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Home My Public Portal About20200525plCC4 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: 05/25/2020 Document dates: 5/6/2020 – 5/13/2020 Set 4 of 5 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Michelle Arden <michelle@arden.org> Sent:Wednesday, May 13, 2020 11:36 AM To:Council, City Subject:Please don't cut Children's Theatre! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Dear City Council, I am a long‐time resident of Palo Alto, with two 7th graders. Please do not cut the Children’s Theatre. This is a beloved, unusual, historic institution, which has brought the arts to countless generations. My daughter has been in five productions, and is currently taking an on‐line class with PACT. PACT plays an important role in the elementary schools with their rotation of productions among schools. We are all feeling the pain of this pandemic. I would ask whether senior city staff could consider a pay cut, given that many Palo Alto residents have been laid off. I would also ask that police and fire staffing be scrutinized in these times (recognizing that the unions present a complication). Although I love the downtown library, we could do with fewer libraries for a while. Most cities of Palo Alto’s size have one library. Perhaps retain Mitchell and Rinconada? Please look for other programs to cut, not the Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. Sincerely, Michelle Arden . Palo Alto Redacted 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Lori Khoury <khoury7eleven@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Wednesday, May 6, 2020 10:11 PM To:Council, City Subject:Mac's Smoke Shop - Tobacco Retail Ordinance CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. May 6, 2020 Dear Mayor Fine and City Council Members, We are Mac’s Smoke Shop, a Palo Alto institution for over 85 years. We are not your traditional 21 and over smoke shop and should be recognized as distinct from traditional smoke shops. We don’t cater to the younger clientele like some of the other convenience stores. Our customer IS the 21 and over. We are writing to you regarding the new proposed smoking ordinance language and would like to request a meeting to discuss our concerns. We feel change can occur with a scalpel, rather than a sledgehammer and want to work with you on a reasonable outcome. We have taken the time to read through the comments received from several people in relation to adopting the ordinance. In reference to comments made about businesses in San Francisco, that is incorrect. We understand the importance of keeping vaping products away from teens. We have been and will continue to ensure these products aren’t being sold to minors. We need to get to the heart of the issue – keeping these types of products out of the hands of minors. There is a specific reason we received a 21 and older designation, we ONLY ALLOW PEOPLE OVER 21 INTO OUR STORE AND YOU MUST BE 21 TO PURCHASE TOBACCO PRODUCTS. That is exactly what we do every day, we abide by the rules. We have a 100% compliance record and passed several stings testing whether we sell to people under 21. We will continue our diligent efforts to ensure only people of legal age can purchase tobacco products. We fully support the Staff Members 3 new recommendation for more stringent requirements as listed in the new proposed ordinance and recommend an additional requirement of raising the annual permit fee to $500, with additional fees being designated 100% toward tobacco education. We already follow the new ordinance as written, for example: We have the following signs in place: 1) At the entrance to the store a sign is posted you MUST be 21 or older to enter 2) We have a highlighted sign at the point-of-sale indicating you must show your ID EVERY TIME you purchase a tobacco product. 3) We went beyond the new proposed ordinance: We installed a machine that allows us to scan ids to verify a person’s age and also to determine the legitimacy of the ID. 2 There are only two other smaller cities considering adopting the County Ordinance and neither city has an adult-only store. Our neighboring city has not considered adopting such an ordinance, therefore a large percentage of our clientele will go 5 minutes down the street to shop. If Palo Alto adopts this new prohibitive ordinance it will be an outlier in the County. Taking away the right of the law-abiding retailer, like Mac’s Smoke Shop, from selling certain tobacco products won’t solve the teen vaping problem, but it certainly will devastate the livelihood of good upstanding people who aren’t responsible for tobacco getting into the hands of teens. If Mac’s Smoke Shop doesn’t receive an exemption from this ordinance, this 85 year old Palo Alto institution, which has survived World War II, the Vietnam War the dot-com bust, recessions, etc., will not survive. Sincerely Mac’s Smoke Shop – Neil and Lori Khoury 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Patricia Jones <pkjones1000@icloud.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:23 AM To:Council, City Subject:Opposing AB 725 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Senator, Please oppose AB 725 by Buffy Wicks and Scott Wiener. It requires that 25% of future “RHNA” growth be shifted by the cities into stable neighborhoods that are currently home to “2 to 35 housing units per acre.” What does that mean? We believe assembly members who kept AB 725 alive didn’t realize that that acreage‐based definition means the takeover of single‐family, duplex & small apartment neighborhoods — by luxury housing developers. AB 725 creates unknowable consequences, ripping through our solid, affordable communities statewide. It will harm, not help, efforts to create housing. This bill requires no affordable housing. Please oppose AB 725. Patricia Jones Palo Alto, CA 94301 www.pkjones.com pkjones1000@icloud.com Redacted 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Patricia Jones <pkjones1000@icloud.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:34 AM To:Council, City Subject:Copy of letter in Opposition to AB 1279 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Senator, Please OPPOSE AB 1279. This radical bill by Assemblyman Richard Bloom of Santa Monica, a Scott Wiener ally, will allow up to 120‐unit apartment buildings in your residentially zoned neighborhoods if your city failed to reach an arbitrary goal called the Regional Housing Needs Assessment, or RHNA. Never heard of it? Neither have most journalists, most academics and many legislators. Here’s why you should OPPOSE Bloom’s AB 1279: More than 400 California cities have failed to approve enough housing units at the “target” rate set by regional housing officials, known as the Regional Housing Needs Assessment. This RHNA target was created as a helpful way for Sacramento to help cities guess how much housing they’d need in the next several years. Today, thanks to state Sen. Wiener and others, this tool has been weaponized. It now punishes cities who don’t grow fast, even if developers don’t propose projects there and want to build elsewhere. Under Bloom’s AB 1279, unsuspecting residents of lower‐middle‐class and middle‐class “Opportunity Areas” – yet to be mapped by state bureaucrats — would see their communities upended. AB 1279 allows 50‐units per ¼ acre and 120‐units per ½ acre, within all existing residential areas, from single‐family homes to mixed‐use shopping districts. It’s unfair and punitive — and requires no affordable units. Developers can pay a modest “in lieu fee” to avoid offering a single affordable unit in these huge projects. Please oppose AB 1279. Patricia Jones . Palo Alto, CA 94301 www.pkjones.com pkjones1000@icloud.com Redacted 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Patricia Jones <pkjones1000@icloud.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:40 AM To:Council, City Subject:Copy of my letter in opposition to AB3173 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Assembly Member, Please oppose AB 3173 by Richard Bloom, who proposes extreme luxury density in California’s eight largest cities by radically miniaturizing the size of "micro‐units.” Micro‐units are very seldom smaller than 300 square feet, but AB 3173 cuts the size to 80 square feet, not much more than a walk‐in closet. Developers will be exempt from local review, parking and height rules. Micro‐units generate very high per‐square‐foot profits, and research shows the units will rent for about $1,700. This bill won’t create true housing and will be abused for corporate rentals and illegal Airbnb. This bill requires no affordable housing. Please oppose AB 3173. Patricia Jones Palo Alto, CA 94301 www.pkjones.com pkjones1000@icloud.com Redacted 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Robert Golton <rgolton@pausd.org> Sent:Tuesday, May 12, 2020 5:51 PM To:Cheryl Lilienstein; Suzanne Keehn Cc:Filseth, Eric (external); Summa, Doria; DuBois Tom; Paul Machado; Ben Lerner; Jennifer Fryhling; Keehn Suzanne; Buchanan Neilson; Martineau, Catherine; Council, City; ParkRec Commission; Brown Sue; pamela federman; Smith Alice; Wendy Stratton; Lydia Kou; Hamburgen Bill; chazan david; Ilana Gordon; board; Carolyn Chow; Veronica Melero; Keehn Suzanne Subject:Fw: No. Bol Park Bike Path is NOT for construction vehicles CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Ms. Lilienstein, Thank you for your email. We have now re-evaluated the Gunn fields project. Because school is no longer in session at the Gunn campus, am glad to report that we are able to use the main campus area for access and storage instead. So no use of the bike path and strawberry hill will take place. I have used this bike path in traveling to/from Gunn and agree with you on the value of that and Strawberry Hill. Best wishes and stay well, Bob Bob Golton Manager, Strong Schools Bond Palo Alto Unified School District 25 Churchill Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306 rgolton@pausd.org www.pausd.org From: Veronica Melero <vmelero@pausd.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 4:55 PM To: Robert Golton <rgolton@pausd.org> Subject: FW: No. Bol Park Bike Path is NOT for construction vehicles Veronica Melero Secretary to the Strong Schools Bond Program Palo Alto Unified School District Palo Alto, CA 94306 Office (650) 329‐3927, Fax (650) 327‐3588 Redacted 2 From: Cheryl Lilienstein <clilienstein@me.com> Date: Monday, May 11, 2020 at 11:54 AM To: Veronica Melero <vmelero@pausd.org> Cc: Filseth Eric <efilseth@gmail.com>, Doria Summa <doriasumma@gmail.com>, DuBois Tom <tom.dubois@gmail.com>, Paul Machado <plmachado@gmail.com>, Ben Lerner <balerner@yahoo.com>, Jennifer Fryhling <jfryhling@gmail.com>, Keehn Suzanne <dskeehn@pacbell.net>, Buchanan Neilson <cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com>, "catherine@canopy.org" <catherine@canopy.org>, "city.council@cityofpaloalto.org" <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, "ParkRec.commission@cityofpaloalto.org" <ParkRec.commission@cityofpaloalto.org>, Don Austin <daustin@pausd.org>, Komey Vishakan <kvishakan@pausd.org>, Brown Sue <sbrownie@earthlink.net>, pamela federman <pamelafederman@gmail.com>, Smith Alice <asmith36@sbcglobal.net>, Wendy Stratton <wstratton@pausd.org>, Lydia Kou <lydiakou@gmail.com>, "city.attorney@cityofpaloalto.org" <city.attorney@cityofpaloalto.org>, Hamburgen Bill <bill.hamburgen@gmail.com>, chazan david <dchazan@yahoo.com>, Ilana Gordon <ilanagogo@gmail.com> Subject: No. Bol Park Bike Path is NOT for construction vehicles Dear Mr McDonnell, Superintendant Austin, and Principal Stratton, Mr McDonnell, I saw your notice to the public that you are planning to use the Bol Park Bike Path for contruction vehicles all summer. Your contact phone number yielded the email address above, thus I have not been able to speak with you directly. I am writing because your construction plan is of great health and environmental concern to me, and it should be a concern of yours as well. Churning up dust and running trucks and equipment along the bike path that backs onto people's homes especially during this pandemic is a public health threat. Why not use the path along the VA hospital property, which is uninhabited? The neighborhood path you intend to close for construction vehicle access is highly valued by people in the neighborhood who use this pathway because it’s tree‐lined and shaded, and connects to Bol Park. It’s part of a well travelled loop that many people need and enjoy all year round. Particularly in the summer, this pathway is a respite from the blasting heat. Does PAUSD really intend to block a well used city recreational resource, increase health risks for people living nearby, run trucks that will damage the trees and wreck the pathway? Who will fix all that??? It’s also wrong to store the equipment RIGHT IN THE MIDST OF THE “STRAWBERRY HILL" OPEN SPACE. This is not the proper use of highly valued open space. The public uses the Strawberry Hill open space ALL THE TIME. Nobody uses the Gunn parking lots in the summer, especially this summer. Please use the parking lots for storing construction vehicles, and don’t turn our neighborhood into a dump. I urge you to be more respectful and careful of the people who live adjacent to the school, and who fund our school system. Awaiting your response, Cheryl Lilienstein 650‐380‐6080 3 Baumb, Nelly From:Suzanne Keehn <dskeehn@pacbell.net> Sent:Monday, May 11, 2020 1:50 PM To:vmelero@pausd.org; Council, City; Planning Commission; ParkRec Commission Cc:Cheryl Lilienstein Subject:Fw: No. Bol Park Bike Path is NOT for construction vehicles CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Thank you Cheryl, I had no idea this was happening, and agree one hundred percent with your letter. It seems this as so many of the city's plans do not result in resident, environmental concerns or health. Suzanne Keehn 493 1373 ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Cheryl Lilienstein <clilienstein@me.com> To: "vmelero@pausd.org" <vmelero@pausd.org> Cc: Filseth Eric <efilseth@gmail.com>; Doria Summa <doriasumma@gmail.com>; DuBois Tom <tom.dubois@gmail.com>; Paul Machado <plmachado@gmail.com>; Ben Lerner <balerner@yahoo.com>; Jennifer Fryhling <jfryhling@gmail.com>; Keehn Suzanne <dskeehn@pacbell.net>; Buchanan Neilson <cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com>; "catherine@canopy.org" <catherine@canopy.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; c.org" <parkrec.commission@cityofpaloalto.org>; "daustin@pausd.org" <daustin@pausd.org>; "kvishakan@pausd.org" <kvishakan@pausd.org>; Brown Sue <sbrownie@earthlink.net>; pamela federman <pamelafederman@gmail.com>; Smith Alice <asmith36@sbcglobal.net>; "wstratton@pausd.org" <wstratton@pausd.org>; Lydia Kou <lydiakou@gmail.com>; "city.attorney@cityofpaloalto.org" <city.attorney@cityofpaloalto.org>; Hamburgen Bill <bill.hamburgen@gmail.com>; chazan david <dchazan@yahoo.com>; Ilana Gordon <ilanagogo@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020, 11:54:49 AM PDT Subject: No. Bol Park Bike Path is NOT for construction vehicles Dear Mr McDonnell, Superintendant Austin, and Principal Stratton, Mr McDonnell, I saw your notice to the public that you are planning to use the Bol Park Bike Path for contruction vehicles all summer. Your contact phone number yielded the email address above, thus I have not been able to speak with you directly. I am writing because your construction plan is of great health and environmental concern to me, and it should be a concern of yours as well. Churning up dust and running trucks and equipment along the bike path that backs onto people's homes especially during this pandemic is a public health threat. Why not use the path along the VA hospital property, which is uninhabited? The neighborhood path you intend to close for construction vehicle access is highly valued by people in the neighborhood who use this pathway because it’s tree-lined and shaded, and connects to Bol Park. It’s part of a well travelled loop that many people need and enjoy all year round. Particularly in the summer, this pathway is a respite from the blasting heat. Does PAUSD really intend to block a well used city recreational resource, increase health risks for people living nearby, run trucks that will damage the trees and wreck the pathway? Who will fix all that??? It’s also wrong to store the equipment RIGHT IN THE MIDST OF THE “STRAWBERRY HILL" OPEN SPACE. This is not the proper use of highly valued open space. The public uses the Strawberry Hill open space ALL THE TIME. Nobody Redacted 4 uses the Gunn parking lots in the summer, especially this summer. Please use the parking lots for storing construction vehicles, and don’t turn our neighborhood into a dump. I urge you to be more respectful and careful of the people who live adjacent to the school, and who fund our school system. Awaiting your response, Cheryl Lilienstein 650-380-6080 5 Baumb, Nelly From:Cheryl Lilienstein <clilienstein@me.com> Sent:Monday, May 11, 2020 11:55 AM To:vmelero@pausd.org Cc:Filseth, Eric (external); Summa, Doria; DuBois Tom; Paul Machado; Ben Lerner; Jennifer Fryhling; Keehn Suzanne; Buchanan Neilson; Martineau, Catherine; Council, City; ParkRec Commission; daustin@pausd.org; kvishakan@pausd.org; Brown Sue; pamela federman; Smith Alice; wstratton@pausd.org; Lydia Kou; City Attorney; Hamburgen Bill; chazan david; Ilana Gordon Subject:No. Bol Park Bike Path is NOT for construction vehicles CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mr McDonnell, Superintendant Austin, and Principal Stratton, Mr McDonnell, I saw your notice to the public that you are planning to use the Bol Park Bike Path for contruction vehicles all summer. Your contact phone number yielded the email address above, thus I have not been able to speak with you directly. I am writing because your construction plan is of great health and environmental concern to me, and it should be a concern of yours as well. Churning up dust and running trucks and equipment along the bike path that backs onto people's homes especially during this pandemic is a public health threat. Why not use the path along the VA hospital property, which is uninhabited? The neighborhood path you intend to close for construction vehicle access is highly valued by people in the neighborhood who use this pathway because it’s tree‐lined and shaded, and connects to Bol Park. It’s part of a well travelled loop that many people need and enjoy all year round. Particularly in the summer, this pathway is a respite from the blasting heat. Does PAUSD really intend to block a well used city recreational resource, increase health risks for people living nearby, run trucks that will damage the trees and wreck the pathway? Who will fix all that??? It’s also wrong to store the equipment RIGHT IN THE MIDST OF THE “STRAWBERRY HILL" OPEN SPACE. This is not the proper use of highly valued open space. The public uses the Strawberry Hill open space ALL THE TIME. Nobody uses the Gunn parking lots in the summer, especially this summer. Please use the parking lots for storing construction vehicles, and don’t turn our neighborhood into a dump. I urge you to be more respectful and careful of the people who live adjacent to the school, and who fund our school system. Awaiting your response, Cheryl Lilienstein 650‐380‐6080 6 Baumb, Nelly From:Bill Michel <bmichel@alum.pomona.edu> Sent:Friday, May 8, 2020 4:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:PA Bike Improvements CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello Councilmembers, It's been a while since I've written. Here's my "todo list". Cheers. Bill Michel Cubberley '79 Properly locate Curb Cut in "Traffic Circle" at the North Side of Mitchell Park (picture below; red arrow) Remove sidewalks over Creeks on E. Bayshore Make Embarcadero and Alma more bike friendly (the recent project on Ross was questionable... (traffic already calm) Replace all "wheel bender"/rack III racks (start with Rinconada Pool) Make "shelters" functional (roofs on Rinconada Library Shelters are too high) Remove sign posts from roadway (SB Middlefield @ Palo Alto) Eliminate shoulder striping between Lytton & Palo Alto; tapers are esp. annoying ‐ possible sharrow substitution Build bridge over creek, and use sidewalk space to widen roadway, NB Middlefield between Palo Alto and Baywood Add curb‐cut near bike racks at Rinconada Garden Make Guinda a bike blvd. Expedite bike/ped crossing of 101 @ Adobe Cr. (this should have been done 20 years ago) 7 8 Baumb, Nelly From:Becky Brewer <b.brewha@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, May 8, 2020 7:18 AM To:Council, City Subject:Bike/pedestrian safety CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I am urging you to make bike and pedestrian safety a high priority for 2020. I am very concerned now with the welcomed traffic loss due to COVID 19 that bike riders and pedestrians are more relaxed and drivers will return to their busy lives and someone will be injured or killed. Please continue to make this a bike/pedestrian safe place to live. Thank you, Becky Brewer Wildwood Lane Sent from my iPhone 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Christine Selberg <christineselberg@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 1:17 PM To:Council, City Cc:Clerk, City; City Mgr; Planning Commission; ARB@citypaloalto.org; board@pausd.org Subject:5G Cell Towers in Palo Alto CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor Fine, Vice Mayor DuBois, and Council Members Cormack, Filseth, Kniss, Kou and Tanaka, I understand that City Manager Ed Shikada has recommended that, in the interests of cost-cutting, you amend Palo Alto’s municipal code to “scale back” on cell tower application processing—a scale- back which would include eliminating the Architectural Review Board from the review process. I am writing to urge you not to take this step. Why? Quite simply, because it fails to save money for Palo Alto. It is the companies that file applications to install cell towers, not Palo Alto, that pay for staff time spent on these applications. In other words, our city won’t save money by “scaling back” application processing requirements, only the applicants will. Moreover, Mr. Shikada’s recommendation is bad public policy. The reduced cell tower application processing requirements he is calling for are sure to undermine the thoughtful siting and design criteria you on City Council unanimously approved only four months ago—undermine them by making it easier for telecommunications companies to install cell towers next to residents’ homes. The City Manager’s recommendation is at best ill-informed, and, at worst, an end run around the provisions of the December, 2019, Wireless Resolution, a Resolution that was the result of a three- year-long effort by our community and a great deal of work by, among others, you on City Council. I am also writing to urge you—should you decide to follow another of Mr. Shikada’s recommendations, namely, that you reduce the number of code enforcement employees—to stipulate that no reduction in code enforcement or compliance personnel may be taken that jeopardizes the safety and well-being of the people of Palo Alto, in particular with respect to the installation of cell towers consisting of hundreds of pounds of high-voltage, radiation-emitting equipment near residents’ homes. 2 Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Christine Selberg, Downtown North 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Neilson Buchanan <cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, May 13, 2020 11:54 AM To:Council, City Subject:profound mid-term implication for regional office space CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Since we have so many "information" workers, Palo Alto and other Silicon Valley cities may be impacted for years to come. I urge you to survey major employers not later than July when their mid-term return to work plans are firmer. Include a question about their dependence upon mass public transit. Here is one example of what many people thinking but not saying. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/nyregion/coronavirus-work-from-home.html Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working From Home Becomes the Norm Even after the crisis eases, companies may let workers stay home. That would affect an entire ecosystem, from transit to restaurants to shops. Not to mention the tax base. ......But now, as the pandemic eases its grip, companies are considering not just how to safely bring back employees, but whether all of them need to come back at all. They were forced by the crisis to figure out how to function productively with workers operating from home — and realized unexpectedly that it was not all bad. If that’s the case, they are now wondering whether it’s worth continuing to spend as much money on Manhattan’s exorbitant commercial rents. They are also mindful that public health considerations might make the packed workplaces of the recent past less viable........... Neilson Buchanan Palo Alto, CA 94301 650 329-0484 650 537-9611 cell cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com Redacted 2 Baumb, Nelly From:Deborah Goldeen <palamino@pacbell.net> Sent:Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:41 PM To:Council, City Cc:Parks Subject:Thank You! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Thank heavens I’m able to hike in Foothills Park again! It really is the only place I can get exercise and breathe. I thought the signage and trail direction designations were spot on. Deb Goldeen, ., 94306, 321‐7375 Redacted 3 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Monday, May 11, 2020 1:18 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; bballpod; beachrides; David Balakian; boardmembers; Cathy Lewis; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Dan Richard; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; Steven Feinstein; francis.collins@nih.gov; grinellelake@yahoo.com; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; Jason Tarvin; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; Mark Kreutzer; newsdesk; Pam Kelly; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; Leodies Buchanan; Mark Standriff; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; terry; Tom Lang; vallesR1969@att.net; Daniel Zack; dlfranklin0@outlook.com Subject:Fwd: Gov. Newsom new guidelines anncd Thurs. 5-7 to be pub'd. Tues. 5-12 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:45 PM Subject: Fwd: Gov. Newsom new guidelines anncd Thurs. 5‐7 to be pub'd. Tues. 5‐12 To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Monday, May 11, 2020 Fresno Mayor Lee Brand, Fresno City Council, Fresno County Board of Supervisors‐ I sincerely hope you all called off your "reopening" that you set for today. Here is a good Bee article telling how far you are from meeting the Governor's requirements for re‐opening: If you called the Governor's people and "self‐ certified", i.e. attested that you meet the guidelines he laid out last Thursday (see the press conference link below), you are in violation of the law. In view of the stern warnings he issued to Yuba and Sutter County over the weekend, I think you are pretty daring to be doing any relaxation of his orders at this point: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/coronavirus/article242609331.html But whether you have gone ahead with your wreckless reopening today or not, I will be in communication with the Governor to tell him that you do not meet the requirements he set out last Thursday. He can contact Dr. Rais Vohra, Fresno Co. interim health officer to confirm that. L. William Harding Fresno BTW, regarding schools re‐opening, PBS News Hour interviewed a professor at U.C. Berkeley ~ last Thursday. She is an expert in workplace safety. She said that it is impossible to maintain social distancing in a school. Kids like to touch each other and touch their teacher. Therefore, it will be impossible to re‐open schools before there is an effective vaccine for Covid19. A grey‐haired teacher was interviewed first and she said she would be afraid to re‐enter a 4 classroom at this point. That, of course, has huge implications for thousands of teachers, administrators, other support staff and for parents. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Mon, May 11, 2020 at 1:18 AM Subject: Fwd: Gov. Newsom new guidelines anncd Thurs. 5‐7 to be pub'd. Tues. 5‐12 To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>, <antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov>, beachrides <beachrides@sbcglobal.net>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, boardmembers <boardmembers@hsr.ca.gov>, <bearwithme1016@att.net>, Leodies Buchanan <leodiesbuchanan@yahoo.com>, Cathy Lewis <catllewis@gmail.com>, paul.caprioglio <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, city.council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>, <dallen1212@gmail.com>, Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, <dlfranklin0@outlook.com>, <eappel@stanford.edu>, <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>, <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>, Steven Feinstein <steven.feinstein@ionicmaterials.com>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, <fmerlo@wildelectric.net>, <grinellelake@yahoo.com>, huidentalsanmateo <huidentalsanmateo@gmail.com>, hennessy <hennessy@stanford.edu>, steve.hogg <steve.hogg@fresno.gov>, Irv Weissman <irv@stanford.edu>, jerry ruopoli <jrwiseguy7@gmail.com>, Joel Stiner <jastiner@gmail.com>, kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>, Mark Kreutzer <mlkreutzer@yahoo.com>, Pam Kelly <pkelly@svlg.org>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>, <lalws4@gmail.com>, leager <leager@fresnoedc.com>, Mayor <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, <margaret‐sasaki@live.com>, nick yovino <npyovino@gmail.com>, <russ@topperjewelers.com>, Steve Wayte <steve4liberty@gmail.com>, terry <terry@terrynagel.com>, Tom Lang <tlang@aquariusaquarium.org>, <vallesR1969@att.net> Late Sunday night, May 10, 2020 Fresno Calif. Mayor Lee Brand and the Fresno City Council and the Fresno County Board of Supervisors: Mayor Brand and the City Council and the Board of Supervisors‐ I have not yet heard that you have called off your modifications of the stay at home order, etc. set for tomorrow, Monday, May 11, 2020. I think you will wish you had if Gov. Newsom issues you a stern warning such as the one he issued today to Yuba and Sutter Counties, and to one other county. It may involve his withholding federal money from them. I have watched the Governor's press conference of Thursday, May 7, 2020 again and I made some notes about what you have to attest to before you can implement what you plan for tomorrow. Some of these you may be able to attest to, and some you will not be able to attest to. Check with your City Attorney to see what false attestation here might involve. You might check with your criminal defense lawyer as well. Here are some notable requirements laid out in the Thursday, May 7, 2020 press conference of Gov. Newsom. The doctor the Governor had speak outlined some of them during the p.c. as well. At 13:00 "Some specific milestones..." Phase 2 guidelines. See covid19.ca.gov Enter your zip code and see where the test sites in Calif. are. 5 With UCSF, the State is producing a "tracing corp" with 10,000 people in the first phase. Fresno should have tracers being trained there, I think. At 21:00 especially: Counties moving into phase 2 need to consider health first, and act based on data, facts, deaths, ICU admissions. (Not pressure from the business community and from loud‐mouthed, ignorant city councilmen‐ LH). IF counties do not do that, "WE WILL ENFORCE"‐ Gov. Newsom. He used the words "We will enforce". Maybe he's bluffing, but I don't think so. These guideline variances will be published on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. At 23:00 the doctor spoke: The County must attest to: No more than 1 new case per 10,000 people in the past 14 days. No Covid19 deaths in the past 14 days. Fresno fails this one as of Monday, May 11, 2020 since the last death here was on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Protect essential workers with PPE. Grocery workers, transit workers, et. al. Testing capacity: A minimum daily testing capacity of 1.5 per 1,000 residents. Containment capacity: 15 contact tracers per 100,000 residents. The ability to temporarily house at least 15% of residents experiencing homelessness. A robust plan to protect the hospital workforce with PPE and other policies and procedures. The hospitals must have a surge capacity of 35%. FRESNO FAILS THAT ONE FOR SURE. THE INTERIM FRESNO COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER, DR. RAIS VOHRA, SAID ABOUT THREE NIGHTS AGO ON THE LOCAL TV NEWS IN FRESNO THE FOLLOWING: "OUR PROVIDERS ARE SAYING THEY BARELY HAVE ENOUGH PPE NOW, SO A SURGE WOULD BE BAD". Words to that effect. That video is readily available. Vulnerable populations: Skilled nursing facilities must have at least a 14 day supply of PPE on hand with ongoing procurement from a non‐State supply chain. ( I'd be surprised if Mayor Brand can attest to that. He'd better not or he'll be hearing from the Governor of California‐ LH) Triggers for adjusting modifications (to the stay at home order): "Metrics that serve as triggers for either slowing the pace through Stage 2 or tightening the modifications to the stay at home order". Those were the doctor's words. A little confusing, but the idea comes through. Metrics must be in place to trigger a slowing of any reopening or a tightening of it .‐LH All of the above will be on the CDPH website on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. End of the doctor's comments. Gov. Newsom: Many counties will self‐certify, but that has to be done with an initial phone conversation with the State Dept. of Public Health and all of that will be made public. 6 California has 1799 new cases of Covid19 in the past 24 hours and 92 deaths in the past 24 hours. (He said that on Thurs. May 7, 2020). We have 21.1 million procedure masks in our inventory. LH‐ As of Sunday, May 10, 2020, Fresno County, Calif. has had 885 cases and nine deaths. I'll now distribute this email very widely. I foresee a reaction from the Governor on May 11, 2020 when Fresno implements its plan for re‐opening, if it does implement it. The City and County of Fresno cannot attest to several of the requirements that he announced on May 7, 2020. L. William Harding Fresno Scroll down to see the link to Gov. Newsom's Thurs. May 7, 2020 press conference, referenced in this and in that email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Fri, May 8, 2020 at 2:23 PM Subject: Fwd: Gov. Newsom new guidelines anncd Thurs. 5‐7 to be pub'd. Tues. 5‐12 To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, Mayor <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>, paul.caprioglio <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>, <dallen1212@gmail.com>, Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>, <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>, Pam Kelly <pkelly@svlg.org>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>, Irv Weissman <irv@stanford.edu> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Fri, May 8, 2020 at 2:03 PM Subject: Gov. Newsom new guidelines anncd Thurs. 5‐7 to be pub'd. Tues. 5‐12 To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> 7 Fresno, Ca. Mayor Lee Brand and Fresno City Council: To all‐ Yesterday, Thurs. May 7, 2020 Gov. Newsom held a news conference one hour and 51 seconds. In that he announced new guidelines for counties and cities to move to phase 2 of the re‐opening proess: These will be on the CDPH website on Tues. 5‐12‐20. To enter phase 2, a local government will have to attest ATTEST to the following: No more than one case per 10,000 residents in the last 14 days. No Covid19 death in the past 14 days. A minimum daily testing capacity of 1.5/ 1,000 residents. At least 15 contact tracers per 100,000 residents. A prescribed hospital surge capacity. Trigger plans and measurements. Plus other requirements. Here is his press conference of yesterday. It is very explicit. If any locality does not attest as required, Gov. Newsom mentioned the word "enforcement". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVpelhS3UF8 I do not believe that the City and County of Fresno can attest to all of the above, so I urge you to today call off your plans for re‐opening that you have announced for Monday, May 11, 2020 and announce that today. L. William Harding Fresno Sent at 2:23 PM Friday, May 8, 2020 8 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, May 11, 2020 4:20 AM To:Frank Agamemnon Subject:A Doctor with absolutely no f*cks left to give; grabs a microphone & absolutely DESTROYS Democrats and their nation wide corona virus shut down. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. 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A Doctor with absolutely no f*cks left to give; grabs a microphone & absolutely DESTROYS Democrats and their nat... __._,_.___ 11 Posted by: Johnny Robinson <johnnyrobinson777@yahoo.com> Reply via web post • Reply to sender • Reply to group •Start a New Topic •Messages in this topic (1) VISIT YOUR GROUP • Privacy • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___ 12 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Monday, May 11, 2020 1:19 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; beachrides; bballpod; David Balakian; boardmembers; bearwithme1016@att.net; Leodies Buchanan; Cathy Lewis; paul.caprioglio; Council, City; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Dan Richard; dallen1212@gmail.com; Daniel Zack; dlfranklin0@outlook.com; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; Steven Feinstein; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; steve.hogg; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; Mark Kreutzer; Pam Kelly; newsdesk; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; Mayor; Mark Standriff; margaret-sasaki@live.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; terry; Tom Lang; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Gov. Newsom new guidelines anncd Thurs. 5-7 to be pub'd. Tues. 5-12 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Late Sunday night, May 10, 2020 Fresno Calif. Mayor Lee Brand and the Fresno City Council and the Fresno County Board of Supervisors: Mayor Brand and the City Council and the Board of Supervisors‐ I have not yet heard that you have called off your modifications of the stay at home order, etc. set for tomorrow, Monday, May 11, 2020. I think you will wish you had if Gov. Newsom issues you a stern warning such as the one he issued today to Yuba and Sutter Counties, and to one other county. It may involve his withholding federal money from them. I have watched the Governor's press conference of Thursday, May 7, 2020 again and I made some notes about what you have to attest to before you can implement what you plan for tomorrow. Some of these you may be able to attest to, and some you will not be able to attest to. Check with your City Attorney to see what false attestation here might involve. You might check with your criminal defense lawyer as well. Here are some notable requirements laid out in the Thursday, May 7, 2020 press conference of Gov. Newsom. The doctor the Governor had speak outlined some of them during the p.c. as well. At 13:00 "Some specific milestones..." Phase 2 guidelines. See covid19.ca.gov Enter your zip code and see where the test sites in Calif. are. With UCSF, the State is producing a "tracing corp" with 10,000 people in the first phase. Fresno should have tracers being trained there, I think. At 21:00 especially: Counties moving into phase 2 need to consider health first, and act based on data, facts, deaths, ICU admissions. (Not pressure from the business community and from loud‐mouthed, ignorant city councilmen‐ LH). 13 IF counties do not do that, "WE WILL ENFORCE"‐ Gov. Newsom. He used the words "We will enforce". Maybe he's bluffing, but I don't think so. These guideline variances will be published on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. At 23:00 the doctor spoke: The County must attest to: No more than 1 new case per 10,000 people in the past 14 days. No Covid19 deaths in the past 14 days. Fresno fails this one as of Monday, May 11, 2020 since the last death here was on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Protect essential workers with PPE. Grocery workers, transit workers, et. al. Testing capacity: A minimum daily testing capacity of 1.5 per 1,000 residents. Containment capacity: 15 contact tracers per 100,000 residents. The ability to temporarily house at least 15% of residents experiencing homelessness. A robust plan to protect the hospital workforce with PPE and other policies and procedures. The hospitals must have a surge capacity of 35%. FRESNO FAILS THAT ONE FOR SURE. THE FRESNO COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH M.D. SAID ABOUT THREE NIGHTS AGO ON THE LOCAL TV NEWS IN FRESNO THE FOLLOWING: "OUR PROVIDERS ARE SAYING THEY BARELY HAVE ENOUGH PPE NOW, SO A SURGE WOULD BE BAD". Words to that effect. That video is readily available. Vulnerable populations: Skilled nursing facilities must have at least a 14 day supply of PPE on hand with ongoing procurement from a non‐State supply chain. ( I'd be surprised if Mayor Brand can attest to that. He'd better not or be hearing from the Governor of California‐ LH) Triggers for adjusting modifications (to the stay at home order): Metrics that serve as triggers for either slowing the pace through Stage 2 or tightening the modifications to the stay at home order. All of the above will be on the CDPH website on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. End of the doctor's comments. Gov. Newsom: Many counties will self‐certify, but that has to be done with an initial phone conversation with the State Dept. of Public Health and all of that will be made public. California has 1799 new cases of Covid19 in the past 24 hours and 92 deaths in the past 24 hours. (He said that on Thurs. May 7, 2020). We have 21.1 million procedure masks in our inventory. LH‐ As of Sunday, May 10, 2020, Fresno County, Calif. has had 885 cases and nine deaths. I'll now distribute this email very widely. 14 I foresee a reaction from the Governor on May 11, 2020 when Fresno implements its plan for re‐opening. The City and County of Fresno cannot attest to several of the requirements that he announced on May 7, 2020. L. William Harding Fresno Scroll down to see the link to Gov. Newsom's Thurs. May 7, 2020 press conference, referenced in this and in that email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Fri, May 8, 2020 at 2:23 PM Subject: Fwd: Gov. Newsom new guidelines anncd Thurs. 5‐7 to be pub'd. Tues. 5‐12 To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, Mayor <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, <esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov>, paul.caprioglio <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>, <dallen1212@gmail.com>, Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>, David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, kfsndesk <kfsndesk@abc.com>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>, <kwalsh@kmaxtv.com>, Pam Kelly <pkelly@svlg.org>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>, Irv Weissman <irv@stanford.edu> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Fri, May 8, 2020 at 2:03 PM Subject: Gov. Newsom new guidelines anncd Thurs. 5‐7 to be pub'd. Tues. 5‐12 To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Fresno, Ca. Mayor Lee Brand and Fresno City Council: To all‐ Yesterday, Thurs. May 7, 2020 Gov. Newsom held a news conference one hour and 51 seconds. In that he announced new guidelines for counties and cities to move to phase 2 of the re‐opening proess: These will be on the CDPH website on Tues. 5‐12‐20. 15 To enter phase 2, a local government will have to attest ATTEST to the following: No more than one case per 10,000 residents in the last 14 days. No Covid19 death in the past 14 days. A minimum daily testing capacity of 1.5/ 1,000 residents. At least 15 contact tracers per 100,000 residents. A prescribed hospital surge capacity. Trigger plans and measurements. Plus other requirements. Here is his press conference of yesterday. It is very explicit. If any locality does not attest as required, Gov. Newsom mentioned the word "enforcement". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVpelhS3UF8 I do not believe that the City and County of Fresno can attest to all of the above, so I urge you to today call off your plans for re‐opening that you have announced for Monday, May 11, 2020 and announce that today. L. William Harding Fresno Sent at 2:23 PM Friday, May 8, 2020 16 Baumb, Nelly From:Martha <marthalg@sonic.net> Sent:Sunday, May 10, 2020 10:38 PM To:Council, City Subject:Covid-19 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council, The Covid-19 virus has given all of you a great opportunity to do something meaningful. You should set aside your own pet projects and drastically streamline the Palo Alto city government. Palo Alto has been top heavy with overpaid employees for years. For example, paying employees as if they were managers when they don't manage anyone. Another example, is when past manager, Keene, asked to hire two new employees to do his job for him. The city council said, "sure" whatever you want. We all need two more administrators and two added pensions. The present city manager makes twice as much as the governor of California. He is way overpaid with big benefits. The city should be giving all its employees a pay cut, but especially the administrators and so called managers. Speaking of pensions does Palo Alto have a limit on pensions? If not, it should. The city also needs to switch to an IRA like retirement fund. Give the present employees a bonus if they vote to switch all new employees to IRAs. PAUSD did something like that to rid themselves of paying for free medical insurance. It is all in how you handle it. There should be a cap on maximum vacation accrual (most private companies have this), to avoid huge payouts on retirement. It's also better for the employees if they take a vacation periodically. Remember when Stanford wanted to build a new hospital and Palo Alto complained that it would mean more traffic. Palo Alto wanted and received millions of dollars to help with the traffic situation. How were those millions from Stanford used? I haven't seen any changes. Hopefully they aren't funding the bike bridge. That would be unethical. Helping with the Alma/ El Camino intersection and perhaps a train crossing there would be appropriate. As far as libraries are concerned. Mt. View has only one library, so two should be plenty for Palo Alto. I would close the two smaller ones permanently. When the budget has some extra money then add a nice Bookmobile that would be available for those that can't access the two main libraries. Remember people always complain about closing libraries, but this is a good excuse to finally do it. The only position I will miss are the code enforcement employees. Without them weeds are waist high at some people's homes and a fire hazard. Also the waste bins are left in the street all week long. My neighborhood, Barron Park, needs better road maintenance and the utilities under-grounded. Palo Alto looks like a third world country with the ugly utility poles and low hanging wires and the constantly butchering of the trees due to the wires. All the present infrastructure planned projects don't seem important to me except for the Animal Shelter Renovation. I've been there and that is definitely needed. When making your recommendations think of the health of the city long term. What do we really need? Is the city government working for the employees or the residents? 17 Thank you and Good Luck, Martha Gregory 18 Baumb, Nelly From:CV19 Call Center Sent:Friday, May 8, 2020 7:13 PM To:Ng, Judy; Council, City Subject:FW: New public inquiry entry Hello City Hall Staff, Please see the resident’s suggestion in their submission below, sent to the call center. It is regarding a recommendation for a City policy to help ease rent increases when a lease expires during shelter‐in‐place. If this is not the appropriate department, please help forward to personnel that would usually take note of these types of suggestions. Thank you, Melody From: CV19 Call Center Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 6:56 PM To: 'jackylee0424@gmail.com' <jackylee0424@gmail.com> Subject: RE: New public inquiry entry Hello Chia‐Hsun, Thank you for writing in to the call center with your policy suggestion. I will forward this to appropriate personnel. I realize your request is not regarding evictions, but sounds like you are trying to work out a modified lease extension with your landlord. I am including the Palo Alto Mediation Program (PAMP) number (650) 856‐4062. They assist with landlord‐tenant conversations. Another local resource would be the Office of Human Services, which provides information for tenants and landlords. You can find their contact information here: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/csd/hs/default.asp We hope this finds you well. Thank You and Take Care, Melody Palo Alto Community Support Call Center From: CV19CallCenter@cityofpaloalto.org <CV19CallCenter@cityofpaloalto.org> Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 10:00 AM To: CV19 Call Center <CV19CallCenter@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: New public inquiry entry CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. 19 A entry is submitted via the Public Inquiry Form. Form Data ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Our Community Support Center is available now online! We will get back to you Monday- Friday between 8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Call us at 650-272-3181 or fill out the form below. We are in this together. Be safe and Be well! Name CHIA‐HSUN LEE Phone 4084751346 Email jackylee0424@gmail.com Type of Inquiry Question Topic Other Subject Other Open field for inquiry Hi Palo Alto City government, I am asking for your help to have a policy in place for renters and landlords to extend 3‐months of the rental lease (if leases expired during this time) at a discounted rate during this difficult period. I am a resident of Palo Alto. I ama hard time making a decision of extending my apartment rental lease expiring during sheltering in place. I am paying my rents on‐time while lost income sources. My apartment lease expires on June 21. I requested a lower rate and a shorter leasing period (a six‐month lease) from my landlord, but both got rejected. I will not be able to make a good financial decision and commitment without the city's help ‐ I would like to stay and pay my rents on time and see if the situation gets better. Please help. Thank you Chia‐Hsun Lee 20 Baumb, Nelly From:Michael Korn <makompk@aol.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 7:57 PM To:Council, City; cityleaders@fcgov.com Cc:vicky@vickyflint.com; susanmiller1228@gmail.com Subject:COVID-19 is a US biowarfare program CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Evidence that COVID‐19 is a US biowarfare program. https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/the‐us‐government‐declares‐war‐on.html?m=1 https://www.moonofshanghai.com/p/aaaaaaaaaaaaa.html?m=1 "Virologists are unanimous that the first act after an outbreak is to hunt down the 'patient zero', so as to stop the infection at its source. All major countries made great efforts in this regard ‐ except the US who made no apparent effort of any kind. The US must explain why this was so. Chinese, Italian, and Iranian authorities have been calling for international collaboration to trace the precise genetic trail of the global outbreaks and identify the true origin of the virus. Since all of humankind desperately wants the answers, why isn't the US cooperating in this effort? "The WHO emphasised the most important thing was to "test, test, test", but the US is the one country that steadfastly refused to do so, forbidding testing even for those already in an ICU and on a ventilator, with excuses that appear both lame and suspicious in retrospect. Why was Dr. Helen Chu issued a threatening "cease and desist" order to stop testing nasal swabs her flu research team had taken in Washington State from October 2019 onward? The only possible result would be to prevent the knowledge emerging that the virus had already been circulating months earlier. As a rule, the reason we don't ask a question privately is because we already know the answer, and the reason we don't ask the question publicly is because we don't want anyone else to know the answer. "And on April 9, United Biomedical, who began testing and offered to pay the cost to test every resident of San Miguel County in Colorado for COVID‐19 antibodies, was suddenly shut down by the health authorities claiming the company had lost 40% of its staff and was unable to complete the testing, a claim the company firmly disputed. The US government needs to explain why much testing is still forbidden." 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Tuesday, May 12, 2020 4:18 PM To:Mayor; Mark Standriff; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; paul.caprioglio; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; bballpod; Irv Weissman; beachrides; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; newsdesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; boardmembers; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; dallen1212@gmail.com; eappel@stanford.edu; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; steve.hogg; huidentalsanmateo; Pam Kelly; leager; margaret-sasaki@live.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; terry; Doug Vagim; vallesR1969@att.net; dennisbalakian; David Balakian Subject:Fwd: Guidelines for Counties now on CDPH website as of ~12:30 May 12, 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: Tue, May 12, 2020 at 4:07 PM Subject: Guidelines for Counties now on CDPH website as of ~12:30 May 12, 2020 To: tsheehan <tsheehan@fresnobee.com>, Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Tues. May 12, 2020 Mr. Sheehan‐ Finally the CDPH has posted the guidelines which counties must meet in order to do the reopenings which Fresno Co. did yesterday, as far as I know. Here they are: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID‐19/COVID‐19‐County‐Variance‐Attestation‐Memo.aspx I have not even read this yet. I wanted you to see it right away. The CDPH has a good website with a box to send messages, and I will be sending some. I think Fresno city and county electeds are in violation of the above guidelines. The CDPH even seems to have an office in Fresno. LH 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Susanne Bentley <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:10 AM To:bill@sdap.org; district7@sanjoseca.gov Cc:rua@uglyjudge.com; galaxy_454@yahoo.com; Markham Plaza Tenant Association; heidiyauman@icloud.com; Cary Andrew Crittenden; housing@sanjoseca.gov Subject:The Death of Frank Carpenito Attachments:barbara-cathcart-david-carroll-samy-tarazi-endangering-public.gif; Habeas Corpus Cary Andrew Crittenden Civil Grand Jury Public Guardian.pdf; murder_santa_clara_county_courts_covering_up_murders.jpg; PublicGuardian.pdf; Reasonable Acco LETTER - Copy.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Mr. Robinson, the people hold you to answer for the death of Frank Carpenito and also for the black mold at Markham Plaza Apartments. Painting the black mold a different color is not good enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX06c62xlMI&t=4s Susanne Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2020 at 5:53 PM From: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> To: galaxy_454@yahoo.com Cc: sixth.district@jud.ca.gov, rua@uglyjudge.com, scottlargent38@gmail.com, patrick@sdap.org, aleksandra.ridgeway@sheriff.sccgov.org, hotline@hudoig.gov, fairhousing@usdoj.gov Subject: Re: Death of Frank Carpenito Please help to bring exposure to Bill Robinson for the death of Frank Carpenito & let the public know that Mr. Robinson is to blame for the guns at Markham Plaza because he covered for Robert Rideway, Detectective David Carroll and Judge Socrates Manoukian. Karleen Navarro too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX06c62xlMI&t=4s Susanne Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2020 at 5:38 PM From: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> To: bill@sdap.org, rua@uglyjudge.com, scottlargent38@gmail.com Cc: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com>, sixth.district@jud.ca.gov, heidi.yauman@heidiyauman.com, aleksandra.ridgeway@sheriff.sccgov.org, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>, district7@sanjoseca.gov, hotline@hudoig.gov, fairhousing@usdoj.gov, jenniferw@metronews.com Subject: Markham Plaza Tenant Association Bill Robinson, Attorney Brian McComas falsified court records about when the Markham Plaza Tenant association was formed. That is an act of fraud and wil not be allowed. 2 You also knew about the guns supplied by Robert Ridgeway and judge Socrates Peter Manoukian and you knew that Santa Clara County Sheriff detective David Carroll falsified reports and threatened witnesses to not talk about these guns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX06c62xlMI&t=4s You will be be held responsible for all injuries and loss of life that occurs as a result of your negligence. The public now holds you responsible for the death of Frank Carpenito and you will be held to answer. Susanne Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 11:08 PM From: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> To: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> Subject: Re: Attorney Brian McComas falsifying records about Markham Plaza Tenant Association & EAH Housing murders The Markham Plaza Tenant Association was created 1-1-2016 with my first Fair Housing Advocate work helping a tenant with a reasonable accommodation request to not be evicted during for more time to find housing which I submitted to EAH Inc’s Housing Attorney Todd Rothbard on March 30, 2016 by email on her behalf and which was my best success as Todd Rothbard did approve the Reasonable Accommodation Request in full. He should since he wrote the Reasonable Accommodation template that I asked for and got from his secretary. After that it got more difficult as management would either not send it to the attorney or they would harass the tenants and even forge a tenants Request for verification of Reasonable Accommodation by writing in 6 weeks instead of 6 months and then saying it was The Who wrote that in but she came to me right after and I made copies and told her to have both the modified date by Shelsy Bass and the Blank one Verification form signed by the health professional. I have samples of both of their hand writings and it’s not even close it’s definitely Shelsy Bass’s hand writing. The details are mostly chronicled in the letter from John A. List titled Letter to Smith attached. Take a look on page 8 where Mr. List claims that they can’t shut off the alarms do to the Fire Code and The Building Plans. The 80 Decibel alarm of 4 quick blasts that went of 20 to 80 times a day then shut off, offering no identification of a threat to safety. Then on page 9 he writes that he has just been informed by EAH staff that they did turn off the alarms do to my and other residents complaints. Which is bull it’s because my grievance said that the alarms did nothing to help protect the tenants but did interrupt their right to quiet peaceful enjoyment of their home and that it kept tenants from getting uninterrupted sleep and that this type of alarms were used in third world countries to break down prisoners of wars wills and to brain wash them. John A list either perjured himself or he was finking on his client EAH Inc that was violating the Fire Code and putting the building and the tenants in jeopardy. Sometimes they approve a Reasonable Accommodation Request for an apartment change like the one in file 7- 27-2016 - cost 500 dollars... but the approval comes with a tenant cost of $500 this is what happened to Rhonda Engle who came to me because she could not afford the $500 and shortly after died on 4-24-2018 because Lester the property supervisor called and offsite meeting and took all staff and 911 was called at 9 am for Rhonda and the EMT’s and Police showed up shortly after but there being no staff on site they looked and waited over an hour before a maintenance guy was sent back and he gave them the key but when they opened her apartment it was too later Rhonda Engle was dead due to gross negligence by Lester Fontecha the property supervisor and though I complained to HUD, San Jose Housing Department and DFEH nothing was ever done and Lester still supervises the 19 properties in San Jose owner by Core Developments and managed by EAH Inc. I have on good authority that Robert Moss’s Reasonable Accommodation to move to the first floor for health reasons was approved just like Rhonda Engle that is approved but at a Tenant cost of $500 shortly before he died in apartment #409 right before Rhonda Engle moves into apartment #409 and the same thing happens to her. 3 Yes they violate every possible law and regulation and the City of San Jose and the County of Santa Clara deny the tenants their 14th amendment right to equal access under the law by not enforcing any law or protection for the tenants including the San Jose Tenant Protection Ordinance and HUD regulations or state affordable housing laws. Markham plaza is not affordable at a flat rent price of $729 and has never been affordable as the original rent in 2003 was a flat $500 this is corruption and this project was founded on corruption the law states that it is all a false claim from day one and al subsidies are to be paid back in full. Reasonable Acco LETTER - Copy.pdf 7-27-2016 - cost 500 dollars… Letter to Smith - 10.4.17 (00… On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:51 AM Susanne Bentley <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> wrote: Jason, Attorney Bran McComas claims that you are lying about the date the Markham Plaza Tenant association wasw formed. Her is falsifying court records saying thatb you had aleady established the Markham Plaza Tenant association way bac in 2012 when Robert Moss was murdered!!! Please confirm when Markham Plaza Tenant association was created Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 5:22 PM From: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> To: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> Cc: "kenneth ditkowsky" <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>, "Jason Smith" <mastermind.it.jason@gmail.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.ru>, "Cindy Alvarez" <cindy.alvarez@mail.com>, "Andrea Nunn" <andrea@creatv.media>, Citylab <pitches@citylab.com>, "Linda Kincaid" <cedarcalifornia@gmail.com>, compliancereview@hcd.ca.gov, "Joanne Denison" <joanne@denisonlaw.com>, "Maya Esparza" <district7@sanjoseca.gov>, "emma loop" <emma.loop@buzzfeed.com>, Fairhousing <fairhousing@usdoj.gov>, "Madeline Howard" <mhoward@wclp.org>, hotline@hudoig.gov, housingservices@healthtrust.org, "Justice In Aging" <info@justiceinaging.org>, jeremy4justice@activist.com, "Joe Litigant" <rua@uglyjudge.com>, "Jennifer Wadsworth" <jenniferw@metronews.com>, "Kate Walz" <katewalz@povertylaw.org>, "Scott Largent" <scottlargent38@gmail.com>, "Maura Malone" <whistleblower@hudoig.gov>, hud-pihrc@tngusa.net, rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com, "Stivers, Mark" <mark.stivers@treasurer.ca.gov>, "Jason Smith" <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> Subject: Re: DRE CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. 4 Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 6:49 PM From: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> To: "kenneth ditkowsky" <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> Cc: "Jason Smith" <mastermind.it.jason@gmail.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.ru>, "Cindy Alvarez" <cindy.alvarez@mail.com>, "Andrea Nunn" <andrea@creatv.media>, Citylab <pitches@citylab.com>, "Linda Kincaid" <cedarcalifornia@gmail.com>, compliancereview@hcd.ca.gov, "Joanne Denison" <joanne@denisonlaw.com>, "Maya Esparza" <district7@sanjoseca.gov>, "emma loop" <emma.loop@buzzfeed.com>, Fairhousing <fairhousing@usdoj.gov>, "Madeline Howard" <mhoward@wclp.org>, hotline@hudoig.gov, housingservices@healthtrust.org, "Justice In Aging" <info@justiceinaging.org>, jeremy4justice@activist.com, "Joe Litigant" <rua@uglyjudge.com>, "Jennifer Wadsworth" <jenniferw@metronews.com>, "Kate Walz" <katewalz@povertylaw.org>, "Scott Largent" <scottlargent38@gmail.com>, "Maura Malone" <whistleblower@hudoig.gov>, hud- pihrc@tngusa.net, rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com, "Stivers, Mark" <mark.stivers@treasurer.ca.gov>, Susanne <senior.affairs@groupmail.com>, "Jason Smith" <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> Subject: Re: DRE CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. Thank you Ken, The complaint # CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. is that EAH is an Illegal Property Mangaement company as the original DRE complaint # H-11882 SF accused and of 4 properties in San Jose managed by EAH, I complained that the same was being done at Markham Plaza and then amended all properties that EAH Manages. The EAH illegal Prop Mgmt as no DBA for Sierra PM which shutdown cause DRE reopen PUPM(3).PDF shows the details of the illegal Sierra Property Management which DRE complaint # H-11882 SF required them to shut down and how it was just reopened as Pacific Union Property Management with same staff and more agents shows a lack concern or of California DRE's legal authority. The illegal property management is to subvert income taxes and regulatory authority. This document is highlighted showing the relevant data. Any further questions do not hesitate to ask. Jason Smith Markham Plaza Tenant Association 669-244-3169 https://www.facebook.com/markhamplazata/F On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 7:43 AM kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> wrote: I cannot ascertain from the e-mail exactly what the complaint is concerning the Real Estate firm; however, most corporations that 5 deal in Real Estate - i.e. sell, service, finance, et al have to comply with various State statutes to be licensed. In addition many of the operators of the corporations also have to be licensed. In most states, the licensing bureau has a complaint section. If you have a grievance, a short concise and accurate statement of the grievance is enough to obtain a meeting with an officer of the complaint section to determine if a violation of the licensing statute exists. If it does, then an administrative hearing follows to determine if the license of the offending corporation (and its operators) should be continued. Further, most states take great care to protect consumers from being defrauded. The consumer fraud section is usually associated with the Attorney General's office. Here again the process starts with a short, clear, concise and accurate letter of complaint. - Always remember the person reading your complaint usually has zero knowledge of the facts, no imagination, and zero tolerance for strings of unsubstantiated allegations. Thus, you have to cite facts =without self serving conclusions - that manifest themselves in a violation of law. Ken Ditkowsky www.ditkowskylawoffice.com On Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 08:38:21 AM CST, Jason Smith <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> wrote: MPTA complaint to DRE about EAH being an Illegal property management firm -- Jason Smith Markham Plaza Tenant Association Fair and Healthy Housing for all markhamplazata@gmail.com 408-706-1889 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Heidi Yauman <heidi.yauman@icloud.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:29 AM To:Susanne Bentley Cc:bill@sdap.org; rua@uglyjudge.com; scottlargent38@gmail.com; Markham Plaza Tenant Association; sixth.district@jud.ca.gov; heidi.yauman@heidiyauman.com; aleksandra.ridgeway@sheriff.sccgov.org; Cary Andrew Crittenden; district7@sanjoseca.gov; hotline@hudoig.gov; fairhousing@usdoj.gov; jenniferw@metronews.com; Council, City Subject:Re: Markham Plaza Tenant Association CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Look what they did to me! https://heidiyauman.com/heidi‐yauman‐before‐and‐after/ On May 7, 2020, at 10:39 AM, Susanne Bentley <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> wrote: Bill Robinson, Attorney Brian McComas falsified court records about when the Markham Plaza Tenant association was formed. That is an act of fraud and wil not be allowed. You also knew about the guns supplied by Robert Ridgeway and judge Socrates Peter Manoukian and you knew that Santa Clara County Sheriff detective David Carroll falsified reports and threatened witnesses to not talk about these guns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX06c62xlMI&t=4s You will be be held responsible for all injuries and loss of life that occurs as a result of your negligence. The public now holds you responsible for the death of Frank Carpenito and you will be held to answer. Susanne Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 11:08 PM From: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> To: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> Subject: Re: Attorney Brian McComas falsifying records about Markham Plaza Tenant Association & EAH Housing murders The Markham Plaza Tenant Association was created 1-1-2016 with my first Fair Housing Advocate work helping a tenant with a reasonable accommodation request to not be evicted during for more time to find housing which I submitted to EAH Inc’s Housing Attorney Todd Rothbard on March 30, 2016 by email on her behalf and which was my best success as Todd Rothbard did approve the Reasonable Accommodation Request in full. 2 He should since he wrote the Reasonable Accommodation template that I asked for and got from his secretary. After that it got more difficult as management would either not send it to the attorney or they would harass the tenants and even forge a tenants Request for verification of Reasonable Accommodation by writing in 6 weeks instead of 6 months and then saying it was The Who wrote that in but she came to me right after and I made copies and told her to have both the modified date by Shelsy Bass and the Blank one Verification form signed by the health professional. I have samples of both of their hand writings and it’s not even close it’s definitely Shelsy Bass’s hand writing. The details are mostly chronicled in the letter from John A. List titled Letter to Smith attached. Take a look on page 8 where Mr. List claims that they can’t shut off the alarms do to the Fire Code and The Building Plans. The 80 Decibel alarm of 4 quick blasts that went of 20 to 80 times a day then shut off, offering no identification of a threat to safety. Then on page 9 he writes that he has just been informed by EAH staff that they did turn off the alarms do to my and other residents complaints. Which is bull it’s because my grievance said that the alarms did nothing to help protect the tenants but did interrupt their right to quiet peaceful enjoyment of their home and that it kept tenants from getting uninterrupted sleep and that this type of alarms were used in third world countries to break down prisoners of wars wills and to brain wash them. John A list either perjured himself or he was finking on his client EAH Inc that was violating the Fire Code and putting the building and the tenants in jeopardy. Sometimes they approve a Reasonable Accommodation Request for an apartment change like the one in file 7-27-2016 - cost 500 dollars... but the approval comes with a tenant cost of $500 this is what happened to Rhonda Engle who came to me because she could not afford the $500 and shortly after died on 4-24-2018 because Lester the property supervisor called and offsite meeting and took all staff and 911 was called at 9 am for Rhonda and the EMT’s and Police showed up shortly after but there being no staff on site they looked and waited over an hour before a maintenance guy was sent back and he gave them the key but when they opened her apartment it was too later Rhonda Engle was dead due to gross negligence by Lester Fontecha the property supervisor and though I complained to HUD, San Jose Housing Department and DFEH nothing was ever done and Lester still supervises the 19 properties in San Jose owner by Core Developments and managed by EAH Inc. I have on good authority that Robert Moss’s Reasonable Accommodation to move to the first floor for health reasons was approved just like Rhonda Engle that is approved but at a Tenant cost of $500 shortly before he died in apartment #409 right before Rhonda Engle moves into apartment #409 and the same thing happens to her. Yes they violate every possible law and regulation and the City of San Jose and the County of Santa Clara deny the tenants their 14th amendment right to equal access under the law by not enforcing any law or protection for the tenants including the San Jose Tenant Protection Ordinance and HUD regulations or state affordable housing laws. Markham plaza is not affordable at a flat rent price of $729 and has never been affordable as the original rent in 2003 was a flat $500 this is corruption and this project was founded on corruption the law states that it is all a false claim from day one and al subsidies are to be paid back in full. Reasonable Acco LETTER - Copy.pdf 3 7-27-2016 - cost 500 dollars… Letter to Smith - 10.4.17 (00… On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:51 AM Susanne Bentley <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> wrote: Jason, Attorney Bran McComas claims that you are lying about the date the Markham Plaza Tenant association wasw formed. Her is falsifying court records saying thatb you had aleady established the Markham Plaza Tenant association way bac in 2012 when Robert Moss was murdered!!! Please confirm when Markham Plaza Tenant association was created Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 5:22 PM From: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> To: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> Cc: "kenneth ditkowsky" <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>, "Jason Smith" <mastermind.it.jason@gmail.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.ru>, "Cindy Alvarez" <cindy.alvarez@mail.com>, "Andrea Nunn" <andrea@creatv.media>, Citylab <pitches@citylab.com>, "Linda Kincaid" <cedarcalifornia@gmail.com>, compliancereview@hcd.ca.gov, "Joanne Denison" <joanne@denisonlaw.com>, "Maya Esparza" <district7@sanjoseca.gov>, "emma loop" <emma.loop@buzzfeed.com>, Fairhousing <fairhousing@usdoj.gov>, "Madeline Howard" <mhoward@wclp.org>, hotline@hudoig.gov, housingservices@healthtrust.org, "Justice In Aging" <info@justiceinaging.org>, jeremy4justice@activist.com, "Joe Litigant" <rua@uglyjudge.com>, "Jennifer Wadsworth" <jenniferw@metronews.com>, "Kate Walz" <katewalz@povertylaw.org>, "Scott Largent" <scottlargent38@gmail.com>, "Maura Malone" <whistleblower@hudoig.gov>, hud-pihrc@tngusa.net, rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com, "Stivers, Mark" <mark.stivers@treasurer.ca.gov>, "Jason Smith" <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> Subject: Re: DRE CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 6:49 PM From: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> To: "kenneth ditkowsky" <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> Cc: "Jason Smith" <mastermind.it.jason@gmail.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.ru>, "Cindy Alvarez" <cindy.alvarez@mail.com>, "Andrea Nunn" <andrea@creatv.media>, Citylab <pitches@citylab.com>, "Linda Kincaid" <cedarcalifornia@gmail.com>, compliancereview@hcd.ca.gov, "Joanne Denison" <joanne@denisonlaw.com>, "Maya Esparza" <district7@sanjoseca.gov>, "emma loop" <emma.loop@buzzfeed.com>, Fairhousing <fairhousing@usdoj.gov>, "Madeline Howard" <mhoward@wclp.org>, hotline@hudoig.gov, housingservices@healthtrust.org, "Justice In Aging" <info@justiceinaging.org>, jeremy4justice@activist.com, "Joe Litigant" <rua@uglyjudge.com>, "Jennifer Wadsworth" <jenniferw@metronews.com>, "Kate Walz" <katewalz@povertylaw.org>, "Scott Largent" <scottlargent38@gmail.com>, "Maura Malone" <whistleblower@hudoig.gov>, hud-pihrc@tngusa.net, rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com, 4 "Stivers, Mark" <mark.stivers@treasurer.ca.gov>, Susanne <senior.affairs@groupmail.com>, "Jason Smith" <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> Subject: Re: DRE CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. Thank you Ken, The complaint # CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. is that EAH is an Illegal Property Mangaement company as the original DRE complaint # H-11882 SF accused and of 4 properties in San Jose managed by EAH, I complained that the same was being done at Markham Plaza and then amended all properties that EAH Manages. The EAH illegal Prop Mgmt as no DBA for Sierra PM which shutdown cause DRE reopen PUPM(3).PDF shows the details of the illegal Sierra Property Management which DRE complaint # H-11882 SF required them to shut down and how it was just reopened as Pacific Union Property Management with same staff and more agents shows a lack concern or of California DRE's legal authority. The illegal property management is to subvert income taxes and regulatory authority. This document is highlighted showing the relevant data. Any further questions do not hesitate to ask. Jason Smith Markham Plaza Tenant Association 669-244-3169 https://www.facebook.com/markhamplazata/F On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 7:43 AM kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> wrote: I cannot ascertain from the e-mail exactly what the complaint is concerning the Real Estate firm; however, most corporations that deal in Real Estate - i.e. sell, service, finance, et al have to comply with various State statutes to be licensed. In addition many of the operators of the corporations also have to be licensed. In most states, the licensing bureau has a complaint section. If you have a grievance, a short concise and accurate statement of the grievance is enough to obtain a meeting with an officer of the complaint section to 5 determine if a violation of the licensing statute exists. If it does, then an administrative hearing follows to determine if the license of the offending corporation (and its operators) should be continued. Further, most states take great care to protect consumers from being defrauded. The consumer fraud section is usually associated with the Attorney General's office. Here again the process starts with a short, clear, concise and accurate letter of complaint. - Always remember the person reading your complaint usually has zero knowledge of the facts, no imagination, and zero tolerance for strings of unsubstantiated allegations. Thus, you have to cite facts =without self serving conclusions - that manifest themselves in a violation of law. Ken Ditkowsky www.ditkowskylawoffice.com On Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 08:38:21 AM CST, Jason Smith <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> wrote: MPTA complaint to DRE about EAH being an Illegal property management firm -- Jason Smith Markham Plaza Tenant Association Fair and Healthy Housing for all markhamplazata@gmail.com 408-706-1889 <barbara‐cathcart‐david‐carroll‐samy‐tarazi‐endangering‐public.gif> <Habeas Corpus Cary Andrew Crittenden Civil Grand Jury Public Guardian.pdf> <murder_santa_clara_county_courts_covering_up_murders.jpg> <PublicGuardian.pdf> <Reasonable Acco LETTER ‐ Copy.pdf> 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Susanne Bentley <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:01 PM To:galaxy_454@yahoo.com Subject:The Death of Frank Carpenito Attachments:barbara-cathcart-david-carroll-samy-tarazi-endangering-public.gif; Habeas Corpus Cary Andrew Crittenden Civil Grand Jury Public Guardian.pdf; murder_santa_clara_county_courts_covering_up_murders.jpg; PublicGuardian.pdf; Reasonable Acco LETTER - Copy.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Brian McComas must be held accountable for the death of Frank Carpenito! He knew detective David Carroll was dangerous and he covered for him. Now Frank Caprpenito id dead! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX06c62xlMI&t=4s Brian McComas must be publicly shamed! Susanne Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2020 at 8:09 PM From: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> To: bill@sdap.org, district7@sanjoseca.gov Cc: rua@uglyjudge.com, galaxy_454@yahoo.com, "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com>, heidiyauman@icloud.com, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>, housing@sanjoseca.gov Subject: The Death of Frank Carpenito Mr. Robinson, the people hold you to answer for the death of Frank Carpenito and also for the black mold at Markham Plaza Apartments. Painting the black mold a different color is not good enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX06c62xlMI&t=4s Susanne Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2020 at 5:53 PM From: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> To: galaxy_454@yahoo.com Cc: sixth.district@jud.ca.gov, rua@uglyjudge.com, scottlargent38@gmail.com, patrick@sdap.org, aleksandra.ridgeway@sheriff.sccgov.org, hotline@hudoig.gov, fairhousing@usdoj.gov Subject: Re: Death of Frank Carpenito Please help to bring exposure to Bill Robinson for the death of Frank Carpenito & let the public know that Mr. Robinson is to blame for the guns at Markham Plaza because he covered for Robert Rideway, Detectective David Carroll and Judge Socrates Manoukian. Karleen Navarro too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX06c62xlMI&t=4s 2 Susanne Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2020 at 5:38 PM From: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> To: bill@sdap.org, rua@uglyjudge.com, scottlargent38@gmail.com Cc: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com>, sixth.district@jud.ca.gov, heidi.yauman@heidiyauman.com, aleksandra.ridgeway@sheriff.sccgov.org, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com>, district7@sanjoseca.gov, hotline@hudoig.gov, fairhousing@usdoj.gov, jenniferw@metronews.com Subject: Markham Plaza Tenant Association Bill Robinson, Attorney Brian McComas falsified court records about when the Markham Plaza Tenant association was formed. That is an act of fraud and wil not be allowed. You also knew about the guns supplied by Robert Ridgeway and judge Socrates Peter Manoukian and you knew that Santa Clara County Sheriff detective David Carroll falsified reports and threatened witnesses to not talk about these guns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX06c62xlMI&t=4s You will be be held responsible for all injuries and loss of life that occurs as a result of your negligence. The public now holds you responsible for the death of Frank Carpenito and you will be held to answer. Susanne Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 11:08 PM From: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> To: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> Subject: Re: Attorney Brian McComas falsifying records about Markham Plaza Tenant Association & EAH Housing murders The Markham Plaza Tenant Association was created 1-1-2016 with my first Fair Housing Advocate work helping a tenant with a reasonable accommodation request to not be evicted during for more time to find housing which I submitted to EAH Inc’s Housing Attorney Todd Rothbard on March 30, 2016 by email on her behalf and which was my best success as Todd Rothbard did approve the Reasonable Accommodation Request in full. He should since he wrote the Reasonable Accommodation template that I asked for and got from his secretary. After that it got more difficult as management would either not send it to the attorney or they would harass the tenants and even forge a tenants Request for verification of Reasonable Accommodation by writing in 6 weeks instead of 6 months and then saying it was The Who wrote that in but she came to me right after and I made copies and told her to have both the modified date by Shelsy Bass and the Blank one Verification form signed by the health professional. I have samples of both of their hand writings and it’s not even close it’s definitely Shelsy Bass’s hand writing. The details are mostly chronicled in the letter from John A. List titled Letter to Smith attached. Take a look on page 8 where Mr. List claims that they can’t shut off the alarms do to the Fire Code and The Building Plans. The 80 Decibel alarm of 4 quick blasts that went of 20 to 80 times a day then shut off, offering no identification of a threat to safety. Then on page 9 he writes that he has just been informed by EAH staff that they did turn off the alarms do to my and other residents complaints. Which is bull it’s because my grievance said that the alarms did nothing to help protect the tenants but did interrupt their right to quiet peaceful enjoyment of their home and that it kept tenants from getting uninterrupted sleep and that this type of alarms were used in third world countries to break down prisoners of wars wills and to brain wash them. 3 John A list either perjured himself or he was finking on his client EAH Inc that was violating the Fire Code and putting the building and the tenants in jeopardy. Sometimes they approve a Reasonable Accommodation Request for an apartment change like the one in file 7-27-2016 - cost 500 dollars... but the approval comes with a tenant cost of $500 this is what happened to Rhonda Engle who came to me because she could not afford the $500 and shortly after died on 4-24-2018 because Lester the property supervisor called and offsite meeting and took all staff and 911 was called at 9 am for Rhonda and the EMT’s and Police showed up shortly after but there being no staff on site they looked and waited over an hour before a maintenance guy was sent back and he gave them the key but when they opened her apartment it was too later Rhonda Engle was dead due to gross negligence by Lester Fontecha the property supervisor and though I complained to HUD, San Jose Housing Department and DFEH nothing was ever done and Lester still supervises the 19 properties in San Jose owner by Core Developments and managed by EAH Inc. I have on good authority that Robert Moss’s Reasonable Accommodation to move to the first floor for health reasons was approved just like Rhonda Engle that is approved but at a Tenant cost of $500 shortly before he died in apartment #409 right before Rhonda Engle moves into apartment #409 and the same thing happens to her. Yes they violate every possible law and regulation and the City of San Jose and the County of Santa Clara deny the tenants their 14th amendment right to equal access under the law by not enforcing any law or protection for the tenants including the San Jose Tenant Protection Ordinance and HUD regulations or state affordable housing laws. Markham plaza is not affordable at a flat rent price of $729 and has never been affordable as the original rent in 2003 was a flat $500 this is corruption and this project was founded on corruption the law states that it is all a false claim from day one and al subsidies are to be paid back in full. Reasonable Acco LETTER - Copy.pdf 7-27-2016 - cost 500 dollars… Letter to Smith - 10.4.17 (00… On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:51 AM Susanne Bentley <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> wrote: Jason, Attorney Bran McComas claims that you are lying about the date the Markham Plaza Tenant association wasw formed. Her is falsifying court records saying thatb you had aleady established the Markham Plaza Tenant association way bac in 2012 when Robert Moss was murdered!!! Please confirm when Markham Plaza Tenant association was created 4 Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 5:22 PM From: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> To: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> Cc: "kenneth ditkowsky" <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>, "Jason Smith" <mastermind.it.jason@gmail.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.ru>, "Cindy Alvarez" <cindy.alvarez@mail.com>, "Andrea Nunn" <andrea@creatv.media>, Citylab <pitches@citylab.com>, "Linda Kincaid" <cedarcalifornia@gmail.com>, compliancereview@hcd.ca.gov, "Joanne Denison" <joanne@denisonlaw.com>, "Maya Esparza" <district7@sanjoseca.gov>, "emma loop" <emma.loop@buzzfeed.com>, Fairhousing <fairhousing@usdoj.gov>, "Madeline Howard" <mhoward@wclp.org>, hotline@hudoig.gov, housingservices@healthtrust.org, "Justice In Aging" <info@justiceinaging.org>, jeremy4justice@activist.com, "Joe Litigant" <rua@uglyjudge.com>, "Jennifer Wadsworth" <jenniferw@metronews.com>, "Kate Walz" <katewalz@povertylaw.org>, "Scott Largent" <scottlargent38@gmail.com>, "Maura Malone" <whistleblower@hudoig.gov>, hud- pihrc@tngusa.net, rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com, "Stivers, Mark" <mark.stivers@treasurer.ca.gov>, "Jason Smith" <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> Subject: Re: DRE CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 6:49 PM From: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> To: "kenneth ditkowsky" <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> Cc: "Jason Smith" <mastermind.it.jason@gmail.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.ru>, "Cindy Alvarez" <cindy.alvarez@mail.com>, "Andrea Nunn" <andrea@creatv.media>, Citylab <pitches@citylab.com>, "Linda Kincaid" <cedarcalifornia@gmail.com>, compliancereview@hcd.ca.gov, "Joanne Denison" <joanne@denisonlaw.com>, "Maya Esparza" <district7@sanjoseca.gov>, "emma loop" <emma.loop@buzzfeed.com>, Fairhousing <fairhousing@usdoj.gov>, "Madeline Howard" <mhoward@wclp.org>, hotline@hudoig.gov, housingservices@healthtrust.org, "Justice In Aging" <info@justiceinaging.org>, jeremy4justice@activist.com, "Joe Litigant" <rua@uglyjudge.com>, "Jennifer Wadsworth" <jenniferw@metronews.com>, "Kate Walz" <katewalz@povertylaw.org>, "Scott Largent" <scottlargent38@gmail.com>, "Maura Malone" <whistleblower@hudoig.gov>, hud-pihrc@tngusa.net, rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com, "Stivers, Mark" <mark.stivers@treasurer.ca.gov>, Susanne <senior.affairs@groupmail.com>, "Jason Smith" <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> Subject: Re: DRE CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. Thank you Ken, The complaint # CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. is that EAH is an Illegal Property Mangaement company as the original DRE complaint # H-11882 SF accused and of 4 properties in San Jose managed by EAH, I complained that the same was being done at Markham Plaza and then amended all properties that EAH Manages. The EAH illegal Prop Mgmt as no DBA for Sierra PM which shutdown cause DRE reopen PUPM(3).PDF shows the details of the illegal Sierra Property Management which DRE complaint # H-11882 SF required them to shut down and how it was just reopened as Pacific Union Property Management with same staff and more agents shows a lack concern or of California DRE's legal authority. The illegal property management is to subvert income taxes and regulatory authority. 5 This document is highlighted showing the relevant data. Any further questions do not hesitate to ask. Jason Smith Markham Plaza Tenant Association 669-244-3169 https://www.facebook.com/markhamplazata/F On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 7:43 AM kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> wrote: I cannot ascertain from the e-mail exactly what the complaint is concerning the Real Estate firm; however, most corporations that deal in Real Estate - i.e. sell, service, finance, et al have to comply with various State statutes to be licensed. In addition many of the operators of the corporations also have to be licensed. In most states, the licensing bureau has a complaint section. If you have a grievance, a short concise and accurate statement of the grievance is enough to obtain a meeting with an officer of the complaint section to determine if a violation of the licensing statute exists. If it does, then an administrative hearing follows to determine if the license of the offending corporation (and its operators) should be continued. Further, most states take great care to protect consumers from being defrauded. The consumer fraud section is usually associated with the Attorney General's office. Here again the process starts with a short, clear, concise and accurate letter of complaint. - Always remember the person reading your complaint usually has zero knowledge of the facts, no imagination, and zero tolerance for strings of unsubstantiated allegations. Thus, you have to cite facts =without self serving conclusions - that manifest themselves in a violation of law. Ken Ditkowsky www.ditkowskylawoffice.com 6 On Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 08:38:21 AM CST, Jason Smith <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> wrote: MPTA complaint to DRE about EAH being an Illegal property management firm -- Jason Smith Markham Plaza Tenant Association Fair and Healthy Housing for all markhamplazata@gmail.com 408-706-1889 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Susanne Bentley <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> Sent:Saturday, May 9, 2020 10:43 AM To:Markham Plaza Tenant Association; security@heidiyauman.com Cc:sixth.district@jud.ca.gov; jeremy.pruitt@activist.com; mccomas.b.c@gmail.com; hotline@hudoig.gov; caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com; sylvia.mcdonald@ido.sccgov.org; heidi.yauman@heidiyauman.com; scott.largent@heidiyauman.com; news.room@sanjosebusiness.news; moneal@pdo.sccgov.org; fairhousing@usdoj.gov Subject:Question for Jason Smith - ( Re: Court Testimony ) Attachments:attorney-molly-oneal-public-defender-santa-clara-county.jpg; barbara-cathcart-david-carroll-samy- tarazi-endangering-public.gif; crittenden_interview-robert-ridgeway.wav; gary-goodman-will- robinson-partners-in-crime-markham-plaza-murder.jpg; Grand-Jury-Investigation-Public-Guardian- Santa-Clara-County.pdf; Habeas Corpus Cary Andrew Crittenden Civil Grand Jury Public Guardian.pdf; jeremypruitt8804.jpg; Reasonable Acco LETTER - Copy.pdf; RICKY STEWART.docx; WORLD-EMAIL-DISTRIBUTION-LIST.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Jason, Thank you for confirming that the Markham Plaza Tenant association was created on January 1st, 2016, 6 days after Mr. Crittenden was arrested, which was 12/25/15. When you testified in Mr. Crittenden's trial, did you at any time state on the record that the Markham Plaza Tenant association was formed on 01/01/16 Mr. Brian McComas is claiming that the date is different. Do you believe that the court transcripts may have been altered to change the date on the trial court records? Did the correctional officers at the San Jose Main Jail have an issue with the Markham Plaza Tenant association meeting at Elmwood? Has anyone accused you of commiting perjury or forgery? https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/68966 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/67161 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCIErv3kS2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVF62zekVwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5R57jWPb54 Susanne Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2020 at 3:49 PM From: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> To: mccomas.b.c@gmail.com, socialmedia1953@gmail.com Cc: bill@sdap.org, "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com>, mastermind.it.jason@gmail.com, sylvia.mcdonald@ido.sccgov.org, celliot087@gmail.com, 2 james.williams@cco.sccgov.org, william.bennett@scscourt.org, sam.liccardo@sanjoseca.gov, sixth.district@jud.ca.gov, schatman@scscourt.org, heidi.yauman@icloud.com, hud-pihrc@tngusa.net Subject: Jason Smith's Court testimony prior to August 8th attack? Mr. McComas, You falsified the record on appeal as tho when the Markham Plaza tenant associoation was formed and you also claimed that the Markham Plaza Tenant association was blame for Mr. Crittenden being accused of violating OR. When Jason Smith testifed in Mr. Crittenden's trial, did he state on the record that Mr. Criitenden had been assigned to lead the lioson team to U.C. Berkeley Law School? When was this assignment given and who was the investigator from the Pruit-Nassie team who Crittenden was assgned to coordinate with on this project? Did this investigator also coordinate with Team Reyes? If so, to what scope and capacity and what have you done with the investigative reports? Did you discuss this issue on January 9th, 2018 with Judge Sharon Chatman? https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/68966 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/67161 What happened to the discovery package in case c149322? Why is it still missing? Susanne Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 11:08 PM From: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> To: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> Subject: Re: Attorney Brian McComas falsifying records about Markham Plaza Tenant Association & EAH Housing murders The Markham Plaza Tenant Association was created 1-1-2016 with my first Fair Housing Advocate work helping a tenant with a reasonable accommodation request to not be evicted during for more time to find housing which I submitted to EAH Inc’s Housing Attorney Todd Rothbard on March 30, 2016 by email on her behalf and which was my best success as Todd Rothbard did approve the Reasonable Accommodation Request in full. He should since he wrote the Reasonable Accommodation template that I asked for and got from his secretary. After that it got more difficult as management would either not send it to the attorney or they would harass the tenants and even forge a tenants Request for verification of Reasonable Accommodation by writing in 6 weeks instead of 6 months and then saying it was The Who wrote that in but she came to me right after and I made copies and told her to have both the modified date by Shelsy Bass and the Blank one Verification form signed by the health professional. I have samples of both of their hand writings and it’s not even close it’s definitely Shelsy Bass’s hand writing. The details are mostly chronicled in the letter from John A. List titled Letter to Smith attached. Take a look on page 8 where Mr. List claims that they can’t shut off the alarms do to the Fire Code and The Building Plans. The 80 Decibel alarm of 4 quick blasts that went of 20 to 80 times a day then shut off, offering no identification of a threat to safety. Then on page 9 he writes that he has just been informed by EAH staff that they did turn off the alarms do to my and other residents complaints. Which is bull it’s because my grievance said that the alarms did nothing to help protect the tenants but did interrupt their right to quiet peaceful enjoyment of their home and that it kept tenants from getting uninterrupted sleep and that this type of alarms were used in third world countries to break down prisoners of wars wills and to brain wash them. 3 John A list either perjured himself or he was finking on his client EAH Inc that was violating the Fire Code and putting the building and the tenants in jeopardy. Sometimes they approve a Reasonable Accommodation Request for an apartment change like the one in file 7- 27-2016 - cost 500 dollars... but the approval comes with a tenant cost of $500 this is what happened to Rhonda Engle who came to me because she could not afford the $500 and shortly after died on 4-24-2018 because Lester the property supervisor called and offsite meeting and took all staff and 911 was called at 9 am for Rhonda and the EMT’s and Police showed up shortly after but there being no staff on site they looked and waited over an hour before a maintenance guy was sent back and he gave them the key but when they opened her apartment it was too later Rhonda Engle was dead due to gross negligence by Lester Fontecha the property supervisor and though I complained to HUD, San Jose Housing Department and DFEH nothing was ever done and Lester still supervises the 19 properties in San Jose owner by Core Developments and managed by EAH Inc. I have on good authority that Robert Moss’s Reasonable Accommodation to move to the first floor for health reasons was approved just like Rhonda Engle that is approved but at a Tenant cost of $500 shortly before he died in apartment #409 right before Rhonda Engle moves into apartment #409 and the same thing happens to her. Yes they violate every possible law and regulation and the City of San Jose and the County of Santa Clara deny the tenants their 14th amendment right to equal access under the law by not enforcing any law or protection for the tenants including the San Jose Tenant Protection Ordinance and HUD regulations or state affordable housing laws. Markham plaza is not affordable at a flat rent price of $729 and has never been affordable as the original rent in 2003 was a flat $500 this is corruption and this project was founded on corruption the law states that it is all a false claim from day one and al subsidies are to be paid back in full. Reasonable Acco LETTER - Copy.pdf 7-27-2016 - cost 500 dollars… Letter to Smith - 10.4.17 (00… On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:51 AM Susanne Bentley <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> wrote: Jason, Attorney Bran McComas claims that you are lying about the date the Markham Plaza Tenant association wasw formed. Her is falsifying court records saying thatb you had aleady established the Markham Plaza Tenant association way bac in 2012 when Robert Moss was murdered!!! Please confirm when Markham Plaza Tenant association was created 4 Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 5:22 PM From: "Susanne Bentley" <senior.affairs@groupmail.com> To: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> Cc: "kenneth ditkowsky" <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>, "Jason Smith" <mastermind.it.jason@gmail.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.ru>, "Cindy Alvarez" <cindy.alvarez@mail.com>, "Andrea Nunn" <andrea@creatv.media>, Citylab <pitches@citylab.com>, "Linda Kincaid" <cedarcalifornia@gmail.com>, compliancereview@hcd.ca.gov, "Joanne Denison" <joanne@denisonlaw.com>, "Maya Esparza" <district7@sanjoseca.gov>, "emma loop" <emma.loop@buzzfeed.com>, Fairhousing <fairhousing@usdoj.gov>, "Madeline Howard" <mhoward@wclp.org>, hotline@hudoig.gov, housingservices@healthtrust.org, "Justice In Aging" <info@justiceinaging.org>, jeremy4justice@activist.com, "Joe Litigant" <rua@uglyjudge.com>, "Jennifer Wadsworth" <jenniferw@metronews.com>, "Kate Walz" <katewalz@povertylaw.org>, "Scott Largent" <scottlargent38@gmail.com>, "Maura Malone" <whistleblower@hudoig.gov>, hud-pihrc@tngusa.net, rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com, "Stivers, Mark" <mark.stivers@treasurer.ca.gov>, "Jason Smith" <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> Subject: Re: DRE CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 6:49 PM From: "Markham Plaza Tenant Association" <markhamplazata@gmail.com> To: "kenneth ditkowsky" <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> Cc: "Jason Smith" <mastermind.it.jason@gmail.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.com>, "Cary Andrew Crittenden" <caryandrewcrittenden@yandex.ru>, "Cindy Alvarez" <cindy.alvarez@mail.com>, "Andrea Nunn" <andrea@creatv.media>, Citylab <pitches@citylab.com>, "Linda Kincaid" <cedarcalifornia@gmail.com>, compliancereview@hcd.ca.gov, "Joanne Denison" <joanne@denisonlaw.com>, "Maya Esparza" <district7@sanjoseca.gov>, "emma loop" <emma.loop@buzzfeed.com>, Fairhousing <fairhousing@usdoj.gov>, "Madeline Howard" <mhoward@wclp.org>, hotline@hudoig.gov, housingservices@healthtrust.org, "Justice In Aging" <info@justiceinaging.org>, jeremy4justice@activist.com, "Joe Litigant" <rua@uglyjudge.com>, "Jennifer Wadsworth" <jenniferw@metronews.com>, "Kate Walz" <katewalz@povertylaw.org>, "Scott Largent" <scottlargent38@gmail.com>, "Maura Malone" <whistleblower@hudoig.gov>, hud-pihrc@tngusa.net, rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com, "Stivers, Mark" <mark.stivers@treasurer.ca.gov>, Susanne <senior.affairs@groupmail.com>, "Jason Smith" <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> Subject: Re: DRE CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. Thank you Ken, The complaint # CASE NO. 519-1119-001 EAH Inc. is that EAH is an Illegal Property Mangaement company as the original DRE complaint # H-11882 SF accused and of 4 properties in San Jose managed by EAH, I complained that the same was being done at Markham Plaza and then amended all properties that EAH Manages. The EAH illegal Prop Mgmt as no DBA for Sierra PM which shutdown cause DRE reopen PUPM(3).PDF shows the details of the illegal Sierra Property Management which DRE complaint # H-11882 SF required them to shut down and how it was just reopened as Pacific Union Property Management with same staff and more agents shows a lack concern or of California DRE's legal authority. The illegal property management is to subvert income taxes and regulatory authority. This document is highlighted showing the relevant data. Any further questions do not hesitate to ask. 5 Jason Smith Markham Plaza Tenant Association 669-244-3169 https://www.facebook.com/markhamplazata/F On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 7:43 AM kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> wrote: I cannot ascertain from the e-mail exactly what the complaint is concerning the Real Estate firm; however, most corporations that deal in Real Estate - i.e. sell, service, finance, et al have to comply with various State statutes to be licensed. In addition many of the operators of the corporations also have to be licensed. In most states, the licensing bureau has a complaint section. If you have a grievance, a short concise and accurate statement of the grievance is enough to obtain a meeting with an officer of the complaint section to determine if a violation of the licensing statute exists. If it does, then an administrative hearing follows to determine if the license of the offending corporation (and its operators) should be continued. Further, most states take great care to protect consumers from being defrauded. The consumer fraud section is usually associated with the Attorney General's office. Here again the process starts with a short, clear, concise and accurate letter of complaint. - Always remember the person reading your complaint usually has zero knowledge of the facts, no imagination, and zero tolerance for strings of unsubstantiated allegations. Thus, you have to cite facts =without self serving conclusions - that manifest themselves in a violation of law. Ken Ditkowsky www.ditkowskylawoffice.com On Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 08:38:21 AM CST, Jason Smith <markhamplazarc@gmail.com> wrote: MPTA complaint to DRE about EAH being an Illegal property management firm -- 6 Jason Smith Markham Plaza Tenant Association Fair and Healthy Housing for all markhamplazata@gmail.com 408-706-1889 7 Baumb, Nelly From:Heidi Yauman <heidi.yauman@icloud.com> Sent:Saturday, May 9, 2020 2:57 PM To:Cary Andrew Crittenden; security@heidiyauman.com Cc:corrupt@brianmccomas.attorney; sixth.district@jud.ca.gov; supreme.court@jud.ca.gov; Brian McComas; Susanne Bentley; scott.largent@heidiyauman.com; RUA Subject:Re: Conflict of Interest (Repeated Pattern) - DOCKETS: C1642778 , C1642778 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Look what they did to me! https://heidiyauman.com/heidi‐yauman‐before‐and‐after/ http://HeidiYauman.com On May 9, 2020, at 2:35 PM, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> Date: May 8, 2020 at 10:42:39 AM PDT To: Bill Robinson <bill@sdap.org>, Brian McComas <mccomas.b.c@gmail.com>, sixth.district@jud.ca.gov, mary.greenwood@jud.ca.gov, supreme.court@jud.ca.gov Cc: first.district@jud.ca.gov, second.district@jud.ca.gov, third.district@jud.ca.gov, fourth.district@jud.ca.gov, fifth.district@jud.ca.gov, sfagdocketing@doj.ca.gov, servesdap@sdap.org, gerald.engler@doj.ca.gov, David.Rose@doj.ca.gov, karlene.navarro@gmail.com, hotline@hudoig.gov, judicial.council@jud.ca.gov Subject: Conflict of Interest (Repeated Pattern) ‐ DOCKETS: C1642778 , C1642778 That’s right. It is a conflict of interest for Sylvia Perez‐McDonald to investigate herself or finance investigation into the injuries she caused to Heidi Yauman: https://heidiyauman.com/heidi‐yauman‐before‐and‐after/ ( http://HeidiYauman.com ) Similarly, The Sixth District Appelate program was supposed to recieve funding from 6th district court of appeal on Habeas Corpus issues in my case. This would e conflict because matter under investigation would include the Julie Stewart Death ( See Ricky Stewart.docx ) and other matters. Similarly, I repeatedly asked Public Defender for witnesses and investigation into falsified police reports and stalking by sheriff Detective David Carroll and the others. ( THESE ARE SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS ‐ REPEATEDLY DENIED ) 8 It is conflict of interest for Public Defender to investigate THE ROLE PLAYED BY DEPUTY PUBLIC DEFENDER GEORGE ABEL IN THE HOMICIDE OF MARKHAM PLAZA RESIDENT ROBERT MOSSL ( THESE ARE SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS ‐ REPEATEDLY DENIED ) I want this addressed. The coalition will address it regardless and expose act of fraud to hundreds of thousands of people. I have little control over what coalition chooses to do, but bottom line is people know the truth of what happened & will not allow it to be buried. This point has been emphasized over and over again ( including original eviction fraud case 1‐12CV226958 ) This email and attatchments are to be included n record to Sixth District Appelate Court Dockets: C1642778 , C1642778 Rap video about Markham Plaza guns - supporting Habeas Claims : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX06c62xlMI Found this video the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CDgRwcJYek See Attachments: <Habeas Corpus Cary Andrew Crittenden Civil Grand Jury Public Guardian.pdf> . <RICKY STEWART.docx> <Grand‐Jury‐Investigation‐Public‐Guardian‐Santa‐Clara‐County.pdf> <civil grand jury retaliation santa clara county human relations cmmission.pdf> <crittenden_interview_dr_shawn_spawno.wav> Respectfully Submitted, Cary Andrew Crittenden | 408‐318‐1105 <murder_santa_clara_county_courts_covering_up_murders.jpg> On May 7, 2020, at 11:33 PM, Heidi Yauman <heidi.yauman@icloud.com> wrote: 9 Sylvia Perez McDonald did this to me their is a conflict of interest https://heidiyauman.com/heidi-yauman-before-and-after/ I want aram to be their no offense from heidi yauman http://heidiyauman.com <image0.jpeg> From: Heidi Yauman <heidi.yauman@icloud.com> Date: May 7, 2020 at 9:54:48 PM PDT To: shannon@thefreelagency.com, abjpd1@gmail.com, j@fuerylaw.com, Scott Largent <scottlargent38@gmail.com>, Christopher Welsh <cwelshlaw@gmail.com>, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> Subject: Re: IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF CARY CRITTENDEN Zdear Shannon this is why https://independent-defense- counsel.blogspot.com/2019/01/independent-defense-counsel- sylvia.html On May 7, 2020, at 9:50 PM, Heidi Yauman <heidi.yauman@icloud.com> wrote: Dear shanon does Sylvia Perez give you money because she cheated on the other court case and i am uncormfatble without lawyer I want aram to be there thank you from heidi yauman https://youtu.be/JM10PLNbPD0 http://HeidiYauman.com On May 7, 2020, at 3:46 PM, Heidi Yauman <heidi.yauman@icloud.co m> wrote: dear Sharon talk to Aram james the lawyer 415- 3105056 or John fuery the lawyer 4152932814 I don’t know who to trust I don’t want the case in Santa lacr county and I want to meet with. Michele fist from Heidi Yauman Sent from my iPad On May 6, 2020, at 4:17 PM, shannon @thefre elagenc y.com wrote: 10 Hello Heidi, I am a private investig ator working for attorne y Chris Welsh, who represe nts Cary Critten den in an ongoin g criminal matter. I would like to speak with you about this inciden t. Pleas e email, call, or text me at your earliest conveni ence. Thank you, Shanno n Koerner Investig ator The Freel Agency, 11 Inc., Private Investig ators CA PI License #29010 , formerl y CA PI License #22490 5369 Camde n Avenue , Suite 260, San Jose, CA 95124 Phone / text:(40 8)204‐ 9049 Fax:(86 6)504‐ 3826 Websit e: www .thefree lagency .com 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Heidi Yauman <heidi.yauman@outlook.com> Sent:Friday, May 8, 2020 4:26 PM To:Cary Andrew Crittenden Cc:corrupt@brianmccomas.attorney; bill@sdap.org Subject:Markham Plaza Homicide Concealed from Civil Grand Jury CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Look what they did to me! 2 https://heidiyauman.com/heidi‐yauman‐before‐and‐after/ 3 4 https://youtu.be/f5R57jWPb54 On May 8, 2020, at 1:02 PM, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> wrote: On May 8, 2020, at 10:42 AM, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> wrote: 5 That’s right. It is a conflict of interest for Sylvia Perez‐McDonald to investigate herself or finance investigation into the injuries she caused to Heidi Yauman: https://heidiyauman.com/heidi‐yauman‐before‐and‐after/ ( http://HeidiYauman.com ) Similarly, The Sixth District Appelate program was supposed to recieve funding from 6th district court of appeal on Habeas Corpus issues in my case. This would e conflict because matter under investigation would include the Julie Stewart Death ( See Ricky Stewart.docx ) and other matters. Similarly, I repeatedly asked Public Defender for witnesses and investigation into falsified police reports and stalking by sheriff Detective David Carroll and the others. ( THESE ARE SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS ‐ REPEATEDLY DENIED ) It is conflict of interest for Public Defender to investigate THE ROLE PLAYED BY DEPUTY PUBLIC DEFENDER GEORGE ABEL IN THE HOMICIDE OF MARKHAM PLAZA RESIDENT ROBERT MOSSL ( THESE ARE SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS ‐ REPEATEDLY DENIED ) I want this addressed. The coalition will address it regardless and expose act of fraud to hundreds of thousands of people. I have little control over what coalition chooses to do, but bottom line is people know the truth of what happened & will not allow it to be buried. This point has been emphasized over and over again ( including original eviction fraud case 1‐12CV226958 ) This email and attatchments are to be included n record to Sixth District Appelate Court Dockets: C1642778 , C1642778 Rap video about Markham Plaza guns - supporting Habeas Claims : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX06c62xlMI Found this video the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CDgRwcJYek See Attachments: The linked be displayehave been ren amed, oVerify that to the corrlocation. <Habeas Corpus Cary Andrew Crittenden Civil Grand Jury Public Guardian.pdf> 6 . <RICKY STEWART.docx> <Grand‐Jury‐Investigation‐Public‐Guardian‐Santa‐Clara‐County.pdf> <civil grand jury retaliation santa clara county human relations cmmission.pdf> <crittenden_interview_dr_shawn_spawno.wav> Respectfully Submitted, Cary Andrew Crittenden | 408‐318‐1105 <murder_santa_clara_county_courts_covering_up_murders.jpg> On May 7, 2020, at 11:33 PM, Heidi Yauman <heidi.yauman@icloud.com> wrote: Sylvia Perez McDonald did this to me their is a conflict of interest https://heidiyauman.com/heidi-yauman-before-and-after/ I want aram to be their no offense from heidi yauman http://heidiyauman.com <image0.jpeg> From: Heidi Yauman <heidi.yauman@icloud.com> Date: May 7, 2020 at 9:54:48 PM PDT To: shannon@thefreelagency.com, abjpd1@gmail.com, j@fuerylaw.com, Scott Largent <scottlargent38@gmail.com>, Christopher Welsh <cwelshlaw@gmail.com>, Cary Andrew Crittenden <caryandrewcrittenden@icloud.com> Subject: Re: IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF CARY CRITTENDEN Zdear Shannon this is why https://independent-defense- counsel.blogspot.com/2019/01/independent-defense-counsel- sylvia.html On May 7, 2020, at 9:50 PM, Heidi Yauman <heidi.yauman@icloud.com> wrote: Dear shanon does Sylvia Perez give you money because she cheated on the other court case and i am uncormfatble without lawyer I want aram to be there thank you from heidi yauman https://youtu.be/JM10PLNbPD0 http://HeidiYauman.com On May 7, 2020, at 3:46 PM, Heidi Yauman 7 <heidi.yauman@icloud.co m> wrote: dear Sharon talk to Aram james the lawyer 415- 3105056 or John fuery the lawyer 4152932814 I don’t know who to trust I don’t want the case in Santa lacr county and I want to meet with. Michele fist from Heidi Yauman Sent from my iPad On May 6, 2020, at 4:17 PM, shannon @thefre elagenc y.com wrote: Hello Heidi, I am a private investig ator working for attorne y Chris Welsh, who represe nts Cary Critten den in an ongoin g criminal matter. I would like to speak with you about this inciden 8 t. Pleas e email, call, or text me at your earliest conveni ence. Thank you, Shanno n Koerner Investig ator The Freel Agency, Inc., Private Investig ators CA PI License #29010 , formerl y CA PI License #22490 5369 Camde n Avenue , Suite 260, San Jose, CA 95124 Phone / text:(40 8)204‐ 9049 Fax:(86 6)504‐ 3826 Websit e: www 9 .thefree lagency .com <Habeas Corpus Cary Andrew Crittenden Civil Grand Jury Public Guardian.pdf> <Grand‐Jury‐Investigation‐Public‐Guardian‐Santa‐Clara‐County.pdf> <RICKY STEWART‐2.docx> <civil grand jury retaliation santa clara county human relations cmmission.pdf> 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Minor, Beth Sent:Friday, May 8, 2020 3:00 PM To:Alesandro Sandor; Council, City Subject:RE: Dog bite Alesandro, Please provide further information regarding your incident so we can provide next steps for you. Thanks and have a great day. B‐ Beth Minor, City Clerk City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 (650)329‐2379 From: Alesandro Sandor <alesandrosandor1@outlook.com> Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 1:54 PM To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Subject: Dog bite CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Counsel , I will need your service in a personal injury case(Dog Bite). Please let me know if you handle such cases, so I can send you more details. Thanks Regards, Alesandro Sandor 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Keith Nordman <keithnordman@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:28 AM To:Council, City Subject:Wearing masks must be mandatory to enter buildings. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. I thought the Santa Clara resolution was already mandatory and the fact that it came so late is a big reason Santa Clara County leads the state in Covid cases per population. My parents are at the Vi of Palo Alto and the SCC site reports 11 Covid cases! We must follow Cupertino's lead and make some face covering required to enter buildings. This is the action with the most gain for least costs. We have been sheltering in place of over 2 months but cases keep rising partially since grocery stores and essential businesses didn't require masks. There is no reason the workers in the stores should have to chose between a job and their health and business owners should not have to chose between losing a customer to business nearby that doesn’t care about the community. Unfortunately our White House has made it a political statement to be stupid and inconsiderate of others so I would make the penalty low. If it is the law and posted other customers will notify the offender that besides being inconsiderate that they are breaking the law and store owners will not be put an awkward situation and we will not have to use any police resources. We can fight this together! ‐‐ Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act ‐ The Climate Fix http://citizensclimateeducation.org/ https://citizensclimatelobby.org/ 2 Baumb, Nelly From:Matthew Smuts <pastormatt@gracepa.org> Sent:Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:57 AM To:Council, City Subject:Face Covering Order | Faith Community Impact CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council, I appreciated the time to be able to speak late last evening about my concerns in regards to the impact of the Face Covering Order as it now stands, and those using Livestreaming technologies. This certainly impacts Faith Communities that in many cases are using this kind of option, however, I could imagine other contexts (educational) where this kind of scenario might take place. For us, we are talking about a room that is over 4,000 sq/ft with a 20‐40’ ceiling and windows along both sides that have been open continuously since March 17. We have had a skeleton crew lead this effort with extensive distancing . . . always over 6’ and for the most part 15’+. Importantly, these are brief intermittent periods of time, not 8 hour shifts in office cubicles. This Order primarily assumes a universe where there are only 4 locations . . . your home, outdoors with your dog, Trader Joe’s, and an office. I would respectfully suggest that there are other contexts in our community, like our Faith Communities, that require different standards as they can be kept perfectly safe with different protocols. Perhaps modifications or exemptions could be offered under certain critieria. (e.g. event length of time, sq/ft relative to people with a cap, ventilation, social distancing measures in place, masks for those not on screen, etc.) Our faith communities serve a valuable function in these anxious times, in helping individuals in our community weather this time apart with calm and discipline. I believe requiring us to lead Livestream Worship with masks would diminish that ability. In addition, while Zoom is perfectly adequate for meetings, not all things can be done from one’s kitchen table. Many find worship to be difficult that way when there are better technologies available. Peace, Matt Smuts __ Rev. Matthew A. Smuts, senior pastor pastormatt@gracepa.org Grace Lutheran Church Palo Alto, CA 94306 650.494.1212 www.gracepa.org Redacted 3 Baumb, Nelly From:Christianna Kienitz <tannak@att.net> Sent:Monday, May 11, 2020 7:32 PM To:Council, City Subject:ITEM 7A PLEASE VOTE YES TO REQUIRE MASKS IN PALO ALTO CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council, My family strongly urges the city council to require its citizens to wear masks when out in public. Our family has been appalled by the many residents who have not been wearing masks around others. A new study suggests that Covid infections would plummet if 80% of the population would wear masks. Please see the attached article on how masks are of great help during this pandemic. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/masks-covid-19-infections-would-plummet-new-study- says?fbclid=IwAR1B4wkeXoG3MeuLRRb4b2XR9IbU1lMNX-o445DdjLoDFyKV5Pjlu3UO0U8 Thank you, Christianna & Anthony Kienitz 4 Baumb, Nelly From:Anne Woodbury <annekwoodbury@me.com> Sent:Monday, May 11, 2020 4:29 PM To:Council, City Subject:Please make wearing face masks while out mandatory in Palo Alto as soon as possible CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Dear Palo Alto City Council, Please do make wearing face masks/coverings mandatory while out in Palo Alto as soon as possible particularly for entering businesses and grocery stores and for bikers and runners. People in this town want to argue about it being unnecessary, but walkers. runners and bicyclists pass me all the time while out without masks and pass too closely and people in grocery stores don't always follow the rules. If everyone wears a mask we all protect each other. Right now, since we lack testing ability ( both testing for the illness and antibody testing) and a vaccine, masks are all we have. There is no way to open our economy around town without making masks mandatory when you are going to be encountering other people or entering groceries and other businesses. I know that this is not a cure, but it is a reduction in the possibility of spread if everyone does it. This is a no brainer so I hope you will do it. Thank you, Anne Woodbury 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Andy Robin <werdna39@aol.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:42 PM To:Council, City Subject:Housing CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Please oppose AB 725, 902, 1279, and 3173. If these Bills pass the legislature, developers will build, build, build until congestion and pollution overwhelm school capacity and public services, and destroy quality of life throughout Palo Alto. Your job on the Council is to protect our city — not to enable developers to run it into the ground. The Council may be pro‐growth, but you’d be hard‐pressed to find voters in Palo Alto who are looking forward to more traffic and less public services. Especially with the budget decimated for ’20‐’21. Use your influence to fight against these brazen developer‐funded Bills. And don’t again use your public position to make it appear as though any support you may have for any of these Bills is coming from the City and its residents. Thanks, Andy Robin Walnut Dr Palo Alto 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Jim Colton <james.colton10@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 3:42 PM To:Council, City Subject:Opposition to new housing bills CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. I oppose AB 725 by Buffy Wicks and Scott Wiener. I oppose SB 902 by Sen. Scott Wiener I oppose AB 1279 by Richard Bloom. I oppose AB 3173 by Richard Bloom James Colton Redacted 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Kenneth Streib <ken_streib@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 6:14 PM To:Council, City Subject:Big contractor bills CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Please oppose AB 725, SB 902, AB 1279, and AB3173. While we need to overcome the housing shortage, I don’t think lining the pockets of big contractors is the way to do it. Thanks so much for your time, Ken Streib 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Jean Wren <wrenjp@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, May 9, 2020 7:47 AM To:Council, City Subject:Weiner bills CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Dear City Council, I oppose all of the bills recently proposed by Scott Weiner. There is no part of Palo Alto that is suitable for any of his proposed nigh density housing. The directive to increase the number of housing units in Palo Alto should be shared by ALL surrounding cities and towns including Atherton, Portola Valley, Los Altos Hills, Monte Vista. We neither want nor have need of higher density housing in Palo Alto neighborhoods. Jean Wren Palo Alto 94301 Redacted 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Wednesday, May 6, 2020 11:44 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; beachrides; bballpod; boardmembers; bearwithme1016@att.net; Leodies Buchanan; Cathy Lewis; Council, City; paul.caprioglio; Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; dallen1212@gmail.com; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; Steven Feinstein; francis.collins@nih.gov; grinellelake@yahoo.com; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; steve.hogg; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; Mark Kreutzer; Pam Kelly; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; Mayor; Mark Standriff; margaret-sasaki@live.com; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; newsdesk; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; Tom Lang; terry; vallesR1969 @att.net; Irv Weissman; Daniel Zack Subject:Fwd: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:32 PM Subject: Fwd: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:26 PM Subject: Fwd: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:19 PM Subject: Fwd: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:50 PM 2 Subject: Fwd: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:21 PM Subject: Fwd: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:17 PM Subject: Fwd: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:12 PM Subject: Fwd: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:05 PM Subject: Fwd: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:45 PM Subject: Fwd: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:31 PM 3 Subject: Wed. May 6, 2020 Gov. Newsom calls out 2 counties for opening too soon. To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Wed. May 6, 2020‐ Gov. Newsom has called out Yuba and Sutter Counties for allowing certain businesses to re‐open too soon. They say their County Health Officers recommended it. So these County Health Officers can get mayors and Co. Boards of Supervisors into trouble: https://kmph.com/news/local/gov‐newsom‐calls‐out‐counties‐for‐opening‐businesses KCBS said this morning that "the Governor said that the two counties are endangering public safety by their actions in defiance of his proclamations, but that no crack‐down has been undertaken yet". "Crack down" are the words used by KCBS. What would a crack down entail? I would imagine it could involve arrests and prosecutions of mayors and Co. Boards of Supervisors if they are recalcitrant enough. Who would arrest them on order of the Governor? That would be the State Police. It would be the California Attorney General who would prosecute them. If the Governor really wanted to get tough, I suppose that National Guard troops could be sent in. So Mayors and County Boards of Supervisors in places like Fresno, Calif. had better be very certain they are compliant with the Governor's orders as they authoritatively announce which businesses can re‐open on Monday, May 11, 2020. Every expert I have heard talk about lifting restrictions has said that extensive testing has to be in place first, and that hundreds of people trained to do contact tracing must then be available to trace down who may have infected those testing positive for the virus. https://kmph.com/news/local/mayor‐to‐announce‐phase‐1‐of‐reopening‐ fresno?utm_source=Morning+Roundup&utm_campaign=48125a5295‐ EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_06_02_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_165ffe36b2‐48125a5295‐ 78450701&mc_cid=48125a5295&mc_eid=7afa3a94f3 I noticed that Mayor Brand and Mayor‐elect Dyer did not talk about hundreds of people being ready in Fresno County on May 11, 2020 to do contact tracing or even about comprehensive testing protocols being in place in Fresno County on that date. Early in his remarks, Mayor Brand said (at 2:10) that "the county and our local health care system are continuing to increase testing and contact tracing. Two new testing sites have openings this week alone". They are increasing testing and contract tracing?? There has to be extensive testing in place and many people trained and available to do contact tracing. That is a clear requirement before the sheltering, social distancing, and non‐essential business closing requirements can be lifted. Governor Newsom has said that in his daily briefings, and I do not believe that Fresno County is compliant there. I believe that Governor Newsom should therefore intervene with this plan of the City and County of Fresno set to go into effect on Monday, May 11, 2020 and put a halt to it. I strongly suspect that Gov. Newsom is going to hear about what Mayor Brand and the Fresno County Board of Supervisors are authorizing to happen on Monday May 11, 2020, and he is going to hear about their lame comments about testing and about their inadequate preparations to do extensive contact tracing. I suspect that the Governor will hear about all of this from me. I notice that Mayor‐elect Dyer went on about many people in the Fresno community being worried, scared, upset and even angry about the current shutdown. He failed to mention the even greater number of residents of the City and County of Fresno who feel that it is premature and wreckless for any shut‐down orders to be lifted at this time. The polls show that to be true. 70% of Americans feel that it is dangerous to open up the country at this time. The number Americans dying from the virus keeps climbing, and is now over 70,000. Experts are saying that we could well have a second wave of the virus in the fall and into 2021. Some models show 3,000 Americans dying per day starting in June, 4 2020. That would be 1,095,000 deaths per year, or more than double the Americans killed in fighting all of WWII. Having the wreckless punk in the White House wanting the country to re‐open to enrich his Republican pals in the business community does not make sacrificing a million Americans per year to this pandemic right. Killing a lot of people with premature, wreckless re‐opening plans is going to produce a strong reaction for the politicians who undertake it and it could get them prosecuted and sued. I urge them to carefully consider that possibility. I urge Mayor Brand and his Recovery Committee, et. al. to look again at this article in which two experts say that the pandemic could worsen later in 2020 and could be with us for two more years. I sent this to him a couple of days ago: The pandemic could worsen if we lift our control efforts. Look at the qualifications of those experts cited in the article. Somehow I put more credence in their remarks than I do in those of the real estate man who is mayor of Fresno or the mayor‐elect who has been police chief here for 20 years. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/health/report‐covid‐two‐more‐years/index.html I urge them to watch the 2 minute video there and to read the article. "The coronavirus is likely to keep spreading for at least another 18 months to two years"... a team of longstanding pandemic experts predicted in a report released Thursday (April 30, 2020)'. So Fresno City and County officials cannot say at some point that they did not know what the experts were saying about the likely future course of the pandemic. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:D Martell <dmpaloalto@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, May 11, 2020 2:41 PM To:Shikada, Ed Cc:Council, City; Adrian Fine; Jonsen, Robert; Bill Johnson; Dave Price Subject:URGENT - all Palo Alto voices need to be heard - without discrimination CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Palo Alto City Manager Ed Shikada, Due to privacy issues, no one should trust or support social media. "Townhall.com" will not accept my budget suggestions without signing in. To be forced to sign in, jeopardizes Open Government. So I can be heard, please insert my response into the site. -Danielle Martell ---------- My simple two-pronged proposal, comfortably satisfies the need for balancing the approximate $43M City budget deficit, for the fiscal year, starting July 2020. Following my plan allows our city to carry on as it has always been.  Delay construction on the brand-new $150M police station - Palo Alto citizens have already voted "NO!" for using city money for this construction. The new police station continues to compromise city services, to the point of bankrupting us during this budget crisis !!  Shelve tasers - Eliminate police training, lawsuits, maintenance and new purchases. For older adult safety, I oppose delaying ANY funding for sidewalk maintenance.  Wheelchairs and walkers demand adequately safe sidewalks.  Older adults tend to trip and fall easily, causing injuries, such as bruising, scraping thin skin, breaking fragile bones, and chipping teeth. 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Richard Staehnke <rs1fish@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:42 AM To:Council, City Subject:Overcrowding development CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Stop the massive overdevelopment of our city, county and state. As we have seen during this crisis people need space and private transportation to live healthy lives much less quality of life. This is a moral outrage to put the interests of the wealthy developers above that of the majority of citizens all the while using the pretext of public good. Shame on all who support these scams. Richard Staehnke Sent from my iPad 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Planning Commission Sent:Wednesday, May 13, 2020 10:37 AM To:Jeanne Fleming; Fine, Adrian Cc:Council, City; Clerk, City; Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission; board@pausd.org; health@paloaltopta.org; 'Ann Protter'; brucewphillips@gmail.com; 'NTB'; jsglenn@stanford.edu Subject:RE: Public Letters to Council Disappear, Part IV Follow Up Flag:Follow up Flag Status:Flagged Good morning Ms. Fleming, Thank you for your email. We are always seeking ways to improve our procedures and ensure public participation. I generally post the public comment packet online a few days before the meeting to ensure that I capture as many public comments as possible. I also distribute physical copies of the full public comment packet at the meeting as well, but that is no longer possible due to the Shelter in Place order. Your comments are valuable to me and I take your concerns seriously. Moving forward I will post the public comments online on a weekly basis instead of all at once. I want to emphasize that no emails were “withheld” by PTC staff. The record will show that the April 29th public comment packet contains all comments received up to that meeting date with no missed emails (I have not touched that packet since the meeting, so everything you see on there is an accurate representation of what was made available prior to April 29th meeting), and the May 13th pubic comment packet contains all comments received up until now. No emails were missed during that time frame. The same can be said of all PTC meetings before that as well. If there were any missed emails, it is due to human error and not on purpose. Again, I thank you for your comment and your continued engagement with the PTC. Your suggestions and comments help us understand what the public need and expect from their local government and we will continue to improve our procedures to meet those needs. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any further comments or suggestions. Kind regards, Vinh Nguyen | Administrative Associate III Planning & Development Services 250 Hamilton Ave | Palo Alto, CA 94301 P: 650.329.2218 | E: Vinhloc.Nguyen@cityofpaloalto.org From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 9:16 AM To: Fine, Adrian <Adrian.Fine@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Clerk, City <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; Architectural Review Board <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org>; board@pausd.org; health@paloaltopta.org; 'Ann Protter' <ann.protter@gmail.com>; brucewphillips@gmail.com; 'NTB' <aarmatt@gmail.com>; jsglenn@stanford.edu Subject: Public Letters to Council Disappear, Part IV 2 Dear Mayor Fine, I see you have been copied on a second email sent to me by Administrative Associate III Vinh Nguyen of the Planning Department. In it, Mr. Nguyen reports that residents’ emails regarding City Manager Shikada’s cell-tower-related cost cutting recommendations are now included in the Planning Commission’s Public Letters Set for May 13th. I am delighted. Please be aware, however, that these emails were added only after I brought their absence to your attention. There was no letter set at all for the May 13th Planning and Transportation Commission meeting until yesterday, or at least no letter set accessible by the public. I know because I checked the Planning and Transportation Commission’s website the previous evening (next time I’ll take a screen shot). Once again, I urge you to take steps to ensure that City Staff acts in good faith. And once again I remind you, transparency in government is a cornerstone of democracy—and in the case of the public record, a matter of law. Sincerely, Jeanne Fleming Jeanne Fleming, PhD JFleming@Metricus.net 650-325-5151 From: Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 2:10 PM To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>; Fine, Adrian <Adrian.Fine@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Clerk, City <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; Architectural Review Board <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org>; board@pausd.org; health@paloaltopta.org; 'Ann Protter' <ann.protter@gmail.com>; brucewphillips@gmail.com; 'NTB' <aarmatt@gmail.com>; jsglenn@stanford.edu Subject: RE: Public Letters to Council Disappear, Part III Good afternoon Ms. Fleming, Those comments are included in the public comment packet for the PTC May 13th meeting. The direct link to the May 13 packet can be found here: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/76619 Our public comment packets are always posted on the PTC website here: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/boards/ptc/default.asp I try to include all comments, even the ones received on the day of the meeting. My prior email was in response to your statement: “Please note that many of the emails sent to Council were also cc’ed to the Planning and Transportation Commission, yet not one of them has appeared in a Public Letter Set for the Commission.” I was pointing out that all 3 comments received prior to the April 29th PTC meeting were indeed included in the April 29th PTC public comment packet. All comments received after the April 29th PTC meeting are included in the May 13th public comment packet. Please let me know if I have missed any other public comments in those packets. Kind regards, Vinh Nguyen | Administrative Associate III Planning & Development Services 250 Hamilton Ave | Palo Alto, CA 94301 P: 650.329.2218 | E: Vinhloc.Nguyen@cityofpaloalto.org From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 12:43 PM To: Fine, Adrian <Adrian.Fine@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Clerk, City <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; Architectural Review Board <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org>; board@pausd.org; health@paloaltopta.org; 'Ann Protter' <ann.protter@gmail.com>; brucewphillips@gmail.com; 'NTB' <aarmatt@gmail.com>; jsglenn@stanford.edu Subject: Public Letters to Council Disappear, Part III Dear Mayor Fine, I see that you were copied on the email sent to me by Administrative Associate III Vinh Nguyen. In it he responds to my email to you reporting on City Staff’s failure to include in the packets sent to the Planning and Transportation Commission copies of the emails residents had written to City Council regarding City Manager Shikada’s cell-tower-related cost cutting recommendations that are on Council’s agenda for this week. It is difficult to know what to make of what Mr. Ngyuen says. Hence I will simply point out that the emails residents sent to the Planning and Transportation Commission after April 29th—but well before the Planning and Transportation Commission’s meeting scheduled for tomorrow, May 13—are not in the Public Letters Set for that meeting. In other words, these emails are being improperly withheld, just as they were improperly withheld from the public in City Council’s packet for this week. I hope residents can count on you, as the Mayor of Palo Alto, to put an end to this practice and to ensure that City Staff acts in good faith when it comes to maintaining the public record. To repeat, transparency in government is a cornerstone of democracy. Sincerely, Jeanne Fleming Jeanne Fleming, PhD JFleming@Metricus.net 650-325-5151 4 From: Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 4:28 PM To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>; Fine, Adrian <Adrian.Fine@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Clerk, City <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; Architectural Review Board <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org>; board@pausd.org; health@paloaltopta.org; ann.protter@gmail.com; brucewphillips@gmail.com; 'NTB' <aarmatt@gmail.com>; jsglenn@stanford.edu Subject: RE: Public Letters to Council Disappear Dear Ms. Fleming, Thank you for your email. The most recent Planning & Transportation Commission meeting occurred on April 29th. Many of the public comments you referenced were sent in after that meeting which is why it was not included in our recent Commission public comment packet. Below is a link to the April 29th public comment packet. You will find that it includes all public comments received by the Commission during that time frame, including some comments relating to cell tower applications: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/76422 Kind regards, Vinh Nguyen | Administrative Associate III Planning & Development Services 250 Hamilton Ave | Palo Alto, CA 94301 P: 650.329.2218 | E: Vinhloc.Nguyen@cityofpaloalto.org From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net> Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 4:13 PM To: Fine, Adrian <Adrian.Fine@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Clerk, City <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; Architectural Review Board <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>; Planning Commission <Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org>; board@pausd.org; health@paloaltopta.org; ann.protter@gmail.com; brucewphillips@gmail.com; 'NTB' <aarmatt@gmail.com>; jsglenn@stanford.edu Subject: Public Letters to Council Disappear CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor Fine, I wish to call your attention to what appears to be either incompetence or misconduct on the part of City Staff. Specifically, in the Public Letters Set prepared for Monday May 11th’s City Council meeting, Staff failed to include many of the emails residents sent to you and your colleagues—emails objecting to City Manager Shikada’s proposal that Palo Alto “cut costs” 1) by decreasing cell tower application requirements—costs that are in fact covered by the applicants, not the city—and 2) by reducing code enforcement. For the record, these letters also do not appear in any previous letter set. 5 I know this because I was copied on many of the emails on this issue that were sent to City Council. Appended below you will find four thoughtful emails on the subject, none of which were included in the Public Letters Set. Please note that many of the emails sent to Council were also cc’ed to the Planning and Transportation Commission, yet not one of them has appeared in a Public Letter Set for the Commission. This is by no means the first time residents’ emails to Council have disappeared without ever seeing the light of day. I am writing in the hope that you will see that it is the last. As you know, letters to City Council are both part of the public record and systematically made available to the public for review because the transparency in government that is a cornerstone of democracy demands it. Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Jeanne Fleming Jeanne Fleming, PhD JFleming@Metricus.net 650-325-5151 Four of the Letters to Council Omitted from the Public Letters Set: 1. From Ann Protter From: Ann Protter <ann.protter@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 10:57 PM To: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org; ed.shikada@cityofpaloalto.org Subject: City Manager Shikada and Cell Tower Review Process Dear City Council Members, On Sunday council member Tanaka held an office hour regarding the City Manager's suggestion to cut back on the cell tower application review process. There were a number of us on the call, all of whom expressed disappointment and dismay at this suggestion. As I thought about it afterwards I realized how angry I was at the suggestion that we skimp on the cell tower review process. This is hardly a big budget item. We ‐‐ as a community ‐‐ have spent long years coming up with a review process. To sweep it aside is a clear end run. I would wager Mr. Shikada prefers to keep the process out of the public eye. We residents don't. All of us reiterated our horror at the thought of cell towers being allowed a mere 20 feet from our bedrooms. Clearly this is a contentious issue, one that ought to get its due in the approved process. To remove that to make someone's job easier is a travesty. 6 Lastly, thank you council member Tanaka for allowing us residents an opportunity to speak with you directly. It was appreciated. Ann Protter 2. From Bruce Phillips From: BWP <brucewphillips@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 12:16 PM To: City.Council@cityofpaloalto.org Cc: JFLEMING@metricus.net Subject: Architectural Review of cell tower Dear Mayor Fine, Vice Mayor DuBois, and Council Members Cormack, Filseth, Kniss, Kou and Tanaka: I lived next to a cell tower planned near the Waverley and Loma Verde intersection. While I am pleased that our neighborhood may finally receive better cell connection, I am not pleased that this ugly addition will block views when a two‐story is built here. I don't like paying for communal benefit without compensation. Via a neighborhood organizer, I understand that City Manager Ed Shikada has recommended that, in the interests of cost‐cutting, the council amend Palo Alto’s municipal code to “scale back” cell tower application processing, which would include eliminating the Architectural Review Board from the review process. As I understand it, this fails to save money for Palo Alto. The companies pay for the applications and pay for staff time spent on these applications. Moreover, reduced cell tower application requirements would undermine the siting and design criteria approved, as I am told, by the City Council unanimously four months ago, following a three‐year effort. I am also against reducing code enforcement employees with respect to the installation of the cell towers, and I also wonder abut the wisdom of this in general. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Bruce W. Phillips 3. From Nina Bell Redacted 7 From: NTB <aarmatt@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 12:48 PM To: City.Council@cityofpaloalto.org Subject: Proposal regarding cell tower application requirements and cutting Code Enforcement Dear Mayor Fine, Vice Mayor DuBois, and Council Members Cormack, Filseth, Kniss, Kou and Tanaka, The proposal being put before you, to decrease the cell tower application requirements, makes absolutely no sense when it's the telecom company applicants themselves who are the ones who cover these costs. Rather than draining the City coffers, the application fees will be adding to them! Such a proposal seems totally counterproductive. It makes one wonder what is the real motive behind such a proposal? And, as for cutting the budget for Code Enforcement, that puts at risk the safety and well being of all Palo Alto's citizens. Clearly under the current situation there needs to be budget cuts but they need to be done wisely and with the best interest of the residents of Palo Alto. Cutting Code Enforcement is definitely not one of them. Such a cut is made particularly egregious when one pauses to look at the enormous salaries and compensation packages some on the senior executive team receive. They have the benefit of the City's largess while the citizens get the shaft? Something feels very, very wrong. A voluntary salary cut of those executives' compensation packages would go a long way toward funding Code Enforcement personnel to protect the citizens of the City they serve. We all have to step up. Are the City's senior executive staff willing to do their part, following the example set by the senior Stanford administrators who are taking pay cuts from 5 to 20%? Please do not approve the proposal to decrease the cell tower application requirements. And for the safety and well being of the citizens of Palo Alto, the people you serve, funding for Code Enforcement can not be cut. Sincerely, Nina Bell Los Palos Ave 4. From Jeffrey Glenn From: Jeffrey S. Glenn <jsglenn@stanford.edu> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 5:08 PM To: City.Council@CityofPaloAlto.org Cc: Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org; Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; ARB@cityofpaloalto.org; board@pausd.org; city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org Subject: Cell towers in residential neighborhoods Dear Mayor Fine, Vice Mayor DuBois, and Council Members Cormack, Filseth, Kniss, Kou and Tanaka, 8 I understand that City Manager Ed Shikada has recommended that, in the interests of cost‐cutting, you amend Palo Alto’s municipal code to “scale back” on cell tower application processing—a scale‐back which would include eliminating the Architectural Review Board from the review process. I am writing to urge you not to take this step. Why? Quite simply, because it fails to save money for Palo Alto. It is the companies that file applications to install cell towers, not Palo Alto, that pay for staff time spent on these applications. In other words, our city won’t save money by “scaling back” application processing requirements, only the applicants will. Moreover, Mr. Shikada’s recommendation is bad public policy. The reduced cell tower application processing requirements he is calling for are sure to undermine the thoughtful siting and design criteria you on City Council unanimously approved only four months ago—undermine them by making it easier for telecommunications companies to install cell towers next to residents’ homes. The City Manager’s recommendation is at best ill‐informed, and, at worst, an end run around the provisions of the December, 2019, Wireless Resolution, a Resolution that was the result of a three‐year‐long effort by our community and a great deal of work by, among others, you on City Council. I am also writing to urge you—should you decide to follow another of Mr. Shikada’s recommendations, namely, that you reduce the number of code enforcement employees—to stipulate that no reduction in code enforcement or compliance personnel may be taken that jeopardizes the safety and well‐being of the people of Palo Alto, in particular with respect to the installation of cell towers consisting of hundreds of pounds of high‐voltage, radiation‐emitting equipment near residents’ homes. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Jeffrey S. Glenn, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Director, Center for Hepatitis and Liver Tissue Engineering Stanford University School of Medicine CCSR Building, Rm. 3115A Stanford, CA 94305‐5171 U.S.A. email:jeffrey.glenn@stanford.edu tel (office): (650)725‐3373 tel (lab): (650)498‐7419 Redacted 9 fax: (650)723‐3032 pager: (650)723‐8222; ID# 23080