Friday, December 18, 2020 8:22 AM To:Council, City; Fine, Adrian; Kniss, Liz (internal); Filseth, Eric (Internal); Nanette.O'Brrien@cityofpaloalto.org; Paras, Christine Cc:Aimee Casteel; David Hicks; Duke Fuller; Roger Williamson; Radomir Antovich Subject:RE: Rejection of Bid Invitation for Bids (IFB) No. 179134 - Courtesy Pre-Appeal Letter Attachments:Pre-Appeal Courtesy Letter - City of Palo Alto.pdf; Rejection of Bid Letter.pdf; Rejection of Bid Importance:High CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Good Morning,     Please accept Mountain Cascade, Inc. pre‐appeal courtesy letter in regards to the Rejection of Bid  Letter that  Mountain Cascade, Inc. received from Planet Bids of Palo Alto dated December 15th,2020 .  Feel free to contact David Hicks by email or phone with any questions or concerns regarding this matter,  davidh@mountaincascade.com or 925‐373‐8370.  Mountain Cascade, Inc. looks forward to hearing from you .     Sincerely,     Aimee Casteel  Bid Coordinator         555 Exchange Court   Livermore, CA 94550   (O) 925‐373‐8370  (F) 925‐373‐0940  (C) 925‐784‐3432    1 Baumb, Nelly From:CustomerCare@planetbids.com Sent:Tuesday, December 15, 2020 2:41 PM To:Estimating Subject:Rejection of Bid This is an automated email notification. Please do not reply.    Dear Mountain Cascade Inc. :    This is a notification pertaining to Primary Sedimentation Tanks Rehabilitation and Equipment Room Electrical  Upgrade Project (IFB179134), with a bid due date of October 23, 2020 3:00 PM (Pacific).    Rejection of Bid ‐ Attached.      Please visit the bid details for more information.    Thank you,  City of Palo Alto    Attachments:  Reject of Bid    P.O. Box 5050 Livermore, CA 94551 (925) 373-8370 December 18, 2020 Ms. Christine Paras, CPA City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Ave. Palo Alto, Ca. 94301 Re: Primary Sedimentation Tanks and Equipment Room Electrical Upgrade Project Dear Ms. Paras, Please consider this as a pre-appeal, good faith courtesy letter responding to the City's wrongful rejection of our bid submitted for the referenced project. We have incontrovertible evidence (one example of which is attached) from Planet Bids that all reasons given by The City as basis for the rejection are patently false . Mountain Cascade, Inc. (M.C.1.) strictly adhered to the City software's instructions throughout the process. It is our position that based on our experience with Planet Bids, that the disconnect lies with City Staff's lack of understanding of the intricacies of how the portal operates, something that M.C.I. refuses to be punished for. In essence, we are allowed to modify our bid j~n·umerable times right up to bid time. This process renders the priced out bid schedule uploaded with the remainder of our bid package moot. Each pricing modification and submittal overwrites the previous one. Furthermore, per addendum no. 2, Q&A #14, the fact that our bid was posted in the bid results means that staff had "validated" our bid. There exists "no lack of clarity" -the last price modification when coupled with our uploaded bid pack constitutes our bid. Our bid is not "incomplete", "unclear" nor does it "fail to fully comply with applicable requirements" as charged. Please know that it is our sincere preference at this juncture to pursue a path together that leads to the rightful award of this project to Mountain Cascade, Inc. We stand at the ready to honor our final, modified bid amount of $14,876,992. Short of this, we are fully prepared to exhaust all legal remedy ' including but not limited to a formal appeal and or injunctive relief. Very Truly Yours, David T. Hicks Vice President of Estimating Secretary Mountain Cascad.e, Inc. Sij Sucressfully Sutxnilted ThaltYoul YlllKlidl\\lbeen~~iullllilEdloCilyofl'mAllo. B~ Confill!lltion tl32239 ((ktd)er 23, 2mo 2:39:16 PM (Pde)) x I + -~ x la. • ==·· =~ .,.. i-~-............ fa I II II II II II I II II II I II {a Aimee Casteel From: Sent: To: Subject: CustomerCare@planetbids.com Friday, October 23, 2020 2:40 PM Estimating eBid Submit Confirmation for Primary Sedimentation Tanks Rehabilitation and Equipment Room Electrical Upgrade Project (IFB 179134) This is an automated email notification. Please do not reply. Dear Mountain Cascade Inc. : This is a confirmation that your eBid has been submitted for Primary Sedimentation Tanks Rehabilitation and Equipment Room Electrical Upgrade Project (IFB179134), bidding on October 23, 2020 3:00 PM (Pacific). eBid ID #232239 submitted on October 23, 2020 2:39:46 PM (Pacific) Please feel free to visit the bid details to review or edit your existing bid at any time prior to bid closing. Thank you, City of Palo Alto 1 11/17/2020 To: Palo Alto City Council Subject: Foothills Park Dear Palo Alto Neighbors, I read a very troubling article last week equating the exclusion of non Palo Alto residents N 0 0 rl'1 (") N l.D ~ -;? C.N to racism. This makes a mockery of the word. I have been a guest on several occasions to hike and observed a diverse group of people both in age and culturally. I also noted birds and other animals that do not exist in other areas. nS'! --i -1-< -< (Jg ' rr.-O :::0 » ;J:.l c.nc .. ,. o"" "'Tlei -no --"n f"Tll> My understanding is that Palo Alto offered other communities the chance to mutually buy the land and share this park. Why is it any different than someone giving up vacations and weekends to create a nice home garden and the neighborhood now thinks they have the right to access it for their personal use? I think Palo Alto should be given an award for preserving this land and the habitat. As a world we need to preserve eco systems, especially near densely populated places. Living in a neighboring city, I do not resent Palo Alto's policy. The tactics being used are unconstitutional. Sincerely, Your neighbor Mayor Adrian Fine City Hall 250 Hamilton Palo Alto, CA 94301 December 22, 2020 Dear Mayor Fine: f {I J ,r )-i N C> 0 ,.,, ("") N u:> ('")("') ~:; -< . no ,,, r"l""lil ;ol> :A• -o c.no :JC a l> .,,c; ca -ri . _o .... n· i.! rnr. Hello, I'm Phil Faroudja and I reside in Los Altos Hills. I am writing about > Antonio's Nut House on California Street. It appears that it will permanently close this month. Is there anything the city can do to keep it nmning? It is one of the top dive bars in the Bay Area. Businesses like Antonio's Nut House add character to the city. They are a lot of fun to go to, and Antonio's generates a lot of foot traffic along California street. I urge the city to do what it can to preseive Antonio's Nut House, if possible. Thanks for your seIVice to the city. Sincerely yours, Phil Faroudja 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: 1/19/ 2021 Document dates: 12/23/2020 – 12/30/2020 Set 2 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Alexey Blokhin <alexey.realty@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, December 25, 2020 12:47 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills preserve - urgent action needed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello council members.     It has been a week since you opened up the foothills preserve to the general public, and I think you should be made  aware of my observations, as a father, resident of Palo Alto of 16 yeas and avid hiker.     Noise pollution has increased dramatically, with both adults and unsupervised children running off trails, passing by all  restrictive signs (see pictures attached).  The Amount of dogs has increased too, on the evening of 12/21/2020 I saw a full‐grown german shepherd running after  a family of deers.  A speeding car nearly hit my 5 year old as he was walking across the parking lot on 12/22/2020, with the driver speeding  away towards the entrance before I got his license plate number.  I'm not even mentioning the garbage that is everywhere now, both plastic and glass bottles, masks everywhere on trails.  With the Mayor departing, it is in your hands to stop the destruction of the preserve.     Immediate action needs to be taken before damage is irreversible. I think we, as Palo Altans, should revisit the 750 or  maybe even 500 non‐resident visitors a day restriction, as well as create educational videos that people not familiar with  how to behave in the preserve should watch. After all this is not a simple park, rather a pristine habitat that is priceless  and should be protected at all costs. Hawaii is doing something similar in Hanauma bay, where anyone accessing the bay  has to watch educational video. While these measures are being developed access restrictions should be reintroduced.    Sincerely  Concerned resident of Palo Alto  Alexey Blokhin     Attached:  2             ‐‐   Alexey Blokhin    T 650.204.0443  F 650.352.3243  3   Real E‐State Broker DRE 01771121  4 Baumb, Nelly From:Sal Gts <slowgts@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 7:21 PM To:Building; Council, City Cc:Brian Steen; Reynolds, Brian; French, Amy Subject:Re: 851 and 847 Moana Cort - Illegal construction Thank you for your response.   But it does NOT answer my question.   Does the city of Palo Alto allow residents of single family homes to be converted to apartments?  For example if I live in 3 BR and 2 Bath home ‐ Am I legally allowed ( after getting permits from you ) to convert my home  to   1 BR + 1 Bath , times 3 = 3 apartments?   The city seems to be focused on NOT answering questions from residents and avoiding the issue.       On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:16 PM Building <Building@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  Good afternoon Mr. Khan,  I located your 311 request dated December 11, 2020 regarding 851 Moana Court but found nothing for 847 Moana  Court. I have finished my research for the Airbnb and found that they have listed this for a minimum five (5) night stay.  Brian Reynolds, lead code enforcement officer will be sending out a Notice of Violation for the short‐term rental as  short‐term rentals are not permissible in residential zones. The Zillow ad does not list this as a short‐term rental only as  an apartment for rent.  As for the bedroom with kitchen, a permit was issued on March 3, 2020 and finaled by the building inspector manager  on October 15, 2020 . The scope of this permit was as follows; “BRING TO CONFORMANCE WORK DONE WITHOUT  PERMIT. INCLUDES ADDITIONAL (3) BATHROOMS AND CONVERT PART OF HOME TO JUNIOR ADU. TOTAL REMODEL  WORK 500 SF”.  Please feel free to give me a contact me at (650) 329‐2603 or by email if you have any questions.   Regards,  eÉu|Ç XÄÄÇxÜ   Administrative Associate III  Planning & Development Services  (650) 329‐2603 | robin.ellner@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org     5 The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours.   From: Sal Gts <slowgts@gmail.com>   Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 12:09 PM  To: Building <Building@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>  Cc: Brian Steen <blsteen@yahoo.com>  Subject: Re: 851 and 847 Moana Cort ‐ Illegal construction  CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello City of Palo Alto Council   I have reported illegal activity at 851 Moana Court.   Reference no is 9231463   There has been NO RESPONSE from the city.   Our neighbor turned a single family home into a 3 apartments   Each apartment is 1 BR + Kitchen + 1 Bath unit.   It is also listed as an apartment for rent on Zillow and AirBNB as an Apartment Rental.   I expect a written response from the City.   My information   Sal Khan   650‐665‐0480   Neighbor.   6   851 and 847 Moana Cort ‐ Illegal construction  On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 6:29 PM Sal Gts <slowgts@gmail.com> wrote:  My neighbor at 851 is building extra bathrooms and changing the layout of the house so it is converted to 4  apartments.   Which is not allowed in this area.   There is construction going on after 5 00 pm ‐ right now it is 6:22 PM and construction is still working.   Here is a picture I just took.   PLEASE DO SOMETHING.   House next door ‐ 847 Moana Ct ‐‐ owned by the same family ‐ Just added one additional bedroom ‐   We do not know if the room was added in the garage or they have modified the existing Family room  They have also added one additional bathroom also.   7 Since I dont see any permits online ‐ I am assuming that this done without permits and I am afraid of FIRE HAZARD due  to electrical work.   847 Moana Ct  Palo Alto, CA 94306    8   My information   Sal Khan   650‐665‐0480   Neighbor.   On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:52 AM City of Palo Alto <news@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  A monthly newsletter about "All Things Palo Alto"     View this email in your browser       To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Our Palo Alto logo     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.    May 2019  April Showers Bring May Flowers 9   We all know the saying, “April showers bring May flowers” like the beautiful tulips that pop up each Spring in Gamble Garden. This year those April showers lingered into May, giving us nearly 18 inches of rain since January and keeping our Foothills green a little while longer. Likewise, we have some good “green” news to share with you this month.      To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Message from the Mayor  One of the Council Priorities this year is Climate Change and I am happy to say we are working on many levels to confront this challenge of our times.       To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.The new Regional Water Quality C ontrol Plant.A Cleaner, Greener Way: Ceremony to Usher in New Wastewater Treatment Plant  On Wednesday, June 5, the City will mark an environmental milestone when it ushers in a more sustainable form of wastewater treatment at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant (RWQCP) on Embarcadero Way. I hope you will join me at the 10 a.m. ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of our new dewatering facility.     To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.City staff view the soon-to-be decommissioned sewage incinerator.As we bring that facility online, we will simultaneously pull the plug on the sludge- burning incinerators on the site. The updated treatment process will reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 10  15,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year– another step in the City’s goal to reduce greenhouse gasses 80% by 2030.    Learn More       To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.A young biker enjoys a tote bag at Bike to Work Day.Bike to Work Day's Road to Success  More sustainability inroads were made at this year’s Bike to Work Day held on May 9. I joined the record 2,400 bicyclists who pedaled through one of the four Energizer Stations sponsored by the City. That’s a 2.1% increase from the record Bike to Work Day numbers set in Palo Alto last year. I hope to see you in the bike lane burning carbs instead of carbon again soon.           All Things Palo Alto    To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.City of Palo Alto's 125th Birthday logo       To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   On Track with Connecting Palo Alto The Connecting Palo Alto rail program continues to move full steam ahead on this year’s Grade Separation Council Priority. On May 13, Council voted to eliminate a citywide tunnel scenario that carried an estimated price tag between $2.5 and $3.8 billion... [more]   11   To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Call for Entries to Spice Up the Chili Cook Off Think you have a sizzling chili recipe that packs the heat and could take home a prize? Then come compete in the 38th Annual Chili Cook Off that’s held every 4th of July at Mitchell Park.... [more]     To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Celebrate World Music Day Get ready to celebrate dads, grads, and music makers at the 11th Annual Palo Alto World Music Day taking place on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16 from 3-7:30 p.m.... [more]       We are Social  If you mention @CityofPaloAlto or #PaloAlto in a social post, we might feature it here. 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You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is:  City of Palo Alto   250 Hamilton Ave # 7  Palo Alto, CA 94301-2531  Add us to your address book  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.         13     ‐‐   Sal Khan   Personal Email       ‐‐   Sal Khan   Personal Email       ‐‐   Sal Khan  Personal Email     14 Baumb, Nelly From:rogersac@aol.com Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 8:23 AM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Park - now it is open to all CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council. I have been a regular visitor to Foothills Park, most Saturdays, for the last several years and prior to that would take my family there when they were younger, for the past 30 years or so. I have always enjoyed the peace, the tranquility, the wildlife and the general ambience. The trails have always been well kept, the rangers, all of whom I could recognise, were friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. On many occasions I had taken photos of fallen trees over the trails and other problems which they had not yet been aware of. I love Foothills Park and have always felt that I share the experience with others, taking friends who live in the Bay Area as well as visitors from overseas, and been happy to show them one of my favourite places. However, in the past months, even before it was officially opened to all, I have seen more usage and much of this usage has been breaking the rules. In the past couple of weeks since the park was generally opened, the visit has been very different. Not only is it a different experience, but it is very evident that rules are being broken and damage to trails, the meadow, wildlife and other infrastructure are doing damage, the kind of damage that cannot be repaired overnight. Even queues for the loos show that there are more people than can be easily handled. As much as I really do not want to say this, I think it is imperative that something is done immediately to prevent further damage. I think it is necessary to close the Park until changes are invoked. I think that the opening of Foothills just before a busy time with many long weekends and school breaks, was the wrong decision, and we are paying the cost of this bad decision. I would like to see some changes made before any type of opening to anyone. 1. Change the name to Foothills Nature Preserve and Open Space Preserve. 2. Start some type of reservation system. 3. Invoke an online payment system. 4. Invoke annual passes for regular visitors with possible priority advantages. 5. Some type of app which informs people that Foothills is at capacity so that people won't start driving up the hill unable to enter, even an electronic sign at the bottom of the hill announcing it is closed would help keep Page Mill Road safe. 6. Announce emergency details, what will happen in case of fire or earthquake as to how to deal with evacuation. 7. More signs with rules, such as no bikes on trails, no loud music, no ball games and any other rules that are being broken. Lastly, I would like to comment on the fact that the one way system which was working very well has been changed on Ferne Loop and other trails. The fact that people are ignoring the one way rules just may be that the trails have changed direction and are now different from the website. This is an immediate issue, not something that can be delayed to see how it goes. The damage is occurring now and action needs to be taken to prevent severe damage to the environment. Thank you for your time. Carol Rogers, Stockton Place. 15 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, December 29, 2020 6:32 PM To:chuck jagoda; Jeff Rosen; Jeff Moore; Raven Malone; Greer Stone; Steven D. Lee; Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Roberta Ahlquist; Ed Lauing; Cormack, Alison; Perron, Zachary; Human Relations Commission; Molly O'Neal; Raj; Shikada, Ed; Jonsen, Robert; greg@gregtanaka.org; Winter Dellenbach; Rebecca Eisenberg Subject:The next chapter in DA George Gascon’s effort to bring a small bit of justice to our racist( slave master driven) criminal injustice system .... CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/prosecutors‐to‐ask‐court‐to‐stop‐some‐of‐new‐district‐attorneys‐reform‐ directives/2495114/?amp      Sent from my iPhone    16 Baumb, Nelly From:Gerald Millin <millingerald@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, December 29, 2020 2:10 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I am a long time resident and frequent hiker at Foothills park. I am not against the park being open to everyone, but I am  concerned about the possible injury to the trails and vegetation that so many more people could cause. We all ready  have people hiking off trail and more and more dirt bikes on the trails. The bikes are very dangerous to hikers. Also I  would like to see more emphasis on hiking and education and less on picnics. I really would like to see most of the picnic  tables removed from the entrance to Wild Horse Valley. The large group picnics in the spring and summer can cause  injury to any Nature Preserve. Since Foothills is now a Nature Preserve, please consider these issues in your plans for  Foothills. Thank you.     Jerry Millin Emerson Street Palo Alto  17 Baumb, Nelly From:dhoatpaloalto@yahoo.com Sent:Tuesday, December 29, 2020 12:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Stanford Dish Parking Area -- Stanford Avenue and Junipero Serra CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Good day to all members of Council of City of Palo Alto I have found out it is hard to tolerate some drivers cannot follow the sign posted on the parking area along Stanford Ave near the Dish Area. It said that you cannot U-turn or left turn from the parking area or you cannot park using the back of the car but a lot of drivers ignore those sign. I have seen many times some drivers do not obey the rule. We should impose the barricade along the road so that they cannot do the illegal turn and it is safe to other user using this road. Besides the parking should be paid parking so that it can help to fund the maintenance of this area. I hope it can see some improvement to the nearest future. Happy Holidays to all of you. Derick Ho 18 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Tuesday, December 29, 2020 12:30 AM To:To: Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; beachrides; bballpod; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; becerra.bere11 @gmail.com; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Mon. 12-28 Dr. John Campbell. Discusses Monoc. Antibodies!!! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To all‐ Late Monday night, Dec. 28, 2020. Tiny update. I said below that Trump got a five‐ day course of Remdesivir by  Regeneron. Remdesivir is by Gilead. He did get one 8‐gram dose of the monoclonal antibody by Regeneron, REGN‐COV2.  Sorry for the error.     LH  ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:16 AM  Subject: Fwd: Mon. 12‐28 Dr. John Campbell. Discusses Monoc. Antibodies!!!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:17 PM  Subject: Fwd: Mon. 12‐28 Dr. John Campbell. Discusses Monoc. Antibodies!!!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>,  <antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov>, David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, beachrides <beachrides@sbcglobal.net>,  bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, Leodies Buchanan <leodiesbuchanan@yahoo.com>, <bearwithme1016@att.net>,  boardmembers <boardmembers@hsr.ca.gov>, <becerra.bere11@gmail.com>, paul.caprioglio  <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, city.council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Cathy Lewis <catllewis@gmail.com>, Chris  Field <cfield@ciw.edu>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, Dan  Richard <danrichard@mac.com>, Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, david pomaville  <pomaville165@sbcglobal.net>, <eappel@stanford.edu>, <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>,  <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>, <fmerlo@wildelectric.net>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, Steven Feinstein  <steven.feinstein@ionicmaterials.com>, <George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu>, <grinellelake@yahoo.com>,  <Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov>, huidentalsanmateo <huidentalsanmateo@gmail.com>, hennessy  <hennessy@stanford.edu>, Irv Weissman <irv@stanford.edu>, Joel Stiner <jastiner@gmail.com>, jerry ruopoli  <jrwiseguy7@gmail.com>, <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>, kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, Mark Kreutzer  <mlkreutzer@yahoo.com>, <lalws4@gmail.com>, <margaret‐sasaki@live.com>, Mayor <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark  19 Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>, nick yovino <npyovino@gmail.com>,  <russ@topperjewelers.com>, Steve Wayte <steve4liberty@gmail.com>, tsheehan <tsheehan@fresnobee.com>,  <vallesR1969@att.net>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 10:35 PM  Subject: Fwd: Mon. 12‐28 Dr. John Campbell. Discusses Monoc. Antibodies!!!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 10:15 PM  Subject: Fwd: Mon. 12‐28 Dr. John Campbell. Discusses Monoc. Antibodies!!!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:42 PM  Subject: Mon. 12‐28 Dr. John Campbell. Discusses Monoc. Antibodies!!!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>    To all‐‐ Please forward this to Gov. Newsom. He needs to know about this and act to get it for California. Not sure if the  Regeneron monoclonal antibody has been approved by the FDA as has been the Lilly product, but Trump was given one  8 gram dose of the Regeneron product, REGN‐COV2, when he was fighting Covid19.    Mon. Dec/ 28, 2020    To all‐ Here is Dr. John Campbell again. Recorded today. He discusses monoclonal antibodies, for which a trail is getting  under way in the UK. We already have them from Lilly, with a EUA given in November. Wonder if he has heard about  that. I keep urging a DPA order for the Lilly product. We'll need this big time in mid‐Jan. and on with the huge surge in  cases we will get. It will be a race between the first variant and the 60% more transmissible variant of Covid, which we  are now importing from the UK and S. Africa, and the vaccines.    Injections versus infections, Pandemic update ‐ YouTube    That the U.S. government is still allowing flights in from the U.K. and S. Africa is little short of criminal conduct. It will  cost the lives of a lot of Americans.     The Lilly monoclonal antibodies, if available, would save a lot of lives of pts. who are infected and are showing worsening  symptoms. I think Campbell says here that the monoclonal antibodies he is discussing can be injected. The Lilly product  has to be infused, which takes more time and effort. If there is a monoclonal antibody that can be injected, that would  be big news. He said it more than once, so it was not a slip of the tongue.     20 Here is the excellent NYT article of Dec. 23, 2020 again, mainly about the Eli Lilly monoclonal antibody. It was approved  by the FDA in November for serious and worsening cases of Covid, and where it is being used, it is keeping pts out of the  hospital, and alive!. Think of what that means, now that the hospitals are right at the edge of being overwhelmed with  Covid pts. and will be overwhelmed in January and February if nothing new is used at scale.    I just read this again. Lilly sells it to the government, and it sells it to hospitals, clinics, states(?). It is being used and it  works!! Some locations find it hard to get, some pts. are afraid to come in to be infused, it does require staff time to  infuse, but it works. Maybe we don't need a DPA order to get enough produced. Not clear. We do know that a tidal wave  of people testing positive and showing symptoms is going to break over us in January and February because of the  irresponsible behavior over Christmas. New Year's may produce an even worse outcome.    Will there be enough of monoclonal antibody on hand then to keep people out of the hospital? This seems to be a God‐ send when the HC system is about to be overwhelmed‐ a medicine that can turn the disease around for SOME pts who  are getting really sick, keep them out of the hospital, and save their lives! I find it hard to understand that Dr. Campbell,  above, in his vid. of today, is talking about monoclonal antibodies coming on line in the UK, and we hear not one word  about this med from the big‐gun experts like Drs. Collins, Fauci, Hawn. What is the status of this‐ do we have enough, if  not, why not, and do we need an DPA order to get enough? Let's hear from the experts at Stanford Medicine and UCSF.  But we hear not a word from any of them about this. A month of so ago Dr. Francis Collins was talking about it, and I  think NIH helped pay for its development. Why is he not now urging its production, distribution and use in the face of a  tidal wave of new pts? He should be urging hospitals and doctors to use monoclonal antibodies where appropriate as  the number of pts. soars in January and February.      Why Covid Antibody Drugs Go Unused as Need Soars ‐ The New York Times (nytimes.com)    Here is an article listing the drugs that Trump was given when he came down with (and came right out of) Covid19:    8 drugs Trump has been given for his COVID‐19 treatment (beckershospitalreview.com)    He was given Remdesivir by Gilead on Oct. 2, 2020 and he was continued on that for a five day course. It is not an  monoclonal antibody.  He also got a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron's monoclonal antibody, called REGN‐COV2. That was the highest dose  tested in late stage clinical trials at that time.     So this Regeneron monoclonal antibody is the "other" such medicine referred to in the NYT article above.      We are really in for it in Jan. and Feb.! If you test positive, and your symptoms are worsening, suggest to your doctors  that they arrange for you to be infused with the Lilly monoclonal antibody or the Regeneron monoclonal antibody, if it  has been approved by the FDA. Trump was given the Gilead product‐ Remdesivir for five days‐ and one dose of the  Regeneron monoclonal antibody, REGN‐COV2, and he came right out of the hospital.     L. William Harding  Fresno, Ca.  21 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Monday, December 28, 2020 11:17 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; beachrides; bballpod; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; becerra.bere11 @gmail.com; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Mon. 12-28 Dr. John Campbell. Discusses Monoc. Antibodies!!! 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, Dec 28, 2020 at 10:35 PM  Subject: Fwd: Mon. 12‐28 Dr. John Campbell. Discusses Monoc. Antibodies!!!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 10:15 PM  Subject: Fwd: Mon. 12‐28 Dr. John Campbell. Discusses Monoc. Antibodies!!!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:42 PM  Subject: Mon. 12‐28 Dr. John Campbell. Discusses Monoc. Antibodies!!!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>    To all‐‐ Please forward this to Gov. Newsom. He needs to know about this and act to get it for California. Not sure if the  Regeneron monoclonal antibody has been approved by the FDA as has been the Lilly product, but Trump was given one  8 gram dose of the Regeneron product, REGN‐COV2, when he was fighting Covid19.    Mon. Dec/ 28, 2020    22 To all‐ Here is Dr. John Campbell again. Recorded today. He discusses monoclonal antibodies, for which a trail is getting  under way in the UK. We already have them from Lilly, with a EUA given in November. Wonder if he has heard about  that. I keep urging a DPA order for the Lilly product. We'll need this big time in mid‐Jan. and on with the huge surge in  cases we will get. It will be a race between the first variant and the 60% more transmissible variant of Covid, which we  are now importing from the UK and S. Africa, and the vaccines.    Injections versus infections, Pandemic update ‐ YouTube    That the U.S. government is still allowing flights in from the U.K. and S. Africa is little short of criminal conduct. It will  cost the lives of a lot of Americans.     The Lilly monoclonal antibodies, if available, would save a lot of lives of pts. who are infected and are showing worsening  symptoms. I think Campbell says here that the monclonal antibodies he is discussing can be injected. The Lilly product  has to be infused, which takes more time and effort. If there is a monoclonal antibody that can be injected, that would  be big news.     Here is the excellent NYT article of Dec. 23, 2020 again, mainly about the Eli Lilly monoclonal antibody. It was approved  by the FDA in November for serious and worsening cases of Covid, and where it is being used, it is keeping pts out of the  hospital, and alive!. Think of what that means, now that the hospitals are right at the edge of being overwhelmed with  Covid pts. and will be overwhelmed in January and February if nothing new is used at scale.    I just read this again. Lilly sells it to the government, and it sells it to hospitals, clinics, states(?). It is being used and it  works!! Some locations find it hard to get, some pts. are afraid to come in to be infused, it does require staff time to  infuse, but it works. Maybe we don't need a DPA order to get enough produced. Not clear. We do know that a tidal wave  of people testing positive and showing symptoms is going to break over us in January and February because of the  irresponsible behavior over Christmas. New Year's may produce an even worse outcome.    Will there be enough of monoclonal antibody on hand then to keep people out of the hospital? This seems to be a God‐ send when the HC system is about to be overwhelmed‐ a medicine that can turn the disease around for SOME pts who  are getting really sick, keep them out of the hospital, and save their lives! I find it hard to understand that Dr. Campbell,  above, in his vid. of today, is talking about monoclonal antibodies coming on line in the UK, and we hear not one word  about this med from the big‐gun experts like Collins, Fauci, Hawn. What is the status of this‐ do we have enough, if not,  why not, do we need an DPA order to get enough? Let's hear from the experts at Stanford Medicine and UCSF. But we  hear not a word from any of them about this. A month of so ago Dr. Francis Collins was talking about it, and I think NIH  helped pay for its development. Why is he not now urging its production, distribution and use in the face of a tidal wave  of new pts? He should be urging hospitals and doctors to use this where appropriate as the number of pts. soars in  January and February.      Why Covid Antibody Drugs Go Unused as Need Soars ‐ The New York Times (nytimes.com)    Here is an article listing the drugs that Trump was given when he came down with (and came right out of) Covid19:    8 drugs Trump has been given for his COVID‐19 treatment (beckershospitalreview.com)    He was given Remdesivir by Regeneron on Oct. 2, 2020 and he was continued on that for a five day course. It is not an  monoclonal antibody.  He also got a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron's monoclonal antibody, called REGN‐COV2. That was the highest dose  tested in late stage clinical trials at that time.     So this Regeneron monoclonal antibody is the "other" such medicine referred to in the NYT article above.  23     We are really in for it in Jan. and Feb.! If you test positive, and your symptoms are worsening, suggest to your doctors  that they arrange for you to be infused with the Lilly monoclonal antibody or the Regeneron monoclonal antibody, if it  has been approved by the FDA. Trump was given the Regeneron products‐ Remdesivir and their monoclonal antibody,  REGN‐COC2, and he came right out of the hospital.     L. William Harding  Fresno, Ca.  24 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, December 28, 2020 8:31 PM To:Jeff Rosen; Jethroe Moore; Human Relations Commission; Raven Malone; Steven D. Lee; Greer Stone; Cari Templeton; chuck jagoda; Ed Lauing; Cormack, Alison; Raj; Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Dennis Upton; Gennady Sheyner; Bill Johnson; Roberta Ahlquist; Rebecca Eisenberg; greg@gregtanaka.org; Kaloma Smith; Joe Simitian Cc:Molly O'Neal; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; Miguel Rodriguez; eric.filseth@cityofpaloalto.com; Kou, Lydia Subject:Can we match Gascon’s progressive agenda in Santa Clara....I certainly support such a change ASAP—must read piece .... CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  https://laist.com/2020/12/28/da_gascons_push_for_shorter_prison_terms_runs_into_resistance_from_judges_prosecu tors.php    Shared via the Google app    Sent from my iPhone  25 Baumb, Nelly From:Eric Glover <me@rottenresumes.com> Sent:Monday, December 28, 2020 7:35 PM To:Council, City Cc:me@rottenresumes.com Subject:From a former Palo Alto resident CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Deal Palo Alto City Council,    I have lived in Palo Alto for the past 7 years. Like many Palo Alto residents, I have a well paid job in the tech industry,  offering a comfortable living in Palo Alto. Palo Alto has always had a great quality of life, and my family was happy there.    Unfortunately, due to the pandemic's forced switch to WFH, it became clear to me that due to the lack of *any* reliable  and sufficiently fast Internet provider in Green Acres, my family and I would be unable to remain living in Palo Alto,  without me having a very hard time working.    Comcast and AT&T are the only "broadband" providers in most of Palo Alto, and in Green Acres (at least where I lived)  AT&T was limited to DSL. Comcast was the only choice, and in theory promising speeds of > 200 Mbps sounds great,  until you realize that for modern remote work, upstream is all that matters, and Comcast's default of 2.5 Mbps up with  an absolute max of 15 Mbps is insufficient if you are a working parent with kids.    Not only is Comcast offering low upstream speeds, but they charge $99/month for 10 Mbps up. An Average resident in  North Dakota has more than 50 times faster residential upstream Internet than an average resident in Palo Alto, and I  bet it is cheaper too.    To add insult to injury, Comcast has bandwidth caps that would be used up by just 5 hours of 4K streaming.    For my specific work, not only was I required to spend numerous hours on Zoom, but I regularly had to upload large files  to do my job. It often took more than 30 minutes to do an upload, significantly slowing down my productivity.    To help understand how bad Internet is in Palo Alto and the greater Bay Area I have two stories:    1: When I was looking to buy a house in NY (where they have Gig Fiber and Cable to most residents, for substantially  cheaper than Comcast's medium plans), I had a virtual doctor visit with my doctor in California. He commented that he  could tell I was not in the Bay Area since the video was not choppy, and the image was clear, and mentioned that the  best video visit he had given was to a patient who was in Australia.    2: When my daughters do FaceTime calls to their extremely wealthy friends in the Palo Alto area, it is a disaster with  constantly losing the video of their friends and hanging up and trying again, sometimes just giving up.    Possibly because they are an effectively unregulated monopoly, Comcast has taken a "spend as little as possible on  infrastructure" approach, and had suffered from multiple multi‐hour/day outages over the past year, which probably  cost tens of Millions of dollars in lost work, and is what ultimately pushed me over the edge. The response by Comcast  for a prolonged (1 day) outage was "our systems show your Internet was only down for 2 hours, so we will give you a  [$2] credit."     26 Hopefully, before many more wealthy tech workers and businesses relying on those workers leave the area, you will  take decisive action to ensure Palo Alto is viewed as a tech center and not a tech has‐been.    Ideally you can work with the State and County to rein in Comcast and not permit them to cheap out on investing in  infrastructure to improve quality and upstream bandwidth, punish them severely for outages (and even more for  incorrectly reporting them), make it illegal for them to offer low upstream plans advertised as broadband with  bandwidth caps that render it useless for modern usage.    In addition, you do have the ability to make it cheap and easy for competitors such as AT&T or Sonic to offer Fiber to the  home and work with smaller wireless Internet companies which although they will still not be great in 5 years, they will  at least be able to cheaply offer more than 15 mbps upstream at a fair price.    I am confident if you ask yourselves, as well as survey residents about their Internet, you will see many people like me  who are about to leave because they can't do their job, their kids have missed school more than once due to a Comcast  outage, and are generally envious of the majority of the US that has faster and cheaper Internet than what used to be  viewed as the tech‐hub of the world.    How many of you (City Council members) who are parents had multiple experiences with a parent‐teacher or school  zoom where it was painful trying to see or hear the speaker, or be seen or heard?    ‐Eric G.    27 Baumb, Nelly From:abby boyd <abby650@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, December 28, 2020 4:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothill Nature Preserve agreement CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Foothill Park- equal access for the rich The lawyers of the ACLU and NAACP and Palo Alto have opened up FootHill Nature Preserve for all in the name of equality. And they have assured the people of Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Portola Valley, Ladera, Stanford, and Woodside access to Foothill Park without any contribution the upkeep of the park. Oh, and also people from East Palo Alto can drive up to Foothill from the other side of Bayshore Freeway. Lawyers have used the ACLU and NAACP to establish privileges for the rich, rather than a more targeted solution that would actually open up the park to a city that includes more minority and lower income residents. Could they have come up with a reciprocal agreement for the development of usage of parks in both Foothill Park and EPA’s shoreline with the bay? And Foothill Park was given to Palo Alto as a Nature Preserve. What do the deer, bobcats, lizards, birds and other wildlife think of a crowded park? And the wetlands of EPA? How about a sanctuary for all these animals and plants. Who is benefiting from this equality? Is there a way to determine if the goal of equality has been achieved? Abby Boyd 3998 Bibbits Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94303 28 Baumb, Nelly From:abby boyd <abby650@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, December 28, 2020 4:06 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothill Nature Preserve, please make a different agreement CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Foothill Nature Preserve on Dec 27 at 3:30 in a cloudy Sunday after the park had been opened to everyone. I drove up because it couldn’t be as bad as everyone said and I had a timed route I take on the trails and I wanted to see how out of shape I was. As I drove the upper part of Page Mill Road I was surprised at the number of cars, As I came to the park traffic was stopped and I saw 4 deer crossing a side road, leaving the park. As I saw the entrance to the park there was a traffic jam, red cones were laid out and two men with orange vests on were directing traffic. There was a sign that the park was full. I followed a Tesla into the park entrance. I stopped to ask the Ranger at the entrance kiosk what was going on. She said there were 250 cars in the park and it was full. I asked how many people and wasn’t there a limit to the people. She said she didn’t know exactly how many people were in, but the limit was 1000. And it was more than that. I followed the Tesla in a u-turn and had to wait to get out of the park entrance because of the traffic jam. As i was waiting to leave I heard a woman yelling at the ranger that “This is unacceptable, there are people parked in front of my house” As I drove out of the park I saw cars parked along the side street that the deer had been crossing. People were walking toward the park from their cars. I wonder if the ranger let them in the gate and was that how the number had increased over 1000. Please stip the agreement that enables Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Portola Valley, Ladera, Woodside from using the park. Make a reciprocal agreement with EPA for shared usage of Foothill and thieir Bay Shore Park. 29 Baumb, Nelly From:lchiapella@juno.com Sent:Monday, December 28, 2020 3:09 PM To:mimi.wolf@gmail.com Cc:Reynolds, Brian; Reich, Russ; Collazo, Mike; Glanckopf, Annette; Council, City Subject:Re: Leaves obstruction sidewalk in Midtown Well I forgot to send this to you and at least only CVS shopping center is left to clean up...l  ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  The City"s "kinder but gentler" enforcement maven is retiring. It is time for enforcement to contact the property owners  of these properties that refuse to clear the sidewalks and leave garbage to be collected by Greer Stone and Betsy  Bechtel and Midtown residents and shoppers. The City has neglected its responsibility in regards to the environment of  the Midtown shopping area for many years, including allowing garbage and junk to accumulate behind the shopping  centers, street trees to die, maintenance and replacement of landscape strips to fail.  Absentee property owners need to be accountable for cleaning up their properties. A walk along the sidewalks in the  shopping area clearly shows who cares and does a good job and who doesn't. Requests for enforcement in South Palo  Alto just seem to fall into a cylindrical hole with lots of talk and no action.     ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Mj Wolf <mimi.wolf@gmail.com>  To: "Reynolds, Brian" <Brian.Reynolds@cityofpaloalto.org>  Cc: "Reich, Russ" <Russ.Reich@cityofpaloalto.org>, "Collazo, Mike" <term.Mike.Collazo@cityofpaloalto.org>,  "Glanckopf, Annette" <annette_g@att.net>, Lynne Chiapella <lchiapella@juno.com>  Subject: Re: Leaves obstruction sidewalk in Midtown  Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:21:05 ‐0800  Hello All,   As of today (12/17/2020) the collection of leaves in front of the midtown CVS and Edible Arrangements, 2701 and 2740  Middlefield Road, have not been cleared. The obstructing leaves are now wet and slippery and pose a significant danger  to pedestrians. I spoke to an employee at CVS but he claimed that CVS is not responsible for clearing the sidewalk. I  understand that local businesses are struggling but if the parking lots are cleared, why not the sidewalk?  I'll follow up in a few weeks.   Best regards,  Mimi Wolf   On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 9:22 PM Reynolds, Brian <Brian.Reynolds@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  Thank you as well. I appreciate you bringing this to our attention. The goal I would like to set is that they maintain the  landscaping so this is not a yearly problem.   Happy holidays!  Brian Reynolds | Code Enforcement Officer | P&CE Department  250 Hamilton Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301  650‐329‐2358  Brian.Reynolds@cityofpaloalto.org  Please think of the environment before printing this email – Thank you!    On Dec 6, 2019, at 7:15 PM, Mj Wolf <mimi.wolf@gmail.com> wrote:  Hello Brian,   30 Thank you for your attention to this matter, I was pleased to find the CVS sidewalk was cleared today. I  am grateful to you for enforcing this code and reducing the risk of injury. Keeping the sidewalks clear  makes walking more enjoyable.  Best,  Mimi    On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 4:26 PM Reynolds, Brian <Brian.Reynolds@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  Hello,  I spoke with the store manager today and they have placed a work order. I am also getting in contact  with the property manager to make sure this problem is monitored continuously. I hope to see  improvement by next week at the latest.  Thank you  Brian Reynolds | Lead Code Enforcement Officer | Planning & Development Services  285 Hamilton Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301  T: 650.329.2358 |E: brian.reynolds@cityofpaloalto.org  Please think of the environment before printing this email – Thank you!  <image005.png>  From: Mj Wolf <mimi.wolf@gmail.com>   Sent: Friday, November 29, 2019 10:40 PM  To: Reynolds, Brian <Brian.Reynolds@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Reich, Russ <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Collazo, Mike  <term.Mike.Collazo@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lynne Chiapella <lchiapella@juno.com>; Glanckopf,  Annette <annette_g@att.net>; Furman, Sheri <sheri11@earthlink.net>  Subject: Re: Leaves obstruction sidewalk in Midtown  Dear Brian,  Just following up with my message from 11/19/19. As of today (11/27/19) the collection of leaves in  front of the midtown CVS and Edible Arrangements, 2701 and 2740 Middlefield Road, have not been  cleared. The obstructing leaves are now wet and slippery and pose a significant danger to pedestrians.  Attached are photos taken on Wednesday, 11/25. I am confident that if you are to return to the area  you will find that no remedy has been made.  ‐Mimi Wolf  745 San Carlos Ct, Palo Alto, CA 94306  (650)245‐6434  <image003.jpg>  <image004.jpg>  On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 2:12 PM Reynolds, Brian <Brian.Reynolds@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  31 Hello Ms. Wolf,  I spoke with the manager at CVS and they are aware of the situation but apparently were unaware  that the property maintenance for the leaves is their requirement.  I informed her it is and I am following up with a notice to them as well as the property owners in  Rhode Island so we can avoid this being a yearly occurrence.  I anticipate this should get resolved soon and I will follow‐up with a re‐inspection to ensure  compliance.  Sincerely,  Brian Reynolds | Lead Code Enforcement Officer | Planning & Development Services  285 Hamilton Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301  T: 650.329.2358 |E: brian.reynolds@cityofpaloalto.org  Please think of the environment before printing this email – Thank you!  <image005.png>    Begin forwarded message:  From: Mj Wolf <mimi.wolf@gmail.com>  Date: November 19, 2019 at 10:50:14 PM PST  To: "Reich, Russ" <Russ.Reich@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: "Reynolds, Brian" <Brian.Reynolds@CityofPaloAlto.org>, "Collazo, Mike"  <term.Mike.Collazo@CityofPaloAlto.org>, Lynne Chiapella <lchiapella@juno.com>  Subject: Leaves obstruction sidewalk in Midtown  CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    I would like to call attention to a violation of PAMC 8.04.05(a)(8) for excessive leaves  blocking the flow of pedestrian traffic within the following block on Middlefield:  CVS Pharmacy, 2701 Middlefield Avenue, Palo Alto, CA  Palo Alto Wellness Center, 2700 Middlefield  Edible Arrangements, 2740 Middlefield, Pla  Empty space that was formerly Noxcuses, 2741 Middlefield  The leaves (large) have fallen from the trees and are piling up across the sidewalk on  both sides of the street within the block described above. As a daily walker in the  32 midtown area for over 30 years, I have noticed that each year the leaves in this area  are left to collect all season. It is difficult, and maybe dangerous, to wade through  the dry leaves. But every year when the rainy season begins the carpet of matted  leaves become slippery and hazardous to pedestrians.   Are the merchants responsible for keeping the sidewalk in front of their business free  from obstruction? I look forward to hearing from you.  Best,  Mimi Wolf  745 San Carlos Ct, Palo Alto, CA 94306  650.245.6434  ‐‐  M. Wolf  650.245.6434  “It seems to me that the good lord in his Infinite wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable‐  hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”  ‐‐‐Robyn Davidson      ‐‐   M. Wolf  650.245.6434  “It seems to me that the good lord in his Infinite wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable‐  hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”  ‐‐‐Robyn Davidson  ‐‐  M. Wolf  650.245.6434  “It seems to me that the good lord in his Infinite wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable‐ hope, jokes, and  dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”  ‐‐‐Robyn Davidson  33 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Monday, December 28, 2020 3:55 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; nick yovino; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: The Queen's Christmas Broadcast 2020 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, Dec 28, 2020 at 3:15 AM  Subject: The Queen's Christmas Broadcast 2020  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      Monday, Dec. 28, 2020    This is well worth seeing. 7 minutes:    The Queen's Christmas Broadcast 2020 ⶂⶃⶄⶅⶆⶇⶈⶉⶊႻႼႽႾႿჀჁ ᥼᥽᥾᥿ᦀᦁ ‐ BBC ‐ YouTube    LH  34 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, December 27, 2020 10:04 PM To:Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Greer Stone; Cormack, Alison; Council, City; roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu; chuck jagoda; Perron, Zachary; Jethroe Moore; Roberta Ahlquist; Raven Malone; Jonsen, Robert; Cari Templeton; Steven D. Lee; Kaloma Smith; Human Relations Commission; Ed Lauing; Rebecca Eisenberg; Joe Simitian; greg@gregtanaka.org; Winter Dellenbach; Fine, Adrian Subject:Racial slur -and its cost to young lives and a community CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    FYI: How long will Palo Alto be silent re Zack Perron?    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi‐groves‐jimmy‐galligan‐racial‐slurs.amp.html      Sent from my iPhone    35 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, December 27, 2020 9:48 PM To:Honky Subject:It’s now or never... WE HAVE TO GET IT TOGETHER PEOPLE ...........................IT'S NOW OR NEVER CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  IT'S NOW OR NEVER... https://twitter.com/ZNeveri/status/1342995101149245440 36 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, December 27, 2020 8:07 AM To:Honky Subject:Invoke The Insurrection Act Now! - Brother Nathanael - CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  The Will of the People is otherwise at stake, and usurped by FRAUD from alien and foreign assets... Invoke The Insurrection Act Now! - Brother Nathanael - https://www.realjewnews.com/?p=1473 ~ ~ otherwise ~ ~ "When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty" Thomas Jefferson 37 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Sunday, December 27, 2020 5:11 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; bballpod; David Balakian; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mark Standriff; Mayor; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; midge@thebarretts.com; newsdesk; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 4:27 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 4:15 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 3:21 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>    Very late on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020    To all‐ Here is Dr. John Campbell on Dec. 26, 2020‐ Boxing day in the UK (and in Canada).: He gives an update on Covid in  UK and U.S. over the past 24 hours: Only 17 minutes this time: All grim.     Boxing Day Pandemic Update ‐ YouTube  38   Congress should invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from power. That would probably lodge the  presidential power in Pence. Trump is giving the middle finger to the American people and has stopped functioning as  President. Thousands of people have already died due to his bungling response to the Covid pandemic and many  thousands more will die in the next three months due to his going AWOL in these critical days. If we still have a federal  government at this point, it should remove Trump from power.     Pence should then invoke the DPA to get the monoclonal antibody of Eli Lilly manufactured at scale and he should get it  distributed and ready to infulse. I found a vid. here about their antibody. It IS safe and available to hospitals but they are  so overwhelmed by the crush of Covid pts. that they don't have the time or staff to infuse it. That should change  because it saves lives. Enlist nursing students and fourth year medical students to infuse it. KCBS says that the State of  California is recruiting medical staff in Taiwan. It should recruit medical staff in China, experienced in dealing with this  pandemic.     Pence should cause the FDA to approve an EUA for the Oxford‐Azn vaccine. It is being approved in the UK.     Here is an Oct. 7, 2020 vid of the CEO of Lilly discussing their antibody. Not discussing how hospitals are using or not  using the Lilly antibody.    Eli Lilly Covid Antibody Drug Cost Based on Nation's Wealth, Says CEO ‐ YouTube    Here is the NYT article of Dec. 23, 2020 discussing how hospitals are and are not infusing the Lilly antibody and why:    Why Covid Antibody Drugs Go Unused as Need Soars ‐ The New York Times (nytimes.com)    I would halt all air traffic within the United States except for critical medical deliveries, food deliveries and the  movement of people involved in fighting the pandemic. Military and national security items and personnel could also fly.  I would halt all air traffic into and out of the United States. I would halt all ships entering U.S. ports except for those  bringing fuel, food, medicine, etc. I would halt all Amtrac travel, except for items and people involved in fighting the  pandemic. I would close the Canadian and Mexican borders to rail and highway traffic except for items and personnel  such as for the preceding. I would close I‐80, I‐25‐ I‐10, I‐95, and all other interstate highways in the United States and  use the Army to enforce that. Trucks hauling items used to fight the pandemic would be allowed to travel on the  interstates. The Army should be sent into places like Fresno, Ca. where the corrupt politicians will not enforce lock‐down  orders from the Governor and the Army should enforce the lock‐downs. Fresno Co. now has zero available ICU beds.    The U.S. government is still permitting flights in from S. Africa, where a variant of Covid is spreading rapidly. It is the  same variant that arose in the UK and is ~60 more transmissible than the original Covid virus. It affects young people.  We let the planes from S. Africa land ~7 or 8 AM at JFK every morning with no restrictions.     The new policy of requiring passengers flying from the UK to the U.S. to test negative for the either variant of Covid  within 3 days of traveling is ineffective. See the vid by Dr. Campbell above to see why. They could test negative the day  before traveling and become fully infectious 4 or 5 days after they arrive in the U.S. due to the incubation period of the  virus.       L. William Harding  Fresno            39 ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 1:07 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, <antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>,  David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, beachrides <beachrides@sbcglobal.net>, Leodies Buchanan  <leodiesbuchanan@yahoo.com>, paul.caprioglio <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, city.council  <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Cathy Lewis <catllewis@gmail.com>, Chris Field <cfield@ciw.edu>, Doug Vagim  <dvagim@gmail.com>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, Dan  Richard <danrichard@mac.com>, david pomaville <pomaville165@sbcglobal.net>, <eappel@stanford.edu>,  <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>, <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, <fmerlo@wildelectric.net>,  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Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 12:10 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 11:16 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 5:04 PM  40 Subject: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>    Chrismas Eve, 2020    Here is grim news. Since people will not listen to the experts, they travel in droves. We will, therefore, see a huge surge  in Covid cases in Jan. and Feb. If you are over 40 and your are still alive in the U.S. on Feb. 28, 2021, you will have done  well. The hospitals are at the breaking point now, and, with all the travel and close contact, plus the new variants from  England and South Africa being allowed into the U.S., the HC system will be in real trouble in coming weeks. People will  die who only need basic treatment, such as O2 and steroids, if they cannot get treated. We cannot get the vaccines into  our arms fast enough.     UK and South Africa new viral variant ‐ YouTube    Just watched the whole thing. U.S. has still not banned flights from U.K and S. Africa, and it should. Trump seems to be in  a depressed trance. We need decisions from him. Ban the flights, invoke the DPA to get monoclonal antibodies  produced, distributed and avail. for infusion. If that is not through enough trials so far, people who might be saved with  the one from Lilly will just die if we don't try it. What could happen? The antibodies would kill them? If that happens,  stop infusing them.     Official Washington is just negligent to the point of murder. Where is the advice re Lilly monoclonal antibodies to  Trump? Not a word from the great leaders of Medicine in Washington. Why are we allowing in flights from UK and S.  Africa? Sure, people can fly London to Madrid, wait a day or two, and fly to NY. BUT a ban would mean fewer people  from UK. Numbers count here.    Just listen to what Dr. Campbell says in the vid. this Xmas Eve. Only good news is that the Oxford Azn vaccine is about to  be approved in UK. Soon here too unless the head of the FDA refuses to authorize it. If Trump fires him he'll be mad as a  wet hen. We'll soon have both the new variant in England‐ 2020 12‐ and the new variant from S. Africa. Note that many  young people infected in S. Africa are very sick. That will happen here in the U.S.. Jan. and Feb. will be wild with a big  increase in cases and deaths, including lots of young people. Draconian measures will have to be imposed here.    In mid October, 1981, I returned from S. Africa after a month there. They fly from Jan Smutts International Airport in  Joburg for eight hours and land in the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Senegal in West Africa. That is half the flight. It  is 7,987 miles NY to Joburg, a third of the way around the world. I learned the number. The crew that brought you up  from S. Africa gets out and walks over to the plane that just landed from New York and flys it on down to S. Africa. On  my way down, in mid Sept., 1981, there was a big Russian jet transport sitting there as we walked the long distance to  the little terminal to rest. Hammer and sickle behind the pilot's window. Middle of the night. Inside the terminal sat  young Cuban males, accompanied by blue eyed Russians. These were Cuban troops that Castro had lent to the Russians  for the war in Angola. I walked around among these people. None said a word. Rotating fans spun on the ceiling. Like a  scene from Casablanca in a back‐water of the world. It was an eye‐opener to see that Russia moved its mercenary troops  around in the S. Atlantic not on old DC‐3s, but on big modern jet transports. When I got back to New York, I wrote to the  WH and got a thank you back from Donald Regan, WH Chief of Staff.    So now, every evening around 6 PM, a plane leaves Joburg headed for New York. Some of the passengers can be  infected with the new S. African variant. 60% more transmissible, able to cause serious illness in young people. And we  let it land. That's called our government. But, strange decisions are being made by governments. China has banned  flights from the UK but is allowing flights from S. Africa.     Merry Christmas.      41 LH  42 Baumb, Nelly From:Alice Smith <alice.smith@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, December 26, 2020 7:38 PM To:Tammy Kreznar; Council, City Subject:As you know I opposed the decision to open Foothills Park to one and all for very real concerns. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  A friend who was there recently sent this. I am quite sure she had no idea that I opposed the opening. I opposed the  referendum because I loathed the referendum on Mayfield Housing which was wrong. I believe in representative  government and not normally referenda decisions.     (Hiked 6 mi. in Foothills Park this a.m.. By 1 when we left there may have been 200 humans there (certainly more than 60 cars, most  carrying families of 4 but some just singles) & a backed‐up line at the gate, as rangers asked each driver if the vehicle contained any  dogs! Of course today there was almost nothing happening on the picnic grounds; just people walking, some unmasked. I think,  personally, that opening this preserve to the world at large will be its ruin. Trails are already strewn w/trash, & people w/o better  information think orange peels & Kleenex, plastic candy wrappers, plastic bottles & caps, & foil candy wraps will just break down  where they fall. And the restrooms will surely fail to handle all that usage. I hope the ACLU challenge, if it is that, fails; so there; and  yes, I am still a member.)    She does not currently live in Palo Alto but was a very long term resident.     The ACLU did not do a service for the greater good on this one, as I have told them before.     Alice Schaffer Smith  850 Webster Street #520  Palo Alto, CA 94301  650 283 2822  43 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, December 25, 2020 6:21 PM To:Honky Subject:Could you share this Go Fund Me link with your Facebook Friends and others CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Could you share this Go Fund Me link with your Facebook Friends and others. Thanks, Dave Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!!! 9-11 Anthrax Congressional Petition Fundraiser, organized by David Meiswinkle     To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In 9-11 Anthrax Congressional Petition Fundraiser, organized by David Meisw... Want to join us in making a difference? We are raising money to benef… David Meiswinkle needs your support for 9...      44 Baumb, Nelly From:Lara Streiff <lara.streiff@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, December 25, 2020 12:49 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothill park concerns CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Good afternoon,     Happy holidays to you all.    I just wanted to send a quick email regarding the recent opening of foothill park as soon as possible. My name is Lara  Streiff. I was raised in Palo Alto, and a frequenter of foothill park, even during the time when I was young and my family  regularly paid for entry. We didn’t mind the fee for the sake of maintaining the park we know and love.    When I heard the park was to be opened to the public I was curious to see how it would go,and truthfully concerned  about the wildlife and preservation of the land, but restricted numbers of visitors reassured me.     However, when the park was opened recently without limits to visitors, I was surprised and disappointed after coming  myself to see the rows of cars from the entrance throughout the common parking lots. I saw no less than 7 dogs despite  a sign at the front that they were not allowed, and several off leash. I saw numerous groups walking off‐path or in the  wrong direction on a one way trail.     I understand that there are budget cuts, but can I ask why no rangers were around to inform all these new park goers as  to how to preserve and respect this open space? I fear for the animals that inhabit this space and I am afraid that the  aspects of the park I most enjoy, the peaceful quiet and the glimpses of wildlife, will be a thing of the past. I don’t think  it is acceptable that the park is being staffed as before with the newly increased traffic.    I implore you to at the very least station a ranger at the entrance to provide information regarding how to maintain and  preserve foothill park as it was. I hope that these new visitors will appreciate and respect it as much as I have, and will  help protect the special open space that the park has always been. Sadly I think Palo Alto residents who know what it  can be will be sorely disappointed to visit it now.     Regards,  Lara Streiff   ‐‐   Lara Streiff    lara.streiff@gmail.com  650.285.9910  www.larastreiff.com  45 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, December 25, 2020 10:25 AM To:Honky Subject:BlackListed News Updates CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  THEY? are even BEYOND these TECHNOLOGIES?. There is NO PLACE to RUN or NO PLACE to HIDE? Your FREQUENCY is a FREQUENCY like no others? NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM SAYING? just sayin :) <3 With no 'controls' on microwave weapons, their potential to kill individual even picking one out of a crowd is coming. One of the many reasons a higher % of the masses needs to wake up. Our political system is below 'sucks'. Horrible things are coming through technology. Throw the words 'conspiracy theories' out the window. 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Email delivery powered by Google Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States   47 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Friday, December 25, 2020 1:08 AM To:Loran Harding; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; bballpod; David Balakian; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; newsdesk; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net; midge@thebarretts.com Subject:Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 12:22 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 12:10 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 11:16 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 5:04 PM  48 Subject: Dr. John Campbell new today. Disaster in U.S, in Jan and Feb. 115 million traveling  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>    Chrismas Eve, 2020    Here is grim news. Since people will not listen to the experts, they travel in droves. We will, therefore, see a huge surge  in Covid cases in Jan. and Feb. If you are over 40 and your are still alive in the U.S. on Feb. 28, 2021, you will have done  well. The hospitals are at the breaking point now, and, with all the travel and close contact, plus the new variants from  England and South Africa being allowed into the U.S., the HC system will be in real trouble in coming weeks. People will  die who only need basic treatment, such as O2 and steroids, if they cannot get treated. We cannot get the vaccines into  our arms fast enough.     UK and South Africa new viral variant ‐ YouTube    Just watched the whole thing. U.S. has still not banned flights from U.K and S. Africa, and it should. Trump seems to be in  a depressed trance. We need decisions from him. Ban the flights, invoke the DPA to get monoclonal antibodies  produced, distributed and avail. for infusion. If that is not through enough trials so far, people who might be saved with  the one from Lilly will just die if we don't try it. What could happen? The antibodies would kill them? If that happens,  stop infusing them.     Official Washington is just negligent to the point of murder. Where is the advice re Lilly monoclonal antibodies to  Trump? Not a word from the great leaders of Medicine in Washington. Why are we allowing in flights from UK and S.  Africa? Sure, people can fly London to Madrid, wait a day or two, and fly to NY. BUT a ban would mean fewer people  from UK. Numbers count here.    Just listen to what Dr. Campbell says in the vid. this Xmas Eve. Only good news is that the Oxford Azn vaccine is about to  be approved in UK. Soon here too unless the head of the FDA refuses to authorize it. If Trump fires him he'll be mad as a  wet hen. We'll soon have both the new variant in England‐ 2020 12‐ and the new variant from S. Africa. Note that many  young people infected in S. Africa are very sick. That will happen here in the U.S.. Jan. and Feb. will be wild with a big  increase in cases and deaths, including lots of young people. Draconian measures will have to be imposed here.    In mid October, 1981, I returned from S. Africa after a month there. They fly from Jan Smutts International Airport in  Joburg for eight hours and land in the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Senegal in West Africa. That is half the flight. It  is 7,987 miles NY to Joburg, a third of the way around the world. I learned the number. The crew that brought you up  from S. Africa gets out and walks over to the plane that just landed from New York and flys it on down to S. Africa. On  my way down, in mid Sept., 1981, there was a big Russian jet transport sitting there as we walked the long distance to  the little terminal to rest. Hammer and sickle behind the pilot's window. Middle of the night. Inside the terminal sat  young Cuban males, accompanied by blue eyed Russians. These were Cuban troops that Castro had lent to the Russians  for the war in Angola. I walked around among these people. None said a word. Rotating fans spun on the ceiling. Like a  scene from Casablanca in a back‐water of the world. It was an eye‐opener to see that Russia moved its mercenary troops  around in the S. Atlantic not on old DC‐3s, but on big modern jet transports. When I got back to New York, I wrote to the  WH and got a thank you back from Donald Regan, WH Chief of Staff.    So now, every evening around 6 PM, a plane leaves Joburg headed for New York. Some of the passengers can be  infected with the new S. African variant. 60% more transmissible, able to cause serious illness in young people. And we  let it land. That's called our government. But, strange decisions are being made by governments. China has banned  flights from the UK but is allowing flights from S. Africa.     Merry Christmas.      49 LH  50 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Thursday, December 24, 2020 3:49 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; bballpod; David Balakian; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; jason.alvarez@ucsf.edu; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; nick yovino; david pomaville; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Brit. Dr. John Campbell, Sat. Dec. 19, 2020 re the AZN- Oxford vaccine mostly CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 4:12 AM  Subject: Fwd: Brit. Dr. John Campbell, Sat. Dec. 19, 2020 re the AZN‐ Oxford vaccine mostly  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>    Very late on Wed. Dec. 23, 2020     To all‐ Another vid by Dr. John Campbell in the UK. Excellent. This is about one day old. Very scary. "The pandemic is out  of control in the UK and the U.S." "The number of cases is growing exponentially in the UK and in the U.S."     If you've run out of things to worry about, watch this:     COVID cases increase and new variant ‐ YouTube    Note he says here that how sick one gets from Covid is a function of how many virus particles one gets. We've heard  that for a month. The new variant seems to infect the upper airway more, SO if you get exposed to it by someone who is  infected and is talking, coughing, you are probably getting more viral particles than from the original Covid variant. If so,  then you are more likely to get seriously ill if infected with the new variant.    I'd like to point out an idiotic little tapdance all the media are saying. Imagine who writes copy for NBC, CBS and ABC  News!. All Wim Min and minorities, of course. Those do not make them Biologists. They say that the new variant spreads  more easily, but the good news is that it does not cause more serious disease. (See above for a refutation of that). But  there is more: If you are twenty, neither variant will make you sick, perhaps. But if you are 50 with an underlying medical  condition, and you have avoided the original variant of Covid, you are still alive. BUT the new variant will be harder to  avoid because of its increased transmissibility. SO now, while the new variant may not make you a lot sicker, it will just  make you sick period and put you in the hospital where you may die! So all that BS about how the new variant does not  seem to make one sicker is relevant only for healthy ~20 year olds who won't get sick from either variant. Get over 45  with a health condition and the new variant is major bad news.     51 Again, he did not bastardize the English language by saying "you know". Big gun experts get on radio and TV all the time  and damage their careers by doing that. I have quit watching the PBS News hour on Monday nights because of it. All that  money and effort wasted.     Now a little more re this vid: He mispeaks at 6:32‐ unusual for him. He says there are potential implications for herd  immunity with the new variant. The vaccines aren't going to give you herd immunity for some time. At 6:35: "We had  hoped for herd immunity when 70% have been INFECTED." LH‐ I think he meant when 70% have been VACCINATED. " If  the new variant is that much more contagious, we need more people to be immune to reach herd immunity. It could  mean that the pandemic will go on longer because it's going to take the vaccine program that much longer to reach herd  immunity. It may require that 80% have been vaccinated to reach herd immunity".     At 10 minutes: "Basic medical care is what is needed for most pts. infected with Covid. Some 02, some steroids to damp  down the imflammation in the lungs". At 19:00: "In January and February, people could die for lack of basic medical  care". Because the hospitals are just overwhelmed with pts.     At 13:40, a nurse in Fresno, Ca. emails him. Of all the experts in all the world making vids re Covids, she walks into his.  He says he knows her. She says "We have had 9,572 new caes in 7 days in Fresno Co. The ICUs are full. Short on staff  because many are self isolating. The staff is under severe pressure".     LH  ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 3:25 PM  Subject: Fwd: Brit. Dr. John Campbell, Sat. Dec. 19, 2020 re the AZN‐ Oxford vaccine mostly  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>,  <antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>,  beachrides <beachrides@sbcglobal.net>, Leodies Buchanan <leodiesbuchanan@yahoo.com>,  <bearwithme1016@att.net>, boardmembers <boardmembers@hsr.ca.gov>, paul.caprioglio  <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, city.council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Cathy Lewis <catllewis@gmail.com>, Chris  Field <cfield@ciw.edu>, Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, Daniel  Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>, <eappel@stanford.edu>,  <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>, <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, <fmerlo@wildelectric.net>,  Steven Feinstein <steven.feinstein@ionicmaterials.com>, <George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu>, <grinellelake@yahoo.com>,  <Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov>, huidentalsanmateo <huidentalsanmateo@gmail.com>, hennessy  <hennessy@stanford.edu>, Irv Weissman <irv@stanford.edu>, Joel Stiner <jastiner@gmail.com>, jerry ruopoli  <jrwiseguy7@gmail.com>, <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>, kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, Mark Kreutzer  <mlkreutzer@yahoo.com>, <lalws4@gmail.com>, <margaret‐sasaki@live.com>, Mayor <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark  Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>, nick yovino <npyovino@gmail.com>, david  pomaville <pomaville165@sbcglobal.net>, <russ@topperjewelers.com>, Steve Wayte <steve4liberty@gmail.com>,  tsheehan <tsheehan@fresnobee.com>, <vallesR1969@att.net>, terry <terry@terrynagel.com>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 3:10 PM  Subject: Fwd: Brit. Dr. John Campbell, Sat. Dec. 19, 2020 re the AZN‐ Oxford vaccine mostly  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      52 ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 2:51 PM  Subject: Brit. Dr. John Campbell, Sat. Dec. 19, 2020 re the AZN‐ Oxford vaccine mostly  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>    Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020    To all‐ Here is Brit. Dr. John Campbell discussing on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, yesterday, the Pfizer, Moderna and the  AZN‐Oxford vaccines, when rolled out, number of doses to be available where, how they work. He touches on  monoclonal antibodies. He says that because of the time to produce, distribute and treat with the vaccines, "We'll lose  people in February and March just when the vaccines are becoming widely available, which is ironic. They will make it  through a year of the pandemic and then die of the virus just as a vaccine is available to them. That could happen to  recipients of this mail.     LH‐ The monoclonal antibodies, such as the one from Eli Lilly, should be widely available to cut the number of people  dying in that scenario. Keep demanding to know from top health officials in Washington why that monoclonal antibody  is not being rushed into production via a DPA order and why the studied silence about what it can do‐ save huge  numbers of lives, persists.    Sorrento Therapeutics, SRNE, says their second version of a monoclonal antibody is fifty times more potent than their  first version, and it has been approved for a human trial.     Highly reommended. I know nothing of his role in British medicine, but it must be impressive. NOT ONCE in 32 minutes  did he bastardize the English language by saying "you know". 32:14 long:    Excellent vaccine news ‐ YouTube    L. William Harding  Fresno, Ca.   53 Baumb, Nelly From:pennyellson12@gmail.com Sent:Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:57 PM To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed Subject:Christmas Tree Lane--Action needed before tonight. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council and City Manager Shikada,    I reached out to a member of CoPA Transportation staff this week because I noticed that City of Palo Alto publicity on  Christmas Tree Lane says that the street is closed to pedestrians and bicyclists, and open exclusively to cars.     Predictably, hundreds of people are ignoring the city’s directive. I checked it out last night. You will be glad to know  that most people were wearing masks and staying well apart in their family groups. However, guidance on foot traffic  flow would have been very helpful to make it easier for people to stay well apart.    I reached out to Transportation and learned that no one on the 7th floor had conferred with Transportation staff about  this directive before releasing publicity with the restrictions and placing City of Palo Alto sandwich boards with the  restrictions notice.     1). As far as I can tell, this is not legally enforceable. It certainly is not consistent with city policy.    2). I think there is a better way to provide a safe, socially distant traffic flow. People have learned how to follow  directional guidance from months of following arrows and directional signs in stores. Taped arrows on the sidewalks  and sandwich board signs instructing people wear masks and to stroll only in one direction and keep socially distant— just like they do when they grocery shop—would have been far more useful and less heavy handed than restricting  pedestrian access.    How did the city’s directive work? Predictably, the car exhaust was awful and made the experience far less pleasant than  usual for everyone. Cars were backed up on Embarcadero and Middlefield. I heard, through a few open car windows,  children strapped into car seats whining to their parents about how they could not see anything.     The city employs staff who have deep experience managing traffic. I realize these are challenging times, but that makes  it especially important for people and departments to cooperate with each other. Please encourage better collaboration  across departmental lines. Include the Transportation staff in transportation decisions.    Imposing poorly thought out, unenforceable restrictions only upsets people and undermines trust in government  guidelines in a time when people are already restricted in so many other truly necessary ways. Instead, the city might  provide guidance on what to do to maintain safety while they enjoy this holiday tradition. (Because they are going to do  it anyway, as we saw last night.)     Please consider using those sandwich boards more effectively tonight and tomorrow to provide information to support a  safer walk for the hundreds of people who choose not to drive. It would have helped a lot to have some arrows on the  sidewalk to manage traffic flow better. A short conversation with Transportation staff might have enabled a better plan.     Questions: Is closing the public neighborhood sidewalk in this way legal and enforceable? Is it consistent with city  transportation policy? Who designed and approved the chosen course of action, and why was Transportation staff not  consulted?  54   Family strolls down Christmas Tree Lane are a beloved Palo Alto tradition that people will continue. This was  demonstrated last night. This could have been managed to maintain a healthy, Covid‐safe environment and to maintain  community morale through the holiday season. There is still time to make changes to insure safety tonight and  tomorrow.    Be safe, be healthy. Thank you for all you do.    Sincerely,    Penny Ellson    To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.   Virus-free. www.avg.com   55 Baumb, Nelly From:Ardan Michael Blum <ardan.michael.blum@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 24, 2020 11:04 AM To:tomforcouncil@gmail.com; lydiakou@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Filseth, Eric (external); gstone22@gmail.com; patburt11@gmail.com; Clerk, City; Council, City Subject:Re: Emergency Foil Mylar Thermal Blankets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  As no answer has come I have sent my message to you across town to 53 leading community members and have published the message here: https://ardanmichaelblum.medium.com/palo-alto-letter-to-city-council-do- black-lives-really-palo-alto-california-ecedd32e96a9 - I will be taking to social media actively soon as well.   On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 6:48 PM Ardan Michael Blum <ardan.michael.blum@gmail.com> wrote:  Dear Fellow Palo Altans, I would like to ask you to discuss an issue of some urgency. You were all for painting black lives matter right next to city hall and if BLACK LIVES matter then I would like to draw your attention to several African American homeless people who are shivering nightly outside of the 7 Eleven on Waverly and who do not profit greatly by your large statement of concern. Sadly the issue of homelessness in Palo Alto is (from an informal demographic point of view) a majority African American issue. Maybe with a few exceptions. What I am getting at is that you are ready to invest huge amounts to be seen by the press as WOKE but the idea of a mobile bus which offers both foil mylar thermal blankets, ponchos, bedding, already warm soup, some pocket change, and a way for these people to be cared for IS SIMPLY NOT TAKING PLACE as these are the people that no one wants to see and ignores. The tragic fate of these, largely African American men should urgently be met with a budget. 56 I am willing to provide 400 dollars cash a month to a fund if such a fund is set up, as you may be out of money with the painting budget for the next mural. Being woke is fine. You are fed, housed and have central heating in one of the richest towns on earth where the city manager makes almost HALF A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR - which is madness, well, only in Palo Alto! Anyhow ... As you will be discussing Covid related issues may you please organize that some service of the city drive about for a few hours each night to help the homeless. DO NOT FORGET: When Covid started you set up some washing stations and some people would put our bread and cans of food for the homeless. That is over. The washing stations are still there. What the man shivering at the 7 Eleven needs is help. I would venture to suggest that in the short term the office of Emergency Services might be asked to hand out these blankets till someone / a service can be set up. Stay safe, and stop for heaven's sake your wasting budget money on BLM murals; use the money to feed kids in need and the homeless. Your several hundreds or thousands spent on a mural may not warm anyone that you claim matters. Sincerely, Ardan Michael Blum       ‐‐   /—/   ADDRESS:  Ardan Michael Blum A. Blum Localization Services 345 Forest Avenue, Suite 204 57 94301, Palo Alto, California, USA. PHONE/ PGP DETAILS: Mobile & WhatsApp: +1 (650) 427-9358 Home: [not accepting text messages] +1 (650) 847-1810 PGP Key: Request SOCIALLY & WORK ONLINE: Twitter: @ArdanBlum | @Palo_Alto_Seo | @PaloAltoTourist Professional Website: https://corporateseotraining.com Personal Blog: https://iterate.live NOTICE: This email, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information or may otherwise be protected by law. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachment thereto.   /—/ /—/   58 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:42 PM To:Rebecca Eisenberg Cc:Lait, Jonathan; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission; Stump, Molly Subject:Re: How to save Jonathan Lait money this Holiday Season CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.     AB 3121: California’s new Reperations Act passed by Newson September 30, 2020.   Nine person commission to be appointed each with specified academic skills, long time reparations and civil rights  advocacy skill set. Newson appoints 5 of the 9 members. This is the first of its kind Reparation Act in the Nation. A  detailed report will be drafted with mechanisms designed re how to implement and deliver on the historical debt of  slavery, Jim Crow, historical educational exclusionary white supremacy tactics to exclude large numbers of blacks ( think  and know Castilleja has been a large part of the exclusionary segregationist policies going back to 1907).    We will push to put Castilleja under an historical microscope with the goal of closing down Castilleja as it currently exist.  Instead of Palo Alto being a city of token (word only) support of the BLM movement combined the new power of our  new Reparation Act we propose the following: Castillega be sold to the city of Palo Alto or a large donor ‐and the entire  campus be turned in to a black educational & culture institution ‐with the same resources put towards black education  that have historically been reserved for predominantly young white ruling class women. This is the right and moral thing  to do if Palo Alto is to begin to pay back the African American Community for the sins of slavery, Jim Crow laws, mass  incarceration, housing discrimination, lack of quality medical care access all of which our white community has benefited  over generation..  Palo Alto must create its own parallel Reparations Act ( Parallel the state act).  I suggest that rather then each of you thumbing your nose as such a proposal, that you take 1/2 hr to read this relatively  short but powerful Reparations Act.       Sent from my iPhone      On Dec 23, 2020, at 6:13 PM, Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> wrote:     Dear Mr. Lait,     I heard you say in tonight's Special City Council Meeting that your department has many expenses this  year, which is why you seek at least $150,000 to assist you and your department with "administrative  expenses" and to pay "consultants."     According to my research, your largest avoidable cost is the huge, irrational and inappropriate amount  of city department time and resources you continue to spend on enabling Castilleja's amended CUP  (despite your legal obligation to protect the community from exploitative actions taken by wealthy  private interests like Castilleja, as explained in the attached documents).   59   Given that you have zero legal right to approve Castilleja's harmful and dangerous proposed Amended  CUP (which you can read about in greater detail in the attached emails), wouldn't saying NO to Castilleja  for once and all save far more than the $150,000 you seek to take away from housing the homeless?     You may fear that Castilleja will sue you if you say no. But what you fail to recognize is that if you grant  Castilleja its arrogantly overreaching CUP, you create an even greater risk of being sued ‐‐ and those  lawsuits are even more likely to succeed. As a reminder, Brown Act violations come with the possibility  of personal liability, and most government immunity rules do not apply.    I solved your problem without causing even greater harm to Palo Alto's large and growing vulnerable  population.    Happy Holidays!  Best,  Rebecca Eisenberg     Rebecca Eisenberg, Esq. Principal & Founder Private Client Legal Services www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg rebecca@privateclientlegal.com 415-235-8078       Rebecca Eisenberg for Positive Change  Our Community Deserves Better  415-235-8078  rebecca@winwithrebecca.com  www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg  Twitter: @rle Facebook @reisenberg  <Eisenberg Castilleja Letter ‐ 1.pdf>  <Moncharsh Formal Complaint for PNQL.pdf>  <Eisenberg Letter to PACC PTC ARB November 22 2020 copy.pdf>  60 Baumb, Nelly From:Ardan Michael Blum <ardan.michael.blum@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 6:11 PM To:tomforcouncil@gmail.com; lydiakou@gmail.com; greg@gregtanaka.org; Filseth, Eric (external); gstone22@gmail.com; patburt11@gmail.com; Clerk, City; Council, City Subject:Re: Emergency Foil Mylar Thermal Blankets CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  NOT ONE MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL answered this. How sad. How shocking.   On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 6:48 PM Ardan Michael Blum <ardan.michael.blum@gmail.com> wrote:  Dear Fellow Palo Altans, I would like to ask you to discuss an issue of some urgency. You were all for painting black lives matter right next to city hall and if BLACK LIVES matter then I would like to draw your attention to several African American homeless people who are shivering nightly outside of the 7 Eleven on Waverly and who do not profit greatly by your large statement of concern. Sadly the issue of homelessness in Palo Alto is (from an informal demographic point of view) a majority African American issue. Maybe with a few exceptions. What I am getting at is that you are ready to invest huge amounts to be seen by the press as WOKE but the idea of a mobile bus which offers both foil mylar thermal blankets, ponchos, bedding, already warm soup, some pocket change, and a way for these people to be cared for IS SIMPLY NOT TAKING PLACE as these are the people that no one wants to see and ignores. The tragic fate of these, largely African American men should urgently be met with a budget. I am willing to provide 400 dollars cash a month to a fund if such a fund is set up, as you may be out of money with the painting budget for the next mural. Being woke is fine. You are fed, housed and have central heating in one of the richest towns on earth where the city manager makes almost 61 HALF A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR - which is madness, well, only in Palo Alto! Anyhow ... As you will be discussing Covid related issues may you please organize that some service of the city drive about for a few hours each night to help the homeless. DO NOT FORGET: When Covid started you set up some washing stations and some people would put our bread and cans of food for the homeless. That is over. The washing stations are still there. What the man shivering at the 7 Eleven needs is help. I would venture to suggest that in the short term the office of Emergency Services might be asked to hand out these blankets till someone / a service can be set up. Stay safe, and stop for heaven's sake your wasting budget money on BLM murals; use the money to feed kids in need and the homeless. Your several hundreds or thousands spent on a mural may not warm anyone that you claim matters. Sincerely, Ardan Michael Blum       ‐‐   /—/   ADDRESS:  Ardan Michael Blum A. Blum Localization Services 345 Forest Avenue, Suite 204 94301, Palo Alto, California, USA. PHONE/ PGP DETAILS: Mobile & WhatsApp: +1 (650) 427-9358 Home: [not accepting text messages] +1 (650) 847-1810 PGP Key: Request 62 SOCIALLY & WORK ONLINE: Twitter: @ArdanBlum | @Palo_Alto_Seo | @PaloAltoTourist Professional Website: https://corporateseotraining.com Personal Blog: https://iterate.live NOTICE: This email, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information or may otherwise be protected by law. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachment thereto.   /—/ /—/   63 Baumb, Nelly From:Patrick Toland <ptoland@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 5:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:RVs on El Camino CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    All,    I wanted to know what the latest thinking is related to the RVs on El Camino.    I live nearby and count the vehicles daily for the past couple years.  Lately the numbers have been greater than 40 which  is as many as I’ve seen.  And several are immobile.    But I actually have less problem with the RVs themselves and more with the fact that they are now expanding their use  of space outside the RVs.  It’s starting to resemble the encampments you see in San Francisco and Sacramento.  They  have pylons, tents, bags of trash, bikes, bbqs, etc.    It’s my understanding that the city of Palo Alto does not have jurisdiction on El Camino but would like to know what you  can do.  And if you are really incapable of doing anything, who does have the authority here?    Thanks for your consideration,    Patrick Toland  a Palo Alto registered voter since 1999    Sent from my iPad    64 Baumb, Nelly From:Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 4:58 PM To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed Cc:Roberta Ahlquist; Winter Dellenbach; Greer Stone; Raven Malone; chuck jagoda; Steven D. Lee; Cormack, Alison; Cari Templeton; Ed Lauing; Human Relations Commission; Greg Tanaka; Fine, Adrian; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; DuBois, Tom; eric.filseth@cityofpaloalto.com; Dave Price; Aram James; mark weiss; Curtis Smolar Subject:Re: Vong, Perez: Youth suicide, homelessness have common solution - San José Spotlight CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Thanks, Aram!     For THIS EVENING'S meeting, I hope we will receive an explanation for this:     https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/79714  Project Cancelled/Funds Returned The approved FY 2020‐21 Annual Action Plan included the funding of $149,950 for a  project by Alta Housing under the CDBG housing and public facilities rehabilitation category. This project was for the  replacement of common‐area flooring and stair treads at Alma Place. In a letter dated October 6, 2020, Alta Housing  informed the City that they were returning the funds because they could not secure a contractor willing to work  within the Davis Bacon prevailing wage requirements, which is a HUD requirement for all the capital Improvement  projects funded through CDBG. This project was part of Resolution No. 98932 adopted by the Council on June 15th,  2020.      What the above states is that you are asking to change plans because Alta Housing claims it was not able to find a  contractor willing to pay ‐ and be paid ‐ prevailing wage. As know, prevailing wage is a minimum. So if the offered wages  were too low, why couldn't Alta Housing increase the wages? And, if paying its employees prevailing wages ‐ a legal  requirement ‐ is not something that the contractor is willing to do, query whether these contractors usually pay wages  that are below government standards? If the budget is not high enough to pay workers a living wage, then the budget  needs to be increased.     This is just such an unexpected, unusual, and illogical justification for the cancellation of a project ‐‐ unless, is this typical  for how Palo Alto does business?     Additionally, I did not see plans for Palo Alto to apply for the additional hundreds of millions of money available to cities  in California via the CARES Act, as administered by the California Department of Housing and Community Development. I  still receive emails every day alerting me of the City of Palo Alto's opportunities. Do you receive those emails?     Given that you failed to apply for these hundreds of millions of dollars that already were given away to neighboring  cities in 2020, I expect you to act in the best interest of Palo Alto, and apply for the funding that is available this year.     Thank you in advance for your answers to these questions.     As a reminder, Christmas and New Year is the deadliest time of the year for the unhoused, home insecure, and  otherwise vulnerable populations. Your job is to keep all members of our community safe. We count on you to act with  integrity and courage in 2021, whether or not you did so in 2020.     65 Not everyone has the privilege to take vacations, so I hope you exercise humility and not complain about how the job  you spent so many thousands of dollars of your friends, relatives, and supporters' hard‐earned money to obtain, is  inconvenient to you. Lots of us would be more than happy to replace you, should you find serving the community a  burden.    Best,   Rebecca         Rebecca Eisenberg for Positive Change  Our Community Deserves Better  415-235-8078  rebecca@winwithrebecca.com  www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg  Twitter: @rle Facebook @reisenberg      On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 9:57 AM Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote:  FYI: important piece!!!  https://sanjosespotlight.com/vong‐perez‐youth‐suicide‐homelessness‐have‐common‐solution/      Sent from my iPhone  66 Baumb, Nelly From:Jennifer Landesmann <jlandesmann@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 4:28 PM To:Evan Wasserman Cc:SCSC Roundtable; Chris Sequeira; Steven Alverson; Council, City Subject:Re: SCSC Roundtable - GBAS Information - Soliciting comments and questions CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Hi Evan, SCSC, Steve, Chris,     Thank you for soliciting input as the SCSC prepares to do outreach to SFO about GBAS.     I have submitted various comments and questions which I hope will be considered.    11/19/20 GBAS Follow Up    12/15/20 GBAS and Environmental Review     I have two additional questions    1) Will the eventual answers from SFO be discussed with Raquel Girvin who in her role as Ombudsman (pursuant to  FAA Reauthorization 2018) should be facilitating answers and help us with our concerns? The most important answers  we need of course is how the FAA declared a CATEX (if that is confirmed) ‐ we need to know everything, what  calculations were used, methodology, and assumptions. Who and what informed that decision.     2) What role does the airport have in the JO 7100.41A process?   Am sharing a video replay of my question to SFO at the SF Roundtable about this back in February 0f 2018.     February 7, 2018 public comment on transparency and role of airport in JO 7100.41A?     Again, thank you     and wishing all Happy Holidays!       Jennifer     On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 18:47, Evan Wasserman <EWasserman@esassoc.com> wrote:  Dear SCSC Roundtable Members and Interested Parties,  On behalf of SCSC Roundtable Chairperson Bernald, and as discussed at the SCSC Roundtable Technical Working Group  (TWG) meeting on 12/15/2020, the following information is being provided as a notification to SCSC Roundtable  members, and members of the public regarding the use of the Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) procedure  at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO).   67 This material on GBAS may be of interest to member jurisdictions of the SCSC Roundtable for future consideration as  additional information becomes available. Please submit any comments or questions to the SCSC Roundtable  regarding clarification from SFO on GBAS. The SCSC Roundtable will then submit to SFO. Please provide your  comments and questions to the scscroundtable@gmail.com email address by Wednesday 12/23 for review and  incorporation into a consolidated list of questions to be sent to SFO.    The following information is being provided for your reference regarding GBAS.   The link below is to the GBAS presentation given at the TWG of the SFO Roundtable on October 7, 2020. The video of  the GBAS presentation can be found at this link starting approximately at video timestamp 1:10:50. For your  information we suggest all members and interested parties to please review the recording of the presentation.   Additional info is available on the SFO Community Roundtable website with a video recording from the  November 19, 2020 meeting, and agenda materials. The GBAS presentation starts at approximately the 00:9:10  mark of the video timestamp and continues until about 01:33:30. Again, we suggest all members and  interested parties to please review the materials/recording of these presentations for reference.   Thank you,  Evan Wasserman  Senior Associate - Community Development Group  ESA | Environmental Science Associates  Celebrating 50 Years of Work that Matters!  2600 Capitol Avenue, Suite 200  Sacramento, CA 95816  916.564.4500 main   916.231.1166 direct   EWasserman@esassoc.com | esassoc.com  Follow us on LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Vimeo  68 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 3:19 PM To:Honky Subject:This is BAT SHIT crazy A REAL NURSE IS CALLING MASK WEARERS RETARDED AND MORE LOL AND I AGREE WITH HER 100% CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  CDC's own VAX Safety results Now In (NOT GOOD): Nurse Collapses [VIDEO UPDATE - SUGGESTED SHE DIED 12hrs LATER] on Live Television Shortly After Receiving the NWO Vaccine - Fauci/Gates Virus aka GOV-ID-1984 Vaccine! Question: Why Are the Demon-Rat Pa    CDC's own VAX Safety results Now In (NOT GOOD): Nurse Collapses [VIDEO U... Clinicians, Researchers, & Health Experts from Around the World Interrogating the Mainstream Narrative Around th...    CIA FACEBOOK TOOK THE GOOD NURSE SPEAK DOWN LOL GO TO THE POST ABOVE AND IT WILL APPEAR ABOUT HALF WAY SCROLL DOWN AND CLICK LISTEN TO ALL blob: Brighteon Brighteon    70 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 2:19 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; bballpod; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Chris Field; grinellelake@yahoo.com; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; newsdesk; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Trump at his best- What's in the $900 billion Covid relief B: Plenty for foreign countries CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020    To all‐   Sending again so you can hear Trump describe the criminal provision of vast sums to foreign countries in the Covid relief  bill, to do with as they like!! And the American people get a measly $600.     LH    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 1:53 PM  Subject: Fwd: Trump at his best‐ What's in the $900 billion Covid relief B: Plenty for foreign countries  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 1:26 PM  Subject: Fwd: Trump at his best‐ What's in the $900 billion Covid relief B: Plenty for foreign countries  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:03 AM  Subject: Fwd: Trump at his best‐ What's in the $900 billion Covid relief B: Plenty for foreign countries  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, dennisbalakian  <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, Daniel Zack  <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>, david pomaville <pomaville165@sbcglobal.net>,  71 <dlfranklin0@outlook.com>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, beachrides  <beachrides@sbcglobal.net>, Leodies Buchanan <leodiesbuchanan@yahoo.com>, <bearwithme1016@att.net>,  paul.caprioglio <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, city.council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Cathy Lewis  <catllewis@gmail.com>, <eappel@stanford.edu>, <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>, <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>,  <francis.collins@nih.gov>, <fmerlo@wildelectric.net>, <grinellelake@yahoo.com>, huidentalsanmateo  <huidentalsanmateo@gmail.com>, <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>, kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, Mark Kreutzer  <mlkreutzer@yahoo.com>, <lalws4@gmail.com>, leager <leager@fresnoedc.com>, <margaret‐sasaki@live.com>, Mayor  <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>,  <russ@topperjewelers.com>, Steve Wayte <steve4liberty@gmail.com>, tsheehan <tsheehan@fresnobee.com>, terry  <terry@terrynagel.com>, <vallesR1969@att.net>, jerry ruopoli <jrwiseguy7@gmail.com>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 2:43 AM  Subject: Trump at his best‐ What's in the $900 billion Covid relief B: Plenty for foreign countries  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>    Late Tues. Dec. 22, 2020     Here is Trump re the Covid relief bill: It is indeed a scandal. Every foreign dictator will get millions to lard into his Swiss  bank accounts. I have tried for years to see how those dictators get Congress to do this and I just can't figure it out. I've  turned it over and over in my mind and gotten nowhere.     This process turned into a grab‐bag for every special interest group, including lots of foreign ones!    Bottom line: The American people, the suckers, will get next to nothing.       Trump demands bigger stimulus checks in Covid relief bill (cnbc.com) Resending the email. The bastards changed the vid  you see with this link!    Here is what you need to see. 4:09 long. Anything else is the wrong vid. Here, Trump tells you of the millions and billions  the bill gives to Cambodia, Egypt, Pakistan‐ for gender studies‐ to Burma, to Beliz, to El Salvador, to Costa Rica,  Honduras, Guatamala, Panama, and more, NOT for Covid somehow, but just money to put in their Swiss bank accounts.  With that, they can afford trophy wives and big homes in Beverly Hills. The bill provides up to $1,800 to illegal aliens, far  more than goes to the American people. Some people. not me, but some have said that Congress is an open, running  sewer of corruption.     Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "https://t.co/v9Rdjz6DNu" / Twitter    It's probably time for another big, bloody 8‐year war in Asia to really put us in our place.    The American people should see this vid. and then demand that Congress re‐work the bill and give all of the foreign  money to us instead. Threaten them with losing the next election. Just listen to the millions and billions the bill gives to  foreign countries when it's called a "Covid Relief Bill".     BTW, DW from Berlin did an interview with our ambassdor to the European Parliament, Kay Baily Hutchison, former  Governor of Texas. (Mighty sweet assignment!). She said that "the United States has to be the leader of NATO". That  means, of course, that we need to provide the vast majority of the money to maintain NATO, as we do now. Way over  72 there in Europe, she didn't think many Americans would hear that. I would fire her for that, bring her home, and let her  work as a short‐order cook in a greasy spoon in Brownsville. The American taxpayers are bled $2 billion per day to  defend ourselves and all of Europe, Japan and Korea. Good thing we don't need anything in this country. We can't build  13 miles of highway east of Gilroy, Calif.     L. William Harding  Fresno  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 23, 2020 6:12 PM To:Lait, Jonathan; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission; Stump, Molly Subject:How to save Jonathan Lait money this Holiday Season Attachments:Eisenberg Castilleja Letter - 1.pdf; Moncharsh Formal Complaint for PNQL.pdf; Eisenberg Letter to PACC PTC ARB November 22 2020 copy.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mr. Lait,     I heard you say in tonight's Special City Council Meeting that your department has many expenses this year, which is  why you seek at least $150,000 to assist you and your department with "administrative expenses" and to pay  "consultants."     According to my research, your largest avoidable cost is the huge, irrational and inappropriate amount of city  department time and resources you continue to spend on enabling Castilleja's amended CUP (despite your legal  obligation to protect the community from exploitative actions taken by wealthy private interests like Castilleja, as  explained in the attached documents).     Given that you have zero legal right to approve Castilleja's harmful and dangerous proposed Amended CUP (which you  can read about in greater detail in the attached emails), wouldn't saying NO to Castilleja for once and all save far  more than the $150,000 you seek to take away from housing the homeless?     You may fear that Castilleja will sue you if you say no. But what you fail to recognize is that if you grant Castilleja its  arrogantly overreaching CUP, you create an even greater risk of being sued ‐‐ and those lawsuits are even more likely to  succeed. As a reminder, Brown Act violations come with the possibility of personal liability, and most government  immunity rules do not apply.    I solved your problem without causing even greater harm to Palo Alto's large and growing vulnerable population.    Happy Holidays!  Best,  Rebecca Eisenberg     Rebecca Eisenberg, Esq. Principal & Founder Private Client Legal Services www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg rebecca@privateclientlegal.com 415-235-8078       Rebecca Eisenberg for Positive Change  Our Community Deserves Better  2 415-235-8078  rebecca@winwithrebecca.com  www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg  Twitter: @rle Facebook @reisenberg  Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> Why care about Castilleja's Proposed Expansion? 8 messages Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com>Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 5:10 PM To: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>, Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu>, ladoris@judgecordell.com, Giselle Galper <giselle@galper.us>, mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com>, Gail Price <gail.price3@gmail.com>, Curtis Smolar <csmolar@gmail.com>, Rebecca Sanders <rebsanders@gmail.com>, Kelsey Banes <kelsey@yimbyaction.org>, angiebevans@gmail.com, Kristin Jordahl Hansen <kjordahl@gmail.com>, Adina Sterling <adinasterling@gmail.com>, Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>, ro@rokhanna.com, supervisor.simitian@bos.sccgov.org, Elizabeth Collet Funk <elizabeth@dignityfund.com>, Bruce Reyes-Chow <breyeschow@fprespa.org>, Megan@techequitycollaborative.org, moore2j@att.net, Laurel Tamariz <laurel@schoolsandcommunitiesfirst.org>, teriolleSF@gmail.com, Teri Baldwin <teribaldwin@paeacta.org> Bcc: Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com>, Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@privateclientlegal.com> Friends: Some of you have asked me why I spend so much time fighting against private school Castilleja's proposed expansion on its 6+ acre site in RH-1 zoned Old Palo Alto, including the demolition of several existing homes, and the destruction of hundreds of protected ancient trees, so that it can increase its enrollment, add an underground parking garage for students only (not teachers or staff), and add a high-tech sound-enabled swimming pool -- none of which it intends to share at all with the community. The answer is: Castilleja's current presence on 55 residential lots as a non-tax-payer (Castilleja is tax-exempt even though it has no charitable purpose nor any requirement to serve the public benefit) harms every single one of us in Palo Alto. It deprives the public schools of necessary property tax revenue, it monopolizes city council and commission time and resources that our city needs to be spending on affordable housing and other urgent needs, and it diverts towards an upper-caste privileged institution millions of dollars of funding and support every year. While unhoused and home- unstable numbers mount in Palo Alto -- without a single shelter bed for any -- our City continues to subsidize and accommodate the whims of an extremely wealthy non-diverse private school that closes its gates to public entry and that refuses to offer even one full scholarship to needy children from nearby neighborhoods of color. Expanding this problem by 30% - what Castilleja seeks -- deprives our community's hardest hit by 30% more needed services. While most in our community is unaware that this is happening, City Council is about to deliver an unprecedented windfall beyond all it has in the past. Even worse, City Council is on track to give this windfall to Castilleja without asking to collect on behalf of our community the mitigations every other private school is forced to pay, even without being located on residential lots. To clarify, our City Council has not required Castilleja to provide shuttles (instead agreeing to an 100- space parking garage), or to pay funds to compensate our public schools for the $5 million in property tax a year that our public schools would receive if these lots were used for their zoned purpose. City Council is not requiring Castilleja to open its doors at any time, for any community use -- not even use of its high-tech swimming pool or regulation-sized gym. Not even use of its 100-car underground garage. Not surprisingly, Palo Alto City Council never demanded that Castilleja provide even ONE fully paid scholarship to any child from communities of color that have been deprived of wealth and opportunity due to decades of caste exclusion at the hands of cities like Palo Alto and upper caste organizations like Castilleja, both of which have histories (decades/centuries) of intentional racial exclusion. Rather, the City Council intends to give Castilleja the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars of public resources, variances, and city department time - for free. Unlike with every other similar development Castilleja is not being asked to pay for the millions of dollars in city costs of administering its applications, inspecting its progress, or enforcing its compliance. Given that the Palo Alto City Council has all but completely dismantled Palo Alto's Department of Enforcement and Inspections (likely caving to developer pressure, given that the enforcement department historically has been revenue-positive), the result will be more of the same -- no enforcement. If Castilleja had a record of compliance, that would be one matter. Instead, Castilleja has been in known and admitted violation of Palo Alto's codes and its Conditional Use Permit for the past 20 years. Had the City of Palo Alto collected the statutory penalties that Castilleja owed, Castilleja would have paid between $3 million to $10 million a year in penalties for its illegal over-enrollment alone. But the City of Palo Alto never even sought to collect penalties for Castilleja's code violations. For its entire history, Castilleja has received countless subsidies, windfalls, and special treatment - and now its windfalls and subsidies are about to be doubled, all to the cost of Palo Alto residents, small businesses, taxpayers, and public schools. We must stop our City Council from enabling Castilleja to exploit our neighborhoods, to raid our public coffers, to usurp our community resources, and to divert our limited resources that are needed by our communities and public schools. We must work to prevent our Council from ceding to Castilleja's demands, and we must demand that it enforce Palo Alto's laws and permits -- including either by collecting the tens of millions of dollars that Castilleja owes in code penalties, and/or by revoking Castilleja's CUP due to decades of noncompliance without consequence. The City Council seems determined to grant Castilleja everything it seeks before year's end. Many of us watched in horror while the City Council falsely claimed that they had "no choice" but to allow Chicago-based commercial developer AJ Capital to convert the apartment building they purchased (President Hotel) into an upscale hotel to serve wealthy business executives. Castilleja will become an even bigger Hotel President unless we stop this now. For your reference I attach a short letter that was written to the City Council by Leila Moncharsh, an attorney for some of Castilleja's neighbors. Of particular interest are Parts D and E, in which Ms. Moncharsh puts Castilleja's actions within their cultural context -- which is even more true today than they were almost 4 years ago when the letter was written. Also attached is my letter to the City Council, the PTC, and the ARB on which I bcc'd many of you on Sunday. And you can read the letter I posted on my campaign website here: winwithrebecca.com/castilleja I welcome your input, ideas, suggestions, and support in forcing our elected officials to serve the community, rather than continue to enrich powerful private interests. Imagine what Palo Alto could do, by reclaiming those almost-7 acres with housing for teachers and first responders! Please forward, summarize, and/or share as you see fit. We can create positive change, but only by working together. Thank you in advance for your attention to this important matter, and Happy (and Healthy) Thanksgiving wishes - Best, Rebecca Rebecca Eisenberg, Esq. Principal & Founder Private Client Legal Services www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg rebecca@privateclientlegal.com 415-235-8078 Rebecca Eisenberg for Positive Change Our Community Deserves Better 415-235-8078 rebecca@winwithrebecca.com www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg Twitter: @rle Facebook @reisenberg 2 attachments Moncharsh Formal Complaint for PNQL.pdf 738K Eisenberg Letter to PACC PTC ARB November 22 2020.pdf 309K mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com>Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 7:15 PM To: Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> Cc: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>, Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu>, ladoris@judgecordell.com, Giselle Galper <giselle@galper.us>, Gail Price <gail.price3@gmail.com>, Curtis Smolar <csmolar@gmail.com>, Rebecca Sanders <rebsanders@gmail.com>, Kelsey Banes <kelsey@yimbyaction.org>, angiebevans@gmail.com, Kristin Jordahl Hansen <kjordahl@gmail.com>, Adina Sterling <adinasterling@gmail.com>, Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>, ro@rokhanna.com, supervisor.simitian@bos.sccgov.org, Elizabeth Collet Funk <elizabeth@dignityfund.com>, Bruce Reyes- Chow <breyeschow@fprespa.org>, Megan@techequitycollaborative.org, moore2j@att.net, Laurel Tamariz <laurel@schoolsandcommunitiesfirst.org>, teriolleSF@gmail.com, Teri Baldwin <teribaldwin@paeacta.org> Somehow reminds me of the sign in the bathroom of my neighbors the Diedens growing up in Saratoga, CA forty-eight years ago: WE DON’T SWIM IN YOUR TOILET, SO PLEASE DON’T PEE IN OUR POOL. But in this case it’s more like “We just shat in your toilet, but you still can’t swim in our pool”. Rebecca 2022!! —-mbw Sent from my iPhone On Nov 24, 2020, at 5:11 PM, Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> wrote: [Quoted text hidden] <Moncharsh Formal Complaint for PNQL.pdf> <Eisenberg Letter to PACC PTC ARB November 22 2020.pdf> Angie Evans <angiebevans@gmail.com>Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:03 PM To: Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> Would it be okay to share this with a friend who has been asking more about Castilleja? [Quoted text hidden] Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com>Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:25 PM To: Angie Evans <angiebevans@gmail.com> Yes, absolutely! I wrote it (despite typos etc) to share with attachments. Per the email, I suspect that most Palo Altans - including many Castilleja families - are not aware of the cost of Castilleja's presence and actions on the community. Also - per my earlier, longer note that I attached to this more recent note, I know for a fact that many Palo Alto-based Castilleja families do not support Nanci Kauffman's actions and tenor. More than 10% of the money I raised for my campaign (actually, closer to 15%) came from Castilleja families who object to the expansion, and particularly object to Nanci Kauffman's attitude towards the community. If your friend is considering Castilleja and can afford the tuition, I think it is an exceptional school. My problem has nothing to do with its academics -- it has to do with the fact that the City of Palo Alto has been subsidizing those academics without voter knowledge or consent, and at the expense of affordable housing and public education, for decades. It's Castilleja's right to ask for what it wants; but it is our local government's obligation to say No to demands that harm our community. I hope your travels have been going smoothly, and that your mother and mother-in-law are both doing as well as possible. I recognize that the trip you are taking must not be easy or simple, and I have been sending you my warmest and best thoughts. Please stay in touch when you are able. With warmest wishes, Rebecca [Quoted text hidden] Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:56 PM To: mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Cc: Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com>, Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu>, ladoris@judgecordell.com, Giselle Galper <giselle@galper.us>, Gail Price <gail.price3@gmail.com>, Curtis Smolar <csmolar@gmail.com>, Rebecca Sanders <rebsanders@gmail.com>, Kelsey Banes <kelsey@yimbyaction.org>, angiebevans@gmail.com, Kristin Jordahl Hansen <kjordahl@gmail.com>, Adina Sterling <adinasterling@gmail.com>, Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>, ro@rokhanna.com, supervisor.simitian@bos.sccgov.org, Elizabeth Collet Funk <elizabeth@dignityfund.com>, Bruce Reyes-Chow <breyeschow@fprespa.org>, Megan@techequitycollaborative.org, moore2j@att.net, Laurel Tamariz <laurel@schoolsandcommunitiesfirst.org>, teriolleSF@gmail.com, Teri Baldwin <teribaldwin@paeacta.org> See 11-24-2020 Hi Rebecca, You are doing an extraordinary job of educating the community( including me, thanks so much) re a bastion of racism, elitism, and casteism in our own backyard. The entire community owes you a huge debt of gratitude for opening our eyes to an issue ( Castilleja’s continued existence) that needs a full and robust community debate, now that you have fully informed us re the true history of this institution. Regards, aram Slightly edited piece Hi Rebecca, You’ve made a brilliant case re why this dishonest and lacking In integrity elitist casteist corporate model of a private school, whose actions work to defund our public schools, and take from our tax base, needs to be held accountable. Yes, I’d like to see this school moved out of town and the six-acre plot set aside as a form of reparations (see the recently passed Reparations Act (AB 3121) signed by our governor on Sept 30, 2020 and authored by the brilliant assemblywoman Dr. Shirley Weber. The six-acre campus to be set aside for low and very low-income housing for African Americans whose sweat, muscle, and smarts helped to built this city. The same city, Palo Alto, that stole African-Americans’ equity by racist Palo Alto laws excluding African Americans from much of Palo Alto. Similarly equal educational opportunities have been stolen from generations of African Americans, and of course our extraordinarily racist police ( now and historically) have acted with the complicity of this entire community to push the bulk of African Americans permanently from Palo Alto. As part of my vision 1/2 of the six acres at the Castilleja campus would be set aside for a primarily, if not exclusively, black institution of higher learning -or as a grade 6-12 school designed to provide the same level of educational exposure and resources as formerly given to the predominantly white and wealthy students of Castilleja. Now that would be at least a little bit of justice! What say you? Aram James   Slightly edited piece ( 11-24-2020) On Nov 22, 2020, at 6:35 PM, Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> wrote: Planning Commission, Architectural Review Board, City Council, and City Attorney's Office: I ask that this letter and the attached files be placed in the packets for both commissions and the City Council. If I need to resent this separately to attain that goal, please let me know, as I will do so. It is lengthy to avoid having to write multiple shorter letters as in the past. Having spoken with the City Attorney yesterday, I am following up, per Ms. Stump's suggestion, with more communications regarding Castilleja, conflicts of interest, the Municipal Code, and the documented harm that wealthy private schools cause to public school districts. This letter addresses two primary issues, in reverse order: (B) Potential Conflict of Interest; and (A) Legal Noncompliance/non-enforcement/non-authorization by the City of Palo Alto. I apologize for the length. This summary of problems is merely a fraction of the irresponsible, irrational, and harmful actions that the Palo Alto City Council and its appointed Commissioners continue to make regarding Castilleja's proposed expansion and modernization to serve its well-heeled school body (and explicitly, no one else). I write this letter on my own behalf, as a Palo Alto resident, a parent of public school students, an attorney licensed to practice law in California with three decades of professional experience, including direct experience with dozens of high-value land transactions and financing transactions, and as a lifelong supporter of sustainability, equity, and the essential value of strong public schools. I have standing to challenge the City's decisions and actions in these and other ways. I believe that my children's interest, and that of Palo Alto generally, will be irrevocably harmed should Palo Alto City Council approve Castilleja's CUP application, as discussed below, due to inappropriate actions and decisions made by the City and its relevant departments and commissions. Part A: A. LACK OF ENFORCEMENT OF PALO ALTO'S MUNICIPAL CODE AND THE AGREEMENTS IT SIGNED ON BEHALF OF THE CITY Palo Alto has failed to enforce its own laws against Castilleja for decades, while it does so regularly for residents, small businesses, and far less-wealthy organizations and individuals with far smaller legal violations. This intentional lack of legal enforcement of its own regulations, zoning codes, and penalties has caused our community significant harm. The lack of enforcement of its own negotiated agreements is why the City faces the groundswell of community anger, unrest, discontent, and collective opposition that has gathered to prevent the City to make an even larger error in law and judgment than it made with the President Hotel. Here I walk you through an incomplete list of the issues. 1. FAILURE TO ABIDE BY THE AGREEMENTS IT MADE ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO: In 2013 the City began Revocation Hearing against Castilleja to Revoke its Current CUP. (see attached letter, titled "Notice of Noncompliance and Requirement to Abate" from the City to Castilleja) To avoid impending certain revocation of the CUP, Nancy Kauffman agreed in writing that she would move Castilleja from its current site if the private school did not comply with the law, including its enrollment cap of 415, and its traffic demand management plan of 350 vehicles, by year 2018. See attached documents, obtained through Public Records Requests. She agreed that if she did comply in five years, she would agree to revocation hearings at that time. Although the City performed its end of the bargain, charging Castilleja a minor fraction of the penalties it owes (see below), and allowing it to continue in breach for another 5 years, as long as it complies to a reduction plan proposed by Castilleja (see attached), Castilleja never performed its obligations under the 2013 agreement. It never reduced its enrollment to 415. Nor did it sufficiently (if at all) reduce traffic. Given that Castilleja had no legal right to file for an Amended CUP, the City had no legal authority to accept the Amended CUP for consideration and was and is legally mandated to reject it in its entirely and halt any and all use of public resources towards this CUP which was filed in direct breach of a binding agreement between the City and Castilleja. Additionally, according to its own agreements, the City is legally required to initiate Revocation Hearings. How did we get to this place? All we know is further record of the City of Palo Alto breaking its own laws to accommodate its wealthiest private interest - a private interest that donates tens of thousands of dollars via its wealthiest supporters to elected officials, but which fails to pay one dime in taxes or mitigation to public funds. 2. FAILURE TO PRIORITIZE THE GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN THE WELL-BEING OF ITS COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER THE PRIVATE INTEREST OF CASTILLEJA: Palo Alto Public Schools are suffering. Most students have been out of school for almost an entire year, and all students faced a huge reduction in services and educational minutes. The PAUSD lacks resources to stream classes, and officially gave up on plans to open schools in any manner whatsoever until August 2021 the earliest. Students are facing emotional and academic crises like never seen before in Palo Alto history. Contrast this state of affairs -- where public schools lack an opportunity to open for class -- with Castilleja's urgent need for a remodeled, higher-tech school building, an Olympic-sized, sound-enabled swimming pool, and an underground parking bunker to serve its high school aged car-owning student population. Why is Castilleja's arrogant wholly unnecessary remodel and expansion usurping so much public time, money, and resources, when our public schools literally are closed to students? Put in the context of the growing poverty and homeless levels in the PAUSD, the City Council's and Commission's priorities are particularly distressing. In the PAUSD, 800 students are at poverty levels to qualify for free meals -- approximately 7% of families at pre-covid measurements. As many as 75% of Palo Alto public school students live in homes that are rented, not owned. Many of these families will face eviction when the eviction moratorium ends in early 2021. Castilleja serves a school population of which only 20-30% of its students live in Palo Alto. 80% of Castilleja's students pay full tuition of $50,000 to $55,000/year per child. Only 20% of Castilleja students receive any financial aid, and those who do receive aid generally receive far less than half of tuition, according to disclosures made by Castilleja over the years. Given Palo Alto's median household income of $145,000/year, the vast number of Palo Alto children's families could not conceive of being able to afford a private school like Castilleja -- even if they were admitted in Castilleja's exclusive, discretionary, and secret admissions process (as a reminder, only 20% of families receive any financial aid, with the majority of grants equalling less than half of tuition) that is said to admit as few as one of every 20 applicants. In the same calendar year that the City Council terminated most of its Cubberley lease -- which was an essential source of revenue for the PAUSD -- thereby depriving the PAUSD of almost five million dollars of public funds it previously had given the District, City Council is giving Castilleja invaluable sums of City Department time and resources, City Council time, and public resources to enable it to build a campus that makes public schools appear like hostels, and Castilleja stand out like the Taj Mahal - but no visitors may enter. This would be an ideal time for Palo Alto to demand its legally-required mitigations, including - like virtually every other wealthy private school that insists on locating on residential lots -- payments to PAUSD to account for the loss of property tax revenues that would be generated by those residential lots if they were being used for the legally restricted purposes. In the case of the 55 residential lots on which Castilleja sits (and pays nothing for the privilege). The lost property tax revenue due to Castilleja's tax-free commercial use of 55 R-1 lots in one of the most expensive neighborhoods of Palo Alto (much less, the country) is estimated at somewhere between $3 million and $5 million a year. In other words, about the same amount that City Council cut from the public schools' budget this year. Given that almost no Palo Alto firefighters, first responders, and public school teachers can afford to live in Palo Alto, wouldn't it be better for the City to devote its Planning Department time and resources, as well as PTC, PACC and ARB time and resources to something clearly in the public interest: the need for affordable housing? How can the City of Palo Alto provide such time and resources to a private school's quest to compete with the other private schools with the biggest and fanciest facilities, while at the same time the City of Palo Alto claims complete inability to comply with State Law requiring it to build housing for low and very low income families? Time is a limited resource, and right now, countless Department, Commission and Council time is dedicated to the illegal and unjustified goal of helping Castilleja have a high-tech swimming pool, and the only time devoted to affordable housing is the time the PACC takesunt t to draft letters claiming it lacks time and resources to build housing -- and no available land to set aside for housing. How about the 55 residential lots being used for a commercial purpose by Castilleja, Palo Alto? How does conversion of more than six acres of residentially-zoned land for commercial use comply with the mandates of the Comp Plan, your stated goals, and the legal mandates of SB 35 and other California housing laws? If Palo Alto were to say NO to Castilleja -- as it is required to do under its own laws and contracts -- then Palo Alto could reclaim millions of dollars of local resources to spend on its stated TOP priority: affordable housing. Nowhere in the Comp Plan or City Council values or goals is the interest of furthering the community-subsidized (through police, fire, utilities delivery, thousands of hours of department and commission time, theoretical enforcement, and mitigation of safety hazards for which Castilleja refuses to pay) commercial development of a private school that locks its gates to the community, so it can build a commercial development on 55 urgently needed Residential Lots? (Didn't the newly elected City Council members vow to protect R-1 lots? You do not allow a duplex, yet you allow a commercial development to serve 1000 students, faculty, and staff?) All this rests on top of the fact that Castilleja uses millions of dollars worth of public services -- street cleaning, road maintenance, tree trimming, utilities delivery, fire protection, police protection, other first responder protection, and others -- without paying a cent into public coffers. Although Castilleja is tax-exempt, it is not a charity nor does it have a charitable purpose, or even any purpose that serves public interest (despite its claims to the contrary - if it could be considered a charity, it would be). It also rests on top of the well-documented harm caused by public school districts by private schools, including diversion of resources away from public school districts as well as unmitigated free use of public services. See e,g, this article, this article, this article, and this article. Given that Castijella contributes nothing to public funds, yet takes so much of public resource time, money, and receipt of public services, every dollar used by Castilleja for free is a dollar deprived from the public school students of Palo Alto. This fact cannot be disputed, so Castilleja does not try. While children in the Palo Alto public schools are told they must have remote class sizes of 39 students, and no access to a live classroom, Castilleja demands an olympic sized swimming pool and underground parking garage for able-bodied teenagers to drive their cars that the vast majority of Palo Alto families could not dream of affording. Where is the public interest in this shameful process? It should come as no surprise that so many members of the public lack trust in Palo Alto City government, including its elected and appointed officials. The public trust was further damaged by reports that so many elected officials (including most of the recently elected city council members) accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from individuals closely associated (through donations, leadership roles, and/or family members who attended or currently attend Castilleja) with Castilleja. (Conflict of interest is addressed in greater detail below.) 3. FAILURE TO COLLECT CODE FINES AND PENALTIES Palo Alto's Municipal Code requires statutory penalties of $500 per violation per day. When Castilleja was 40 students over its legal limit of 415, it owed 40 times $500 per day = $20,000/day. Given operations during 300 days a year (underestimate), Castilleja should have paid $6 MILLION in penalties a year. This money is BADLY needed by the Palo Alto public schools, who are directly harmed by Castilleja's presence. With a 3-year lookback, at the only time that the City of Palo Alto collected a penalty from Castilleja, it collected $365,000 to represent 3 years of violations (see attached). That illegally low assessment (presumably allowed in exchange for Ms. Kauffman's promise that she would agree to CUP revocation if she failed to comply by 2018). That fee of $122,000/year approximated the income generated by Castilleja from tuition for approximately 2 students Castilleja enrolled over its legal limit -- rather than the 40 students Castilleja was overenrolled. It is nonsensical to expect profit-seeking private commercial properties (please note: Castilleja is tax-exempt but it is NOT CHARITABLE) to follow the law, when Castilleja literally generates $2 million a year in tuition through legal violations that are not enforced. (Castilleja's tuition is $50,000/year, so 40 students over legal limit = $2 million/year) 4. FAILURE TO MANDATE MITIGATIONS REQUIRED UNDER MUNICIPAL LAW: And all this is true yet neither the ARB or PTC have demanded that Castilleja provide mitigations - which Castilleja clearly can afford with the $30 million/year in tuition it will receive if you approve its commercial construction demands. For examples of common mitigations, one may look at the example of Stanford University, a much better public citizen, which provides free shuttles open to the public (unlike Castilleja), which opens the vast majority of its campus to the community to enjoy the art and use most of its resources (unlike Castilleja, which refuses to share even its proposed garage or Olympic sized swimming pool!), and which offers numerous full scholarships to local students from disadvantaged backgrounds (Castilleja refuses to offer any free scholarship to truly needy girls from disadvantaged circumstances in EPA or MP!), and which also contributes financially to Palo Alto Public Schools (Castilleja only takes but does not give). Recently, when San Francisco Friends School opened in San Francisco's Mission District, it agreed (1) not to have a parking lot, requiring all families to commute via public transportation; (2) it agreed to give multiple full scholarships at every grade level to poor children who live in nearby Section 8 Housing, and (3) it makes material contributions to the financial well being of SF public schools. Why is nothing asked of Castilleja -- not even tuition scholarships for needy EPA girls, if Castilleja truly valued ALL women's education and not just the best education money can buy for the wealthiest girls in the Bay Area? As a reminder, despite Castilleja's $60 million endowment, $55,000 enrollment costs (with meals and books), and the $14 million it receives in donations each year, it provides ANY financial aid to only 1/5th of the students enrolled -- meaning that 80% of Castilleja families pay full fare of up to $55,000 in tuition, fees, and costs every year per daughter enrolled at Castilleja. For many Castilleja families, tuition alone costs a post-tax $150,000/year. Median income per household in Palo Alto is $145,000/year, which is one reason that Castilleja draws such a small minority of its attendance base from Palo Alto families and has no reported students from very low income families (as defined by state law) in attendance. 5. FAILURE TO ABIDE BY MUNICIPAL CODE RESTRICTIONS ON THE CITY'S RIGHT TO GRANT A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT: As a reminder, Palo Alto Municipal Code makes it illegal for the City Council to grant a Conditional Use Permit if the Permitted Use causes any inconvenience or harm to the community. See Palo Alto Municipal Code chapter 18.76.  Does the City truly believe that this unprecedented commercial construction project and the resulting underground bunker- based garage to house only cars driven by teenage girls, will cause no inconvenience to residents? 18.76.010 Conditional Use Permit (CUP) (c) Neither the director, nor the city council on appeal, shall grant a conditional use permit, unless it is found that the granting of the application will: (1) Not be detrimental or injurious to property or improvements in the vicinity, and will not be detrimental to the public health, safety, general welfare, or convenience; (2) Be located and conducted in a manner in accord with the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan and the purposes of this title (Zoning). 6. FAILURE TO MAKE LEGALLY MANDATED FINDINGS TO SUPPORT REMOVAL OF OPTION OF CASTILLEJA MOVING FROM ITS SITE FROM CONSIDERATION AND ANALYSIS: Not only do the facts fail to support the illegal and irresponsible decision to remove the option of Castilleja moving from the school site even Castilleja admits it has overwhelmingly outgrown .. but the very notion of Castilleja not being able to move to an alternate site, given the thousands of available acres and much larger available sites already zoned for its use in Palo Alto is preposterous. It also flies in the face of legally binding representations made by Castilleja just a few years ago. In 2013, Nancy Kauffman agreed in writing that she would move Castilleja from its current site if the private school did not comply with the law, including its enrollment cap of 415, and its traffic demand management plan of 350 vehicles, by year 2018. Apart from the fact that the City of Palo Alto , why exactly did the PTC find that Castilleja was not capable of moving to a new campus? If Castilleja can tear this one down and rebuild, wouldn't it be easier and better for Castilleja's students to stay put while Castilleja builds its new campus on a site that is zoned for schools, like every other private and public school in the region? Was Nancy Kauffman lying when she agreed to move to a new campus if the school failed to comply with its 415 student enrollment cap by 2018? (see attached) According to Castilleja's tax records, Castilleja is flush with money, with annual income above $50 million, and net assets - not including the (non-re-assessed) land --- of more than $120M - and additionally has an Endowment of more than $60 million. https://www.guidestar.org/profile/94-0373222 https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayCopyOfReturns.do?dispatchMethod=displayCORInfo& CopyOfReturnId=172025&ein=940373222&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod= searchCopyOfReturns&isDescending=false&city=&ein1= &postDateFrom=&exemptTypeCode=al&submitName=Search&sortColumn=orgName& totalResults=1&names=castilleja+school&resultsPerPage=25& indexOfFirstRow=0&postDateTo=&state=All+States In fact, some local tax lawyers believe that Castilleja may be committing tax fraud by failure to pay tax on its millions of dollars of income generated by non-educational sources, including rental income for the multiple Palo Alto homes it owns and rents to private tenants unassociated with the school. 7. EXCLUSION OF COMMUNITY COMMENT, AND MISREPRESENTATION OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT, WHEN THE PROJECT CLEARLY HARMS PUBLIC INTEREST, EVEN IF A HANDFUL OF NEIGHBORS SUPPORT IT Critically: the ARB, PTC, and PACC should be aware that not every Palo Alto based Castilleja family favors this development. Approximately 10% of the money I raised for my City Council Campaign came from Palo Alto-based Castilleja parents -- many because of, not despite, the message on my website, reposted below. Many Castilleja families oppose the actions being taken by Nancy Kauffman, but out of the best interest of their daughters, they are not able to speak out. Several others have children who attend both Castilleja and public schools, and they recognize the well-established harm that wealthy private schools like Castilleja cause to a public school district. Given how much PAUSD is struggling - and Castilleja is not - some wonder why all this attention and money is being given to Castilleja while our local public schools flounder without a workable recovery plan. 8. ABUSE AND MIS-USE OF THE QUASI-JUDICIAL HEARING PROCESS: State and local law mandate that a quasi-judicial hearing be conducted in a fair, open, and transparent manner. These rules, largely articulated by the Brown Act, are described in detail, when it comes to Quasi-Judicial Hearings, in the California League of Cities Guide to Quasi Judicial Hearings: https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Member-Engagement/ Professional-Departments/City-Attorneys/Library/2013/2013-Annual-Conference-City- Attorneys-Track/9-2013-Annunal-Adam-U-Lindgren-Common-Issues-in-Qu This handbook mandates the following government requirements, all of which have been violated by the City of Palo Alto's Commissions and Council; 1. The community has a right to be heard, and short limitations on community time are discouraged given potential Brown Act and due process violations; 2. The applicant may not be represented both as itself, and also as part of community commentary -- which means that Castilleja supporters who are not neighbors in Palo Alto are legally prohibited from speaking during community comment time given their lack of standing; 3. All legal conclusions -- such as the exclusion of underground garage from EIR report, or the inability of Castilleja to afford to move to a site zoned for schools -- must be backed by specific factual findings -- such as, in these cases, the lack of impact of an underground garage on the neighborhood, and the lack of financial capacity for Castilleja to move to a site where it would not need to apply for CUPs to operate as a school. 4. Ex parte interactions are illegal -- which means that Commissioners are prohibited from taking private tours, having private meetings with Kauffman and other Castilleja leadership, and Commissioners may not gain information about the applicant through family members, or via self-interested communications including applying for admission. Those who have ex parte communications must recuse themselves from both deliberation and voting. 5. These prohibitions on ex-parte communications do not apply to communications with the community - So, despite false statements that Commissioners and Council members are prohibited from speaking with the public about applications, the opposite is true: local government leaders are mandated to have open communication with the public, but prohibited from having private meetings with the applicant. 6.Crucially, the Handbook notes, "For a quasi-judicial decision to be fair, the hearing must be conducted by a fair decision making body. 'A fair tribunal is one in which the judge or other decision maker is free of bias for or against a party.' Morongo, supra, 45 Cal.4th at 737, citing Withrow v. Larkin, supra, 421 US at 46. Despite the presumption of impartiality articulated in Morongo, , as will be detailed in papers that follow, “[p]rocedural fairness requires internal separation between advocates and decision makers to preserve neutrality.” Morongo, supra 45 Cal.4th at 737, citing Department of Alcohol Beverage Control v. Alcohol Beverages Appeals Bd. (2006) 40 Cal.4th 1, 10" To clarify, decision-makers must be separated from applicants. This prohibition serves to prevent decision makers from being swayed away from their actual job of serving public interest. Public interest is mandated; private interests are banned. Palo Alto literally has this backwards -- which has contributed to the spate of illegal, irrational, and unprecedented decisions made by this City Council -- including, a few months ago, the ludicrous decision that AJ Capital was forced to use the residential building it purchased for commercial use, because the one residential use it sought was a use prohibited by the Ellis Act. In other words, the PACC was correct that the Ellis Act prevents AJ Capital from turning the apartment building it purchased into condos because AJ Capital evicted the tenants illegally. Where the City Council went horribly wrong was in claiming that it somehow was "required" to allow AJ Capital to convert the residential building into a commercial building. Meanwhile, the clear language of the Ellis Act (and all cases that interpret it without exception) mandates that when tenants are evicted illegally, the landlord may not condo convert or otherwise re-rent at a rent more expensive than the rents paid by the evicted tenants. In other words, AJ Capital had a legal option: that of re-renting the units at the existing rents -- and its expensive settlement agreements with tenants did not change the force of State Law. But for reasons that defy logic, fact, or intelligence, City Council allowed AJ Capital to convert the residential building it purchased into an upscale hotel to serve businesses at a time when the entire state, and almost all commercial businesses, were on lockdown. This is the kind of damaged thought processes that Palo Alto is on track to repeat with Castilleja. Why does this keep happening? Perhaps it is due to Palo Alto City Council's apparent belief that laws do not apply to Palo Alto -- for example, with the mandates of the RHNA Housing requirements, and the consequences of AB 35. But the law DOES apply to Palo Alto, and our elected and appointed officials have sworn pledges to uphold our laws. Or, perhaps embarrassing and shameful conclusions stem from our local government's apparent comfort with corruption. Hence, Part B: B. UNDISCLOSED CONFLICT OF INTEREST APPEARING TO INFLUENCE CITY DECISIONS REGARDING CASTILLEJA: Last year, I pointed out the non-disclosed potential conflicts of interest by then-Commissioner Asher Woldfagel. Fortunately, the City Council chose not to reappoint Mr. Waldfogel to another term. Unfortunately, the City Council instead chose to appoint a third legal representative for Commercial Developers, onto a Commission that already at the time had two lawyers whose businesses rely on the success of their client base: Commercial Developers. Usually the conflicts that commercial development lawyers (aka "land use" lawyers, whose clients are commercial development firms) are not readily visible. Sometimes (although rarely) these attorneys are able to temper their professional bias with occasional votes against developer financial interest. Only in the case of one commissioner is such bias so blatant, and does that Commissioner dominate so many meetings with false statements and misleading claims (e.g. the "job of a lawyer is to interpret the law," he said last Wednesday, when he knows well that his job is to interpret the law to the benefit of his client): Commissioner Alcheck. Mr. Alcheck's biases have been on particular display in regards to Castilleja, given that every meeting, he loudly and vigorously repeats the same lies: 1. Alcheck lies that Castilleja is being treated unfairly. Per below, Castilleja is being given public windfalls equaling $6 million/year, not to mention the free use of all community services, including utilities delivery, police, fire, road maintenance, tree trimming, and telecom provisioning, without paying a DIME to the public, in taxes or otherwise. Even Castilleja admits that it has no legal right to operate a school on its current site, which is why it needs legal approval from the City to open its doors even to one student. 2. Alcheck lies that every other school gets to do what Castilleja is prohibited from doing. The truth: if Castilleja were to move to a site zoned for schools, like every other school cited by Alcheck and Castilleja, it would not need a CUP to operate, much less, to engage in the preposterous construction project it is bullying our city into being allowed to do. If Castilleja wants to build an underground garage and new multi-story structure, it only need to move to one of literally hundreds of available commercial lots in Palo Alto -- which is what every single other private school has done. (Alcheck even - criminally - has compared the rights of Castilleja to those of public schools. Castilleja does not open its gates to the public ever. Public schools are required to, always.) 3. Alcheck lies that the law allows a commercial underground garage to operate in a residential neighborhood. On the contrary, the well-established legal truth backed by countless legal decisions and black letter law is: if a residential neighborhood prohibits commercial use like a school -- it also prohibits a commercial underground garage As a reminder, if Castilleja were legally entitled to be located on 55 R-1 lots in Old Palo Alto, it would not need a CUP. As Castilleja itself confesses, Castilleja cannot operate AT ALL on its site without a CUP. The illegality of "private educational facilities" and its associated buildings and developments to operate with CUPs for ALL uses is repeated 112 times in the relevant section of the Palo Alto Municipal Code: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/ filebank/documents/8700 Although "commercial garages located below ground" is not specified as one of the MILLIONS of illegal commercial uses outlawed in residential neighborhoods, an underground garage for 100 (or however many) cars to serve a commercial interest is a commercial interest. There is ZERO precedent for any municipality to exclude a commercial garage from commercial garage from environment impact analysis. The fact that the City of Palo Alto has done crosses the bounds of credibility into potential misconduct. The garage is for commercial use, no matter if it is on the 10th story or in an underground bunker that will destroy - permanently - 200 irreplaceable ancient trees. Must we wait for a 16 year old driving a Range Rover to drive over an 8 year old child on a bicycle before recognizing the toxic absurdity of the PTC's recent decision to exclude Castilleja's garage from analysis? Michael Alcheck - whose children do not ride bikes to and from public school in Palo Alto -- does not recognize this undeniable risk to our public school children's safety -- a risk that was acknowledged by the ARB last month, when it pointed to the spate of deaths caused by construction trucks killing children on bikes when they make right turns - the exact cause of death of an 11 year old Palo Alto public school student in February. Perhaps the three lawyers on the PTC jointly propound this irresponsible and dangerous legal misstatement -- as well as other pro-developer biased interpretations - because all three lawyers on the Planning Commission are legally bound by the California Bar's Ethical Rules of Professional Conduct to act at all times in the best interest of their clients - commercial developers. Mr. Alcheck - the Commission who speaks as if he were on Castilleja's payroll himself (is he?) - has professional conflicts that go beyond his Legal Rules. Mr. Alcheck is a commercial developer and commercial real estate investor himself. And if that were not enough, Mr. Alcheck also has undisclosed Personal Conflicts, that go beyond his Professional Conflicts: 1. Michael Alcheck's niece(s) (last name: Bodner) attend(s) Castilleja. 2. Michael Alcheck's sister, Ronit Alcheck Bodner, attended Castilleja and serves as an engaged high-contributing Alumna to Castilleja. 3. Michael Alcheck's parents and sister are, and have been, tightly associated with Castilleja and huge financial contributors to Castilleja for years, if not decades. Evidence from the last 2 years, although this dates back much further: See references to Ronit Alcheck Bodner in the following: ANNUAL REPORT 2020 https://issuu.com/castillejaschool/docs/annual_20report_202020_20issuu_20_1_/s/11297372 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 https://issuu.com/castillejaschool/docs/castilleja_annual_report_2019_issuu Ronit Alcheck Bodner listed in the following, for both years? Parents’ Annual Fund Friend’s Circle $1,000 - $4,999 Ronit Alcheck Bodner ’91 and  Zack Bodner INVENTOR  $6,500 - $9,999  Ronit Alcheck Bodner ’91  and Zack Bodner  Friends of Mary Lockey $5,000 - $9,999 Ronit Alcheck Bodner ’91 4. Additionally, confirmed through sources: Michael Alcheck seeks to send his daughters to Castilleja - which accepts as few as 5% of applicants. Currently, all three of Alcheck's children attend private - not public - school. Doing favors for Castilleja may help his chances -- and increasing Castilleja's enrollment by 30% is guaranteed to improve his chances for admission. Alcheck's lack of personal stake in the well-being of Palo Alto public schools may be a reason that Alcheck has failed to acknowledge the documented financial harm that private schools cause public school districts. See e,g, this article, this article, this article, and this article. Given that Castijella contributes ZERO to public funds, yet takes so much of public resource time, money, and receipt of public services, every dollar used by Castilleja for free is a dollar deprived from the public school students of Palo Alto. This fact cannot be disputed, so Castilleja does not try. That fact alone makes it illegal to the City of Palo Alto to grant Castilleja its proposed CUP under Palo Alto Municipal Code chapter 18.76 (see below). 5. Michael Alcheck has additional close ties with Castilleja, including ties to Castilleja's CFO Kathleen Layendecker. See e.g. https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/ filebank/documents/73344 In fact, I strongly encourage the PTC, ARB, City Attorney's Office, and PACC to read all communications sent to the City's Commissions and City Council regarding Castilleja. The Community has much to say. 6. Additional personal conflicts: Michael Alcheck's sister sits on the Planning Commission in Los Altos, CA. Both Michael Alcheck and his sister work for the commercial development firm owned by their parents. QUERY what that firm's construction company divisionstands to gain from the $300 million (or more) planned construction project for Castilleja in the residential neighborhood of Old Palo Alto, CA. If Michael Alcheck did not think it was important to disclose that is sister and co-worker has donated more than $100,000 over the past several years to Castilleja, that his niece(s) attend Castilleja, and that his sister actually attended Castilleja herself when they were growing up ... what else is he concealing? If these matters do not pose a problem, then why not disclose them? At the most recent PTC Meeting, Commission Chair Templeton asked if any Commissioners had any potential conflicts to disclose, and Commissioner Alcheck again remained silent. Of course, Alcheck is far from alone in having a personal stake in Castilleja's growth. Every single Palo Alto Commission has at least one Castilleja insider -- this is the case even though fewer than 20% of Castilleja's families live in Palo Alto. Given that only 50-60 (given siblings) Castilleja families live in Palo Alto, it is virtually impossible that this distribution in Palo Alto appointed leadership would occur by chance. In no recent case has any Commissioner closely associated with Castilleja recused themselves, including, recently, on the ARB, where a Commissioner appropriately disclosed that she formerly served as a Castilleja Trustee (and thus almost certainly is an Alumna and/or daughters who attended or attend Castilleja, although that was concealed). This Commissioner declined to recuse herself, and instead spoke favorably of Castilleja's application. Given that: (1) Castilleja has been in violation of the law and its contract for almost 20 years; (2) Castilleja has been fined a fraction of a percent of what it actually owes the City of Palo Alto; (3) Castilleja is in violation of the settlement agreement it reached with the city in 2013; and (4) Castilleja is in the final stages of steamrolling an illegal, dangerous, overwhelmingly opposed unprecedented huge construction project through the ARB, the PTC, and City Council -- every potential and perceived conflict of interest should be taken seriously. C. CONCLUSION: Palo Alto City Council must slow down and give this illegal and dangerous project another look. Imagine if this were John Arrijaga himself proposing a commercial project on 55 residential lots, rather than the private school financially backed by Mr. Arrijaga, and attended by Mr. Arrijaga's daughters, and now, granddaughters, demanding this unprecedented commercial project on 55 residential lots? The City of Palo Alto must enforce its own laws. In order to do so, it must demand full transparency, integrity, and disclosure with regard to this project. The public deserves better. Please enforce your own contractual agreements, as well as the laws you enforce against non-billionaire stakeholders before more damage is done due to irrational and unjustified acts that harm our community's safety, security, and well being. Sincerely, Rebecca Eisenberg, Esq. Rebecca Eisenberg, Esq. Principal & Founder Private Client Legal Services www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg rebecca@privateclientlegal.com 415-235-8078 https://www.winwithrebecca.com/castilleja Dear Community Members of Palo Alto, I am a huge fan of all-female education. I have read the studies and I believe, without qualification, that educating girls and women in single- sex setting is beneficial to women's equality. While at Stanford, in 1987, I received a Boothe Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing for a philosophy essay that relied on both Rousseau and Wollstonecraft in supporting and defending the single- sex education of girls and women. I always have supported and will continue to support, single sex education for girls and women. I also have great respect for Castilleja as an educational institution. Castilleja is recognized internationally as a top rated all-female middle school and high school. Castilleja deserves its international prestige. My problems with Castilleja lie not in its performance as an educational institution, but as a campus in Palo Alto that has not complied with zoning law. Castilleja is subject to a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) issued in 2000, which limits its enrollment to 415 students, and its car usage to that which would be generated if it had only 385 students, the maximum enrollment in Castilleja's CUP prior to 2000. Since 2002, Castilleja has been in violation of both of these primary aspects of its CUP, and by means of not coming into compliance since that time, also is in violation of our municipal and building codes. Importantly, without the CUP, Castilleja could not operate a school at that location.  Castilleja sits on approximately 55 lots that are zoned for residential use (RH-1), and the City of Palo Alto granted the CUP in a manner that is necessary to preserve the integrity of this quiet, residential neighborhood. In other words, Castilleja operates due to a zoning variance provided by the City that binds Castilleja to strict requirements that Castilleja agreed to when the CUP was issued, but Castilleja has not kept its word. Pursuant to Castilleja's own records, Castilleja has enrolled more than 415 students since 2002. Despite numerous warnings from the City, as well as complaints from third parties regarding safety hazards, Castilleja has not come into compliance. If Palo Alto enforced its own municipal code, Castilleja would be liable to the city for $500/day per violation of the CUP.  Each additional student constitutes a violation of the CUP. During the many years that Castilleja has enrolled 20 students above the CUP, the zoning fines amount to $500/day per 20 students = $10,000 in fines per day. Figuring 300 days a year, the zoning fines amount to $3 million/year. Palo Alto has not collected these, so Castilleja has not paid them. Castilleja also is legally obligated to show through a Transportation Demand Management plan that the traffic it generates is equivalent to that which would be generated if enrollment remained at its pre-2000 maximum of 385 students. In fact, Castilleja's violations of its CUP have been so severe and so long standing, that in 2013, the City and Castilleja signed a settlement agreement that provided a reduced penalty for Castilleja ($365,000) in exchange for Castilleja making two promises: (1) that Castilleja would come immediately into compliance with its CUP limiting enrollment to 415 students by reducing enrollment by 4-6 students a year (2) that Castilleja would NOT file for an amended CUP unless and until it became fully compliant with its existing CUP.  The agreement provided that if Castilleja were to break these promises, the City of Palo Alto would consider all legal consequences, including pulling its permit and requiring Castilleja to leave its site. Nonetheless, Castilleja broke both promises. It never reduced its enrollment to the legally mandated 415 students. Nor did it wait for compliance to file for an amended permit. Castilleja instead filed a permit requesting a 30% increase in enrollment as well as an underground garage abutting the bike boulevard used by elementary school students.  And instead of enforcing its settlement agreement, the City has done nothing. Why is this important? 1. All people and companies should be required to comply with the law. Consequences for illegal behavior should be applied equally. 2. Castilleja operates on its site due to a variance given voluntarily by the City of Palo Alto. It does not have the legal right to operate on 55 residential lots if not for this variance (the CUP). The land is zoned for houses, and was zoned for residences when Castilleja first acquired it. In fact, Castilleja used to be a boarding school, so its location on residential lots was easier to justify then. 3. Now that Castilleja is a commuter school, Castilleja's existence on these 55 residential lots is expensive to the city's housing supply.  Palo Alto is subject to the requirements of state law, mandating that the city add housing every year, Cities that fail to meet the state- mandated minimum new housing subject themselves to State intervention, where the State will enter the city and put housing where the State wants. Palo Alto is among the very most behind in its housing minimums in the state. Palo Alto needs those 55 residential lots much more now than it did during the time when it gave Castilleja its CUP. Given that CUP's must be given only to the extent that a public interest is furthered by the granting of the CUP, if Castilleja had applied for its original CUP today, it is unlikely that the City of Palo Alto would have granted it. 4.  Castilleja's non-compliant existence on the 55 residential lots also significantly costs Palo Alto financially. Castilleja is tax exempt as a private school under the IRS Code's Section 501(c)(3), so it pays no taxes to Palo Alto. That means that the residents of Palo Alto currently pay for all of Castilleja's use of city services, including street maintenance, tree safety, fire fighters, delivery of utilities, stoplights, traffic enforcement, local parks, and all other public services that students and staff at Castilleja use.  For each additional student and staff member, that use increases, and those costs are borne entirely by the residents of Palo Alto, not by Castilleja. This is what the law provides, which we cannot control. That said, the City of Palo Alto is facing a severe budget crisis that has led the City Council to cut services to our public school students, funding to our public schools, hours and services offered by our public libraries, and even community programs for children such as the Palo Alto Children's Theatre. Castilleja's over-enrollment contributes to that budget crisis. 5. Castilleja's continued growth beyond its legal size limit has had growing negative impacts on the community.  Despite Castilleja's legal promise to Palo Alto to reduce the impact of car commutes, Castilleja has continued to make driving the most convenient way for its students to attend school. In its most recent application for an amended CUP, Castilleja admits that it prefers that its students drive, asking for the right to build a large parking garage on its campus to enable more driving. Already Palo Alto's aging population faces risk from the increase in traffic due to so many new drivers filling the streets - elementary school bikers are also at increased risk of getting hurt. This is neither sustainable or safe. What Castilleja could do is encourage carpooling - a more environmentally sustainable solution. 6. Construction at the Castilleja site will create hazards for Palo Alto residents for years.  In addition to construction noise, the monumental construction project that Castilleja requests for its 6 acres will create the hazards that large construction projects always create: air pollution, traffic, toxic materials, and  reliance on public services such as public safety and the fire department. Construction fires are common. Construction trucks also pose huge safety risks to neighbors. Only 4 months ago, a construction truck near California Ave struck and killed an 11 year old bicyclist due to lack of lighting in the residential neighborhood. Old Palo Alto is a residential neighborhood and is not set up to sustain the type of huge projects that Castilleja is demanding to build. What if an actual lock-down emergency were to happen at Palo Alto High School, or Walter Hays, but first responders cannot reach the students because of the hazards at the Castilleja construction site?   What I would like to see happen: 1. Castilleja needs to comply with its current Conditional Use Permit. 2. If Castilleja cannot comply with its CUP, I will work with Castilleja to find a second campus that is zoned for schools rather than for residences. 3. Castilleja can sell its extremely valuable parcel of land and use the proceeds to invest in a new location that is zoned for schools. This would allow those 55 RH-1 lots to return to residential use -- and would allow Palo Alto to collect property tax from those lots as the city had planned when Palo Alto zoned the area RH-1. 4. If Castilleja would like to increase its enrollment over its legal limit of 415, it can open discussions with the City about ways it can pay the City of Palo Alto for its use of city services. This is what Stanford does, and is why Stanford historically has paid millions of dollars to our public schools, and why Stanford is required to provide its electric shuttle bus system - the Margueritte - as well as make the Margueritte available to use by the public.   Stanford also has committed to keep many areas of its campus open to the public, so that Stanford's art, biking paths, streets, and even many of its buildings, facilities, and programs are open to the public.  Castilleja has not made any similar offers, for example to open its proposed pool to low-income residents for swim lessons, or to set aside fully paid up scholarships for needy children from nearby neighborhoods. Both of those things are done by many prestigious private schools nationally, even without needing to offer them in order to be granted a conditional use permit. Although many organizations have called for Castilleja to invest in communities of needs through full scholarships set aside for poor neighbors, Castilleja has not announced any official program doing so. Both Castilleja representatives and Palo Alto residents are unhappy with the current situation. If we do nothing, we could potentially be endangering everyone involved. I would love to work with Castilleja, and negotiate a situation where we can maximize both safety and women's education. Sincerely, Rebecca Eisenberg <Sept 25 2013 Notice of Noncompliance and Request to Abate.pdf> <Oct 25 2013 Letter from Castilleja to Palo Alto.pdf> <Dec 20 2013 City Letter Providing for Revocation of CUP.pdf> <Castilleja's $256K fine for a decade of noncompliance.pdf> On Nov 24, 2020, at 7:16 PM, mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> wrote: Somehow reminds me of the sign in the bathroom of my neighbors the Diedens growing up in Saratoga, CA forty-eight years ago: WE DON’T SWIM IN YOUR TOILET, SO PLEASE DON’T PEE IN OUR POOL. But in this case it’s more like “We just shat in your toilet, but you still can’t swim in our pool”. Rebecca 2022!! —-mbw Sent from my iPhone [Quoted text hidden] [Quoted text hidden] [Quoted text hidden] mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com>Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:11 PM To: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Cc: Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com>, Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu>, ladoris@judgecordell.com, Giselle Galper <giselle@galper.us>, Gail Price <gail.price3@gmail.com>, Curtis Smolar <csmolar@gmail.com>, Rebecca Sanders <rebsanders@gmail.com>, Kelsey Banes <kelsey@yimbyaction.org>, angiebevans@gmail.com, Kristin Jordahl Hansen <kjordahl@gmail.com>, Adina Sterling <adinasterling@gmail.com>, Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>, ro@rokhanna.com, supervisor.simitian@bos.sccgov.org, Elizabeth Collet Funk <elizabeth@dignityfund.com>, Bruce Reyes-Chow <breyeschow@fprespa.org>, Megan@techequitycollaborative.org, moore2j@att.net, teriolleSF@gmail.com, Teri Baldwin <teribaldwin@paeacta.org>, laureltamariz@gmail.com I suggest we refer to the applicant as “Caste” as a shibboleth among people on this thread (for “Casti”) and also, as Aram and Rebecca point out, its mission seems more about furthering economic disparity than gender equity in education. Mark Weiss I preserve the electeds on this list although they are sworn to support all constituents regardless of how misguided some of those may be; speak truth to power with love, Sent from my iPhone On Nov 24, 2020, at 8:56 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: [Quoted text hidden] Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com>Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:57 PM To: Adrian Fine <adrian.fine@cityofpaloalto.org> [Quoted text hidden] 2 attachments Moncharsh Formal Complaint for PNQL.pdf 738K Eisenberg Letter to PACC PTC ARB November 22 2020.pdf 309K Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com>Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:58 PM To: Adrianfine@gmail.com ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 5:10 PM Subject: Why care about Castilleja's Proposed Expansion? To: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>, Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu>, <ladoris@judgecordell.com>, Giselle Galper <giselle@galper.us>, mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com>, Gail Price <gail.price3@gmail.com>, Curtis Smolar <csmolar@gmail.com>, Rebecca Sanders <rebsanders@gmail.com>, Kelsey Banes <kelsey@yimbyaction.org>, <angiebevans@gmail.com>, Kristin Jordahl Hansen <kjordahl@gmail.com>, Adina Sterling <adinasterling@gmail.com>, Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>, <ro@rokhanna.com>, <supervisor.simitian@bos.sccgov.org>, Elizabeth Collet Funk <elizabeth@dignityfund.com>, Bruce Reyes-Chow <breyeschow@fprespa.org>, <Megan@ techequitycollaborative.org>, <moore2j@att.net>, Laurel Tamariz <laurel@schoolsandcommunitiesfirst.org>, <teriolleSF@gmail.com>, Teri Baldwin <teribaldwin@paeacta.org> [Quoted text hidden] 2 attachments Moncharsh Formal Complaint for PNQL.pdf 738K Eisenberg Letter to PACC PTC ARB November 22 2020.pdf 309K ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> Date: Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 6:34 PM Subject: Castilleja - code compliance - potential conflicts of Interest - Michael Alcheck - and other matters To: <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org>, Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Stump, Molly <Molly.Stump@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning Commission, Architectural Review Board, City Council, and City Attorney's Office: I ask that this letter and the attached files be placed in the packets for both commissions and the City Council. If I need to resend this note separately to attain that goal, please let me know, as I will do so. It is lengthy to avoid having to write multiple shorter letters as in the past. Having spoken with the City Attorney yesterday, I am following up, per Ms. Stump's suggestion, with more communications regarding Castilleja, conflicts of interest, the Municipal Code, and the documented harm that wealthy private schools cause to public school districts. This letter addresses two primary issues, in reverse order: (B) Potential Conflict of Interest; and (A) Legal Noncompliance/non-enforcement/non-authorization by the City of Palo Alto. I apologize for the length. This summary of problems is merely a fraction of the irresponsible, irrational, and harmful actions that the Palo Alto City Council and its appointed Commissioners continue to make regarding Castilleja's proposed expansion and modernization to serve its well- heeled school body (and explicitly, no one else). I write this letter on my own behalf, as a Palo Alto resident, a parent of public school students, an attorney licensed to practice law in California with three decades of professional experience, including direct experience with dozens of high-value land transactions and financing transactions, and as a lifelong supporter of sustainability, equity, and the essential value of strong public schools. I have standing to challenge the City's decisions and actions in these and other ways. I believe that my children's interest, and that of Palo Alto generally, will be irrevocably harmed should Palo Alto City Council approve Castilleja's CUP application, as discussed below, due to inappropriate actions and decisions made by the City and its relevant departments and commissions. Part A: A. LACK OF ENFORCEMENT OF PALO ALTO'S MUNICIPAL CODE AND THE AGREEMENTS IT SIGNED ON BEHALF OF THE CITY Palo Alto has failed to enforce its own laws against Castilleja for decades, while it does so regularly for residents, small businesses, and far less-wealthy organizations and individuals with far smaller legal violations. This intentional lack of legal enforcement of its own regulations, zoning codes, and penalties has caused our community significant harm. The lack of enforcement of its own negotiated agreements is why the City faces the groundswell of community anger, unrest, discontent, and collective opposition that has gathered to prevent the City to make an even larger error in law and judgment than it made with the President Hotel. Here I walk you through an incomplete list of the issues. 1. FAILURE TO ABIDE BY THE AGREEMENTS IT MADE ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO: In 2013 the City began Revocation Hearing against Castilleja to Revoke its Current CUP. (see attached letter, titled "Notice of Noncompliance and Requirement to Abate" from the City to Castilleja) To avoid impending certain revocation of the CUP, Nancy Kauffman agreed in writing that she would move Castilleja from its current site if the private school did not comply with the law, including its enrollment cap of 415, and its traffic demand management plan of 350 vehicles, by year 2018. See attached documents, obtained through Public Records Requests. She agreed that if she did comply in five years, she would agree to revocation hearings at that time. Although the City performed its end of the bargain, charging Castilleja a minor fraction of the penalties it owes (see below), and allowing it to continue in breach for another 5 years, as long as it complies to a reduction plan proposed by Castilleja (see attached), Castilleja never performed its obligations under the 2013 agreement. It never reduced its enrollment to 415. Nor did it sufficiently (if at all) reduce traffic. Given that Castilleja had no legal right to file for an Amended CUP, the City had no legal authority to accept the Amended CUP for consideration and was and is legally mandated to reject it in its entirely and halt any and all use of public resources towards this CUP which was filed in direct breach of a binding agreement between the City and Castilleja. Additionally, according to its own agreements, the City is legally required to initiate Revocation Hearings. How did we get to this place? All we know is further record of the City of Palo Alto breaking its own laws to accommodate its wealthiest private interest - a private interest that donates tens of thousands of dollars via its wealthiest supporters to elected officials, but which fails to pay one dime in taxes or mitigation to public funds. 2. FAILURE TO PRIORITIZE THE GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN THE WELL- BEING OF ITS COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER THE PRIVATE INTEREST OF CASTILLEJA: Palo Alto Public Schools are suffering. Most students have been out of school for almost an entire year, and all students faced a huge reduction in services and educational minutes. The PAUSD lacks resources to stream classes, and officially gave up on plans to open schools in any manner whatsoever until August 2021 the earliest. Students are facing emotional and academic crises like never seen before in Palo Alto history. Contrast this state of affairs -- where public schools lack an opportunity to open for class -- with Castilleja's urgent need for a remodeled, higher-tech school building, an Olympic-sized, sound- enabled swimming pool, and an underground parking bunker to serve its high school aged car- owning student population. Why is Castilleja's arrogant wholly unnecessary remodel and expansion usurping so much public time, money, and resources, when our public schools literally are closed to students? Put in the context of the growing poverty and homeless levels in the PAUSD, the City Council's and Commission's priorities are particularly distressing. In the PAUSD, 800 students are at poverty levels to qualify for free meals -- approximately 7% of families at pre-covid measurements. As many as 75% of Palo Alto public school students live in homes that are rented, not owned. Many of these families will face eviction when the eviction moratorium ends in early 2021. Castilleja serves a school population of which only 20-30% of its students live in Palo Alto. 80% of Castilleja's students pay full tuition of $50,000 to $55,000/year per child. Only 20% of Castilleja students receive any financial aid, and those who do receive aid generally receive far less than half of tuition, according to disclosures made by Castilleja over the years. Given Palo Alto's median household income of $145,000/year, the vast number of Palo Alto children's families could not conceive of being able to afford a private school like Castilleja -- even if they were admitted in Castilleja's exclusive, discretionary, and secret admissions process (as a reminder, only 20% of families receive any financial aid, with the majority of grants equaling less than half of tuition) that is said to admit as few as one of every 20 applicants. In the same calendar year that the City Council terminated most of its Cubberley lease -- which was an essential source of revenue for the PAUSD -- thereby depriving the PAUSD of almost five million dollars of public funds it previously had given the District, City Council is giving Castilleja invaluable sums of City Department time and resources, City Council time, and public resources to enable it to build a campus that makes public schools appear like hostels, and Castilleja stand out like the Taj Mahal - but no visitors may enter. This would be an ideal time for Palo Alto to demand its legally-required mitigations, including - like virtually every other wealthy private school that insists on locating on residential lots -- payments to PAUSD to account for the loss of property tax revenues that would be generated by those residential lots if they were being used for the legally restricted purposes. In the case of the 55 residential lots on which Castilleja sits (and pays nothing for the privilege). The lost property tax revenue due to Castilleja's tax-free commercial use of 55 R-1 lots in one of the most expensive neighborhoods of Palo Alto (much less, the country) is estimated at somewhere between $3 million and $5 million a year. In other words, about the same amount that City Council cut from the public schools' budget this year. Given that almost no Palo Alto firefighters, first responders, and public school teachers can afford to live in Palo Alto, wouldn't it be better for the City to devote its Planning Department time and resources, as well as PTC, PACC and ARB time and resources to something clearly in the public interest: the need for affordable housing? How can the City of Palo Alto provide such time and resources to a private school's quest to compete with the other private schools with the biggest and fanciest facilities, while at the same time the City of Palo Alto claims complete inability to comply with State Law requiring it to build housing for low and very low income families? Time is a limited resource, and right now, countless Department, Commission and Council time is dedicated to the illegal and unjustified goal of helping Castilleja have a high- tech swimming pool, and the only time devoted to affordable housing is the time the PACC takes to draft letters claiming it lacks time and resources to build housing -- and no available land to set aside for housing. How about the 55 residential lots being used for a commercial purpose by Castilleja, Palo Alto? How does conversion of more than six acres of residentially-zoned land for commercial use comply with the mandates of the Comp Plan, your stated goals, and the legal mandates of SB 35 and other California housing laws? If Palo Alto were to say NO to Castilleja -- as it is required to do under its own laws and contracts -- then Palo Alto could reclaim millions of dollars of local resources to spend on its stated TOP priority: affordable housing. Nowhere in the Comp Plan or City Council values or goals is the interest of furthering the community-subsidized (through police, fire, utilities delivery, thousands of hours of department and commission time, theoretical enforcement, and mitigation of safety hazards for which Castilleja refuses to pay) commercial development of a private school that locks its gates to the community, so it can build a commercial development on 55 urgently needed Residential Lots? (Didn't the newly elected City Council members vow to protect R-1 lots? You do not allow a duplex, yet you allow a commercial development to serve 1000 students, faculty, and staff?) All this rests on top of the fact that Castilleja uses millions of dollars’ worth of public services -- street cleaning, road maintenance, tree trimming, utilities delivery, fire protection, police protection, other first responder protection, and others -- without paying a cent into public coffers. Although Castilleja is tax-exempt, it is not a charity nor does it have a charitable purpose, or even any purpose that serves public interest (despite its claims to the contrary - if it could be considered a charity, it would be). It also rests on top of the well-documented harm caused by public school districts by private schools, including diversion of resources away from public school districts as well as unmitigated free use of public services. See e.g., this article, this article, this article, and this article. Given that Castilleja contributes nothing to public funds, yet takes so much of public resource time, money, and receipt of public services, every dollar used by Castilleja for free is a dollar deprived from the public school students of Palo Alto. This fact cannot be disputed, so Castilleja does not try. While children in the Palo Alto public schools are told they must have remote class sizes of 39 students, and no access to a live classroom, Castilleja demands an Olympic sized swimming pool and underground parking garage for able-bodied teenagers to drive their cars that the vast majority of Palo Alto families could not dream of affording. Where is the public interest in this shameful process? It should come as no surprise that so many members of the public lack trust in Palo Alto City government, including its elected and appointed officials. The public trust was further damaged by reports that so many elected officials (including most of the recently elected city council members) accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from individuals closely associated (through donations, leadership roles, and/or family members who attended or currently attend Castilleja) with Castilleja. (Conflict of interest is addressed in greater detail below.) 3. FAILURE TO COLLECT CODE FINES AND PENALTIES Palo Alto's Municipal Code requires statutory penalties of $500 per violation per day. When Castilleja was 40 students over its legal limit of 415, it owed 40 times $500 per day = $20,000/day. Given operations during 300 days a year (underestimate), Castilleja should have paid $6 MILLION in penalties a year. This money is BADLY needed by the Palo Alto public schools, who are directly harmed by Castilleja's presence. With a 3-year lookback, at the only time that the City of Palo Alto collected a penalty from Castilleja, it collected $365,000 to represent 3 years of violations (see attached). That illegally low assessment (presumably allowed in exchange for Ms. Kauffman's promise that she would agree to CUP revocation if she failed to comply by 2018). That fee of $122,000/year approximated the income generated by Castilleja from tuition for approximately 2 students Castilleja enrolled over its legal limit -- rather than the 40 students Castilleja was overenrolled. It is nonsensical to expect profit- seeking private commercial properties (please note: Castilleja is tax-exempt but it is NOT CHARITABLE) to follow the law, when Castilleja literally generates $2 million a year in tuition through legal violations that are not enforced. (Castilleja's tuition is $50,000/year, so 40 students over legal limit = $2 million/year) 4. FAILURE TO MANDATE MITIGATIONS REQUIRED UNDER MUNICIPAL LAW: And all this is true yet neither the ARB nor PTC have demanded that Castilleja provide mitigations - which Castilleja clearly can afford with the $30 million/year in tuition it will receive if you approve its commercial construction demands. For examples of common mitigations, one may look at the example of Stanford University, a much better public citizen, which provides free shuttles open to the public (unlike Castilleja), which opens the vast majority of its campus to the community to enjoy the art and use most of its resources (unlike Castilleja, which refuses to share even its proposed garage or Olympic sized swimming pool!), and which offers numerous full scholarships to local students from disadvantaged backgrounds (Castilleja refuses to offer any free scholarship to truly needy girls from disadvantaged circumstances in EPA or MP!), and which also contributes financially to Palo Alto Public Schools (Castilleja only takes but does not give). Recently, when San Francisco Friends School opened in San Francisco's Mission District, it agreed (1) not to have a parking lot, requiring all families to commute via public transportation; (2) it agreed to give multiple full scholarships at every grade level to poor children who live in nearby Section 8 Housing, and (3) it makes material contributions to the financial well-being of SF public schools. Why is nothing asked of Castilleja -- not even tuition scholarships for needy EPA girls, if Castilleja truly valued ALL women's education and not just the best education money can buy for the wealthiest girls in the Bay Area? As a reminder, despite Castilleja's $60 million endowment, $55,000 enrollment costs (with meals and books), and the $14 million it receives in donations each year, it provides ANY financial aid to only 1/5th of the students enrolled -- meaning that 80% of Castilleja families pay full fare of up to $55,000 in tuition, fees, and costs every year per daughter enrolled at Castilleja. For many Castilleja families, tuition alone costs a post-tax $150,000/year. Median income per household in Palo Alto is $145,000/year, which is one reason that Castilleja draws such a small minority of its attendance base from Palo Alto families and has no reported students from very low income families (as defined by state law) in attendance. 5. FAILURE TO ABIDE BY MUNICIPAL CODE RESTRICTIONS ON THE CITY'S RIGHT TO GRANT A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT: As a reminder, Palo Alto Municipal Code makes it illegal for the City Council to grant a Conditional Use Permit if the Permitted Use causes any inconvenience or harm to the community. See Palo Alto Municipal Code chapter 18.76. Does the City truly believe that this unprecedented commercial construction project and the resulting underground bunker-based garage to house only cars driven by teenage girls, will cause no inconvenience to residents? 18.76.010 Conditional Use Permit (CUP) (c) Neither the director, nor the city council on appeal, shall grant a conditional use permit, unless it is found that the granting of the application will: (1) Not be detrimental or injurious to property or improvements in the vicinity, and will not be detrimental to the public health, safety, general welfare, or convenience; (2) Be located and conducted in a manner in accord with the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan and the purposes of this title (Zoning). 6. FAILURE TO MAKE LEGALLY MANDATED FINDINGS TO SUPPORT REMOVAL OF OPTION OF CASTILLEJA MOVING FROM ITS SITE FROM CONSIDERATION AND ANALYSIS: Not only do the facts fail to support the illegal and irresponsible decision to remove the option of Castilleja moving from the school site even Castilleja admits it has overwhelmingly outgrown . but the very notion of Castilleja not being able to move to an alternate site, given the thousands of available acres and much larger available sites already zoned for its use in Palo Alto is preposterous. It also flies in the face of legally binding representations made by Castilleja just a few years ago. In 2013, Nancy Kauffman agreed in writing that she would move Castilleja from its current site if the private school did not comply with the law, including its enrollment cap of 415, and its traffic demand management plan of 350 vehicles, by year 2018. Apart from the fact that the City of Palo Alto , why exactly did the PTC find that Castilleja was not capable of moving to a new campus? If Castilleja can tear this one down and rebuild, wouldn't it be easier and better for Castilleja's students to stay put while Castilleja builds its new campus on a site that is zoned for schools, like every other private and public school in the region? Was Nancy Kauffman lying when she agreed to move to a new campus if the school failed to comply with its 415 student enrollment cap by 2018? (see attached) According to Castilleja's tax records, Castilleja is flush with money, with annual income above $50 million, and net assets - not including the (non-re-assessed) land --- of more than $120M - and additionally has an Endowment of more than $60 million. https://www.guidestar.org/profile/94-0373222 https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayCopyOfReturns.do?dispatchMethod=displayCORInfo&CopyOfReturnId=172 025&ein=940373222&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=searchCopyOfReturns&isDescending=fa lse&city=&ein1=&postDateFrom=&exemptTypeCode=al&submitName=Search&sortColumn=orgName&totalRe sults=1&names=castilleja+school&resultsPerPage=25&indexOfFirstRow=0&postDateTo=&state=All+States In fact, some local tax lawyers believe that Castilleja may be committing tax fraud by failure to pay tax on its millions of dollars of income generated by non-educational sources, including rental income for the multiple Palo Alto homes it owns and rents to private tenants unassociated with the school. 7. EXCLUSION OF COMMUNITY COMMENT, AND MISREPRESENTATION OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT, WHEN THE PROJECT CLEARLY HARMS PUBLIC INTEREST, EVEN IF A HANDFUL OF NEIGHBORS SUPPORT IT Critically: the ARB, PTC, and PACC should be aware that not every Palo Alto based Castilleja family favors this development. Approximately 10% of the money I raised for my City Council Campaign came from Palo Alto-based Castilleja parents -- many because of, not despite, the message on my website, reposted below. Many Castilleja families oppose the actions being taken by Nancy Kauffman, but out of the best interest of their daughters, they are not able to speak out. Several others have children who attend both Castilleja and public schools, and they recognize the well-established harm that wealthy private schools like Castilleja cause to a public school district. Given how much PAUSD is struggling - and Castilleja is not - some wonder why all this attention and money is being given to Castilleja while our local public schools flounder without a workable recovery plan. 8. ABUSE AND MIS-USE OF THE QUASI-JUDICIAL HEARING PROCESS: State and local law mandate that a quasi-judicial hearing be conducted in a fair, open, and transparent manner. These rules, largely articulated by the Brown Act, are described in detail, when it comes to Quasi-Judicial Hearings, in the California League of Cities Guide to Quasi- Judicial Hearings: https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Member- Engagement/Professional-Departments/City-Attorneys/Library/2013/2013-Annual-Conference- City-Attorneys-Track/9-2013-Annunal-Adam-U-Lindgren-Common-Issues-in-Qu This handbook mandates the following government requirements, all of which have been violated by the City of Palo Alto's Commissions and Council. 1. The community has a right to be heard, and short limitations on community time are discouraged given potential Brown Act and due process violations. 2. The applicant may not be represented both as itself, and also as part of community commentary -- which means that Castilleja supporters who are not neighbors in Palo Alto are legally prohibited from speaking during community comment time given their lack of standing. 3. All legal conclusions -- such as the exclusion of underground garage from EIR report, or the inability of Castilleja to afford to move to a site zoned for schools -- must be backed by specific factual findings -- such as, in these cases, the lack of impact of an underground garage on the neighborhood, and the lack of financial capacity for Castilleja to move to a site where it would not need to apply for CUPs to operate as a school. 4. Ex parte interactions are illegal -- which means that Commissioners are prohibited from taking private tours, having private meetings with Kauffman and other Castilleja leadership, and Commissioners may not gain information about the applicant through family members, or via self-interested communications including applying for admission. Those who have ex parte communications must recuse themselves from both deliberation and voting. 5. These prohibitions on ex-parte communications do not apply to communications with the community - So, despite false statements that Commissioners and Council members are prohibited from speaking with the public about applications, the opposite is true: local government leaders are mandated to have open communication with the public, but prohibited from having private meetings with the applicant. 6.Crucially, the Handbook notes, "For a quasi-judicial decision to be fair, the hearing must be conducted by a fair decision making body. 'A fair tribunal is one in which the judge or other decision maker is free of bias for or against a party.' Morongo, supra, 45 Cal.4th at 737, citing Withrow v. Larkin, supra, 421 US at 46. Despite the presumption of impartiality articulated in Morongo, , as will be detailed in papers that follow, “[p]rocedural fairness requires internal separation between advocates and decision makers to preserve neutrality.” Morongo, supra 45 Cal.4th at 737, citing Department of Alcohol Beverage Control v. Alcohol Beverages Appeals Bd. (2006) 40 Cal.4th 1, 10" To clarify, decision-makers must be separated from applicants. This prohibition serves to prevent decision makers from being swayed away from their actual job of serving public interest. Public interest is mandated; private interests are banned. Palo Alto literally has this backwards -- which has contributed to the spate of illegal, irrational, and unprecedented decisions made by this City Council -- including, a few months ago, the ludicrous decision that AJ Capital was forced to use the residential building it purchased for commercial use, because the one residential use it sought was a use prohibited by the Ellis Act. In other words, the PACC was correct that the Ellis Act prevents AJ Capital from turning the apartment building it purchased into condos because AJ Capital evicted the tenants illegally. Where the City Council went horribly wrong was in claiming that it somehow was "required" to allow AJ Capital to convert the residential building into a commercial building. Meanwhile, the clear language of the Ellis Act (and all cases that interpret it without exception) mandates that when tenants are evicted illegally, the landlord may not condo convert or otherwise re-rent at a rent more expensive than the rents paid by the evicted tenants. In other words, AJ Capital had a legal option: that of re-renting the units at the existing rents -- and its expensive settlement agreements with tenants did not change the force of State Law. But for reasons that defy logic, fact, or intelligence, City Council allowed AJ Capital to convert the residential building it purchased into an upscale hotel to serve businesses at a time when the entire state, and almost all commercial businesses, were on lockdown. This is the kind of damaged thought processes that Palo Alto is on track to repeat with Castilleja. Why does this keep happening? Perhaps it is due to Palo Alto City Council's apparent belief that laws do not apply to Palo Alto -- for example, with the mandates of the RHNA Housing requirements, and the consequences of AB 35. But the law DOES apply to Palo Alto, and our elected and appointed officials have sworn pledges to uphold our laws. Or perhaps embarrassing and shameful conclusions stem from our local government's apparent comfort with corruption. Hence, Part B: B. UNDISCLOSED CONFLICT OF INTEREST APPEARING TO INFLUENCE CITY DECISIONS REGARDING CASTILLEJA: Last year, I pointed out the non-disclosed potential conflicts of interest by then-Commissioner Asher Woldfagel. Fortunately, the City Council chose not to reappoint Mr. Waldfogel to another term. Unfortunately, the City Council instead chose to appoint a third legal representative for Commercial Developers, onto a Commission that already at the time had two lawyers whose businesses rely on the success of their client base: Commercial Developers. Usually, the conflicts that commercial development lawyers (aka "land use" lawyers, whose clients are commercial development firms) are not readily visible. Sometimes (although rarely) these attorneys are able to temper their professional bias with occasional votes against developer financial interest. Only in the case of one commissioner is such bias so blatant, and does that Commissioner dominate so many meetings with false statements and misleading claims (e.g., the "job of a lawyer is to interpret the law," he said last Wednesday, when he knows well that his job is to interpret the law to the benefit of his client): Commissioner Alcheck. Mr. Alcheck's biases have been on particular display in regards to Castilleja, given that every meeting, he loudly and vigorously repeats the same lies: 1. Alcheck lies that Castilleja is being treated unfairly. Per below, Castilleja is being given public windfalls equaling $6 million/year, not to mention the free use of all community services, including utilities delivery, police, fire, road maintenance, tree trimming, and telecom provisioning, without paying a DIME to the public, in taxes or otherwise. Even Castilleja admits that it has no legal right to operate a school on its current site, which is why it needs legal approval from the City to open its doors even to one student. 2. Alcheck lies that every other school gets to do what Castilleja is prohibited from doing. The truth: if Castilleja were to move to a site zoned for schools, like every other school cited by Alcheck and Castilleja, it would not need a CUP to operate, much less, to engage in the preposterous construction project it is bullying our city into being allowed to do. If Castilleja wants to build an underground garage and new multi-story structure, it only needs to move to one of literally hundreds of available commercial lots in Palo Alto -- which is what every single other private school has done. (Alcheck even - criminally - has compared the rights of Castilleja to those of public schools. Castilleja does not open its gates to the public ever. Public schools are required to, always.) 3. Alcheck lies that the law allows a commercial underground garage to operate in a residential neighborhood. On the contrary, the well-established legal truth backed by countless legal decisions and black letter law is: if a residential neighborhood prohibits commercial use like a school -- it also prohibits a commercial underground garage As a reminder, if Castilleja were legally entitled to be located on 55 R-1 lots in Old Palo Alto, it would not need a CUP. As Castilleja itself confesses, Castilleja cannot operate AT ALL on its site without a CUP. The illegality of "private educational facilities" and its associated buildings and developments to operate with CUPs for ALL uses is repeated 112 times in the relevant section of the Palo Alto Municipal Code: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/8700 Although "commercial garages located below ground" is not specified as one of the MILLIONS of illegal commercial uses outlawed in residential neighborhoods, an underground garage for 100 (or however many) cars to serve a commercial interest is a commercial interest. There is ZERO precedent for any municipality to exclude a commercial garage from commercial garage from environment impact analysis. The fact that the City of Palo Alto has done crosses the bounds of credibility into potential misconduct. The garage is for commercial use, no matter if it is on the 10th story or in an underground bunker that will destroy - permanently - 200 irreplaceable ancient trees. Must we wait for a 16 year old driving a Range Rover to drive over an 8 year old child on a bicycle before recognizing the toxic absurdity of the PTC's recent decision to exclude Castilleja's garage from analysis? Michael Alcheck - whose children do not ride bikes to and from public school in Palo Alto -- does not recognize this undeniable risk to our public school children's safety -- a risk that was acknowledged by the ARB last month, when it pointed to the spate of deaths caused by construction trucks killing children on bikes when they make right turns - the exact cause of death of an 11 year old Palo Alto public school student in February. Perhaps the three lawyers on the PTC jointly propound this irresponsible and dangerous legal misstatement -- as well as other pro-developer biased interpretations - because all three lawyers on the Planning Commission are legally bound by the California Bar's Ethical Rules of Professional Conduct to act at all times in the best interest of their clients - commercial developers. Mr. Alcheck - the Commission who speaks as if he were on Castilleja's payroll himself (is he?) - has professional conflicts that go beyond his Legal Rules. Mr. Alcheck is a commercial developer and commercial real estate investor himself. And if that were not enough, Mr. Alcheck also has undisclosed Personal Conflicts, that go beyond his Professional Conflicts: 1. Michael Alcheck's niece(s) (last name: Bodner) attend(s) Castilleja. 2. Michael Alcheck's sister, Ronit Alcheck Bodner, attended Castilleja and serves as an engaged high-contributing Alumna to Castilleja. 3. Michael Alcheck's parents and sister are, and have been, tightly associated with Castilleja and huge financial contributors to Castilleja for years, if not decades. Evidence from the last 2 years, although this dates back much further: See references to Ronit Alcheck Bodner in the following: ANNUAL REPORT 2020 https://issuu.com/castillejaschool/docs/annual_20report_202020_20issuu_20_1_/s/11297372 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 https://issuu.com/castillejaschool/docs/castilleja_annual_report_2019_issuu Ronit Alcheck Bodner listed in the following, for both years? Parents’ Annual Fund Friend’s Circle $1,000 - $4,999 Ronit Alcheck Bodner ’91 and Zack Bodner INVENTOR $6,500 - $9,999 Ronit Alcheck Bodner ’91 and Zack Bodner Friends of Mary Lockey $5,000 - $9,999 Ronit Alcheck Bodner ’91 4. Additionally, confirmed through sources: Michael Alcheck seeks to send his daughters to Castilleja - which accepts as few as 5% of applicants. Currently, all three of Alcheck's children attend private - not public - school. Doing favors for Castilleja may help his chances -- and increasing Castilleja's enrollment by 30% is guaranteed to improve his chances for admission. Alcheck's lack of personal stake in the well-being of Palo Alto public schools may be a reason that Alcheck has failed to acknowledge the documented financial harm that private schools cause public school districts. See e.g., this article, this article, this article, and this article. Given that Castilleja contributes ZERO to public funds, yet takes so much of public resource time, money, and receipt of public services, every dollar used by Castilleja for free is a dollar deprived from the public school students of Palo Alto. This fact cannot be disputed, so Castilleja does not try. That fact alone makes it illegal to the City of Palo Alto to grant Castilleja its proposed CUP under Palo Alto Municipal Code chapter 18.76 (see below). 5. Michael Alcheck has additional close ties with Castilleja, including ties to Castilleja's CFO Kathleen Layendecker. See e.g., https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/73344 In fact, I strongly encourage the PTC, ARB, City Attorney's Office, and PACC to read all communications sent to the City's Commissions and City Council regarding Castilleja. The Community has much to say. 6. Additional personal conflicts: Michael Alcheck's sister sits on the Planning Commission in Los Altos, CA. Both Michael Alcheck and his sister work for the commercial development firm owned by their parents. QUERY what that firm's construction company division stands to gain from the $300 million (or more) planned construction project for Castilleja in the residential neighborhood of Old Palo Alto, CA. If Michael Alcheck did not think it was important to disclose that is sister and co-worker has donated more than $100,000 over the past several years to Castilleja, that his niece(s) attend Castilleja, and that his sister actually attended Castilleja herself when they were growing up ... what else is he concealing? If these matters do not pose a problem, then why not disclose them? At the most recent PTC Meeting, Commission Chair Templeton asked if any Commissioners had any potential conflicts to disclose, and Commissioner Alcheck again remained silent. Of course, Alcheck is far from alone in having a personal stake in Castilleja's growth. Every single Palo Alto Commission has at least one Castilleja insider -- this is the case even though fewer than 20% of Castilleja's families live in Palo Alto. Given that only 50-60 (given siblings) Castilleja families live in Palo Alto, it is virtually impossible that this distribution in Palo Alto appointed leadership would occur by chance. In no recent case has any Commissioner closely associated with Castilleja recused themselves, including, recently, on the ARB, where a Commissioner appropriately disclosed that she formerly served as a Castilleja Trustee (and thus almost certainly is an Alumna and/or daughters who attended or attend Castilleja, although that was concealed). This Commissioner declined to recuse herself, and instead spoke favorably of Castilleja's application. Given that: (1) Castilleja has been in violation of the law and its contract for almost 20 years; (2) Castilleja has been fined a fraction of a percent of what it actually owes the City of Palo Alto; (3) Castilleja is in violation of the settlement agreement it reached with the city in 2013; and (4) Castilleja is in the final stages of steamrolling an illegal, dangerous, overwhelmingly opposed unprecedented huge construction project through the ARB, the PTC, and City Council -- every potential and perceived conflict of interest should be taken seriously. C. CONCLUSION: Palo Alto City Council must slow down and give this illegal and dangerous project another look. Imagine if this were billionaire developer John Arriaga proposing a commercial project on 55 residential lots, rather than the private school financially backed by Mr. Arriaga, and attended by Mr. Arriaga’s daughters, and now, granddaughters, demanding this unprecedented commercial project on 55 residential lots? The City of Palo Alto must enforce its own laws. In order to do so, it must demand full transparency, integrity, and disclosure with regard to this project. The public deserves better. Please enforce your own contractual agreements, as well as the laws you enforce against non- billionaire stakeholders before more damage is done due to irrational and unjustified acts that harm our community's safety, security, and well-being. Sincerely, Rebecca Eisenberg, Esq. Rebecca Eisenberg, Esq. Principal & Founder Private Client Legal Services www.linkedin.com/in/eisenberg rebecca@privateclientlegal.com 415-235-8078 https://www.winwithrebecca.com/castilleja Dear Community Members of Palo Alto, I am a huge fan of all-female education. I have read the studies and I believe, without qualification, that educating girls and women in single- sex setting is beneficial to women's equality. While at Stanford, in 1987, I received a Boothe Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing for a philosophy essay that relied on both Rousseau and Wollstonecraft in supporting and defending the single-sex education of girls and women. I always have supported and will continue to support, single sex education for girls and women. I also have great respect for Castilleja as an educational institution. Castilleja is recognized internationally as a top rated all-female middle school and high school. Castilleja deserves its international prestige. My problems with Castilleja lie not in its performance as an educational institution, but as a campus in Palo Alto that has not complied with zoning law. Castilleja is subject to a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) issued in 2000, which limits its enrollment to 415 students, and its car usage to that which would be generated if it had only 385 students, the maximum enrollment in Castilleja's CUP prior to 2000. Since 2002, Castilleja has been in violation of both of these primary aspects of its CUP, and by means of not coming into compliance since that time, also is in violation of our municipal and building codes. Importantly, without the CUP, Castilleja could not operate a school at that location. Castilleja sits on approximately 55 lots that are zoned for residential use (RH-1), and the City of Palo Alto granted the CUP in a manner that is necessary to preserve the integrity of this quiet, residential neighborhood. In other words, Castilleja operates due to a zoning variance provided by the City that binds Castilleja to strict requirements that Castilleja agreed to when the CUP was issued, but Castilleja has not kept its word. Pursuant to Castilleja's own records, Castilleja has enrolled more than 415 students since 2002. Despite numerous warnings from the City, as well as complaints from third parties regarding safety hazards, Castilleja has not come into compliance. If Palo Alto enforced its own municipal code, Castilleja would be liable to the city for $500/day per violation of the CUP. Each additional student constitutes a violation of the CUP. During the many years that Castilleja has enrolled 20 students above the CUP, the zoning fines amount to $500/day per 20 students = $10,000 in fines per day. Figuring 300 days a year, the zoning fines amount to $3 million/year. Palo Alto has not collected these, so Castilleja has not paid them. Castilleja also is legally obligated to show through a Transportation Demand Management plan that the traffic it generates is equivalent to that which would be generated if enrollment remained at its pre-2000 maximum of 385 students. In fact, Castilleja's violations of its CUP have been so severe and so long standing, that in 2013, the City and Castilleja signed a settlement agreement that provided a reduced penalty for Castilleja ($365,000) in exchange for Castilleja making two promises: (1) that Castilleja would come immediately into compliance with its CUP limiting enrollment to 415 students by reducing enrollment by 4-6 students a year (2) that Castilleja would NOT file for an amended CUP unless and until it became fully compliant with its existing CUP. The agreement provided that if Castilleja were to break these promises, the City of Palo Alto would consider all legal consequences, including pulling its permit and requiring Castilleja to leave its site. Nonetheless, Castilleja broke both promises. It never reduced its enrollment to the legally mandated 415 students. Nor did it wait for compliance to file for an amended permit. Castilleja instead filed a permit requesting a 30% increase in enrollment as well as an underground garage abutting the bike boulevard used by elementary school students. And instead of enforcing its settlement agreement, the City has done nothing. Why is this important? 1. All people and companies should be required to comply with the law. Consequences for illegal behavior should be applied equally. 2. Castilleja operates on its site due to a variance given voluntarily by the City of Palo Alto. It does not have the legal right to operate on 55 residential lots if not for this variance (the CUP). The land is zoned for houses, and was zoned for residences when Castilleja first acquired it. In fact, Castilleja used to be a boarding school, so its location on residential lots was easier to justify then. 3. Now that Castilleja is a commuter school, Castilleja's existence on these 55 residential lots is expensive to the city's housing supply. Palo Alto is subject to the requirements of state law, mandating that the city add housing every year, Cities that fail to meet the state-mandated minimum new housing subject themselves to State intervention, where the State will enter the city and put housing where the State wants. Palo Alto is among the very most behind in its housing minimums in the state. Palo Alto needs those 55 residential lots much more now than it did during the time when it gave Castilleja its CUP. Given that CUP's must be given only to the extent that a public interest is furthered by the granting of the CUP, if Castilleja had applied for its original CUP today, it is unlikely that the City of Palo Alto would have granted it. 4. Castilleja's non-compliant existence on the 55 residential lots also significantly costs Palo Alto financially. Castilleja is tax exempt as a private school under the IRS Code's Section 501(c)(3), so it pays no taxes to Palo Alto. That means that the residents of Palo Alto currently pay for all of Castilleja's use of city services, including street maintenance, tree safety, fire fighters, delivery of utilities, stoplights, traffic enforcement, local parks, and all other public services that students and staff at Castilleja use. For each additional student and staff member, that use increases, and those costs are borne entirely by the residents of Palo Alto, not by Castilleja. This is what the law provides, which we cannot control. That said, the City of Palo Alto is facing a severe budget crisis that has led the City Council to cut services to our public school students, funding to our public schools, hours and services offered by our public libraries, and even community programs for children such as the Palo Alto Children's Theatre. Castilleja's over-enrollment contributes to that budget crisis. 5. Castilleja's continued growth beyond its legal size limit has had growing negative impacts on the community. Despite Castilleja's legal promise to Palo Alto to reduce the impact of car commutes, Castilleja has continued to make driving the most convenient way for its students to attend school. In its most recent application for an amended CUP, Castilleja admits that it prefers that its students drive, asking for the right to build a large parking garage on its campus to enable more driving. Already Palo Alto's aging population faces risk from the increase in traffic due to so many new drivers filling the streets - elementary school bikers are also at increased risk of getting hurt. This is neither sustainable nor safe. What Castilleja could do is encourage carpooling - a more environmentally sustainable solution. 6. Construction at the Castilleja site will create hazards for Palo Alto residents for years. In addition to construction noise, the monumental construction project that Castilleja requests for its 6 acres will create the hazards that large construction projects always create: air pollution, traffic, toxic materials, and reliance on public services such as public safety and the fire department. Construction fires are common. Construction trucks also pose huge safety risks to neighbors. Only 4 months ago, a construction truck near California Ave struck and killed an 11 year old bicyclist due to lack of lighting in the residential neighborhood. Old Palo Alto is a residential neighborhood and is not set up to sustain the type of huge projects that Castilleja is demanding to build. What if an actual lock- down emergency were to happen at Palo Alto High School, or Walter Hays, but first responders cannot reach the students because of the hazards at the Castilleja construction site? What I would like to see happen: 1. Castilleja needs to comply with its current Conditional Use Permit. 2. If Castilleja cannot comply with its CUP, I will work with Castilleja to find a second campus that is zoned for schools rather than for residences. 3. Castilleja can sell its extremely valuable parcel of land and use the proceeds to invest in a new location that is zoned for schools. This would allow those 55 RH-1 lots to return to residential use -- and would allow Palo Alto to collect property tax from those lots as the city had planned when Palo Alto zoned the area RH-1. 4. If Castilleja would like to increase its enrollment over its legal limit of 415, it can open discussions with the City about ways it can pay the City of Palo Alto for its use of city services. This is what Stanford does, and is why Stanford historically has paid millions of dollars to our public schools, and why Stanford is required to provide its electric shuttle bus system - the Marguerite - as well as make the Marguerite available to use by the public. Stanford also has committed to keep many areas of its campus open to the public, so that Stanford's art, biking paths, streets, and even many of its buildings, facilities, and programs are open to the public. Castilleja has not made any similar offers, for example to open its proposed pool to low-income residents for swim lessons, or to set aside fully paid up scholarships for needy children from nearby neighborhoods. Both of those things are done by many prestigious private schools nationally, even without needing to offer them in order to be granted a conditional use permit. Although many organizations have called for Castilleja to invest in communities of needs through full scholarships set aside for poor neighbors, Castilleja has not announced any official program doing so. Both Castilleja representatives and Palo Alto residents are unhappy with the current situation. If we do nothing, we could potentially be endangering everyone involved. I would love to work with Castilleja, and negotiate a situation where we can maximize both safety and women's education. Sincerely, Rebecca Eisenberg bvrrnnl Ct^O laMt .anr Sst,rcr\f e, fNl&"L {^ro ll ,rr,"--t'rh Zve-,n,fi \eelfr't\+s Dear Mr. Keene: Iam (rlNQr-)" a g ,'i"lHTli:j'j'Jir"ili"jfi#:"iii;H,T, htrve per:iod1 r private school expansions on behalf ofpGlsnlially " - ._, ,, iiar with private rcrr"ir* i" irr" r"gi;", h"* gr.v are operated and marlceted.through nonlrofit corporations, and the history of th# evolution. A. Background rnformation - Long term use permit viorations In reviewing the City documents and relevant correspondence, it appeal.s that the Citybecame aware in 2013 that Castilleja was in violation of its use permit by Lxceecling theenrollment cap in the 2000 cUP, (Letten; between city and casiille;a. al.tae.hed as dxhiSit e.1The over- ch,:oiyeor arrn rrns *onii;;Jffr*rup*a rotevery con 25,ZAn, incluclerl in l:xhibit A,) tn 20t:_ ttre9.t1t:l1d 77 ,110, but did nor rbllow ttre mrm,:lates til rtreololnance Approvals, attached as Exhibit B,) No CEeAreview or public hearing was required, only imposition of a substantial fine, The City planning manager first appeared to require that the school reduce the enrollmentover a period of tims, anel then later enfewd into nn agreement with the school attowinf tne usepermit violation if the sclrool applierl far a maclifie* Cup and the school complied witfr'traffrcconditions in the current 2000 CltJip, Ths school promised to apply fbr a rnodified CUp onIanuary 1,2015, and eventually applied for it on Jrme 30,2016^, Eifectively, the City faiied toenforce the 2000 CUP and bargained with Castil tej a to "[egalize" the over-enrollment with nopublic input' The "deal" struck by the city is unacceptable, given the over a decade-long periodof non-compliance with the rne permit, the serious impacts Jn the neighborhood from theschool's current operations, and the factthat Castilleja knew full *"tt ttrut it was violating ,t,permit as to enrollment and as to other conditions inihe permit. Pl.tOt- docqrnefl. TzlL 7V\ .nc-tnCtv-S h DONNA M. VENERUSO (d.'09) LEILA H. MONCI]ARSH James Keene City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Palo Alto, CA 94301 LAW OFFICES VENERUSO & MONCHARSH 5707 REDWOOD ROAD, SUITE 1OOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 9461 9 T'T|LEPFTONE (s10) 482_0390 FACSTMTLE (510) 4s2_0391 Malch 25,2017 I Throughout this complaint, I am using the telm "private schoois" to refer to private, independent schools asopposed to par.ochial, charter, or other.types of pr.ivately owned schools. March 25,2017 Page2 r managemont and poor future planning, mit do not only involve over-ernrollment, use permit as demonstrated by the attached g noise, number of events, antl traffic Exhibit C,) B, Spccific Use permit Violations the City and Castillej a, it appearsthat the s of the Use permit, besides over_enrollment orrespondence suggests that Mr. Turner was he conditions should have been reviewed for e the following: the scheduling of neighborhoad meetings tohood is,sues. The meetings shall occur i,i"" onistrator shell be noticed as to the time attend. s" with the neighbors in201.4 (although cil intended for the neighbors and Castillela the neighbors might have with the school,s that is intended to prevent institutions frominstitutional use is only as compatible with a s, By having the neighbors and the institution March 25,2017 Page 3 meet fwice ayear' castilleja was on "fair notice" of its management failings and had a chance tocorrect them before the problems escarated, They chose nJ;;; ,". plying with Condition 22, it was not for the arently was only for the purpose of ,,selling,, ose violated the permit. I he last meeting, innal displays and speeches about the school split between canned speeches lans, and actual neighbors, who e meetings, Asct)rdit til sistently in violation of condition 22 since2000,first by not hojd t$ bors, and tfr"n il1.uring the meetings for sales,pitches' instearr di neighborhood issues" with the school,s operation, atvntDdi School shall review its event schedttling process to illore";:::":; tions so school events do not occur on con,gecutive weekends.DPYctut s ,shall utilize trffic rnonitors to hetp facititate the trffic'flow at and around thl sile. These trffic monitors may not be wearing uni/brms, but shail bepresent andworking during dqnces, This condition has been routinely violated because castilleja has held and continues rohold events on consecutive weekends. Please see resident-pr"pur"a ,,Event Tracker,,attached asExhibit D. Conclition No' 26" Castilleia will review event calendaring process and developprocedures to more strategically plan events and their timing placement on the calendar so thath as dances do not become bttnche.d in consecutivZ;;;i;t or weekencls. Additionatty,shall review the events that tak:e place on camput niirt in" intent of reducing their one way to decrease these nuisances is to require that there be no events on ceftain days,like sundays' Then, the nunber of the evernts should be g."utlf i;jrced to minor what a residentwould expect living in an urban environmeut,.A,ny neighior rnigrriiluue a party .ft.om time totime, but not every weekend or consecutive nights. Soile events"are to be expecl,ecl and areconsistent with u.ban residential life, but not every evening or every weekencl, March 25,2017 Page 4 I Nighr, l illeja castilleja has been and continues to be in violation of condition s 27 and 28, These violations collectively, including pr-rshing over-enrollm ent, arethe product of poormanagement' and are not accidental' They stem-from a-desire to maximir" profits in an era when 2Please note: the cu''ent cup appricatiq' po.nltilf,^gn rub p, a schedule ,,i,ilustrative of thetypes of Special Events that couldoiJui;ttriit roral 90; 7i of rh;s;;vents with esrimatedattendance between 100 and 300 guests, and 1l of them with 400 to 700 guests. It contains nodates or days of the week, 90 evsnts is extraordjnary for a private institution in an R-l zonedresidential neighborhood, and they present it as though they are REDSSING thei' events to thisrnodest number (see cup comparison chart, attached as Exhibit E). March 25,2017 Page 5 c' cornpetition Arnongst private schoors for shrinrrirrg Market srrare ivate schools from like Stanford diversity because D' Private schools that Are Noncompliant with use permifs - Are they rnnovatorsfor tlre Future of private Education or . . . ? By contrast to the vast majority of private schools in california, the pril,ate schools that Ihave found violating use permits In r"u"rui;urisdictions huu. i,r "o,nmon the fcrllowing features:1' They assume a "grow or die" management philosophy based on the economictnechanics of large corporalions, whi"h is iiretevanil6 "arcation models for children,2' Purchasing neighboring horsing and banlcing it for later demolition 'nd expansioninto surrounding residential nei[hborhoods, 3' Mixed goais that include offering high quality education, but also inr:lude extensjvelarrd development plans, 4. Board members and the explanat oard may not have children in the school growth or iand d jlff.may rest with nonprofit corporate here they are located. The files reflectdifications of permits, fights with city staffgovernmental process to adclress the other commerciar usage, and mostlv ""lLilt$,tlill"ilil#ITffnsistent with anv 6. Disputes with neighborhoods are comln one way or another further into the r March 25,2017 Page 6 7 ' These schools are order and they rur\rl their long existence, although themanagement is also "older" and out of date with c'urrent u"ri,ounugJ*.nt p.u.tir*and current education models. 8. In some instance because of labor s finding or replacing upper management ethics issues, or , withneighbors, uncleat'goals, internal stating and hearing that they are ru students with potential. l0' A belief that they shorrlcl be fiee of regulation because "public schools don,t have tohave a use permit. So, why shoulcl rve-?,, t t' f,:,lt: ro use permit conditions, incruding comprying witrr thern\r'r rrrB city hearing on whether a modificition or u uJe permitwill be gressing to"prior t"J ;"h";l;;,r;;; p.r_ii iJr"r*.0,12'Hiring orlg^lglttr,,s, and bringing rarge numbers of former arumnae, parents, andeven children to public hearings as a.way to. pressure politicians into acquiescing toschool demands for lenient use permit conditions. r' l3 ' Poor stewardship of naturar resources, with trees the prirnary rosers, 14' An essential focus is on-tnakirig money either to expand fufther or just for the sake ofmaking money - everything erse is secondary or r"i ..",y important, 15 ' They tend to have very little market share of students in the cities where they arelocated, which then requires more v :hicle tlaffic.16. ilize their facilities lroor uses. rhe goal t"trtj.1l,l]il., hbors' enjoyment o c,l ,ut,n*rr,t'rsrrt u ighttimes' E' The city shoutd Enforce the 2000 cUp or Revohe the permit Please immediately enfbrce the 20CtO CUp. March 25,2017 Page 7 LHM:lm Enclosures cc; City Attorney, Molly Stump City Council Members Planning Commissioners Very truly yours, .44/a7, ?/toe/4441 Leila H, Moncharsh, J.D,, M.U.p. Veneruso & Moncharsh 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: 1/19/ 2021 Document dates: 12/30/2020 – 1/6/2021 Set 3 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, January 6, 2021 11:47 AM To:Hur, Mark; Police; Perron, Zachary; Planning Enforcement; City Mgr; Eggleston, Brad; Council, City Cc:Baird, Nathan; isabelle.lasalle@asm.ca.gov Subject:Re: El Camino RV's Today, I tried to walk down El Camino from Churchill to Serra.  I have attached photos of what I encountered.  There are,  as you can see, many issues.  RV's parked on the sidewalk, trash and other "non‐vehicles" in the street and items  blocking passage on the sidewalk.  In order to get to Serra, I had to walk in the traffic lane on El Camino as the sidewalk  was completely blocked.  I called PAPD to report both the illegally parked vehicles and the sidewalk, however, they  moved me on to Code Enforcement despite the fact that illegally parked cars is, I believe, under their umbrella of  responsibility.   But, as has been the case for many years, no one seems to want to claim responsibility for this area.  I  did see a few Stanford contractors out cleaning up some of the debris.  Why hasn't Palo Alto sent a clean‐up crew out  there to deal with the conditions that they are allowing to occur?    This is what you have allowed the city to become.  Ed Shikada, this is Palo Alto under your management.  This is the road  that the city wants to turn into a "Grand Boulevard" to rival the great streets of Europe.    Does it really take residents to complain about something like this in order for city staff to act?  Where is the  leadership?  As the saying goes, " A fish rots from the head down."  Why isn't Ed Shikada doing anything to care for the  city that he's being paid to manage?      Keith      2       On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 5:47 PM Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com> wrote:  FYI,  Two posts I just saw on Nextdoor in response to a women who was screamed at by a homeless man downtown:    Rachel Mortimore • Downtown North Did you file a report to keep on police radar? Someone living in the RVs tried to pull a young woman from a bike a few weeks ago. Reports lead to awareness and… See more 2 hr ago Thank Reply To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 1 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.August Mozart August Mozart • Crescent Park 3 I just drove down `El Camino and it's getting worse...old bikes, litter, people camping on the road ....police just sitting there. I'll retype that last part. POLICE JUST SITTING THERE. That's unacceptable. Keith   On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 1:19 PM Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com> wrote:    Mark,  Thanks for the response.  A few follow up questions.  Anyone on this email is free to respond:    1) You stated that the city paused "most of our timed and permit restrictions throughout the City until further  notice."  Which areas were not paused?   2) I contacted Caltrans and they told me that they could sweep the roadways in order to clean it.  My question to you  then is how can they clean the roadway if the city allows the vehicles to remain parked for weeks and months at a  time?  Given the city's lack of oversight, it is allowing the garbage to pile up and the unsanitary conditions to  continue.  The state can't do its job until the city does theirs.  3) Lydia Kou and Tom DuBois brought up safe parking options to city council in June of 2019.  The RV issue has been  around for 8‐10 years, at a minimum.  What work exactly is staff doing to expedite this issues.  Other cities, including  neighboring Mountain View and East Palo Alto have already soared past City of Palo Alto staff in finding solutions,  even if they are not 100% ideal.  Most any option would be better than what the RV owners and community are  currently experiencing.  4) Why do residents have to inform PAPD of an issue that both the city and the police know are issues on a case by  case basis?  Why isn't the city and PAPD actively addressing the situation?    5) Caltrans has also told me that the City of Palo Alto is in charge of the conditions of the sidewalks.  Why are these  not being cleared so pedestrians can safely walk down the streets of Palo Alto?  Again, the residents should not need  to inform the city of every issue they see, especially when the city and the police are well aware that the conditions  exist.      At some point we, as community members, expect our government to take care of both the citizens within the city as  well as the conditions that exist within that city.  I'm sure many city employees have seen the conditions on El Camino,  are aware that something needs to be done, and then proceed along and look the other way.  It's time to send people  out and take care of the situation, both as a social service venture and an environmental cleanup.    I look forward to your response.  Keith    On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:22 AM Hur, Mark <Mark.Hur@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  Mr. Ferrell,     Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Your feedback is crucial in helping staff address immediate concerns in  our community.   4    Due to the ongoing and new stay‐at‐home orders, we have paused most of our timed and permit restrictions  throughout the City until further notice. Please note that enforcement continues for concerns that present an  immediate hazard. Restrictions for red curbs, spaces designated for persons with disabilities, and any other locations  prohibited by law are always in effect.       City Staff is working closely with the City Council to establish safe parking solutions and avenues to reduce the  number of oversized vehicles city‐wide. Currently, we do not have the policies in place to remove these types of  vehicles as they are parking on public and state‐owned roadways.      There is a city‐wide ordinance that requires all vehicles to move within 72 hours; where PD is responding on a case by  case basis. If you notice a vehicle parking for an extended period or present a public safety concern, please contact  the Palo Alto Police Department.      Mark Hur   Operations Lead  Office of Transportation  (650) 329‐2453 | mark.hur@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/trn/parking   www.cityofpaloalto.org                          Please think of the environment before printing this email   Use Palo Alto 311 to report items you’d like the City to fix!!  Download the app or click here to make a service  request.     From: Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com>   Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 10:31 AM  To: Hur, Mark <Mark.Hur@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Baird, Nathan <Nathan.Baird@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: El Camino RV's  5    CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Mark and Nathan,   Are parking regulations being enforced on El Camino Real in Palo Alto?  The is a continuing issues.  It seems that  nothing happens until people complain about the issue.  The RV's parked along El Camino have become essentially a  health hazard.       However, taking that out of the equation, we expect our city government to enforce the laws that have been  adopted by the elected officials.  This would include active enforcement of parking regulations.  The cars and RV's on  El Camino park there for weeks/months at a time without any enforcement.  At some point, they will be able to claim  that they can't be moved because they've been "allowed" to stay for such an extended period.     In addition, the area between Churchill and Park/Serra is part of the Southgate RPP and is a 2‐hour parking  zone.  There has been no enforcement of this area and due to that, cars and RV's are now entrenched there, as well.       What does the city plan to do?  I'm happy to show you pictures of the garbage and waste that litters the streets and  blocks the sidewalks.  I assume that you are well aware of the situation, but choose to look the other way.  We  expect the city staff to do what they are being paid to do and that includes enforcing parking regulations.     Thanks  Keith  6 Baumb, Nelly From:Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, January 5, 2021 5:47 PM To:Hur, Mark Cc:Baird, Nathan; Council, City; Police; Perron, Zachary; isabelle.lasalle@asm.ca.gov; City Mgr Subject:Re: El Camino RV's FYI,  Two posts I just saw on Nextdoor in response to a women who was screamed at by a homeless man downtown:    Rachel Mortimore •   Downtown North  Did you file a report to keep on police radar? Someone living in the RVs tried to pull a young woman from a bike a few weeks ago. Reports lead to awareness and… See more 2 hr ago Thank Reply To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In 1 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.August Mozart August Mozart •   Crescent Park  I just drove down `El Camino and it's getting worse...old bikes, litter, people camping on the road ....police just sitting there. I'll retype that last part. POLICE JUST SITTING THERE. That's unacceptable. Keith   On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 1:19 PM Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com> wrote:    Mark,  Thanks for the response.  A few follow up questions.  Anyone on this email is free to respond:    7 1) You stated that the city paused "most of our timed and permit restrictions throughout the City until further  notice."  Which areas were not paused?   2) I contacted Caltrans and they told me that they could sweep the roadways in order to clean it.  My question to you  then is how can they clean the roadway if the city allows the vehicles to remain parked for weeks and months at a  time?  Given the city's lack of oversight, it is allowing the garbage to pile up and the unsanitary conditions to  continue.  The state can't do its job until the city does theirs.  3) Lydia Kou and Tom DuBois brought up safe parking options to city council in June of 2019.  The RV issue has been  around for 8‐10 years, at a minimum.  What work exactly is staff doing to expedite this issues.  Other cities, including  neighboring Mountain View and East Palo Alto have already soared past City of Palo Alto staff in finding solutions, even  if they are not 100% ideal.  Most any option would be better than what the RV owners and community are currently  experiencing.  4) Why do residents have to inform PAPD of an issue that both the city and the police know are issues on a case by case  basis?  Why isn't the city and PAPD actively addressing the situation?    5) Caltrans has also told me that the City of Palo Alto is in charge of the conditions of the sidewalks.  Why are these not  being cleared so pedestrians can safely walk down the streets of Palo Alto?  Again, the residents should not need to  inform the city of every issue they see, especially when the city and the police are well aware that the conditions exist.      At some point we, as community members, expect our government to take care of both the citizens within the city as  well as the conditions that exist within that city.  I'm sure many city employees have seen the conditions on El Camino,  are aware that something needs to be done, and then proceed along and look the other way.  It's time to send people  out and take care of the situation, both as a social service venture and an environmental cleanup.    I look forward to your response.  Keith    On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:22 AM Hur, Mark <Mark.Hur@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  Mr. Ferrell,     Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Your feedback is crucial in helping staff address immediate concerns in  our community.      Due to the ongoing and new stay‐at‐home orders, we have paused most of our timed and permit restrictions  throughout the City until further notice. Please note that enforcement continues for concerns that present an  immediate hazard. Restrictions for red curbs, spaces designated for persons with disabilities, and any other locations  prohibited by law are always in effect.       City Staff is working closely with the City Council to establish safe parking solutions and avenues to reduce the number  of oversized vehicles city‐wide. Currently, we do not have the policies in place to remove these types of vehicles as  they are parking on public and state‐owned roadways.      There is a city‐wide ordinance that requires all vehicles to move within 72 hours; where PD is responding on a case by  case basis. If you notice a vehicle parking for an extended period or present a public safety concern, please contact  the Palo Alto Police Department.   8    Mark Hur   Operations Lead  Office of Transportation  (650) 329‐2453 | mark.hur@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/trn/parking   www.cityofpaloalto.org                          Please think of the environment before printing this email   Use Palo Alto 311 to report items you’d like the City to fix!!  Download the app or click here to make a service request.     From: Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com>   Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 10:31 AM  To: Hur, Mark <Mark.Hur@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Baird, Nathan <Nathan.Baird@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: El Camino RV's     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Mark and Nathan,   Are parking regulations being enforced on El Camino Real in Palo Alto?  The is a continuing issues.  It seems that  nothing happens until people complain about the issue.  The RV's parked along El Camino have become essentially a  health hazard.       However, taking that out of the equation, we expect our city government to enforce the laws that have been adopted  by the elected officials.  This would include active enforcement of parking regulations.  The cars and RV's on El Camino  park there for weeks/months at a time without any enforcement.  At some point, they will be able to claim that they  can't be moved because they've been "allowed" to stay for such an extended period.  9    In addition, the area between Churchill and Park/Serra is part of the Southgate RPP and is a 2‐hour parking  zone.  There has been no enforcement of this area and due to that, cars and RV's are now entrenched there, as well.       What does the city plan to do?  I'm happy to show you pictures of the garbage and waste that litters the streets and  blocks the sidewalks.  I assume that you are well aware of the situation, but choose to look the other way.  We expect  the city staff to do what they are being paid to do and that includes enforcing parking regulations.     Thanks  Keith  10 Baumb, Nelly From:Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, January 5, 2021 1:19 PM To:Hur, Mark Cc:Baird, Nathan; Council, City; Police; Perron, Zachary; isabelle.lasalle@asm.ca.gov; City Mgr Subject:Re: El Camino RV's   Mark,  Thanks for the response.  A few follow up questions.  Anyone on this email is free to respond:    1) You stated that the city paused "most of our timed and permit restrictions throughout the City until further  notice."  Which areas were not paused?   2) I contacted Caltrans and they told me that they could sweep the roadways in order to clean it.  My question to you  then is how can they clean the roadway if the city allows the vehicles to remain parked for weeks and months at a  time?  Given the city's lack of oversight, it is allowing the garbage to pile up and the unsanitary conditions to  continue.  The state can't do its job until the city does theirs.  3) Lydia Kou and Tom DuBois brought up safe parking options to city council in June of 2019.  The RV issue has been  around for 8‐10 years, at a minimum.  What work exactly is staff doing to expedite this issues.  Other cities, including  neighboring Mountain View and East Palo Alto have already soared past City of Palo Alto staff in finding solutions, even  if they are not 100% ideal.  Most any option would be better than what the RV owners and community are currently  experiencing.  4) Why do residents have to inform PAPD of an issue that both the city and the police know are issues on a case by case  basis?  Why isn't the city and PAPD actively addressing the situation?    5) Caltrans has also told me that the City of Palo Alto is in charge of the conditions of the sidewalks.  Why are these not  being cleared so pedestrians can safely walk down the streets of Palo Alto?  Again, the residents should not need to  inform the city of every issue they see, especially when the city and the police are well aware that the conditions exist.      At some point we, as community members, expect our government to take care of both the citizens within the city as  well as the conditions that exist within that city.  I'm sure many city employees have seen the conditions on El Camino,  are aware that something needs to be done, and then proceed along and look the other way.  It's time to send people  out and take care of the situation, both as a social service venture and an environmental cleanup.    I look forward to your response.  Keith    On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:22 AM Hur, Mark <Mark.Hur@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  Mr. Ferrell,     Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Your feedback is crucial in helping staff address immediate concerns in our  community.      Due to the ongoing and new stay‐at‐home orders, we have paused most of our timed and permit restrictions  throughout the City until further notice. Please note that enforcement continues for concerns that present an  11 immediate hazard. Restrictions for red curbs, spaces designated for persons with disabilities, and any other locations  prohibited by law are always in effect.       City Staff is working closely with the City Council to establish safe parking solutions and avenues to reduce the number  of oversized vehicles city‐wide. Currently, we do not have the policies in place to remove these types of vehicles as they  are parking on public and state‐owned roadways.      There is a city‐wide ordinance that requires all vehicles to move within 72 hours; where PD is responding on a case by  case basis. If you notice a vehicle parking for an extended period or present a public safety concern, please contact  the Palo Alto Police Department.      Mark Hur   Operations Lead  Office of Transportation  (650) 329‐2453 | mark.hur@cityofpaloalto.org   www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/trn/parking   www.cityofpaloalto.org                          Please think of the environment before printing this email   Use Palo Alto 311 to report items you’d like the City to fix!!  Download the app or click here to make a service request.     From: Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com>   Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 10:31 AM  To: Hur, Mark <Mark.Hur@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Baird, Nathan <Nathan.Baird@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: El Camino RV's     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  12 Mark and Nathan,   Are parking regulations being enforced on El Camino Real in Palo Alto?  The is a continuing issues.  It seems that  nothing happens until people complain about the issue.  The RV's parked along El Camino have become essentially a  health hazard.       However, taking that out of the equation, we expect our city government to enforce the laws that have been adopted  by the elected officials.  This would include active enforcement of parking regulations.  The cars and RV's on El Camino  park there for weeks/months at a time without any enforcement.  At some point, they will be able to claim that they  can't be moved because they've been "allowed" to stay for such an extended period.     In addition, the area between Churchill and Park/Serra is part of the Southgate RPP and is a 2‐hour parking zone.  There  has been no enforcement of this area and due to that, cars and RV's are now entrenched there, as well.       What does the city plan to do?  I'm happy to show you pictures of the garbage and waste that litters the streets and  blocks the sidewalks.  I assume that you are well aware of the situation, but choose to look the other way.  We expect  the city staff to do what they are being paid to do and that includes enforcing parking regulations.     Thanks  Keith  13 Baumb, Nelly From:Mora Oommen <mora@youthcommunityservice.org> Sent:Monday, January 4, 2021 4:47 PM To:Council, City Subject:City of Palo Alto MLK Day CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear Council Members,     Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration  "Together We Rise"  Monday, January 18, 2021, 11am‐1pm on ZOOM    Join Youth Community Service (YCS), the City of Palo Alto and community partners in a celebration of the life and legacy  of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  All of us look forward to building an even stronger community as we all learn and grow  from these difficult times. As a community joined together we know we can do amazing things.    14 Event Activities:  Palo Alto Library ‐ Storytime with Library on MLK Day ‐ also watch for self‐paced reading book list.  Junior League ‐ Self‐paced Book Discussion with the Palo Alto Library.  Book list selections for Tween, Teen & Adult.   An  open dialogue encouraged to add to the list as well.    Youth Panel ‐ hosted by Paly BSU members.  Zoom webinar discussing systemic racism.  Starts @Noon   City of Palo Alto Recreation Dept. ‐ Quote Walk @MPCC and Hope Walls with communities "Dreams".  City of Palo Alto Teen Advisory Group + Palo Alto Museum ‐ MLK Scavenger hunt.  Local non‐profit organizations ‐ videos sharing how MLK’s message connects to their organization.   DreamCatchers ‐ youth video sharing MLK Speeches/Quotes and personal testimonies.  Safe Routes to Schools ‐ Ruby Bridges & Black History month.  Places to walk & why.   Service Projects ‐ watch for more information and please complete area of interest question below.  Youth can apply for  Community Service Hours!     For more information and to register please visit our YCS Website: https://www.youthcommunityservice.org  15 Baumb, Nelly From:Michael Spine <Michael@inveniogenetics.com> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 8:30 AM To:Council, City Subject:COVID-19 Testing CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Invenio Genetics is now offering COVID-19 Viral Testing exclusively from the Avera Institute for Human Genetics. Our solution is for all entities looking to test at least 10 individuals per day, that have any healthcare-related personnel to oversee the sample collection and online registration.      FDA Approved under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)   Gold Standard PCR Testing for COVID-19   Non-invasive Nasal Swab   Developed and Performed by our CLIA/CAP Certified Laboratory   Accurate and Reliable – Validated as 100% Specific and 100% Sensitive   No cost to the organization or the patient*   Get results in less than 48-hours (time of return shipping, excluding weekends)   HIPAA Compliant portal for testing and results     For more information, please reach out to me directly or visit our website at www.inveniogenetics.com.                   *Cost/Billing Information  We are prepared to conduct third party insurance billing for patients. The process is simple through our online portal registration process. The patient should not worry that they will have to pay out of pocket for the test. Part of the CARES Act puts the responsibility on the insurance company to pay. The government also setup a special program to pay for the testing for patients that do not have insurance. All of these are handled by our team as we do not want to put any additional undo stress on patients.    16 Baumb, Nelly From:Scott Scholz <sscholz@greenwaste.com> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 7:49 AM To:Shikada, Ed; Bill Sanders; Fine, Adrian; Council, City; Matthew Shikada; Eggleston, Brad Cc:Leah Venegas; Atayde, Ereida Subject:RE: Unhappy resident Good Morning Ed and Bill,    Ed, thank you for your generous offer for you and your son to go out and help Mr. Sanders efforts to meet the  requirements for cardboard  set out.  These parameters are in place for safety, efficiency and environmental  purposes.  Upon reading the email from Mr. Sanders clearly there are some extenuating circumstances that require us  (GreenWaste of Palo Alto) to be a little more understanding and help find a solution for all parties, as Leah has  suggested in her email below.    In light of the situation we are picking up the material this morning, so I do not think your extremely generous offer (Ed)  will be needed at this time.  We always strive to be a helpful and positive impact on our community, we take pride in our  service and willing to help the residents of Palo Alto.    I am pleased that the situation came to light and we can get it addressed moving forward, hopefully relieving any  unnecessary stress to Mr. Sanders and his wife, there is enough stress in the world right without any additional burdens.    Thanks again, the material should be picked up by 9:00am at the latest.    Bill if you ever have any questions or concerns going forward please do not hesitate to call or email me at any time.    Happy New Year to all!    Scott            Scott M. Scholz  GreenWaste of Palo Alto  General Manager  650.798.5987 Office  650.575.0571 Cell     Find us online:   @GreenWastePA          From: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>   Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 3:03 PM  17 To: PACustomer service <PACustomerservice@greenwaste.com>; Bill Sanders <bill@garyandbill.net>  Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Fine, Adrian <Adrian.Fine@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Scott Scholz  <sscholz@greenwaste.com>; Matthew Shikada <mshikada@zagmail.gonzaga.edu>  Subject: Re: Unhappy resident    Hello Bill and Leah ‐    Thanks for your communication and quick responsiveness, Leah. Great options going forward.     For the current dilemma, I’ll stop by this afternoon with my son and box cutters.     Happy holidays,  —Ed     From: PACustomer service <PACustomerservice@greenwaste.com>  Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 2:48 PM  To: Bill Sanders  Cc: Council, City; Fine, Adrian; Scholz, Scott  Subject: RE: Unhappy resident      CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi Bill,      Thank you for your feedback. I would like to have the cardboard collected by a Supervisor tomorrow, if you would please  keep it out.     I do show that you currently have a 64gal recycle cart, we could increase it to the 96gal for free. You are allowed up to 3  blue recycle carts at no additional charge. In order for the recycle driver to service the extra cardboard we would need it  to be cut down, flattened and in bundles no bigger than 2’x3’. Once we service the blue recycle container the driver will  then pick up any extra cardboard, place it in your blue recycle container and then service it again. If the cardboard is too  large and does not fit into the container, it will be hard for us to service the extra material set out.      Another thing I would like to offer is our physical limitation program. The program offers Palo Alto residents who are  unable to bring the containers out themselves, to have the drivers go on to the premises such as the backyard or side of  the house to get the containers, service them and place back. I attached the form that can be filled out by your doctor.  Once filled, please send it back to us via email or mail to 2765 Lafayette St Santa Clara 95050, and we can start having  the drivers service your containers.      If you have any questions please let me know.      Thanks,  Leah Venegas  GreenWaste of Palo Alto  Customer Service Lead  650.798.5984 Direct   650.493.4894 Customer Service     From: Bill Sanders <bill@garyandbill.net>   Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 1:27 PM  18 To: PACustomer service <PACustomerservice@greenwaste.com>  Cc: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org; Adrian.Fine@cityofpaloalto.org  Subject: Unhappy resident     I have a problem with your waste‐collection policies.    I am 80 years old and my wife is 78 years old. We live by ourselves in a single family  dwelling in South Palo Alto. My wife has an incurable lung condition. I have an incurable   leg muscle condition that makes bending and lifting both uncomfortable and with the   danger of falling. For these reasons and because of our advanced ages, we are sheltering   in place at home during the pandemic. We have all food and merchandise delivered.     This Christmas, we received merchandise in several large corrugated paper boxes. Although  we could flatten the boxes, we were physically unable to fold them.    Therefore, I placed the flattened boxes with the rest of our recycling.    The next day, our carts were emptied and small boxes had been removed. But the flattened  large boxes were left scattered on the sidewalk. There was a tag titled "How to recycle  cardboard" attached to the handle of one of the carts. Apparently the large boxes were  not taken because they were not folded.    This leaves us with a dilemma: we cannot fold the boxes and you refuse to recycle them  unfolded.    We have been very diligent about recycling and compost collection. I believe that there   should be some way that your company could remove the boxes unfolded. It should not  be very difficult for your crews.    William Sanders  3980 Bibbits Drive  Palo Alto, CA 94303  650‐494‐0455  bill@sandersdata.com  19 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, January 6, 2021 3:54 AM To:Honky Subject:WE DID IT! Now onwards to the FREEDOM RALLY CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Thank you all for showing up, sharing, reaching out, and contacting all forms of media to get this seminal event out to as many eyes as possible - we had over 100,000 views in less than 12 hours and we know our reach will continue to grow as we share this message of TRUTH far and wide. Please do not underestimate your power and influence by sharing this event with your networks. Never before would we each have had a more relevant, articulate and lies shattering documentation on the pathology of Fauci and the house of corruption. So, please keep sending emails with your context to the outlets of all forms of media to START PAYING ATTENTION to the profound nature of the Focus on Fauci event. To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.image If you missed the Livestream event, you can watch it here: https://earthheroestv.com/programs/special-free-live-broadcast-5th-jan-2021-focus- on-fauci-46120-a90064 20 FREEDOM RALLY WASHINGTON D.C. To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.image We are sending our prayers, energy & strength to all of the Freedom Warriors gathering in the Nation's Capitol in the US today for the FREEDOM RALLY Go to: www.freedomrally2021.com Received from Mike Adams: "Over a million patriots are already descending upon Washington D.C. as events converge tomorrow (Wed), when the US Congress is widely expected to betray the nation and fraudulently vote to confirm the Biden electoral votes from rigged swing states that violated federal election law. We anticipate an aggressive fight with more than a few surprises tomorrow. The most likely outcome is a betrayal by Congress, and that leaves America with just four options to defend the republic. In today's Situation Update podcast, I cover these four options in great detail, along with other breaking news." READ FULL ARTICLE: https://www.hangthecensors.com/486737.html FAUCI EVENT FOLLOW UP & CALL TO ACTION If you watched the livestream please know you can support the continuation of David Martin’s critical Discovery work and the New Earth Media Team here https://www.mightycause.com/story/Kmiw8f To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.image 21  We also urge you to support our other seminal guests Judy Mikovtis by purchasing a copy of her book at http://plaguethebook.com/ Also stay tuned for Robert F Kennedy’s upcoming book on Fauci in the months ahead.  Lastly, please support Constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati and his work to preserve FREEDOM at www.threesixninemedia.com/the-call To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.image To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.image https://vimeo.com/497536273 With Godspeed for what is going down for Freedom in DC, NewEarth Media Team Focus on Fauci www.lineinthesand.us Visit our Focus on Fauci Newsfeed   To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Facebook: newearthproj To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.Twitter: NewEarthProjec1 To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.In stagram: newearth_project 22 NewEarth Media New Earth Haven Ubud, Bali 80561 Indonesia  Unsubscribe        23 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Wednesday, January 6, 2021 3:50 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; beachrides; David Balakian; bballpod; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; newsdesk; nick yovino; news@fresnobee.com; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Post infection immunity- Good news from good study. 6 mos immun. at least 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, Jan 6, 2021 at 3:05 AM  Subject: Post infection immunity‐ Good news from good study. 6 mos immun. at least  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                  Wed. January 6, 2021                      Good study, not a trial, but good study in Northern England on how many health workers infected by Covid in first  wave in April, got re‐infected in the current, second wave.  Great news‐‐ None of them   This proves they get infected,  recover hopefully, and are then immune to re‐infection at least six months later. We don't know how much later  because more time needs to pass to know.            This bodes well for the length of immunity conferred by the vaccines too.            Here Dr. Campbell walks you through the numbers. 20 minutes:                           Post infection immunity, good news ‐ YouTube                Since Monday, 1‐4‐21, the UK has been vaccinating with the Oxford product. They will report to the world any  untoward outcomes. How long will we wait when these towering medical experts are going all‐in with the Oxford  vaccine? They have been injecting the Pfizer vaccine and apparently have not approved the Moderna vaccine, as we  have.  So they now have Pfizer and Oxford and we have Pfizer and Modera.  Pfizer and Moderna are both MRNA  vaccines and Oxford is not one.                   If we gave an EUA for the Oxford vaccine, we would cut way into the 3200 Amercans who are dying every day  from Covid. Not to approve it is just criminal. The FDA has all of the data that the UK regulators used to approve Oxford,  and they keep getting the rolling data as it develops. The FDA had better have a good answer when Congress  24 investigates the needless deaths due to their stalling. Are they subject to wrongful death lawsuits? Trump won't be  there to pardon them then if the courts convict them of murder.                The Germans, English, Scots and N. Ireland have now locked down hard. We should too, and we should halt flights  coming into the U.S. from the UK and from South Africa. That we do not is due, at least in part, to the absence of the  President as a decision maker in the pandemic. He has just gone off the rails right when we need important decisions  made. I still say use the 25th Amendment to right the situation, but the Republicans in Congress would not vote for that.  So our federal government has just locked‐up and failed us at this point. We flounder as the death toll mounts. Sort of  like during Viet Nam.                         L. William Harding          Fresno, Ca.  25 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, January 5, 2021 3:31 PM To:Van Der Zwaag, Minka Cc:Minor, Beth; Human Relations Commission; Council, City Subject:Re: Prior notification of all 2021 HRC meetings with agenda Hi Minka,  Great! I will be watching for HRC notices in 2021. Thanks so much! Aram     Sent from my iPhone    > On Jan 5, 2021, at 2:12 PM, Van Der Zwaag, Minka <Minka.VanDerZwaag@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote:  >   > Aram,  >   > Happy New Year to you as well.  >   > You are on the Gov Delivery distribution list for HRC meetings, therefore you receive a copy of the agenda for all HRC  meetings as they become public.    >   >   > Minka van der Zwaag  > Manager, Office of Human Services  >   > 4000 Middlefield Rd. T2 | Palo Alto, CA 94303  >   > 650‐463‐4953 | minka.vanderzwaag@cityofpaloalto.org  >   >   > Please think of the environment before printing this email ‐ Thank you  >   >   > ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐  > From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>   > Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 1:41 PM  > To: Van Der Zwaag, Minka <Minka.VanDerZwaag@CityofPaloAlto.org>  > Cc: Minor, Beth <Beth.Minor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Human Relations  Commission <hrc@cityofpaloalto.org>  > Subject: Prior notification of all 2021 HRC meetings with agenda  >   > CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  > ________________________________  >   > Hi Minka,  >   26 > Hope 2021 is starting of well for you and your family. I have a question for you. Are you able to send me a notification  of each 2021 HRC meeting before they occur along with the agenda for the meeting? Please let me know. Thanks so  much.  >   > Best regards,  >   > Aram  >   >   > Sent from my iPhone  27 Baumb, Nelly From:b. beekman <cranberrysauce23@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, January 5, 2021 3:30 PM To:Mayor Lily Mei.; D3. Jenny Kassan; yshao@fremont.gov; D5. Raj Salwan; D6. Teresa Cox; D2. Rick Jones; D1. Teresa Keng.; Mayor Sam Licarrdo; Mayor's office. Lee Wilcox; Mayor's office. Paul Pereira; C.Mgr. David Sykes; C.Attrny. Nora Frimann; city attorney Shasta Green; cl.d1. Charles "Chappie" Jones; cl.d2. Sergio Jimenez; cl.d3. Raul Peralez; cl.d4. Lan Diep; cl.d5. Magdelena Carrasco; cl.d6. Devora. Davis; cl.d7. Maya Esparza; cl.d8. Sylvia Arenas; cl.d9. Pam Foley; cl.d10. Johnny Khamis; cDoT.Dir.John Ristow; cDOT Laura Wells; c.mgr.Jim Ortbal; C. Manager Angel Rios; OES Director.Ray Riordan; OES.Office of Emergency Services; Police Ofc. Anthony Mata; Police Ofc. David Knopf; Police Lt. Ellen.Washburn -s.op.; Police Lt. Heather Randol; Supervisor Cindy Chavez; Supervisor Otto Lee; Supervisor Joseph Simitian; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Supervisor Mike Wasserman; Dana Reed; d.District Attorney; s.PIO; supervisor.carson@acgov.org; Wilma.Chan@acgov.org; Nate.Miley@acgov.org; richard.valle@acgov.org; Scott.Haggerty@acgov.org; David Haubert; amy.shrago@acgov.org; Anika Campbell Belton.; Perkins, Cheryl, CAO; info@alcoda.org; pio@alamedacountysheriff.org; mayor; D1.; D2.; D3.; D4.; D5.; D6.; D7.; D8.; City Clerk.Brkly.; C.Mgr.; attorney@cityofberkeley.info; O.E.S.; planning; Transportation; p.r.c.; berkeley. p.d.; FPD chief. Kim Peterson; John Lindsay-Poland; Sameena Usman; Victor Sin; Roxana Marachi; tessa.darc@gmail.com; council@redwoodcity.org; city.council@menlopark.org; Council, City; cityadministratorsoffice@oaklandca.gov; cityclerk@oaklandnet.com; Craig Dziedzic; Janell Myhre; Phillip White; Corinne Bartshire; Mikyung Kim-Molina; Baker, Ethan (ECD); Lloyd Shand; Maryellen Carroll; Gary Malais; atlarge@oaklandnet.com; Niki Fortuno Bas; campaign@electdavidcohen.com; matt@mahanforsj.com; Sheng Thao; c.mgr.CCEC. Elise Doan; Stephanie Cabrera; CADRE; Phillis Onstad; Police Lt. Jason Dwyer-s.ops..; police Sgt. Doug Wedge; Police Chief. Edgardo Garcia; cl.d10 Matt Mahan; cl.d4. David Cohen Subject:³Blair Beekman. Tuesday. January 5, 2020. ___ Local Bay Area community energy. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.         Dear local. Bay Area govts, and local agencies,          To also note, the city of San Jose, is opting, to invest, in hydrogen fuel cell storage, for the next 3 years.      Compared with, diesel and other dirty fuels, it may work, as an interesting form, of backup generator use, in natural  disaster preparedness ‐ like grid shutdowns, due to NorCal wildfires; or a large, sf bay area earthquake.      However, a continual leakage of natural gas, in this process, and its higher costs, can make this, back‐up energy use ‐  somewhat questionable, for larger growth, in the long term.         sincerely,     blair beekman  28 Baumb, Nelly From:Van Der Zwaag, Minka Sent:Tuesday, January 5, 2021 2:13 PM To:Aram James Cc:Minor, Beth; Council, City; Human Relations Commission Subject:RE: Prior notification of all 2021 HRC meetings with agenda Aram,    Happy New Year to you as well.    You are on the Gov Delivery distribution list for HRC meetings, therefore you receive a copy of the agenda for all HRC  meetings as they become public.        Minka van der Zwaag  Manager, Office of Human Services    4000 Middlefield Rd. T2 | Palo Alto, CA 94303    650‐463‐4953 | minka.vanderzwaag@cityofpaloalto.org      Please think of the environment before printing this email – Thank you      ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐  From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>   Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 1:41 PM  To: Van Der Zwaag, Minka <Minka.VanDerZwaag@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Cc: Minor, Beth <Beth.Minor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Human Relations  Commission <hrc@cityofpaloalto.org>  Subject: Prior notification of all 2021 HRC meetings with agenda    CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi Minka,    Hope 2021 is starting of well for you and your family. I have a question for you. Are you able to send me a notification of  each 2021 HRC meeting before they occur along with the agenda for the meeting? Please let me know. Thanks so much.    Best regards,    Aram      Sent from my iPhone  29 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, January 5, 2021 1:41 PM To:Van Der Zwaag, Minka Cc:Minor, Beth; Council, City; Human Relations Commission Subject:Prior notification of all 2021 HRC meetings with agenda CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi Minka,    Hope 2021 is starting of well for you and your family. I have a question for you. Are you able to send me a notification of  each 2021 HRC meeting before they occur along with the agenda for the meeting? Please let me know. Thanks so much.    Best regards,    Aram      Sent from my iPhone  30 Baumb, Nelly From:Dan Yao <dyao999@hotmail.com> Sent:Monday, January 4, 2021 9:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Preserve CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,   I am a citizen of Palo Alto and have been following the issues involving Foothills Park/Preserve very  closely.  Foothills Preserve is a rare gem in the Bay area and I am quite concerned about the current  situation.  I was never in favor of the City Council's decision to open the Preserve in response to the ACLU and  NAACP lawsuits.  I do believe the initial pilot program established by the City Council in the summer was a very  reasonable approach to the issue of opening Foothills Preserve to the public in a controlled way with study of  the impact on the environment and also evaluation of the fiscal costs of doing so.      Now that the Foothills Preserve has been opened to the public, in just 2 weeks, we have seen it essentially  overrun with people.  Already, we are seeing some of the impact this overcrowding has caused.      I understand you are getting a lot of emails and correspondence regarding the current situation in Foothills  Preserve.  Although I love going there, given the current situation and to prevent any further, possibly irreversible,  damage to the Preserve, I implore you to close the entire Preserve until a better designed plan can be  implemented.  We need a plan that, first and foremost, protects Foothills Preserve.     Sincerely,     Daniel Yao  Midtown, Palo Alto     31 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Monday, January 4, 2021 7:49 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; beachrides; bballpod; David Balakian; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; newsdesk; nick yovino; news@fresnobee.com; david pomaville; Steve Wayte; Mark Standriff; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Fauci on Meet the Press 1-3-21 Confused? UK good data on one dose 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: Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 4:25 PM  Subject: Fwd: Fauci on Meet the Press 1‐3‐21 Confused? UK good data on one dose good  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 2:39 AM  Subject: Fauci on Meet the Press 1‐3‐21 Confused? UK good data on one dose good  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>              Monday, January 4, 2020              To all‐  Dr. Fauci on Meet the Press on 1‐3‐21              He says   1) Re holding back the second shot for 12 weeks, "You hold back the second shot if you don't have  enough vaccine". "The science says 21 days for Pfizer and 28 days for Moderna after the first shot you give the second  shot".  Dr.John Campbell in the UK has NOT said‐ HAS NOT SAID that they are delaying the second shot because they  don't have enough vaccine! They are delaying it because that way you can give a LOT more people SOME protection fast.  With one shot they might get sick from Covid, but they don't get SEVERE disease, SEVERE DISEASE, requiring  hospitalization! With just  the first shot they might get somewhat sick due to Covid, but they don't get severe disease  requiring hospitalization. Why is that important? Because there's a rumor that the hospitals in the U.S.are nearly over‐ run!!!  Some are over‐run and are at 120% capacity. And Dr. Campbell shows that they have the data from their Oxford  vaccine trials to show that all of that is true. They DO know, Dr. Fauci, what happens if you wait for 12 weeks to give the  32 second shot. You say here that "WE don't know". Dr. Campbell says they, the UK, DO know. You've heard of the UK. The  pts get the same immunity that they would have gotten if they had gotten the second shot at 21 or 28 days. If WE don't  know that it is because we don't read their trial results, all of which is available to us. Dr. Campbell excoriates the U.S.  regulators for not approving the emergency use of the Oxford vaccine. We have all of the data the Oxford vaccine  researchers, and the UK regulators, have. It is an outrage that U.S. regulators don't approve the Oxford vaccine now.  That they are not is just murder.                  BTW, I watch CBS Evening News and they have shown this approach in the UK, delaying the second shot for up to  twelve weeks,  WITHOUT SAYING WHY THE BRITISH ARE DOING IT. THE PEOPLE WHO RUN CBS NEWS ARE TOO STUPID  TO SAY WHY THE UK IS DOING THIS. IT IS TO CUT DOWN ON THE NUMBER PEOPLE NEEDING TO GO INTO THE HOSPITAL.  THAT IS TOO COMPLICATED AN IDEA FOR THE EXECS AT CBS NEW, AND NBC NEWS, AND ABC NEWS TO COMPREHEND.  OR, because the U.S. isn't doing this with the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, our news media think they'll get in trouble  with our government if they report it!! ABC network news tonight had a botched explanation of it too, combined with an  idea of only giving one‐half the first dose. ABC News execs are too stupid to say that giving the first dose and then  waiting 12 weeks to administer the second dose keeps a LOT OF PTS. OUT OF THE HOSPITAL. THEY CANNOT PUT THAT  SIMPLE IDEA INTO ENGLISH.  BECAUSE YOU DON'T COME BACK OVER THE PTS WHO GOT THE FIRST SHOT 21 OR 28 DAYS  LATER FOR THE SECOND SHOT, YOU CAN BE GIVING LOTS MORE PEOPLE THE FIRST SHOT AND  THEY WON'T GET  SEVERELY ILL AND REQUIRE HOSPITALIZATION!                   I heard on KCBS‐SF this morning‐ Monday morning 1‐4‐21, that now the idea of waiting to give the second shot  of these vaccines so as to keep more pts. out of the hospitals is being considered in the U.S.             The U.S. is just going to hell. Our major news channels are run by people too stupid to report the news correctly.            AND Fauci says (2)  that what we can do now in the face of a tidal wave of cases overwhelming the hospitals is to  increase compliance with:  wear a mask, social distancing, wash hands, avoid large groups.  He refuses to say, and he  knows, or should know, that we should immediately approve the use of the Oxford vaccine here and we should give only  the first shot until we give the second at twelve weeks. That would keep vast numbers of pts out of the hospitals, or the  parking lots of the hospitals, or the refrigerator trucks in the parking lots of hospitals.  Not one word here from Fauci  about the Oxford vaccine that has been approved in the UK and will start to be administered there today, Monday, Jan.  4 2021!  It has now also been approved in Argentina and in India with 1.3 billion people.  The whole world is laughing at  the U.S.  We are going to wait until April to approve this very effective and safe vaccine and doing that will cost  thousands of American lives. We have a health care disaster here in the U.S. and a national emergency, and a  government that is incompetent to deal with it. There is a suspicion that money is changing hands to delay approval in  the U.S. of the very low cost Oxford vaccine. It is less than $3 per shot and the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are $20 or  $30 per shot. I am urging Biden to have the Justice Department determine who, if anyone, is accepting bribes to delay  approval of the Oxford vaccine here. Anyone found to be doing that should be prosecuted for murder.                   My respect for Fauci has dropped a lot just with this appearance.                   Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) ‐ January 3rd, 2020 | Meet The Press | NBC News ‐ YouTube                    I send all of my emails with the vids by Dr. John Campbell in the UK to Francis Collins, Fauci's boss. Fauci should  ask him to forward them over to him.  I've sent about 4 or 5 or those in recent days. Fauci can find them himself on  UTube. Campbell says it is "just inexplicable" that the U.S. regulators would wait until April to approve the Oxford‐ Astrazeneca vaccine. It has been licensed for manufacture in Maryland and Phoenix once the FDA approves it. They  should study the Oxford vaccine data and then approve the Oxford vaccine right away.                    L. William Harding                 Fresno, Ca.                                 33 Baumb, Nelly From:carlin otto <carlinotto@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, January 4, 2021 5:20 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothils Nature Preserve CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council     Our beautiful nature‐filled preserve (Foothills)  is over‐run and over‐used and over‐visited.  Almost every day for the last few months  ALL the parking spaces are filled  and the open space is noisy, hectic, littered, and  full to the brim with activity.  The nature preserve  is being LOVED TO DEATH. There are no  animals to see and the trails are being destroyed.    Please reduce the daily visitor maximum  to something sustainable (like 416) and  appropriate for a nature preserve,  and PUT A RANGER AT THE GATE   every day of the week to  enforce this reduced visitor count.    With a broken heart at seeing this damage,  Carlin Otto  213 Whitclem Court  Palo Alto, CA      34 Baumb, Nelly From:Tirumala Ranganath <ranguranganath@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, January 4, 2021 3:59 PM To:Council, City Subject:Concerns on the Foothill Preserve and other Governance issues. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Respected Members of the City Council of Palo Alto,    I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all to a new term and wish you the very best going forward in your duties as Council members for our city.   The happenings of the last many months in regard to the Foothill Preserve issue were a disaster for the city and its residents as well as the stigma associated with Palo Alto as a racist society. As outlined in the Blog post by Douglas Moran on Dec 9th, last year. After reading it carefully more than once I came away with the strong impression that city staff including the manager and city attorney did not act in the best interests of the residents and the city. Together with our previous mayor, we prematurely surrendered the independence of our town, on the threat of a lawsuit that had very little merit. Only two council members were forthright enough to say no to this capitulation. I commend them for their position and hope that the fiasco that happened doesn’t ever happen again. The damage to the town’s reputation however, is going to be a stain for a long time – the Internet does not forget ! Whether by design or negligence, the end result as pointed out by Mr. Moran in his blog post, is that there is out there on the Internet, lots of " stories " planted by the plaintiffs, damaging the reputation of the town going forward.   35   In my opinion, we now have to focus on protecting the preserve, going forward. Stories reported in the Daily post of Dec 20th, the preserve was already overcrowded that day with visitors taking things into their own hands with abandon [going off trails, throwing trash about, etc]. As a first step, I believe the preserve should be closed to everyone, giving the powers be, time to figure out the best course of action. To have sufficient funds for proper upkeep of the preserve, it would be an excellent starting point to have a per vehicle parking fee of say $10 per vehicle per day for non-residents and $7.50 for residents. In addition to the per vehicle parking fee, there needs to be a system to actually account for the number of people being admitted. It might be prudent to start with a lower number for the first six months, say 500 and then based on how things work out the number can always be increased if the impact is tolerable, especially on the wild life and the vegetation. Also, there needs to be a reservation system set up on a monthly basis, with the first week open to resident only for a given month. Once the first week is past reservations can be open for non- residents to sign up. Posting of the preserve rules need to be prominently displayed and vigorously enforced, for the welfare of the wildlife and flora and fauna. The daily maximum needs to be enforced. I have also seen suggestions for an annual fee of $100 for residents that can be deducted from taxes paid to the city by residents. Whatever the annual fee structure, the reservation system still needs to be in place. I see problems with the logistics of implementation. The question of resources needed to run the preserve need to be properly planned for, in a transparent way - raiding the general fund should not be an option and there needs to be transparency so interested parties of residents can look for themselves. Public trust is very important.    36 From a governance point of view, the new city council should take note of past practises that have resulted in the interests of the city being compromised. The example of President Hotel, where in Mr. Lait had I believe questionable private meetings with the investors – even though conversion of the property implied change in city regulations, including the reduction of affordable housing at a time when the city was constantly talking about the need for such. As a bad precedent, a lawsuit was dangled to push the city council to capitulate – sad outcome. This should not be happening. The practice of hiring consultants for various projects by city officials is, I believe something that needs to be scrutinized by the council more closely. The Arastradero/Ross Road traffic control projects by all accounts, have been a disaster and the latter had to be stopped before full implementation. How is this a good thing for the city? Hiring of city personnel without proper interviewing procedures wherein a number of candidates are looked at, needs to be scrupulously followed. I believe the case of Mr. Shikada comes to mind.    There are many other important, pressing issues facing the city and I hope you do not bend rules to the benefit of a few (developers come to mind) at the cost of a much larger number of current residents. Questions of parking, traffic, congestion in the town cannot be traded away for one time fees from developers to bypass parking requirements, etc. Also, agreed upon limits to office space construction per year should be adhered to, especially in light of the changed conditions on the ground in light of the pandemic’s on- going impact on everyone and every activity, retail as well as non- retail businesses come to mind.    Thank you for giving me an opportunity to be heard.  37   Sincerely,    Ranganath  (Resident Walnut Grove/Meadow)  38 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, January 4, 2021 2:37 PM To:ParkRec Commission Cc:Van Der Zwaag, Minka; Human Relations Commission; Minor, Beth; Council, City Subject:Re: What is your meeting schedule of 2021 thanks aram james Catherine,    Thanks so much for your prompt and professional response. Do the meetings start at 6pm? With the opening of Foothills  Park to all, finally, I expect it will be a busy year for the Parks and Recreation Department.     Best regards.    Aram James.    P.S. Any chance I can be sent a regular notice of the monthly meeting with the agenda?        Dear Aram,  The meeting schedule is the regular 4th Tuesday of every month unless something changes it will be noted as a special meeting.    If you have any additional questions, please let me know.    Thank you.         <image002.png>  CATHERINE BOURQUIN   Coordinator Recreation Programs, Open Space, Parks, Golf, and Animal Services  Community Services Department  (650) 496‐6962 | Catherine.bourquin@cityofpaloalto.org  www.cityofpaloalto.org     From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>   Sent: Saturday, January 2, 2021 11:08 PM  To: ParkRec Commission <parkrec.commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>  Subject: What is your meeting schedule of 2021 thanks aram james     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.       39 Baumb, Nelly From:mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, January 4, 2021 12:14 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fw: das capital and da paw CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  If you excuse the rhetoric and various attempts at style over substance, I am saying we should be taxing large corporations here and not laying off librarians. Mark Weiss studied history with Clay Henry at Terman studied Faust with Jim Shapiro at Dartmouth ran for council, et cetera ipso facto mas or menos and oy! Downtown el Norte also, not to be polarizing like a certain orange M---- f-c-c-d-jser but maybe now is the time to rename our City after something other than the tree which was chopped down for capital or FIRE wood many years ago... ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> To: mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Cc: Bill Johnson <bjohnson@embarcaderopublishing.com> Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021, 11:55:13 AM PST Subject: Re: das capital and da paw; or maybe "DASH capital" fast food PS I added a pod feature -- i.e. I read the column, takes about 10 minutes, in case you want to listen in your car - - plus a line about Palo Alto's Sister City. https://markweiss86.com/2021/01/04/minimum-wage-vs-venture-capitalists/ On Monday, January 4, 2021, 11:34:02 AM PST, mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> wrote: Minimum wage VS Venture Capitalists Posted on January 4, 2021by markweiss86 The Palo Alto Weekly had something on their website, reprinted from San Jose Spotlight, whatever that is*, about the minimum wage rising in the county from $15.15 to $15.65 cents, up 50 cents or 3 percent. Meanwhile, a writer from the Chron, a propos of rich people backing an initiative to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, outed a VC named Doug Leone, of Sequoia Capital. It said that he lives in LAH: maybe he was once my neighbor. There was a VC on my block named Jim who bought the Collins house, or the Wray house rather. Also, we lived near National CEO Gil Amelio but it was not true that he had a helicopter pad only that his son was a pilot and landed once on his putting green. That I witnessed. Leone maybe gives money to Trump and the like because he’s an investor in TikTok. But it says that thanks to IPOs by DoorDash and AirBnB he is now worth $4B. So I tried to post to the PAW (who are programmed to delete me automatically) that although workers per se got a raise to $15.65, Doug Leone got a raise to $4B with a B, which works out to $50,000 per hour over a 40 year career in amassing power and worth. 40 And I am watching this morning Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group — since 1998 — mention in passing inequality as a thing, or a threat (after global warming, political polar bears and Putin). Piketty, Robert Reich – -I just bought his new book, at Keplers. They did not have Zephyr Teachout tho the Times linked the two tomes. CBS This Morning, Morning in America, Childish Bambinos, whatever. When you were mine, you were kinda sorta a Democracy. I got the plug in Oaxaca, yo. My fav VCs are Nick Sturiale, from my Little League team, and Scott Sandell, my Dartmouth classmate. I probably know by name 40 of them, all time; I sold a truck to Nolan Bushnell in 1983, for his daughter Alyssa. When he was at Catalyst Technology. Nolan in a lecture four years later, at Flint, said that he got the lowest grades in his Utah engineering program but the highest starting salary. His net worth is $TK. Chuckie Cheese, you betcha. (“TK” was lingo for “to come”, according to my friend who interned at Time-Life in the 1980s, nb). To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In To help prprivacy, Mprevented download from the In *by Lloyd Alaban of Bay City News which once employed my friend C___ H____ of Stanford class of 1981 .or: I tried to post this to the Palo alto Weekly directly which reprinted your story but they have it set to automatically censor. And I don’t think I’d heard of this fellow until he was mentioned in the Chronicle yesterday, but it turns out that Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital who may live in Los Altos Hills or Atherton, I am taking a wee bit of poetic license out of my math I believe works, Got a raise to $4.065 billion with a B — Something to do with Airbnb or door dash exits or ipos — they claim, works out to about $50,000 per hour over a life‘s work – – which I got by figuring 2,000 hours a year times 40 years. Maybe he should retire and give us all a break. Mark Weiss In Palo Alto I obviously don’t run in their circles but my favorite VCs of my generation are “next to reality” (Nick Sturiale) who was on my seventh grade basketball team seventh grade football team, three years of senior Little League, a year of tennis and we used to get 10101 and 10101 1010101 from our 101010 bars when we were still 1010101; And Scott said they’ll (Sandell) a college classmate who apparently once owned $300 million worth of a company my brother worked for at roughly $150k a year. Sent from my iPhone and1: This is the book I bought, different edition. Amazon says it has been rated (or reviewed?) 700 times: https://www.amazon.com/System-Who-Rigged-How-Fix/dp/0525659048 I saw Robert Reich speak in Campbell, CA with Commonwealth Club when this book came out: https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Capitalism-Many-Not-Few/dp/0345806220 I said I was looking forward to the talk and he said “I hope I don’t come up short of your expectations!” Here is Jeff Madrick’s Times review of the Reich book, and Teachout: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/books/review/the-system-robert-reich-break-em-up-zephyr- teachout.html andandand: 41 These millenials are talented and have an esprit de corps; one says “the noodles are ready” and the group answers “we are coming”; but they would have to work three milleniums sick to save the wealth that the VCs are holding or hording or slurping up a wee bit too loudly, imho. To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. andandand and: Madrick, a Harvard grad who taught at the New School, on Reich and or Teachout: A powerful money-fueled oligarchy has emerged in America that is an enemy of democracy, Reich writes. The self-interested power of the nation’s wealthy often goes unnoticed by voters, and is partly misdirected by right-wing rhetoric about issues like immigration. But it leads to lower wages, less product choice and abusive labor practices. Trump has harnessed the frustration of the working class, Reich says, but he was a “smokescreen” for the oligarchy. Reich has an almost unmatched ability to make insightful observations about the nation’s inequities, and in “The System,” he observes that the question is no longer Democrat versus Republican or left versus right, but “democracy versus oligarchy.” To Teachout, what’s behind our rigged system is the close cousin of oligarchy: corporate monopoly. Teachout lists her culprits, among them familiar names: Amazon, Google, Facebook, Monsanto, AT&T, Verizon, Walmart, Pfizer, Comcast, Apple and CVS. These companies “represent a new political phenomenon,” she says, “a 21st-century form of centralized, authoritarian government.” There are at least 20 VC firms in Palo Alto per se, and Stanford supposedly was rebuilding the Ely Chevrolet car lots for office space to extend Sand Hill Road VC culture. ok ok: Nolan ran an incubator not a VC firm and the internet says he is worth $50M with an em, and not the commas, so he is cool. Respect! I not attack you! .... Benj Edwards of Fast Company wrote a comprehensive story recently about the legendary Nolan Bushnell. This looks somewhat dashed off but it took 16 revisits or revisions. Bottom line on bottom or BLOB: do we love capital more than democracy? To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Mark Weiss, Scott Sandell Share this:  Twitter  Facebook    42 Minimum wage VS Venture Capitalists BLUF: I make a pop culture reference below to a video with 750 million views and apparently a drug reference or ...         Minimum wage VS Venture Capitalists BLUF: I make a pop culture reference below to a video with 750 million views and apparently a drug reference or ...    Mark Palo Alto should be taxing these economic trends.... Related Tales of 2.0 Palo Alto CitiesIn "filthy lucre" Music and The Brain: Am I its puppet?In "jazz" Kudos to Ann Killion of the Chron for her support of gay sporting life on The FarmIn "media" To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. About markweiss86 Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player; he also sang in local choir, and fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 View all posts by markweiss86 → This entry was posted in filthy lucre, Plato's Republic and tagged doug leone, jeff madrick, nick sturiale,   43    nick sturiale – Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss Posts about nick sturiale written by markweiss86    PS Nick Sturiale was our quarterback 8th grade thru 11th grade whereas Chris Strausser was the Gunn quarterback our senior year and is helping coach the NFL Colts in the playoffs; kudos, Chris... 44 Baumb, Nelly From:Brian <bpstrope@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, January 4, 2021 6:33 AM To:Transportation; Joye, Ken; Council, City Subject:PABAC meeting CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please shut down the PABAC effort.     The group has made recommendations that made Ross Road decidedly worse for biking. Their work has been essentially  speculative, unmeasured, and dangerous. Their prioritization excludes any real measurement of community biking  health and individual project success. Without measurement, their process is open‐loop, and their recommendations are  breaking our roads.    Please ignore any input from that committee.    Ken seems like a nice guy, but our kids and bikers deserve safe streets, and that's more important.      musicbybrianpatrick.com do what you love 45 Baumb, Nelly From:Elke MacGregor <bemacgregor@earthlink.net> Sent:Sunday, January 3, 2021 9:34 PM To:Council, City Subject:Charleston- Arastradero & El Camino bike crossing CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Esteemed council members    We applaud all of the work that has been done on the bike boulevards and lanes in Palo Alto.  We are a family of avid  cyclists and really appreciate these.    The Charleston Arastradero bike lanes and safety measures are especially wonderful as we live close by and ride this  road weekly.  We hope that the El Camino crossing will be addressed soon as well.  This portion of Charleston‐ Arastradero has no bike lanes or safely measures and the asphalt has large linear potholes. The combination of these  factors makes this an unnerving cyclist crossing.    With appreciation for all of the  bike friendly measures that you have implemented,    Elke & Bruce MacGregor  55 Roosevelt Circle  650‐207‐3321    > On Feb 23, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Elke MacGregor <bemacgregor@earthlink.net> wrote:  >  > Esteemed council members  >  > Our family really appreciates the effort and thought that you and the community have put into Palo Alto’s bike  transportation infrastructure.  Our children have utilized the safe bike routes to the 3 schools in our neighborhood as  well as the bike boulevards to downtown and park areas.   In addition, all four of us travel along Charleston Arastradero  multiple times per week for bike rides in the foothills.  These routes as well as the prioritization of environmentally  friendly bike/walk transportation have changed our lives immeasurably for the better.  >  > We are proud to be a part of a community that teaches our children and encourages our adults to enjoy their  surroundings from the vantage of foot power.  Please continue to support this vision.  >  > Elke & Bruce MacGregor  > 55 Roosevelt Circle,  > Palo Alto    46 Baumb, Nelly From:Stacie Zell <staciezell@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, January 3, 2021 7:28 PM To:Council, City Subject:What is happening? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council,    I was out of town for the month of December, returning on January 1st. In the few days that I have been back in the Bay  Area I have driven up and down El Camino, near Stanford, and through downtown Palo Alto, several times. What I have  seen during these visits is appalling. The homeless persons in downtown and along El Camino has gotten out of hand. It  was horrible when I left, but now a month later it is simply unacceptable. What is being done to find sustainable,  humane housing and provide any other assistance they may need?  What are we doing, as a City and as a County to help  these people? Please let me know how we, as local citizens, can do to assist with what our local government is doing.    Sincerely,    Stacie Zell  47 Baumb, Nelly From:NTB <aarmatt@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, January 3, 2021 6:37 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor Fine and Council Members,      I went to Foothills Park in search of an eye witness account of the conditions in the Park on a day to day basis.  Spoke  with someone, a park employee, who is there regularly. What I gleaned from our conversation.....     > that the City opened the Park without a plan and that they STILL don’t have a plan.  The Park is suffering for it.      > that there are too many people, frightening away wildlife. Deer haven’t  been seen in the meadow in front of the  Interpretive Center since the opening.    > that people are wandering off trail.  This is most likely because the grasses were cut for fire safety.  It’s a problem.    > that the current situation is distressing.  Clearly this employee cares deeply about the health of the park environment.    Then there is the traffic situation caused by the increase in traffic on Page Mill.  On the day I went, it necessitated the  services of the Palo Alto police to keep things orderly.  Other times when I’ve driven by, there have been up to three  Sheriff cars at the entrance trying to keep order. Unsightly placards have been placed along Page Mill and Altamont to  keep cars from parking along the side of those roads.  The bottleneck is impacting the flow of traffic on Page Mill.      It seems that, to remedy this situation, it would prudent to pull back dramatically on the number of daily entries, or shut  the park entirely, while a working group of professionals and concerned citizens is formed to work on a properly thought  out plan.  This should have been done in the first place. As it was not, then do it now before there is irreparable damage  to Foothills Park.      Sincerely,  Nina Bell  Palo Alto resident  48 Baumb, Nelly From:ron ito <wsrfr418@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, January 3, 2021 6:25 PM To:Council, City Subject:Who is in charge of keeping the sidewalk clean? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  The sidewalk along Encina Ave on the south side along the T&C parking lot is covered with leaves....... 49 Baumb, Nelly From:Irina Beylin <irina.beylin@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, January 3, 2021 6:14 PM To:ParkRec Commission Cc:Greg Tanaka; Council, City; Kou, Lydia; Filseth, Eric (Internal) Subject:Foothills disaster CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  To the City of Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commission:  The Foothills Park (FHP) was opened to the general public on 17 December 2020 without measures in place to protect  the habitat and environment. Now FHP is overcrowded, it never experienced so many people before, wildlife is driven  away and nature preserve is in great danger.     Your responsibility is “to protect, preserve and to expand the parks and open space to residents”. Please fulfill your  direct duties.  To prevent complete FHP destruction, please consider the following:  1. Close the park to cars immediately; designate/put Nos on the parking spaces and install parking pay stations at key parking spots ($10 per car/day), then open FHP for cars. Control number of cars via parking spaces (250)  2. Annual parking permits $100 for non-residents, $75 for residents.  3. City lawyer Molly Stump should work to allow residents to write off local taxes the annual parking permit cost so residents do not pay twice for the park upkeep and maintenance.  4. Clear accountability for ALL city resources as relevant to the park maintenance and other direct and indirect costs, - establish a website for everybody to see the costs, use the info to adjust fees accordingly.   5. An Environmental Impact Review must be conducted bi-weekly? and posted on the same website  6. Post park rules and fines for breaking the rules (do not feed wildlife, no parking in undesignated spaces, no walking off the paths, no mountain biking, no dogs off leash, no loud music, no cooking using open fire except at campground, etc).   7 Remove fire pits and BBQ, except at the campground.     I represent hundreds of concerned Palo Altans and appreciate you answering with your plan to address the FHP disaster within a week, by 11 January 2021.     Sincerely,  Irina Beylin  50 Baumb, Nelly From:Lusi & Kevin <lusiandkevin@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, January 3, 2021 5:40 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Preserve Traffic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members,     I wanted to let you know that the Foothill Preserve traffic is very much out of control, and has damaged the beauty of  our beloved preserve.  There are simply too many people there, parking in illegal spots, trash in many locations, and lack  of social distancing as well.    Many of our city residents have spoken out against opening up the park and it has been clearly conveyed in the  NextDoor survey that our community has filled out.  I hope that you follow the direction and voice of our city citizens  and put an end to this ASAP.    Best,  Kevin Chien  Palo Alto Resident/Owner of Home  3428 Cowper Ct  51 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Sunday, January 3, 2021 5:06 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; bballpod; David Balakian; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mark Standriff; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; midge@thebarretts.com; newsdesk; nick yovino; news@fresnobee.com; david pomaville; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry Subject:Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK on Sunday, 1-3-2021. Fauci took shot w/ L.S. shirt! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 4:10 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK on Sunday, 1‐3‐2021. Fauci took shot w/ L.S. shirt!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 4:05 PM  Subject: Dr. John Campbell in UK on Sunday, 1‐3‐2021. Fauci took shot w/ L.S. shirt!  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                  Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021                To all‐  Here is Dr. John Campbell today. He says he can't believe that people take the shot with a long sleeve shirt  on, rolling all that material up. I noticed Dr. Fauci did that wearing a grey, long sleeve dress shirt, which he rolled and  rolled up his left arm. You want that deltoid muscle fully exposed, all the way up past your shoulder joint. I always take  my Stanford T‐shirt off just before I get a flu shot, e.g., leaving me naked from the waist up. I want that deltoid muscle  fully available to whoever is giving the shot. I guess they're lucky it's not a shot in the buttocks.                      Update ‐ YouTube                 As always, much valuable information here.  The Indians are testing a killed virus vaccine and it is working in  trials. The Chinese have a vaccine which they are using even before the Phase 3 trials are completed              52       The European Medicines agency is not even considering the Oxford vaccine which the UK will start injecting in the UK  tomorrow, Monday. Still no word in the U.S. that the FDA has any plans to approve it here before April, this despite my  call for murder prosecutions of the bribe takers who are keeping it from the American people.  Trump and Biden should  both issue that warning, and have the FBI ready with its forensic accountants to find the bribes that are being paid, if  any.               Notice that Dr. Campbell's dog, Winston, has a bottle of Vit. D and the Dr. tells you the dose of it he is taking per  day. If I ever have a dog, I shall name it Lyndon.  Here is a joke: Hitler felt real affection for Mussolini, much as a man  might feel for his dog.                  L. William Harding              Fresno, Ca.  53 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, January 3, 2021 2:50 PM To:Tom DuBois; Council, City; chuck jagoda; Roberta Ahlquist; Greer Stone; Raven Malone; Steven D. Lee; Rebecca Eisenberg; Ed Lauing; Cormack, Alison; Human Relations Commission; Shikada, Ed; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Joe Simitian; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Cari Templeton; Architectural Review Board Subject:Raphael Warnock, From the Pulpit to Politics, Doesn’t Shy From ‘Uncomfortable’ Truths CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    FYI: Excellent piece ‐necessary reading for our council members.....and political leaders generally    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/us/politics/raphael‐warnock‐georgia‐senate.amp.html      Sent from my iPhone  54 Baumb, Nelly From:Bette Kiernan <betteuk@aol.com> Sent:Sunday, January 3, 2021 2:44 PM To:City Mgr; Council, City; DeMarzo, Elise Subject:Foothills Park transformation CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  January 4, 2020 Dr Mr. Shikada: The City of Palo Alto is at a crossroads in regard to Foothills Park. Recent changes set the stage for enhanced means for use. Silicon Valley with its inherent stresses needs a space for contemplation, stillness and reverence for nature. The recent transition to open use provides the perfect opportunity to enhance the park’s special qualities which provide psychological and spiritual nurturance to its visitors. Foothills Park can be transformed into a healing center. The following changes might be made: 1. The number of visitors needs be reduced in order to keep the spaciousness, solitude, and deep experience of the beauty of land and water. This can be accomplished in numerous ways whether through a reservation system or purchase of yearly passes 2. The number of rangers needs to increase to assure respectful ways 3. The Nature Center can transitioned into a meditation space. I recommended the CCARE program at Stanford led by Dr. James Doty as a resource for teachers. Foothills Park could be an extraordinary environment for use as a meditation center. Classes which emphasize the new research on healing in nature might also be featured. I have taught a class in the Nature Center and know how special is the experience 4. Collaboration with the extraordinary City of Palo Alto Public Works group through their symbolic art representations might further designate the space as one for reverence in nature. Perhaps a labyrinth? Quan Yin? Round stones as containers for water? I am grateful for the blessing of Foothills Park. Sitting by the reeds and water is best therapy. Thank you for considering my ideas. I welcome an opportunity to discuss these issues or answer any questions that you might have. Sincerely, Bette Kiernan, MFT www.betteconsulting.com 55 Baumb, Nelly From:Rita Vrhel <ritavrhel@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Sunday, January 3, 2021 12:53 PM To:ParkRec Commission; Council, City Subject:Foothills Park/Preserve CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello: I am have receiving numerous emails regarding Foothills Park/Preserve being overrun by people, dogs and litter. Also receiving reports of individuals on mountain bikes coming down the trails chasing chasing deer away, endangering hikers and dogs running off leash. I hope you will accept the responsibility of investigating these claims and return the Park/Preserve to it's previous state. Degrading the Park/Preserve was never anyone's intention but it appears to be happening. 750 people/day appears to be too many. Education at to Park/Preserve etiquette appears to be inadequate. Has anyone estimated the cost to adequately staff and maintain the Park/Preserve? Or the origin of the required funds? The Park/Preserve is open to all; not a problem. We move forward with the new rules. But the issue, to me, is how to maintain the Park/Preserve, reduce the unanticipated subtle or obvious damage and keep it the ecological treasure it has always been. Also, please consider removing the BBQ facilities; they are an accident waiting to happen. Any inadvertent fire would be tragic and could become a disaster. The area is dry and not easily inaccessible; not a good combination. With increased use comes increased risk. Please put Foothills Park/Preserve on your agendas as soon as possible. Please show the residents you will address these unexpected issues and keep the Park/Preserve a unique spot for all. Thank you. 56 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, January 2, 2021 9:41 PM To:Jeff Rosen; Jeff Moore; Raven Malone; Steven D. Lee; Cary Andrew Crittenden; Greer Stone; chuck jagoda; Ed Lauing; Roberta Ahlquist; Human Relations Commission; Kaloma Smith; Cormack, Alison; Joe Simitian; Molly O'Neal; Council, City; Rebecca Eisenberg; mark weiss; DuBois, Tom; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Bains, Paul; Raj; Richard Konda Cc:Sara Tabin; Emily Mibach; Dave Price Subject:LA DA’s Union sues their boss -George Gascon -Gascon a hero to all those seeking radical reform or abolition of major portions of our racist criminal injustice system CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    FYI:    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1252655      Sent from my iPhone  57 Baumb, Nelly From:Mehrzad <mehrzadrasti@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, January 2, 2021 6:11 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Dear Council members,    My family and I have lived in Palo Alto for many years, and have enjoyed hiking in Foothills Park almost every week. We  are disappointed to see the park has been opened to the public in such an irresponsible and rushed manner causing  many problems. And worse, this decision has been made without considering the opinion of the vast majority of Palo  Alto residents.     During the past three decades, and especially during the Christmas and New Year Holidays, I have never witnessed such  a chaos inside and outside of the park entrance as I have been witnessing during the last several days ‐ with cars  wandering around looking for a parking space, over‐crowded trails, and the amount of trash being scattered all around.    Opening the park to the public has caused traffic congestion on Page Mill Road, causing potential accidents since bikes  and pedestrians are using the road heavily. It has caused illegal parking along Page Mill road and nearby streets of Los  Altos Hills, making local residents very upset. The city of Palo Alto would probably be liable for any accidents as a result  of traffic increase, road congestion, and illegal parkings. Additionally, during the hot and dry seasons, the chance of fire  will increase with so many people using the park.    As one of the residents said: “ Foothills Park is not really a park, it is a wildlife refuge that must be preserved”.     I propose the City immediately impose a sizable entrance fee per car ($20 per car for non‐residents) to reduce the  congestion and the possibility of catastrophic events that could lead to lawsuits. This fee would provide additional  revenue needed to hire extra staff to clean up, manage and control this mess.    Regards,    Mehrzad Rasti  58 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Saturday, January 2, 2021 3:57 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; bballpod; David Balakian; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Cathy Lewis; Council, City; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; jason.alvarez@ucsf.edu; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; nick yovino; news@fresnobee.com; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.                       Saturday, January 2, 2021                    Note:  The Oxford vaccine has now been approved by regulators in those countries to be used in India and  Argentina. The Oxford vaccine can be stored at just normal refrigerator temperatures, far higher temps than is required  for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.                David‐   I said in a recent mail to you that I send these out in the hope that they will influence decision makers. I  know that some of them, no doubt the ones I send to the media, make it onto Capitol Hill. I've heard Senators Lindsay  Graham and Diane Feinstein react to my idea of a permanent war crimes tribunal as a fourth branch of the federal  government, e.g.                   In a recent email, Dr. Campbell in the UK discusses  how, in the UK, they are going to administer the second dose  of the Oxford vaccine twelve weeks, not four weeks, after the first dose is given. The first dose will not prevent all Covid  symptoms, but it does prevent severe illness requiring hospitalization. So by delaying the second dose for 12 weeks, the  pts. still get the full protection of the vaccine eventually, but the doctors can keep a lot more pts. out of the hospital.  They can give a LOT more people protection from severe illness by delaying administering the second dose.                This morning I was listening to KCBS‐SF and they talked again to Dr. George Rutherford at UCSF. If I heard him  right, he was discussing increasing the time interval between the first and second shots of the Pfizer and Moderna  vaccines for the very reason discussed above. So perhaps these mails are getting read and having an impact. I believe  that medical experts here should look into the practice in the UK of giving the second shot of the Pfizer and Oxford  vaccines twelve weeks after the first shot to provide more pts with protection against severe illness. Emphasis on  "severe".                 Dr. Fauci and Dr. Del Rio at Emory University don't like this idea but this is what they are doing in the UK, and our  hospitals are at the breaking point. There is talk of rationing treatment as the hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid pts.  I guess if they don't like your looks, or if you are a white male, you can be left to die in the parking lot. That will provoke  a reaction among the population.                  L. William Harding              Fresno, Ca.     59                      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 11:58 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>,  <antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>,  beachrides <beachrides@sbcglobal.net>, Leodies Buchanan <leodiesbuchanan@yahoo.com>,  <bearwithme1016@att.net>, boardmembers <boardmembers@hsr.ca.gov>, paul.caprioglio  <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, city.council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Cathy Lewis <catllewis@gmail.com>, Doug  Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>,  Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, david pomaville <pomaville165@sbcglobal.net>, <eappel@stanford.edu>,  <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>, <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, <fmerlo@wildelectric.net>,  Steven Feinstein <steven.feinstein@ionicmaterials.com>, Chris Field <cfield@ciw.edu>, <George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu>,  <grinellelake@yahoo.com>, <Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov>, huidentalsanmateo <huidentalsanmateo@gmail.com>,  hennessy <hennessy@stanford.edu>, Irv Weissman <irv@stanford.edu>, Joel Stiner <jastiner@gmail.com>, jerry ruopoli  <jrwiseguy7@gmail.com>, <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>, kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, Mark Kreutzer  <mlkreutzer@yahoo.com>, <lalws4@gmail.com>, <margaret‐sasaki@live.com>, Mayor <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark  Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>, nick yovino <npyovino@gmail.com>,  <news@fresnobee.com>, <russ@topperjewelers.com>, Steve Wayte <steve4liberty@gmail.com>, terry  <terry@terrynagel.com>, <vallesR1969@att.net>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 9:19 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 9:08 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 4:55 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      60 ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 3:35 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 3:25 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 2:14 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 5:30 PM  Subject: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>          New Year's Day, January 1, 2021                 To all‐  It is all over the news now that the UK regulators have approved the Oxford‐Astrazeneca vaccine and that  it may be available in the U.S in April(!).  Dr. Campbell said that Pfizer and Moderna are making money by selling their  vaccines but that Oxford‐AZN are not, at a price of $3 per shot for their vaccine. Now some are speculating that money is  changing hands to delay the approval of the low‐cost Oxford vaccine in the U.S.                The British have given the Oxford vaccine lenghthy, well‐designed, well‐conducted trials, they have concluded that  it is safe and effective, and the FDA has all of that data. The British medical establishment does not have a reputation as  being a pack of liars and con‐artists. All of the information they have about the Oxford vaccine is available to the CDC,  and additional information is still coming in from trials in the UK. The medical regulators in the U.S. should say what  problems they fear could arise by administering the Oxford vaccine in the U.S. now. Is is likely to cause effects like  Thalidomide caused in the fetus? Do U.S. regulators fear that it could produce things like bovine spongiform  encephalopathy, mad‐cow disease? That was caused by a new pathogen, the prion, a UC Berkeley researcher concluded.  Heart damage, liver damage, brain damage? If we put it through enough trials, we might find that it causes problems.                But against that possibility, we have this:  3,700 Amerians per day are now dying of Covid, and that number is sure  to increase. We are in the middle of a medical disaster, a national emergency, in the United States. We now have the  new, more transmissible form of Covid in Colorado, S. California and Florida. Who really believes that it won't spread like  wildfire in the U.S., the way it has been doing in the UK? ICU beds are now full in S. California and in the Central Valley of  61 California. The Governor orders lock downs and the politicians in the City and County of Fresno, Ca. will not enforce  them, and go on television saying they won't enforce them. Maybe they feel that the lock‐down orders are unenforceble  in Fresno, Ca. We need tough new laws in California to compel them to enforce such orders. Also, all flights from the UK  and South Africa, the sources of the new variant into the U.S., should be halted.                    Dr. Fauci was on TV saying that it was inevitable that the new variant would show up here. Very true, but by  halting flights from the UK and South Africa, we could reduce the amount of the new variant circulating in the U.S., at  least for a while, and Dr. Fauci knows that. We are in a race between the first and second variants of the virus and the  vaccines to stop them.                  Biden should direct his AG to start a large scale criminal investigation into why the Oxford vaccine is being held up  until at least April, 2021. I suspect that people who can approve it are being bribed not to. That will cost thousands of  additional lives and the charges against them should include murder. Biden should promise now that bribe‐taking for  delaying the approval of the Oxford vaccine will be prosecuted as murder.               An outside panel of experts in the U.S. reviewed the data for the Pfizer vaccine and recommended that it be given  an EUA. A day or two later, it was given that. I suggest this: Empanel experts who will review the data available from the  UK, used by the medical authorities there to recommend emergency authorization of the Oxford vaccine there. Have the  American experts study that data now, instead of 3 1/2 months from now, and recomment an EUA, or not, for the  Oxford vaccine. Do not wait for the outrageous timetable proposed by the FDA. Unless the medical regulators in the UK  are a bunch of careless fools, our outside experts will probably recommend that the Oxford vaccine be approved for use  in the U.S. right away.                       Listen here to Dr. Campbell in the UK react to delaying the approval of the Oxford vaccine until April.  Starting at  20:00 he discusses the slow roll‐out of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in the U.S. At 21:00 he starts on the Oxford  vaccine being delayed until April in the U.S. "The U.S. could do with a vaccine that costs $3 a shot. The U.S. is desperate  for that".    "Can it be that the FDA would delay for 3 1/2 months with the Oxford vaccine?" "In that time, thousands of  Americans will die". "The FDA have all of the rolling data that the UK has". "This is inexplicable".  Listen to what he says  here starting at 21:00.               Update ‐ YouTube                 Coronavirus complications‐‐ DW documentary:    Think Covid is a hoax? Think holding up the Oxford vaccine is not  that big a deal? See this re long‐ term effects of Covid. Made in Germany.               Coronavirus complications | DW Documentary ‐ YouTube                Monoclonal antibodies:  I have sent much information about the Eli Lilly product in recent mails.  Here is a  hospital in Waco, Texas that is getting that medicine:  We know it will save some pts who test + for Covid, are having  worsening symtoms, but are not yet hospitalized: It can keep people out of the hospital. Apparently, this Lilly medicine is  in many hospitals now, but the staff is so overwhelmed by seriously ill Covid pts. that they don't have the time or staff to  infuse it. Money would help with that problem, and Trump should authorize the billions of dollars that would address it.  Biden should too if Trump does not. How did they provide billions for operation Warp Speed if they then needed the  $900 billion Covid relief bill passed by Congress, which Trump called "a disgrace"? It seems that they can authorize big  money without involvement by Congress. If so, they should authorize big money now to the States and counties to get  the vaccines we do have now AND THE LILLY MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY, where appropriate, into people's bodies. The Eli  Lilly product consists of one powerful antibody. Regeneron has a medicine which is a cocktail of serveral antibodies. One  5 gm. dose of the Regeneron med was given to Trump when he was hopitalized with Covid.                  Ascension Providence receives bamlanivimab to treat COVID‐19 patients ‐ YouTube  62               An Epidemiologist, a Dr. Del Rio at Emory University, was on TV. He said that the American health care system is  broken. We do not have a centralized system, as do the British with their NHS. That explains in part why the vaccines are  so slow here to be rolled out. Our system is for the federal government to ship the vaccines to the States, and they then  decide how and when to distribute it to counties. Many States and counties are ill‐equiped to handle that process and  need money and expertise from the feds to get the vaccines administered. Congress should act on that, but since it took  many months to get a Covid relief bill passed, and since the bill Congress passed provides billions of dollars for dictators  all over the world, one observer is very pessimistic about Congress providing the resources that the States need. So our  corrupt federal government is responsible for many of the Covid deaths we are seeing and will continue to see. Either  Trump or Biden, or both, should address that.                KCBS‐SF said today that Biden has appointed three experts in logistics to get the vaccines rolled out, one of them  from Oakland, Ca.              L. William Harding          Fresno, Ca.                63 Baumb, Nelly From:Bette Kiernan <betteuk@aol.com> Sent:Saturday, January 2, 2021 11:13 AM To:Council, City Subject:California Environmental Quality Act/ Foothills Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Council Members: Foothills Park opened to the public without apparent analysis and public disclosure of potential impacts greatly increased numbers of visitors upon the park ecosystems. In addition, winding roadway access may not safely accommodate crowds. What steps might the city now take to remediate the situation in order to bring the park stewardship into alignment with the intent of the California Environment Quality Act? "CEQA does not directly regulate land uses, but instead requires state and local agencies within California to follow a protocol of analysis and public disclosure of environmental impacts of proposed projects and, in a departure from NEPA, adopt all feasible measures to mitigate those impacts. CEQA makes environmental protection a mandatory part of every California state and local (public) agency's decision making process". Sincerely, Bette Kiernan Palo Alto 64 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Saturday, January 2, 2021 2:33 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; bballpod; David Balakian; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Cathy Lewis; Council, City; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: New Year's Day- Dr. Campbell- Excellent. India & Argentina OK Oxford vaccine 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: Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 1:51 AM  Subject: Fwd: New Year's Day‐ Dr. Campbell‐ Excellent. India & Argentina OK Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 1:35 AM  Subject: New Year's Day‐ Dr. Campbell‐ Excellent. India & Argentina OK Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                  Saturday, January 2, 2021                    To all‐  Dr. Campbell further, on Jan. 1, 2021. He discusses the Oxford‐Astrazeneca vaccine.                      The U.S. is being slow to authorize the Oxford vaccine. The FDA should have the data the UK regulators have,  and they do.  They should get on with it!  The UK, India, Argentina have all authorized the Oxford vaccine for use.   He  says, now,  utterly, totally, completley unrelated to that,  (sure) Pfizer and Moderna have said that they are making a  profit with their vaccines.  Oxford AZN are NOT. AND the U.S. for some strange reason is holding back on the Oxford  vaccine for another 3 1/2 MONTHS. Get it?  Biden should warn the bribe takers that they will be charged with murder. I  would take the Oxford vaccine tomorrow, gladly. Thousands of Americans are going to die unnecesarrily by April if the  bribe takers deny it to us till then. Let's enpanel the outside experts to review the Oxford data now and make a decision.  Then Biden's new FDA Commissioner can approve it on the 20th.                                Update ‐ YouTube                 He discusses the holdup in the U.S at 5 minutes to 6:15.     65                He goes on about how waiting for 12 weeks between giving the first and second dose of Oxford is good. You give  far far more people the first dose that way rather than starting over with the first dose pts after a few weeks and giving  them the second dose. He gives good data to support that.  Kaiser, Stanford, UCSF please note that. What about the  Pfizer BioNtec vaccine?  Same result. We have to focus on the severe cases there. The first dose can provide very good  protection against severe disease.                  On Tues. of this week I was at Kaiser in Fresno and I asked a nurse if she had been vaccinated. Yes, with the  Pfizer vaccine. (that would have been in mid‐December). And when will you get the second shot? In January. So Kaiser,  at least, is not using this 12 week gap approach to give more people some protection with the first dose. Protection  against severe disease, important to note. Probably Kaiser is in step with everyone else in the U.S. I think I heard Dr.  Fauci say he does not like the 12 week gap approach.                  Then Dr. Del Rio at Emory University said no, the 12 week gap is not a good approach. On PBS News Hour the  other night.                    He discusses the UK's Green Book on vaccines and gives the link. Possibly of interest to U.S. vaccine experts.                      L. William Harding                   Fresno, Ca.                                                  66 Baumb, Nelly From:Lisa Hwong <lisaleemd@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, January 2, 2021 12:40 AM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills park issues CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council members,  We are along with many of our Palo Alto neighbors are concerned with the current overcrowded visitor conditions at  Foothills Park. As you know, Foothills park is no ordinary park, it is actually a nature prreserve. It has taken decades to  nurture the park to the point that it was teaming with wildlife and now to see all of that threatened by overcrowding,  lines of cars waiting to enter and trash piling up for the sake of equal access is disappointing. These crowds will undo  decades of environmental protection at the park and Foothills could lose it unique situation as a Nature Preserve. If  giving equal access to all is going to result in destroying the plant and animal preserve, then there will be nothing left for  anyone to see and enjoy, defeating the purpose of equal access. Since we Palo Altams find the preserve with our tax  dollars, there is not need to open access to all unless the non residents want to pay a small admission fee. So let’s  overturn equal access or put limits on capacity by charging non residents, to help maintain our precious Nature  Preserve.    Thank you for your consideration.    Regards,  Lisa and Henry Hwong  Residents of Palo Alto  415‐699‐2691  Sent from my iPhone  67 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Friday, January 1, 2021 11:59 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; bballpod; David Balakian; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Steven Feinstein; Chris Field; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; nick yovino; news@fresnobee.com; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; terry; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine 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, Jan 1, 2021 at 9:19 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 9:08 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 4:55 PM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 3:35 AM  68 Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 3:25 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 2:14 AM  Subject: Fwd: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 5:30 PM  Subject: Dr. Campbell on Dec. 31 2020 CANNOT understand delay in U.S. for Oxford vaccine  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>          New Year's Day, January 1, 2021                 To all‐  It is all over the news now that the UK regulators have approved the Oxford‐Astrazenaca vaccine and that  it may be available in the U.S in April(!).  Dr. Campbell said that Pfizer and Moderna are making money by selling their  vaccines but that Oxford‐AZN are not, at a price of $3 per shot for their vaccine. Now some are speculating that money is  changing hands to delay the arrival of the Oxford vaccine in the U.S.                The British have given the Oxford vaccine lenghthy, well‐designed, well‐conducted trials and they have concluded  that it is safe and effective, and the FDA has all of that data. The British medical establishment does not have a  reputation as being a pack of liars and con‐artists. All of the information they have about the Oxford vaccine is available  to the CDC, and additional information is still coming in from trials in the UK. The medical experts in the U.S. should say  what problems they fear could arise by administering the Oxford vaccine in the U.S. now. Is is likely to cause effects like  Thalidomide caused in the fetus? Do U.S. regulators fear that it could produce things like bovine spongiform  encephalopathy, mad‐cow disease? That was caused by a new pathogen, the prion, a UC Berkley reseacher concluded.  Heart damage, liver damage, brain damage? If we put it through enough trials, we might find that it causes problems.                But against that possibility, we have this:  3,700 Amerians per day are now dying of Covid, and that number is sure  to increase. We are in the middle of a medical disaster, a national emergency, in the United States. We now have the  new, more transmissible form of Covid in Colorado, S. California and Florida. Who really believes that it won't spread like  wildfire in the U.S., the way it has been doing in the UK? ICU beds are now full in S. California and in the Central Valley of  California. The Governor orders lock downs and the politicians in the City and County of Fresno, Ca. will not enforce  them, and go on television saying they won't enforce them. Maybe the feel that the lock‐down orders are unenforceble  69 in Fresno, Ca. We need tough new laws in California to compel them to enforce such orders. Also, all flights from the UK  and South Africa, the sources of the new variant into the U.S., should be halted.                 Biden should direct his AG to start a large scale criminal investigation into why the Oxford vaccine is being held up  until at least April, 2021. I suspect that people who can approve it are being bribed not to. That will cost thousands of  additional lives and the charges against them should include murder. Biden should promise now that bribe‐taking for  delaying the approval of the Oxford vaccine will be prosecuted as murder.               An outside panel of experts in the U.S. reviewed the data for the Pfizer vaccine and recommended that it be given  an EUA. A day or two later, it was given that. I suggest this: Enpanel experts who will review the data available from the  UK, used by the medical authorities there to recommend emergency authorization of the Oxford vaccine in the UK. Have  the American experts study that data now, instead of 3 1/2 months from now, and recomment an EUA, or not, for the  Oxford vaccine. Do not wait for the outrageous timetable proposed by the FDA.                        Listen here to Dr. Campbell in the UK react to delaying the approval of the Oxford vaccine until April.  Starting at  20:00 he discusses the slow roll‐out of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in the U.S. At 21:00 he starts on the Oxford  vaccine being delayed until April in the U.S. "The U.S. could do with a vaccine that costs $3 a shot. The U.S. is desperate  for that".    "Can it be that the FDA would delay for 3 1/2 months with the Oxford vaccine?" "In that time, thousands of  Americans will die". "The FDA have all of the rolling data that the UK has". "This is inexplicable".                 Update ‐ YouTube                 Coronavirus complications‐‐ DW documentary:    Think Covid is a hoax? Think holding up the Oxford vaccine is not  that big a deal? See this re long‐ term effects of Covid. Made in Germany.               Coronavirus complications | DW Documentary ‐ YouTube                Monoclonal antibodies:  I have sent much information about the Eli Lilly product in recent mails.  Here is a  hospital in Waco, Texas that is getting that medicine:  We know it will save some pts who test + for Covid, are having  worsening symtoms, but are not yet hospitalized: It can keep people out of the hospital. Apparently, this Lilly medicine is  in many hospitals now, but the staff is so overwhelmed by seriously ill Covid pts. that they don't have the time or staff to  infuse it. Money would help with that problem, and Trump should authorize the billions of dollars that would address it.  Biden should too if Trump does not.                 Ascension Providence receives bamlanivimab to treat COVID‐19 patients ‐ YouTube                An Epidemiologist, a Dr. Del Rio at Emory University, was on TV. He said that the American health care system is  broken. We do not have a centralized system, as do the British with their NHS. That explains in part why the vaccines are  so slow here to be rolled out. Our system is for the federal government to ship the vaccines to the States, and they then  decide how and when to distribute it to counties. Many States and counties are ill‐equiped to handle that process and  need money and expertise from the feds to get the vaccines administered. Congress should act on that, but since it took  many months to get a Covid relief bill passed, and since the bill Congress passed provides billions of dollars for dictators  all over the world, one observer is very pessimistic about Congress providing the resources that the States need. So our  corrupt federal government is responsible for many of the Covid deaths we are seeing and will continue to see.                 KCBS‐SF said today that Biden has appointed three experts in logistics to get the vaccines rolled out, one of them  from Oakland, Ca.              L. William Harding          Fresno, Ca.   70              71 Baumb, Nelly From:Pc User <pc77user@aol.com> Sent:Friday, January 1, 2021 10:14 PM To:Forbidden Knowledge TV; Global Research News; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; Ammo Land; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; Bob & Hazel Terhune; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; Hillsdale College; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; Council, City; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY Subject:Fundraiser by David Meiswinkle : 9-11 Anthrax Congressional Petition Fundraiser CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Help out with the fundraiser. Check out the website at LCfor911.org to see their current updates.    https://www.gofundme.com/f/uycgh‐david039s‐campaign‐for‐human‐rights‐campaign      Best Regards, & Stay Healthy !  RJS    72 Baumb, Nelly From:Cynthia W <cindyjwebber7@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, January 1, 2021 9:33 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council Members,        As a 35‐year resident of Palo Alto, I was disappointed that Foothills Park has been opened so widely and so abruptly,  and without a vote from the residents of the city.  Now a days, the  park has been so full and the trails are being trashed  and, I see bike tire tracks, which I never saw in the past.             Even if you want to open the park to more of the citizens of the area, there should have been a trial period to open to  some nearby cities if they paid into a fund that would help with staffing and infrastructure.   Opening the park to the  entire Bay Area is going to lead to widespread damage to the environment.  It is not a place that has the capacity for  unlimited numbers of visitors.    The park will also need a much larger staff, and that staff will need to be trained and  adequately paid.          There especially needs to be staff around trail and picnic areas to explain rules and expectations.   Several of the trails  are one‐way due to Covid19.   Many county parks allow dogs every day and  bikes on trails, etc, and this park does not,  so these will be rules that will be new to visitors.         To pay for increased staffing and infrastructure, immediately there needs to be a fee imposed for  entrance/parking.   A fee of about $15  per car would help (with an annual fee available as well).  If that is not enough  for the staffing and infrastructure needs, then the fee could be increased in the future.        Foothills Park is a gem and the environment there should be carefully protected.  All effort needs to go toward  protecting the park by limiting the number of visitors and asking those who do come to the park to help pay for the  experience so that this park can stay in good condition for the future generations of citizens.    Please do something to limit the number of cars/people entering the park because it is becoming over‐run.    Sincerely,  Cynthia Webber   1038 Amarillo Avenue  Palo Alto, CA 94303        73 Baumb, Nelly From:Tammi CH <tcanoosehall@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, January 1, 2021 1:22 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Park Opened Without a Comprehensive Plan CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Palo Alto City Council Members,  As a resident of Palo Alto, I’ve been on the fence about opening Foothills Park to the public. Not because of the public,  but because of the potential for the opening to be improperly handled by our city leaders, which is exactly what I found  on a recent visit. The impact to traffic on Page Mill Road, the environment (trails, wildlife, trash) and the park’s staff was  not taken into consideration when the Palo Alto City Council crumbled under pressure without thinking through a  workable, comprehensive plan.   As a volunteer at Hidden Villa, a well‐run educational, sustainable farm and wilderness area in Los Altos Hills, I’ve seen  firsthand how open space can be managed for the benefit and enrichment of everyone. By instituting a fee and limiting  capacity to the parking they have available, they manage the impact to the environment and create an enjoyable  experience for everyone. During Covid, they have additionally reduced capacity to allow for more space and safety for  visitors.  As Foothills Park is funded by Palo Alto taxpayers, non‐residents should pay an entrance fee or the park’s ownership  should change to accommodate the increased expense of maintenance. In addition, limit the number of cars to the  capacity of parking, increase staffing for park maintenance and traffic safety, provide more trash containers, signage and  consider reducing capacity even more during Covid restrictions.   I’m disappointed with the apparent lack of thought, consideration and planning that went into this decision and hope for  a more sustainable solution in the near future.  Tammi CanooseHall  74 Baumb, Nelly From:Pc User <pc77user@aol.com> Sent:Friday, January 1, 2021 10:30 AM To:Forbidden Knowledge TV; Global Research News; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; Ammo Land; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; Bob & Hazel Terhune; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; Hillsdale College; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; Council, City; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY Subject:Fundraiser by David Meiswinkle : 9-11 Anthrax Congressional Petition Fundraiser CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Help out with the fundraiser. Check out the website at LCfor911.org to see their current updates.    https://www.gofundme.com/f/uycgh‐david039s‐campaign‐for‐human‐rights‐campaign      Best Regards, & Stay Healthy !  RJS    75 Baumb, Nelly From:Susan P. Meade <susanpmeade@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 6:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Park Mess CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council, I have previously written to express my dismay at the way you chose to open Foothills NATURE  PRESERVE Park without a plan for managing the crowds, trash, traffic, restroom capacity etc.  The current political  climate gave those with an agenda a chance to attack the city of Palo Alto.  For 40 years I have enjoyed Foothills Park,  my daughter worked multiple summers as a camp counselor there, it was a retreat of peace and quiet.  A jewel.  A  benefit of living in high priced Palo Alto where not everyone is wealthy.    I am so disappointed with the way you have managed the threat of lawsuit, with the way you reneged on the agreement  to do a soft opening so as to assess the impact of more visitors, more bicycles, more boats, more cars.    Please do not ignore the damage being done during Covid times when more and more people seek recreational  opportunities.  There needs to be more rangers, a reservation system, and procedures to deal with the numbers of  people who want to see the park.  The racial equality issue was always a ridiculous argument.  This is a gorgeous area for  hiking because of the far sighted Palo Altans who worked to preserve open space. 2020 will be remembered for so many  terrible things that happened.  It’s unfortunate that I will be remembering it as the year you chose to allow the  degradation of Foothills Park.  It’s not about the color of the skin of the people enjoying the park, it’s about sheer  number of visitors that the park cannot sustain.    Sincerely disappointed,    Susan P. Meade  222 Byron Street  Palo Alto 94301  76 Baumb, Nelly From:Margaret Cheng <mccheng369@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 5:11 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothill Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Shame, Shame, Shame on City Council for allowing outside people to use Foothill Park. These outside people who do not  live in Palo Alto are now destroying our Foothill Park. They have no respect for this special land or its wildlife. They are  making a mess and parking their cars everywhere and anywhere.    We have lived in Palo Alto for over 50 years and we have enjoyed Foothill Park with our children and neighbors.    Please revert back to the requirements  of Foothill Park for Palo Alto residents only.  We love the peace, serenity, beauty of our beloved Foothill Park. Please DO NOT let irresponsible, selfish people destroy  our gifted Foothill Park.    Thank you.  Margaret & David Cheng  3709 Ortega Court  Palo Alto, CA 94303    Sent from my iPhone  77 Baumb, Nelly From:Steve Beitler <noelandsteve@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 5:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Crowds at Foothills Park during a pandemic CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Just was puzzling over the timing of opening the park. We're at the peak of a pandemic, yet we chose this time to open. If any of you have gone hiking up there, you know that the trails are narrow and are often carved into a cliff. Creating 6 ft when someone wants to pass is often impossible. There are always the people who don't care to wear masks when they're 'out in nature' or exercising. Now there are many more of those people. Then there are the bathrooms, not built with this capacity in mind, that are over-needed and under cleaned. Thus, it seems incautious to have settled on Dec. 18 as the opening day. Surely all parties involved would have seen the merit in postponing the opening until Covid was in retreat. or at least have had a better plan to keep the safety of the guests their first concern. This is an extraordinary time. It calls for an extraordinary willingness to put people's health and safety first, even in front of what feels right and fair. For some, you may have created a death trap. Sincerely Noel Beitler 78 Baumb, Nelly From:Jane Stocklin <j_stocklin@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 1:41 PM To:Council, City Subject:Circle at East Meadow and Ross Road CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  We have lived on East Meadow Drive for 45 years. Both of our boys rode their bikes to JLS and Gunn without incident (along with all other students). We have driven in many foreign countries on "rounders" and in Sunriver, Oregon where we have a second home they have driving circles. The circle on East Meadow and Ross cannot really be considered a driving circle due to its diminutive size. We were really surprised when this solution was proposed for this corner, and we were shocked that over $1 million was spent on this effort...a circle that large vehicles cannot go around easily without driving over the plants in the center. We adjusted. It seemed to be working. People got the hang of it and most of the time were careful and considerate yielding. Then after a couple years, two stop signs have now been posted on East Meadow so two sides stop before entering the circle and two sides do not. This has proven to be most dangerous. Some of the corners the view is obstructed by tall shrubs. You come to a stop, but the shrubs partially block the view. You start up thinking it is clear and a car coming from the non-stop side with some speed enters the circle just as you are making a good entrance. One time, I entered the circle after stopping. A car from the other side entered even though I was in the circle. I had to stop....but there was a serious biker behind me shouting go, go, go! This is not good either. The idea was that bikes and cars share the same road as equal vehicles...mostly for the sake of school kids making their way home using East Meadow. However some kids do not go around. They cut across much like making a left turn as if there were a 4-way stop. This is an accident waiting to happen...and a serious one. Frankly the old 4-way stop seems to be the most safe. We remain perplexed about this effort. On a completely different subject, we are very saddened to see Foothill Park when we recently went for a hike. The crowding, folks parking where they should not, trash barrels overflowing, way too many dogs and people on the very narrow pathways. The traffic jam outside the entrance can be very dangerous. People are making U turns where they should not on a curve in the road where visibility is limited. Another day, we tried to go for a hike around 11 and as a Palo Alto citizen we could not enter. I think of the feeling of open space and solitude in nature that graced Foothill Park for hikes and walks and I fear those days are over. Sincerely, Jane and Bill Stocklin 827 East Meadow Drive 79 Baumb, Nelly From:Joyce Schmid <joycegschmid@aol.com> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 12:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    To the Honorable City Council:    I would like to add my voice to all of those asking for protection for Foothills Park.    Please do something immediately to prevent Foothills Park from being destroyed by crowding. Please limit the number  of people allowed into the park. Please charge an admission fee. Please require advance reservation. Please do  something. Why are we allowing our beautiful park to be destroyed?    Certainly, the experience of being there is already impaired.    Thank you, Lydia, for trying to prevent this.    Warm regards, and thank you all for your hard work! I have seen first‐hand what kind of time and devotion goes into  being a City Council member, and I appreciate all you are doing.    Joyce Schmid  3428 Janice Way, Palo Alto CA 94203  650‐321‐9228      80 Baumb, Nelly From:Anjani Sarma <anjani.sarma@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 12:03 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Council,    In an attempt to be politically correct by opening up Foothills park without thinking of the consequences or seeking  public input you may have begun the process of damage to this beautiful treasure. I was at Foothill park today at 9:30  am and there was not a single parking spot! Cars were circling  around looking for parking and were driving way over 25  mph which even elementary school kids know is harmful to the park and the wildlife there. People had parked wherever  they wanted to thus limiting access to both pedestrians and cars; people were walking on trails without respect to one  way signs for social distancing and there was litter.     Did you think about the parking implications or the strain on resources when you rushed to open the park without  public input? What underserved population were you planning to make the park accessible to to make it more  equitable? A sampling of the parked cars which included Teslas, BMWs, high end SUVs shows that whoever your rushed  decision sought to serve is not who is using the park now. Did you think about the implications of your hasty ill thought  decision on the wonderful rangers and the pressure it will put on them?    I am sure if you had not rushed to be politically correct and had thought this through, the whole city would have had the  chance to provide input on how the beautiful park can be made accessible to everyone to enjoy without destroying it.    Please go to the park on any day to see the repercussions of this thoughtless myopic decision.    I hope you will now put some thought into figuring out      1) How to streamline entry into the park so that it is not destroyed by people who are stopping by while the citizens of  Palo Alto foot the bill to maintain the park  2) How to arrange for parking so people don’t recklessly park wherever they find a spot and how to enforce parking by  ticketing people who park illegally and block access on roads to cars and pedestrians.  3)How to enforce proper use of one way trails      I am very disappointed by what you have done and will not be voting for any of you in the future.    Sincerely,    Anjani  81 Baumb, Nelly From:Jennifer Mutz <jennifer.mutz@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 11:38 AM To:Council, City Cc:Andrew (Andy) Mutz; 'Jennifer Mutz' Subject:Experience at Foothill Park and Constructive Proposal CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council, Thank you for all your hard work. RE: Foothill Park We, residents of Palo Alto for 35 years, are emailing to convey our recent unfortunate experience attempting to use Foothill Park (FP). The short story is that thanks to City Council opening the park to the general public, it has become inaccessible to and unusable by Palo Alto residents, the same residents who pay for its upkeep. On Saturday December 27, our family drove up PageMill Rd. to take a hike at Foothill Park. It was a zoo: both police and park rangers were trying to manage the crowds of people/cars that were dangerously backed up on PageMill and the parking lot was full. As a result, drivers were making dangerous U-turns on PageMill to escape, and/or parking down the hill with people unsafely walking up and down the side of PageMill road to get to FP. So we kept driving ... We’ve spoken with many PA residents (our neighbors) who have had the same experience since FP opened to the general public. The hope is that the novelty will wear off and the park traffic will calm down. However, at this rate, the only thing that’s going to get worn down is Foothill Park, and the neighbors’ patience dealing with lines of cars backed up on PageMill with people parking on side streets down the hill. City Council made a mistake. There was no vote by citizens, no EIR (environmental impact report), and the city caved to a frivolous and unfounded lawsuit. At a minimum, City Council should’ve had the foresight to plan for the current mess, and instituted an entry fee to help defray the city of Palo Alto’s costs for maintaining the park and preserving its condition. Now, not only is there no entry fee, but the citizens of PA are paying for the extra law enforcement required to police the overflow traffic and the parking lot! This of course means fewer police officers policing the city of Palo Alto because they’re dealing with FP overcrowding. Sadly ironic considering PA has a $40m budget shortfall, and reductions to our own Fire Dept. (when FP is in a heavily wooded area, surrounded by homes, in the middle of the most devastating fire season in CA history). It’s clear FP is letting in more people/cars than was approved (and confirmed by a Park Ranger). Two suggestions: 1. Institute a substantial entry fee for non-PA residents to cover the costs for the park, current staff, and additional traffic enforcement now needed. Many parks have entry fees. For example, in the East Bay Ed Levin charges $6 per car or $95 for an annual pass. 2. Donate the park to the Open Space Preserve, to be used only for hiking, while it can still be saved. 82 Thanks for listening. We look forward to hearing how City Council will deal with the consequences of opening Foothill Park. Jennifer and Andy Mutz Palo Alto 35 year residents jennifer.mutz@gmail.com andy.mutz@gmail.com   83 Baumb, Nelly From:Yehia Rizk <yrizk@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 9:28 AM To:Council, City Cc:yehia rizk Subject:Astray Golf Balls CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi;    I just wanted to express my concern regarding the potential risk of astray golf balls to people on the trail between the  Baylands Golf course and the San Francisquito Creek.  Both the trail and the golf course have been modified a few years ago as part of the creek flood management.  The current trail is higher and closer and runs parrallel to the 11th fairway at the beginning of the trail which may  increase the risk of someone on the trail being hit by an errant ball.  I like to suggest installing a protective net in a strategic location to mitigate the potential risk to people on the trail.  Any other suggestions could be an improvement on the current situation.    Thanks.  Yehia Rizk  1902 Channing Ave    84 Baumb, Nelly From:Nodelyn <nodelyn@comcast.net> Sent:Thursday, December 31, 2020 7:22 AM To:Council, City Subject:Dangerous trash on El Camino Real CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    To the City Council,  There is a dangerous amount of trash on the westside of El Camino Real between Churchill and Serra St.   I drove by the  other morning and saw 2 shopping carts on their sides and bags of garbage strown out onto the street.  I was lucky the  daylight allowed me to see these objects.  However, in the dark, I’m afraid a terrible accident may occur with a car going  at 25 mph unable to see these obstacles. There are also several ladders and a bench that are placed on the street in  several parking spaces that jut out into the street potentially causing an accident.   This is so unsafe. There is a 2 hr  parking sign but this isn’t being enforced and instead much garbage accumulation is taking place.  Please enforce the 2  hr parking limits!  Please please please, do your jobs and make the city safe for the people you are supposed to protect!    Thank You.  Nodelyn Smith      Sent from my iPad  85 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 5:34 PM To:Honky Subject:Trump Just Exposed The Economic Swamp 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.     X22Report: Trump Turns The Spotlight On The Economic Swamp, No Escape! - Must Video   X22Report: Trump Turns The Spotlight On The Economic Swamp, No Escape! - Must Video  REPORTER: John Rolls: The people are now seeing for the first time that congress is not for the people, they are interest in their lobbyist, special interest groups and they are not passing bills to benefit the people. Trump just exposed the economic swamp.  Click here to see, "X22Report: Trump Turns The Spotlight On The Economic Swamp, No Escape! - Must Video"  ....................................................................................................  Nashville Bombing Evidence Unfolds...EMP with Bill Binney - Must See Video  REPORTER: Josey Wales: It wasn't that long ago that anyone who believed in a EMP was considered a conspiracy theorist, fruit cake, nutjob, now it's mainstream. The evidence collected to support this claim is overwhelming. 86 The Motor Home was parked in place to be the target for the EMP, watch how this works. Watch Ann Vandersteel and Bill Binny as they walk you through the evidence.  Click here to see,"Nashville Bombing Evidence Unfolds...EMP with Bill Binney"  ....................................................................................................  Jerome Corsi: Pence Steps Up for Endgame of 2020 Election  REPORTER: Jeffery Pritchett: As midnight chimed, it appears VP Mike Pence tried on the glass slipper and it fit. It appears Pence will support President Trump in preserving his landslide victory las November as RINOs weaken and surrender to the Democrat/Communist mob.  Click here to see,"Jerome Corsi: Pence Steps Up for Endgame of 2020 Election"          87 Baumb, Nelly From:D Martell <dmpaloalto@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 5:16 PM To:AnnaEshoo@mail.house.gov; anne.ream@mail.house.gov; Council, City Cc:Supervisor Simitian; Shikada, Ed; Stump, Molly; Kleinberg, Judy; Drekmeier, Peter; RA@alexanderlaw.com; Laura Bajuk; Senator.Becker@senate.ca.gov Subject:MARTELL -- More COVID on Lytton Gardens' block (senior living facilities) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.        Yesterday, another Lytton Gardens' resident ‐ Covia owned block ‐ was diagnosed with COVID.    That makes 25 new cases, on the block, for the month of December.. and counting.              88 Baumb, Nelly From:Federica Armstrong <federun@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 4:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Foothills Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear City Council,    as a resident of Palo Alto I have enjoyed Foothills Park for many years.    While I am in favor of opening the park to non‐residents, I find that the current number of visitors allowed in the park is  way too high.  I recently went to visit the park and it felt too crowded and no longer enjoyable.  Moreover, I am sure that the ecosystem will suffer from such an influx of people.    While I understand that the current situation is influenced by a number of factors such as the popularity of the new  destination, covid restrictions and the holidays, I feel strongly that the number of visitors allowed in the part at a given  time should be substantially lower. Some kind of reservation system should be in place to avoid overcrowding. The  current number of visitors allowed is just way too high.    I much rather have less access to the park but be able to truly enjoy its environment when I visit, that to have access to it  under the current conditions.  For the sake of the ecosystem and everyone’s enjoyment of the park, please lower the number of visitors allow in the  park.    Thank you for your consideration,    Federica Armstrong  Mobile (650) 283‐1751    89 Baumb, Nelly From:b. beekman <cranberrysauce23@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 3:35 PM To:Mayor Lily Mei.; D3. Jenny Kassan; yshao@fremont.gov; D5. Raj Salwan; D6. Teresa Cox; D2. Rick Jones; D1. Teresa Keng.; Mayor Sam Licarrdo; Mayor's office. Lee Wilcox; Mayor's office. Paul Pereira; C.Mgr. David Sykes; C.Attrny. Nora Frimann; city attorney Shasta Green; cl.d1. Charles "Chappie" Jones; cl.d2. Sergio Jimenez; cl.d3. Raul Peralez; cl.d4. Lan Diep; cl.d5. Magdelena Carrasco; cl.d6. Devora. Davis; cl.d7. Maya Esparza; cl.d8. Sylvia Arenas; cl.d9. Pam Foley; cl.d10. Johnny Khamis; cDoT.Dir.John Ristow; cDOT Laura Wells; c.mgr.Jim Ortbal; C. Manager Angel Rios; OES Director.Ray Riordan; OES.Office of Emergency Services; Police Ofc. Anthony Mata; Police Ofc. David Knopf; Police Lt. Ellen.Washburn -s.op.; Police Lt. Heather Randol; Supervisor Cindy Chavez; Supervisor Otto Lee; Supervisor Joseph Simitian; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Supervisor Mike Wasserman; Dana Reed; d.District Attorney; s.PIO; supervisor.carson@acgov.org; Wilma.Chan@acgov.org; Nate.Miley@acgov.org; richard.valle@acgov.org; Scott.Haggerty@acgov.org; David Haubert; amy.shrago@acgov.org; Anika Campbell Belton.; Perkins, Cheryl, CAO; info@alcoda.org; pio@alamedacountysheriff.org; mayor; D1.; D2.; D3.; D4.; D5.; D6.; D7.; D8.; City Clerk.Brkly.; C.Mgr.; attorney@cityofberkeley.info; O.E.S.; planning; Transportation; p.r.c.; berkeley. p.d.; FPD chief. Kim Peterson; John Lindsay-Poland; Sameena Usman; Victor Sin; Roxana Marachi; tessa.darc@gmail.com; council@redwoodcity.org; city.council@menlopark.org; Council, City; cityadministratorsoffice@oaklandca.gov; cityclerk@oaklandnet.com; Craig Dziedzic; Janell Myhre; Phillip White; Corinne Bartshire; Mikyung Kim-Molina; Baker, Ethan (ECD); Lloyd Shand; Maryellen Carroll; Gary Malais; atlarge@oaklandnet.com; Niki Fortuno Bas; campaign@electdavidcohen.com; matt@mahanforsj.com; Sheng Thao; c.mgr.CCEC. Elise Doan; Stephanie Cabrera; CADRE; Phillis Onstad; Police Lt. Jason Dwyer-s.ops..; police Sgt. Doug Wedge; Police Chief. Edgardo Garcia Subject:Blair Beekman. Wednesday. December 30, 2020. ___Local Bay Area community energy. 2021-2030. Part 2. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.        Dear EBCE,            From, the East Bay Community Energy, EBCE, Dec. 2020, IPR report ‐ Nick Chasset, CEO, has offered, that no one is sure,  what post‐2025, may actually look like, with community energy.      I think, the community & EBCE, should spend, the next 6 months, creating, more in‐depth agenda items, and open  publc dialogue ‐ concentrating on, the surprising numbers, from the Oct. 2020, BoD IPR reports. Particularly noting, BoD  agenda item 19, pg 14.      This same chart, appears again, in the December 2020, BoD IPR report, as well         In my years of living in San Jose, with their own, community energy issues ‐ the year 2023, has always been something,  of an important milestone, in local community energy goals.  90     No matter, what is in store, for the year 2023, it seems important, the year, continue to be considered, as a good  benchmark.      And, in how to focus, on good, local renewable energy practices, for both, the 1st & 2nd half, of the 2020s.          From this, I hope, the Oct. 2020, BoD IPR report, item 19, pg 14, can be better explained, to myself, and to the  community, in the following months.      It offers, that in 2023, there will be, a fairly sharp rise, in Brown energy/dirty fuel use.      While at the same time, there will be, a fairly sharp decllne, in solar & storage usage.     To myself, this can be a signal, to prepare for, a natural disaster, in the SF Bay Area ‐ like an earthquake.     An event, that may need, much Brown energy & dirty fuel, in its following days, weeks, and months.     ( As it is, the purpose of govt. & community planning, to include, possible natural disasters, & other contingencies ‐ Bay  Area wildfires, are also being considered, in the next 5‐10 years. )        To focus & concentrate, on good local renewable energy, procurement practices now, and for the next few years, can  work to build, clear understandings, good local community relationships, clear guidelines, and good direction, into the  2030s.      It can address, how to take our first steps, to separate, from a dependance, on nuclear energy, its economy, and other  questionable, large, energy distribution packages.     And from this, the decent logic, to help with an easier transition, to more quickly return to, good renewable practices, in  the days following, a natural disaster event, in the Bay Area.          I understand, the EBCE & community, can already be aware, and work on these things. I hope, I can help add to, already  safe, community planning ideas & standards.      I hope, we can learn, to letter write, and have, some one‐on‐one conversations, in the next few weeks & months, about  the charts & graphics, of the October 2020, IPR report.     And talk amongst yourselves, that can possibly become, more in‐depth, public agenda items, in this next year.       Overall, it is my goal, to simply ask about, how to continue, an important focus, on good, local renewable energy ideas,  using concepts, like Just Transition, for the next few years. And that can make for, a more, safe, clear course, into the  2030s.     And how, the EBCE & everyday public, together, can better work towards a process, of trusted, decent minded, local  energy decision making & long term community planning.    91   I hope, this can be a time, of good initiative, and even innovation ‐ in what may be, a difficult, upcoming decade, for the  SF Bay Area, and public planning.      A decade, I hope we can also work, to mitigate & avoid, possible Bay Area natural disasters, altogether.           Sincerely,        Blair Beekman    92 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 3:24 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; beachrides; bballpod; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; Steven Feinstein; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; Mark Kreutzer; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; nick yovino; news@fresnobee.com; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Oxford-Astrazeneca Vaccine approved in UK two hours ago. Now 1:09 PM Wed. 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, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:11 PM  Subject: Fwd: Oxford‐Astrazeneca Vaccine approved in UK two hours ago. Now 1:09 PM Wed.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>            To all‐  Update  2:51 PM this time on Wed. Dec. 30, 2020‐                   Here is big news today about the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine from Dr. Campbell in the UK. Well worth watching!  The vaccine has been licensed for production in many places in the world, including in Maryland and in Albuquerque. My  question is when, oh when, will it be approved for use in the U.S.?              Oxford Vaccine Approved, Game changer ‐ YouTube               The first shot of this vaccine produces good immunity and the second one produces better and longer lasting  immunity. I am not seeing in the news anything about it being approved for use in the U.S., or even being considered for  use here. This is called the "let 'em hang" approach to government. We continue to allow flights into the U.S. from the  UK and So. Africa, and people should be prosecuted for that. Now they have found the new UK and South Africa  variant in a man in Colorado.                  Hospitals in S. California and in the Central Valley have zero ICU beds available and so those regions continue  under the stay at home orders of the State of California. But that order is not being enforced by corrupt public officials in  Fresno Co. California, at least, beholden as they are to rich Republican business owners.  You do have to feel for small  restaurant and bar and gym owners who are closed down. They ask how big electronics stores can remain open and that  does make one wonder. Grocery stores and gas stations being open, I can understand. But should people be dying  because they want to shop for a new big‐screen?                   The media today should be asking federal health officials like FDA Commissioner Hawn when the Oxford vaccine  will be approved for use in the U.S. If they do not, then the media are just garbage in the U.S., and utterly worthless.     93               Watch the video above and then start asking Biden and Hawn and Trump when the Oxford vaccine will start  rolling out in the U.S. The DPA should be invoked to get it produced at scale.  Biden should do that on the 20th if Trump  does not do it before then.                    L. William Harding               Fresno, Ca.   ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 1:31 AM  Subject: Fwd: Oxford‐Astrazeneca Vaccine approved in UK two hours ago. Now 1:09 PM Wed.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>, David Balakian  <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, beachrides <beachrides@sbcglobal.net>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, Cathy Lewis  <catllewis@gmail.com>, paul.caprioglio <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>,  Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>, Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, david  pomaville <pomaville165@sbcglobal.net>, <eappel@stanford.edu>, <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>,  <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, <George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu>, <grinellelake@yahoo.com>,  huidentalsanmateo <huidentalsanmateo@gmail.com>, Irv Weissman <irv@stanford.edu>, jerry ruopoli  <jrwiseguy7@gmail.com>, <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>, kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, Mark Kreutzer  <mlkreutzer@yahoo.com>, <lalws4@gmail.com>, <margaret‐sasaki@live.com>, Mayor <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark  Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>, nick yovino <npyovino@gmail.com>,  <news@fresnobee.com>, <russ@topperjewelers.com>, Joel Stiner <jastiner@gmail.com>, Steve Wayte  <steve4liberty@gmail.com>, tsheehan <tsheehan@fresnobee.com>, <vallesR1969@att.net>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 1:23 AM  Subject: Oxford‐Astrazeneca Vaccine approved in UK two hours ago. Now 1:09 PM Wed.  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>            Tues. Dec. 29, 2020  late.  1:08 AM PT Wed. 12‐30‐20.   Title wrong.  1:09 AM in Calif. Wed.               To all‐  The Oxford vaccine was approved two hours ago in the UK. Great news. Huge 100 million doses ordered by  UK. Here is a Wed. morning news show in London.           Covid‐19: Oxford‐AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK එඒ @BBC News live ‐ BBC ‐ YouTube              When you read this, probably on Wed., the Oxford vaccine will start to roll out in the UK.  The question then will be  whether or if it will be approved in the U.S.  Will the Head of the FDA, Hawn, try to delay this the way he tried to delay  the Pfizer vaccine by an extra week? The WH Chief of Staff had him in the back seat of a car and told him to approve the  Pfizer vaccine by the end of the day or get fired. Hawn denies this account.                 More rotten news. Trump promised that 20 million Americans would be vaccinated by the end of 2020, but only  11 million doses have been shipped. Just over 2 million Americans have been vaccinated as of tonight. Biden said today  that at that rate it will take years to vaccinate all Americans, and promised to use the DPA to get the various vaccines  manufactured and shipped. Trump, hiding out in Florida, had no comment.     94           Apparently we still let planes land in the U.S. from the UK and S. Africa where the new virus variant is spreading  fast. Hate to use the word murder, as I have often done re Lyndon, but what else is ths?                 The news media on Wed. 12‐30‐20 should be all over officials in   Washington asking about the Oxford‐ Astrazeneca vaccine. Ask Trump, Hawn and Biden about it.                      L. William Harding                  Fresno, Ca.  95 Baumb, Nelly From:Shikada, Ed Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 3:03 PM To:PACustomer service; Bill Sanders Cc:Council, City; Fine, Adrian; Scholz, Scott; Matthew Shikada Subject:Re: Unhappy resident Hello Bill and Leah ‐    Thanks for your communication and quick responsiveness, Leah. Great options going forward.     For the current dilemma, I’ll stop by this afternoon with my son and box cutters.     Happy holidays,  —Ed     From: PACustomer service <PACustomerservice@greenwaste.com>  Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 2:48 PM  To: Bill Sanders  Cc: Council, City; Fine, Adrian; Scholz, Scott  Subject: RE: Unhappy resident     CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi Bill,      Thank you for your feedback. I would like to have the cardboard collected by a Supervisor tomorrow, if you would please  keep it out.     I do show that you currently have a 64gal recycle cart, we could increase it to the 96gal for free. You are allowed up to 3  blue recycle carts at no additional charge. In order for the recycle driver to service the extra cardboard we would need it  to be cut down, flattened and in bundles no bigger than 2’x3’. Once we service the blue recycle container the driver will  then pick up any extra cardboard, place it in your blue recycle container and then service it again. If the cardboard is too  large and does not fit into the container, it will be hard for us to service the extra material set out.      Another thing I would like to offer is our physical limitation program. The program offers Palo Alto residents who are  unable to bring the containers out themselves, to have the drivers go on to the premises such as the backyard or side of  the house to get the containers, service them and place back. I attached the form that can be filled out by your doctor.  Once filled, please send it back to us via email or mail to 2765 Lafayette St Santa Clara 95050, and we can start having  the drivers service your containers.      If you have any questions please let me know.      Thanks,  Leah Venegas  GreenWaste of Palo Alto  Customer Service Lead  96 650.798.5984 Direct   650.493.4894 Customer Service     From: Bill Sanders <bill@garyandbill.net>   Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 1:27 PM  To: PACustomer service <PACustomerservice@greenwaste.com>  Cc: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org; Adrian.Fine@cityofpaloalto.org  Subject: Unhappy resident     I have a problem with your waste‐collection policies.    I am 80 years old and my wife is 78 years old. We live by ourselves in a single family  dwelling in South Palo Alto. My wife has an incurable lung condition. I have an incurable   leg muscle condition that makes bending and lifting both uncomfortable and with the   danger of falling. For these reasons and because of our advanced ages, we are sheltering   in place at home during the pandemic. We have all food and merchandise delivered.     This Christmas, we received merchandise in several large corrugated paper boxes. Although  we could flatten the boxes, we were physically unable to fold them.    Therefore, I placed the flattened boxes with the rest of our recycling.    The next day, our carts were emptied and small boxes had been removed. But the flattened  large boxes were left scattered on the sidewalk. There was a tag titled "How to recycle  cardboard" attached to the handle of one of the carts. Apparently the large boxes were  not taken because they were not folded.    This leaves us with a dilemma: we cannot fold the boxes and you refuse to recycle them  unfolded.    We have been very diligent about recycling and compost collection. I believe that there   should be some way that your company could remove the boxes unfolded. It should not  be very difficult for your crews.    William Sanders  3980 Bibbits Drive  Palo Alto, CA 94303  650‐494‐0455  bill@sandersdata.com    97 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 1:28 PM To:Honky Subject:Catherine Austin Fitts SPEAK "AN IN YOUR FACE WHAT A DISGRACE" SPEAK What do All the conspiracy NAYSAYERS have to say now LOL CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I've been telling all since 2012 that the END GAME IS TRANSHUMANISM EVERYONE IN THE WORLD MUST HERE THIS SPEAK IT IS AN, "IN YOUR FACE WHAT A DISGRACE" SPEAK The POWERS that be ARE TELLING US ALL what they are doing AND LAUGHING IN OUR FACE? Liken "HEY YOU SHEEPLE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING TO YOU, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT" hahahahhahhahah Catherine Austin Fitts covers the spectrum of the current situation we find ourselves in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-0XKYAZII&feature=youtu.be 98 Baumb, Nelly From:Bill Sanders <bill@garyandbill.net> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 1:27 PM To:pacustomerservice@greenwaste.com Cc:Council, City; Fine, Adrian Subject:Unhappy resident CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I have a problem with your waste‐collection policies.    I am 80 years old and my wife is 78 years old. We live by ourselves in a single family  dwelling in South Palo Alto. My wife has an incurable lung condition. I have an incurable   leg muscle condition that makes bending and lifting both uncomfortable and with the   danger of falling. For these reasons and because of our advanced ages, we are sheltering   in place at home during the pandemic. We have all food and merchandise delivered.     This Christmas, we received merchandise in several large corrugated paper boxes. Although  we could flatten the boxes, we were physically unable to fold them.    Therefore, I placed the flattened boxes with the rest of our recycling.    The next day, our carts were emptied and small boxes had been removed. But the flattened  large boxes were left scattered on the sidewalk. There was a tag titled "How to recycle  cardboard" attached to the handle of one of the carts. Apparently the large boxes were  not taken because they were not folded.    This leaves us with a dilemma: we cannot fold the boxes and you refuse to recycle them  unfolded.    We have been very diligent about recycling and compost collection. I believe that there   should be some way that your company could remove the boxes unfolded. It should not  be very difficult for your crews.    William Sanders  3980 Bibbits Drive  Palo Alto, CA 94303  650‐494‐0455  bill@sandersdata.com      99 Baumb, Nelly From:Hamilton Hitchings <hitchingsh@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 12:36 PM To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed Subject:Foothill at Capacity today before noon CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  My family went to Foothills Park this morning and was surprised at seeing it far more crowded than I've ever seen it before. I talked to a Ranger on the way out at noon who said they'd already let in 851 people and 350 cars and that they'd turned away a lot more cars. I thought the daily limit was 750 people for the first three months? Also, no signs of the usual turkeys and deer I normally see. Hamilton 100 Baumb, Nelly From:Xander Pollock <xander@pad.co> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 12:25 PM To:Council, City Subject:Helping folks living in RVs CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi there!     I'd like to financially help the folks living in RVs. Is there a local organization I can donate to that helps them?    Thanks so much!   Xander Pollock     To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. 101 Baumb, Nelly From:Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 12:12 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr Cc:Police Subject:El Camino RV's CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  When does the city plan on seriously addressing the RV issue on El Camino?  At a minimum, we expect that the laws  currently existing will be enforced.  There are at least two parking violations occurring.  1) 72‐hour parking and 2)  Between Churchill and Park Ave, the west side of El Camino is 2 hour parking without a permit from 8‐5  In addition,  many of the RV's are littering and/or blocking the roadway and/or sidewalk with an assortment of items.       I know the police and the city are aware of the issue, as I've seen the police stop and talk to some of the RV owners.    I would like to know how the city plans on enforcing the laws for the residents of the city.  Residents should not have to  call or write to you in order to report a specific RV or a particular situation.  The police and the city need to actively  enforce the area.  Just as when there are robberies in a certain area, the police actively patrol the area in order to  control the situation.  I would expect nothing less of the situation on El Camino.      In Southgate, where we live, we worked on getting permit parking in our neighborhood.  The businesses worked on  expanding the program to include that portion of El Camino between Churchill and Park.  The city pays someone to  enforce the permit program.  So, why is is not being enforced, either by that vendor or the police department?  If I let  the area in front of my house look like the area around those RV's, I'm sure I'd hear from the city to tell me to clean it  up.  If I left a car on the street for too long, I'm sure I'd receive a notice to move it.      So, what is keeping the city and the police from enforcing the law?    Keith  1 Baumb, Nelly From:Kellerman, Thomas W. <thomas.kellerman@morganlewis.com> Sent:Tuesday, January 5, 2021 6:18 PM To:Council, City Cc:'Rachel Kellerman' Subject:City Council Letter Attachments:PA City Council Letter January 2021.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please see the attached letter to the City Council.    Tom    Thomas W. Kellerman  1400 Page Mill Road | Palo Alto, CA 94304 Direct: +1.650.843.7550 | Mobile: +1.650.283.5023 l Main: +1.650.843.4000 | Fax: +1.650.843.4001 thomas.kellerman@morganlewis.com   DISCLAIMER  This e‐mail message is intended only for the personal use  of the recipient(s) named above. This message may be an  attorney‐client communication and as such privileged and  confidential and/or it may include attorney work product.  If you are not an intended recipient, you may not review,  copy or distribute this message. If you have received this  communication in error, please notify us immediately by  e‐mail and delete the original message.  C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\PA City Council Letter January 2021.docx Thomas W. and Rachel H. Kellerman 1129 Emerson Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 January 5, 2021 Palo Alto City Council Palo Alto, California Dear Honorable Council Members: Congratulations on your election to the City Council and on the commencement of a new session for the Council. In particular, congratulations to Councilmembers DuBois and Burt on your respective elections as Mayor and Vice Mayor. We also want to recognize the efforts and successes of the outgoing Council in 2020, especially in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a challenging year for everyone, but the City Council and staff performed extremely well in holding the community together and addressing the numerous issues that have arisen. Clearly the new Council will have the opportunity to continue to field these challenges in the coming year. This past year has shown all of us the importance and value of dedicated public servants. We have been learning some of this first hand. Rachel has been serving as a volunteer contact tracer for Santa Clara County, a position she learned of through the Palo Alto COVID-19 response daily email. Tom spent time this year volunteering with the Election Protection hotline. In each case, we have experienced the benefits of public engagement. You have all undertaken a truly meaningful commitment to serving our community, and we want you to know that your service is appreciated. In the regular give and take of ongoing policy discussions, sometimes this appreciation gets lost, but it is always there. Best wishes for the year to come. Sincerely, Tom Kellerman Rachel Kellerman 2 Baumb, Nelly From:PACustomer service <PACustomerservice@greenwaste.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 2:48 PM To:Bill Sanders Cc:Council, City; Fine, Adrian; Scholz, Scott Subject:RE: Unhappy resident Attachments:Physical LimitationsProgram Application(2017).pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi Bill,     Thank you for your feedback. I would like to have the cardboard collected by a Supervisor tomorrow, if you would please  keep it out.    I do show that you currently have a 64gal recycle cart, we could increase it to the 96gal for free. You are allowed up to 3  blue recycle carts at no additional charge. In order for the recycle driver to service the extra cardboard we would need it  to be cut down, flattened and in bundles no bigger than 2’x3’. Once we service the blue recycle container the driver will  then pick up any extra cardboard, place it in your blue recycle container and then service it again. If the cardboard is too  large and does not fit into the container, it will be hard for us to service the extra material set out.     Another thing I would like to offer is our physical limitation program. The program offers Palo Alto residents who are  unable to bring the containers out themselves, to have the drivers go on to the premises such as the backyard or side of  the house to get the containers, service them and place back. I attached the form that can be filled out by your doctor.  Once filled, please send it back to us via email or mail to 2765 Lafayette St Santa Clara 95050, and we can start having  the drivers service your containers.     If you have any questions please let me know.     Thanks,  Leah Venegas  GreenWaste of Palo Alto  Customer Service Lead  650.798.5984 Direct   650.493.4894 Customer Service    From: Bill Sanders <bill@garyandbill.net>   Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 1:27 PM  To: PACustomer service <PACustomerservice@greenwaste.com>  Cc: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org; Adrian.Fine@cityofpaloalto.org  Subject: Unhappy resident    I have a problem with your waste‐collection policies.    I am 80 years old and my wife is 78 years old. We live by ourselves in a single family  dwelling in South Palo Alto. My wife has an incurable lung condition. I have an incurable   leg muscle condition that makes bending and lifting both uncomfortable and with the   danger of falling. For these reasons and because of our advanced ages, we are sheltering   in place at home during the pandemic. We have all food and merchandise delivered.   3   This Christmas, we received merchandise in several large corrugated paper boxes. Although  we could flatten the boxes, we were physically unable to fold them.    Therefore, I placed the flattened boxes with the rest of our recycling.    The next day, our carts were emptied and small boxes had been removed. But the flattened  large boxes were left scattered on the sidewalk. There was a tag titled "How to recycle  cardboard" attached to the handle of one of the carts. Apparently the large boxes were  not taken because they were not folded.    This leaves us with a dilemma: we cannot fold the boxes and you refuse to recycle them  unfolded.    We have been very diligent about recycling and compost collection. I believe that there   should be some way that your company could remove the boxes unfolded. It should not  be very difficult for your crews.    William Sanders  3980 Bibbits Drive  Palo Alto, CA 94303  650‐494‐0455  bill@sandersdata.com    On-Premise/Backyard Collection Service Application For Residents with Physical Limitations Instructions: If you are physically limited, on-premise/backyard collection service is available at no extra cost. There must be no other residents in the home physically able to move the cart(s) to the curb for collection. To receive this service, complete the application and have a licensed medical doctor authorized to practice medicine in the state of California certify this form. Mail the completed form to GreenWaste at the address at the bottom of the page. Upon receiving the completed application, GreenWaste will schedule a service appointment. Upon approval, you will be notified and begin receiving on-premise service. Applicant’s Name Service Address Daytime Telephone Number Number of people in household able to assist in moving carts Adult(s) Child(ren) Physician’s Certification: I the undersigned, hereby certify that I am a licensed medical doctor authorized to practice medicine in the State of California. I further certify that my patient, ____________________________ _______ (name of applicant), has an ongoing physical limitations and is unable to move his/her carts to the curb for collection. Doctor’s Signature Date Doctor’s License Number Print Doctor’s Name Telephone Number Business Address Fax Number Applicant’s Certification: I certify that I do not have assistance in my household to move carts to the curb. I will notify GreenWaste to verify my eligibility. I will notify GreenWaste of any changes in my physical condition or to my household members. Under penalties of perjury. I declare that all information in this application is true, correct and complete. I understand that GreenWaste may request annual renewal of application and certification. Applicant’s Signature Date For Official Use Only Received Date Date of Service Appointment Reviewer Name Approved/Denied Effective Date Renewal Date Reviewer Signature Mail or Fax Application to: Questions? GreenWaste of Palo Alto Contact GreenWaste at 2765 Lafayette St. 650-493-4894(Direct) Santa Clara, CA 95050 650-493-2537(Fax) 4 Baumb, Nelly From:Goldie, Peter <pgoldie@upenn.edu> Sent:Wednesday, December 30, 2020 12:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Letter to City Council Attachments:Palo Alto City Council letter.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello,    I've composed a letter for the City Council related to the Palo Alto Police Department. I hope to hear from you  about my concerns soon! Thank you and take care.    Best,  Peter Goldie, B.S.  he/him/his  Palo Alto City Council 10 December, 2020 Dear Palo Alto City Council, I hope this message finds you well. In the wake of George Floyd’s death and so many others, we as a society are finally beginning to have the important conversations about anti- Black violence and other forms of oppression. A great number of Palo Altans showed up to the protests for BLM to show their support. It is time to move toward macro-level reform of the systems that denigrate Black lives, which entails reimagining what policing can look like in the nation at large and in Palo Alto specifically. The trauma that Black people experience at the hands of police is appalling. I wholeheartedly believe that defunding the police is a necessary aspect of our continuing movement toward social justice. Palo Alto’s police budget was nearly 44 million dollars in 2020. Due to the nature of their training, police officers are not trained to handle so many of the issues we allow them to (e.g., mental health crises) and various tragedies have indicated that this is problematic. As the ACLU describes, “Out of the 10.3 million arrests made per year, only 5 percent are for the most serious offenses, including murder, rape, and aggravated assault. These are the ones that truly threaten public safety. The other 95 percent of arrests are for things like traffic violations, marijuana possession, [and] unlawful assembly” (2020). Changing how policing looks must include investing in other people as first responders. Should bias-trained, anti-racist mental health counselors be the ones who answer such calls, we may be able to avoid much racial traumatization and violence. Data consistently indicate that more policing does not equal less violence/crime. Police funds must be allocated toward building community, inclusion efforts, pathways to success for marginalized people, and other opportunities that will reduce the trauma affecting people of color and, instead, invest resources in their communities (which will also reduce crime, per a breadth of data). Thus, I propose that Palo Alto City Council vow to remove 8 million dollars from this budget over the next four years from multiple areas, including but not limited to (1) new equipment, (2) hiring additional officers, and (3) overtime pay. I propose the following financial plan: Funds allocated away from the Palo Alto Police Department (total: $8 million): - Employing and training 6 full-time mental health professionals (master’s level, trauma- informed, diverse therapists) to respond to mental health-related cases/calls: $800,000 - Career training/counseling for low-income people and/or people of color: $1 million - Employing and training 6 full-time mental health professionals (master’s level) to provide counseling services to the Palo Alto community (provided by diverse, trauma-informed therapists): $800,000 - Violence-prevention training (run by people in the community for people in the community): $200,000 - Implement a restorative justice program for minor crimes: $200,000 - Vocational programs, specifically recruiting low-income people of color: $1 million - College counseling, tailored for low-income students and/or students of color: $300,000 - Renting and running a community center to house the described free services: $1 million - Accessible housing for people who make less than ~$40,000/year: $2 million - Resources for homeless people/people who live outside: $700,000/year Reallocation of funds within the Palo Alto Police Department (total: $1.5 million): - Bias, psychiatric care, de-escalation, and anti-violence training: 7 days/year ($1.2 million/year, which includes paid time off for officers’ training) - Hire a seasoned advisor/executive of color to ensure equitable, just practices within the PAPD and hold officers accountable as necessary ($300,000/year) Palo Alto needs to invest in communities and people of color, rather than criminalizing them. Although the PAPD aims to create safety and justice, it is a local chapter of an institution that perpetuates harm every day. This is unacceptable. By asking Palo Alto to defund the police, I am not criticizing any individual officers nor saying that we do not need a governing body to maintain order. Instead, I am stating a fact—police officers are often ill-equipped to handle the tasks they are assigned and that biases (unconscious or otherwise) cloud their judgment, which can be detrimental by creating racial trauma and, at times, costing lives. A quick look at the PAPD Yelp page reveals that many people have had negative, sometimes racist experiences with the police department, and my time living in Palo Alto has shown me that they often overpolice minor incidents (e.g., a teenager getting caught with alcohol). This indicates that the budget can be reallocated and further training is needed for PAPD officers. Palo Alto is a fantastic place to live and people from neighboring cities often admire us for our investment in education, our infrastructure, and the diversity in our government. The Palo Alto City Council is, therefore, well-positioned to model antiracism to neighboring cities by defunding and reimagining policing. This must happen to push our city, state, and country toward a more equitable place. If defunding is not an option, I ask, at least, that the city allocate additional funding to diversity, bias, and de-escalation training for our officers. Thank you for your time and concern. I am deeply committed to making Palo Alto a more inclusive place to live and I know that the changes I propose are feasible. I am happy to discuss this further. Feel free to reach out via email or phone. Regards, Peter Goldie (Gunn High ’13) 650-248-8391 pgoldie@upenn.edu