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HomeMy Public PortalAbout20201019plCC 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: 10/19/2020 Document dates: 09/23/2020 – 09/30/2020 Set 1 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. From:Kevin GUIBARA To:Council, City Subject:ADU and Housing Date:Saturday, September 26, 2020 10:15:45 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Dear City Council, I am a strong supporter of making ADUs as simple as possible to build. This is low hanging fruit for our affordable housing crisis. We need more housing supply. I am also a strong supporter of raising the heigh limit to 200 feet in locations that are 1/2 mile from a Caltrain Station. We need density in our Downtowns to create walkable, car-free and vibrant Downtown neighborhoods full of retail. Density accomplishes all this. Furthermore, if we add all this Density and housing downtown, the rest of Palo Alto can remain unchanged. Sincerely, Kevin Guibara From:Eros Resmini To:Council, City Subject:ADU Ordinance Date:Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:07:09 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Dear City Council, We have lived in Palo Alto for 40 years in the midtown neighborhood. We are totally in support of ADUs and second dwelling units. We are hopeful to build one ourselves to live in so that our son can live in the main house with his family. This is a great thing for Palo Alto residents! Thank you for all your work on it! Eros Resmini 2643 Marshall Drive Palo Alto, CA, 94303 650 885-8244 Sent from my iPad From:Donna Davies To:Council, City Subject:ADUs Date:Friday, September 25, 2020 2:21:58 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello Council Members, I urge you to streamline and incentivize the construction of ADUs. Palo Alto, along with the entire Bay Area, has selected this winning solution of allowing ADUs to be built but needs toencourage homeowners to get onboard with the idea. Preapprove ADU vendors just like San Jose so the process is quicker. Streamline the permitting and reduce the costs. Thank you,Donna Davies From:Lloyd Diamond To:Council, City Subject:Extension RPP Old Palo Alto - Discussion Point for October 5th City Council Meeting Date:Monday, September 28, 2020 2:18:44 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council, We are residents of Old Palo Alto and are within the RPP area. We have owned our home for over 16 years and have watched the traffic and parking situation become progressively worse during that time. The RPP initiative is an excellent one that has borne significant fruit over the last year. The neighborhood has once again become an enjoyable place to live. Let us restate the facts: 1. We had a serious problem with our neighborhood becoming a Caltrain andcommercial parking lot 2. We followed the city process and received RPP approval 3. The RPP fixed the parking problem 4. We want it to continue as a PERMANENT program (not just a one year pilotextension), which was the original intention of the discussions we had with City Counsel at the outset of the Program We have faith in the process and that City Counsel will permanently approve the RPP so that residents of the neighborhood can continue to enjoy the quality of life that isexpected within Old Palo Alto. Best Regards, Lloyd & Isabelle Diamond From:Jim Mimmack To:Council, City Subject:Fw: Old Palo Alto Neighborhood Residential Permit Parking (RPP) Date:Monday, September 28, 2020 8:28:52 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Says it all. Thanks for listening. Dear Neighbors, Please support our neighbors in Old Palo Alto. Just add your opinion to this email and forward to City city.council@cityofpaloalto.org. Send your email as soon aspossible so it will be included in the council packet for October 5 Council Meeting. Perhaps you have been following the ongoing saga of the Old Palo Alto RPP renewal . Last year, following all the City rules, Old Palo Alto (OPA) residents living adjacent to the pedestrian tunnel under the Caltrain tracks applied for an RPP. This new RPP was granted by the city as a one year pilot program. It was set for renewal on the CONSENT calendar a few weeks ago but three (3) council members, Cormack, Tanaka and Kniss voted to take it off consent and set it for a full hearing, which is now set for October 5. Many RPP supporters throughout Palo Alto were shocked because the 624-space, taxpayer funded parking garage near Cal Ave, is set to open in November. Furthermore almost everyone knows that California Avenuecommercial core within two months will have a huge surplus of under- utilized public and private parking spaces. This surplus will continue for at least 12-24 months. There is no practical reason to delay the OPA RPP for further study. Another 12-months of staff study during the covid disruption will yield no useful data. The Office of Transportation has far greater priorities to manage business recovery traffic and parking. Old Palo Alto neighborhood has no historical or current obligation to provide commercial parking to the California Ave commercial core. The City Council, developers and the California Avenue business communitydo not have any rationale to delay the OPA RPP. The Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan is instructive. It states the value of promoting commerce in Palo Alto but not at the expense ofresidential neighborhoods. Please join me in recommending to Council full approval of OPA’s RPP as a permanent program vs just a "one-year extension”. Call me if you have any questions. Thank you. Neilson Buchanan155 Bryant StreetPalo Alto, CA 94301 650 329-0484650 537-9611 cellcnsbuchanan@yahoo.com From:Patricia L Devaney To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: Old Palo Alto Neighborhood Residential Permit Parking (RPP) Date:Monday, September 28, 2020 9:41:39 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I think the residents’ wishes on this issue should prevail. If they think the RPP worked well for them this past year and they want it continued, It should be. Neilson Buchanan makes verygood arguments for this position, below. Thank you, Pat Devaney Begin forwarded message: From: Neilson Buchanan <cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com>Subject: Old Palo Alto Neighborhood Residential Permit Parking (RPP) Date: September 27, 2020 at 10:05:22 PM PDT To: Neilson Buchanan <cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com> Dear Neighbors, Please support our neighbors in Old Palo Alto. Just add your opinion to this email and forward to City city.council@cityofpaloalto.org. Send your email assoon as possible so it will be included in the council packet for October 5 Council Meeting. Perhaps you have been following the ongoing saga of the Old Palo Alto RPP renewal . Last year, following all the City rules, Old Palo Alto (OPA) residents living adjacent to the pedestrian tunnel under the Caltrain tracks applied for an RPP. This new RPP was granted by the city as a one year pilot program. It was set for renewal on the CONSENT calendar a few weeks ago but three (3) council members, Cormack, Tanaka and Kniss voted to take it off consent and set it for afull hearing, which is now set for October 5. Many RPP supporters throughout Palo Alto were shocked because the 624-space, taxpayer funded parking garage nearCal Ave, is set to open in November. Furthermore almost everyone knows that California Avenue commercial core within two months will have a huge surplus of under-utilized public and private parking spaces. This surplus will continue for at least 12-24 months. There is no practical reason to delay the OPA RPP for further study. Another 12-months of staff study during the covid disruption will yield no useful data. The Office of Transportation has far greater priorities to manage business recovery traffic and parking. Old Palo Alto neighborhood has no historical or current obligation to provide commercial parking to the California Ave commercial core. The City Council, developers and the California Avenue business community do not have anyrationale to delay the OPA RPP. The Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan is instructive. It states the value of promoting commerce in Palo Alto but not at theexpense of residential neighborhoods. Please join me in recommending to Council full approval of OPA’s RPP as a permanent program vs just a "one-yearextension”. Call me if you have any questions. Thank you. Neilson Buchanan155 Bryant StreetPalo Alto, CA 94301 650 329-0484650 537-9611 cellcnsbuchanan@yahoo.com From:Elaine Andersen To:Council, City Subject:Old Palo Alto Neighborhood Residential Permit Parking (RPP) Date:Monday, September 28, 2020 10:28:22 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. We see no reason for Tanaka, Kniss & Cormack to force reconsideration of the continuation of the RPP program in the area adjacent to the pedestrian tunnel under the Caltrain tracks. As others have pointed out: There is no practical reason to delay the OPA RPP for further study. Another 12- months of staff study during the covid disruption will yield no useful data. The Office of Transportation has far greater priorities to manage business recovery traffic and parking. Old Palo Alto neighborhood has no historical or current obligation to provide commercial parking to the California Ave commercial core. The City Council, developers and the California Avenue business community do not have any rationale to delay the OPA RPP. Makes it pretty pretty clear why the developers give so much money to Tanaka — & to Kniss in the past. Is Cormack going to follow in their footsteps?? What a waste of time not to have just left this on the consent calendar! Does the council have nothing better to worry about in these difficult times? From:Ray Dempsey To:Council, City Subject:Old Palo Alto RPP Date:Monday, September 28, 2020 8:37:36 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. There is no practical reason to delay the OPA RPP for further study because three Council Members think it is necessary. Another 12-months of staff study during the covid disruption will yield no useful data. The Office of Transportation has far greater priorities to manage business recovery traffic and parking. Old Palo Alto neighborhood has no historical or current obligation toprovide commercial parking to the California Ave commercial core. The City Council, developers and the California Avenue business community do not have any rationale to delay the OPA RPP. Ray Dempsey1036 Bryant StreetPalo Alto, CA 94301 From:Chan, Jennifer MD To:Council, City Cc:Chris Robell Subject:Old Palo Alto RPP- extend pilot Date:Sunday, September 27, 2020 3:20:30 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I understand that the Old Palo Alto RPP pilot may end soon and the restrictions lifted. We only recently had the permit signs go up in Spring 2020, during Covid. Thus, we really haven’t had time to see its effects during routine train commute times. I would suggest that we get at least a year of a trial period. Thanks for considering, Jennifer Chan 240 Washington Ave From:Chris Merritt To:Council, City Subject:Old Palo Alto RPP Date:Monday, September 28, 2020 9:00:24 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Please stay the course and make the RPP permanent. -we had a serious problem with our neighborhood being a Caltrain and commercial parking lot -we followed the city process and got RPP approval -the RPP fixed the parking intrusion problem -we want it to continue as a PERMANENT program (not just a one year pilot extension) Thank you for your consideration. Due process and consistency is an important part of our local government. Chris Merritt 2365 Ramona st From:Paul Machado To:Council, City Subject:Old Palo Alto RPP Date:Friday, September 25, 2020 11:33:40 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. A new 624 car parking garage paid for by taxpayers is almost complete in the Cal Ave area, and the City is using capacity utilization as a metric in nearby neighborhoods This means the City views neighborhoods as a parking lot. Clearlysome council members have NO concern for traffic, nor residents. During these troubled times of Covid, budget problems, etc., the City could save time by merely making the Old Palo Alto RPP permanent and move on, unless theCity has plans to use neighborhoods to park under parked projects. Thank you Paul Machado From:Shepardwe To:Council, City Subject:Old Palo Alto RPP Date:Monday, September 28, 2020 10:38:35 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council: Please vote to extend the RPP (residential parking program) in Old Palo Alto. This program has the strong support of the residents in this area who went through all of the required procedures to petition for the program in 2018-2019. Parking became very congested in our neighborhood only after all of the other neighborhoods around California Avenue implemented RPPs. Commuters and workers began parking here in our residential neighborhood because it was free and more convenient than driving into the California Avenue business district. Implementation of the RPP helped to significantly decrease traffic making it calmer, quieter and also safer for children playing in neighborhood streets and cyclists and walkers using the California Avenue underpass. Traffic all over the city has decreased with COVID-19, but eventually it will come back. The new parking garage on California Avenue will not make any difference in the parking situation in Old Palo Alto if there is a cost to park in the garage while our neighborhood streets again offer free parking. The RPP is not an exclusionary policy. Anyone can park on the streets in the RPP district for a 2-hour window during the work week. For low income workers needing to park longer, free parking should be made available within the California Avenue business district. No single neighborhood or small section of a neighborhood should be asked to support the business parking for Caltrain commuters and California Avenue workers. Sincerely E.Shepard Old Palo Alto resident From:Keith Clarke To:Council, City Subject:OPA RPP Date:Wednesday, September 30, 2020 11:28:07 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council, I want the council to know that we strongly support the Old Palo Alto Residential Parking Program. We live on Washington Ave, not within the original boundary, but inside theextended boundary. We had a serious problem with our neighborhood being a Caltrain and commercial parking lot ever since the Evergreen and Mayfield RPP program was initiated. Since that time, the parkingproblem has been pushed to our side of the tracks. To acknowledge the rights of one neighborhood to the detriment of another is not in keeping with the goals of RPP as Iunderstand them. We followed the city process and got RPP approval. The RPP fixed the parking intrusion problem. We can once again enjoy having a spot for our garbage cans without interference andhaving our streets swept regularly. We can again walk and drive safely in our neighborhood without the danger of vehicles partially blocking our driveways and crosswalks. We want it to continue as a PERMANENT program (not just a one year pilot extension). Thank you,Keith and Linda Clarke 204 Washington Ave. From:Andrew Durham To:Council, City Cc:Chris Robell Subject:RPP PLEASE!!!!!! Date:Monday, September 28, 2020 4:02:29 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I understand that the new RPP program for my neighborhood may to be renewed. This is very problematic, specifically for High street, between Oregon ave and California ave. I live on the corner of High street and Oregon ave. There is no parking on the block of Oregon where I live because of the Alma offramp, so the only parking is on High street. Before the RPP was implemented, Caltrain commuters and California ave business employees would take up every single parking spot ( and non parking spots on the street. ) Sometime my driveway would be partially blocked by cars trying tocram into parking spaces. Yes I have a garage and can park my car in the garage but it was impossible for plumbers, gardeners, doctors, and visitors etc to park on my street. Often people would try, and eventually give up. I read the letter from the resident who objected to the permit parking. I don't think this individual who lives on Bryant street (3 blocks up from where I live), completely understands how crowded High street becomes if people are allowed to park all day long. Sometimes even longer. I'm very familiar with Bryant, and there is rarely anysort of parking issues on that street. There never has been. Please take this into consideration. Thank you, Andrew Durham From:Cynthia Bright To:Council, City Subject:Do not cancel public art funding! Date:Saturday, September 26, 2020 10:07:05 PM 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 not cut funding for the arts, including public art. At a time when our communities divide us, we need the arts to teach us new ways of thinking and give us new perspectives. Please vote to sustain the arts. Kind regards, Cynthia Palo Alto Resident / Southgate Neighbor Sent from my iPad 1 Baumb, Nelly From:Elissa Riedy <eriedy@are.com> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1:55 PM To:Council, City Cc:Valerie Matthews; Julia Millan Subject:Safe Parking at 2000 Geng Road Inquiry Importance:High CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto City Council,    I represent the property owner, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, at the neighboring locations 2100‐2400 Geng Road,  right next to 2000 Geng Road where the intended Safe Parking site will be located. I am copying our Security Director for  this campus, Valerie Matthews, in hopes that we can solicit an in person meeting to discuss more details surrounding  this Safe Parking site.     We are very interested to know the following details:   Who our day to day contact will be for this site?   Roll out timeline of the Safe Parking at 2000 Geng?   Planned security or PAPD support, if any   Will extra lighting or cameras be installed at this site?   What is the City’s approach to collaborating with the commercial neighbors to create communication, safety  protocols, etc.?    As you can imagine we are concerned about the safety of our occupants that do business within our 4 building campus  at Geng Road that is located right next door to 2000 Geng, so any information or support that you can provide us would  be greatly appreciated, so that we can plan and execute a safety plan on our end. In fact, I wanted to share that we have  actively reported and have kept the lines of communication open regarding at least two bullet hole incidents that took  place back in October and November of 2019 with the City of Palo Alto PD. The bullets traveled from the neighboring  playing field located at 2000 Geng Road, and now with the 24/7 safe parking site establishment, we want to understand  any potential safety, nuisance impacts that might arise being your direct neighbor.     I look forward to hearing from you.     Thanks,  Elissa     ELISSA RIEDY, RPA Senior Director - Asset Services Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. 1700 Owens St., Suite 590 San Francisco, CA 94158 O 415.912.1006 M 415.770.7591 eriedy@are.com www.are.com 2     3 Baumb, Nelly From:Tony Ciampi <T.Ciampi@hotmail.com> Sent:Monday, September 28, 2020 11:53 PM To:Council, City; Human Relations Commission Subject:PA Police Auditor CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Council looks at expanding the role of the police auditor   September 28, 2020 11:22 pm  https://padailypost.com/2020/09/28/council‐looks‐at‐expanding‐the‐role‐of‐the‐police‐auditor/          https://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/      The 12 Lies of Michael Gennaco:  A case study in how Michael Gennaco's and his company covers up the unethical and illegal acts committed by the very police  officers that he is supposed to hold accountable.    Lie 1)   Mr. Gennaco stated that he cannot provide much detail about an incident in one of his reports even  though he had completed his report and submitted it to to a public entity for public consumption.  Mr.  Gennaco refused, and continues to refuse 8 years later,  to reveal whether he had or had not analyzed data  that would prove videos had been tampered with.  http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lie‐1.html  4       Lie 2)  Mr. Gennaco refused to accept a complaint asserting that he does not receive complaints even though  the Palo Alto Police Department website states that he does receive complaints.  http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lie‐2.html    Lie 3)  Mr. Gennaco falsely stated that the suspect was not shocked because no electricity was discharged  from a taser gun.  http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lies‐3‐‐4‐one‐taser‐probe‐shocks.html    Lie 4)  Mr. Gennaco falsely stated that a taser gun will not work if only on taser probe strikes a person.  http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lies‐3‐‐4‐one‐taser‐probe‐shocks.html    Lie 5)  Mr. Gennaco refused to include a deliberate violation of the taser policy in his report and therefore lied  to and deceived the the public about this violation.  http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lie‐5‐violates‐policy‐activation‐data.html    Lie 6)  Mr. Gennaco falsely stated in his report that the incident was thoroughly documented despite being  provided empirical evidence that members of the PAPD destroyed evidence in violation of their own  taser/evidence policies as well as state and federal laws.  http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lie‐6‐destruction‐of‐taser‐evidence.html    Lie 7)  Mr. Gennaco falsely stated in his report that the MAV and taser videos had not been tampered  with.  Mr. Gennaco had been provided with empirical evidence that he cannot refute that the videos have  been tampered with so he refuses to address it.  http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lie‐7‐missing‐video‐footage.html    Lie 8)  Mr. Gennaco falsely stated that the officers' statements comported with the recordings of the incident  even though he knows Ofc. Burger provided false testimony.    http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lie‐8‐burgers‐perjury.html    Lie 9)  Despite knowing that Ofc. Temores provided false testimony Mr. Gennaco falsely stated that the  officers' statements comported with the recordings of the incident.   http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lie‐9‐temores‐perjury.html    Lie 10)  Mr. Gennaco knows that Ofc. Wagner submitted a false statement under penalty of perjury to the  federal courts yet continues to conclude that the officers' statements comported with the recordings.  http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lie‐10‐wagner‐gun.html    Lie 11)  Mr. Gennaco falsely stated that the suspect showed signs of being under the influence of  drugs.  Additionally, Gennaco did not include in his report the ridicule, demeaning and false accusations used  by the officers to antagonize the suspect.   http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lie‐11‐influence‐of‐drugs.html      5 Lie 12)  Mr. Gennaco falsely promoted himself as being an independent entity capable of holding Palo Alto  Police Officers accountable when they violate department policy knowing full well he does not have this  authority.  http://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/lie‐12‐accountability.html        Sidney Powell a former U.S. Attorney details the corruption of the DOJ in her latest book:  LICENSED TO LIE:  Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice          https://michaelgennacooir.weebly.com/murray‐dog‐bite.html      Mr. Gennaco is at it again.    Tajae Murray was arrested by the Palo Alto Police on April 7, 2016.  Murray was  never charged with a crime.  During the detention and arrest Murray was bitten by a Palo Alto Police Dog  which "bit a off a chunk" of Murray's leg as officers looked on and even encouraged the attack, mauling,  despite the fact that Murray posed no threat to the officers, was not resisting nor fleeing according to  Murray's lawsuit filed against the City of Palo Alto and numerous Palo Alto Police Officers.    Mr. Gennaco is advertised the community as a "Independent Police Auditor" who investigates misconduct  perpetrated by members of the Palo Alto Police.    Mr. Gennaco has just submitted his final report for the year 2016 and still has not written a report on the  Murray dog biting incident even though a claim was filed against the City and rejected and therefore resulted  in the lawsuit being filed against the City and the police department.  The lawsuit was filed on May 6, 2017 and  therefore the claim, the complaint, must have been filed prior to October 7, 2016.     Mr. Gennaco refuses to complete a report in violation of his contract with the City of Palo Alto because he  6 does not want to go on record as to what happened.  He is waiting until after everything is settled before he  says anything so that his report lines up with the Palo Alto Police Department's findings.     This proves that Mr. Gennaco in not conducting an independent investigation of the Palo Alto Police.  He did  the same thing in the Tyler Harney case. The city settled with Harney shortly after a judge ordered the city to  provide Harney with software to determine if the videos in his incident had been tampered with.  So rather  than provide the software which could have revealed illegal tampering of audio video recordings the city  handed over money.  No mention by Mr. Gennaco as to why the city was refusing to provide that software in  the first place.        Mr. Gennaco did write a report regarding in first half of 2016 which hie points out how a Palo Alto Police  Officer detained a juvenile for being under the influence of alcohol and that the police officer failed to turn on  his camera system.  Mr. Gennaco points out how this officer was reprimanded for not turning his camera  system on yet Mr. Gennaco says nothing about the fact that the camera system records video even if an  officer fails to turn the camera system on, "Record After the Fact."  And therefore Mr. Gennaco says nothing  about the fact that the video of the incident could have been obtained from the system; nor does Gennaco  mention whether or not the command staff actually obtained this video of the detained juvenile; the juvenile  whom it is presumed to by Tajae Murray the individual who had chunk of his leg bitten off by the Palo Alto  Police Dog.    7 Baumb, Nelly From:Geri <geri@thegrid.net> Sent:Monday, September 28, 2020 9:15 PM To:Council, City Cc:Mike Bechler; Geri Mc Gilvray Subject:Your picture at 8:38 pm, sept.28, 2020 (TV) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________        Hello City COUNCIL,    I can not read any of your names,  or see you clearly on this Otherwise VERY excellent TV.  Hard to tell who is speaking..   I only know five of you.  Can we make your names appear  BIGGER ?  and can you get us better acuity?  I watch now and then.    Ride alongs,  coffees, are good.  Neighborhood police are needed.  8 Friendliness is needed. Kindness:    Non violence IS always best.    Traffic SPEED ENFORCEMENT   WORKS.  Arterials need  it  ASAP.  It is not the STATES BUSINESS to stop you For Another nine years.    RETURNING PHONE CALLS WOULD HELP.  Honesty without exception is  Always needed.   This sure  Would be terrific.      Mr.  Perron should be   Apologizing to the gentleman he insulted, atone, and  clear some air.    It took my safety group over seven years to get car crash stats.  So frustrating! There were 33 of us in our safety group.    As always, thank you for helping and sitting through these meetings.    Geri Sigler Mcgilvray  Everyday safety and walkability  In all of Palo Alto.    650‐328‐2416      Sent from my iPhone  9 Baumb, Nelly From:Geri <geri@thegrid.net> Sent:Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:26 PM To:Council, City; tim@midtownpaloalto.com Cc:Mike Bechler; Geri Mc Gilvray; Peter Rosenblum Subject:Fire hazard, and view blocking mess, on roof for months CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear city leaders, and, the city planning department,          Workers using roof for view blocking junk for MONTHS.   City pretends that this height is a One Story, which cuts off the tree Veiw.  It is abusive to neighbors to stack four feet + more junk on it for further blocking of view for ALL these months.    10   FIRE HAZARD BRUSH there for months:  just takes one match. Please clear.  Please finish the house at 711 Moreno at  Middlefield.     We also need a SIGNAL here on MORENO, a real two way street, so we don’t have to drive 10 blocks out of our way to  drive south to our shopping, which is one block away on Our own street,  middlefield.    Geri Mcgilvray   Everyday safety and walkability       Sent from my iPhone  11 Baumb, Nelly From:Stephanie Wansek <stephanie.wansek@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 23, 2020 8:45 PM To:Council, City Cc:City Mgr; Apple, Kara Subject:Comments for packet - City Council Meeting Sept 28 Action item # 10 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Council member,    I am writing to confirm the Cardinal Hotel’s position that the SMCCVB does not add value to Palo Alto hotels and to  support the withdrawal of Palo Alto hotels from this organization.    It is worthwhile to note that the 2020 hotel outreach results conducted by Lt. Kara Apple reflect a higher percentage of  hotels voting to withdraw from the SMCCVB than in the 2019 outreach.          I think two points are particularly noteworthy:  • Whether in booming times, or in the worst economic times that any hotelier can remember, the sentiment about  belonging to and funding the SMCCVB is not deemed valuable by 20 of the 23 hotels that chose to participate in the  survey. Let us agree that not participating in the survey does not constitute a vote to continue.    • Of the seven largest hotels, five want to end the relationship with the SMCCVB. Among the five, two properties that  did not respond in 2019 now want to leave.     Although some hotels used to ‘pass through’ SMCCVB fees to their guests, this is no longer possible. With the current  drastic drop in room rates and the low number of guests, fees are now an internal cost along with payroll and all other  expenses. Again, this is a recurring cost that has not added value over the previous ten‐year relationship.    To reiterate the experience of the Cardinal Hotel with the SMCCVB over the past ten years:  • No relevant leads ‐ we engaged in lead process for years  • No leads ever converted to bookings  12 • No outreach from SMCCVB between 2010 ‐2018  • In 2019, after the SMCCVB learned that the Palo Alto hotels were not satisfied with the performance of the  organization, there was a flurry of outreach and that effort fell flat. I talked with Nina Ramos and Juan Camero and  neither followed through with promises to connect me with opportunities to present my historic property ‐ either  directly with travel writers or with another colleague to discuss the film market.     This organization may have its place marketing for San Mateo County hotels. Our market here in Palo Alto is simply too  different which makes their efforts in our market irrelevant. As many have said, it is just not a good fit. After 10 years  and paying over $3,000,000 to the SMCCVB, there should be no fundamental doubt about its relevance to Palo Alto  hotels. Now IS the time to withdraw.     I appreciate your time and consideration in reading this email.    Sincerely,    Stephanie Wansek    Stephanie Wansek | General Manager  THE CARDINAL HOTEL   235 Hamilton Ave | Palo Alto, CA | 94301| www.cardinalhotel.com  p: (650) 323‐5101 f: (650) 325‐60856 | stephanie@cardinalhotel.com        13 Baumb, Nelly From:Kimberley Wong <sheepgirl1@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 23, 2020 5:57 PM To:Historic Resources Board Cc:Castilleja Expansion; Architectural Review Board; French, Amy; Lait, Jonathan; Shikada, Ed; Council, City Subject:Castilleja Project comments to HRB CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Historic Resource Board members, My name is Kimberley Wong and I grew up in Palo Alto and I have lived across the street from the Lockey House for the last 24 years with my family. In fact my grandfather moved here in 1900 and lived in an historic Queen Anne Victorian at 225 Homer Avenue, in downtown Palo Alto. This home was moved to South Palo Alto, lovingly restored and well lived in to this day. So I am very much in favor of renovating homes to preserve and honor past generations whenever possible. I am relieved after much protesting that Castilleja finally decided to retain the beautiful Lockey House and its neighbor.Though DUDEK has claimed that the Lockey House is not historic they should by principle never have considered tearing it down in the first place! As a 100+ year home it retains much of its architectural features of arched transom windows, crown molding and many turn of the century details. Henry Seale sold the land to Ms Mary Lockey in 1910 for Gustave Laumeister, his son-in-law and well known developer of Professorville, to develop the campus to build her dream school. With the encouragement of David Starr Jordan as a "finishing school" for Stanford bound graduates this school has survived for 100+ years but has seen many changes, including the addition of blockish style 60’s style dormitory buildings. Unfortunately, the architects rather than taking this opportunity to return these unsightly buildings to a more aesthetically pleasing state they have further expanded the eyesore with an even longer facade not compatible with the classic style or massing of the surrounding single family homes of the Gunn building and Chapel, which have retained their character even after renovations. https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/08/18/as-castilleja-revises-redevelopment-plan-some-neighbors-remain-firmly-opposed Gennady Scheyner, in the Aug 18, 2020 Palo Alto Weekly article, writes that “Board Chair Peter Baltay said that it's not enough for the new campus to simply be superior to the dormitory buildings that were constructed in the 1960s. The city, he said, should hold Castilleja to a higher standard.“ I think that the Historic Resources Board should also hold Castilleja to a higher standard and ask them to design something that would complement the original campus buildings. Several ARB members commented that the very long building should be broken up to reduce the massing. This was only one of many other criticisms of the plan which the city planner failed to mention in her brief and incomplete summary of the August 20, 2020 ARB meeting. I suggest that the HRB listen to the August 20 ARB commissioner many comments at the end after public input. The Gunn Administration Building designed by Gustave Laumeister and Chapel designed by Birge Clark are the only two buildings with the charm worth keeping from the original Castilleja Campus. I suggest that the rest of the buildings should be redesigned in keeping with this classic style. Furthermore, I believe that designing a exterior staircase on the Gunn building is a blight on the classic structure and destroys the character of this building. An outdoor staircase is more in line with a industrial building such as the one that 14 is currently being built on the Park/Sherman garage in the California Ave area. This does not belong on a historic building that has kept to the original vision of the campus and is compatible with the R1 zoned residential neighborhood. Kimberley 15 Figure 4 a tilleja chool 1910 ( r oll a1 16 Here we see that a outside stairwell completely loses the architectural integrity of the craftsman structure of the Gunn Building and adds an industrial look to it. 17 25 Baumb, Nelly From:Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:23 PM To:Aram James Cc:chuck jagoda; Roberta Ahlquist; Mary Sylvester; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Steven D. Lee; Madhumita Gupta; Raven Malone; Winter Dellenbach; Sara Tabin; Emily Mibach; paloaltoresident@paloaltocalifornia.us; Jeff Moore; Greg Tanaka; james pitkin; Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Mudita Jain Subject:Re: Tonight’s Palo Alto city Council debate CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hi ‐ I'm just giving long‐overdue gratitude for Aram's kind words.     Now more than ever we need to enact strong protections to produce housing, preserve existing affordable housing, and  protect tenants. Given an opportunity to do all 3 on Monday night, the city council did none. In its discussion of zoning  changes to incentivize housing, all 7 city council members reaffirmed Palo Alto's exclusionary height limits on housing  developments, despite the advice of their own outside consultant, who concluded that Palo Alto's height limits impede  the city's ability to raise funds for, and consequently build, affordable housing.     As to affordable housing production, city council continued to focus exclusively on its failed strategy of relying on  commercial developers. Despite calls from community members to utilize one of the vast array of financing strategies  available to cities with excellent credit such as Palo Alto to acquire land and buildings, the city council rejected even  researching this method, that other cities use with great success. And, even though city council was informed that  numerous other California cities have been receiving HomeKey grants ranging from $10 to $50 million to produce  affordable housing, city council has not explored taking advantage of the $600 million of CARES Act funding recently  offered by the State of California. After seeing Mountain View next door receive $12.3 million in HomeKey funds last  week, which Mountain View is using to increase its transitional homeless capacity ten‐fold, Palo Alto city council did not  consider doing the same.    In March, city council voted 7‐0 to remove a business tax from November's ballot, thereby depriving our community the  right to require our largest businesses to contribute to our city coffers, and extending Palo Alto's problematic status as  the only California city with a business presence that lacks any business tax. So, in a city that has the corporate  headquarters or large offices of at least five multi‐billion‐dollar technology giants that have profited from this pandemic  ‐‐ Tesla, Palantir, Amazon, Facebook, and Google ‐‐ our council cut $42 million in essential services to, rather than allow  our community to ask Tesla and Palantir to pay for the housing shortage they create.    Not surprisingly, Palo Alto's failed strategies have resulted in the permitting of only 43 units of very low income housing  in the past 7 years: a mere 6% of the city's legal obligation to produce, with one year to go. Palo Alto's affordable  housing shortage is so severe that the ratio of jobs‐to‐affordable homes for very low income workers here is an  unprecedented astromic 7‐jobs‐to‐1‐affordable‐home. Palo Alto's performance in low and moderate income housing is  not much better:    26   Under every alternate calculation of RHNA's very low income housing requirements, 43 units in 7 years represents  irrefutable failure, particularly when compared to virtually every less‐wealthy California city, all of whom have  outperformed our highly‐educated, highly‐paid community in housing production. This is embarrassing, shameful, and  puts the sustainability of our community at risk. This does not reflect the values of our community, nor the stated  priorities of the city council, both of which rank affordable housing at the very top.    We can do better. I believe that, with long‐overdue policy changes, Palo Alto has the capacity to lead our State in  affordable housing production, in addition to affordable housing preservation, and tenant protection.   Here is my plan: https://www.winwithrebecca.com/housing‐plan     Additionally, local community group Palo Alto Neighborhoods (PAN) recently posted all 10 candidates' responses to a  long list of questions, which provides an interesting overview of how different candidates approach local issues:  http://paneighborhoods.org/election‐2020/.   (please forgive the typo you may notice in one of my answers)  This is the fixed broken link for goals: http://paneighborhoods.org/wp‐content/uploads/2020/09/Goals.pdf    Thank you again, Aram, for your kind words, and, more importantly, for your hard work and dedication towards our  shared goals of defeating systems that maintain a racist status quo, that deprive communities of color and working  families from access to our economy and education, and that advantage the wealthiest few at the expense of the  vulnerable.     Best regards,  Rebecca      rebecca@winwithrebecca.com * 415-235-8078  Win With Rebecca! iGana con Rebeca!  Rebecca Eisenberg for Palo Alto City Council   www.winwithrebecca.com      Join our Movement for a Fair Palo Alto!  Facebook: Rebecca Eisenberg for Palo Alto City Council  27 Twitter: @RebeccaEisenbe4 ** @rle   Instagram: @reisenberg2020      On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:45 PM Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote:        Hi Chuck,     Not one candidate at tonight’s debate ‐despite an open ended question re police reform‐ discussed the ongoing  coverup of the racist PAPD cop ( captain no less) Zack Perron scandal here in Palo Alto. Lots of PA folks willing to say  they support the BLM movement ‐but when it comes to removing a vile alleged racist from our own police department  silence and complicity seems to be the order of the day. ( 6 years and counting!!!)    My favorite candidate for PA city council‐ Rebecca Eisenberg ‐did a great job‐ stated adamantly that the PAPD has a  long history of police brutality. She was by far the strongest candidate on housing issues, safe parking programs etc.  She is fearless and never afraid to speak truth to power. Extremely well informed ‐and articulate ‐Stanford undergrad ‐ Harvard Law ‐and the heart of a warrior activist.     I also thought Raven Malone did an excellent job as did Cari Templeton. I may be voting for all three women ‐each who  would hopefully knock out an incumbent or a retread candidate like Pat Burt.    I’m also giving a hard look at candidate Greer Stone. He was viciously attacked by Michele Dauber and her husband Ken  Dauber —because he dared to testify as a character witness for his brother who was convicted as a child molester and  sent to prison.    After his testimony the Daubers ran a hate campaign to have him removed as a Democratic Party delegate ‐member of  the county HRC ‐and questioned whether he should be allowed to continue teaching in Palo Alto schools.    When he sat before the Democratic Party for their endorsement for city council  Michele Dauber (apparently an inexplicably‐a leader in the county Democratic Party) on the panel deciding  endorsements —refused to recuse herself or declare a conflict despite her prior attacks on Greer Stone —way prior to  him running for city council. He did not receive a party endorsement!     The other members of the endorsement panel ‐apparently had no problem allowing the witch hunter, Michele Dauber,  to remain on the panel deciding whether to endorse Greer Stone.     If all of the above is accurate ( I’m a recently registered ‐last few years ‐democrat ) ‐I now have nothing but contempt  for the local Democratic leadership .   We need to do our best to attend these debates and ask the hard questions about this totally unaccountable police  department ‐with a non‐stop history of abusing and brutalizing people of color—and the same history of racist policing.   We need to ask some hard questions ‐of council candidates‐about DA Rosen and how the city council and the PA  community can push Rosen politically —to file criminal charges against brutal and racist cops like Perron, Wayne  Benitez and other members of the PAPD. Our work for justice has just begun.     Aram    P.S. Here is our recently expanded piece ‐published by debug‐on the need for Police Crime Units in each DAs office  across this country. Feedback welcomed.   https://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/stories/james‐and‐konda‐the‐time‐has‐come‐for‐a‐police‐crimes‐unit    28         On Sep 15, 2020, at 8:46 PM, chuck jagoda <chuckjagoda1@gmail.com> wrote:     I say let's stop talking about this and get serious. Let's shop for candidates who are closely involved with housing/homeless issues and make some sense. I'd love to run in PA but don't live there. We must back only those who are serious advocates for housing that make sense. If they're not on the ballot, write them in. Roberta--- why don't you run again?   On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 3:23 PM Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> wrote:  https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2020/09/15/how‐to‐ help‐the‐homeless‐and‐housing‐insecure‐amidst‐a‐pandemic‐ local‐leaders‐compare‐tactics?utm_source=express‐2020‐09‐ 15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=express    Palo Alto has yet to take on its fair share of providing low income housing for its workers, city  employees, service sector folks who travel the farthest, make the least, etc.  Let's ote in council members who want to make the city a more diverse, inclusive, racially. and socio‐ economic city.  Thanks,  Roberta        ‐‐   Chuck  29 Baumb, Nelly From:khurshid gandhi <khurshidgandhi@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 30, 2020 1:09 AM To:Expanded Community Advisory Panel; Council, City Subject:Independent estimate for trench for Charleston-Meadows crossings CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City council and XCAP members, For grade separation in Palo Alto, for the Charleston-Meadows crossings, our community is strongly in favor of underground options for the train. The AECOM estimates for the trench seem extremely high, specially based on the research done by Keith Reckdahl on the XCAP committee. Please do look up his presentation (https://connectingpaloalto.com/presentations-and-reports/) This is a request that you should obtain independent (not AECOM) estimates for the cost of constructing a trench for the Charleston-Meadows grade separation project. The AECOM estimate seems extremely high compared with other similarly built trenches viz. the San Gabriel trench which also had to work with 2 creeks. It would be great for City of Palo Alto to check with San Gabriel to obtain insight into their trench construction experience. A lower estimated cost may be able to make this project a reality and an underground train option would accomplish the goal of grade separation while not harming the community and neighborhood at Charleston- Meadows. Thank you Khurshid Gandhi 30 Baumb, Nelly From:Nicole Hindley <nicolesyoga@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 8:50 PM To:Council, City Subject:Thank you! El Camino/Alma intersection CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Hi Council,    Thank you for the wonderful traffic calming infrastructure at Alma and El Camino near El Palo Alto Park!!! I’m SO  impressed!    I biked through and used the green light to safely cross toward Stanford/Menlo Park. I feel safer now when I’m biking  with my kids.    Great work!! Keep it up. We live here for the wonderful biking infrastructure.    Thank YOU!!! Well done!!    Finish the Churchill intersection. We will all feel safer biking through.    Nicole Hindley  (650) 814‐0173  674 Webster St. Palo Alto CA 94301    Sent from my iPhone  31 Baumb, Nelly From:Sally Keyes <keyesmom@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 5:11 PM To:Nadia Naik; Expanded Community Advisory Panel Cc:Council, City Subject:XCAP presentation to City Council CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Greetings Nadia,    Thank you very much for your expertise regarding all train issues and, particularly, your efforts and hard work to assist in resolving the issue of the three rail crossings in Palo Alto.    My husband and I have attended talks you have given in Palo Alto and have followed a fair number of the XCAP meetings. We have always appreciated your equanimity and evenhanded delivery of pertinent information. However, we have concerns regarding your presentation to City Council about the vote to close Churchill. To us, you reduced the majority vote of XCAP to mostly a matter of uncertainty over the Caltrain right-of-way, when in fact there are other important considerations. For the minority vote against closure, you stated that the option of a partial underpass might be possible to improve.    One argument given by some residents in Southgate who favor the partial underpass is that it would prevent Southgate residents from being isolated from the rest of Palo Alto. Please note that the closing of Churchill would not cut off Southgate from Palo Alto any more than College Terrace or Evergreen Park neighborhoods are currently cut off from the rest of Palo Alto.    Also, the partial underpass provides no direct connection for vehicles, pedestrians, or bicyclists to Old Palo Alto on Churchill Avenue. Cars coming from El Camino heading east on Churchill would be able to turn north and south onto Alma but would not be able to continue directly east to Old Palo Alto. Cars heading from the east towards El Camino would only be able to turn north on Alma. In contrast, the Closure of Churchill allows vehicles coming from the east to turn both north and south on Alma. Option #2, unlike the circuitous route provided in the partial underpass option, will provide direct access for bicyclists and pedestrians to Old Palo Alto.     Furthermore, if there were a partial underpass, there would no longer be any delay at the intersection due to trains. This would encourage more traffic from El Camino to access Alma, turning this short section of Churchill heavily used by Paly students and parents into a higher-volume feeder street for vehicle commuters.    Please remember that the Castilleja Ave bike boulevard leads directly into Paly and students need to cross Churchill safely. This is a very hazardous crossing for pedestrians and bicyclists. Warning lights have been installed but numerous cars either intentionally fail to heed them or fail to see them because of their height. Please note that there are no lights that flash on the crosswalk as Mountain View has in a fair number of dangerous pedestrian crossings. Increased traffic would possibly make this crossing exponentially more dangerous for students.    32 Closing Churchill is the most fiscally prudent choice. However, we realize and agree that cost should not be the only deciding factor in selecting an option, but there should be at least some significant advantage[s] to spending significant additional funds for a different option.     We believe the advantages for pedestrians and bicyclists of closing Churchill at the tracks outweigh the negligible inconvenience to vehicular traffic from Southgate.     Richard and Sally Keyes  1573 Mariposa Avenue  Southgate  33 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 4:41 PM To:Honky Subject:Breaking: 9/11 Families and Experts File NIST Appeal CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Sep 29, 2020 | Email Newsletter Archive - View Web Version    Experts and 9/11 Families Appeal Federal Agency Decision on Building 7 Report   34 Appeal Urges Senior NIST Official James K. Olthoff to Throw Out the Agency’s Theory on the Cause of the Collapse Families of 9/11 victims and the nonprofit organization Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth filed an administrative appeal late yesterday condemning the decision made by National Institute of Standards and Technology to deny the group’s “request for correction” regarding NIST’s 2008report on the controversial collapse of World Trade Center Building 7.   Your gift will help expose NIST’s malfeasance. Our Blueprint Newsletter archive | Subscribe for News | About AE911Truth AE911Truth is a 501(c)3 educational organization. Donations are tax deductible. Learn more        AE911Truth.org   Shop Our Online Store | WTC7Evaluation.org | BeyondMisinformation.org | Ph 1-510-292-4710 | Fx 1-925-938-1489 Support us by shopping through AmazonSmile.com — a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. Learn More If you prefer not to receive communications from AE911Truth, unsubscribe from any future mailings by clicking here.   © 2020 AE911truth.org All rights reserved. 2342 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 189, Berkeley, CA 94704. 35 Baumb, Nelly From:Sandeep Bahl <sbahl@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 4:12 PM To:Expanded Community Advisory Panel; Council, City Subject:Inflated cost estimate for trench and tunnel options CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear XCAP Committee Members I would like to recommend to please get alternate evaluations of the trench options. I have seen data showing the estimate for our trench is much higher than comparable projects in other cities like Reno and San Gabriel. In addition, there are better options for trench wall support, such as struts, which will not need tiebacks. Other evaluations will also provide a wider range of options to address the technical issues brought up. Please also consider the option of a trench with a roof. As you have seen, the tunnel option is the most popular, however, also the most expensive. A trench with a roof may be the best of both, allowing a bike path on top, with landscaping on the sides. Additionally, the roof would provide the wall support, so would save the cost of tiebacks. Thank you. Sincerely, Sandeep Bahl 36 Baumb, Nelly From:Florence Keller <fkeller@trialanalysisgroup.com> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 2:28 PM To:Council, City Cc:LaDoris Cordell Subject:Estimates CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members,  We urge the City to get additional independent estimates for the cost of the trench option.  In fact, since  there is no obvious way to explain the vast disparities between the costs of other cities trenches and  AECOM's estimates, it would be irresponsible not to. The engineering firms that oversaw the successful  recent trench projects in Reno and San Gabriel would be good choices.     Florence Keller   LaDoris Cordell     37 Baumb, Nelly From:David Ephron <david@ephron.net> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 2:05 PM To:Council, City Subject:Independent estimate of the cost of the trench option is needed CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  PA City Council:    The presentation made to XCAP on trench issues on 9/23 makes a very persuasive case that AECOM has severely  overestimated the cost of the trench option (and also the construction time).    I think it is imperative that the city secure an independent estimate. The engineering firms that successfully completed  the rail trench projects in Alameda or Reno would be good choices.    The trench option is by far the best option for Palo Alto. It’s only negative compared with the raised track and raised  overpass options is that it has been presented as being far more expensive. If its cost of the trench option is actually  comparable to the other options, then selecting it becomes a no brainer.    Best regards,    David Ephron  259 Whitclem Court  Palo Alto, CA 94306  650.504.7659  david@ephron.net        38 Baumb, Nelly From:Deborah Waxman <deborahwaxman8558@comcast.net> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1:56 PM To:Expanded Community Advisory Panel; Council, City Subject:Trench costs CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council and Grade Separation Committee, Based on the slides presented by Keith Reckdahl, I believe that the cost estimates currently being used by the Grade Separation Committee (XCAP) to evaluate the trench option are substantially inflated compared with with industry standards. As you can see in Slide 3 at the link below, trenches have been built in other cities for FAR LESS than the estimates given by AECOM for the Palo Alto trench. I urge you to ensure an informed and responsible decision process by arranging a second estimate from an independent company. We will have to live with this decision for the rest of our lives. https://connectingpaloalto.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-09-23_Trench-presentation-from-Member- Reckdahl.pdf Thank you, Deborah Waxman 4166 Park Blvd Palo Alto 39 Baumb, Nelly From:Pc User <pc77user@aol.com> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:33 PM To:SmartListOne; SmartListOne; SmartListOne; SmartListOne; SmartListOne; SmartListOne; SmartListOne Cc:BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; Ammo Land; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY; BBC ONLY Subject:Fwd: Rioters Attack Residential Homes and Threatens to Burn Them to the Ground | Freedom Bulldog CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  If we organize our neighborhoods, we can have flash mobs too.  We can be ready to give them a very warm welcome if  they show up to BURN, LOOT, and MURDER in our towns. Either that, or you can get on your knees and kiss their  behinds, whereby they will be back because they know what a coward you are, and what easy pickings you will be when  their food and money runs out.  Or maybe they will just want to play with your wife and kids, huh ? While you watch,  like the Kommies do to the white farmers in South Africa nowadays. !!!    Best Regards, & Stay Healthy !  RJS    Begin forwarded message:  From: Pc User <pc77user@aol.com>  Date: September 29, 2020 at 13:23:18 EDT  To: Class Of '67 Manasquan High School <abfriedrich1949@optimum.net>, Class Of '67 Manasquan High  School <CLBinMd@gmail.com>, Class Of '67 Manasquan High School <aitkenshar@aol.com>, Class Of  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<pamdavid1@icloud.com>, Deanna <deannabu@comcast.net>, Perla Simmons  <plsimmons@mac.com>, Patty LaPlaca <861e226@gmail.com>, Patty Sotirin <PJSotiri@mtu.edu>, NJ  Electrician <NJElectrician@GMail.com>, ezrider67@verizon.net, Rutherford Police  <EMolan@RutherfordPD.com>, Rosita Eckl <ro.eckl@gmx.de>, Spring Lake Police  <EKerr@SpringLakeBoro.org>, Rick Engel <EngelAngels@aol.com>, Tommy Elixir  <tommy.elixir@gmail.com>, Father Boby Kurian <bobosst@yahoo.com>, mon.tp.coalition@gmail.com,  Patriotic Freedom Fighter <news@patrioticfreedomfighter.com>, Gary Flanagan  <gary.c.flanagan@gmail.com>, Joanne Singerman <joannaross1@gmail.com>, "Jacob G. Hornberger"  <FFF@FFF.org>, Sea Girt Police <KDavenport@SeaGirtPD.net>, Wall Police <MLauber@WallPolice.org>,  Rutherford Police <SConte@RutherfordPD.com>  Subject: Rioters Attack Residential Homes and Threatens to Burn Them to the Ground | Freedom  Bulldog  It has started   !!!  Lock and load and be prepared to defend yourselves. This is no joke!!!!!   Their flash  mobs can show up anywhere, unannounced, at any time !!!  They have promised to "Take it to the  Suburbs" and "Burn it all Down", and that is their words.   Get your neighbors together and be ready to  give them a very warm welcome.  Despite it not being reported on the fake news networks, they have  been burning Christian churches across the country, and murdering  people who were just sitting and  minding their own business. And most of us know about the LEO's who have been ambushed.  It's about  time that WE THE PEOPLE put these evil Kommies back in their box, and bury it six feet down !!!!!  They  are not "protestors", they are a violent mob making demands on innocent people, and willing to BURN,  LOOT, and MURDER if you do not bend down and kiss their arses !  Do you want to live on your knees  ?????    https://freedombulldog.com/rioters‐attack‐residential‐homes‐and‐threatens‐to‐burn‐them‐to‐the‐ ground/    41   Best Regards, & Stay Healthy !  RJS  42 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1:44 AM To:Council, City; Steven D. Lee; Raven Malone; Raven Malone; Shikada, Ed; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; Jethroe Moore; Anna Griffin; Greer Stone; Rebecca Eisenberg; Human Relations Commission; Fine, Adrian; Joe Simitian; Jonsen, Robert; Perron, Zachary; Kaloma Smith; Cari Templeton; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Ed Lauing; Tanaka, Greg; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Stump, Molly; Molly.ONeal@pdo.sccgov.org; Binder, Andrew; Kou, Lydia; DuBois, Tom; Alison Cormack; Jethroe Moore; Rev. Lorrie Owens Subject:You were not the only one surprised by the IPA discussion. I only knew that it was on the agenda because of my friendship with the citizen who requested it be placed in the agenda. I believe there would have many more folks interested in the IPA topic ... CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    >  > FYI:  >> Hi council member Cormack,  >> You were not the only one surprised by the IPA discussion. I only knew that it was on the agenda because of my  friendship with the citizen who requested it be placed on the agenda. I believe there would have been many more folks  interested in the IPA topic if it had been appropriately noticed and advertised. How can we avoid this situation in the  future? Who buried full notification of this important study session?    >> I believe once the right questions are asked the council will conclude that Tasers should be shelved in Palo Alto, based  on how expensive tasers are, how dangerous they are, and how inefficient this weapon Is‐ fails in taking down its  intended target between 25% to 50% of the time.    >> I was also very interested re your comments about a speaker/author you heard at Kepler’s bookstore. I missed the  name of the author and the name of the book. I would truly appreciate the name of the book‐the topic ‐officers  encouraging other officers to make appropriate career decisions , avoiding excessive force cases,  not covering up or  hiding evidence, not writing false Police reports etc., not making vile racist comments to fellow officers, to avoid being  fired‐ is a critical topic to explore.    >> Finally, I appreciate your diligence in pursuing alternatives to current police practices in Palo Alto. And you need to  break the long silence on the Zack Perron Scandal if we our ever to regain the trust of the citizens of this community.    >> Maybe your the leader that will finally have the courage to break the silence and push to have Perron held  accountability. Only time will tell.    >> City Attorney Molly stump may have threaten that Perron will sue the city if you and the other council members, and  executive staff, expose his alleged acts of vile racism ‐but some times moral principals are more important then any  amount of money.    >> I say expose the Perron scandal and Molly Stump be damned. Speaking the truth will set you free ‐and set you as a  true leader instead of  a fearful bureaucrat just going along to get a long. Think about it! think about it! Time to expose  Perron. Will you be the one?    43 >> On another topic: thank you for your stand on Foothills Park. I hope you persuade your fellow council members to  settle this case ASAP‐and encourage a public apology for all those who have been excluded from the park over the last  50 years or so. Keep pushing to open the park to everyone Now!    >> Sincerely,      >> Aram James    >> P.S. As an aside‐ the best job I ever had was the summer I spent ‐circa 1968‐ working for the city of Palo Alto on a trail  crew ( cutting in) some of the parks original trails. Pay: about $2.95 ‐an hour ‐or there about.    >> P.S.S. Hope the council will consider a robust discussion re the the continued necessity/need for having very  expensive and very dangers Tasers in the PAPD arsenal.  I believe a reasoned debate on the topic would establish that  evolving evidence establishes‐ beyond a reasonable doubt‐ that Tasers are much more  dangerous then original believed  to be the case, at the time ( May of 2007) they were first implemented into Palo Alto.    >> Per Chief Jonson’s own statistics Tasers have been used 5‐6 times during the last 5 yrs‐ reported on period 2014‐ 2019.    >> Some one on council needs to ask the chief how often tasers are used? And how much the city has spend on taser  purchases, taser replacements, taser training, taser litigation, including the cost to defend against taser litigation, in the  last 12 years?  >> In the 5 yrs? Then you and your fellow council members will have the data to reach the correct decision    44 Baumb, Nelly From:Ken Poulton <ken@poulton.net> Sent:Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1:32 AM To:Council, City Subject:Open Foothill Park CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Please settle the Foothill Park lawsuit quickly.    This exclusionary policy makes us look bad. No other city in California does this!  We use our neighbors’ parks all the time. While the intent might not be racist, it’s easy for someone to argue that the  effect is racist.    Foothill Park has only 1/7 the annual visitors it had in the 70’s; it averages only 140 visitors a day. Lydia Kou says her  survey was in favor of keeping it closed, but responses to a single‐issue survey in an email newsletter are very highly self‐ selected.    Please don’t waste our money fighting this suit. Case law (albeit in Connecticut) is against us. Being good neighbors is  against us.    Please find a compromise now.    Ken Poulton and Kate Hill  Los Robles Ave  45 Baumb, Nelly From:Winter Dellenbach <wintergery@earthlink.net> Sent:Monday, September 28, 2020 4:22 PM To:Council, City Subject:From Winter Dellenbach - Here is why the city should Substantially Expand the role of the Independent Police Auditor CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.    Council Members ‐     All the reforms in the world won’t matter if we don’t start building in a lot more accountability to  them.   Winter Dellenbach     A. Expand the Roll of the Independent Police Auditor      1. I have heard Police Chief Jonsen say in two public forums that he ʺthe IPA’s role should be expandedʺ,  though he hasn’t said how. I think it should in systemic oversight and of individual officer performance of  the following and possibly more. It would be added to the Scope of Services in consultation with the IPA:  ‐Hiring  ‐Promotions  ‐Employee evaluations  ‐Records of Excessive Use of Force intervention  ‐Records of Required Use of Force/Firearms Reporting  ‐Use of pepper spray   ‐Officer take‐downs   This systemic oversight will be imperative as a result of a smart, motivated diversity hiring program that  includes women, an essential component for better policing with less use of force. We must ensure bias  free promotions and evaluations or diversification will fail.   46    Below is the url to the very first IPA Report for May 2006. It includes the May 2007 IPA Scope of Services,  commencing 8‐30‐2006. The IPA was granted more specified powers and latitude to interact with ongoing  PAPD investigations of citizen complaints, Internal Affairs investigations and outcomes, holding the  PAPD accountable for misconduct than it has now. This erosion of oversight continued as recently as  December 2019. (IPA Report May 2007, Contract, Scope of Services, 8‐30‐2006)                                                                                                         https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?t=70883.49&BlobID=74860     2. The December 2019 weakening of IPA oversight should be reversed by moving HR internal PAPD  complaints back to the IPA jurisdiction as they were and had always been in the Scope of Services. Unlike  HR, the IPA reviews PAPD investigations for soundness, makes recommendations to PAPD for better  practice to ensure accountability while shining the light of transparency through detailed Reports of 1‐3  pages per complaint to the City Council and public.      See complaint #3 in this 2008 IPA Report, url below. First it shows that Internal Complaints among  officers are indeed handled by the IPA ‐ this detailed Report includes two. Also it offers a good example  of a sexual harassment complaint being resolved creatively in a complicated situation, involving a retiring  officer and several staff members.   https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?t=73977.83&BlobID=74898     In contrast, only a few words sum up the dark cave of HR’s Internal Complaint investigation in the so‐ called “Supplemental Report”, now piggybacked into IPA Reports.  These Supplemental “Reports”  provide no information if policies were followed, if discipline imposed – there is no accountability at all  by the PAPD to the Council or public as there is the IPA. See the 2018 IPA Report, pg. 2, Supplemental  Report. https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?t=61887.82&BlobID=75662     The IPA always ensures officer confidentiality though this issue was wrongly raised as a reason HR could  better handle internal complaints. It was also asserted that it wasn’t clear the IPA even had jurisdiction  over internally generated complaints though we see from above it always had and could have been  further clarified in the Scope of Services in a few words. Instead the IPA’s oversight of racism and sexism  involving Internal Complaints was ended along with that of the Council’s and public. (#5 below).     47 3. Chief Jonsen said at the 2‐24‐20 PAPD annual study session with City Council “that he would be  releasing the 2018 audit very soonʺ. Why does the Police Chief have control of the IPA’S Report and  determine the time of its release ‐ June 11, Council packet? Is our IPA independent anymore?      There needs to be a deadline (date) for Audit Report release to the City Council and public instead of  delays. The Chief says the Reports may be more on time, but the Chief shouldn’t have authority over the  Audit. The Scope of Services should state dates due for release to the public. City staff should not be able  to thwart release dates.      4. As can be seen in the redlined version of the Scope of Services at the end of this memo (pg 7‐8), the  City Council eliminated most of its own access to the IPA to discuss and question him about the contents  of his Audit Reports, trends, his expertise based on his experience to gain an idea of how our policing  measures up, etc. Council oversight powers should be reclaimed by at the first opportunity. The IPA  contract is up in 2021 or 22, but there is precedent for asking more of the IPA despite his contract. I am  confident the IPA would be amenable. (#5 below)     The IPA’s mission continues to be diluted and his potential underutilized just as we realize how badly we  need more accountability and oversight of policing     5. In 2010, the city was deep in controversy about PAPD profiling practices and remark’s the Chief made  about black males. Our IPA was asked to review police policies and training. He then wrote a report  titled, PAPD’s Response to Concerns Regarding Race Bias‐Based Policing. You may be interested in  Recommendations, pgs. 10‐11.   https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/18904     Eight years later Sgt. Benitez, who was on the force in 2010, unleashed his awful string of hate at Buena  Vista during the Gustavo Alvarez excessive force incident, modeling his behavior for younger officers:  “We’re not gonna get shit‐on out here by these frickin’ low‐life’s.”  ʺSee how quickly they behave once we put our foot down.   And thatʹs what we donʹt do enough of.ʺ   ʺAmazing how well behaved they become.ʺ   48 ʺWe put our foot down and theyʹre all behaving themselves now.ʺ  Regarding the arrestee  ‐ “He’s, He’s gay. He’s like, ”   “Come and get me.”  Training and policies alone didn’t prevent the veteran, chain‐of‐command Sergeant from this, just as it  didn’t motivate officers witnessing his excessive use of force to report it as required. Instead they all  maintained the blue wall of silence and supposedly covered it up from superiors for a year and a half,  without public knowledge.   We need more oversight and not less. Expanding IPA’s jurisdiction and purview will better address overt  and systemic racism in the PAPD.   We see from this and two other times he was asked to head special taskforces for the city that there is  precedent for expanding IPA’s mission quickly when needed. The City Council should do so now in the  ways mentioned but not limited to those above, to keep its commitment as stated in its BLM Resolution.   6. The IPA Audit Recommendations can now be ignored by the PAPD. Instead, IPA Recommendations  should be required for adoption unless the Auditor is convinced, through discussion with the Chief that a  different approach is better.    49 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Monday, September 28, 2020 4:20 PM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; bballpod; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; dlfranklin0@outlook.com; eappel@stanford.edu; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; Steven Feinstein; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; steve.hogg; Irv Weissman; 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; paul.caprioglio; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; Tom Lang; vallesR1969 @att.net; yicui@stanford.edu; shanhui.fan@stanford.edu; boardmembers; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov Subject:Fwd: Tesla' new battery 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, Sep 28, 2020 at 3:12 PM  Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:50 PM  Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:46 PM  Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 1:52 PM  50 Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:44 AM  Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>, <alumnipresident@stanford.edu>, David Balakian  <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>, bballpod <bballpod@aol.com>, beachrides <beachrides@sbcglobal.net>, Leodies  Buchanan <leodiesbuchanan@yahoo.com>, <bearwithme1016@att.net>, city.council <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>,  Cathy Lewis <catllewis@gmail.com>, Chris Field <cfield@ciw.edu>, dennisbalakian <dennisbalakian@sbcglobal.net>,  Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, Dan Richard <danrichard@mac.com>, Daniel Zack <daniel.zack@fresno.gov>,  <dlfranklin0@outlook.com>, <eappel@stanford.edu>, <fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net>, <francis.collins@nih.gov>, Steven  Feinstein <steven.feinstein@ionicmaterials.com>, <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>, <lalws4@gmail.com>, leager <leager@fresnoedc.com>, Mayor  <mayor@fresno.gov>, Mark Standriff <mark.standriff@fresno.gov>, <margaret‐sasaki@live.com>,  <mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com>, newsdesk <newsdesk@ksee.com>, nick yovino <npyovino@gmail.com>,  paul.caprioglio <paul.caprioglio@fresno.gov>, <russ@topperjewelers.com>, Steve Wayte <steve4liberty@gmail.com>,  tsheehan <tsheehan@fresnobee.com>, Tom Lang <tlang@aquariusaquarium.org>, <vallesR1969@att.net>,  <yicui@stanford.edu>, <shanhui.fan@stanford.edu>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:14 AM  Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:08 AM  Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:08 AM  Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  51     ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 1:40 AM  Subject: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                Monday, Sept. 28, 2020                 Tesla unveils new battery design: 4:34         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqywRziE7pk                    There are a LOT of vids on UTube reacting to, commenting on this.                 Here is the full presentation. The Tesla Battery Day Reveal Event.  If you are on the fence about buying a Tesla or  investing in TSLA stock, watch this: Really good: Stunning, actually: 1:32:50.                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBiBpzIBdU                             Glad I B some TSLA right after the split. No big gain yet, but I feel real good about Tesla stock. Square, Nvidia,   SQ  and NVDA,   keep powering up too. Sorrento Therapeutics  SRNE has come alive too. NVAX too. Nvidia makes the SW  and the chips to run it for self driving cars‐ NVDA is big on that, and big in a lot other fields too: They call the chips with  the SW "the stack". Gaming, medical imaging, data centers, software used by Hollywood for computer graphics.  Musk  and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a ~10 min. talk on stage at an NVDA developers' conference a couple of years ago.              Watch Jensen Huang's keynote addresses at some of the past NVDIA developers' conferences on the Nvidia  website, which addresses run over 2 hours, and you'll maybe become an Nvidia believer. Re self‐driving vehicles, Nvidia  runs millions of simulations of stuff that can befall a vehicle, way more than test cars could ever encounter in millions of  miles, and the car learns how to react. If a self‐driving car in China has an accident. the details of that go into the cloud  and are or will be downloaded into the SW of every self‐driving car in the world, says Nvidia. Huang and Musk say that  self‐driving vehicles will cut way down on the death toll on the world's roads.                   Here is the Nvidia website:      https://www.nvidia.com/en‐us/                  There, scroll to the bottom and click on "Developers".  Click then on "GPU Technology Conference".  Then see  the GTC Tech. Conference coming Oct. 5‐9, 2020. See Jensen Huang's Keynote address on October 5 there when it is up.  Those are always impressive.                        Jensen Huang was born in Taiwan, I believe. He grew up in a town in Missouri with two traffic lights, or maybe with  one, and got an EE degree from Oregon State. Then a masters in EE from Stanford. He gave Stanford a building, with the  Nvidia Auditorium in it. Big‐gun top students getting degrees in EE and Computer Science at Stanford are thereby  reminded occasionally of Nvidia, 10 miles down the road in Santa Clara.      52               Here is the Tesla website:   https://www.tesla.com/                Closing prices for stocks mentioned here on Monday, Sept. 28, 2020:                 TSLA:  $421.20, up $13.86, up 3.4%.               NVDA:  $521.40, up $6.45, up 1.25%.  (I paid $204 in March, 2020).               SRNE: $10.15, up $0.515, up 5.35%.   (I paid $6.76 in March, 2020).               NVAX: $111.18, down $2.38, down 2.1%.  (We won't talk about what I paid).                SQ: $160.76, up $3.04, up 1.93%.        (I paid $57 in March, 2020).                   Just recall that $1,000 into Apple in 1990 became $895,000 by the end of 1999. I'd be unlivable, initially, if that  happened.                 Avoid crowds, social distance, wear a mask, wash hands often, get a flu shot. A Covid vaccine is on the way. I'll get  my flu shot soon.                               L. William Harding             Fresno           53 Baumb, Nelly From:Arlene Goetze <photowrite67@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, September 28, 2020 12:29 PM To:rokhanna1@gmail.com; Sam Liccardo Subject:riend or foe? 5G antenna on homes CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Please read the 2nd and 4th articles about letting 5G put up its antennas on your home or private property! Please share with all you influence. Children's health can be greatly affected. Arlene, No Toxins for Children 54 Who Will Stand Up for Women’s Health?  An update on our efforts to protect consumer access to compounded bioidentical hormones, including estriol. ACTION ALERT! 55 Your Home A Cell Tower? Don’t Let FCC Do It!    It seems this agency will stop at nothing until the telecoms industry gets what it wants. ACTION ALERT! 56 FDA’s Blood Testing Monopoly Dealt Blow  For years the agency has been attempting a power grab, but it’s just been told to stop.  ACTION ALERT!   FEATURED VIDEO 57 OTARD Rule Change— No Escape From 5G  VIEW VIDEO UPCOMING EVENT 58 tual Congressional Briefing: Natural Health During the COVID-19 Pandem know that U.S. law prevents the free flow of scientifically supported information about treating and preventing COVID‐19 with natural me   , join Dr. David Brownstein and the Alliance for Natural Health USA for a Congressional briefing to learn about natural health protocols for how our current healthcare system blocks access to this critical information.       59 Alliance for Natural Health USA 1011 E Jefferson St #204, Charlottesville, VA 22902 www.anh-usa.org You are receiving this email because you enrolled to receive this newsletter.   If you have received this email by mistake, you may opt out below.  Change Preferences | Unsubscribe     nonprofit software 60 Baumb, Nelly From:Neilson Buchanan <cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, September 28, 2020 8:55 AM To:Council, City Cc:Baird, Nathan; Hur, Mark Subject:University Ave Garage Vacancy Levels CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  During the last month the residents' parking squad has conducted about a dozen Covid-compliant surveys of the major public parking garages in the University Avenue commercial core. There has been no observable change in parking patterns. These surveys have inherent bias due to source. Unbiased spotchecks would be informative to Council. Normal explicit-count surveys are not necessary during this phase of Covid recovery, IMO. Office of Transportation has much higher priorities. High Street Garage Estimates (random midday workdays) Level 1 Effectively 100% Occupancy Level 2 20-30% highest levels observed Level 3, 4 and 5 Effectively 0% Occupancy Bryant Street Garage Estimates (random midday workdays) Basement B 0% Occupancy. Occasional10% observed Basement A 40-60% Occupancy Level 1 Often 100% Occupancy Level 2 30-50% Occupancy Levels 3, 4 and 5 Effectively 0% Occupancy City Center/City Hall Garage Estimates (random midday workdays) Level A Range 80-90% Level B 20-30% Level C 10-20% Cowper/Webster Garage Estimates (random midday workdays) Basement 0% Level 1 80-90% Levels 2 and 3 10% Levels 4, 5 and 6 0% Before the end of 2020 it would be helpful for Council to review the workplan for the Palo Alto TMA and its adjustment to Covid conditions. Neilson Buchanan 61 155 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 650 329-0484 650 537-9611 cell cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com 62 Baumb, Nelly From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Monday, September 28, 2020 2:45 AM To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; bballpod; beachrides; Leodies Buchanan; bearwithme1016@att.net; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; dlfranklin0@outlook.com; eappel@stanford.edu; fmbeyerlein@sbcglobal.net; francis.collins@nih.gov; Steven Feinstein; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; steve.hogg; Irv Weissman; 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; paul.caprioglio; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; Tom Lang; vallesR1969 @att.net; yicui@stanford.edu; shanhui.fan@stanford.edu Subject:Fwd: Tesla' new battery 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, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:14 AM  Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:08 AM  Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:08 AM  Subject: Fwd: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>      ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐  From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>  Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 1:40 AM  63 Subject: Tesla' new battery  To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>                Monday, Sept. 28, 2020                 Tesla unveils new battery design: 4:34         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqywRziE7pk                    There are a LOT of vids on UTube reacting to, commenting on this.              Glad I B some TSLA right after the split. No gain yet, but I feel real good about Tesla stock. Square, Nvidia,   SQ and  NVDA,   keep powering up too. Sorrento Therapeutics  SRNE has come alive too. NVAX too. Nvidia makes the SW and the  chips to run it for self driving cars‐ NVDA is big on that, and big in a lot other fields too: Gaming, medical imaging, data  centers.  Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a ~10 min. talk on stage at an NVDA developers' conference a couple  of years ago.                    Just recall that $1,000 into Apple in 1990 became $895,000 by the end of 1999. I'd be unlivable, initially, if that  happened.                 Avoid crowds, social distance, wear a mask, wash hands often, get a flu shot. A Covid vaccine is on the way. My flu  shot will be Tues.                              LH           64 Baumb, Nelly From:richard gelman <rbgelman@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, September 27, 2020 6:09 PM To:rmullane@hrandassociates.org Cc:Council, City Subject:Proposed hotel at old Tin Cannery CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    This propsed hotel hotel is wrong for PG. for a multitude of reasons previoudlybststed in many prior emails I just learned  of this project this afternoon. I have been a resident of PG and moved here primsrily because of the qualities this project  will destroy. I will voice my opposition verbally at every guture oportunity and will organize opposition among my  neighbors as well We are not done here Dr Richard Gelman  429 Spruce Ave    Sent from my iPhone    65 Baumb, Nelly From:Cherry LeBrun <cherry@denovo.com> Sent:Sunday, September 27, 2020 5:43 PM To:Council, City Subject:Open University Avenue and Ramona Streets for Retail Holiday Shopping CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    To Mayor Adrian Fine, Vice Mayor Tom DuBois, and City Council Members Alison Cormack, Eric Filseth, Liz Kniss, Lydia  Kou, and Greg Tanaka,    I spoke briefly at a recent city council meeting about the hardship that the closures of University Avenue and Ramona  Street in downtown Palo Alto have created for retail businesses like mine. I live in downtown and have owned my  business, De Novo Fine Contemporary Jewelry at 250 University Avenue, for 30 years.    For my store, and other retail businesses downtown, the closure of the streets has limited customer access and has  substantially decreased foot traffic, resulting in a significant decline in sales. With the extremely important holiday  season quickly approaching, I ask you to open the streets to vehicular traffic again by the end of October to create easier  access for customers to retail businesses like mine.    Once the weather changes there will be less demand for outdoor dining and restaurants will be able to accommodate  their outdoor diners in parklets and sidewalk seating. Please open the streets so our customers can get to us again  before this holiday season begins.    Respectfully,    Cherry LeBrun    De Novo Fine Contemporary Jewelry  250 University Avenue  Palo Alto, CA 94301  (650) 327‐1256  cherry@denovo.com      66 Baumb, Nelly From:promiserani <promiserani@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, September 27, 2020 3:33 PM To:Fine, Adrian; Council, City Subject:Homeless CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I’m writing in solidarity with the National Homelessness Law Center to ask that Palo Alto provide individual housing units to encamped people, as indicated by recent CDC guidelines, or allow homeless encampments to remain in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. This measure is needed to contain the virus and prevent hospitalizations among our vulnerable neighbors. Thank you.  Prerana Jayakumar  Midtown  67 Baumb, Nelly From:Barbara Rieder <barieder@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, September 27, 2020 11:24 AM To:Council, City Cc:Tim Sheeper; Cody Sara Subject:Palo Alto Swim and Sports CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Mayor and City Council Members, I am writing to commend the outstanding efforts of the staff of Palo Alto Swim and Sports especially the Operations Manager, Steve, in communicating and working to keep us Lap Swimmers in the Rinconada pool during the challenges of poor air quality. This team has been so pleasant, first in managing the challenges of operations during Covid-19 and then the added burdens of smokey,unsafe air often requiring mid-day closures and notification. As one of 5 swimmers at the pool ready for a 6am swim on Sunday, August 16th, I can attest to the sympathetic rational provided us during the surprise, thunder and lightening storm requiring unplanned closure that morning. I highly recommend acknowledgement of Palo Alto Swim and Sports at a City Council Meeting. They work diligently to contribute to the ongoing health of our swim community. Regards, Barbara A Rieder Cowper Street 68 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 10:33 PM To:Honky Subject:GLOBAL COVID FRAUD! Evidence that all the data is 100% false CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  ? I QUESTION EVERYTHING BUT THIS IS A LOT TO SWALLOW (BUT MOST OF IT? TRUE) As I stated many times, ...It's a SCAM and HOAX of Monumental proportions. Send this to all your mask-wearing friends who need a mental tune-up. Retardation is a terrible malady that can be corrected if it hasn't gone too far. Viral please! GLOBAL COVID FRAUD! Evidence that all the data is 100% false September 24, 2020 by Derek Knauss Share TweetNewsletter Signup 69 This is an excellent site and resource with much detail as can be seen below. StopWorldControl.com. EXPOSING GLOBAL COVID FRAUD It is hard to believe that such a global deception could occur, yet the evidence is all here. Thousands of medical doctors, nurses, and patients around the world testify of completely false covid registrations. Funeral directors confirm countless false death certificates. 70 Check the evidence for yourself… Murder in New York New York is the epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic. In the heart of New York is the famous Elmhurst hospital where supposedly more people are dying from this virus than anywhere else in the world. It’s literally the epicenter within the epicenter of the pandemic. For this reason, an experienced nurse from Florida, Erin Olszewski, decided to go there to help with the crisis. What she saw in this worldfamous hospital, however, filled her with so much horror, that she decided to take a hidden camera with her to film what was going on. Patients who repeatedly tested negative for covid-19, are still registered as ‘confirmed covid-19’ and treated as such. They are put on a respirator in a covid ward… which causes them to die. In a revealing documentary by Journeyman Pictures, this nurse talks about the crimes she constantly sees happening in Elmhurst. She shows on her smartphone how a patient indeed tested negative for covid-19 twice… and yet was registered as ‘confirmed’ covid-19′. (8) She explains that this happens all the time in Elmhurst: deception and murder resulting in high covid-19 mortality rates that are trumpeted. 71 ‘People come in with respiratory problems due to fear, because everyone is afraid. They’re tested negative for covid, but are still put on a ventilator, causing them to die.’ 72 Erin Olszewski NURSE ELMHURST HOSPITAL, NEW YORK Patients are murdered A similar testimony comes from an anonymous nurse at another hospital in New York. This woman cries out in sheer despair, about the murders she constantly sees happening on her ward. Every time she said anything about it, she was moved to a different department. All her attempts to knock on the door of official bodies proved fruitless. In the end she made a video which she shared on the internet (8B). ‘People, I’m not stupid. I know some people are dying of Covid, but people are literally being murdered here. Yeah, because if you put someone with a stable heart rate of 40 on the defibrillator, that’s murder. And if you increase the pressure too much and inflate their lungs from the inside, that’s murder.’ NURSE FROM NEW YORK ‘Orders from above’ On Facebook, a video had four million views, in which Lena Kay tells how her father had died of Alzheimer’s disease.(9) When they received the death certificate, they were surprised to see that it mentioned covid-19. She wanted to have this wrong information corrected and contacted the family doctor. His answer was shocking: ‘Orders from above by the National Health Service. Anyone who dies during this period should be registered as covid-19.’ A friend of her family died during the same period from heart disease. On his death certificate covid-19 was also mentioned. His family members were furious and called their family doctor, who gave exactly the same disturbing answer: ‘Orders from above, we must put covid-19 on every death certificate.’ The doctor acknowledged they’re under a lot of pressure to do this. 73 ‘The general practitioner replied: “Orders from above by the National Health Service. Anyone who dies during this period must be registered as covid-19.” LENA KAYE Hospitals commit fraud All over the world thousands of people testify how false Covid registrations are made in hospitals and medical centers. Patients tell how they went to the hospital, for example, for a heart attack, a traffic accident, a painful fall, or a stroke. Without performing a test, medical staff promptly registered them as covid-19 patients. Someone on Facebook started sharing this kind of testimony and became a hotline for countless fake Covid registrations. Nursing staff confirms this deception. Here are some examples from the hundreds of testimonies (10): The grandmother of an acquaintance of mine died. She was referred to as a covid death, although covid had nothing to do with it. – Brian Parker I personally know two people – one died of a pulmonary embolism and the other died of old age. On the death certificates was covid19. That baffled me, because it just wasn’t true! – Leah-Marie Stephens I fill in hundreds of death certificates. He’s 100% right. The guidelines sent to us are to always mention covid-19 as the cause of death, even if it’s presumed. – Jessica Littleton Kidney nurse here, I can vouch for this. I’ve seen it done. All deaths except fatal shootings or fatal car crashes are on the list of Covid19 deaths. – Jennifer Combs Allen All over the world people testify about false covid registrations in hospitals, nursing homes, medical centers, general practitioners, etc. The figures are inflated to create global panic. Funeral directors: ‘They fill in the stats.’ 74 Journalists from Project Veritas phoned several undertakers. They revealed that all death certificates state that covid-19 is the cause of death, while it is not. These are some statements from undertakers (11): ‘They put covid-19 on her death certificate. Then a judge called the hospital, and there came an independent investigation. And bingo, not covid-19.’ Josephine Dimiceli, president Dimiceli & Sons Funeral Home ‘In my opinion, all they do is fill in the stats. People who didn’t have Covid-19 are added. That’s how you’re making New York’s mortality rate much higher than it should be.’ Joseph Antioco, DIRECTOR Schaeffer Funeral Home Fake covid-hospitals in Brazil A member of the Brazilian government broke into a campaign hospital, set up to treat large numbers of Covid patients. He and his security team weren’t allowed to enter the hospital, but forced their way into it. They filmed everything and revealed how the hospital is a scam, with hardly anybody present. There were coffins that supposedly contained dead covid patients, but when opened they turned out to be empty. This hospital was however touting alarming Covid numbers: 5,000 covid-patients and 200 deaths. It turned out to be 100% fraud. (12B) 75 In São Paulo, the Anhembi Action Hospital was also unexpectedly checked. The whole building turned out to be largely empty as well (see picture above). (12C) Yet they also spread dramatic covid numbers. The Brazilian president has called on his people to film the hospitals and expose this large-scale deception. In an interview he stated: (12D) 76 ‘The people will soon see that they were tricked by these governors and by most of the media when it comes to the coronavirus.’ Jair Bolsonaro, President of brazil Big money for covid registrations Dr. Scott Jensen, who is also a Senator of the state of Minnesota, states in an interview with Fox News: ‘Hospitals receive as much as $13,900 for every patient they register as covid-19. For every death resulting from covid-19, that amount is tripled: 30,900 USD! Testing is not necessary…’ The result is absurdly incorrect covid-19 numbers, which are spread nationwide by the media (12). ‘Hospitals get big money for every covid-19 registration. No testing required. The result is massive fraud with covid-numbers.’ DR SCOTT JENSEN, SENATOR MINNESOTA CBC fakes a covid test crowd The American news agency CBC made a program about a covid test center. However, few people appeared to report for the test, indicating a low number of infections. CBC then instructed the medical staff to stand in line themselves and pretend they were all infected people who wanted to be tested. Other staff members had to drive their cars around the test centre all the time to create the illusion of great crowds. Project Veritas has video recordings and testimonials from insiders, unmasking this deception. These are some of their statements, which are on film: (12E) 77 We knew the CBC was coming, but we had no idea we’d have to play fake patients. – Medical staff member I think they just wanted it to look busy. – Medical staff member The deceptive footage was then shown by the CBC to their millions of viewers in America, who were thereby imprinted with the message that there are ‘many infections’ and people wanted to get tested en masse. Total fraud! Covid counted twice in UK Health Services of England recently admitted to double counting tens of thousands of covid-19 registrations. (12F) Yes, you read that right! In England, tens of thousands of covid-19 tests were double-counted. Texas insanity In the state of Texas anyone with a headache or a fever is now listed as covid19, and up to 15 people who are in contact with that person are added as covid19. That’s how they create staggering numbers. It’s insane… (12G) Shameless lies by the media 78 A photo of a boy was distributed by news agencies all over the world, but with conflicting coverage. The Daily Mail claimed: ‘A Portuguese boy of 14 is Europe’s youngest patient to die of Corona.’ The same photo was distributed by the Daily Express with the text: ‘A 12 year old girl from Belgium dies of corona’. Another agency used the same photo and stated: ‘A 13 year old boy from England died of corona’. The same happened to another picture of a boy who died in 2017 due to a dangerous ‘suicide’ game. Three years later his photo is used to claim in the mainstream media that he was the youngest victim of covid19 in England. 79 My pappa never died of this virus! A girl cried on the internet with a broken heart that her father had died of health problems he had had for a long time. To her astonishment she saw shortly afterwards how the media claimed that her father died of covid-19. She is furious: ‘My papa never died of this virus! And the media and the lying ass government is fraud! He had health issues way before this even happened. They did NOT confirm with our family that he had this shit! And the media won’t clout off his name. This is going tooooo far!’ 80 Same footage, different locations The CBS showed alarming news stories about refrigeration trucks used in San Antonio, Texas, to transport large numbers of dead bodies. A viewer however noted that this same footage had been used to tell the same story about New York City and New Jersey. 81 Italian hospital claimed to be New York hospital 82 The same news agency showed footage of a supposed New York hospital full of dying corona patients, but that same footage had been broadcasted earlier in Italy by Sky News showing it was an Italian hospital. 84 MEDIA DECEPTION These examples are just the thin layer of ice at the very top of a huge hidden iceberg. Unimaginably more is going on. The media are spreading lies to create global panic. At the same time they suppress effective and safe treatments for covid-19. ‘This is a media epidemic’ That we are dealing with massive brainwashing by the media is confirmed by the world’s leading virologist and flu specialist, Professor John Oxford of Queen Mary University in London. ‘Personally, I would say that the best advice is to watch less news on television that is sensational and not good. I consider this covid outbreak to be a serious winter flu epidemic. Last year we had eight thousand deaths (in the UK) in this category, of which 65% had heart disease and so on. I believe covid will not exceed that number. We’re suffering from a media epidemic!’ (27A) ‘We’re suffering from a media epidemic.’ Dr. John Oxford, THE WORLD’S LEADING VIROLOGIST 97% were never tested A prominent newspaper in Belgium, De Tijd, discussed how the government announced that some three thousand elderly people had died of covid-19. Partly because of these figures, the entire country was placed in an extreme lockdown, with horrifying destruction as a result. However, further research showed that only 3% of the deceased had been tested. This means that not 3,000 but only 90 elderly had covid-19. (15) Tanzania exposes deception President John Magufuli of Tanzania questioned the covid-19 numbers of his country. There were more than 400 cases and 16 deaths. He accused the National Medical Laboratory of lying. To substantiate his suspicions, he sent two samples that supposedly belonged to people to have them tested. The samples, however, came from a papaya fruit and a goat. As 85 he suspected, they came back… with positive results: ‘These people are infected with covid-19.’ This is how he unmasked the deception (16). Coroner: ‘There’s no killer virus’ The respected German coroner Prof. Dr. Klaus Püschel has examined more than 140 coronadalities in Hamburg in recent weeks. On German TV he said that the hysteria around the coronavirus has been gravely exaggerated. All the people who died had underlying disorders and would have died quickly anyway, with or without the virus, according to Püschel, adding that there is no ‘killer virus’. The professor of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf stated (13): “This may sound harsh, but they would all have died this year.” Eighty percent of patients suffered from cardiovascular disease and the average age was 80 years. Healthy people don’t have to worry, says Püschel. The coroner also predicted that corona will not even cause a peak in the annual mortality rate. 86 ‘It’s not a killer virus that many will die of. This virus is also not necessarily a death sentence for the elderly and sick. Most will survive the disease.’ Prof. Dr. Klaus Püschel Furious about lies The Italian politician Vittorio Sgarbi is furious about the far-reaching covid-19 deceptions. He exclaimed in the Italian Chamber of Deputies: ‘It is necessary to be united against dictatorships and to be united in the truth. Let’s not make this the chamber of lies. Don’t lie! Tell the truth.’ ‘Don’t say there’s 25,000 dead. It’s not true. Don’t use the dead for rhetoric and terrorism. Figures from the Higher Institute of Health say 96.3% died of other diseases.’ (14) 87 ‘Don’t lie! Tell the truth! Don’t say there’s 25,000 dead. It’s not true. Don’t use the dead for rhetoric and terrorism.’ VITTORIO SGARBI, CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, ITALY Media is bribed The reality of large scale media deception was exposed by German Journalist Udo Ulfkotte who was an editor for one of Europe’s largest newspapers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). He wrote the book ‘Bought Journalists’ in which he confesses how he and his colleagues were bribed for decades by American billionaires, the CIA, the German secret service and various shadow governments to write nothing but lies. In the video below he makes the following confession: ‘I’ve been a journalist for 25 years. I was taught to lie, to betray and to never tell the truth to the public. … I was bribed by American billionaires to report… not exactly the truth.’ (26) Journalist Udo Ulfkotte You can see the video here: https://youtu.be/yp-Wh77wt1o ‘I’ve been a journalist for 25 years. I was taught to lie, to betray and never to tell the truth to the public. I was bribed by American billionaires to report… not exactly the truth.’ Udo Ulfkotte, JOURNALIST Google brainwashes humanity A major player in the spreading of false informatin and the plan to control mankind, is the nr. 1 source of information: Google. Recently a senior software engineer of Google came out with shocking revelations. After working for Google for eight years Zach Vorhies could no longer live with his conscience. He came forward with disgusting revelations about Google’s mission. His statement essentially boils down to this: Google manipulates mankind by hiding certain information and imposing other information. Their mission is to ‘program’ humanity. 88 Zach Vorhies took the dangerous step of revealing 950 pages of internal documents, demonstrating this strategy. (57) Google has at least nine blacklists with thousands of websites that they deliberately hide from mankind. Google sent police, a SWAT team and an explosives team to intimidate him. Zach persisted and made the information known worldwide. These are some of the statements of this brave whistleblower: 89 ‘Google is not a source of objective information. They’re a very one-sided indoctrination machine. Google’s basic strategy is ‘programming people.’ Zach Vorhies, Senior Software Engineer at Google False ‘fact checkers’ 90 Google and media companies are now flooding the internet with so-called ‘fact check’ websites. These are supposedly meant to unmask fake news, but every researcher soon notices that it is just another tool to deceive the people. All too often revealing truth is dismissed as ‘fake news’ and deception is defended as ‘fact’. Not everything they write is wrong of course, that would be too obvious. But the many ‘fact check’ websites are essentially yet another means of Google and corrupt billionaires (who set up these websites) to hide truth from mankind. That’s why Google puts these websites at the top of the search results. The seriousness of this situation is that Google and the corrupt media are working closely with various Big Tech companies to censor humanity and distribute only a prescribed script. It is global mind control. Eyewitness censored by fact checkers An example of the corruption of so-called ‘Fact Checkers’ could recently be seen on Facebook. I already mentioned Nelleke Bakker, who worked for 25 years at the Dutch Health Organization (RIVM) in the vaccination department. Recently someone shared her interview in which she talks about the many lies she has seen at the RIVM. A Facebook Fact Checker described that message as ‘incorrect’. While it is her own 25 years of experience! A clear example of the corruption of ‘Fact Checkers’: an authentic eyewitness statement is dismissed as ‘incorrect’. A Facebook insider Zach McElroy recently came forward with evidence for what many already knew: Facebook employs large numbers of workers whose fulltime job it is to censor content. (58B) 91 ‘We are the ones who decide what can and cannot be said on Facebook’ Zach McElroy, Facebook insider 2500 doctors and experts: ‘This is a global crime!’ In Germany, the association “Doctors for Information” is supported by more than 2500 doctors, scientists and top professionals. During a press conference their spokesman Dr. Heiko Schoning said (18): The measures we all experience have nothing to do with suppressing the virus. So… who are actually being suppressed here? The Corona panic is a play. It’s a scam. A scam. It’s high time we understood that we’re in the midst of a global crime. ‘The corona panic is a play. It’s a scam. Swindle. It’s high time we understood that we’re in the midst of a global crime.’ Dr Heiko Schoning, DOCTORS FOR INFORMATION, GERMANY Hundreds of Spanish medical doctors say the pandemic is planned The German medical doctors are not the only ones saying the pandemic is a ‘global crime’. In Spain a group of 600 medical doctors called ‘Doctors for Truth’, made a similar statement during a press conference. 92 ‘Covid-19 is a false pandemic created for political purposes. This is a world dictatorship with a sanitary excuse. We urge doctors, the media and political authorities to stop this criminal operation, by spreading the truth.’ (2) What can you and I do? What can we do to stop this global crime? As I said before: become part of the worldwide freedom movement. Don’t sit and watch, but rise up and fly! You will receive empowering truth that helps you fight this corruption. You will also receive effective tools to share the truth with your own sphere of influence, even if it’s just your family. You will also learn how to become effective and powerful in your own life. How to eat and live healthy and overcome sickness. How to be succesful and reign as a king instead of suffer as a slave. And so much more. Don’t hesitate. This is not just another email, this is life changing and life saving. 93 Baumb, Nelly From:D Martell <dmpaloalto@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 8:58 PM To:Council, City Subject:Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle (TASER) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.                       "Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle" by Victor Appleton, 1911.    Nuclear Physicist Jack Cover   ‐ rhymes with rover ‐   made the first stun gun in 1970's and gave it it's now household  name, TASER.    He chose the name as an acronym for "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle".  The "A" isn't in the book's title, and Tom Swift  isn't given a middle name.  Cover realized it was too hard to pronounce without a vowel in it, so he added the "A".    Tom Swift's gun was used to shoot big game in Africa, and could shoot through walls.  The real stun gun was developed for Air Marshals, so they could stop terrorist without shooting a real gun, and shooting  a hole in the very plane they were trying to save.          94 Baumb, Nelly From:Caitlyn Marianacci <caitlynmarianacci@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 7:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:Palantir Sponsorship of Moonlight Run & Walk CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Palo Alto City Council members,     I'm a community member and recent employee of the City of Palo Alto. I’ve been participating in the Moonlight Run &  Walk for about 20 years, since I was 6 years old. I love the yearly tradition of getting together with family friends to walk  at the Baylands with so many other community members. However, my love for this event makes it especially  disappointing to me that the Palo Alto Weekly and the city is not more discerning of who sponsors the event.     One of the sponsors this year and for the past several years is the tech company Palantir. Palantir contracts with ICE to  provide software to surveil and track people, playing an integral role in the humanitarian crisis at the US/Mexico border.  Additionally, Palantir has just moved their headquarters from Palo Alto to Denver, making it even less appropriate for  them to sponsor this Palo Alto event.    I urge you to use your positions of power as council members to request that Palantir be dropped as a sponsor of the  Moonlight Run & Walk. The company's inhumane practices should not have anything to do with this family friendly Palo  Alto event.     Thank you,  Caitlyn Marianacci  95 Baumb, Nelly From:holly kim <kimhol@yahoo.com> Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 5:29 PM To:Council, City Cc:city.attorney@paloaltocity.org Subject:Re: Freedom of information act request and correction of testimony by witness today CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  If necessary, I will file a lawsuit in civil court for a response to the below. I do not believe perjury is frivolous. Thank you, Holly On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 7:18:03 PM PDT, Holly Kim <kimhol@yahoo.com> wrote: Hello, Today I had my hearing for case number 20SC083452. I think the witness the City presented who is Eric Talley was coached. He testified today under oath that there is no tree in front of the house at 3241 South Court based on a partial picture of the front of the house from 2015 that the City provided as evidence below. See first picture. Please confirm that Eric has never even been to the house and was coached. I am making this request based on the freedom of information act. Eric is a great guy and I like him and have no issues with him and do not in anyway think he is a perjurer. Please see below more recent Street view/2019 pictures from google showing the huge trees at the front of the house and the house next door. My understanding is that tree roots can spread up to 5 times the radius of the tree canopy. Making either of these huge trees roots easily able to reach the city clean out that I paid to replace because it was intruded by city owned tree roots. Which I am seeking reimbursement for and have so far been denied thus the lawsuit I filed that was heard today. Please have Eric correct his testimony with the court when possible. The judge did not allow me further questions of the witness so I could not correct it on the record. Please have Eric call the courtroom clerk at dept 15 to correct his testimony. The phone number is 408 882 2260. Please confirm when this is completed. I look forward to your reply. I can see why the defense-serving picture from 2015 was used but I believe that is unethical and morally corrupt. Is that really the type of city we live in and pay taxes to support? Please let me know your thoughts and when Eric has corrected his testimony. I look forward to your reply. Best regards, Holly Kim 96 Sent from my iPhone 97 Baumb, Nelly From:Shannon McEntee <shannonrmcentee@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 1:52 PM To:davidhirsch@gmail.com Cc:Council, City Subject:Your editorial in the Weekly re housing CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear David,     Thank you for your thoughtful and comprehensive editorial in the Palo Alto Weekly on 9/25/20 — Housing over Parking  lots? Time to look into it.   Your suggestions are both sensible, creative and fiscally responsible.  Why not use some of  Palo Alto’s city‐owned real estate for new housing?    Yours is the first inspirational AND realistic analysis I’ve read.  I’m glad you now live  in Palo Alto.    Sincerely,  Shannon Rose McEntee     98 Baumb, Nelly From:Phyllis Munsey <pmuns@thegrid.net> Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 10:44 AM To:Council, City; Barbara Gross; Chop Keenan; Jon Goldman; Leannah Hunt; Patty McGuigan Cc:Ryan Munsey; Cherry Jones; Becky Lyon; Greg St Claire; Mike Garcia; Cathi Lerch; John Lerch Subject:Proposition 15 vs 520 & 535 Ramona CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council,    Proposition 15 is the final blow to the 2020 financial disaster year.   After fighting hard to keep deLemos Properties’  tenants (Nola and The Wine Room) from going out of business and thereby causing us disastrous financial hardship, you  allowed Ramona Street to be blocked off and there was a glimmer of hope. …and for that we thank you.    Now here comes Proposition 15 which will take the tentative financial balance deLemos Properties is  establishing and  blow it all to smithereens.  We are continuing to have tenants in our larger spaces not extend existing leases or only  extend if rents are drastically reduced—or leave and work from home because of Covid19. This also is threatening our  survival.  The bottom has fallen out of the commercial office rental market.   Proposition 15 will cost us $200,000 more  in taxes the first year (2022?) and that (or more) in each successive year.   We have to lower prices because of Covid 19  and the crumby market and have no ability to raise rents enough  to pass along $200,000/year!!    Our buildings are historic and we can only pour money into altering interior spaces—to create different uses in order  to  attract a  different market.  We are bound by codes not to alter the exterior size.    Spaces whose current use is as a  restaurant kitchens and bars would be hard to alter and very costly.   Our choices are very limited.     In short, the buildings which have been in our family for 3 generations (since being built by my grandfather, Pedro  deLemos (in 1925 & 1935) will no longer be profitable and we will have to sell.    Obviously.  deLemos is not alone in this predicament.   You will see a turnover of all the old buildings in Palo Alto by  2022 if Proposition 15 passes.     I hope to canvass all Council members on their positions on this proposition and publicize  where I am able.   I hope in  good conscience you will join the fight to keep this proposition from passing.   I am hoping to hear from at least a few of  you on the council—at least the few who care about saving family businesses such as ours and the downtown as we  have known it.    Sincerely,  Phyllis Munsey  deLemos Properties, LLC  520‐526 and 533‐539 Ramona Street      99 Baumb, Nelly From:Deborah Fife <debby.fife@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 9:06 AM To:Council, City Subject:Castileja CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I live on Emerson Street close to Castilleja School, and I am dismayed and disheartened that the City of Palo Alto is rushing through the process of evaluating the school’s request to significantly increase the number of students and add an underground parking garage in an R-1 zone.     The education of female students should be of concern to all of us, but it is purely self-interest on the part of Castilleja to assert that the best way girls can get an excellent education in this town is if this particular single-gender school gets an underground garage and makes our already overburdened Embarcadero-Alma-El Camino traffic even worse (not to mention the years of construction chaos and disruption that we will have to endure). What does that imply about the Palo Alto Unified School District, and about the school districts in neighboring cities--that our excellent public schools are chopped liver? I would like to ask, why does Castilleja merit exceptions and variances? In whose eyes beyond those of the school’s supporters will Palo Alto be diminished by the curtailing of Castilleja’s expansionist plans?     Walk in our shoes, please. We deserve as much respect and time to present our perspectives, not to mention serious and thoughtful consideration of our views, as does Castilleja. While there are bound to be disagreements and differing points of view regarding a project of this scope, consistently disallowing the neighbors an equal place at the table during city council hearings is incomprehensible. What leverage does Castilleja hold over the city council that is more important than heeding the concerns of the city’s residents, who actually live here and pay taxes here and support the city’s businesses?  100 Baumb, Nelly From:Kenneth Streib <ken_streib@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, September 25, 2020 3:51 PM To:Council, City Subject:Debate CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Greetings City Council, I was able to view most of the debate last night. Congrats to all the participants for doing such a great job of presenting their views. If we MUST open up Foothill Park, Should we check the drivers licenses of those who come in, and split the maintenance costs among the cities of those who visit? Before we build a lot of low income housing, we need to know what the final effects of Covid-19 will be. If it forces a change to home office work, not only will people leave the area, but those who have employment will be working from home, and making it difficult to tell what the housing to jobs ratio is. In addition, if the economy is too poor at that point to pay for all the construction we could be deeply in debt. If we are forced to build low income housing we must insist that it is all 100% low income or close, and not luxury housing, but we must also place a cap on the profit margin of the construction firm providing the building. This will help insure that we are not being leveraged into building a project just to make a profit for a construction firm, but are building a project because we really need it and want it. In addition, I must insist that all construction including grade separation, electrification, and all else be halted temporarily, until we know we will have the funds to pay for it. Otherwise we risk being deeply in debt for construction we cannot use, and in a wrecked economy, with no way to generate funds to pay. Thank you very much for your time, Ken Streib 101 Baumb, Nelly From:RICH STIEBEL <w6apz@comcast.net> Sent:Friday, September 25, 2020 1:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:Redefine “Affordable Housing” CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Voting for Affordable Housing as X% of Market Rate sounds good on one’s political record, but what has it really accomplished? We need to redefine Affordable Housing in terms that really matter. What is the salary of a beginning teacher, of a starting Stanford janitor who keeps the hospital clean and germ free, of a fire fighter who just finished her/his training? With the cost of housing continuing to rise, we need to redefine Affordable Housing in terms of what these and similar workers can afford to pay, irrespective of Market Rate. We need these people to be a part of our community. Developers are in business to make money. Giving them concessions in parking, building height, and zoning so they will build a few pseudo Affordable Housing units affects our citizens who live in the neighborhoods in which they build. The city needs to buy the land and build real Affordable Housing. The city could sell bonds to raise the money for this important project. It’s the city’s job to take care of its workers. Rich Stiebel 840 Talisman Drive Palo Alto, CA 94303-4435 102 Baumb, Nelly From:Adelle Button-Bell <adellevets@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, September 25, 2020 11:18 AM To:Council, City Subject:2020 San Jose Veterans Day Parade CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Hello Mayor Adrian Fine and City Council Members of Palo Alto:    Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic restrictions and precautions, the United Veterans Council of Santa Clara County has decided to cancel the in-person parade event. The health and well- being of our community is our highest priority and concern. The UVC appreciates the understanding and support from our veterans, military and community.    This year we are presenting the 2020 Virtual Veterans Day Parade. This event will be on line on November 11, 2020. You will be able to view us from our website at www.uvcscc.org. We are also planning to have the virtual parade on Facebook and other platforms, which we will announce in the future.    Warm Regards,  Adelle Button-Bell  UVC of Santa Clara County Veterans Day Committee  103 Baumb, Nelly From:Yahoo Mail.® <honkystar@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, September 24, 2020 11:30 PM To:Honky Subject:9/11 REMEMBER NEVER FORGET (WHAT WAS SAID BEFORE AND AFTER) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Lyndon LaRouche (RIP) 9/11 Was An Inside Job; Could They Do It Again, Before November 3rd or Just After?     9/11 Was An Inside Job; Could They Do It Again, Before November 3rd or J...      104 Baumb, Nelly From:Glenn Fisher <gfisher@mac.com> Sent:Thursday, September 24, 2020 7:19 PM To:DuBois, Tom; Kou, Lydia Cc:Council, City; Expanded Community Advisory Panel Subject:Move now on Grade Crossings! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Tom and Lydia, and the rest of the CIty Council and XCAP,    This is not the time to stick our heads in the sand and abandon the grade crossing effort!  Covid doesn’t change the long  term equation and it actually improves the short term construction outlook.    CalTrain has made it clear that they won’t give us clear answers and are waiting for a miracle to fund them.  High Speed  Rail is mostly dead.  We can continue to do nothing and have several people a year killed or injured at our antiquated  grade crossings, or we can have vision and grit and move forward, like the City did almost 100 years ago with  Embarcadero and University.    The XCAP has done a lot of hard work, and has put together wonderful resources.  My only quibble is there could have  been more and better outreach to get the business community involved.  It’s time to take their input and make a  decision and move forward, so we’re ahead of the curve.  If we wait, we’ll be competing with every other city which sat  on its hands to wait for Covid to be over, or for CalTrain to make up its mind.    I have attended many XCAP meetings, I’ve read all their minutes and publications, and I’ve been actively involved  responding.  Don’t waste the work they’ve done by putting it on a shelf.    It’s time to separate our grade crossings NOW.  Get on with it!!!!      Glenn FIsher  Adobe Meadow  105 Baumb, Nelly From:Jonathan Ward <wardshome@me.com> Sent:Thursday, September 24, 2020 4:56 PM To:Council, City Subject:NO CHURCHILL ROAD CLOSURE CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    City Council,    Please do not take the Expanded Community Advisory Panel recommendation for closing Churchill road and expanding  Embarcadero Rd. as the right approach for dealing with grade separation for Cal Train. The hybrid option of raising the  train tracks and lowering the Churchill road has many more advantages than closing one of our key neighborhood roads  for connecting people to El Camino Rd., Stanford, and Palo Alto High School. We live on Fulton St. and desperately want  to keep the Churchill road open as it is used weekly. And if we can drive under the train without any cross traffic with Cal  Train it will be so much more useful for everyone.    Currently, Embarcadero Rd is already way too treacherous with people speeding along that road every minute of the  day. By pushing more cars to that road it will only make things worse. As long time residents we cannot make our voices  heard loud enough and have found this entire process exhausting.    Sincerely,    Jonathan and Andrea Ward  1700 Fulton St.  Palo Alto, CA 94303  106 Baumb, Nelly From:David Millsom <david.millsom@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 23, 2020 9:42 PM To:Council, City Cc:David Millsom Subject:Fiber Internet Service in Palo Alto CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  I am a Palo Alto resident and property owner.      I work from home and have a small business that relies critically on a capable internet service.  Moreover, as a person of high risk from the Covid‐19 virus I expect that the ability to function  from my home to remain essential for at least another year.    I have noted that AT&T fiber is available to cities north and south of Palo Alto but not to this city.  This is not acceptable.    If, for whatever reason, AT&T cannot provide the service this city needs it is now the responsibility  of the City of Palo Alto to find a way of providing its residents and businesses of businesses in this  technologically advanced city.with a fully functioning symmetrical GBS fiber service.    This city’s residents and businesses have been waiting for over 20 years for the city to make  progress on this issue. The matter has now become one of criticality, not only because of the  demands presented by the current pandemic but also to match the bandwidth requirements i    Please do not waste any more time getting this problem addressed.    Yours Faithfully,    David Millsom    2133 Hanover Street,  Palo Alto, CA 94306  (650) 223‐3312 ‐ home  (650) 714‐1281 ‐ mobile     107 Baumb, Nelly From:Bob Kocher <bobkocher37@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, September 24, 2020 9:43 AM To:Council, City Subject:Support for Castilleja CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  September 24, 2020    Dear City Council Members,     Thank you for the time you have taken to review and consider Castilleja’s application for a new Conditional Use Permit and new Project Alternative. As a resident of Palo Alto and a neighbor of the school, I am writing to share my steadfast support of the proposal, which is 100% compliant with Palo Alto’s Comprehensive Plan, and I hope you will support it as well.     I do hear people who believe that the parking structure will bring more traffic to the neighborhood, and I want to reiterate that this is an illogical argument because the daily car trips are capped. The structure simply moves cars below ground which is a good thing. The school cannot and will not permit more trips to campus. If trips increase, the school will not be permitted to increase enrollment, so the accountability is built into the proposal. Therefore, Castilleja is hugely incentivized to make sure that there will be no new trips since they will depend on the tuition revenue that they generate.     I hope that you have noted that FEIR prefers the underground parking structure over street parking for many reasons. First of all, it restores the neighborhood feel by placing cars below ground. More important, though, Palo Alto’s Comprehensive Plan, the City’s guiding tool for preservation and development prefers underground parking to street-level parking. This is the option that the City has carefully considered and decided is superior.   The structure will be single lane and thus smaller and less prominent than other facilities. It will also be carefully landscaped, to improve upon current conditions, especially on Emerson where there is now a street-level parking lot. This is a solution that was built in response to neighbors who insisted upon it as a condition for moving forward, and as a neighbor, I fully support the underground parking structure as well.     I know there are many, many of my fellow Palo Altans who support this important project.     Sincerely,    Bob Kocher, MD Adjunct Professor, Stanford Medicine Emerson Street Resident, Palo Alto  108 Baumb, Nelly From:Hotel Parmani | Palo Alto <info@hotelparmani.com> Sent:Thursday, September 24, 2020 8:01 AM To:Council, City Subject:Withdrawal from TBID CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Thank you for taking the time to read through my perspective below.  I write to request withdrawal from participation in  the SMCCVB ("CVB") TBID.      My family has owned and operated a small independent motel on El Camino Real for over 40 years, which has required  significant sacrifice, risk and diligence, as well as a fierce loyalty to Palo Alto. We have endured many economic cycles  and observed what works for small properties like ours, which informs my perspective.      Participation in the TBID (i) is an ineffective use of hotel marketing dollars, (ii) was forced upon small independent motel  properties like ours, (iii) is something an overwhelming majority of hotels do not want, (iv) is advocated for by  organizations with conflicts of interest.      I urge you to support a majority of hotels by withdrawing from forced participation in the TBID.     Ineffective TBID    The overwhelming response by hotels (large and small) voting to withdraw makes clear that participation in the TBID is  fruitless. Years of evidence and experience show that the TBID is ineffective and costly with no tangible reward.    The TBID does not serve small motel properties like mine.  We have netted exactly 0 dollars from participation over 10  years.  In fact, I get more business from Stanford in any typical one week period from organic, non‐commissionable  referral business (even currently) than the CVB provided to me in nearly 10 years combined.       The CVB cannot seriously argue it provides a valuable return on investment to smaller motels like mine.  They do not  pretend to try.  Instead, the CVB advances a theoretical economic argument that the value to small motels like mine lay  in the hypothetical overflow business from larger hotels that secure bookings through participation. This is not true.    Consider that the 4 largest hotels in Palo Alto wish to withdraw from the TBID.  What does that tell you?  The larger  hotels likely want out because they receive no tangible return on investment.  If the TBID does not generate business for  the largest hotels, there is not any overflow business for small motels like ours.  This is my experience.  The largest  hotels would not want to withdraw if the CVB was producing business for them.  Instead, they overwhelmingly  want out.      It should alarm you that so many properties want out.  If the TBID is valuable, there wouldn't only be 3 affirmative Yes  votes (excluding the 4 that were counted as Yes votes because they did not respond).  Business owners and general  managers calculate financial impacts ‐ if there is a net positive financial impact, it is unlikely they would want out.    Small properties like mine receive zero benefit from participation in the TBID no matter how the overall regional  economy is performing.  In good times, Palo Alto's rates are too expensive for leads generated via the CVB.  The CVB  cannot generate meaningful leads in recessionary, depressed economic times like these because there are either too  many hotels competing for the same business (San Mateo County + Palo Alto), or there isn't any business to be  generated.  The TBID is a poor fit ‐ in good times and bad.  109   Forced Participation    At its inception, small properties like ours were not given a choice nor a voice ‐ we were forced to participate in the  TBID.  A small subset of unrepresentative, larger hotels (Crowne Plaza, Sheraton, Westin, Garden Court Hotel, and  Dinah's), the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, and City Council entered into this arrangement on behalf of all  properties.  The concept was sold as affording Palo Alto hotels an opportunity to increase visibility and generate  business coming out of the last recession in exchange for an annual fee charged to hotels.  I fervently believe this value  proposition has not been realized.      Nearly 10 years later, all but one of the original 5 hotels that had a voice voted to withdraw from the TBID.      With all hotels afforded a voice regarding the original value proposition, the result is crystal clear.    Withdrawal Requested by Majority    To force the majority of hotels to stay in an arrangement they resoundingly wish to divorce themselves from signals to  Owners and GMs that the CVB, Chamber, and City Council are better suited than each individual property on how best  to use and allocate its marketing budgets.      Hotel operators and owners know what is best for their business and conclude that continued participation is not  worthwhile.    Twenty properties voted to exit the arrangement, and only 3 affirmatively voted to continue participation (with 3 non‐ responsive and 1 not voting counted as Yes votes).      Conflicts of Interest / Interested 3rd Party Input    City Council should not consider the input of the CVB or the Chamber on whether to withdraw from the TBID.  Both  organizations hang onto the notion that the TBID is valuable.  Unfortunately, both have obvious conflicts of interest of  financial incentives to force continued participation despite hotels' objections.      The CVB's input should not carry any weight.  It will lose $309K of annual funding.  The CVB's attempt to influence City  Council on this issue, contrary to the will of a majority of Palo Alto hotels, can be attributed more to maintaining its  funding cash cow than to generating any meaningful return for Palo Alto properties ‐ in particular small properties like  ours.  The CVB is not entitled to this forced participation simply because it will blow a hole in their budget.    If the CVB had any meaningful business generation over the last 10 years, 75% of properties would not request  withdrawal.  I cannot imagine any business wanting to exit a relationship which yields them even a marginally  meaningful return on investment.      Similarly, City Council should not prioritize the Chamber's position over that of the majority of hotels.  The Chamber will  lose $31K in funding.  I understand their concern.  However, the Chamber's position on the issue has absolutely nothing  to do with what is best for hotels.      The Chamber is an interested 3rd party ‐ not a hotel operator nor travel agency.  If the Chamber's scant funding was not  at stake, it could not credibly argue that it has any vested interest or position on this issue.  The Chamber is certainly not  in a better position than I am to tell you whether or not participation is in my best interest.      City Council should value the clear mandate from a majority of hotels in Palo Alto of what is best for their businesses and  discount the opinions of other parties that do not represent the views of individual businesses.    110 Education / Outreach / Chamber of Commerce    The CVB touts that it provides education and outreach to the industry.  I note to you that there are countless other hotel  organizations, with nominal annual fees, which provide more comprehensive education and outreach.      The Chamber notes that it provides visitor's information electronically and in print form ‐ which is updated every two  years.  I submit to each of you that in a world where information changes by the second, having a printed guide updated  every 2 years is not beneficial to hotels.      Consider how you plan your own travel.  Nobody relies on print brochures nor thinks to themselves to start a hotel  search by picking up the phone to call the local Chamber of Commerce.  Travellers use Google, Hotels.com, other Online  Travel Agencies, or other referrals.  The traveler coming to Palo Alto is technologically savvy, knows why he/she is  coming, and has no trouble identifying the reasons to stay in Palo Alto.      Can you imagine picking up the phone and calling the Chamber, and the Chamber actually having a dedicated person  who picks up the phone and dispenses advice on where to stay?  And if they did, what is their criteria for referring to  hotels ‐ which hotels get the referrals?     I have no desire to replace TBID participation with anything else. The CVB's efforts to convince Palo Alto hotels to remain  in the TBID failed because it provides no actual value.  The CVB has asked for more time to "right the ship."  They've had  10 years.  It is time to listen to your businesses and terminate this arranged marriage.      Conclusion    I urge City Council to listen to its hotel operators and withdraw from the TBID effective immediately.  Businesses like  mine are doing everything we can to survive during this pandemic and uncertain economic time.  Small businesses like  ours must have the agency and control over how we spend our hard‐fought revenue, including our own individualized,  tailored marketing efforts.      City Councilmembers do not need to make a value judgment on whether you think it is worthwhile to continue  participation.  Council need only understand that the affected properties have spoken ‐ emphatically.  Large and small  properties want to withdraw.  It defies logic that if you find something to be of value, you would want to rid yourself of  it.        I thank you again for considering my input.    Sincerely,    Yatin Patel    ‐‐     Hotel Parmani | Palo Alto  3200 El Camino Real  Palo Alto, CA 94306  Tel: 650.493.9085 Fax: 650.493.8405  www.hotelparmani.com  111 Baumb, Nelly From:Pc User 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Honorable mention should have been given to Dontell Jackson and his very well researched website  called "WE THOUGHT THEY WERE WHITE" !!! (Google it up)  While the Kommie Leaning NY Times, also referred to as The Slimes by people in the know, may be able  to pull the wool over the eyes of dumbed down grammar school kids, who are spoon fed horse manure  on a daily basis, the seasoned Historians can easily put them in their place, which is known as the trash  heap of the ages.  All patriotic Americans should immediately boycott that rag, and all of the companies that support it by  paying for advertising in it !!!  Read the article which is linked below if you want to know the historical facts, and don't want to be  blindsided by the TREASONOUS SPINMEISTERS who want our country destroyed from within !    https://www.naturalnews.com/2020‐09‐20‐brainwashing‐kids‐with‐debunked‐1619‐project.html#      Best Regards, & Stay Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise !  RJS  114 Baumb, Nelly From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 23, 2020 7:40 PM To:Rebecca Eisenberg Cc:chuck jagoda; Roberta Ahlquist; Mary Sylvester; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Steven D. Lee; Madhumita Gupta; Raven Malone; Winter Dellenbach; Sara Tabin; Emily Mibach; paloaltoresident@paloaltocalifornia.us; Jeff Moore; Greg Tanaka; james pitkin; Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Mudita Jain; Ed Lauing; paloaltoresident@paloaltocalifornia.us; Cari Templeton; City Mgr; Joe Simitian; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; mike.wasserman@bos.sccgov.org; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Dave Cortese; Donna Wallach; Lewis. james; Michele James Subject:Re: Saturday Sept 26 -starting at 6pm, outside San Jose City Hall, Yes on 16 rally, event honoring RBG to follow -with protest action re lack of meaningful charges being filed in the Breonna Taylor police killing to follow. Be There!! Speak Justice &... CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.                       Hi Rebecca,     Thanks for your kind words! More importantly thanks for your very well reasoned and informative memo ( below) with  detailed information re how the City of Palo Alto continues to do everything possible ( within their power) to delay and  obstruct any meaningful plan to face‐down the extraordinary lack of low income housing in our community.     I will be reading your plan for solving the housing crisis in addition to the other candidates solutions listed at the PAN  link you have provided, below.    I look forward to continuing to collaborate with you in our never ending efforts to dismantle all racist institutions in Palo  Alto and beyond.     On to victory & social justice for all!   Vote for Rebecca Eisenberg on Nov 3, 2020      Best regards,    Aram    P. S. Just attended the virtual Prop 16 zoom  rally ( general session). Very powerful rally.    *** This Saturday, September 26, starting at 6pm, outside San Jose City Hall, there will be a Yes on Prop 16 rally,  followed by an event to honor RBG’s life, and to protest the Louisville Kentucky Grand Jury’s decision for failure to indict  any of the three officers involved in killing of Breonna Taylor with appropriate murder charges.   115           Sent from my iPhone      On Sep 23, 2020, at 4:23 PM, Rebecca Eisenberg <rebecca@winwithrebecca.com> wrote:     Hi ‐ I'm just giving long‐overdue gratitude for Aram's kind words.     Now more than ever we need to enact strong protections to produce housing, preserve existing  affordable housing, and protect tenants. Given an opportunity to do all 3 on Monday night, the city  council did none. In its discussion of zoning changes to incentivize housing, all 7 city council members  reaffirmed Palo Alto's exclusionary height limits on housing developments, despite the advice of their  own outside consultant, who concluded that Palo Alto's height limits impede the city's ability to raise  funds for, and consequently build, affordable housing.     As to affordable housing production, city council continued to focus exclusively on its failed strategy of  relying on commercial developers. Despite calls from community members to utilize one of the vast  array of financing strategies available to cities with excellent credit such as Palo Alto to acquire land and  buildings, the city council rejected even researching this method, that other cities use with great  success. And, even though city council was informed that numerous other California cities have been  receiving HomeKey grants ranging from $10 to $50 million to produce affordable housing, city council  has not explored taking advantage of the $600 million of CARES Act funding recently offered by the  State of California. After seeing Mountain View next door receive $12.3 million in HomeKey funds last  week, which Mountain View is using to increase its transitional homeless capacity ten‐fold, Palo Alto city  council did not consider doing the same.    In March, city council voted 7‐0 to remove a business tax from November's ballot, thereby depriving our  community the right to require our largest businesses to contribute to our city coffers, and extending  Palo Alto's problematic status as the only California city with a business presence that lacks any business  tax. So, in a city that has the corporate headquarters or large offices of at least five multi‐billion‐dollar  technology giants that have profited from this pandemic ‐‐ Tesla, Palantir, Amazon, Facebook, and  Google ‐‐ our council cut $42 million in essential services to, rather than allow our community to ask  Tesla and Palantir to pay for the housing shortage they create.    Not surprisingly, Palo Alto's failed strategies have resulted in the permitting of only 43 units of very low  income housing in the past 7 years: a mere 6% of the city's legal obligation to produce, with one year to  go. Palo Alto's affordable housing shortage is so severe that the ratio of jobs‐to‐affordable homes for  very low income workers here is an unprecedented astromic 7‐jobs‐to‐1‐affordable‐home. Palo Alto's  performance in low and moderate income housing is not much better:    <image.png>    Under every alternate calculation of RHNA's very low income housing requirements, 43 units in 7 years  represents irrefutable failure, particularly when compared to virtually every less‐wealthy California city,  all of whom have outperformed our highly‐educated, highly‐paid community in housing production. This  is embarrassing, shameful, and puts the sustainability of our community at risk. This does not reflect the  116 values of our community, nor the stated priorities of the city council, both of which rank affordable  housing at the very top.    We can do better. I believe that, with long‐overdue policy changes, Palo Alto has the capacity to lead our  State in affordable housing production, in addition to affordable housing preservation, and tenant  protection.   Here is my plan: https://www.winwithrebecca.com/housing‐plan     Additionally, local community group Palo Alto Neighborhoods (PAN) recently posted all 10 candidates'  responses to a long list of questions, which provides an interesting overview of how different candidates  approach local issues:  http://paneighborhoods.org/election‐2020/.   (please forgive the typo you may notice in one of my answers)  This is the fixed broken link for goals: http://paneighborhoods.org/wp‐ content/uploads/2020/09/Goals.pdf    Thank you again, Aram, for your kind words, and, more importantly, for your hard work and dedication  towards our shared goals of defeating systems that maintain a racist status quo, that deprive  communities of color and working families from access to our economy and education, and that  advantage the wealthiest few at the expense of the vulnerable.     Best regards,  Rebecca      rebecca@winwithrebecca.com * 415-235-8078  Win With Rebecca! iGana con Rebeca!  Rebecca Eisenberg for Palo Alto City Council   www.winwithrebecca.com     <image.png>    Join our Movement for a Fair Palo Alto!  Facebook: Rebecca Eisenberg for Palo Alto City Council  Twitter: @RebeccaEisenbe4 ** @rle   Instagram: @reisenberg2020      On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:45 PM Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote:        Hi Chuck,     Not one candidate at tonight’s debate ‐despite an open ended question re police reform‐ discussed the  ongoing coverup of the racist PAPD cop ( captain no less) Zack Perron scandal here in Palo Alto. Lots of  PA folks willing to say they support the BLM movement ‐but when it comes to removing a vile alleged  racist from our own police department silence and complicity seems to be the order of the day. ( 6  years and counting!!!)    My favorite candidate for PA city council‐ Rebecca Eisenberg ‐did a great job‐ stated adamantly that the  PAPD has a long history of police brutality. She was by far the strongest candidate on housing issues,  safe parking programs etc. She is fearless and never afraid to speak truth to power. Extremely well  informed ‐and articulate ‐Stanford undergrad ‐Harvard Law ‐and the heart of a warrior activist.   117   I also thought Raven Malone did an excellent job as did Cari Templeton. I may be voting for all three  women ‐each who would hopefully knock out an incumbent or a retread candidate like Pat Burt.    I’m also giving a hard look at candidate Greer Stone. He was viciously attacked by Michele Dauber and  her husband Ken Dauber —because he dared to testify as a character witness for his brother who was  convicted as a child molester and sent to prison.    After his testimony the Daubers ran a hate campaign to have him removed as a Democratic Party  delegate ‐member of the county HRC ‐and questioned whether he should be allowed to continue  teaching in Palo Alto schools.    When he sat before the Democratic Party for their endorsement for city council  Michele Dauber (apparently an inexplicably‐a leader in the county Democratic Party) on the panel  deciding endorsements —refused to recuse herself or declare a conflict despite her prior attacks on  Greer Stone —way prior to him running for city council. He did not receive a party endorsement!     The other members of the endorsement panel ‐apparently had no problem allowing the witch hunter,  Michele Dauber, to remain on the panel deciding whether to endorse Greer Stone.     If all of the above is accurate ( I’m a recently registered ‐last few years ‐democrat ) ‐I now have nothing  but contempt for the local Democratic leadership .   We need to do our best to attend these debates and ask the hard questions about this totally  unaccountable police department ‐with a non‐stop history of abusing and brutalizing people of color— and the same history of racist policing.    We need to ask some hard questions ‐of council candidates‐about DA Rosen and how the city council  and the PA community can push Rosen politically —to file criminal charges against brutal and racist  cops like Perron, Wayne Benitez and other members of the PAPD. Our work for justice has just begun.     Aram    P.S. Here is our recently expanded piece ‐published by debug‐on the need for Police Crime Units in  each DAs office across this country. Feedback welcomed.   https://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/stories/james‐and‐konda‐the‐time‐has‐come‐for‐a‐police‐crimes‐ unit            On Sep 15, 2020, at 8:46 PM, chuck jagoda <chuckjagoda1@gmail.com> wrote:     I say let's stop talking about this and get serious. Let's shop for candidates who are closely involved with housing/homeless issues and make some sense. I'd love to run in PA but don't live there. We must back only those who are serious advocates for housing that make sense. If they're not on the ballot, write them in. 118 Roberta--- why don't you run again?   On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 3:23 PM Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> wrote:  https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2020/09/15/ how‐to‐help‐the‐homeless‐and‐housing‐insecure‐ amidst‐a‐pandemic‐local‐leaders‐compare‐ tactics?utm_source=express‐2020‐09‐ 15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=express    Palo Alto has yet to take on its fair share of providing low income housing for its  workers, city  employees, service sector folks who travel the farthest, make the least, etc.  Let's ote in council members who want to make the city a more diverse, inclusive,  racially. and socio‐economic city.  Thanks,  Roberta        ‐‐   Chuck  119 Baumb, Nelly From:Glass Slipper Inn <glassslipperinn@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Public Comment for Sep 28th Council Meeting, regarding TBID agenda item CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Councillors:     The Glass Slipper Inn has been a participating member of the San Mateo County Convention and Visitors Bureau's  (SMCCVB) Tourism Business Improvement District (TBID) since its inception.    We are writing to add our public comments to your upcoming discussion to be undertaken at the Monday, September  28th council meeting, during which you intend to discuss the city's continuing participation in the TBID.    During our time of participation in the district, we have not seen a measurable impact to our individual bookings or to  our group reservations from the district. Nor have we obtained any direct or indirect referrals for hotel business by  district‐affiliated companies and organizations.    As a result, we don't believe that there is value to be gained by continuing to be a member of the TBID and to pay the  ongoing fee assessment.    Thus we request that you adopt a resolution to withdraw participation from the TBID for Palo Alto hotels.    Regards,  Mahendra Patel (General Manager)  ‐‐  Glass Slipper Inn  3941 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306  650‐493‐6611 // 650‐493‐4421 [fax]  120 Baumb, Nelly From:Sundip Gmail <sskarsan@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:TPAI-SMCCVB CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    Dear Palo Alto City Council Members,    We view the SMCCVB as an outdated source for acquiring business.  We have paid for this service yet have not received  any benefit.  The trickle down effect from larger hotels which was supposed to happen for a small business such as ours  also has not occurred.    In times like this, where the economy and business travel has slowed, we are competing with many larger hotels for  what little business is available.  The SMCCVB has had no impact in our business during this time, when we most need to  drive guest stays to our business.  In addition, an overwhelming majority of hotel businesses in Palo Alto do not support  continued participation.    Therefore, as participation has historically been forced upon us, we absolutely support our property’s withdrawal from  the SMCCVB and will choose not to pay for a service we do not want nor has any benefit for our business.    Sincerely,    Sundip and Anand Karsan  The Palo Alto Inn    121 Baumb, Nelly From:Fred Balin <fbalin@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 23, 2020 12:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:My Monday Comments At Orals Re: Michael Alcheck CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Documentation still to follow.  ‐Fred Balin  2385 Columbia Street      Comments during City Council Oral Communications of 9/21/20    With the public hearing closed and dais discussion of the quasi‐judicial Castellija EIR of August 26th continued, Michael  Alcheck contacted the applicant, in violation of the commission’s protocols.    Then, at the September 9th meeting, he argued that the explicit wording of a city ordinance should be ignored in favor  of a past practice. Even though the code required a basement to be under the building’s footprint, he claimed that a  precedent in another project overrode the code.    But in 2015, as a commissioner, and arguing in regard to his own residential redevelopments, he advocated the exact  opposite: that the explicit wording of an ordinance trumps any precedent. That ordinance prohibited a “garage” in the  front half of his lots, but it did not explicitly, exclude a “carport.”    When it worked in favor of Alcheck’s personal interests, he advocated for a strict reading of the code. But when it  benefited an applicant he improperly contacted ex‐parte, he spoke in favor of ignoring the clear reading of the code.    On Friday, after Mitch McConnell reversed his 2016 precedent on filling a Supreme Court vacancy, President Obama  wrote: "a basic principal of law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency and not based on  what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment."    Three years ago, and after this body was informed by the planning director that Alcheck had illegally converted his  carports into garages, three of you voted to reappoint him anyway: Councilmembers Tanka, Fine, and Kniss.    A year ago this month, I submitted to the city a 100‐page investigation of Alcheck’s misdeeds in his carport‐to‐garage  caper. It helped influence your decision to implement a broader discussion of the work of commissions, but nothing  came forward in relation to Alcheck.     With this latest information together with documentation I will submit, the council should finally do what is long  overdue ask for his resignation, and if not received, remove him from the commission.    Thank you.   ##  1 Baumb, Nelly From:MIDPEN ACLU <midpen.aclu@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, September 28, 2020 1:54 PM To:Council, City; City Mgr; Human Relations Commission; Jonsen, Robert Subject:MidPen ACLU's abbreviated sub on police reform to CC, City Manager, Police Chief & HRC Study Session 2 Attachments:PA_ MidPen Abbreviated Sub on police reform 09_28_2020.pdf Follow Up Flag:Follow up Flag Status:Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  City Council, Mayor Fine, Vice Mayor DuBois, City Manager Shikada, Chief Jonsen and HRC,    Please find the attached abbreviated submission from the Mid‐Peninsula ACLU Volunteer Chapter. The items have been  updated to reflect some current community concerns and evolving thoughts and actions on police reform.        Thank you.  Mid‐Peninsula ACLU Volunteer Chapter  September 28, 2020 City Council, Mayor Fine, Vice Mayor DuBois, City Manager Shikada, Chief Jonsen, and HRC, Thank you for your continued engagement with the community on the subject of Palo Alto’s police policies and practices. At this time, we want to abbreviate and update our previous five recommendations. We have omitted some of the subsections but our numbering system corresponds to our earlier submission of August 23, 2020. 1.Police Department Policy 2.Police Transparency and Accountability 3.Alternative Responses to Mental Health Crises 4.Training: Race Relations 5.Unconscious Bias and Police Practices We recognize that reforms impact the budget yet cities across the country are reallocating funds and implementing genuine improvements. So can Palo Alto. 1. Police Department Policy b. Compliance with 8 Can’t Wait Recommendations We recommend ​revising the appropriate sections of the Police Department Policy Manual to comply with the recommendations of the ​Human Relations Commission​ to the City Council, perhaps with some tweaking of the language so that it prohibits only actions that ​intentionally​ lead to positional asphyxiation. The wording should be such as to prevent an incident like the death of George Floyd from ever happening in Palo Alto. We again stress that implementation of the ​8 Can’t Wait​ recommendations is only a good first step toward meaningful police reform. c. Stops People of color who have spoken at recent City Council and HRC meetings have said they have felt consistently and unfairly targeted by police for decades. We previously recommended that the Policy Manual be revised to better ensure that there is no such bias. But there is no way to assess whether there is bias without data. The ​Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015​ (AB 953) requires law enforcement agencies to collect demographic data for stops; for small agencies, data collection is to begin April 1, 2022. Los Altos, with whom Palo Alto shares a jointly managed emergency dispatch system, is​ ​supportive of starting collection​ of these data in 2021 rather than waiting until the mandated date; we urge Palo Alto to do the same. Department policy should be such as to ensure that a stop is never made unless there is an affirmative answer to the question ​“Do I have specific and September 28, 2020 MidPen ACLU Comments to Palo Alto Page 2 articulable facts that tie this particular individual to a specific crime?”​ The RIPA data may help assess whether this is indeed the case. d. Policy Manual Redactions The public version of the Policy Manual dated 2019/10/21 has 19 sections completely redacted, giving vague reference to several sections of the Government Code as justification. We recommend reexamining each redaction and considering making only a partial redaction where feasible. Where this is not feasible, cite the specific section of the GC that allows redaction and provide at least a one-sentence explanation of why this is the case. 2. Police Transparency and Accountability a. Independent Oversight Palo Alto arguably provides better oversight of police actions than many cities its size. But the process is not exactly transparent, and it seems subject to considerable filtering by city legal staff and police representatives. And little ever seems to happen as a result. We recommend an independent body, such as a police commission, that has binding, or at least advisory, input on writing police department policy as well as investigating or reviewing complaints against police officers. If an investigative staff is infeasible, have the Independent Police Auditor report to this body. If a new body is infeasible, have the HRC assume these functions if they are willing to do so. We appreciate the HRC’s efforts on independent oversight in 2005 but think it is time to revisit the issue. 3. Alternative Responses to Mental Health Crises Police departments carry a heavy burden having to respond to mental health calls, and the presence of armed police can unnecessarily escalate a crisis. Mental health professionals—not police—should be the primary responders for most mental health crises. While the partnership between Palo Alto Police and Santa Clara Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT) is an encouraging step forward, we must work towards revising the 911 system so that non-violent, non-criminal mental health calls are directed to a Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) composed of mental health workers rather than law enforcement, as the Legislature intended with ​SB 773​ (2020). The County Communications Center is currently working to reflect this. We recommend the city develop a plan by 2021 to meet the mental health demands of its city by considering an MCRT (similar to the ​CAHOOTS program​ in Eugene and Springfield, OR) and consider partnering with nearby cities. Alternatively, we recommend partnering with ​the Santa Clara County MCRT to create a more robust program that would respond to 911 mental health calls without law enforcement when appropriate, ensure timely response to Palo Alto September 28, 2020 MidPen ACLU Comments to Palo Alto Page 3 (response time has been reported up to an hour due to traffic), and provide 24/7 mobile services. Funding a city-level team may feel challenging in the middle of a COVID crisis. However, note that the ​cost of the CAHOOTS program is a fraction of that of the cities’ police departments (​~2%​) and has been estimated to result in over ​$15 million​ annual cost savings. Furthermore, ​the ​Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration​ ​recommends​ ​ ​shifting the burden of crisis care funding to the person’s health insurance plan that, by law or contract, is responsible for covering this care. There are examples of Medicaid-funded crisis programs across the nation. Recently, several people in mental health crises have died at the hands of police. Had better responses been available, many of those people—such as Daniel Prude in Rochester, NY—might well be alive today. Palo Alto should not wait for something similar to happen here. 4. Training: Race Relations a. History of Race Relations Police training on race relations needs to be much more robust than implicit-bias training which many studies have found to be surprisingly ineffective. Young recruits, as well as veteran officers, more often than not lack historical knowledge of race relations. This unavoidable part of the American story begins with the genocide of Native Americans. With regard to Black Americans, the training would begin with slavery and its relationship to economic expansion and continue through redlining in home ownership to the current school-to-prison pipeline. This pipeline is fed by many SRO programs in public schools today and their direct connection to local police departments needs restructuring top to bottom. The destructive impact from these programs on the lives of many students of color has been voiced by many community members in Palo Alto and surrounding cities. Some of what is suggested above is already required by the ​Racial Identity and Profiling Act of 2015​ (AB 953). We suggest a task force that would develop a pilot program led by one or two educators with knowledge of these historical themes and curriculum development. The task force would also reach out to Montgomery, Alabama’s ​Deputy Sheriff Kevin Murphy​, Stockton, California’s ​Mayor Michael Tubbs​, and other cities and 1 institutions currently committed to genuine police training reform. 1 The first 8 minutes of this interview are very helpful and we strongly urge its viewing. September 28, 2020 MidPen ACLU Comments to Palo Alto Page 4 5. Unconscious Bias and Police Practices Stanford professor ​Jennifer Eberhardt​ has done extensive research on the relationships between racial imagery and the public at large and more specifically with police practices. In her TED talk​,​ she ​explores how our biases unfairly target Black people at all levels of society—from schools and social media to policing and criminal justice—and discusses how creating “points of friction” can help us address this troubling problem. We strongly encourage everyone reading this submission to view her ​TED talk​ and research her extremely relevant work. All of these reforms are meant to chip away at some of the deeply held, societally instilled, racist beliefs that some officers unfortunately hold, as do you and I. We would appreciate a meeting with you to continue our and the community’s interest in these items. Mid-Peninsula ACLU Volunteer Chapter September 28, 2020 2 Baumb, Nelly From:gogo heinrich <artandgogo@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 6:06 PM To:Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission; Council, City Subject:Castilleja Plans Attachments:Castilleja letter 2020 September.docx Follow Up Flag:Follow up Flag Status:Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Honorable Council Members, Commissioners, Board Members and City Staff, Atttached for your review is a letter regarding Castilleja's Project. It is proposed that approval of the project be postponed until Castilleja submits a compliant plan. Thank you for your consideration. Gogo Heinrich, Architect LETTER TO THE CITY REGARDING THE CASTILLEJA PROJECT September 26, 2020 It appears that Castilleja is rushing to get their project approved without a compliant plan. We are concerned to see this very controversial project rushed through to Council in the next couple of months and voted on by retiring members. It would behoove the City and be beneficial to the community to wait until Castilleja submits a project that addresses their non-compliant issues adequately. Understandably, Castilleja needs to grow and modernize for its goal of educating young women. We support Castilleja in this endeavor. However, there is no benefit to the City of Palo Alto or the neighborhood to physically increase the size of the school. The school could make some adjustments and still grow, but they insist on a 30% increase in enrollment, 95 annual events, and an underground garage that is not compatible with the neighborhood. The Castilleja plans are based on pre-pandemic conditions. With the recent changes in education due to Covid-19, there are now other opportunities to increase enrollment without the need for the physical expansion of its campus. Regarding a compliant plan, the Castilleja Draft Environmental Impact Report was incomplete and was inadequate in its analysis. The summary of the back-up documentation did not match the facts and figures presented. Mitigation measures crucial to the success of the project were deferred: some, such as traffic flow through a restricted garage, are to be studied after the project is completed in three plus years; and some (such as tree protection/replacement, traffic and noise) are to be the responsibility of the unidentified future construction contractor. The Final EIR submission is still incomplete and inadequate for these same reasons. An underground garage and the massive scale of the buildings are not in harmony with the neighborhood. The underground garage does nothing to modernize the classrooms and provide a better learning experience. It appears that Castilleja itself understands this as well since they have hired separate consultants, WRNS Studio for the academic campus/buildings, and ArchiRender/Sandis for the parking garage. Castilleja also separated the work into two projects, emphasizing the distinction that the education of young women is not dependent on the construction of an underground garage. Castilleja failed to provide a presentation of the garage and its environmental impacts to the neighbors. Even in its public presentation to the Planning Commission on August 17, 2019, only the academic campus/buildings were elaborated upon by WRNS Studios. There was no garage consultant present. The underground garage does nothing to mitigate the traffic issues nor is it compliant with the municipal codes. The visual character and quality of the site and surroundings are substantially degraded. The square footage that Castilleja proposes, 195,105 square feet, is greater than that of a “Super Target” big box store, 175,000 square feet. This is totally inappropriate for a residential neighborhood. In addition, the building elevation on Kellogg Street is continuous across the entire site, equal to the front elevation of many big box stores. With Castilleja’s latest change in traffic circulation with the driveway/drop-off on Kellogg Street, the opportunity to relieve this massing of the building with landscaping is substantially minimized. Transportation and circulation were not fully addressed in the DEIR and the Final EIR. The basis for the traffic study was insufficient as it randomly selected only three days, and mid-week at that. The traffic counts are old and much of the information was self-reported by Castilleja. The traffic study needs to be redone and new mitigations presented, especially since Castilleja has changed circulation with a new driveway/drop-off on Kellogg Street and changed the vehicle counts on the Bryant, Kellogg and Emerson streets. Specifically, the EIR does not study the two garage ingress and egress driveways, the two new LETTER TO THE CITY REGARDING THE CASTILLEJA PROJECT September 26, 2020 loop driveways, the two parking lot driveways and the delivery driveway. In addition, post-pandemic conditions has seen a noticeable increase in bicycle, pedestrian, and other non-vehicle traffic on Bryant Street, designated as the Bryant Bike Boulevard. It is critical that the new traffic study include new counts for non-vehicle traffic and address safety for the Bryant Bike Boulevard. In the DEIR and EIR Chapter 13, Alternatives, there was not sufficient information for two of the three alternatives. Alternative 1 (No development) did not require further study. Alternative 2 (Moderate Enrollment Growth with the underground garage); and Alternative 3 (Moderate Enrollment Increase with Reduced Parking with the underground garage) did not address the impacts to Land Use and Aesthetics as to the number of trees to be removed, relocated, or protected in place, nor did they provide full traffic studies. The neighborhood group came up with a “No Garage Alternative B”, submitted August 26, 2020. It would be beneficial to see revised plans and studies for Alternatives 2 and 3 with and without the inclusion of the underground parking garage and in addition, have the City respond to the “No Garage Alternative B” submission. Respectfully submitted, Gogo Heinrich, Architect 1331 Waverley Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 3 Baumb, Nelly From:Andie Reed <andiezreed@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 9:19 AM To:Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission; Council, City Subject:Castilleja Myths Attachments:PNQLneighbors'ltrsSept2020.PDF Follow Up Flag:Follow up Flag Status:Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear Commissioners and Board Members, After all these years of our neighborhood group, PNQL, holding neighbor meetings in our homes with elected and appointed City officials and sitting down with City Staff at city hall, it occurs to us that many of the faces have changed and many of you may not be aware of the history. In some of the public meetings we are witnessing school officials making statements that should have been put to rest years ago because we, as the neighbors, have dispelled them. The school states that the neighbors want the garage, that the neighbors don't want to educate girls and they don't want the school to rebuild and update and upgrade their school, and the school had "50 neighbor meetings". None of these hold water. Although underground garages have been mentioned over the years, as of course they should be, please note that this underground garage has not been embraced by the larger community for many reasons. I have read all 152 pages of minutes from a few Castilleja officials meeting with 4 neighbors from 2014 - 2016, and shuttling is the first in a list of potential traffic reducers. These meetings did not result in the school incorporating neighbors' input, but rather, the school was "checking the box". Further, since the school's plans were submitted in June 2016, there has been nothing but opposition to the size and scope of the plans, the enrollment and events increases, traffic in general and the underground garage in particular from neighbors. Don't let the school's attorney tell you what the neighbors think. If the neighbors wanted the garage, why would they turn around and oppose it so adamantly as soon as the plans were submitted and continue to oppose it steadily for the last four years? The neighbors have no problem with the school updating its buildings and staying the small girls' school it has been for 100 years, producing such accomplished young women, which we applaud. Relations with the school were friendly until about 10 years ago. We used to go over to the Lockey House (the former Head of School lived there) and have drinks, share dog-walking, teach our kids to ride bikes on the grounds of the school. Since 2010, the atmosphere has changed as the school 4 became more dedicated to status and growth. We see the twice-annual, CUP-required "meetings with the neighbors" as a show. School officials talk about the school activities but don't authentically engage. We encourage Castilleja to rebuild their school, updating, upgrading and modernizing it. Castilleja is looking like it needs a rebuild, and I'm sure it would be good for the school's recruitment if they modernized. I don't know anyone who thinks the school shouldn't rebuild. Also, the school likes to state that they have held "50 neighborhood meetings in the last 5 years", implying they have engaged the ungrateful neighbors but - to no avail! The school has, in fact, taken their completed plans around to different parts of the city over the last years in order to garner support and disparage the neighbors who oppose the scope of the plans. The actual surrounding residents are not invited to these meetings. There was even one at Gamble Gardens, which is in our neighborhood, but when we asked to attend, we were told it was for "invitees only". These are strictly dog-and-pony shows that highly paid staff and consultants put on, but they are not "neighborhood meetings" in the sense that they are asking neighbors for input. Misleading is an understatement, yet we keep hearing this yarn being repeated. I include a few documents that have been sent to City officials over the years. These represent some of the actual neighbors' opinions and concerns, and it's a shame to see them get lost in the shuffle of the changing cast of decision-makers, and can perhaps be helpful in understanding why a school which has been out of compliance with their Conditions and is now asking for more of everything is such an anathema to neighbors. 1. Castilleja Neighbors' Summary Statement 2020 (60 signatures) 2. "No Garage" letter, from 2017 (49 signatures) 3. "Roll Back Enrollment" petition 2017 (500 signatures) Thank you for reading this. Andie Reed Steering Committee PNQL   ‐‐   Andie Reed CPA 160 Melville Ave  Palo Alto, CA 94301 530-401-3809   Proposed Castilleja School Expansion Summary Statement Prepared by Neighbors Situation: Castilleja, a private middle and high school located in an R-1 neighborhood, has submitted to the City of Palo Alto a proposal to significantly remodel its campus and increase enrollment by 30% (plus unspecified increases in facultyfstaff). Neighbors, who have already borne the brunt of the private schoors significant growth over many years, challenge Castllleja's plan to increase the srze and scope of its operation on this very small parcel. We urge the City to deny approval of an enrollment in.crease, and not permrt the outsized redevelopment proposals, for the following reasons: 1. Traffic congestion, crowded street parking, bike safety concerns on Bryant St. Bike Blvd. Palo Alto seeks fewer traffics issues, not more. 75% of Castilleja's students and staff commute from outside Palo Alto, with 4 car trips/day/student (drop-off and pick-up) adding congestion to all our main arteries. The neighborhood absorbs unrelenting impact from traffic, busses, parking, deliveries1 events, sport meets, and more, on days, nights, weekends, and throughout the summer. 2. Outsized nature of the project: The school is proposing 200,000 sf of buildings on a one-block (268,000 sry lot. For comparison, imagine a Costco ... or two City Halls or Home Depots ... located on one small block in a residential neighborhood. 3. Castllleja's Conditional Use Permit (CUP} is far more lenient than neighboring private schools' permits. Other private schools in Palo Alto and nearby towns are held to much stricter standards, such as specified hours of operation, less density, few or no night events, and none allow an underground garage in a residential neighborhood. Why is Castilleja exempt from similar conditions? No local private schools are permitted more than 20 events per year, Castilleja hosts 100+ events per year. 4. The City should enforce its own Muni Code/Comprehensive Plan statutes. Castilleja's use does not satisfy the City's deffnition of an R-1 conditlonal use which per PAMC 18.76.10 will "not be detrimental to the public health, safety, general welfare, or convenience (in the vicinity)" and shall "be located and conducted in a manner in accord with the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan." The Comp Plan states that the city "seeks to promote community /commercial uses but not at the expense and quality of the residential neighborhoods." When the school was founded, it was a small boarding school. Its growth and future plans far exceed what is appropriate for this site. 5. City's prior directive assuring the neighborhood of no future expansion. In 2000, Palo Alto Planning Director John Lusardi was forceful in his CUP approval letterto Castilleja: "The approved Conditional Use Permit does not provide for any increase jnstudents over 415, and any subsequent request for additional students will not be favorably looked upon by the City .... the City is not willing to continue to approach increasing school enrollment for Castilfeja School in an incremental manner. '1 The neighbors did not realize this cap would be ignored by Castilleja starting in 2001 , and violations would go unenforced by the City. Why would the City Ignore its own 2000 directive, favoring the school's desire to grow over the needs of Palo Alto residents? 6. Continuous Violation • Castilleja has exceeded its existing enrollment cap for the last 19 years, collectlng millions of dollars from over-enrollment. The City is unable to enforce CUP violations, and neighbors have no viable enforcement or compliance leverage. Ne1ghbors have no confidence that future CUP conditions will be met, nor that conditions will be improved with a significant increase in students, plus accompanying parents, teachers, staff, and visitors, coming daily to this small section of Palo Alto. For years neighbors have asked the school to work together in good faith, asking the school to reduce enrollment to the allowed level, and institute a robust shuttle by which ALL students/staff would be dellvered to campus. Instead the school has moved ahead with outsized plans, far more expansive than other schools are allowed (see chart attached.) NO neighborhood would welcome this type of unbridled growth from a private entity in its midst. The City Council has an obligation to protect and preserve the rights of its citizens, and to enforce its own codes. We urge the City to oppose this application. If the school wishes to expand, the City should require it to follow the example of other private schools and divide into two appropriately-sized campuses, or move to a larger location which will support as many students as it desires, or require ALL arrivals/departures by shuttle from a satellite parking area, significantly reducing the impact not only on this neighborhood, and the Bike Boulevard, but on all Palo Altans, Thanks for your time and attention. -Neighbors of Castilleja (surrounding blocks} Al Kenrick Amber La Andie Reed Andrew Alexander Angie Heile Bill Schmarzo Bill Powar Bruce Mcleod Carla Befera Carolyn Schmarzo Chi Wong Daniel Mitz Daniel Vertheim David Quigley Debby Fife Diane Rolfe Ed Williams Erica Jurney Elizabeth Olsen Emma Ford Geegee . Williams George Jemmott Han Macy Hank Sousa Isaac Caswell Jim Poppy Joan MacDaniels Joseph Rolfe Kathleen Judge Kathy Croce Kimberley Wong Lee Collins Lee Holtzman Lisa Wang Marie Macy Mary Joy Macy Mary Sylvester Matt Croce Midori Aogaichi Nancy Strom Nelson Ng Neva Yarkin Melville Ave Kellogg Ave Melville Ave Emerson St Emerson St Emerson St Emerson St Bryant St (SW corner Bryant and Kellogg) Bryant St (SW corner Bryant and Kellogg) Emerson St Emerson St. Melville Ave Emerson St. Emerson St. Emerson St Emerson St (NW corner Emerson and Kellogg) Kellogg Ave Kellogg Ave Melville Ave Emerson St Kellogg St Emerson St Melville Ave Melville Ave Kingsley Melville Ave Emerson St Emerson St (NW corner Emerson and Kellogg) Churchill St Emerson St (SW corner Melville and Emerson) Emerson St (NW corner Melville & Emerson) Embarcadero St Emerson St Kingsley Melville Ave Melville Ave Melville Ave Emerson St (SW corner Melville and Emerson) Churchill St Melville Ave Emerson St Churchill St July 2020 Pam Mccroskey Patricia Wong Pius Fischer Richard Mamelok, MD Rob Levitsky Robert Yamashita Ruben Land Stan Shore Va l Steil Vic Befera Wa lly Whittier William Macy Ying Cui Yoriko Kishimoto Yulia Shore Yuri Yamashita Emerson St Emerson St Emerson St Churchill St Emerson St Bryant St (NE corner Bryant and Kellogg) Kingsley Kellogg Ave Kellogg Ave Bryant St Bryant St Melville Ave Waverley St (SW corner Embarc & Waverley) Embarcadero St Kellogg Ave Bryant St (NE corner Bryant and Kellogg) 5/2/2017 Survey of Immediate Neighbors of Castillja School NO GARAGE Letter to Castillejo 166 Embarcadero Rd 166 Embarcadero Rd l 210 Emerson 1230 Emerson 1230 Emerson 1230 Emerson 1230 Emerson l 234 Emerson 1260 Emerson l 300 Emerson 131 O Emerson 1326 Emerson 1336 Emerson 1344 Emerson 1360 Emerson 1402 Emerson 118 Kellogg 1 160 Kellogg l 168 keffogg I 230 Kellogg 1 240 Kellogg 1 242 Kellogg l 244 Kellogg 1 305 Kellogg l l 02 Kingsley 1 128 Kingsley T 44 Kingsley 150 Kingsley 150 Kingsley 152 Kingsley 158 Kingsley l 60 Kingsley 160 Kingsley 104 Melville Ave 109 Melvllle Ave 120 Melville Ave l 29 Melville Ave 130 Melville Ave 131 Melville Ave 133 Melville Ave 135 Melville Ave 134 Melville Ave 144 Melville Ave 151 Melville Ave 152 Melville Ave 158 Melville Ave 1 160 Melville Ave 47 Kyle D'Souza Annie Kaufman Angela Heile Rob Levitsky Kamakshi Duvvuru Donald Alouy Tariq Alsamman Red Daly Nelson Ng/Kimberley Wong Thomas & Gabriella O'Malley Bill Power Jeanie Waltuch Chi & Patricia Wong Pamela Mccroskey Joseph & Diane H. Rolfe Carol Rei.d Shinu Singh Steve & Polino Levitan John and Yvonne Myers Erika Jurney Michael Manneh Yulia Shore Jared Wilcox Robert & Annie Yamashita Lucio Ugarte (phone authorizationn) Anwar Khan Michael M. Lyzwa Thomas M. Joseph Kiana Brown Kelsey Townsend Phillip B. Coulson Kelly Luyken Jack Lane Antonia Fuentes Denise Woo Alanna Congham Ashley Galvez Al and Josefin Kenrick Jacqueline Taylor Jim Poppy Mary Sylvester Al Kenrick Elizabeth Olson William Macy Arthur Whitney Thomas Sousa Andrea Reed 5 Baumb, Nelly From:Chris <c319chris@aol.com> Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 6:27 AM To:Expanded Community Advisory Panel; Council, City; City Mgr Subject:Rail Trench Attachments:Palo Alto Grade Sep.pdf Follow Up Flag:Follow up Flag Status:Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on  links.  ________________________________    To the Rail Planners of Palo Alto:    I am a native Palo Altan, born there in 1955. I graduated Paly in 1973 and have relatives who still live in Palo Alto. I now  live in the Los Angeles area and have been following the Palo Alto grade separation saga from afar. A couple of things  stand out in my mind.    In all of the planning I have seen, it seems there has been little outreach to Caltrain itself, owner of the trains, the right‐ of‐way and the stations.    I have read analyses of a trench solution as a means of achieving grade separation. However, I have not seen anything  regarding Caltrain's sentiment toward having its trains and two stations submerged. That is a fundamental issue.    Hatch Mott MacDonald studied a rail trench for Palo Alto several years ago and issued a report in 2014 which I have  attached. In it, they describe a scenario involving a 1% grade and another involving a 2% grade. The takeaway from this  study is that Caltrain prefers a 1% grade for its trains and the freight trains that use the right‐of‐way. A grade of greater  than 1% would require a design exception, according to the study.    The Hatch Mott MacDonald study describes a trench with a 1% grade. The takeaway is that a 1% trench would require  major construction as well as a shoofly track and would be extremely costly. The study also describes a trench with a 2%  grade but offers no guidance on whether a 2% trench would be acceptable to Caltrain.    Another issue which has received very little attention in the material I've seen concerns the issue of storm flooding.  A trench by its very nature is potentially vulnerable to flooding. There are several questions concerning the issue of  flooding. First, who would be responsible for dealing with any flooding conditions which may arise, the City of Palo Alto  or Caltrain? Which party would be responsible for maintaining the pumping equipment needed for a rail trench? More  importantly, who would be held liable in the event that rail service were disrupted due to storm flooding? This is more  than a remote possibility, as storm pumps have been known to become overwhelmed or even fail during a severe storm.  If storm flooding were severe enough to make a rail trench in Palo Alto impassable, it would immobilize Caltrain service  in both directions for an indefinite period of time. All trains travel between San Francisco and San Jose or Gilroy and thus  pass through Palo Alto. Disruption of the service would leave thousands of commuters stranded.    Adding to the problem is the fact that there is no natural drainage along the right of way in Palo Alto. I am not aware of  a route flood water could take from a rail trench to the bay, for example.    6 It is my understanding that the city of Burlingame studied an underground rail solution and ultimately abandoned the  idea.    Best wishes,    Chris Clementson  City of Palo Alto (ID # 5175) City Council Staff Report Report Type: Study Session Meeting Date: 10/20/2014 City of Palo Alto Page 1 Summary Title: Palo Alto Grade Separation and Trenching Study Title: Palo Alto Grade Separation and Trenching Study From: City Manager Lead Department: Planning and Community Environment Recommendation This study session provides the City Council an opportunity to discuss findings in the attached report by Hatch Mott McDonald (HMM) and provide direction on next steps. No action is recommended at this time. Executive Summary HMM, a consulting firm specializing in construction engineering, was hired at the direction of the Palo Alto City Council to study conceptual grade separation alternatives for a portion of the Caltrain right of way encompassing three existing at-grade crossings (Charleston, Meadow, and Churchill). This study provides preliminary information on the potential impacts and cost of construction (by order of magnitude) for various roadway submersion and trenching alternatives. This information is intended to facilitate community dialogue on the issue and ultimately to help form a policy position on grade separations. The study is not definitive in determining an ultimate configuration, but does provide a starting point for dialogue on the issue. Specifically, the study indicates that the roadway submersion alternatives would require significant property acquisitions, while the trenching alternatives would not. Also, the trenching alternatives would maintain turning movements along Alma Street, while not all of the roadway submersion alternatives would do so. For example, the two percent (2%) grade trenching alternative would grade separate Charleston and Meadow for around $488 million and require zero property acquisitions versus the alternative that submerges the roadway beneath the railroad tracks at Charleston and Meadow and maintains turning movements on and off of Alma which would cost approximately $320 million and require acquisition of 32 full parcels and seven partial parcels. Background City of Palo Alto Page 2 At the November 4, 2013 City Council meeting, HMM was authorized, at a cost of $59,790, to move forward with Phase I of an analysis that delivered a conceptual cost estimate for a number of preliminary grade separation alternatives south of the California Avenue Caltrain Station. The most important information obtained from this analysis was intended to be a clearer understanding of the differences in cost and construction impacts between submerging the roadway and trenching the railroad at certain intersections in Palo Alto. The reason trenching was only studied south of Oregon Expressway is that because if it was determined that trenching was cost prohibitive south of Oregon Expressway it certainly would be north of Oregon Expressway where trenching the corridor would require the complete reconstruction of the City’s three existing grade separated crossings (Oregon Expressway, Embarcadero, and University) and submerging the City’s two Caltrain stations (California Avenue and Palo Alto), in addition to complications posed by San Francisquito Creek. Phase I of the analysis, as presented in this report, evaluates the preliminary alternatives by evaluating construction feasibility, right of way impacts (i.e. property acquisitions), and concept level cost estimates for comparison purposes. Phase II of the analysis would develop the City’s selected preliminary alternatives to a final concept level, produce concept design exhibits, and provide refined order of magnitude project costs and assessments of feasibility. The cost of Phase II would be an additional $67,760 and staff is interested in hearing from the Council whether this additional work is needed to provide sufficient information for community dialog and policy decisions regarding which of the preliminary alternatives, if any, should be pursued from a funding and logistical standpoint with outside agencies such as Caltrain, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Listed below are the specific grade separation alternatives evaluated by HMM. Alternatives that were studded by HMM are: 1. Trenching the corridor from approximately San Antonio to approximately Oregon Expressway, which would grade separate both Meadow and Charleston by keeping the existing roadways at-grade and running rail traffic beneath it in an open trench.  Please note that this alternative does not impact whether or not the roadway is submerged below the railroad tracks at Churchill. 2. Submerging the roadway beneath the railroad tracks at Churchill 3. Submerging the roadway beneath the railroad tracks at Meadow 4. Submerging the roadway beneath the railroad tracks at Charleston It should be noted, as the report from HMM indicates, that if Council chooses to pursue the roadway submersion alternatives at both Charleston and Meadow that maintain turning movements on and off of Alma they must be done as a single project due to their proximity; however, submerging the roadway at Churchill can occur regardless of what happens at the Meadow and Charleston intersections. City of Palo Alto Page 3 Attached for your review is HMM’s Palo Alto Grade Separation Study (Attachment A), including an attachment that outlines the costs associated with each alternative. The primary difference between the trenching estimate that was generated by HMM in 2011 and the one generated in this study is that the previous estimate was based on California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) cost of construction per foot figures and did not take local, existing conditions into consideration at the level of detail this study does. The updated study uses current and local construction cost information. HMM generated their estimates in part by using information they’ve obtained from current transportation construction projects in the area with similar traits such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to San Jose extension project. Furthermore, HMM used figures that are more applicable to the existing conditions at the intersections they studied as it relates to utility relocation costs, right of way impacts, staging, and traffic signal impacts rather than wholesale allowance numbers. The use of recent and local construction data provides more realistic order of magnitude cost estimates for work on the Peninsula compared to the 2011 study. Results of the Analysis As displayed in the Alternative Cost Estimates attachment to the HMM report, the most expensive alternative is the one percent (1%) grade trench alternative at a cost of approximately $1.05 billion. This alternative would not require a design exemption as it relates to the slope of the grade but it’s more than double the cost of the two percent (2%) grade trench alternative mainly due to the impacts it would have on Oregon Expressway (already grade separated) and the San Antonio Avenue and California Avenue Caltrain stations based on its expanded footprint. Additionally, this alternative becomes significantly more complex than the two percent (2%) grade trench alternative when existing creeks are considered because instead of the trench being able to go above them the creeks would have to be rerouted, likely requiring additional infrastructure such as pump stations. Although both the one percent (1%) grade trench alternative and the two percent (2%) grade trench alternative are more expensive than the roadway submersion alternatives they require zero parcel acquisitions, have fewer visual impacts by having a reduced footprint at each intersection, and result in a grade separated roadway that is level with the existing roadways, significantly benefiting bicycle and pedestrian movements. Table 1 below summarizes the trench alternatives: Table 1: Summary of Trench Alternatives Trench Grade One Percent (1%) Two Percent (2%) Cost $1,050,728,700 $488,187,283 Full Property Acquisitions 0 0 City of Palo Alto Page 4 Partial Property Acquisitions 0 0 Turn Movements Maintained Yes Yes Source: Hatch Mott McDonald, 2014 As for the roadway submersion alternatives displayed in the Alternative Cost Estimates attachment to the HMM report, they are significantly less expensive than the trenching alternatives (ranging in price from approximately $85 million to $184 million per roadway submersion) but have far greater impacts in the form of property acquisitions, lost turning movements, and have far more visual impacts at each intersection due to their larger footprints. Below are two tables that summarize the roadway submersion alternatives. Table 2 below shows the roadway submersion alternatives where Alma Street is left at-grade and therefore turning movements on and off of Alma Street are lost. Table 3 below shows the roadway submersion alternatives where Alma Street is lowered in order to maintain turning movements. Table 2: Summary of Roadway Submersion Alternatives that Abolish Alma Street Turning Movements Roadway Submersion Intersection Churchill Meadow Charleston Cost $90,334,561 $84,578,797 $101,783,449 Full Property Acquisitions 16 11 18 Partial Property Acquisitions 4 5 3 Turn Movements Maintained No No No Source: Hatch Mott McDonald, 2014 Table 3: Summary of Roadway Submersion Alternatives that Lower Alma Street to Maintain Turning Movements Roadway Submersion Intersection Churchill Meadow Charleston Cost $183,513,669 $143,385,047 $152,903,454 Full Property Acquisitions 33 14 18 Partial Property Acquisitions 3 4 3 Turn Movements Maintained Yes Yes Yes Source: Hatch Mott McDonald, 2014 As previously noted, if the roadway submersion alternatives that maintain turning movements on and off of Alma Street at the Meadow and Charleston intersections are selected they must be constructed congruently, as a single project, and that will cost an additional $23,177,765 for a total project cost of $319,466,266 ($143,385,047 + $152,903,454 + $23,177,765). Next Steps Based on Council comments, staff will come back to Council in the near future with a staff City of Palo Alto Page 5 recommendation for Council review and approval on a preferred alternative to pursue. By identifying a preferred alternative staff will be more effective in both discussing the issue with transportation and funding agencies in addition to facilitating our public outreach efforts. The property acquisitions associated with some of the alternatives presented in the HMM report are significant and therefore staff feels strongly that any decision that is made on this topic should not be rushed. Therefore, staff felt that first discussing the HMM report in a study session before bringing it before Council for action was most appropriate. Finally, as noted above, staff is interested in learning whether Council believes further study, such as Phase II of the HMM scope of work, should be done or if at this time the information HMM has already provided is sufficient. Attachments:  Palo Alto Grade Separation Study 10-7-2014 (PDF) MEMO Hatch Mott MacDonald 181 Metro Drive (Suite 510) San Jose CA 95110 T •408-572-8800 • F 408-572-8799www.hatchmott.com To Richard Hackmann, City of Palo Alto From Michael Canepa, PE, HMM Date 10/7/14 Project # 324006 Page 1 of 7 CC Chris Metzger, Brian Hughes, Derek Penrice Subject Palo Alto Grade Separation Study This memo discusses alternatives for grade separating the Caltrain tracks at existing at-grade crossings in the City of Palo Alto. The two alternatives evaluated in this study were: construction of an undercrossing at Churchill Ave, Meadow Dr, and Charleston Rd, and the construction of a rail trench under Meadow Dr and Charleston Rd. The following information was evaluated in support of the findings of this study: · Typical cross sections for each alternative · Plan/profile for each alternative · ROW impacts · Traffic impacts · Utility impacts · Cost estimate Undercrossing at Churchill Ave, Meadow Dr, and Charleston Rd The first alternative is to build an undercrossing at Churchill Ave, Meadow Dr, and Charleston Rd to separate the existing Caltrain tracks from the roadways. Due to the proximity of Alma St to the rail corridor, two scenarios were evaluated – keeping Alma St at existing grade and lowering Alma St to match the elevation of the undercrossing. Design Criteria and Assumptions · Design speed is assumed to be 5 mph above the posted speed limit or a minimum of 30 mph · Maximum roadway grade used is 8% · Maximum sidewalk grade is 5% (per ADA) · Roadway vertical clearance is 15.5’ (per JPB Standards for Design and Maintenance of Structures 2.4.2) · Sidewalk vertical clearance is 10’ (per HDM 208.6) · Minimum vertical curve length is 200’ (per HDM 204.4) · 1:10 depth to span ratio for rail bridges · Roadway bridge depths: MEMO To Richard Hackmann, City of Palo Alto Date 10/7/14 Page 2 of 7 181 Metro Drive (Suite 510) San Jose CA 95110 T •408-572-8800 • F 408-572-8799 www.hatchmott.com o Reinforced concrete bridge (continuous span over Caltrain trench) – AASHTO Bridge Design Table 2.5.2.6.3-1 o Prestressed girder bridge (simple span over roadway undercrossing) – based on manufacturer’s recommend depth for prestressed girders Typical Roadway & Bridge Sections · Churchill Ave undercrossing width is 60’ when Alma St remains at existing grade o 2x 12’ thru lanes o 2x 2’ buffer o 2x 6’ bike lane o 2x 2’ barrier o 2x 8’ sidewalk · Churchill Ave undercrossing width is 70’ when Alma St is lowered o 2x 12’ thru lanes o 12’ right turn lane o 2’ buffer o 2x 6’ bike lane o 2x 2’ barrier o 2x 8’ sidewalk · Meadow Dr undercrossing width is 80’ when Alma St is at existing grade or lowered o 4x 11’ thru lanes o 2x 2’ buffer o 2x 6’ bike lane o 2x 2’ barrier o 2x 8’ sidewalk · Charleston Rd undercrossing width is 80’ when Alma St is at existing grade or lowered o 4x 11’ thru lanes o 2x 2’ buffer o 2x 6’ bike lane o 2x 2’ barrier o 2x 8’ sidewalk · Rail bridge width at undercrossing is 40’ o 15’ track center (per Caltrain Design Criteria 3.1) MEMO To Richard Hackmann, City of Palo Alto Date 10/7/14 Page 3 of 7 181 Metro Drive (Suite 510) San Jose CA 95110 T •408-572-8800 • F 408-572-8799 www.hatchmott.com o 2x 9.5’ from centerline of track to OCS pole (per Caltrain Standard Drawing ETF-0001-0010) o 2x 1.5’ OCS pole (per Caltrain Standard Drawing ETF-0001-0010) o 2x 1.5’ from OCS pole to edge of bridge deck Two scenarios were evaluated at each undercrossing. In the first scenario, Alma St would remain at existing grade and each undercrossing would pass below both the Caltrain tracks and Alma St. This would disconnect Alma St from the crossing streets and would require traffic to be routed to the next crossing to the north or south. In the second scenario, to maintain connectivity between the streets, Alma St. would be lowered to match the elevation of the crossing street. At each crossing, several streets will be closed to avoid property impacts at the intersections with the undercrossing. Closures at these intersections will force traffic to adjacent intersections which may require signalization to compensate for the increase in traffic. In the first scenario, with Alma St at existing grade, the following impacts will occur: · ROW impacts along Churchill from Castilleja Ave to Emerson St with intersection closures at Mariposa Ave and the eastern side of Castilleja Ave · ROW impacts along Meadow Dr from 2nd St to Emerson St with intersection closures at Park Blvd and 2nd St · ROW impacts along Charleston Rd from Ruthelma Ave to Wright Pl with intersection closure at Park Blvd · Traffic impacts at Madrono Ave/Churchill Ave intersection · Traffic impacts at Wilkie Way/Meadow Dr intersection · Traffic impacts at Ruthelma Ave/Charleston Rd intersection and Wilkie Way/Charleston Rd intersection For this scenario, there will be 16 full parcel takes and 4 partial takes for Churchill Ave undercrossing, 11 full parcel takes and 5 partial takes for Meadow Dr undercrossing, and 17 full parcel takes and 3 partial takes for Charleston Rd undercrossing. In the second scenario, with Alma St lowered to the new elevation of the undercrossing, the following impacts will occur in addition to those listed above: MEMO To Richard Hackmann, City of Palo Alto Date 10/7/14 Page 4 of 7 181 Metro Drive (Suite 510) San Jose CA 95110 T •408-572-8800 • F 408-572-8799 www.hatchmott.com · ROW impacts along Alma St from Melville Ave to Lowell Ave with intersection closures at Kellogg Ave and Coleridge Ave · ROW impacts along Alma St from Alma Village Cir to Meadow Dr · Intersection closure at Lindero Dr if undercrossings are constructed at both Meadow Dr and Charleston Rd · Traffic impacts at Melville Ave/Alma St intersection and Lowell Ave/Alma St intersection The total number of parcel takes required for this scenario in addition to those listed above is 17 additional full parcel takes and 1 less partial take for Churchill Ave undercrossing, 14 additional full parcel takes and 1 less partial take for Meadow Dr undercrossing, and no change in parcel takes for Charleston Rd undercrossing. This study also evaluated the potential of combining roadway undercrossings with a slight elevation of the rail tracks to minimize the extent of the ROW/traffic impacts along the crossing streets. For every 3’ the tracks are raised, the length of the impacted area along the cross street decreases by 40’-50’ at each end. In the first scenario, with Alma St at existing grade, the following benefits will occur when the tracks are raised 3 feet: · 3 parcel impacts will no longer be required at Churchill Ave · Castilleja Ave closure will no longer be required at Churchill Ave · 2 parcel impacts will no longer be required at Meadow Dr · 2nd St closure will no longer be required at Meadow Dr · 3 parcel impacts will no longer be required at Charleston Rd In the second scenario, with Alma St lowered to the new elevation of the undercrossing, the following benefits will occur in addition to those listed above when the tracks are raised 3 feet: · 2 additional parcel impacts will no longer be required at Churchill Ave · Alma Village Cir closure will no longer be required at Meadow Dr MEMO To Richard Hackmann, City of Palo Alto Date 10/7/14 Page 5 of 7 181 Metro Drive (Suite 510) San Jose CA 95110 T •408-572-8800 • F 408-572-8799 www.hatchmott.com Rail Trench Under Meadow Dr and Charleston Rd The second alternative is to build a trench under Meadow Dr and Charleston Rd to separate the existing Caltrain tracks from the roadways. Due to the constraints of Matadero Creek, Barron Creek, and Adobe Creek crossing the corridor, two scenarios were studied to avoid impacts to the creeks – maximum grade of 1% (preferred maximum) and maximum grade of 2% (design exception required). Design Criteria and Assumptions · Design speed is assumed to be 90 mph (per Caltrain Design Criteria 1.0) · Preferred maximum grade is 1%; maximum grade with design exception is 2% (per Caltrain Design Criteria 7.1) · Minimum rail vertical clearance is 24.5’ (per Caltrain Standard Drawing SD-2002) · Minimum distance from TOR to creek invert at creek crossing is 32.5’ (24.5’ rail vertical clearance + 3’ trench lid + 5’ cover) Typical Roadway & Trench Sections · Trench width is 47’ o 15’ track center (per Caltrain Design Criteria 3.1) o 2x 10’ from track centerline to trench wall (per Caltrain Standards for Design and Maintenance of Structures 2.4.3) o 2x 3’ trench wall o 2x 3’ excavation support wall · Churchill Ave bridge width is 66’ o 2x 12’ thru lanes o 12’ right turn lane o 2’ buffer o 2x 6’ bike lane o 2x 8’ sidewalk · Meadow Dr bridge width is 76’ o 4x 11’ thru lanes o 2x 2’ buffer o 2x 6’ bike lane MEMO To Richard Hackmann, City of Palo Alto Date 10/7/14 Page 6 of 7 181 Metro Drive (Suite 510) San Jose CA 95110 T •408-572-8800 • F 408-572-8799 www.hatchmott.com o 2x 8’ sidewalk · Charleston Rd bridge width is 76’ o 4x 11’ thru lanes o 2x 2’ buffer o 2x 6’ bike lane o 2x 8’ sidewalk Two scenarios were studied for the rail trench alternative. In the first scenario, a maximum grade of 2% is used to minimize the length of the trench while avoiding impacts to the creeks. Using this alternative, the trench will begin just south of the Matadero Creek. It will pass under Baron Creek, Meadow Dr, Charleston Rd, and Adobe Creek, and will return to grade just north of San Antonio Rd. The depth and grade of the trench is controlled by the 32.5’ clearance required under the two creeks (Baron Creek and Adobe Creek) and the constraints at either end (Matadero Creek and San Antonio Rd). Both the 1.75% grade into the trench and the 2.00% grade coming out of the trench will require design exceptions. In the second scenario, a maximum grade of 1% is used, which will also avoid impacts to creeks but will require approximately 10,500’ additional feet of trench and will require the reconstruction of Oregon Expressway and San Antonio Rd. The trench will begin just south of Churchill Ave. It will pass under Oregon Expressway, which will need to be reconstructed to remove the existing undercrossing and return the roadway to surrounding grade level. The trench will continue under Matadero Creek, Baron Creek, Meadow Dr, Charleston Rd, and Adobe Creek, with the depth of the trench being controlled by the 32.5’ clearance require under Matadero Creek and Adobe Creek. As the trench returns to grade at Rengstorff Ave, it will pass under San Antonio Rd, which will need to be raised several feet to accommodate 24.5’ of clearance over the rail. This alternative will not require any design exceptions. This study also evaluated the potential relocation of the three existing creeks to mitigate design exceptions and minimize trench length. However, relocation of any of the creeks would require resizing of the culverts to accommodate slower flow through a flatter channel. In addition, at Adobe Creek and Matadero Creek, the 100 year flood water surface elevation is at the top of the culvert, and at Baron Creek there is only 1.8’ of freeboard. Any modifications would require upsizing all the culverts to provide 3’ of freeboard. While maintaining a minimum slope of 0.25%, the creek crossing could be relocated several hundred feet north or south, however, this would not provide enough space to avoid a maximum grade design exception for the 2% grade scenario and would only provide a few hundred feet of savings in trench length for the 1% grade scenario. MEMO To Richard Hackmann, City of Palo Alto Date 10/7/14 Page 7 of 7 181 Metro Drive (Suite 510) San Jose CA 95110 T •408-572-8800 • F 408-572-8799 www.hatchmott.com \\plt-fas2040\project\324006 Palo Alto Grade Separation Study\Memo\Palo Alto Grade Separation Study Memo-Rev 1.doc There will be no permanent ROW impacts with this alternative, as the trench will be built within the existing JPB ROW. Traffic impacts will be temporary, and will be related to construction of the roadway bridges. Cost Estimate A preliminary cost estimate for each alternative for comparative purposes is provided as Attachment A to this memo. The major civil components used to produce the preliminary cost estimates include earthwork, trench and bridge structures, pump stations, railroad shooflies, traffic detours, railroad and roadway signaling, utility relocations, and right-of-way costs. Soft costs for professional services and contingency costs have been included as percentages of estimated construction and project costs. Attachments Attachment A – Alternative Cost Estimates line Unit Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total no.Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost 001 Estimate Summary 002 Construction 622,440,744 289,191,768 25,200,625 52,677,350 27,370,319 55,705,363 29,076,479 57,591,565 128,158,000 003 Utility Relocation and Protection 213,300 104,400 1,664,300 4,960,380 2,750,450 5,559,850 2,350,750 4,129,000 8,562,750 004 Subtotal A 622,654,044 289,296,168 26,864,925 57,637,730 30,120,769 61,265,213 31,427,229 61,720,565 136,720,750 005 Professional Services (% of Subtotal A)35%217,928,915 101,253,659 9,402,724 20,173,206 10,542,269 21,442,825 10,999,530 21,602,198 47,852,263 006 Right of Way (incl. ROW Services)- - 36,000,000 69,000,000 27,000,000 32,000,000 39,000,000 39,000,000 71,000,000 007 Subtotal B 840,582,960 390,549,826 72,267,649 146,810,936 67,663,038 114,708,038 81,426,759 122,322,763 255,573,013 008 Contingency (% of Subtotal B)25%210,145,740 97,637,457 18,066,912 36,702,734 16,915,759 28,677,009 20,356,690 30,580,691 63,893,253 009 Total Project Cost (2014 dollars)1,050,728,700 488,187,283 90,334,561 183,513,669 84,578,797 143,385,047 101,783,449 152,903,454 319,466,266 010 011 note 1) Professional Services includes Design Engineering, Project Mgmt, and Construction Mgmt. 012 013 Palo Alto Caltrain - Grade Separation Projects Attachment A - Alternative Cost Estimates Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma Lowered Rail Trench 1% Max Grade (Caltrain Preferred) Rail Trench 2% Max. Grade (w/Design Exception) Qnty Qnty Charleston Meadow&CharlestonChurchillChurchillMeadow Description Unit Meadow Charleston Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Palo-Alto_Quantities-Rev 1.xlsx - page 1 of 4 PRELIMINARY-- worksheet for discussion only 10/7/2014 line Unit Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total no.Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Palo Alto Caltrain - Grade Separation Projects Attachment A - Alternative Cost Estimates Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma Lowered Rail Trench 1% Max Grade (Caltrain Preferred) Rail Trench 2% Max. Grade (w/Design Exception) Qnty Qnty Charleston Meadow&CharlestonChurchillChurchillMeadow Description Unit Meadow Charleston Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty 014 Construction 015 Support of Excavation (SOE)- - - - - - - - - - 016 SOE Area SF 80 2,428,595 194,287,616 1,239,904 99,192,320 59,200 4,736,000 155,040 12,403,200 56,320 4,505,600 155,776 12,462,080 60,000 4,800,000 160,320 12,825,600 381,600 30,528,000 017 Excavation - - - - - - - - - - 018 Mass Excavation CY 15 1,232,246 18,483,684 588,380 8,825,706 45,222 678,333 123,748 1,856,222 56,059 840,889 137,788 2,066,822 59,722 895,833 142,161 2,132,417 333,778 5,006,667 019 Offhaul/Disposal - Subcontract Trucking HR 110 236,180 25,979,845 112,773 12,405,019 8,668 953,435 23,718 2,609,023 10,745 1,181,916 26,409 2,905,033 11,447 1,259,144 27,248 2,997,230 63,974 7,037,148 020 Offhaul/Disposal - Dump Fee (Average)Load 50 118,090 5,904,510 56,386 2,819,323 4,334 216,690 11,859 592,960 5,372 268,617 13,205 660,235 5,723 286,169 13,624 681,189 31,987 1,599,352 021 Invert Slab - - - - - - - - - - 022 Invert Slab Concrete CY 600 130,163 78,097,778 54,667 32,800,000 8,800 5,280,000 22,489 13,493,333 10,193 6,115,556 24,919 14,951,111 11,467 6,880,000 26,193 15,715,556 54,267 32,560,000 023 Invert Slab Rebar TON 2,500 6,508 16,270,370 2,733 6,833,333 440 1,100,000 1,124 2,811,111 510 1,274,074 1,246 3,114,815 573 1,433,333 1,310 3,274,074 2,713 6,783,333 024 Trench Walls - - - - - - - - - - 025 Wall Concrete CY 900 149,556 134,600,400 77,104 69,394,000 3,211 2,890,000 8,567 7,710,000 3,111 2,800,000 8,618 7,756,000 3,267 2,940,000 8,833 7,950,000 21,700 19,530,000 026 Wall Rebar TON 2,500 22,433 56,083,500 11,566 28,914,167 482 1,204,167 1,285 3,212,500 467 1,166,667 1,293 3,231,667 490 1,225,000 1,325 3,312,500 3,255 8,137,500 027 Waterproofing - - - - - - - - - - 028 Waterproofing Membrane SF 10 2,224,604 22,246,040 1,062,940 10,629,400 88,300 883,000 228,900 2,289,000 96,800 968,000 245,760 2,457,600 106,800 1,068,000 256,300 2,563,000 561,600 5,616,000 029 Fences - - - - - - - - - - 030 Fence/Railing LF 200 38,800 7,760,000 18,000 3,600,000 1,800 360,000 4,400 880,000 1,600 320,000 4,400 880,000 1,800 360,000 4,600 920,000 9,600 1,920,000 031 Bridges - - - - - - - - - - 032 Bridge Deck Concrete SF 500 13,667 6,833,500 6,478 3,239,000 6,798 3,399,000 2,640 1,320,000 8,858 4,429,000 3,440 1,720,000 8,858 4,429,000 3,440 1,720,000 6,880 3,440,000 033 Creek Crossings - - - - - - - - - - 034 Creek Crossing Concrete SF 500 2,419 1,209,500 1,599 799,500 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 035 Underdrains - - - - - - - - - - 036 Underdrain Rt-Ft 60 19,400 1,164,000 9,000 540,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 037 Pump Stations - - - - - - - - - - 038 Pump Station - Location 1 LS 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 039 Pump Station - Location 2 LS 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 040 Other Work - - - - - - - - - - 041 UPRR Shoofly with Temp. Signal System (Corridor) Rt-Ft 800 19,400 15,520,000 9,000 7,200,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 042 UPRR Shoofly with Temp. Signal System (Local)EA 2,500,000 - - - - 1 2,500,000 1 2,500,000 1 2,500,000 1 2,500,000 1 2,500,000 1 2,500,000 2 5,000,000 043 Rebuild Oregon Expwy LS 15,000,000 1 15,000,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 044 Rebuild San Antonio Road LS 5,000,000 1 5,000,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 045 Rebuild California Av Caltrain Statn (N.of Oregon Expwy) LS 8,000,000 1 8,000,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 046 Rebuild San Antonio Caltrain Statn (S.of San Antonio Rd) LS 8,000,000 1 8,000,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 047 Total Construction 622,440,744 289,191,768 25,200,625 52,677,350 27,370,319 55,705,363 29,076,479 57,591,565 128,158,000 Palo-Alto_Quantities-Rev 1.xlsx - page 2 of 4 PRELIMINARY-- worksheet for discussion only 10/7/2014 line Unit Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total no.Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Palo Alto Caltrain - Grade Separation Projects Attachment A - Alternative Cost Estimates Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma Lowered Rail Trench 1% Max Grade (Caltrain Preferred) Rail Trench 2% Max. Grade (w/Design Exception) Qnty Qnty Charleston Meadow&CharlestonChurchillChurchillMeadow Description Unit Meadow Charleston Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty 048 Utility Relocation and Protection 049 Protect-in-Place - Electric (Overhead)LF 200 340 68,000 160 32,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 050 Protect-in-Place - Gas - 04"LF 160 - - - - 150 24,000 - - - - - - 685 109,600 - - - - 051 Protect-in-Place - Gas - 06"LF 200 40 8,000 40 8,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 052 Protect-in-Place - Gas - 08"LF 250 130 32,500 40 10,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 053 Protect-in-Place - Sanitary Sewer - 08"LF 120 40 4,800 40 4,800 - - - - - - - - 540 64,800 - - - - 054 Protect-in-Place - Sanitary Sewer - 10"LF 140 40 5,600 40 5,600 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 055 Protect-in-Place - Sanitary Sewer - 30"LF 300 130 39,000 40 12,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 056 Protect-in-Place - Storm Drain - 12"LF 140 - - - - 70 9,800 - - 50 7,000 - - 65 9,100 - - - - 057 Protect-in-Place - Water - 06"LF 200 - - - - 75 15,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - 058 Protect-in-Place - Water - 08"LF 220 40 8,800 40 8,800 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 059 Protect-in-Place - Water - 10"LF 240 - - - - 75 18,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - 060 Protect-in-Place - Water - 12"LF 260 130 33,800 40 10,400 75 19,500 - - 300 78,000 - - - - - - - - 061 Protect-in-Place - Water - 16"LF 300 - - - - - - - - 300 90,000 - - 655 196,500 - - - - 062 Protect-in-Place - Water - 18"LF 320 40 12,800 40 12,800 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 063 Relocate - Electric (Overhead)LF 300 - - - - 650 195,000 5,121 1,536,300 4,181 1,254,300 10,661 3,198,300 2,635 790,500 6,450 1,935,000 13,516 4,054,800 064 Relocate - Electric (Underground)LF 300 - - - - 400 120,000 362 108,600 - - - - 190 57,000 190 57,000 - - 065 Relocate - Gas - 02"LF 160 - - - - 650 104,000 425 68,000 100 16,000 100 16,000 - - 65 10,400 165 26,400 066 Relocate - Gas - 03"LF 180 - - - - 500 90,000 510 91,800 - - - - 475 85,500 470 84,600 - - 067 Relocate - Gas - 04"LF 200 - - - - - - 2,185 437,000 - - 900 180,000 - - 1,800 360,000 3,170 634,000 068 Relocate - Gas - 06"LF 250 - - - - - - - - 240 60,000 970 242,500 775 193,750 765 191,250 1,735 433,750 069 Relocate - Gas - 08"LF 300 - - - - - - - - 1,150 345,000 1,150 345,000 - - - - 1,150 345,000 070 Relocate - Joint Trench (PRI,TEL,CATV,W,G,S/L,SEC) LF 300 - - - - 500 150,000 455 136,500 - - - - - - - - - - 071 Relocate - Sanitary Sewer - 06"LF 140 - - - - 500 70,000 466 65,240 - - - - - - - - - - 072 Relocate - Sanitary Sewer - 08"LF 160 - - - - - - 795 127,200 1,400 224,000 1,800 288,000 525 84,000 900 144,000 2,700 432,000 073 Relocate - Sanitary Sewer - 10"LF 180 - - - - - - - - - - - - 700 126,000 - - - - 074 Relocate - Sanitary Sewer - 12"LF 200 - - - - - - - - 70 14,000 70 14,000 - - - - 70 14,000 075 Relocate - Sanitary Sewer - 30"LF 350 - - - - - - - - - - 1,145 400,750 - - - - 1,145 400,750 076 Relocate - Storm Drain - 08"LF 160 - - - - 100 16,000 149 23,840 - - - - - - - - - - 077 Relocate - Storm Drain - 10"LF 180 - - - - - - 25 4,500 - - - - - - - - - - 078 Relocate - Storm Drain - 12"LF 200 - - - - 300 60,000 516 103,200 430 86,000 430 86,000 300 60,000 900 180,000 1,330 266,000 079 Relocate - Storm Drain - 15"LF 220 - - - - - - 645 141,900 - - - - - - - - - - 080 Relocate - Storm Drain - 27"LF 300 - - - - - - - - 15 4,500 15 4,500 - - - - 15 4,500 081 Relocate - Storm Drain - 36"LF 400 - - - - - - - - 50 20,000 50 20,000 - - - - 50 20,000 082 Relocate - Water - 06"LF 240 - - - - 1,200 288,000 2,550 612,000 120 28,800 120 28,800 - - - - 120 28,800 083 Relocate - Water - 08"LF 260 - - - - - - - - 650 169,000 650 169,000 1,225 318,500 1,200 312,000 1,850 481,000 084 Relocate - Water - 10"LF 280 - - - - - - 1,835 513,800 - - - - - - - - - - 085 Relocate - Water - 12"LF 300 - - - - - - 1,835 550,500 800 240,000 900 270,000 - - - - 900 270,000 086 Relocate - Water - 16"LF 330 - - - - - - - - 345 113,850 900 297,000 - - 1,800 594,000 2,700 891,000 087 Relocate - Water - 18"LF 350 - - - - - - - - - - - - 730 255,500 745 260,750 745 260,750 088 Relocate - Water - 24"LF 400 - - - - 650 260,000 605 242,000 - - - - - - - - - - 089 Relocate - Water - 27"LF 450 - - - - 500 225,000 440 198,000 - - - - - - - - - - 090 Total Utility Relocation and Protection 213,300 104,400 1,664,300 4,960,380 2,750,450 5,559,850 2,350,750 4,129,000 8,562,750 Palo-Alto_Quantities-Rev 1.xlsx - page 3 of 4 PRELIMINARY-- worksheet for discussion only 10/7/2014 line Unit Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total no.Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost Palo Alto Caltrain - Grade Separation Projects Attachment A - Alternative Cost Estimates Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma At-grade Alma Lowered Alma Lowered Rail Trench 1% Max Grade (Caltrain Preferred) Rail Trench 2% Max. Grade (w/Design Exception) Qnty Qnty Charleston Meadow&CharlestonChurchillChurchillMeadow Description Unit Meadow Charleston Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty Qnty 091 Right of Way (incl. ROW Services) 092 Property Take - Partial LS 1,000,000 - - - - 4 4,000,000 3 3,000,000 5 5,000,000 4 4,000,000 3 3,000,000 3 3,000,000 7 7,000,000 093 Property Take - Full LS 2,000,000 - - - - 16 32,000,000 33 66,000,000 11 22,000,000 14 28,000,000 18 36,000,000 18 36,000,000 32 64,000,000 094 Total Right of Way (incl. ROW Services)- - 36,000,000 69,000,000 27,000,000 32,000,000 39,000,000 39,000,000 71,000,000 Palo-Alto_Quantities-Rev 1.xlsx - page 4 of 4 PRELIMINARY-- worksheet for discussion only 10/7/2014 7 Baumb, Nelly From:Judy Kleinberg <Judy@paloaltochamber.com> Sent:Friday, September 25, 2020 4:45 PM To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed Cc:Adrian Fine; Tom DuBois (tom.dubois@gmail.com); Kniss, Liz (external); Alison Cormack; Filseth, Eric (external); Greg Tanaka; Lydia Kou (kou.pacc@gmail.com); Minor, Beth; Apple, Kara Subject:Hotel TBID & Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center Attachments:Visitor Center_ltr to Council re TBID_9.2020.pdf Follow Up Flag:Follow up Flag Status:Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  Dear City Council Members,    Please see the attached letter outlining the position of the Chamber of Commerce with respect to the matter  on your agenda Monday, September 28th, concerning the hotel TBID with the San Mateo County/Silicon  Valley Visitor and Convention Bureau.    Warm regards,  Charlie Weidanz, CEO Judith Kleinberg, President Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce  355 Alma Street Palo Alto, CA. 94301 Tel: 650‐324‐3121 www.paloaltochamber.com              www.paloaltochamber.com   ◊  355 Alma Street   ◊  Palo Alto, CA, 94301   ◊   650.324.3121      Via e‐Mail September 25, 2020    Palo Alto City Council  250 Hamilton Avenue  Palo Alto, CA 94301  Dear Mayor Fine and Members of the Palo Alto City Council,  The Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center is the key point of support for  visitors to Palo Alto on business or leisure travel. As such, the Visitor Center staff is the  "face" of Palo Alto to the outside world that sets the first welcoming and helpful tone for  those who are pursuing, or are considering pursuing, personal or professional activities in  our city.   The Chamber has been a stakeholder in the hotel TBID with the San Mateo County/Silicon  Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau since its formation and over the past decade the  Visitor Center has become an essential part of the Chamber’s mission and service to the  community. The Visitor Center receives its only financial support from the Convention  and Visitors Bureau through the funding it receives from Palo Alto hotels. The nearly  $32,000 received annually has been essential to support both staff work to serve the  hundreds of requests for help, as well as to maintain the Visitor Center resources  and help defray our Visitor Center space expenses.    As a referral and consultation service, the Chamber's Visitor Center actively supports our  local economy and helps maximize revenues by providing information ‐ for free – about  all Palo Alto hotels and restaurants (not just Chamber members), shopping, neighbor‐ hoods, recreation and cultural activities, educational opportunities, how to start a local  business and other Palo Alto services that will meet the needs of these visitors.   In addition, the Visitor Center is the key point of contact for individuals, families and businesses that are  considering a move or relocation to Palo Alto. Our services include providing an array of resources, a  wide variety of visitor guides including the only paper map of Palo Alto/Stanford published by the  Chamber, a unique “Tech Tour” of current and historical points of interest, plus referrals, introductions,  connections, and knowledge of the residential and commercial real estate and business sectors.   What began simply as a hotel referral and visitor support service has evolved into a far more robust  menu of services to a wide variety of stakeholders that are directly or indirectly connected to the hotel  sector, such a restaurants and retail businesses in particular. In addition, the Visitor Center provides  support for local conventions and conferences, including those organized by various departments at  Stanford University, Stanford Medical School, and Stanford and Packard Children's Hospitals, all of  which brings visitors and their expense accounts to our city.   www.paloaltochamber.com   ◊  355 Alma Street   ◊  Palo Alto, CA, 94301   ◊   650.324.3121  Whether on‐site, online, by phone or mail, from business development to event planning, our Visitor  Center is a one‐stop shop, available to help at any hour of the business day, supporting visitors from all  over the world seeking referrals or help navigating our city who have nowhere else to go for the variety  of timely information and support we provide. Equally important is that we routinely provide this same  support to Palo Alto residents as well.  By informing and orienting visitors to maximize their desire and ability to patronize Palo Alto businesses  and cultural organizations, by creating and extending a welcoming environment for both residents and  visitors, and by promoting economic opportunities to generate income for the City’s General Fund, as  well as for local businesses and organizations, the work of the Visitor Center helps generate tax revenue  that benefits Palo Alto residents.  We understand that a majority of Palo Alto hotels have expressed their desire to disband the TBID. Our  position is NOT to object to the wishes of our hotel members. However, we want to stress that the  termination of the TBID would end the financial support it provides to the Chamber to serve as a Visitor  Center. With no plan to replace this funding, the Visitor Center and all the services it provides will also  end.  It is common for chambers of commerce to serve as visitor bureaus or visitor centers with funding from  their local governments, such as from a local transit occupancy tax, to maintain this community asset.  We respectfully request that, should the TBID be allowed to disband, the City Council direct staff to  develop a strategy and identify a source or sources of funds to replace the lost TBID support so the  Chamber can continue without interruption to serve as a Visitor Center providing these important  services that fulfill a unique and critical role in our local community and our local economy.  Sincerely,  Charlie Weidanz, CEO  Judy Kleinberg, President  8 Baumb, Nelly From:Laarni von Ruden CPA <laarnivonruden@sonic.net> Sent:Thursday, September 24, 2020 10:36 AM To:Council, City Cc:'Xavier Webb' Subject:RE: Your e-mail to City Council was received - UN75 Proclamation Attachments:UN75 Proclamation.docx Follow Up Flag:Follow up Flag Status:Flagged CAUTION: This email originated 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Thank you for your attention to my request. Please let me know if you require any other information from me. I have  attached the template again for your convenience.    Sincerely,    Laarni von Ruden  Chapter Leader      UNA MidPeninsula  552 Emerson Street  Palo Alto, CA 94301  650‐326‐3170        From: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>   Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 9:36 AM  To: Laarni von Ruden CPA <laarnivonruden@sonic.net>  Subject: Your e‐mail to City Council was received    Thank you for your comments to the City Council. Your e‐mail will be forwarded to all seven Council Members and a  printout of your correspondence will also be included in the next available Council packet.    If your comments are about an item that is already scheduled for a City Council agenda, you can call (650) 329‐2571 to  confirm that the item is still on the agenda for the next meeting.    If your letter mentions a specific complaint or a request for service, we'll either reply with an explanation or else send it  on to the appropriate department for clarification.    We appreciate hearing from you.  United Nations 75th Anniversary Proclamation 2020 and Beyond: Shaping Our Future Together Whereas, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations since the Charter was signed in San Francisco on June 26, 1945, and came into force on October 24, 1945; Whereas, for 75 years, the United Nations, born from the rubble and devastation of World War II, has provided a forum for international cooperation and diplomacy, and been a beacon of light for multilateralism, international peace and security, economic and social well-being, and human rights for all; Whereas, the active participation of global civil society, governments and world leaders is an essential component for the continued success and strength of the United Nations and the collective fulfillment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, as approved unanimously by Member States; Whereas, the United Nations has remained an indispensable partner for the United States to protect our national security, economic, environmental, and foreign policy interests, as well as to promote our nation's historic shared values; Whereas, the United Nations has declared the theme of this year’s commemoration to be "2020 and Beyond: Shaping Our Future Together," and has encouraged people in all countries to join the largest global conversation about their visions for the future we want; NOW, THEREFORE, [to Insert the name of the elected official(s), and/or NGO/CBO, community leader, and/or United Nations Association chapter/division] I/we 1) recognize the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, as well as the needs for, and benefits of international cooperation; 2) affirm the importance of promoting awareness and increasing support for the principles and vital work of the United Nations to address the most pressing global issues facing humanity; 3) applaud the United Nations for its critical role in maintaining international peace and security, combating terrorism, and protecting human rights; 4) commend the United Nations for its leadership and ongoing efforts to mobilize international collaboration and Member States' actions to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030; 5) acknowledge with appreciation the leadership and ongoing efforts of the United Nations to address global health crises, including combating COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, smallpox and polio; 6) applaud the United Nations for its response to unprecedented humanitarian crises due to natural and human causes that have resulted in a staggering escalation of displacements and suffering; 7) encourage residents of all ages in [Insert city/county/state/jurisdiction] to commemorate and celebrate the purposes, principles, programs and achievements of the United Nations; and 8) call on the United States government to reaffirm its long-standing support for the United Nations, its principles and programs, and to re-establish ties that have been severed to the World Health Organization and other agencies. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.  So the City of Sunnyvale and all of the POS corporations they suck up to are now using this CCP-related downturn as a way to stop people from attending meetings and effectively speaking their minds to potentially alter the city's course in the future...While covid is good in a very small way because it kills humans while humans are killing my cats (right now I like cats better than many humans - too bad) it is also bad in a way due to the lack of due process it creates when it comes to public hearings about important issues like land usage issues...When land usage issues are the only reason most people attend city council meetings... So democracy is dead; I no longer vote and never will again; and Democrats Newsom and Harris and Weiner have effectively KILLED DEMOCRACY!?! SO FUCK KAMALA HARRIS ALL THE WAY BACK TO HELL WHERE SHE CAME FROM ALONG WITH BIDEN AND NEWSOM AND REST OF THEIR POS PARTY! GENERAL ELECTION DAY / 8 NOVEMBER 2016 2     GENERAL ELECTION DAY / 8 NOVEMBER 2016 John finally voted once again at his old h igh s chool campus on 8 November 2016! > GO TO: VIOLATION OF THE VOT...    Have a nice day everyone! :D On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, 4:13:58 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: By thew way: "We are facing very serious crises with COVID-19 and the economic fallout. We need to act very cautiously in city finances so that we do not compromise public safety, parks, libraries and other things that make Sunnyvale a great place to live. The background picture is Sunnyvale's Sunken Gardens Golf Course. There is pressure to close our golf courses since golf is becoming less popular. If closed, will they become high rise office buildings or a park..." -- Mike Goldman Note: OVER MY DEAD BODY WILL YOU PUT A HIGH RISE TOWER AT SUNKEN GARDENS! BACK OFF CITY OF SUNNYVALE YOU GOD DAMNED OUT OF CONTROL BLOOD SUCKING MAGGOTS! On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, 4:06:51 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: BTW: I just added future Sunnyvale Mayor Mike Goldman to this email thread to bring him up to date...I asked him to tell animal control to put a hold on Cali Cat's body to positively determine her cause of death...I will soon explain why Mike is the best choice for strong mayor; since his approach is so much like mine...And I will also share my money-saving / people empowering ideas that democrats like Newsom and Harris so despise... While the San Jose Mercury News has been pushing pro-growth candidates in their editorial section in this grossly overcrowded region lately...Even though local cities are full of people fed up with the traffic mess that is now gone thanx to the the latest economic slowdown (there is a good side to it all) It seems that many local officials don't realize this little Silicon Valley party is over for now until further notice... People will decide who is best based upon their needs; not the needs of the SJ Mercury News who is based in a grossly overcrowded and overbuilt region that used to be the Valley of Heart's Delight...Or the needs of Newsom and Harris who have effectively made me decide to never attend a city council meeting ever again... Because what is the point anyway after SB 35 and SB 50 and/or Proposition 64 which killed Proposition 215 after misleading the public into thinking it was only about recreational pot? DEMOCRACY IS DEAD! AND YOU CAN THANK NEWSOM AND WEINER AND HARRIS ETC FOR IT! THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS ACTIVELY TRYING TO KILL DEMOCRACY AS WE KNOW IT! Sunnyvale | MikeGoldman4Mayor | Home   3 Sunnyvale | MikeGoldman4Mayor | Home    SEE ALSO: BIRDLAND FREE PRESS    BIRDLAND FREE PRESS ZERO PABLUM NEWS FOR THE SUNNYVALE BIRDLAND NEIGHBORHOOD AND BEYOND...     Other than that; how's your day going!? :D On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, 3:11:20 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: What I am getting at here is: once I am fully compensated for the various rights etc violations that I experienced over time from all agencies and departments etc involved in my years of government/police-sponsored torture; I will be more than happy to give the CTFB and/or IRS their fair share...I have absolutely no problem with this... On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, 3:03:49 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: Other than that; 1) After all of these various egregious rights violations and illegal behaviors on the part of others; including the federal government using military helicopters in a totally lame and unsuccessful attempt to intimidate and/or coerce me and Jimmy who was too drunk to notice: 1a) It's bad because the CIA broke the law; and 1b) good because me and Jimmy Finley will go down in history for this! 2) Because John Lennon and Jim Morrison never had the US Military used against them! 2a) WoW! 3) Then I also got a big fat overinflated tax bill based upon several non-existent employees I never had even after HR Block appealed for me; non-existent employees that the CTFB has the burden of proof of naming...So I gave up on this crooked agency... EMPLOYMENT DISRUPTION BY THE SOC: EMPLOYMENT DISRUPTION BY THE SOC: Weighing in on this subject: Unless someone has signed a contract ~ they cannot be classified as a contractor......    MESSAGE TO CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NEWSOM: 4    MESSAGE TO CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NEWSOM: UPDATE / 27 APR 2020: "Hey Rosanna I noticed you were a "Former Tax Compliance Specialist at California State Bo...    "UPDATE / 27 APR 2020: "Hey Rosanna I noticed you were a "Former Tax Compliance Specialist at California State Board of Equalization" and I have been grossly overcharged on taxes for many years now stating I have several employees and charging me for them when I have never had any employees...and when I appealed it with HR Block; they rejected the appeal and kept sending me bills which I finally started ignoring due to their fraudulent claims...then without due process it went to court and they took money from myboss who submitted a 1099 for me...even though I make less than $14,000 and am not taxable...what thehell is up with this and how can I fix it?..." "Contact The Taxpayer Rights Advocates Office. Don't let them transfer you back to a representative. Insist that you speak to someone in the advocate's office and file a complaint. If that doesn't work contact the governor's office directly via letter. Whatever you do be CO operative and don't relay you're frustration andanger because that will make them shut you down. The advocate's office results are usually favorable on the side of the taxpayer. Good luck. I can't stand that place. lol..." -- ex-CTFB employee "Ok thanx...They already shut everything down so they can't do that to me now thankfully...And both my jobs got gutted by Newsom so in a way I'm untouchable by them now...Plus the IRS is likely sending me back the roughly $1200 dollars the state took from me unlawfully in Corona virus economic stimulation funds...And right after I sent this out the whole damn state shut down so maybe you're right...and thanx again..." > Note: The CFTB apparently does not like dissent just like the CCP...So the CCP is the DNC is the CTFB is the CCP is the DNC is the CTFB etc etc etc + SEE ALSO: THE DNC IS THE CCP IS THE DNC IS THE CCP ETC @ https://lreblogger.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-dnc-is-ccp-is-dnc-is-ccp-etc.html.." In retrospect; 1) The CA EDD is a total and complete disaster along with Governor Newsom; and 2) The CTFB has been sending out grossly overstated tax bills; including when Kamala Harris was CA AG -- and this is just part of the reason why this SF bay area region is a slave zone for so many low income individuals like me and many others...Because not only are low income individuals in general discriminated against on a class-based discrimination level; but low income white males are also discriminated against more than any other subgroup in this particular region...Adding to this; Democrats like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden also actually want to tax the janitor who Biden just beat up behind the locker room with evil his tax plan...A janitor who probably lives in an RV near from his work; and a janitor who will probably continue to do so as long as he or she keeps being overtaxed by Biden...And imagine if that janitor is a female -- think about it: Joe Biden just metaphorically beat up a female janitor!?! This is totally UNACCEPTABLE hypothetical behavior that must cease Joe Biden! On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, 1:21:59 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: Here is an attached video from July 2019 created in the months before Sunnyvale DPS ordered the 19 MPH green garbage can to be removed...According to my neighbor Bobby Martinez Junior: Bobby witnessed a man face down in the street "gurgling blood" as DPS stood by and did not provide assistance to this victim... A victim who later died from his injuries... 5 Then no increased signage other than a cardboard sign was installed in response to the needless death of this bicyclist -- if for nothing else to stop another incident like this from occurring and/or to honor the life of the victim...But DPS took no further action after leaving the scene...This shows a deep disdain for human life... I told my neighbor yesterday when we were discussing the TWO SUCCESSFUL PETITIONS FOR SPEED HUMPS ON MY STREET that the City of Santa Clara killed (When Cupertino just installed them for safety reasons without asking any residents on Voss Road for instance) One speed hump would have been right where Cali Cat was killed...That is; if Cali Cat was killed accidentally... But it all gets back to human lives don't even seem to matter so why am I expecting government to care about my cats? That is a big stretch for many lesser folks...They put a big show on TV occasionally to make it look like society at large actually cares about animals; then the same old crap occurs...But once again; with animal cruelty now a federal felony (signed by Trump) this puts all of this into an entirely new perspective... In other words; local law enforcement just got a new job; and you can no longer just scoop up dead cats and dogs and assume they deserved it or it happened by accident or whatever... It is now a VERY SERIOUS matter whether anyone likes it or not and/or whether or not Seagrave had any pets in his and/or her lifetime...Life experience is what often determines an officers' response to animal issues... Adding to all of this; the Santa Clara Traffic engineer at the time personally went to Mister Olenak's house and allowed that old POS to kill the entire speed hump plan since it needed an ok from directly adjacent homeowners like Mister Olenak...Mister Olenak is like an old gangster that the City of Santa Clara has repeatedly relied upon to do their dirty work...Everything from the mob style sit down hearings like the Louis Amadeo Junior administrative hearing ~ to killing speed hump plans... Louis Amadeo Junior made a good call; but he also did not have Mister Olenak arrested when Mister Olenak blurted out his admission to attacking me in court -- along with Seagrave and Lopez who I gave a Nazi salute to and left in response to it all...Only to be followed home by some City of Santa Clara freak who I saw on my street after stalking me ...I guess they thought I was "fleeing the scene" or something (haha what a fucking JOKE!) while they taunted my highly impressionable Dad with the highly dysfunctional Olenak family -- while Mister Olenak had threatened my father with assault the morning he viciously attacked me like an angry pig... Mister Olenak was not arrested for this attack; and he was later maliciously used as a "witness to duck feeding" -- THAT THE EX-MAYOR OF SANTA CLARA JUDY NADLER GAVE ME PERMISSION TO FEED AT A CITY COUNCIL MEETING! WITH COUNCIL FOOTAGE LATER DESTROYED WHEN I REQUESTED IT! I also told my neighbor yesterday we would need about ten people to get run over in this neighborhood before they would do nothing about it; like 'they' do up in SF all of the time (See: Gross Negligence) Then 'they' would have meetings or something as even more people got run over -- then eventually decide to do nothing about it if some other psychopathic POS like Mister Olenak complained about it...This is the "vibrant neighborhoods" democrats like to talk about all the time...Happy little death zones for our family members... Then 'they' wouldn't choose a simple cost-effective plan like mine; 'they' would instead find some expensive multi-million dollar contractor to essentially do the same thing you could largely accomplish with speed humps... EMAIL MESSAGE #3 TO SENATOR ANNA ESCHOO: 6    EMAIL MESSAGE #3 TO SENATOR ANNA ESCHOO: "Here is the very simple and inexpensive ~ yet ultra-complex idea that I am proposing to calm traffic here in ...    WE ARE BIRDLAND STRONG!    WE ARE BIRDLAND STRONG! BIRDLAND NEIGHBORHOOD MASCOT SUPER CHICKEN! DON'T BE A CHICKEN! GET INVOLVED! EMAIL THE LOCAL CITY COUNCILS @ co...     AMENDED CLAIM SUBMITTED TO GHC 25 MAY 2020:    AMENDED CLAIM SUBMITTED TO GHC 25 MAY 2020: I POSTED THIS BACK IN 2017! -- THEREFORE IT'S HIGH TIME TO OVERCOME YOUR SEVERE CRANIAL POSTERIOR SYNDROMES CITY...    ANOTHER EMAIL TO US SENATOR ANNA ESCHOO: COPS OFTEN SCORE THE SAME ON PERSONALITY DISORDER TESTS AS VIOLENT CRIMINALS?    7 ANOTHER EMAIL TO US SENATOR ANNA ESCHOO: COPS OFTEN SCORE THE SAME ON PE... EX-LAPD COP ROBERT GETTINGER JUST GOT OUT OF FACEBOOK JAIL... ROBERT GETTINGER WAS A GOOD COP WHO GOT SCREWED OV...    On Monday, September 28, 2020, 4:43:59 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: BTW: Some online troll wrote that screenshot shit in the comments section and now my 94-year old Dad is hysterical because he read it and now he thinks he is going to get a big bill for it all when he has no idea I have already cleared up the situation and stopped the gross negligence from occurring at least at some level...People are fed up with having their hands tied and with police doing nothing but the wrong things...And many people all across America are stepping up and doing good things about the various problems within their neighborhoods -- Because cops are almost always there when you don't need them; and never there when you really do;and the traffic calming departments here in Silicon Valley are not doing a good enough job... On Monday, September 28, 2020, 4:38:10 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: Just added to that blog post: "Any neighborhood psychopaths who have a problem with bringing increased safety to our neighborhood and/or any spineless individual who only has threatening, angry, negative, slanderous and/or defamatory comments based upon old SCPD police misconduct done by officers who have since been retired; and/or anyone who has anything negative to say about this obviously sensitive situation -- can go fuck themselves...A SCPD Officer knows about the flyers and I got permission from Santa Clara Traffic department long ago to help slow people down in this neighborhood...And the City of Sunnyvale gave the ok to the 19 MPH green garbage years ago; for the City of Santa Clara not replacing the 19MPH sign at the corner...And my entire property is under surveillance...Adding to all of this; this is all part of a gross negligence lawsuit now as well..." On Monday, September 28, 2020, 4:37:20 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: REST IN PEACE CALI CAT I LOVE YOU FOREVER    REST IN PEACE CALI CAT I LOVE YOU FOREVER After hearing from a neighbor about what they had read online on a neighborhood social networking site about yet...    Ok here's a 'good' example of the kind of human shit I have been forced to deal with in this neighborhood for many years now without any help from police...This person is threatening to trespass on my property and throw things into the backyard of a 94 year old man who just had a stroke; and right after 3 cats died...No kind words; just evil psychopathic shit from HELL (and/or likely 8 Santa Clara)...And they are showing obvious signs that my reputation has been slandered as well -- likely by the SCPD...All it takes is one person calling you crazy in response to police allegations of mental illness...When people with disabilities -- whether real or imagined as they obviously are in this case -- cannot be discriminated against and/or treated differently than anyone else... On Sunday, September 27, 2020, 9:33:10 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: I just took this screenshot attachment of this blog post comments section...It looks like there is some open hatred again here in Birdland and it looks like we have a person of interest... REST IN PEACE MEECHA CAT I LOVE YOU FOREVER    REST IN PEACE MEECHA CAT I LOVE YOU FOREVER I woke up this morning to the doorbell and a lady telling me one of my cats was dead...I found Meecha in the s...    On Sunday, September 27, 2020, 7:08:02 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: AMENDED CLAIM SUBMITTED TO GHC 25 MAY 2020:    AMENDED CLAIM SUBMITTED TO GHC 25 MAY 2020: I POSTED THIS BACK IN 2017! -- THEREFORE IT'S HIGH TIME TO OVERCOME YOUR SEVERE CRANIAL POSTERIOR SYNDROMES CITY...    The May 2020 GHC claim made against the City of Sunnyvale is bolstered by the two recent seemingly accidental deaths of Meesha Cat and Cali Cat...This is why it is so important to determine Cali Cat's cause of death; because if Cali's death was an accident along with Meesha Cat's death; then Sunnyvale DPS's prosecutorial misconduct highlighted by my recent GHC claim pointing to Sunnyvale DPS attempting to restrain my good faith efforts to make this neighborhood a safe place: 1) not only showed selective and unnecessary -- and what could be seen as retaliatory law enforcement (due to yet another GHC claim made before the May 2020 GHC submission) against a recent stroke victim (Dad) who had a stroke after the very stressful years-long unregulated RPF 9 siege; 1a) with zero equal law enforcement of several active threats outside my residence apprehended over time; but it has also 2) exposed a gaping hole in the safety in our neighborhood residents; including family members in the form of cats who are now dead...The Sunnyvale DPS Police Chief once said dogs are family members; so that means cats are as well... Adding to all of this; Officer Seagrave piled on tons of extra intentional emotional distress by threatening to take my family members away from me (my cats most of who are now dead) instead of arresting Mister Olenak for animal cruelty and making threats of assault and finally carrying them out... The safety cone on Thunderbird been there for a long time mainly to slow down traffic on Thunderbird a bit because I got sick of people ripping by my window at 60 MPH and taking the turn onto Dunford dangerously...We have adults and children and cats and ducks and etc who all need a safe neighborhood... So no; public works dude; it was not to save a parking spot dumbass! I parked my vehicle only after you insinuated this! That one safety cone is also used to create a safe haven on the street for seasonal ducks who visit the neighborhood under and around the duck crossing signs I worked with both cities to have installed...Ducks the ex- Mayor of Santa Clara gave me permission to feed at a city council meeting... Ducks many people feed other than me; and ducks who also need to be fed properly due to dwindling habitat and herbicide/pesticide usage on lawns etc (there used to actually be Wood Ducks living in the trees on Wood Duck Avenue for instance) and also mainly due to the City of Santa Clara's non-existent environmental protections...Also; ducks who are not wild or domestic; but somewhere in between...Ducks Officer Seagrave and Lopez desperately tried to get me to stop feeding (an unlawful order by the way -- see last paragraph) These rogue officers were willing to drag me into an administrative hearing and allow the Olenak family to taunt my father (who had been threatened by Mister Olenak the morning he attacked me) then used both Mister Olenak and Tom Foley as "witnesses to (government-sanctioned) duck feeding" of all things!?! When both of these people attacked me and stalked me! And Tom Foley sat in his truck outside my house for a few weeks after his attack!?! Even though he was a drunk felon on parole at the time@?@ Obviously ass-backwards liberal law enforcement ideology... And the safety cone on Thunderbird was in a place to help protect Meesha Cat from being hit; it obviously did not work but without it the situation could have been much worse and even more dangerous... Safety cones are for protecting and bolstering public safety; and with Sunnyvale Public safety went against their core mission of public safety when they attempted to get me to remove that safety cone; along with the city-approved 19 MPH green recycling container that was given the ok by the City of Sunnyvale many years ago... And pedestrians have been getting run over in this SF bay area region left and right while local leaders continue to cram more and more and more people into this already overcrowded SF bay area region without any necessary traffic calming to control the mess...Making local governments somewhat grossly negligent... And now there have been two cats who look like they may have either been purposefully killed; or accidentally killed on a street the City of Santa Clara promised to increase traffic calming on at a late 1990s public meeting (Dunford Way) and another cat possibly accidentally killed on Thunderbird Avenue -- were the safety cone in question has been placed for quite some time to slow traffic...And 10 to top all of this off; Baby Cat's body was given to another agency and is forever gone...A family member in other words... Three dead cats in three weeks...Do the math...Something is wrong and needs to be fixed... I demand a criminal investigation into these suspicious deaths... On Sunday, September 27, 2020, 1:37:16 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: I DEMAND A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO WHY 3 OF MY CATS HAVE BEEN FOUND DEAD IN THE LAST 3 WEEKS! REST IN PEACE CALI CAT I LOVE YOU FOREVER    REST IN PEACE CALI CAT I LOVE YOU FOREVER After hearing from a neighbor about what they had read online on a neighborhood social networking site about yet...     On Thursday, September 17, 2020, 1:20:03 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: REST IN PEACE MEECHA CAT I LOVE YOU FOREVER    REST IN PEACE MEECHA CAT I LOVE YOU FOREVER I woke up this morning to the doorbell and a lady telling me one of my cats was dead...I found Meecha in the s...    I woke up this morning to the doorbell and a lady telling me one of my cats was dead...I found Meecha in the street and it looks like she got hit by a car but I am not totally sure and I don't trust animal control enough now to call them because they will just deem it an accident and take her away...When this looks like it could have been done to make it look like an accident...Either way she needs to be buried in the backyard where she spent so much of her time during her roughly 13 years and not thrown in the trash by animal control...Sunnyvale DPS even said that dogs are family members; so that should include cats too... Meecha showed up one Christmas morning a few years after my brother was killed in a head on collisionon Christmas eve; so I immediately made her part of the family...She was a feral cat with a clipped ear 11 and I never found out where she came from or how old she really was but she was a loyal friend to the end...And with Baby Cat gone; Meecha was coming out to the front yard more to keep Baby Cat's sisterMolly company because I think she sensed something was wrong...Needless to say things are looking more suspicious than ever now and I don't know who to blame or who to go to for help when human life is not even currently being cared about enough in this overcrowded region...Meecha was thesweetest cat and she got along with all the other cats and I miss her and love her with all my heart...Andjust when things seemed bad they got worse...And there was a safety cone moved around yesterdayvery near to the spot where I found Meecha; so I will be checking surveillance footage to get footage of any possible person(s) of interest...My gut level feeling is that two suspicious cat deaths in two weeks is no accident... On Friday, September 11, 2020, 3:25:57 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: This is a rehash of a past message re-written for the blog: UPDATE / 11 SEP 2020: I spoke to some neighbors who think Baby Cat may have been a victim of a coyote because someone said they saw a dead black and white cat on Wednesday morning in the dirt down the street by the corner...So I called Sunnyvale Animal Control to confirm if they gathered a cat who looked like Baby Cat and who was a victim of predation; but they did not have any answers and referred me to another agency...And this all occurred after DPS non-emergency neglected to tell me about contacting animal control when I called them 3 Sep 2020... They apparently gave Baby Cats' body to Silicon Valley animal control and now it looks like they mishandled her body and she is gone...Which will end up as yet another claim against the City of Sunnyvale within 6 months because this is yet more unnecessary emotional distress that I do not need to be feeling right now at this crucial time when closure is so important...The last claim I filed mentioned her medical condition; which they obviously did not care about...And now Baby Cat is dead and gone... It also occurred to me that if Sunnyvale Animal Control picked up a dead cat on Wednesday that appeared to be attacked by a coyote; why was nothing done to alert the media to try and protect local outdoor pets? Like I said; I called DPS non-emergency Wednesday night and the attendant was very kind; but he should have brought up animal control too...And if animal control does this all the time; do they take photos of the animal found for future ID purposes of the pet owners? And do they keep the body until they find the owner for ID? If not they should because animal cruelty is now a federal felony that is taken very seriously... In retrospect; I totally get that half the world has very little respect for animals and/or animal rights in general -- let alone human rights...I wouldn't be filing claims against the City of Sunnyvale if human rights in general were an issue society actually cared about...And since the greatness of a nation is measured by the way they treat their animals -- and/or since animal cruelty is so closely connected to human cruelty (in that those who abuse animals tend to abuse people as well) it is of paramount importance that the mass of inhumanity in general becomes increasingly humane towards animals and/or their own kind...As there is no other greater goal for inhumanity... BABY CAT: MISSING SINCE 2 SEPTEMBER 2020 12    BABY CAT: MISSING SINCE 2 SEPTEMBER 2020 BABY CAT / 1 MAY 2006 "Here is one of my Facebook posts from yesterday: "I woke up at around 7 am today (2 Septe...    On Friday, September 11, 2020, 12:33:51 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: The coyote theory seems to be the most viable answer to the death of Baby Cat; but I have checked the surveillance footage and I have seen no wild dogs running along the street in front of my house yet...So it is still up in the air as to what exactly happened to Baby Cat last week...I'll keep you posted... On Sunday, September 6, 2020, 9:49:31 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: Oops: "In other words; if animal control actually thought a coyote ate my cat; why wasn't it on the news? And since the DPS chief even once said that dogs are 'part of the family'; then why aren't cats treated with more respect? And is there any discrimination in the way a dead dog and a dead cat are treated? Just wondering..." On Sunday, September 6, 2020, 9:48:25 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: In other words; if animal control actually thought a coyote ate my cat; why wasn't it on the news? And since the DPS chief even once said that dogs are 'part of the family'; then why aren't cats treated with more respect? And is there any discrimination is the way a dead dog and a dead cat are treated? Just wondering... On Sunday, September 6, 2020, 9:44:15 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: It also occurred to me that if Sunnyvale Animal Control picked up a dead cat on Wednesday that appeared to be attacked by a coyote; why was nothing done to alert the media to try and protect local outdoor pets? I called DPS non-emergency Wednesday night and the attendant was very kind; but he should have brought up animal control...And if animal control does this all the time; do they take photos of the animal found for future ID purposes of the pet owners? And do they keep the body until they find the owner for ID? If not they should... Precious is buried right next to Buster in the backyard very deep down in a certain spot; and I wanted to put Baby Cat there too; but now my tradition of having an immense respect for my deceased cats has been turned into Baby Cat thrown in the trash by Sunnyvale Animal Control...Which is yet more unnecessary emotional distress that I do not need to be feeling right at this crucial time when closure is so important... 13 Look; I get that half the world has very little respect for animals and/or animal rights in general -- let alone human rights...But since the greatness of a nation is measured by the way they treat their animals -- and/or since animal cruelty is so closely connected to human cruelty ~ in that those who abuse animals tend to abuse people as well -- it is of paramount importance that the mass of inhumanity in general becomes increasingly humane towards animals and/or their own kind...There is no other greater goal for inhumanity... On Sunday, September 6, 2020, 8:32:52 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: NEXTDOOR.COM: PRIVATE BUSINESS OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION / DISCRIMINATION ETC    NEXTDOOR.COM: PRIVATE BUSINESS OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION / DISCRIMINATION ETC TAP MERRICK On December 25th, 2 015 (Christmas day) Johns' beloved cat Missy was found with a broken back ...    A connected issue is this: When Missy Cat's back was purposefully broken on Xmas day a few years back; I got on Nextdoor.com to ask neighbors for help and ended up being entirely removed from the online community; which violated my free speech and civil rights in the process; causing immense additional emotional distress to the situation...Since then I have been kept out of the loop on naby important issues that I need to know about as somewhat of a leader within this community and resident...It's incredible how many ways my rights have been violated over the years during my subjugation...I got removed from the Yahoo Birdland Neighbors group many years ago right after complaining about the Struble/Officer Discher issue... Which is something they would do in Russia or China or some other oppressive regime... On Sunday, September 6, 2020, 7:57:14 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: I spoke to some neighbors who think Baby Cat may have been a victim of a coyote because someone out walking said they saw a dead black and white cat on Wednesday morning in the dirt down the street by the corner...And I am waiting for Sunnyvale Animal Control to get back to me and confirm if they gathered a cat who looked like Baby Cat who was a victim of predation...So it looks like Mayor Wheeler and the rest of you are cleared; and besides I was just kind of being ridiculous and trying to make the point that if people think they can get violent due to what someone said then why wouldn't my own words make me a target too? So I modified this blog post and removed speculation even though most of the main points in the blog post still hold up... WTF/POS/DPS/SCPD!?! (CONTINUED)... WTF/POS/DPS/SCPD!?! (CONTINUED)... 14 Message written to 70+ email addresses consisting of City Council members; Mayors; several US Senators; law enfo...     On Saturday, September 5, 2020, 4:43:12 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: Other than that; people need to stop blaming police officers for stupid things lawmakers on both sides of the aisle often cause those police officers to do...From criminalizing normal and often benign non-criminal human behavior (liberal s more than conservatives) to failing to fully support civil rights (conservatives more than liberals) to legalizing what would otherwise be considered to be violent uncivil behavior (liberals and conservatives) in turn violating the civil rights of almost everyone including police officers etc...Therefore; a focus on collective civil rights is needed at this point in time to protect everyone -- including police officers...Because Antifa/BLM etc can't scream about their civil rights being violated when they are violating the civil rights of others including the police... On Saturday, September 5, 2020, 4:08:47 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: Warning: CNN would probably consider some of the contents of this blog post to be crude and derogatory; but that's just too bad now isn't it CNN? Because crude and derogatory government negligence led up to it all... WTF/POS/DPS/SCPD!?! (CONTINUED)... WTF/POS/DPS/SCPD!?! (CONTINUED)... Message written to 70+ email addresses consisting of City Council members; Mayors; several US Senators; law enfo...    On Saturday, September 5, 2020, 2:51:41 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: Ok that's much better :) On Saturday, September 5, 2020, 2:51:21 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: Here it is again it seemed to send itself before I got to form all of the links for your convenience; I must have pushed the wrong button: "Throughout the last two decades various fraudulent claims have been leveled against John. These fraudulent claims range from slanderous and defamatory allegations and/or outright lies -- to lies by omission -- to ridiculous exaggerations etc. And in most cases this can be proven. Citing the recent spate of harassment allegations featured in the media as of late; John felt compelled to set the record straight once and for all. 1) Mr. Struble initially corroborated his guilt to Sunnyvale DPS Officer Discher; but somehow either "one hand was unaware of what the other hand was doing" (in other words; Beninger never spoke to Discher and/or vice versa) and/or Beninger knew that John had a negligence case against Sunnyvale 15 DPS and twisted it in favor of the Struble Familia. In a deposition; Mrs. Struble fabricated a story about John beating up Mr. Struble in the street -- but Mr. Struble never exited his vehicle during this incident -- he returned to work unscathed then corroborated the story on the phone. Officer Discher then ordered Mr. Struble to drive around the block to avoid driving by Johns' residence; an order Mr. Struble ultimately ignored (failing to obey a police officer). John called Sunnyvale DPS non-emergency line and told them about this; but no action way taken. Either way; Sunnyvale DPS Chief Williams quit shortly after this; commencing a roughly 17 year campaign of lies and deceit..." GO TO: VARIOUS FRAUDULENT CLAIMS @ VARIOUS FRAUDULENT CLAIMS (ETC)    VARIOUS FRAUDULENT CLAIMS (ETC) Throughout the last two decades various fraudulent claims have been leveled against John. These fraudulent claim...       VARIOUS FRAUDULENT CLAIMS (ETC) Throughout the last two decades various fraudulent claims have been leveled against John. These fraudulent claim...    Either way; Sunnyvale DPS Chief Williams quit shortly after this; commencing a roughly 17 year campaign of lies and deceit... + SEE ALSO: STRIKE THREE YOU'RE OUT!? > Beninger + Struble Familia + Amadeo Junior + Olenak Familia + Manoukian + Rebholtz/Paolinetti Familia = Strike Three; You're Out! @ STRIKE THREE YOU'RE OUT!? QUESTION: 1) Since rookie DPS Officer Discher initially restrained Mister Struble by holding court right out in the street and getting Mister Struble to admit to his wrongdoing -- telling Mister Struble to avoid driving by John's house back in 1998; 2) Why couldn't DPS/SCPD and/or SCPD Officer Don Paolinetti and/or SCPD Officers Lopez and Seagrave and/or DPS Officer Odle etc have similarly restrained the RPF [and/or Mister Olenak who put bleach in duck food ~ equaling animal cruelty; illegal threats of violence later carried out etc] 3) like DPS Officer Discher did to Mister Struble and or Mister Baker did long ago? ANSWER: Because police used to do their jobs differently... GO TO: LEGAL BRIEF FROM COUNSELLOR JOHNNY DOUGH: LEGAL BRIEF FROM COUNSELLOR JOHNNY DOUGH: 16 + MISTER BAKER @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2013/02/mister-baker.html Furthermore; 1) SCPD was instead obsessed with duck feeding John received official permission to do from now ex-Mayor Judy Nadler at a Santa Clara City Council meeting etc and/or 2) whose negligent misconductive police actions essentially led to fomenting selective neighborhood hatred against John for a noble duty John was officially sanctioned to accomplish by the fucking ex-Queen of Santa Clara...Adding to this; the council footage/evidence was later destroyed by the City of Santa Clara leaving only text showing I attended the city council meeting... TIMELINE: ACTIVIST TARGETED FOR DISSENT? + EX-SUNNYVALE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY (DPS) OFFICER MATTHEW BENINGER & SON ETC EX-SUNNYVALE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY (DPS) OFFICER MATTHEW BENINGER & SON ETC + TOM FOLEY @ THE LAKE TERRACE APARTMENTS: LAYING IN WAIT + CONSPIRACY ETC @ TOM FOLEY @ THE LAKE TERRACE APARTMENTS: LAYING IN WAIT + CONSPIRACY ETC + MISTER BAKER @ MISTER BAKER + SNEAK AND PEAK WARRANT @ Sneak and peek warrant Furthermore; 1) I mentioned something about Portland Mayor Wheeler giving the "Go" signal to his Antifa/BLM ground troops by pointing his finger at Trump; 2) therefore pubicly urging retaliation against those involved in freedom of speech; 3) While countless totally sane people are absolutely abhorred the general Obiden narrative to making 'good' a relative term; 4) Getting us all ready for a potentially oppressive new liberal socialist communist (etc etc etc) federal government; this is why Wheeler is now a person of interest who needs to be cleared... There are several possibilties including: A) A friend named Gary Metrovich who I got into a heated Facebook Messenger argument the same night Baby disappeared (Gary is an old friend who knows where I live); and/or B) Someone on the group BCC email list I am speaking to right now who reacted the day after I brought up the Mayor of San Jose's current situation and/or; C) A seemingly nice Asian couple who I caught feeding Baby Cat at night a few days before she disappeared (They are my main suspects); and/or D) Highly trained military "Night Stalkers" who are bored and off work and messing with me and/or who I just saw on the History Channel; DX) Something that obviously happened during the post-911 "my Dad was the head of the CIA" Bush administration era; but probably not happening now I just had to add that in there; which further close examination of the surveillance footage will hopefully bring out... It is also strange that a few days before this I began quietly asking "God" to protect my cats at night...Was someone listening to me so they could find what really mattered to me so they rip my heart out again and stomp on it on the floor like the local cities have allowed to happen so many times now? It Wouldn't surprise me one bit; but there is no way to prove that now it is merely speculation... Sneak and peek warrant Law enforcement officers are not prohibited from seizing any property from the premises. For example, in one 201...    17 MISTER BAKER When John went to Peterson High School many years back; there was a Sunnyvale police officer named Mr. Baker who...       TOM FOLEY @ THE LAKE TERRACE APARTMENTS: LAYING IN WAIT + CONSPIRACY ETC Back in April of 2006; John was feeding ducks at the Lake Terrace Apartments (as John had done for a number of y...        EX-SUNNYVALE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY (DPS) OFFICER MATTHEW BENINGER ... The first time John called the Sunnyvale D.P.S. after being attacked in the street was back in Dec ember 1998 . ...       TIMELINE: ACTIVIST TARGETED FOR DISSENT? THE SUNNYVALE FIRE DEPARTMENT? http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-sunnyvale- fire-department.html ...    LEGAL BRIEF FROM COUNSELLOR JOHNNY DOUGH: 18 "When my client was a teenager his band Aftershock used to play at parties on weekend nights all over the Santa...     STRIKE THREE YOU'RE OUT!? STRIKE THREE YOU'RE OUT!? > Beninger + Struble Familia + Amadeo Junior + Olenak Familia + Manoukian + Rebholtz/P...    ALBERT MARTINEZ AND HIS SON-IN-LAW    ALBERT MARTINEZ AND HIS SON-IN-LAW When the incident seen above occurred; John called the Sunnyvale police for assistance. While waiting for the Su...    Once again; why didn't WTF/POS/DPS/SCPD restrain the RPF etc as part of their normal CYA protocol; since failing to cover their asses often ends up amounting to inevitable adjudication and fair compensation? SEE ALSO: BABY CAT: MISSING SINCE 2 SEPTEMBER 2020    BABY CAT: MISSING SINCE 2 SEPTEMBER 2020 BABY CAT / 1 MAY 2006 "Here is one of my Facebook posts from yesterday: "I woke up at around 7 am today (2 Septe...    On Saturday, September 5, 2020, 2:40:59 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: "Throughout the last two decades various fraudulent claims have been leveled against John. These fraudulent claims range from slanderous and defamatory allegations and/or outright lies -- to lies by omission -- to ridiculous exaggerations etc. And in most cases this can be proven. Citing the recent spate of harassment allegations featured in the media as of late; John felt compelled to set the record straight once and for all. 19 1) Mr. Struble initially corroborated his guilt to Sunnyvale DPS Officer Discher; but somehow either "one hand was unaware of what the other hand was doing" (in other words; Beninger never spoke to Discher and/or vice versa) and/or Beninger knew that John had a negligence case against Sunnyvale DPS and twisted it in favor of the Struble Familia. In a deposition; Mrs. Struble fabricated a story about John beating up Mr. Struble in the street -- but Mr. Struble never exited his vehicle during this incident -- he returned to work unscathed then corroborated the story on the phone. Officer Discher then ordered Mr. Struble to drive around the block to avoid driving by Johns' residence; an order Mr. Struble ultimately ignored (failing to obey a police officer). John called Sunnyvale DPS non- emergency line and told them about this; but no action way taken. Either way; Sunnyvale DPS Chief Williams quit shortly after this; commencing a roughly 17 year campaign of lies and deceit..." GO TO: VARIOUS FRAUDULENT CLAIMS @ VARIOUS FRAUDULENT CLAIMS (ETC)    VARIOUS FRAUDULENT CLAIMS (ETC) Throughout the last two decades various fraudulent claims have been leveled against John. These fraudulent claim...     Either way; Sunnyvale DPS Chief Williams quit shortly after this; commencing a roughly 17 year campaign of lies and deceit... + SEE ALSO: STRIKE THREE YOU'RE OUT!? > Beninger + Struble Familia + Amadeo Junior + Olenak Familia + Manoukian + Rebholtz/Paolinetti Familia = Strike Three; You're Out! @ @ https://lreblogger.blogspot.com/2017/10/strike-three-youre-out.html QUESTION: 1) Since rookie DPS Officer Discher initially restrained Mister Struble by holding court right out in the street and getting Mister Struble to admit to his wrongdoing -- telling Mister Struble to avoid driving by John's house back in 1998; 2) Why couldn't DPS/SCPD and/or SCPD Officer Don Paolinetti and/or SCPD Officers Lopez and Seagrave and/or DPS Officer Odle etc have similarly restrained the RPF [and/or Mister Olenak who put bleach in duck food ~ equaling animal cruelty; illegal threats of violence later carried out etc] 3) like DPS Officer Discher did to Mister Struble and or Mister Baker did long ago? ANSWER: Because police used to do their jobs differently... GO TO: LEGAL BRIEF FROM COUNSELLOR JOHNNY DOUGH: https://lreblogger.blogspot.com/2020/07/legal-brief-from-counsellor-johnny-dough.html + MISTER BAKER @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2013/02/mister-baker.html Furthermore; 1) SCPD was instead obsessed with duck feeding John received official permission to do from now ex-Mayor Judy Nadler at a Santa Clara City Council meeting etc and/or 2) whose negligent misconductive police actions essentially led to fomenting selective neighborhood hatred against John for a noble duty John was officially sanctioned to accomplish by the fucking ex-Queen of 20 Santa Clara...Adding to this; the council footage/evidence was later destroyed by the City of Santa Clara leaving only text showing I attended the city council meeting... TIMELINE: ACTIVIST TARGETED FOR DISSENT? https://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2015/05/timeline-activist-targeted-for-dissent.html + EX-SUNNYVALE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY (DPS) OFFICER MATTHEW BENINGER & SON ETC https://addendumblog2.blogspot.com/2016/10/ex-police-officer-matthew-beninger.html + TOM FOLEY @ THE LAKE TERRACE APARTMENTS: LAYING IN WAIT + CONSPIRACY ETC @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2014/06/tom-foley-laying-in-wait-conspiracy-etc.html + MISTER BAKER @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2013/02/mister-baker.html + SNEAK AND PEAK WARRANT @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneak_and_peek_warrant Furthermore; 1) I mentioned something about Portland Mayor Wheeler giving the "Go" signal to his Antifa/BLM ground troops by pointing his finger at Trump; 2) therefore pubicly urging retaliation against those involved in freedom of speech; 3) While countless totally sane people are absolutely abhorred the general Obiden narrative to making 'good' a relative term; 4) Getting us all ready for a potentially oppressive new liberal socialist communist (etc etc etc) federal government; this is why Wheeler is now a person of interest who needs to be cleared... There are several possibilties including: A) A friend named Gary Metrovich who I got into a heated Facebook Messenger argument the same night Baby disappeared (Gary is an old friend who knows where I live); and/or B) Someone on the group BCC email list I am speaking to right now who reacted the day after I brought up the Mayor of San Jose's current situation and/or; C) A seemingly nice Asian couple who I caught feeding Baby Cat at night a few days before she disappeared (They are my main suspects); and/or D) Highly trained military "Night STalkers" who are bored and off work and messing with me and/or who I just saw on the History Channel; DX) Something that obviously happened during the post-911 "my Dad was the head of the CIA" Bush administration era; but probably not happening now I just had to add that in there; which further close examination of the surveillance footage will hopefully bring out... It is also strange that a few days before this I began quietly asking "God" to protect my cats at night...Was someone listening to me so they could find what really mattered to me so they rip my heart out again and stomp on it on the floor like the local cities have allowed to happen so many times now? It Wouldn't surprise me one bit; but there is no way to prove that now it is merely speculation... On Friday, September 4, 2020, 3:21:53 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: I talked to a Santa Clara PD Officer yesterday and sent him an email with photos of Baby Cat to submit just to keep an eye out for her or perhaps find her body at very least...I want to think someone took Baby Cat to keep her and not bring her harm; but you never know...I suspect the worst but that is probably normal to do so... BABY CAT: MISSING SINCE 2 SEPTEMBER 2020 21    BABY CAT: MISSING SINCE 2 SEPTEMBER 2020 BABY CAT / 1 MAY 2006 "Here is one of my Facebook posts from yesterday: "I woke up at around 7 am today (2 Septe...    I added his SCPD email to this thread too to bring him up to date as to what has been happening here for quite awhile now...This is not the first time someone has done something to one of my cats... And I also added Portland Mayor's email after recently sending him an email to show him that it is unacceptable to let people run amok in any city no matter when or where it happens...Just ask Officer Schmidt about that one I know he will agree... And blaming Trump is lame and is just reminding us all how Democrats will inevitably handle freedom of speech if they ever take oaths of office again to uphold the US Constitution...When the First Amendment was argued for roughly 14 years; ultimately deciding that we can all continue arguing... If that is true then any politician whether on the right or the left can be violently retaliated against for saying 'unsavory' things that not all people think are unsavory...Inevitably some find 'unsavory' as being 'truth'...And any damn fool can see that disagreement is ok as everyone is abhorrent to someone... So giving marching orders to Antifa/BLM troops by blaming Trump just doesn't cut it...Mayor Wheeler does not see himself as being effectual in this process...He is not merely a bystander...Or perhaps he sees his owns words as being superior? Probably...And I probably do too for that matter...And so it goes... Either way; the First Amendment came first before the Second Amendment because like I love to say:"I can say what I want and you can't shoot me for saying it..." Even if you're a modern youth who was raised not only without the same civil rights and/or freedoms that most elders grew up with; but also with a bad attitude towards opposing forms of thought as human freedom and freedom of thought are closely connected... Because: "One who is control ~ controls oneself..." -- (Ancient Roperian Wisdom) I have spoken! And you know I'm right! This is my final verdict and I will not be revisiting this decision! Anyway; try to have a great day everyone regardless of all of this bullshit! :D THE ADDENDUM BLOG    22 THE ADDENDUM BLOG === EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW ===     BTW: Baby Cat suddenly went missing the day after I sent an email to Mayor Wheeler about the aforementioned topics; so I hope there's no 'Portland Underground' running around stealing the cats of outspoken individuals like me and so many others...Since Wheeler sees freedom of speech as not being free anymore...Hmmm... On Thursday, September 3, 2020, 4:49:01 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: I woke up yesterday morning to find this disarray right outside the front door and my cat missing...And a solar light was obviously removed and placed a foot or two away from the light's base and it had to be pulled out of the base to do this...somebody was on my property the night my cat disappeared...There's no doubt in my mind... Someone's who's spiritually broke (along with local governments) has got HELL to pay... On Thursday, September 3, 2020, 12:55:33 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: Baby Cat is officially missing now and today I will try to check shelters and search the streets for any signs of life or death...Also; I added a new lawyer to the group of other lawyers on this email list; and I am wondering if she perhaps has taken any action so far; because if she has that may explain Baby Cat's disappearance... And remember animal cruelty is now a felony; one of the good laws Trump signed into law...So this is no longer a matter of lost property worth $15; this is an invaluable cat who's sister is wondering where she is and is acting depressed now along with me; and she is vulnerable too along with other cats who live around here... It looks like Precious Cat was killed by Jake Paolinetti after about 5 years of unrestrained stalking and harassment and after the Mrs. Rebholtz dragged me into court for things her out of control brats did...Leaving Jake Paolinetti free to continue his siege...And Buster Cat suddenly fell sick after being healthy as a horse... And when Precious was gone I searched for another cat like her for awhile until finally found her in Baby Cat; her frightened little sister who is now gone...3 out of 4 of the cats from this litter of kitties who was born in the backyard under my neighbor's deck are now forever gone... These were the kitties who gave me joy and love during the difficult years after my brother died in a head on collision on Xmas eve 1999...The difficult years made even more difficult by the RPF yelling what sounded like death threats (in other words; domestic terrorism with no statute of limitations) right outside my bedroom window at night after a night time ambush attempt police never investigated correctly... It should have been made into a crime scene... So Donald Trump can talk all day about drug rehab; but I'm probably going to smoke more pot than ever now to numb my soul again like I did for about two years after Precious Cats' untimely death and/or like I did again for a shorter time right after Missy Cats' back was broken on Xmas day a few years back...Remember? (So either arrest all of the freaks cops allowed to break the law and attack me and harass me and stalk me and vandalize my property and kill and kidnap my cats; or I'm smoking more pot to deal with it...Deal with it...There are HUGE life consequences to this kind of government-sponsored gross negligence...) 23 Back when DPS Officers Gantt and Fuji dragged their feet for about two months before finally showing up and not giving me an incident number until I asked for one right before they left? As TV news stories about a cops' son in San Jose who was a serial cat killer raged on in the background? Remember that? So I've had enough foot dragging and nonfeasance and other forms of neglect; this is a very serious matter that needs attention ASAP and I'm sick of everyone else getting help from the police or media exposure while they do nothing for me...When I get the feeling all media exposure will do is violate my privacy and in turn likely cause more harassment due to the large amount of idiots who apparently live in this region... Anyway I called DPS non-emergency last night and told the phone attendant about Baby Cat and the surveillance footage and the suspiciously misplaced wood and suspicious solar light placement... Someone was on my property the same night Baby Cat disappeared and obvious clues were left behind likely to send a message...Therefore I should call for an officer to show up and document the event; even though I don't trust cops who have never seemed interested in helping me out and going the extra mile for me... So this was very likely done on purpose and I honestly think it perhaps has something to do with my fearlessness and outspoken nature...And the way appears it was done makes me suspect it was done very carefully avoiding the surveillance cameras so perhaps someone was aware of our surveillance limitations; working around them to stay covert... (I did see Baby Cat following and Asian couple across the street outside my window the other night; causing me to go outside and ask them what they were doing since it was so unusual for Baby Cat to be following anyone around...They acted a bit suspicious and left quickly and it was night time so I couldn't really see them that well...They seemed nice and said they had cats too but they left sort of abruptly so it seems a little suspicious to me...Hmmm...) Therefore let it be known; someone can kill or kidnap all of my cats and threaten my life -- even foreign or domestic spies -- but I still will not shut up...And all this did was make me more determined than ever to root out those who messed with me for so many years and finally find some semblance of justice within this mess... And it is also hurting neighbors who love Baby Cat and the other cats; and I will probably be putting out flyers soon telling the neighborhood what happened even though it may scare some people; including making a new blog post too to explain online...And to top it off; being illegally removed from the Birdland Neighbors and Nextdoor.com keeps me and others out of the loop regarding important issues like this that should be blasted out to the entire neighborhood but is not due to discrimination and illegal rights violations allowed by largely unconstitutional user agreements allowing the First Amendment rights of users to be egregiously violated... My old California dream has just woken up into a NIGHTMARE FROM HELL... On Wednesday, September 2, 2020, 11:35:45 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: She is nowhere to be found and this has never happened in 12 years of her life...And does anyone think calling the police will actually do anything even though this kind of thing is a felony now? The police will probably come two months later like they did with Missy Cat then leave without giving me an incident number and do nothing... 24 Is someone sending a little message to me with this? Here's a little message back: We'll see she could show up tomorrow morning but this is very unlike her and I suspect the worst right now...Imagine not being able to call the police for help knowing they won't do anything when you call them; and imagine them slandering and defaming you after calling them for help instead of helping you...That is the kind of shit I have dealt with... Does someone want me to shut up? Good luck with that one... On Wednesday, September 2, 2020, 8:35:54 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: Today one of my 12 year old cats (Precious Cats' sister) is suddenly gone and not coming when I call her; so if any of you reading this had anything to do with this I am checking my surveillance footage soon because animal cruelty is now a felony...There was a wooden board along the front walkway that was in the middle of the walkway and a sun powered light fixture looked kicked over...I could be jumping to conclusions but I have a really bad feeling about this since it has happened before and I suspect if she is gone it has something to do with what I wrote yesterday due to the timing...We'll see...It is very unlike her to not come when called... I don't trust government anymore and it wouldn't surprise me if this is just a continuation my aforementioned past... On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, 1:07:32 PM PDT, Lik Roper <likroper@yahoo.com> wrote: I feel compelled to answer back to some of the strange ideas being presented to the masses which I saw this morning in the "incredibly biased and obviously trying to win the next election" SJ Mercury News; which is connected to a variety of other incredibly biased news outlets across America: Biden hits campaign trail, blames Trump for city violence    Biden hits campaign trail, blames Trump for city violence Associated Press Joe Biden is mounting a more aggressive offense against President Donald Trump with a rare public appearance Mon...    Coming from Biden; the man who advocates beating up people behind locker rooms; a man who knows Obama -- who has been sitting in his home office urging on the protests... The bottom line is: one who is in control; controls oneself... In other words; blame no one other than yourself for what you do...As freedom of speech = provocation; and the First Amendment was argued for roughly 14 years before eventual ratification...And also why the First Amendment came before the Second Amendment... Because I can say whatever I damn well please; and you can't shoot me for saying it...Pretty simple... 25 Protesters vandalize Liccardo's home, mayor thanks neighbors who scrubbed away graffiti    Protesters vandalize Liccardo's home, mayor thanks neighbors who scrubbe... A group apparently protesting for social justice targeted San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo Friday night.     Yup and I had the exact same thing happen; but for a multi-year period -- about 7-8+ years without end... And it all got zero attention from the mainstream media ~ while police refused to stop it...And I almost died from massive tooth infections as people were yelling what sounded like death threats on and off right outside... I guess self-appointed Mayors of Southwest Sunnyvale like me who actually care about neighbors and what they think about local issues are not worth protecting due to our love of deepened democracy... Letters: Ugly display | Property taxes | Remaking the president    Letters: Ugly display | Property taxes | Remaking the president Mercury News Letters to the Editor for September 1, 2020    "After ugly S.J. display, protests at crossroads Last Friday, in the dark of night, three human characteristics converged at the home of San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and his wife, Jessica. After a reportedly peaceful protest for Black Lives Matter near City Hall, a group decided to once again protest at the home of Mayor Liccardo and his wife. Under cover of darkness, more than 100 people converged on their neighborhood home, with nearly a half-dozen painting, spraying and egging their home, scrawling obscenities on their front door, walls and windows. Dozens of others stood there, many cheering them on. Afterward, caring neighbors, who – like the mayor – proudly 26 display Black Lives Matter posters in their windows, invested hours in helping the mayor clean up his home. Friends, our country is at a crossroads in which our character can come out: Will we be the caring neighbors who took positive action, the cowardly criminals who attacked someone else’s home, or the complicit crowd, who egged them on or stood there silently and allowed it to happen? Let’s make the right choice in which we lift up others for racial justice and equity, rather than tearing others down. Carl Guardino Monte Sereno..." So there you have it; not only did this arrogant Carl Guardino clown get to speak for about 10 minutes at a Sunnyvale City Council meeting ~ while I got cut off at 3 minutes (which could be considered to be a form of class-based discrimination) but now it suddenly matters that the SJ Mayors' house got exactly what I experienced for about 7-8 years on and off...Unfuckingbelieveable...Damn! There really is a certain kind of arrogance and entitlement that the 'ruling class' has in this respect...And it's all public now... And that arrogance and entitlement says: "You don't matter; while others do..." THEREFORE; IT'S HIGH TIME TO #WALKAWAY!