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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: 8/27 /2018 Document dates: 8/08/2018 -8/15/2018 Set 1 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 701-32 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 3:25 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Pat Marriott <patmarriott@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 2:55 PM To:Council, City Subject:tonight's meeting: Ride Amigos Council Members: Are you seriously going to charge daily fees for people driving to work alone, the “stick” in the Fair Value Commuting project’s “carrot‐stick” program? How about if I have to stop and pick up my kids from school on the way home from work? How about if I have to go to the dentist/doctor on my way home? How about if I’m going to shop for groceries on my way home? How about if I work odd hours? How about if I have to work more than one job? This is going to punish a lot of people who can barely afford to live here. When is this intrusion into our lives going to end? It’s gone beyond the nanny state, with Sacramento telling us how high/how dense to build. Now you’re going to let the Feds punish us for driving alone. Just say NO to this intrusive program. Pat Marriott, Palo Alto property owner City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 3:25 PM 2 Carnahan, David From:Patty Irish <irishpw@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 3:10 PM To:Council, City Subject:Incentives for workers who car pool To All Palo Alto City Council members, I hope as you discuss incentives for workers who carpool to work you will remember that some workers have 2 jobs and must go from on to another. I live a Channing House on Webster Street and we so value workers who work for us. Many of them need more than on job to afford life in this area. I think this may be true for people who wait tables in downtown also. I think it is important as a City that we appreciate those workers and acknowledge how important that are for our well-being. So please craft a rewards system for a group of workers and at the same time acknowledge others who will need their cars to go to other jobs. Thank you for your consideration of this issue, Patty Irish -- Pat Irish 850 Webster St. #628 Palo Alto, CA 94301 650-324-7407 650-245-3906 cell R m m Virus-free. www.avast.com TO: FROM: DATE: CITY OF PALO ALTO HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL CITY MANAGER AUGUST 13, 2018 16 SUBJECT: AGENDA ITEM 16 • SUMMARY TITLE: TRANSPORTATION IMPACT FEE NEXUS STUDY AND FEE ADOPTION Action Item# 16 on Council's Agenda for August 13, 2018 is being deferred to a date uncertain in order to evaluate implications of Council action on July 30, 2018 regarding changes to the cap on Office/R&D Development. Deputy City Manager James Keene City Manager 1 of I . City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:45 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Yolanda Scheffold <yscheffold@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, August 08, 2018 7:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:Airplane Noise To My City Council Members, I'm writing to ask that you please add the issue of airplane noise to the August 13th City Council agenda. We have been suffering under an onslaught of airplane noise for many years now and something needs to change. There are days when we hear whining, roaring and rumbling over our house at a rate of one flight every 1.5 minutes, many of these planes flying under 5000 feet. Our once peaceful house is a place of stress simply due to this non-stop noise. We no longer sit in the backyard, it's simply not enjoyable. I understand there is a chance to influence SFO's new landing system. Please do whatever you can to help us enjoy our home and community once more. Sincerely, Yolanda Scheffold 642 Maybell Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:12 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Wayne Smith <wesmith1@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, August 09, 2018 12:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:Airplane noise and 8/13/18 City Council agenda Hi, I have been deeply impacted by the increase in jet noise since the introduction of NextGen by the FAA. We need to do everything we can to fix this untenable situation. I urge you to add the issue of communicating the city's position on GBAS to SFO to the agenda for next week. Sincerely, --Wayne Smith 3323 Bryant St. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:12 AM 2 Carnahan, David From:Holly Rubinstein <hmrubinstein@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, August 09, 2018 2:27 PM To:Council, City Subject:Airplane noise Dear Council Members, We write to encourage you to take timely action regarding SFO's future GBAS landing system to reduce airplane noise for many Bay Area residents. The SFO team made it clear that their #1 goal is to “Improve Noise Impact to the Community”. We understand it is critical that the City government communicates its position on the topic to SFO before they submit requests to the FAA at the end of December 2018 and we hope the Council will be proactive and communicate its position on GBAS to SFO at least a month before SFO submits their innovative approach requests to the FAA in December 2018. We hope that the City won’t miss this first opportunity to be proactive in influencing a design that could reduce noise for many Palo Alto residents, as well as, other residents in neighboring cities. The noise from overhead aircraft has caused us to move indoors when we should be able to enjoy our yard and awakened our grandchildren when they visited this summer. Thank you. Holly & Paul Rubinstein 458 Tennyson Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:12 AM 3 Carnahan, David From:Liz Dong <lizjdong@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, August 09, 2018 4:07 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: Please add airline noise on Aug 13 council meeting agenda My apologies, should be Aug 13. > On Aug 9, 2018, at 4:06 PM, Liz Dong <lizjdong@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Dear City Council Members, > > As a Palo Alto resident, my family has been disturbed by the increase in airline noise level in the past few years. It is time to show our city’s initiative and determination to solve this problem. Please add airplane noise resolution on the Aug 23 council meeting agenda. > > Sincerely, > Liz Dong City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:12 AM 4 Carnahan, David From:Robert Finn <bckp@stanford.edu> Sent:Thursday, August 09, 2018 4:51 PM To:Council, City Cc:Lydia Kou Subject:airplane noise To: PA City Council Please add this issue to the August 13, 2018 City Council agenda. Thank you, Robert Finn ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,, Palo Alto has a unique opportunity to influence SFO's future GBAS landing system to reduce airplane noise for many Bay Area residents. The SFO team made it clear that their #1 goal is to “Improve Noise Impact to the Community”. In this endeavor, we finally have a chance to be proactive and provide input on design that could potentially reduce noise for many residents, including but not limited to Palo Alto residents. However, the City of Palo Alto government must be proactive and it is critical that Palo Alto communicates its position on the topic to SFO before SFO submit requests to the FAA. SFO’s timeline to submit “innovative approach” requests to the FAA is during the 4th Quarter this year. “Innovative approaches” means any approaches that are different from today’s approaches. It encompasses things such as higher glide slopes, curved approaches, and different touch points on the runway. Therefore, it is critical that City government communicates its position on the topic to SFO before they submit requests to the FAA at the end of December 2018. At this time, Palo Alto does not have a seat at the SFO Roundtable, while I am assigned as a Council Liaison, I do not have a vote. The Santa Clara/Santa Cruz Counties Roundtable is not operational yet, therefore, Palo Alto does not have either channel to communicate the City’s needs and expectations to SFO. Palo Alto must be proactive and communicate its position on GBAS to SFO at least a month before SFO submits their innovative approach requests to the FAA in December 2018. We hope that the City won’t miss this first opportunity to be proactive in influencing a design that could reduce noise for many Palo Alto residents, as well as, other residents in neighboring cities. Please email City Council to add this to the August 13, 2018 City Council agenda. City.Council@cityofpaloalto.org ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,, City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 5:20 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Ng, Judy Sent:Thursday, August 09, 2018 5:19 PM To:Council Members; ORG - Clerk's Office; Council Agenda Email Cc:Keene, James; Shikada, Ed; De Geus, Robert; Flaherty, Michelle; Minor, Beth; Nose, Kiely; Narayan, Tarun; Ramberg, David; Eggleston, Brad; Bobel, Phil; Allen, James; Abendschein, Jonathan; Dailey, Karla Subject:8/13 Council Agenda Questions for Item 6, 7, & 9 Dear Mayor and Council Members: On behalf of City Manager Jim Keene, please find below in bold staff responses to inquiries made by Council Member Tanaka in regard to the August 13, 2018 council meeting agenda. Item 6: Establishing GO Bond Tax Levy – CM Tanaka Item 7: Wastewater Treatment Plant Alkalinity Chemical Blanket Purchase Order – CM Tanaka Item 9: Natural Gas Master Agreement with the City of Redding – CM Tanaka Item 6: Establishing GO Bond Tax Levy – CM Tanaka Q. 1. Why wasn’t this staff report presented to the Finance Committee for review and comment? A. 1. This report is a routine annual calculation that is required in accordance with the voter approved GO Bond property tax assessment. It is a technical calculation that is guided by the voter approved tax assessment and is time sensitive. Therefore, as it is a routine item that has already been approved by the voters, review by the City Council via consent calendar is most appropriate. In addition, the County of Santa Clara requires that the assessment rates and Council approved resolution be submitted in early August annually. The data to perform this calculation is not available until July, the FY 2019 assessed values (AV), and the City Council is on break until mid‐August. Therefore, there is insufficient time to take this to the Finance Committee first. If the City fails to meet the County’s deadline, then the GO assessment wouldn’t be placed on the County’s property tax bill resulting in implications of the City’s ability to continue to meet its debt obligation for this bond. Q. 2. If the assessment rate had gone up, not down, would Staff have put this decision before the Council via the Consent Calendar rather than using “proper order” of going thru the Finance Committee, then the Council? City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 5:20 PM 2 A. 2. As this is a normal course of business routine calculation required by a voter approved measure, it would continue to be scheduled for consideration via the Consent Calendar. In addition, due to the timelines outlined above, regardless of the movement in rate, seeking review and approval of this required calculation would be done via the Consent Calendar. Q. 3. Are there any “rules” concerning how financial matters are to be presented to the Council? A. 3. The role of the Council and Standing Committees, including the Finance Committee, are outlined in the City’s Municipal code. Q. 4. How will property owners be notified about this tax reduction? A. 4. This report is made publically available through the Council Agenda and the assessment will be reflected on the individual property tax bill. Item 7: Wastewater Treatment Plant Alkalinity Chemical Blanket Purchase Order – CM Tanaka Q. 1. Why does the increase in price per gallon of magnesium hydroxide go up more than the rate of inflation every fiscal year? A. 1. In the proposed contract, the price per gallon increases from one year to the next will not exceed the inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers in the San Francisco‐Oakland‐San Jose, CA (CPI‐U) will dictate the allowable increases in the 2nd and 3rd year of the Contract. With respect to the former Contract, increases were limited to 3%, an amount lower than the CPI‐U for FY2017 (3.5%) and FY2018 (3.9%). Item 9: Natural Gas Master Agreement with the City of Redding – CM Tanaka Q. 1. How much demand is there for natural gas in Palo Alto? A. 1. Annual demand is about 2,800,000 decatherms. Q. 2. How does Palo Alto know for certain that Redding has excess discounted gas available for sale to a qualified counterparty? A. 2. Palo Alto does not know for certain how much, if any, excess discounted gas Redding will have available to sell. Redding is currently analyzing their power generation needs. The agreement before Council will enable Palo Alto to purchase gas from Redding should an opportunity to purchase discounted gas from Redding arise. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 5:20 PM 3 Q. 3. If Palo Alto already has deals with six other counterparties, how vital is it to add Redding to the list? A. 3. No other Palo Alto counterparty has access to discounted gas. Redding, as a result of a gas prepay transaction, may have excess discounted gas to sell to Palo Alto. Q. 4. How much cheaper to buy from Redding than the current vendors we are using? A. 4. The agreement before Council will enable Palo Alto to purchase gas from Redding should an opportunity to purchase discounted gas from Redding arise. The terms of a potential future transaction have not been negotiated, but a discount in the range of $0.10 per decatherm is a reasonable assumption. Thank you, Judy Ng Judy Ng City Manager’s Office|Administrative Associate III 250 Hamilton Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301 Phone: (650) 329‐2105 Email: Judy.Ng@CityofPaloAlto.org City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 3:26 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Kerry Yarkin <kyarkin895@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 3:07 PM To:Council, City Subject:city attorney review Dear City Councilmembers: I noticed that you are doing an annual review of the City Attorney tonight. I feel that the issue of airplane noise has not been adequately supported or litigated by our city attorney. As you know 4 years ago, NextGen was implemented with Palo Alto becoming the Main Arrivals route for about 60per % of all arrivals into SFO. Two of you were running for Council at that time, and you could not speak over the noisy engines in my backyard. It was a MAJOR mistake that our City Attorney did not file an appeal the FAA’s NextGen flight system at that time. In April of this year, our City was noticed about a new route for SERFR3. This was a perfect opening to file an appeal and advocate for your citizens. Unfortunately, having a risk-averse City Attorney led to another missed opportunity. Other City Attorneys in Phoenix, Culver City, Burbank, State of Maryland are also having to deal with unbearable amounts of noise from NextGen, and their response has been to stand up for their citizens and advocate for different/disbursed airplane routes, and the inadequate public notice about the noise issues. I hope you can give our City Attorney notice that the status quo, in terms of not challenging the FAA, is not a good legal strategy for the City of Palo Alto. Please stand up for your citizens, and fight for our Quality of Life! Thank you for your consideration, Kerry Yarkin City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 9:03 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Stephen Chan <stephen.chan.paloalto@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, August 12, 2018 7:02 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: Raising several concerns regarding the Palo Alto Caltrain crossing grade separation plan For the Special City Council Rail Committee Meeting this week, I want to float this thought to the surface of the discussion. Moreover, I want to reiterate my support to the options that lower the train tracks such as trench or underground tunnel, which benefits the residents and eventually save more money in the long run! Regards, Steph On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 1:04 PM Stephen Chan <stephen.chan.paloalto@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Council Members, I am a resident living in Palo Alto. I am paying close attention to the grade separation plan at the Caltrain crossings and opinions from different sides. While there have been heated discussion around the impact of the plan on the Palo Alto residents, I am expressing several concerns that I am still hearing from residents living near the rails. My Stanford schoolmate previously shared some of these with the city planning and transportation departments, so forgive me if you have already seen this or similar concerns. I understand that different options have pros and cons, and I appreciate your patience in listening to different voices. However, there are still deep concerns or even anxiety that the requests from the residents nearby the rails may be sacrificed because they are minority compared to the majority of the people that do not live so close to trains. While being minority, the negative impact on these people nearby the rails are the most serious. For example, although the electrified trains may be quieter, the increased train frequency increases the noise pollution in another dimension, and the increased speed of the trains raises higher safety threat for the nearby residents (many houses are within 20 or even 10 meters from the rails). The grade separation plan should try to minimize these negative impacts or even potential dangers instead of increasing them. We hope that the safety and health of the residents along the rails to be considered as the highest tier factor in the decision making even if the voices from them may be minority compared to the rest. In regard to the financial budget consideration of the projects, while it may be reasonable to use budget as a reason to hold some of the options, it is not ok to use the budget to rank the options. These big construction projects were meant to improve the life of the people in the long term, which was one of the major justifications of starting these projects. Many residents along the rails will live beside the rails almost every day for tens of years. The temporary financial need should never be weighed above the longterm safety and health of these residents. Thank you in advance for listening to these voices which you may have heard from other people. I sincerely hope these concerns to be explicitly and properly addressed in the decision making. Best regards, Steph City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2018 6:43 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Kass <vz22@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 14, 2018 10:43 PM To:Council, City Subject:Community outreach scheduling Hi all, Have you read the proposed schedule for the Community Advisory Panel (CAP) meetings? The second meeting is proposed for Wed. Sept. 19, which is Yom Kippur, the most important Jewish holiday, a day usually spent in synagogue, fasting. "The group is anticipated to begin meeting in August, and would meet up to six times during the six-month process. Meetings will be held in the late afternoon/early evening and include these tentative dates: August 15, September 19, October 10, November 7 (others tbd)." https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/66293 Is it AECOM that is clueless or the city staff? I was unable to attend today's meeting so I don't know if anyone brought this to the project team's attention. Please ask the team to change the September date. Thanks for your consideration. Kathleen Goldfein Alma Street Palo Alto resident since 1989. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2018 6:43 AM 2 Carnahan, David From:Jim Silver <jsilver94306@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 14, 2018 9:28 PM To:Council, City Subject:Rail grade separation at Meadow and Charleston To the Council and Rail Subcommittee, I have read the written report describing in text how different options for achieving grade separations described below: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/66285 I would strongly recommend that the Council create drawings or sketches which would allow visualization of the different options, rather than only the written text which is difficult to follow and to understand. Between the two options discussed in this memo, I strongly prefer elevation of Meadow Drive and the lowering of the rail, as the elevated rail will create both noise and visual impacts. Thanks for your consideration, Jim Silver 45 Roosevelt Circle Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-856-0585 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2018 6:43 AM 3 Carnahan, David From:Stephen Chan <stephen.chan.paloalto@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 14, 2018 9:04 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: Raising several concerns regarding the Palo Alto Caltrain crossing grade separation plan I want to add one more point. Thinking about the possible launch of the high speed rail in Palo Alto in the future, it will be a disaster for the nearby residents if the train tracks are evaluated now. If we take shortcut to take the easy option to raise the train tracks, it can draw more and more complaints in the long run. Considering the safety, noise pollution, privacy issues that can be caused by the train track elevation, we risk redoing the whole grade separations eventually in the future, wasting more money. We should really envision the impact for the long term. Your consideration is highly appreciated! Steph On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 7:02 PM Stephen Chan <stephen.chan.paloalto@gmail.com> wrote: For the Special City Council Rail Committee Meeting this week, I want to float this thought to the surface of the discussion. Moreover, I want to reiterate my support to the options that lower the train tracks such as trench or underground tunnel, which benefits the residents and eventually save more money in the long run! Regards, Steph On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 1:04 PM Stephen Chan <stephen.chan.paloalto@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Council Members, I am a resident living in Palo Alto. I am paying close attention to the grade separation plan at the Caltrain crossings and opinions from different sides. While there have been heated discussion around the impact of the plan on the Palo Alto residents, I am expressing several concerns that I am still hearing from residents living near the rails. My Stanford schoolmate previously shared some of these with the city planning and transportation departments, so forgive me if you have already seen this or similar concerns. I understand that different options have pros and cons, and I appreciate your patience in listening to different voices. However, there are still deep concerns or even anxiety that the requests from the residents nearby the rails may be sacrificed because they are minority compared to the majority of the people that do not live so close to trains. While being minority, the negative impact on these people nearby the rails are the most serious. For example, although the electrified trains may be quieter, the increased train frequency increases the noise pollution in another dimension, and the increased speed of the trains raises higher safety threat for the nearby residents (many houses are within 20 or even 10 meters from the rails). The grade separation plan should try to minimize these negative impacts or even potential dangers instead of increasing them. We hope that the safety and health of the residents along the rails to be considered as the highest tier factor in the decision making even if the voices from them may be minority compared to the rest. In regard to the financial budget consideration of the projects, while it may be reasonable to use budget as a reason to hold some of the options, it is not ok to use the budget to rank the options. These big construction projects were meant to improve the life of the people in the long term, which was one of the major justifications of starting these projects. Many residents along the rails will live beside the rails almost every day for tens of years. The temporary financial need should never be weighed above the longterm safety and health of these residents. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2018 6:43 AM 4 Thank you in advance for listening to these voices which you may have heard from other people. I sincerely hope these concerns to be explicitly and properly addressed in the decision making. Best regards, Steph City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 9:06 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Michael Harbour <dr.mharbour@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, August 12, 2018 8:21 PM To:Council, City Cc:Architectural Review Board Subject:Appeal of Nobu Project by Elizabeth Wong and Yo, LLC Dear City Council Members, I encourage the city to uphold the ARB and Department of Planning and Community Environment's approval of the Nobu remodel and restaurant expansion. As a downtown commercial property owner, I fully support this project. Wong's appeal is laughable and hypocritical given her own response to the appeal that was launched against her still yet-to-be started project at 429 University Avenue. As you will recall, others and I appealed her project on numerous grounds including multiple violations of municipal code, comprehensive plan guidelines, and downtown design guidelines. The ARB and Historical Resources Board also voted against the project. Ultimately her mammoth 4 story project was narrowly approved by the city council on February 6, 2017 despite these issues due to fear of litigation. Her project will result in almost a 20% reduction in existing retail space. Furthermore, her non-compliant project was approved using Transfer Development Rights (TDRs) which were inappropriately granted and would never be granted if sought today. As a result, her project was significantly under parked by an estimated 9 spaces. At the time she said she had the right to do this because she paid in lieu parking fees. Again, the fact that she is using this argument is laughable for an another applicant trying to use in lieu payment for just 3 spaces. This attempt by Wong is retribution for the previous appeal. She should be grateful that her ill-suited project was (barely) given the given the green light. She was recently granted a one-year extension for her 429 University Ave project in February 2018 by the building department, and now her plans are being reviewed for additional non-compatible design changes by the ARB this Thursday August 16. Please do not fall for her disingenuous concern about in lieu fees for parking. Sincerely, Michael Harbour, MD, MPH Commercial property owner: 421 and 423 Kipling Street Downtown North resident: 480 Palo Alto Ave City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2018 11:26 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Nadia Naik <nadianaik@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, August 15, 2018 8:15 AM To:Council, City Cc:De Geus, Robert; Keene, James; Mello, Joshuah; Shikada, Ed Subject:Caltrain 2011 Engineering Standards under revision and unavailable FYI As you can see, the standards for CalTrain are changing and are estimated to be completed by December 2018. These standards form the basis of assumptions of AECOM’s work. Palo Alto should consider actively lobbying CalTrain for standards that would offer more design flexibility and, thus, possibly other alternatives. Nadia Naik ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Adrian Brandt <adrian.brandt@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:12 PM Subject: Fwd: Caltrain 2011 Engineering Standards under revision and unavailable Caltrain's response, FYI ... ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Peters, Scott <peterss@samtrans.com> Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 15:00 Subject: RE: Caltrain 2011 Engineering Standards under revision and unavailable To: Adrian Brandt <adrian.brandt@gmail.com>, Engineering Standards <engineeringstandards@samtrans.com> Hello Adrian, Following is a link to the Caltrain Engineering Standards. I left you a voice message and as I mentioned, we restricted access to the standards so people are aware the standards will be updated and should keep that in mind before relying on them for detailed planning and design projects. The time frame for the standards update is about six months and once the new standards are uploaded to the Caltrain website the access restriction will be removed. http://www.caltrain.com/about/doingbusiness/engineering/engineeringstandards/engineeringstandards2011.html City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/15/2018 11:26 AM Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions. Scott Peters Manager, Standards & Procedures Caltrain 1250 San Carlos Avenue San Carlos, CA 94070 650.508. 7797 From: Adrian Brandt [mailto:adrian.brandt@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 2:30 PM To: Engineering Standards Subject: Caltrain 2011 Engineering Standards under revision and unavailable Hello, Regarding http://www.caltrain.com/about/ doing business/ engineering/ engineeringstandards.html > caltrain.com > About Caltrain > Doing Business > Engineering & Construction > Engineering Standards Engineering Standards IMPORTANT: The Engineering Standards (Design Criteria, Standard Drawings and Standard Specifications) are currently being updated. 2 City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/15/2018 11:26 AM If access is needed to the 2011 Standards, please email Caltrain Engineering at engineeringstandards@samtrans.com and include why the Standards are required and your contact information. Good to see the 2011 engineering/design standards are being updated. I am hoping the maximum allowable grades (and grade exception procedures) will be updated and more flexible. I frequently access and reference these to check whether various grade separation alternative design proposals are compliant with them, and therefore reasonably feasible from that perspective. I have been infonnally working with a group of cunent and fo1mer Menlo Park officials on various designs for grade separating the crossings in that city. I use the engineering standards and right-of-way maps to check track geometiy , dimensions, grades, ve1iical curves, station & platfo1m design dimensions, etc. for feasibility, etc. Please advise how (or where) I can continue to access the 2011 standards while they are being updated. I am happy to download and store them locally from a dropbox, Google Drive or similar. Why not continue making them available with a disclaimer/caveat that they are being updated until the updates are ready? When do you anticipate the updates will be available for publication? Thanks and kind regards, Adrian Brandt adrian. brandt@gmail.com 650.395.7780 3 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2018 11:27 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Keene, James Sent:Wednesday, August 15, 2018 8:22 AM To:vz22@yahoo.com Cc:Council, City; De Geus, Robert; Keith, Claudia; Minor, Beth; Shikada, Ed Subject:CAP Meeting Schedule Ms. Goldfein, Thank you for your email to City Council. Our apologies for the confusion over the CAP meeting schedule. The date for the September meeting is September 17. Our staff had realized earlier of the conflict with Yom Kippur and had reset the scheduled date. We did not update the website information soon enough. Our staff removed the erroneous webpage yesterday. We do not yet have the location for the September 17 meeting but it will be held 4‐6 pm. Jim From: Kass <vz22@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 10:42 PM To: Council, City Subject: Community outreach scheduling Hi all, Have you read the proposed schedule for the Community Advisory Panel (CAP) meetings? The second meeting is proposed for Wed. Sept. 19, which is Yom Kippur, the most important Jewish holiday, a day usually spent in synagogue, fasting. "The group is anticipated to begin meeting in August, and would meet up to six times during the six-month process. Meetings will be held in the late afternoon/early evening and include these tentative dates: August 15, September 19, October 10, November 7 (others tbd)." https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/66293 Is it AECOM that is clueless or the city staff? I was unable to attend today's meeting so I don't know if anyone brought this to the project team's attention. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2018 11:27 AM 2 Please ask the team to change the September date. Thanks for your consideration. Kathleen Goldfein Alma Street Palo Alto resident since 1989. James Keene | City Manager 250 Hamilton Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301 James.Keene@CityofPaloAlto.org Please think of the environment before printing this email –Thank you! City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:21 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Diane Gleason <gleasondiane@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, August 10, 2018 9:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:concern about bulbouts and bicyclists Dear Palo Alto City Council members, I no longer live in Palo Alto, but I do work in Palo Alto, and I try to commute via bicycle at least twice a week. My parents still live in Palo Alto, so I frequently have reasons to bike in several parts of the city. I like bicycling on Bryant, because there is little reason for people to be driving cars along it unless they live on Bryant. I really like the bicycle/ped road along the west side of the train tracks in the north half of the city. I really dislike the new Ross Road configuration, and will now avoid this road because it is just too scary with the bulbouts and roundabout. Unlike Bryant, Ross will get more car traffic because of the Y, and that will continue. But now bicycles are forced into the car traffic. You have probably already seen this link: https://stoprossroadchanges.wordpress.com/ For myself, the most important part of this link is the video showing the elementary school aged child having to slow her bike because a bulbout blocks the bike way, and risking that the car actually lets her in. The bulbout needs to have a bike lane cut through it, so that bikes don't have to stop and squeeze between cars. Yes the bulbouts and roundabout slow cars down, but I cannot see how forcing bikes and cars together makes the bikes safer. This project certainly does not force pedestrians and cars together; in fact this project aims to separate pedestrians further from cars. It seems that people understand that pedestrians and cars don't mix, hence sidewalks and bulbouts, etc. But now put a pedestrian on a narrow contraption we call a bicycle, and for some reason it seems reasonable and safe to now mix that person with cars. I am worried about the bulbouts planned on Arastradero near Terman and Gunn. Will these also force bicycles closer to cars? Again, we aim to keep pedestrians separated from cars because we seem to really understand that a pedestrian has no chance against a car; and, again, we don't seem to understand that a bicyclist also has no chance against a car, but we keep forcing them together. Please explain the safety logic here. Sincerely, Diane Gleason City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:21 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:E Nigenda <enigenda1@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, August 10, 2018 4:30 PM To:Mello, Joshuah; Council, City Subject:"Considering Ways to Prevent America's Deadliest Type of Bike Crash" "Schultheiss said that research has consistently shown since the 1970s that both bicyclists and motorists prefer separation between them, that bike lanes are safer than shared lanes, and that bicyclist crash risks increases when cyclists are riding in the opposite direction of traffic." Considering Ways to Prevent America's Deadliest Type of Bike Crash City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:10 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Tony Ciampi <T.Ciampi@hotmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 3:23 PM To:Binder, Andrew; Keene, James; Council, City; HRC; Stump, Molly Cc:nathan_barankin@harris.senate.gov; Clint_Odom@harris.senate.gov; Lily_Adams@harris.senate.gov; bharat_ramamurti@warren.senate.gov; elizabeth_warren@warren.senate.gov; Dan_Geldon@warren.senate.gov; Stephanie_Akpa@warren.senate.gov; blanca.jimenez@mail.house.gov Subject:Cpt. Binder sending misleading and deceptive emails Andrew Binder Police Captain Palo Alto, Mr. Binder Officer Conde did not "contact" me as you stated in your email. Officer Conde turned on his lights and detained me for violating a non‐existent vehicle code. Stating that Ofc. Conde "contacted" me is misleading, deceptive and false. You email me back and state unequivocally that Ofc. Conde "detained" me under "color of law." If you cannot state that to me in an email than you are lying and deceiving the public regarding the incident and therefore I would have no reason to speak to you. If you do the above than perhaps we will talk, but until then I have to assume that you are trying to cover up the anti‐Constitutional actions of Ofc. Conde. https://legal‐dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Color+of+Law https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation‐rights‐under‐color‐law Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law | CRT ... www.justice.gov Summary: Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:10 PM 2 VIA ELECTRONIC AND U.S. MAU, Sherif:fLemy D. Bucu Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 4700 Ramona Boulevard Monterey Park, CA 91754 U.S. Departmen t of J ustice Civil Rights Division Assi.J.fantAllornq Gtrvral 9.10 P~1u11yhanta Avt.. NW -RFX IYnshingto"' DC W5JO JUN 2 8 2013 RE: Investigation of Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Stations in Antelope Valley Dear Sheriff Baca: The Civil Rights Division bas concluded its investigation of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (L~S9) rcgardi1~g allcgations-ef'unco11stin11ional conduct by deputies at two stations located in the Antelope Valley cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, California LASO pledged complete cooperation throughout the investigation, and began wldng immediate steps to proactivel y fix the deficiencies identified in the invt::;tigution. Since the cone! usion of the investigation, r .ASD has additionally memorialized its commitment to implement further reform efforts by entering into u Statement oflntcnt, which broadly outlines remedies that will be negotiated in a fi ua! Settlement Agreement. ---Mic found that LASD's Antelope Valley Rlalions lluve engaged m 11 puttern or pructice..f!f iscriminatory and otherwise UJ1luwful searches-and seizures, including lbe use of unreasonable foroe, in viohttion of the Fourth Arnendmeat, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Title VI. We found also that deputieS'llssigned to thesecstations have engaged in a pan em-or, J>raetice-of Cliscrimination against fricau Amcric · violation of the Fair Housing Act The LASO policic::s we reviewed wel'e, for the most purt, consistenLwith constitutional ~licing. Heweo;er, our investig.!'tion sbo\':'.¢ thaflliese policies are not consistellti}'. followed, d that some types of policy violations arc routinely tolerated. This tolerance for misconduct occurs in part oecause tfie accountal5ilitymeasures t:ASD bas i.n place are not effectively implemented in the Antelope Valley. We fouod that LASD must do more to ensure tha~deputies adhere lo policies, umUhut supervisorn und comnumders provide appropriate redirection'!, guidance, and accountability when errant conduct occurs. City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/14/2018 2:10 PM https://www. justice .gov I sites/ default/files/ crt/legacy/2013 /06/28/ ante lope findings 6-28-13. pdf ~ City of Palo Alto, CA -New... X + + Q) Q nttps://www.cityofpaloalto.org/ne:ws/displaynews.asp?Ne:wsl0=4079 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "" ABCmouse.com Early ... r.iL'! Library -City of Palo A ... truly care about and want to serve this city with professio Prior to coming to Menlo Park, Jon sen serve m increasi California. From 2011 to 2013 Jonsen was Captain/Chie was responsible for police operations for a geographical < During his tenure in this position. the overall crime rate d1 by 23 percent. Fcom 2008 to 2011 . Jonsen served as coo (AVCFI) focused on reducing violent crimes over a 1,370 From 2005 to 2008, Jansen was a Lieutenant at he Pal personnel and a $20 million budget. He also served as l/'v violence reduction; as a Lieutenant at the North County C Sergeant in the Administrative Services Division. Jansen Regional Community Policing Institute, a six-county fe-Oe he developed domestic violence training programs, ethics https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewslD=4079 City of Pa lo Alto, CA -News Detail s www.cityofpaloalto.org Robert A. Jonsen, who currently serves as the Menlo Park Chief of Police, has been selected by City Manager James Keene as the next Chief of Police for the City of Palo Alto. Following Council confirmation on Dec. 11 and the finalization of public safety background requirements, Jonsen is expected ... 3 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:10 PM 4 Tony Ciampi City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:12 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Francesca <dfkautz@pacbell.net> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 10:02 PM To:Council, City Cc:Clerk, City; City Mgr; UTL-Customer Service Subject:Electric Underground Conversion Projects Dear City Council, The City’s Electric Capital Improvement Program Map for 2019‐2023 is heavily weighted to residential neighborhoods in North Palo Alto. Very little under grounding is taking place south of Oregon Expressway. This does not seem fair at all and I would hope that in the next 5‐year planning horizon, the City would put more emphasis in under grounding residential neighborhoods south of Oregon Expressway. The distribution of under grounding utilities should be fair and equitable and not mostly in North Palo Alto. I hope that city council members are not putting their own neighborhoods first, while the rest of us have to wait in excess of 50 years. We all live in Palo Alto and we would all like to see underground utilities before we die. Thank you, Francesca Kautz City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:56 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, August 12, 2018 12:50 AM To:dcbertini@menlopark.org; apardini@cityofepa.org; Jonsen, Robert; HRC; Council, City; stevendlee@alumni.duke.edu; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; jrosen@da.sccgov.org; David Angel; gkirby@redwoodcity.org; council@redwoodcity.org; mdiaz@redwoodcity.org; Keene, James; Kniss, Liz (internal); myraw@smcba.org; chuckjagoda1@gmail.com; Stump, Molly; molly.o'neal@pdo.sccgov.org; Perron, Zachary; dryan@scscourt.org; sscott@scscourt.org; jsylva@scscourt.org; mharris@scscourt.org; bwalsh@scscourt.org; aflint@scscourt.org; citycouncil@menlopark.org; Binder, Andrew; Van Der Zwaag, Minka; Constantino, Mary; dprice@padailypost.com; Cullen, Charles; fred124c41 @gmail.com; ibain@redwoodcity.org; stephanie@dslextreme.com; Kilpatrick, Brad; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; Lee, Craig; Kan, Michael; Zelkha, Mila; allison@padailypost.com; jalcaraz@cityofepa.com Subject:Former prosecutor now leads Ohio innocence project ...an eye opener https://www.salon.com/2017/09/24/mark-godsey-is-an-american-superhero-he-gets-innocent-people-out-of- prison/ Shared via the Google app Sent from my iPhone City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2018 7:26 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Iz Apellido <iastudilloi@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, August 15, 2018 6:55 AM To:Council, City Subject:fundraiser house event if we are throwing an upscale gathering at a private residence for a fundraiser and asking our guests for an entry fee to cover costs, what permits and fees do we have to pay. We would like to have this fundraiser once a month and we would like to offer alcohol and snacks inside. we understand a cover fee constitutes a sale of alcohol if alcohol is provided inside, so we would like to cover all our bases. only adults 21 and over would attend but this would also be open to the public (21+) Sent from my iPhone City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:13 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Tuesday, August 14, 2018 11:09 AM To:Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; David Balakian; Dan Richard; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; newsdesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; Mark Standriff; Mayor; paul.caprioglio; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; beachrides; Steve Wayte; terry; Council, City Subject:Fwd: Prop 13 assault on Nov. ballot? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:50 AM Subject: Prop 13 assault on Nov. ballot? To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Wed. 8-14-18 To all- Another assault on Prop. 13. Some of the comments are interesting. Calif. has the second highest avg. teacher salaries in the U.S. Only NY pays them more. https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/13/property-tax-overhaul-backers-of-initiative-deliver- signatures-for-californias-2020-ballot/ And we do pay to educate many illegals in Calif. Hillary, Obama bleeding hearts. Those poor people. They CAN'T stay in their own terrible countries. What happens there is all our fault, so we owe them a life in the U.S. Our bloated government. Yesterday Trump signed a Defense bill of $716 billion or something and crowed that it is the highest ever. It will for sure enrich his pals in the defense industry, as we add $5 trillion to our nat. debt just with the tax cut, I think. MORE is the cry from gov'mt, as Reagan always called it. So now Brand and Parks Fresno or whatever wants a further hike in our already outrageous sales tax in Fresno. Brand is just filthy rich. SO, I suggest we tweak the State income tax schedule to tax a little harder incomes over $300,000. That would catch Brand and his pals. We could earmark that money to address the extreme crisis in our city parks. They get a $1.5 trillion tax cut and celebrate by kicking those least able to pay with yet another sales tax hike in Fresno. This is really what they are doing. "Let's celebrate our huge cut in our federal taxes by screwing those least able to pay with a hike in the sales tax". I am less amused by Brand as time goes by. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:13 PM 2 Spread the word: Vote NO on a sales tax hike here in Nov. and vote NO on any change in Prop. 13. We need to hand these bums a solid defeat. Let's put measure on the ballot that would cut Fresno's sales tax by 2%. Don't you love the big school bonds that go on your residential property tax. "We have 10 and 8 year olds. Let's build a big, new H.S. with the best of everything where they can go and our neighbors can pay for it". And you thought your neighbors were all nice, reasonable people. A lot of these people deserve a royal screwing back, so look for every opportunity to do that, all nice and legal, of course. L. William Harding Fresno City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:14 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Eileen Skrabutenas <eileenskrabutenas@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, August 09, 2018 8:52 PM To:PWD Cc:Council, City Subject:Fwd: Public works project This sign and others showed up on the 1000 block of Hamilton Avenue today (8/9/2018) after 5 pm. Look carefully at the date which says 8-6 to 8/10. No previous warning was mailed to residents that street parking would be eliminated. WHY? I’ve had to contact two contractors in the last hour to let them know that they will not be able to park tomorrow. Seriously, this is incompetence on the part of someone - but since the city and public works has apparently subcontracted this work out, the responsibilty rests with the city for not properly overseeing their subcontractors. Eileen Skrabutenas 1044 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Begin forwarded message: From: Eileen Skrabutenas <eileenskrabutenas@gmail.com> Subject: Public works project Date: August 9, 2018 at 8:24:14 PM PDT To: Eileen Skrabutenas <eileenskrabutenas@gmail.com> City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:45 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Wednesday, August 08, 2018 2:44 PM To:Loran Harding; dennisbalakian; David Balakian; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; Mayor; Mark Standriff; midge@thebarretts.com; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; scott.mozier; mmt4@pge.com; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; paul.caprioglio; huidentalsanmateo; diffenbaugh@stanford.edu; Chris Field; hennessy; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; Joel Stiner; robert.andersen; blackstone@blastfitness.com; Leodies Buchanan; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Raymond Rivas; francis.collins@nih.gov; bballpod; popoff; steve.hogg; info@superide1.com; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kclark; newsdesk; leager; lawrence.ingrassia@latimes.com; nick yovino; pavenjitdhillon@yahoo.com; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; Mark Waldrep; yicui@stanford.edu Subject:Fwd: Temperance Flat Dam- Never Give Up! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:00 PM Subject: Fwd: Temperance Flat Dam- Never Give Up! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 2:22 PM Subject: Fwd: Temperance Flat Dam- Never Give Up! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 10:46 PM Subject: Fwd: Temperance Flat Dam- Never Give Up! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 6:59 PM Subject: Re: Temperance Flat Dam- Never Give Up! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:45 AM 2 On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 2:29 PM Subject: Fwd: Temperance Flat Dam- Never Give Up! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018 Mr. Doug Vagim Fresno, Ca. Doug- Hard core developer types and their pals in government will not give up on Temperance Flat Dam on the San Joaquin River above Friant Dam, all of it above Fresno, Ca., even though it has been killed by State water officials. Maybe they can build it themselves by hand on Saturdays. https://www.sierrastar.com/news/local/article215501560.html?utm_source=Morning+Roundup&utm_cam paign=a813e898b3- EMAIL CAMPAIGN 2018 07 27 03 16&utm medium=email&utm term=0 165ffe36b2-a813e898b3- 78450701&mc cid=a813e898b3&mc eid=7afa3a94f3 This is interesting too. Now that TF Dam has been killed, let it go and come up with some ideas that can garner state-wide support, this says: https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/marek-warszawski/article210649724.html I have sent, over and over, the article from Stanford about Managed Aquifer Recharge, MAR. I wish that the decision-makers re CV water would evaluate that and say why it is a bad idea. It looks good to me, but that article that Stanford issued about it was rather skimpy (see it below). Why is it nonsense to channel water in a wet year out into the CV and let it perc into our depleted aquifer in purpose-built facilities? Farmers will not like the idea of taking land out of production to get the space for the recharge facilities, but they would be compensated for lost production and LOOK WHAT HAPPENS NOW wrt water in drought years: We cut water allocations to 5% of normal, or to zero, for the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. If MAR would allow those farmers to have near-normal water supplies instead due to a recharged aquifer, I think they would be in favor of it once they understood it and had a lot to do with formulating it. Here is the MAR plan, again: https://news.stanford.edu/2016/07/21/cost-effective-path-drought-resiliency/ Let's say, for example, that we want to impound one million acre feet (1 MAF) of water in the MAR recharge facilities. I chose that number because it is close to the 1.3 MAF capacity of TD. If we built berms 10 feet tall around each piece of land we use for that, and we made the facilities cover 1,000 acres each, we'd need 100 of those in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. (10,000 acre feet per facility X 100 facilities). We would be taking 100,000 acres out of production, at least in very wet years. The Central Valley (Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys) covers 15 million acres, making it one of the largest valleys on earth. 100,000 acres City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:45 AM 3 is 0.6% of 15 million acres, so less than one percent, admittedly not counting cities, roads, etc. But to build such a project would be a large undertaking. You would be building berms 10 feet tall around one thousand acres of land and doing that in 100 places, or some distribution of smaller facilities. I have heard that grape vines can survive for months in standing water, so perhaps that is a crop suited for percing ponds to be used in very wet years, the last ones you would flood. Water percing into the aquifer is so valuable, that in an unexpectedly wet year, you might sacrifice crops growing on the land earmarked for percing in very wet years. But if you build TF Dam, you have sunk a lot of money into it no matter how often you need it to impound water in a wet year. And it seems to be tempting fate to put 1.3 MAF of additional water just upstream from Fresno with 530,000 people here now and more to come! That is what Temperance Flat Dam would do. The people proposing that should explain why it is a better plan than the MAR plan. What is wrong with MAR? It would be vastly safer, I think, and cost a lot less money, the Stanford report contends, than TF Dam would cost. I have never heard of any comment from State water officials re the MAR plan. It's as if it was never proposed. They should comment upon it even though the authors of the plan talk about it being an option for local water districts. LOCAL. "It provides local storage options to a greater extent than large surface water reservoirs, often managed by state and federal entities". From the Stanford article re MAR: " Treated wastewater and urban storm water offer sources for MAR that aren't fully utilized by centralized surface water infrastructure". "2015's Prop 1 provides $7.5 billion, $3 billion of it for water storage projects". "The 2014 SGMA puts the burden on local agencies for sustainably managing groundwater. MAR allows agencies to do that in ways tailored to a community's resources". "It is likely that more water agencies will adopt MAR as a local management tool". BTW, for some reason, virtually no human habitation has ever developed just downstream on the Colorado R. below Hoover Dam Take a look at Google Maps to see that. Also, NOT so BTW, look at the article above from the Fresno Bee with the photo of Mayor Brand et.al. at the bottom of it. Look at the third paragraph up from the photo. It mentions that Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam keeps dropping because of not enough snow falling in the Rockies. About five years ago, Professor Noah Diffenbaugh at Stanford forecast that ~2070 we will be getting less snowpack in the high Sierra due to climate change. What water falls there as rain will run off sooner meaning less water flowing out of the Sierra during the growing season. To see how that would work, imagine the extreme of it: NO snowpack anywhere in the Sierra- All rain rushes down immediately. So apply Temperance Flat Dam v. the MAR plan to that scenario. Which would be better in that case? TF Dam would perhaps be overtopped in very wet winters and we'd still lose huge amounts of water to the ocean, as happened in winter 2017. That is an important question: Would TF Dam with a capacity of 1.3 MAF ever be overtopped with NO snowpack in the Sierras and all of the moisture there falling as rain? With the MAR plan, we could channel the brief but substantial flood out into the percing ponds, but they too could be inadequate to hold all of the water increasingly arriving at the valley floor in a span of two or three months. We could not raise the height of TF Dam infinitely as we got less snowpack and earlier run-off, if it were being overtopped in wet years, but maybe, alternatively, we could expand the MAR City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:45 AM 4 percing ponds if we built them instead of TF Dam. That seems like an easier engineering challenge than raising TF Dam over and over. I am just pointing out that what has befallen the Rockies snowpack is forecast to happen to the Sierra snowpack- less snowpack, and earlier run-off. In fact, the Rockies are apparently getting less total moisture as snow and snowpack and rain as time goes by. Professor Diffenbaugh seemed to say that that is what is coming to the Sierra. Check with him because I in no way speak for him. If so, it is really bad news for 2070. So to be fair, a vital question is this: How much water overtopped Friant Dam in the winter of 2017, the big, wet winter, and flowed to the ocean down the San Joaquin River? It is a known quantity. If it was less than 1.3 MAF, then TF Dam would have saved all of it. If it would have done that, it would do so too in future wet winters, assuming that the snowpack melts at the same leisurely rate that it does now, and we know that it won't. So that will be the trend, Prof. Diffenbaugh seems to be saying: less moisture in the high Sierra as years go by, and earlier melting of what does fall there. Those are excellent reasons to stop the loss of trillions of gallons of Sierra run-off flowing past Fresno and other CV cities and out to sea in a wet year and great reasons to put that water into our aquifer. Water can stay in an aquifer for a LONG time, thousands of years, apparently. And, of course, it does not evaporate from an aquifer. We need to get going recharging the aquifer in the CV as soon as possible. Notice that the local Central Valley zealots pulling for Temperance Flat Dam never mention what has befallen the snowpack in the Rockies, the impact on Lake Mead, and the fact that that is going to befall the Sierra, and probably already is. "We local politicians in Fresno know better". They do not, and they don't come off well claiming that they do. This whole thing is a question for the experts, not local politicians helping the developers. Experts relying on science have killed TF Dam. I don't know if they even considered the forecast reduction of snowpack in the Sierra and earlier melting of what we get there, the "jamming" of a year's water coming out in a short span. If they did consider it, it may have been one more nail in the coffin of TF Dam. Again, how much water overtopped Friant Dam in the wet winter of 2017, and flowed to the ocean? If it was a lot more than 1.3 MAF, TF Dam would not have saved all of it. The MAR plan, properly implemented, maybe could have. Here is what may seem a radical suggestion: We might be smart to significantly reduce crop production in the Central Valley in a very wet winter if the MAR facilities can put all of the water coming out of the Sierra in such a winter into our aquifer. Water can stay there for centuries, and we are going to need it. That is, reduce or even sacrifice crop production in the areas designated for some of the MAR impounds, the last ones you would flood in very wet years. I have noticed that people can be contentious, even in the Central Valley of California. It would take a big educational effort to convince hundreds of farmers to allow MAR facilities to be built on their land. These almost certainly would not be 1,000 acre plots with 10 foot berms around them in 100 places. Computer maps could identify marginal land without roads running through them or natural gas or other pipelines running under them where we could least disruptively squeeze in the MAR facilities. Subsurface composition would have to be considered. You don't build a percing facility where there is a layer of clay above the aquifer. Again, the plan can be flexible- this land gets Sierra run-off first in a normally wet year, and these areas get water put on them in wetter years, and these areas are used in a very wet year. Those last areas would probably be available for farming in most years. Check with the authors of the Stanford MAR report to see how all of this could be done. It would involve some purpose built facilities for percing, pipes and canals to convey the water out to them, and a LOT of convincing and organizing. But I think it is a good idea. Our CV aquifer has been severely depleted by over- City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:45 AM 5 pumping by Ag and by cities. Farmers on the west side drill wells 1500 feet deep in dry years trying to get water. A depleted aquifer leads to ground subsidence, 30 feet of it on the west side. The SGMA is going to seriously limit groundwater pumping, but if we start recharging the aquifer with water we currently send to the ocean, those limits can become less severe. Now an admission: On the first couple of readings of the Stanford report, I did not notice its strong focus on local water districts. MAR would be a way for them to sustainably manage groundwater, a requirement in the SGMA, it says. I have been thinking above about a big state program that would build MAR percing facilities all over the CV to put much of the water that currently flows to the sea from the Sierra into our vast aquifer. The aquifer runs from Redding to Bakersfield. Dozens of local water agencies CAN choose to incorporate MAR facilities into their GW management efforts, but will they? They are to quit pumping so much groundwater and use treated wastewater and urban runoff instead? I'd be surprised if the latter two offset much of their previous groundwater extraction. I think close monitoring of what they are doing, close monitoring of their water tables, and more will be required. We lost trillions of gallons of fresh water to the sea in 2016-17 and MAR, if implemented on a big scale, would prevent that. If we are not going to rely any more on big dams, such as TF, then we are going to have to institute something like MAR on a big scale, and I don't see how dozens of water agencies in California, acting on their own, are going to do that in a coordinated way. Would a lot of small power agencies in Tennessee have built TVA? I hope that the SGMA provides for lots of monitoring of what local water agencies are doing and lots of power for the State to step in and require action if what they are doing is inadequate to protect and replenish the aquifer. To be honest, I don't see how dozens of small water agencies are going to restore the aquifer acting independently. I suggest a big program of MAR percing facilities throughout the Central Valley. Canals and pipes to convey the water from the San Joaquin and other rivers out to these will be needed. Local water agencies and local governments can play a huge role by urging conservation, implementing treatment of wastewater and putting urban runoff into their MAR facilities. The California Department of Water Resources has a plan afoot to require more water from the San Joaquin River and its tributaries to the north of Fresno to reach the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to help the salmon and other fish, and less of that water to be available to agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley. The Delta salmon industry has influence in the legislature, of course. San Joaquin Valley Congressmen are ready to introduce bills to defeat this plan. This alternative use of river water is a long-standing controversy here. The new DWR plan seems fantastic to me, since 25% of the food consumed in the United States is produced in the Central Valley of California- in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. But, species protection has its place (Delta Smelt in the Delta), as do commercial interests of the salmon lobby. Just a couple of interesting points about this: From 2011 to 2016 California endured a severe drought. Not enough water came out of the Sierra for Ag,, cities and industry. Severe restrictions on Sierra water allocations were imposed on farms on the west side of the S.J. Valley. Farmers there drilled wells 1500 feet deep to get water. One effect of that is ground subsidence, well under way before the Delta-Mendota and California Aqueducts were built in the 50s and 60s. Huge unemployment in many west side towns during the drought resulted too. We already have salt water intrusion from San Francisco Bay (San Pablo Bay through the Carquinez Strait) into the Delta, and one video re California water shows huge amounts of fresh water being shot west into the Delta to try to hold it back. Big pumps near Tracy feed Delta water into the Delta-Mendota Canal (federal Central Valley Project) and into the California Aqueduct (State Water Project) to travel south down the west side of the SJ Valley. The State water official narrating that program says that sea level rise will make this salt water retarding effort in the Delta more and more difficult. Salt water will eventually overwhelm the Delta and we will lose it as a source of fresh water unless we build the Golden Gate Dam. 9,000 feet long and 250 feet City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:45 AM 6 tall and immediately west of the Golden Gate Bridge seems to me to be a likely design. When it is built, and it will be built, it will cost several billion dollars. What I find depressing is that hundreds of such projects will be required world-wide as sea levels rise. Many places cannot be saved from flooding even with such projects. Further complicating this problem will be the reduction in Sierra snowpack between now and 2070, forecast by Stanford's Professor Noah Diffenbaugh about five years ago. That has already befallen the Rockies. If he is right, we will have less and less water coming out of the Sierra to fight over in coming years. Then, in the winter of 2016-2017 the drought ended and, instead, we got a very wet winter. Because we had no way to capture and store the excess water, trillions of gallons of fresh Sierra water overtopped Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River and flowed to the Delta and out to sea. The cry intensified to build Temperance Flat Dam above Friant Dam on the S.J. River, but now, State water officials have killed that idea. So what do we build to capture precious fresh water in a wet winter? The MAR plan looks like a solution to me, but I do notthink leaving it to dozens of local water districts in the CV will work. It should be a State run project with substantial federal funding. Remember that 25% of the food consumed in the United States that is produced in the Central Valley of California? That justifies substantial federal funding. Trump wants to raise Defense spending from $700 billion, targeted, by another $14 billion! All to defend the entire world and guarantee the good life for the people of Europe, Korea and Japan, and a lot more. With implementation of the MAR plan on a big scale, we could prevent the loss of huge amounts of fresh Sierra water to the sea in wet years and put it into our vast aquifer instead. If we do, indeed, have to send more SJ River and Sacramento River water to the Delta, and less to cities and farms north and south of the Delta, the MAR project would enable us to build up a reserve in the aquifer. With less Sierra runoff as years go by, and with more water earmarked for the Delta to protect fish, and to hold back ever increasing salt water intrusion into the Delta due to sea level rise, I don't see how we can ignore the potential of the MAR project. One more tiny point as if all of the above isn't enough: Politicians in Fresno want to add 250,000 more people inside the City limits of Fresno by 2035 to further enrich the developers who own them. That is the 2035 General Plan Fresno adopted in 2015. And that won't be the end of it. We would go from the current 515,000 people here to ~760,000 in 2035. And the developers still will not be rich enough. So, we would add 250,000 more people inside Fresno every 20 years, forever. At that rate, we would add one million more people inside the current City limits of Fresno by the year 2100. Paul Ehrlich has called this "the Forbes magazine approach", i.e., no constraints. Lack of adequate water now, rising temperatures damaging crop production, rising sea levels salting up the Delta, less snowpack in the Sierra in future years forecast by Noah Diffenbaugh at Stanford, horrific wildfires every year now destroying homes and damaging human health, do not count as constraints, apparently. Local public officials will eventually by sued and then, if need be, prosecuted out of any such plan long before the year 2100. The experts are all liars. Climate change is a hoax, it is like 1948 and we will grow and grow without limit. The politicians spouting this stuff are looking more and more like buffoons. Now a fun little exercise for the big-gun experts in Civil Engineering, Geology and Seismology at Stanford and Cal. As sea levels continue to rise, the only way to save the Bay Area and the Delta will be to build the Golden Gate Dam. There will be a huge, multi-decade fight to stop it, with Governors probably recalled, endless litigation, people losing their seats in Congress and the legislature, but ultimately, it will be built. Where and how will be issues for the experts. Tour of the San Andreas: We do not know exactly where the 1906 SF earthquake had its epicenter. The San Andreas fault comes in under land at Cape Mendocino, runs south through Mendocino, Sonoma and Marin Counties (forming Tomales Bay in Marin), goes out under the ocean to about two miles west of the Golden City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:45 AM 7 Gate, comes back under land around Daly City, proceeds southbound down the Peninsula in the hills (forming Crystal Springs Reservoir west of San Mateo), runs just west of Stanford, just west of the west end of the Stanford Linear Accelerator, goes to Black Mountain (which absorbed some of the shock of the 1906 quake), proceeds on south near Mission San Juan Bautista and Hollister, runs south through the mountains on the west side of the Central Valley, (the dangerous Parkfield segment lies about 65 long miles SW of Fresno- a rare break for Fresno), through the Cholame, Carrizo Plain segments and the Big Bend Segment where it swings SE, runs through the San Gabriel Mountains, wraps around the City of San Bernardino on its NE, runs south from there and out under the Gulf of California. But where was the epicenter in 1906? The equipment they had then was not good enough to pinpoint it. It may have been on the part of the fault running under the ocean ~two miles west of the Golden Gate, it may have been near Daly City, or further south on the Peninsula. But the next big Bay Area quake on the San Andreas or ones after that could be two miles west of the Golden Gate, requiring a dam at the Gate to be resistant to a massive quake that close to it. SO, where do you site the Golden Gate Dam? They don't have a lot of leeway there. Oddly enough, it has to be at the Golden Gate. There is one interesting fact about that dam: Once built, and once there is a hundred feet or two hundred feet of sea water on its ocean side, it must not fail if it can possibly be built not to fail. If it fails, a wall of sea water that high will pour into San Francisco Bay and the Delta. The supply will be inexhaustible, merely the Pacific Ocean. Given that that would kill many thousands of people, the dam has to be sited and built not to fail from a quake on the San Andreas, the quake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, or from anything else, like the Tsunami resulting from the Cascadia Subduction Zone quake, coming around the year 2100. The BBC production "The Earth Under Water" shows dredges sucking up sand and piling it up across the Gate. Would that be good enough, since the dam must not fail? Maybe vast amounts of steel and concrete also have to go into it. The Golden Gate Bridge is 8,981 feet long and Hoover Dam is 1,244 feet wide, so the GG Dam will be far larger than Hoover Dam, at least wrt length. Regarding height, Hoover is 726 feet tall. The Golden Gate Dam need not be that tall, even to protect against sea level rise on an ice-free planet. The roadway on the Golden Gate Bridge is 220 feet above current mean high water. By some fantastic coincidence, an ice-free planet will raise global sea levels by 230 feet. We may have to build the Dam to be somewhat taller than the roadway of the Golden Gate Bridge, or be prepared to raise the height of the dam as sea level rise nears 200 feet. OTW, we could see the roadway of the Golden Gate Bridge awash with and then under ten feet of sea water. An ice-free planet will put the roadway of the Golden Gate Bridge under 10 feet of water, at a minimum. We'd better make the Golden Gate Dam 250 feet tall and build it on the west side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Here is the BBC's "The Earth Under Water". It shows the eventual need for the Golden Gate Dam and one way it could be built: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqdLD31FkW4 Oroville Dam is 770 feet tall, making Hoover, at 726 feet, number two in height in the U.S. Oroville is 6,920 feet in length, making it ~2,000 shorter in length than is the Golden Gate Bridge. So Oroville Dam is about 2,000 feet too short in length, but much taller than we will need the Golden Gate Dam to be. Can a dam across the Golden Gate about 9,000 feet long and 250 feet tall work? Something like it will have to work. BTW, when sea level rise reaches 200 feet, we will have lost most of Florida, Louisiana and its adjoining states, New York City, Washington, D.C., Boston, the eastern half of England, Paris, Berlin, the Netherlands, Denmark, Bangladesh, vast areas of Italy, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc.. This as we approach a human population of 15 or 18 or 30 billion people (?), many of them armed with nuclear weapons. Something very bad is going to happen on this planet over the next 300 years: Human population will soar and the seas City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:45 AM 8 will rise relentlessly, all to make money for the richest one percent. Professor Paul Ehrlich is vindicated, but then he knows that. Human-provoked global warming is already raising sea levels, but it may also be doing other things less anticipated. We now have 129 million dead trees in the Sierra. They are orange instead of green, so their presence is hard to deny. Warmer temperatures provoking a 4 or 5 year long drought and the Bark Beetle are thought to have killed them. The exact connection between warmer surface air temperatures and drought is not clear, but some climate experts think there is one. Warmer temperatures in the arctic may be shifting the jet stream, one report says. Dead trees burn great, as does dry ground cover, especially with high temperatures, low humidity and wind. One result is that I am looking out of my window right now at a very gray, smoky sky over Fresno, Ca. Particulate matter goes from the lungs into the bloodstream. From there, it goes to the brain, heart, liver, pancreas, etc. Some of the Republican liars who own the Fresno TV stations are saying it can cause "respiratory problems". Sunday night, August 5, 2018, Ch. 30's weatherman said we are still under an air quality alert in Fresno due to all the wildfires and said "try to stay indoors if you have respiratory issues" On Tues night, August 7, 2018, the anchor at Ch. 47 in Fresno, after hearing the weather report and the forecast of dense smoke in the CV, recommended that viewers "Protect their lungs". Last night the weatherman on a prominent local tv station in Fresno got a little more specific. He said that all of the smoke is bad for viewers with "respiratory issues, asthma and allergies". I guess the Republican station owners have consulted dubious medical authorities and have been told that that is the worst that can happen. It is not. Google it. Here is an article that says that cardiac problems are more of an issue than pulmonary problems when breathing wildfire smoke: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/10/408766/long-term-health-impacts-wildfire-smoke-may-include-cardiac-respiratory-effects The rich Republican who own the local TV stations in Fresno have their anchors and weather people talk about the impact of breathing wildfire smoke on the lungs. What is that about? These people are not doctors. Don't want to scare off the exploited, I guess. Bad health impacts are bad for business. It is pretty obvious that these on-air people are told what to say about the health impact of breathing wildfire smoke, and the station owners are trying to minimize the impacts. But Monday night, Aug. 6, during its 10 PM news, Fox Ch. 26 slipped and had a doctor on who said that breathing wildfire smoke does not stop with damaging the lungs. Even more dangerous are the cardio impacts. He said that breathing that can lead to a heart attack. He used the words "heart attack". This on Fox, surprisingly. The local station owners should stop hiding the truth on this issue and consult health authorities regarding the true health impacts, and then report that to the public. They are granted a license by the FCC to operate their stations in the public interest. The cardio impacts of breathing wildfire smoke for days or weeks on end is not controversial among health experts. Where is the CDC, the NIH and the U.S. Surgeon General in this? I call of these federal agencies to inform the public of the true dangers of breathing wildfire smoke. Millions of Californians, and others, are now exposed to this for months on end, and will, apparently, continue to be exposed to it. We need announcements from federal officials regarding the health impacts of breathing wildfire smoke. In the absence of those announcements, rich Republican TV stations owners are misleading the public about this, all to keep those they exploit here to be further exploited. Sen. Diane Feinstein should ask federal health experts, under oath, to detail the health impacts of breathing wildfire smoke, and then she should issue a statement detailing what she is told. During Australia's bad wildfires, they looked at emergency room visits to see if the number of cardiac arrest cases spiked. They did not, at least at the emergency rooms. So they looked at ambulance runs for cardiac arrest victims during the wildfires and there they saw the spike. These people were dying on the way to City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:45 AM 9 the emergency rooms. How long can California's Central Valley remain viable for human habitation if this continues every summer? We have a huge forest fire burning now in and around Redding, Ca., (145,000 acres), another that has been burning for weeks near and in Yosemite, the Ferguson fire (90,000 acres), another in Mendocino Co., (250,000 acres) and we had one a week ago in Riverside Co. Last summer was the same with thousands of homes lost in the wine country north of San Francisco Bay and another huge fire in Mariposa Co. Tonight, Aug. 5, 2018, the news reported that 18 big fires are burning in California. Other western states have huge forest fires burning too- 68 total in 12 states. Thank God that climate change is a hoax dreamed up at Stanford. See presentations by Stanford's Dr. Chris Field, a renowned expert on climate change. He has co-chaired the committee that issues the UN's report on climate change every ten years. Here's an idea. Maybe you anchor all of that steel in the Golden Gate Dam to the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge (laughter here possibly). It would be a fun exercise for the experts at Stanford and Cal to engage in. Their work would not go to waste, since the Golden Gate Dam will be built at some point. A one meter rise in the level of San Francisco Bay will do $100 billion of damage around the Bay, they said 10 years ago. A one meter rise will have dire consequences for the Delta as well. About the time that happens, they will start planning the Golden Gate Dam. L. William Harding, Stanford '64 Fresno, Ca., elevation ~310 feet in August, 2018. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:59 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:iasdesigns@aol.com Sent:Sunday, August 12, 2018 3:55 PM To:Council, City; DuBois, Tom; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Fine, Adrian; Holman, Karen; Kniss, Liz (internal); Kou, Lydia; Scharff, Gregory (internal); Tanaka, Greg; cory.walbach@cityofpaloalto.org; Lait, Jonathan; Cervantes, Yolanda Cc:forty_four_percent@googlegroups.com; hotel_president@googlegroups.com; iqbalserang@gmail.com; pemo@siliconvalleytv.co Subject:Hearing on Aug. 13, 2018. Urgency protections and Rescue from impeding evictions for the Hotel President Apartment Community? Hello Council Members & Planning Officials: I hope to spark your interest in helping the longstanding residents and renters at the Hotel President Apartments community. Please stand up and be counted in taking a leadership role in solving this "across the board" issue of "existing rental housing" which is affordable and very precious to our Palo Alto communities. It requires your attention in saving the lot of existing "workforce" compact rental housing in the downtown zones of Palo Alto and its CD districts. Palo Alto, is already struggling to meet its own standards of accommodations for its housing needs, which are not being met for years, thus exasperating this situation already. Is it time today, OR then When? To take action to protect and preserve all existing rental housing islands left functioning in this beautiful city? Are we not caught in a vicious catch-22 of Office development, and lack of housing already ? We the community, seem to be caught in this process of trying to get your attention to this compact rental housing cause, which has already been clearly established as a Palo Alto, and even the entire Bay Area cause for affordable rental housing. When can this residential community get some relief from " threats of impending Evictions" and voiding of "illegal leases?" When can this community ask for assistance from the City Council and its leadership for a "just and equitable" resolution to this exasperating condition facing its law abiding citizens? Please allow us the "peace of mind," and reprieve from these impending eviction threats, please provide us an extension for our lease to last for a minimum of one year, which is the minimum amount of time it would take the new developer to process their own new developmental proposals and plans to be realized. Can the City Council put a hold on any new development which threatens the existing Housing Thank you for your understanding and attention to this rental housing crises, this issue will not just go away, but instead will only get more exasperated in the future. pool, which can be deemed a treasure worth protecting, on economic and moral grounds? Sincerely, Iqbal Serang Hotel President Apartments 488 University Ave., #307, Palo Alto, Ca. 94301. (650) 906-7059. iasdesigns@aol.com City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:22 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, August 10, 2018 9:30 PM To:gkirby@redwoodcity.org; swagstaffe@smcgov.org; myraw@smcba.org; jrosen@da.sccgov.org; Jonsen, Robert; Council, City; Kniss, Liz (internal); stevendlee@alumni.duke.edu; HRC; council@redwoodcity.org; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; mdiaz@redwoodcity.org; allison@padailypost.com; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; dcbertini@menlopark.org; molly.o'neal@pdo.sccgov.org; chuckjagoda1@gmail.com; Perron, Zachary; Stump, Molly; Cullen, Charles; Binder, Andrew; citycouncil@menlopark.org; ibain@redwoodcity.org; Kilpatrick, Brad; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; stephanie@dslextreme.com; fred124c41@gmail.com; Kan, Michael; Lee, Craig; Van Der Zwaag, Minka; Constantino, Mary; court@courtskinner.com; supervisor.simitian@bos.sccgov.org; assemblymember.berman@assembly.ca.gov; roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu; senator.hill@senate.ca.gov; cromero@cityofepa.org; apardini@cityofepa.org; essenceoftruth@gmail.com Subject:Lessons From Ferguson: Enacting Police Reform Through the Ballot Box https://www.thedailybeast.com/lessons-from-ferguson-enacting-police-reform-through-the- ballot-box Lessons From Ferguson: Enacting Police Reform Through the Ballot Box With the results of one primary election, those who care about the preservation of human life have moved the needle toward justice in a major way. St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch—the Ferguson prosecutor who refused to convict the officer who shot and killed Michael Brown Jr.—has been voted out of office. His defeat is is a big deal. To many police reformers—like me—the message is clear: Something has changed, something big has happened. We owe it to Michael Brown, Jr. and the entire Ferguson community to recognize this and identify ways to replicate it and its effect in cities and states nationwide. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:22 AM 2 Many would attribute the results of Tuesday’s election—similar to other political wins we’ve seen in Philadelphia and Cleveland—to an awakening of the American consciousness that happened four years ago. It seemed, all of a sudden, that the nation had been jolted awake by a steady parade of black men shot and killed by police. And the slow response of those in authority in the face of such inhumane treatment was an additional slap to the country’s face. But then, as consensus was beginning to set in and powerful support structures started aligning towards police reform, our democracy took another blow from a far less likely source. The presidential election of 2016 rocked America’s consciousness in quite a different way and—slowly but surely—the nation drifted away from its focus on police reform. "The retreat has not been uniform across criminal justice reform spaces, however. In fact, many of my colleagues enthuse that real criminal reform has always been happening at the state level and that, because it has been protected from the funhouse mirrors of DC politics, it continues apace. And there is some evidence of this in the form of meaningful gains in reducing prison sentences, eliminating juvenile detention, ending money bail, and electing reform-minded prosecutors like Ferguson’s Wesley Bell. But the same cannot be said for the institution that sparked the outcry that landed us here: policing. With the end of the Obama administration, the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office retreated significantly from reform, removing its $200 million annual budget from the playing field. Grants from the COPS Office under Ron Davis and Bernard Melekian had been used to encourage, prod, cajole, and outright shame departments into embracing reforms. These funding values were consistent with the recommendations from the Task Force on 21st Century Policing, another Obama-era initiative that has since been abandoned by the federal government. But, like elections, reform has always required more than federal dollars. The $200 million in federal funds was offset by philanthropic investments in criminal justice reform. Our best estimates say that the national philanthropic budget for criminal justice reform (from national philanthropic funders) is somewhere between $220 and $240 million annually. That’s nothing to sneeze at and a hefty sum above what it used to be. But it’s a drop in the bucket of a system that spends hundreds of billions of dollars annually at the federal, state, and local levels. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:22 AM 3 More importantly than the relatively small reform budget is the way it is divided. Of that 220 or so million dollars, roughly $10 million goes towards improving reintegration for returning citizens, $200 million goes towards decarceration (across prosecutor reform, pretrial deferral, restorative justice, bail reform, sentencing reform, and the like), and $10-20 million goes towards policing. In other words, policing—the institution that catalyzed national urgency for criminal justice reform—gets 20 times less funding than incarceration. Twenty times. While funding for decarceration efforts is needed—and can be increased—the funding gap is startling. Taken together, philanthropic funds and federal dollars show a retreat from much-needed support for policing reform, political indifference toward policing under the current administration, and an apparent apathy about the continued burdens of disparate policing. Ferguson City Councilman Wesley Bell’s victory over Bob McCulloch wasn’t just a political win, it was community vengeance. For the better part of the day after Officer Wilson killed Michael Brown Jr., the feeling in the community of Ferguson grew from shock to hurt to rage. That’s because, for four hours, Ferguson police allowed Brown’s body to lie, uncovered, in the baking August sun. Officers walked around him, joked and talked with each other, and made sure that no one who loved him could claim the body. The effect was to leave a festering wound out in the open, taunting a community freshly grieving from loss, ensuring that the respect and dignity owed to any life was publicly denied to a young man with a bright future. Many viewed the blatant lack of concern toward the loss of human life as unconscionable, unfathomable, and unacceptable. In 2014 they took to the streets to show their disapproval. On Tuesday they went to the polls. So, while national attention toward policing reform and the need for social change may have shifted, local communities are owning their streets and redefining public safety for all of us. We should all be grateful. The people of Ferguson have reminded us that we must refocus our attention on policing reform—with our voice, and our vote. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:22 AM 4 Phillip Atiba Goff is the President of the Center for Policing Equity, a Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a Senior Fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Thurgood Marshall Institute. Goff is a Senior Fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Thurgood Marshall Institute. Sent from my iPhone City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:12 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:D Martell <dmpaloalto@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 5:34 PM To:Mello, Joshuah Cc:Lauing, Ed; Council, City; Keene, James; Stump, Molly; Bill Johnson; Jay Thorwaldson; Dave Price; Allison@padailypost.com; EmiBach@padailypost.com; Aram James Subject:Lytton Gardens obliterates FIVE downtown Handicap Parking Spaces Joshuah Mello Chief Transportation Official Palo Alto's Transportation Division Dear Mr. Mello: Why has Palo Alto's downtown Lytton Gardens Senior Communities (LG), 656 Lytton Avenue, been allowed to obliterate five (5) Handicap Parking spaces in front of their entrance? This includes paved asphalt sans parking lines, and red curbs. For decades, PAPD ticketed autos without Handicap Plaques that parked in front of LG. --Two of the five former parking spots share a LG dumpster. Together, the site of all five former parking spaces resembles an expanding entryway for LG, and add greatly to the aesthetics of their building. Curious minds want to know why FIVE downtown Handicap Zones have "vanished like a fart on the breeze". Please respond. Sincerely, -Danielle Martell dmPaloAlto@gmail.com City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 9:04 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Ammar Sent:Sunday, August 12, 2018 7:18 PM To:Council, City Subject:Message from the City Council Home Page Hello, My name is Ammar and I am currently a high school student. During my high school years, I've seen firsthand the homelessness crisis in the community. It's devastated me to think about these people who have to go through so much. Because of this and my interest in policy, I've come up with some ideas that I think could help solve this crisis. If they were to be fully implemented by law, that would be even better that the community would benefit. So, I would ask for you to consider my proposals, and if possible, schedule some sort of meeting where I can perhaps explain my ideas further and potentially create some purposeful legislation off of these ideas. Here are some of my rough notes: 1. Transport 1. Rideshare Companies 1. Could receive subsidies from the government for transporting the homeless around to appointments and other important things of that nature 2. There could be special points like convenience stores, where they could call a ride for them 2. City‐Owned Vans 1. Could ride around particular neighborhoods 2. Clients would be informed of these vans for appointments and things of that nature 3. Could use the same bus stops in particular neighborhoods 4. For example, vans take you from the center of the Tenderloin to a popular clinic for example 3. City‐Owned Ambulances 1. Ambulances specifically for the homeless to use to transport them to clinics 2. Would be operating in poorer neighborhoods 2. Work Opportunities 1. Got idea from ALberquerque New Mexico 1. Involved in Cleanup with the City and County and Could Definitely help clean up the beaches 2. Essentially, vans come around neighborhoods advertising an opportunity to work (cleanup of City Streets or other opportunities) 3. Workers get paid a wage and get dropped off at one central point 4. Perhaps they can get paid in gift cards to avoid using their recently acquired funds on tobacco or alcohol 3. Housing Opportunities 1. If the homeless can get some paying jobs, employers (have so much money) should be able to build them or create for them low‐cost housing opportunities 2. Give some employees on‐site housing Thank you. Best Regards, Ammar City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/13/2018 8:15 AM Carnahan, David From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Neilson Buchanan <cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com> Friday, August 10, 2018 10:53 AM Council, City De Geus, Robert Oh My! Are Uber and Lyft blessing or curse to Palo Alto traffic? Is anyone in our city government able to detennine local impact? Lack of info1mation and stretched staff/budgets wont answer this policy question. New York City Just Changed the Uber Game New York City Just Changed the Uber Game Lam·a Bliss The city cotmcil has voted to set sweeping. fo-st-of-theii·-kind lllnits on ride-hailing vehicles. Neilson Buchanan 155 B1yant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 650 329-0484 650 537-9611 cell cnsbuchanan@vahoo.com 1 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:19 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Tony Ciampi <T.Ciampi@hotmail.com> Sent:Friday, August 10, 2018 11:38 AM To:Keene, James; Council, City; HRC; Stump, Molly; Shikada, Ed Cc:kamala_harris@harris.senate.gov; Senator_@harris.senate.gov; Nathan_Barakin@harris.senate.gov; Marguerite_Biagi@harris.senate.gov; Clint_Odom@harris.senate.gov; Lily_Adams@harris.senate.gov; dustin.brandenburg@mail.house.gov; katie.weiss@mail.house.gov; liz.argo@mail.house.gov; Anthony.Ratekin@mail.house.gov; Jilian.Plank@mail.house.gov; kelsey.smith@mail.house.gov; christopher.livingston@mail.house.gov; alexandra.gourdikian@mail.house.gov; Philip_Maxson@mcconnell.senate.gov; asoltani@aclunc.org; btucker@aclunc.org; organizing@aclunc.org; aschlosser@aclunc.org; mrisher@aclunc.org; info@sanjosenaacp.org; naacpsfbr@att.net; actso@naacpnet.org; hollywoodbureau@naacpnet.org; info@lccr.com; info@anamericaninjustice.com Subject:Palo Alto's Anti-Constitutional Police Force Attachments:20180810_001004.jpg; PAPD Employent Qualifications.pdf; Policy Manual PAPD Policy Manual for web - 6-12-2017.pdf James Keene City Manager Palo Alto Mr. Keene, 1) At approximately 11:40 pm on 8/9/2018 I crossed Lytton Ave on Kipling St while riding my bicycle. Palo Alto Police Officer Christopher Conde was traveling west on Lytton Ave. and viewed me and made a left turn onto Kipling heading south toward University Ave. in order to follow me. Ofc. Conde turned on his lights and stopped me. Ofc. Conde exited his vehicle and demanded identification from me. I asked Ofc. Conde why, what law was I violating and he stated that I did not have a rear light on my bike. (Lie number 1.) I stated the law does not require a rear light but only a reflector to which he became adamant that the law does in fact state that a bike needs a rear light and that that a red reflector is not sufficient to meet the demands of the law. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:19 AM 2 I informed Ofc. Conde that I never heard of such a law and requested that he cite the actual ordinance/vehicle code. Ofc. Conde continued to demand that I hand over my identification to which I responded I will once he provides me with the ordinance/vehicle code that states that I need to have a rear light. Ofc. Conde went back to his vehicle and returned a minute or so later with his ticket book and mumbled off a vehicle code. (Lie number 2) I then handed over my identification to Ofc. Conde under the threat of arrest for not providing Ofc. Conde my identification. Ofc. Conde went back to his vehicle and returned a minute or so later and stated that I was free to go. I informed Ofc. Conde that there was no vehicle code for the rear light to which he acknowledged by stating that he “miss-spoke.” In fact CVC 21201 (d)(1) states, “A red reflector or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that shall be visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle.” My bicycle has a red reflector that meets the requirements of this law. I requested that Ofc. Conde write down the VC which states that a bike needs a red light. He gave me a piece of paper that he wrote “CVC 21201 (d)(1)” on it. Ofc. Conde stated that this is the code for bikes needing lights at night. CVC 21201 (d)(1) states “A lamp emitting a white light that, while the bicycle is in motion, illuminates the highway, sidewalk, or bikeway in front of the bicyclist and is visible from a distance of 300 feet in front and from the sides of the bicycle.” This CVC does not require a rear light. (Ofc. Conde’s 3rd lie.) Additionally I had a head lamp that meets the requirements of this law. 2) During this encounter when Ofc. Conde realized that he had no justification to stop me for not having a rear light he attempted to justify the stop by adamantly asserting that the front head light needed to be mounted on the bike. That’s not true, CVC 21201 (e) CVC 21201 (e) states that: “ A lamp or lamp combination, emitting a white light, attached to the operator and visible from a distance of 300 feet in front and from the sides of the bicycle, may be used in lieu of the lamp required by paragraph (1) of subdivision (d). City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:19 AM 3 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes displayText.xhtml?lawCode=VEH&division=11.&title=&part=&chapter=1.&article=4. This is Ofc. Conde’s 4th lie. Ofc. Conde had ample opportunity to look up the CVC and actually cited the CVC and therefore would have known that a head light does not need to be mounted on bike. 3) Again realizing that his stop was not justified Ofc. Conde came up with another excuse as to why he stopped me by stating that I fit the description of person whom he knows to have been involved in burglaries in the area. Once again this explanation has no legal justification as once he came upon me he would know I was not the person he was looking for. This harkens back to the days of Chief Lynne Johnson: ======= Palo Alto police chief’s remarks reignite race controversy By Mercury News | themerc@bayareanewsgroup.com, Jessie Mangaliman and Patty Fisher | October 31, 2008 at 6:01 am Palo Alto Mayor Larry Klein called his police chief’s statements “unacceptable.” “I don’t think Palo Alto wants to be known as some place that has racial profiling,” Klein said. “It’s against our core values. It’s unacceptable, unconstitutional and un-American.” In a news release, City Manager James Keene characterized Johnson’s remarks as regrettable “misstatements.” The chief, Keene said, “used some descriptions and terminology that could call into question the department’s high standards and professionalism.” Keene met with Johnson and her top leadership Friday morning. “When our officers are out there and they see an African-American, in a congenial way, we want them to find out who they are,” Johnson said. “The one suspect around the California Avenue train station is wearing a do-rag,” she said in the interview. “If my officers see an African-American who has a do rag on his head, absolutely the officers will be stopping and trying to find out who that person is.” https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/10/31/palo-alto-police-chiefs-remarks-reignite-race-controversy/ https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/10/31/palo-alto-police-chief-says-remarks-about-stopping-blacks-misinterpreted/ City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:19 AM 4 Racial profiling uproar continues in Palo Alto as council weighs in By Bay Area News Group and Will Oremus | November 11, 2008 at 1:13 am “This is not just a mistake of words that has happened here,” he said. Rather, racial profiling is “a persistent problem that has happened here in this community.” Council Member Sid Espinosa Council Member Pat Burt agreed, noting that Johnson’s comments came in response to questions about why the department had stationed a cruiser on the border between Palo Alto and neighboring East Palo Alto. Burt added that the ensuing uproar has revealed a “large gap in our community” between the city’s liberal self- image and the experiences of people of color. https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/11/11/racial-profiling-uproar-continues-in-palo-alto-as-council-weighs-in/ ========= Ofc. Conde confirmed and validated the illegal detention by not issuing a citation or a warning for any violation of the vehicle code. I informed Ofc. Conde that he violated the United States Constitution by falsely stating that I was violating a vehicle code when in fact I was not so that he could search me and my identification. Ofc. Conde stated that he took an oath to uphold the Constitution yet he had just violated the Constitution in a most egregious manner. Ofc. Conde falsely imprisoned me by violating PC 236 and PC 237 (a) by using fraud, deceit and the coercive threat of authority, “color of law.” Calif. PC 236. False imprisonment is the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:19 AM 5 (Enacted 1872.) Calif. PC 237. (a) False imprisonment is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. If the false imprisonment be effected by violence, menace, fraud, or deceit, it shall be punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170. When Ofc. Conde stated that I was detained for violating a non-existent vehicle code he falsely detained me and committed false imprisonment. I provided Ofc. Conde with my indentification under the threat of arrest due to the false, fraudulent, detainment. This constitutes a second violation of false imprisonment. Simply put if I did not provide Ofc. Conde with my identification he could have arrested me for obstruction of justice. That is the coercive threat he used. It is only because of this threat of false arrest did I turn over my property, my identification, to Ofc. Conde. Ofc. Conde violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution’s “Due Process Clause” and the “Equal Protection Clause.” Ofc. Conde violated the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by unreasonably searching me. Ofc. Conde violated California Constitution Sec. 1 and Sec. 7. (a). I asked Ofc. Conde how many years he had been a cop and he stated 3 years. Ofc. Conde’s words and actions of violating the U.S. and California Constitutions demonstrate a level of expertise that would require significant practice. This ability to effortlessly lie, deceive, and commit fraud in order to violate the Constitutions as been obtained in a short period of time as an officer. This is evidence that Ofc. Conde was trained by superiors in the police department on how to violate the Constitutions and laws of California and the United States. Given that Ofc. Conde has only been an officer for three years and would ostensibly not want to do anything contrary to the directions and approvals of his command staff to avoid being disciplined it is evident that his actions of violating the Constitions is approved of by the command staff including Police Chief Robert Jonsen. People complain about Colin Kaepernick and the NFL players kneeling during the national anthem as being disrespectful to the U.S. flag and all those people who put their life on the line for the flag and the Constitution and freedoms which the flag represents. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:19 AM 6 Ofc. Conde under the direction and approval of his superiors in the police department symbolically burned the U.S. flag and therefore the U.S. Constitution in the middle of the street last night. This conclusion is supported by the fact that you informed Chief Jonsen on July 24, 2018 of the bias and therefore unconstitutional actions conveyed to you on that same day and no corrective measures we implemented by Chief Jonsen or other command staff. This is evidence that that the command staff including Chief Jonsen approve of their subordinate officers violating the laws and Constitutions of the U.S and California. For Example: If you and Ofc. Binder were truly concerned about the bias/unconstitutional policing committed on July23, 2018 than you and Binder would be holding Officers Alex Afanasiev and April Wagner accountable for conspiring with other officers in destroying and falsifying evidence including a crimes scene in order to falsely and wrongly incriminate a citizens of crime while concealing the unlawful actions of their fellow officers. https://corruptpaloaltopolice.weebly.com/afanasiev.html City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/13/2018 8:19 AM Afanasiev corruptpaloaltopolice.weebly.com For complete details on how members of the Palo Alto Police destroyed 2 taser probes in order to conceal a 2nd taser gun firing because they removed the video footage of the 2nd taser gun firing from ... https://chiefbums. weebly.com/wagner.html ~, :~::::;:.. .. ____ .. : -.... ............ _.__....,, __ ... _..._ _ _ ....... ... I 1(91. 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This is supported by photographs taken of her bicycle helmet at Stanford Hospital approximately an hour after the incident. https://corruptpaloaltopolice.weebly.com/ https://chiefbums. weebly.com/ https://chiefburns.weebly.com/exhibit-5.html Chief Jonsen has been on the job 6 months now and the fact that Chief Jonsen has not terminated the employment of Afanasiev and Wagner confmns that he approves of police officers destrnying and falsifying evidence to incriminate citizens of crimes. 7 City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/13/2018 8:19 AM Afanasiev and Wagner are disqualified by the Palo Alto City's hiring standards alone. It is precisely incidents like this one with Ofc. Conde above as to why I record eve1y interaction including those in which your officers have directed ex-cons to target me. https :// corruptpaloaltopo lice. wee b ly. com/false-anest.html fa lse arrest corruptpaloaltopolice.weebly.com Another False Arrest by PAPD as Palo Alto City Manager James Keene Refuses to Reign in His Officers https://chiefbums. weebly.com/retaliation.html Pa lo Alto City Manager James Keene, knowing that you can personally respond to me in a timely fashion I want to know what actions you are going to take to put an end to your police department's violations of the Constitutions. Nothing has changed in over 10 years; 15 years. Tony Ciampi 8 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:19 AM 10 t!.1'] In Trump-inspired resolution,~ X CD V a https:/fwww.paloaltoonline.com/news/2016/1211 O/in-trump-insp ¢ z~ ~0 Low: 60° ¢: ~ ~ ~ Sat Sun Mon Tue Log in I Register Palo Alto o n n e Home News Town Square Biogs A&E Sports Real Estate Print Editic s Updated: Mon, Dec 12, 2016, 8: 19 am Uploaded: Sat, Dec 10, 2016, 9:01 pm In Trump-inspired resolution, Palo Alto pledges to reject bigotry 'in all its forms' City Council set to adopt on Monday a resolution reaffirming t he city's commitment to diversity by Gennady Sheyner /Palo Alto Weekly Res ponding to community anxieties about City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:19 AM 11 • ~ In Trump-inspired resolution,~ X :B -7 <:! 11} ~CD_V_a __ ht-tp-s-:/-fwww--.-p-al-oa-1t_o_o_n_lin-e-.c-o_m_/n_e_w_s_12_0_1_6/_1_2-11_0_/i_n_-t_ru_m_p_--in_s_p ___ 0 __ Uploaded: Sat, Dec 10, 2016, 9:01 pm In Trump-inspired resolution, Palo Alto pledges to reject bigotry 'in all its forms' City Council set to adopt on Monday a resolution reaffirming t he city's commitment to diversity by Gennady Sheyner /Palo Alto Weekly Responding to community anxieties about the recent presidential electio n, Palo Alto officials plan t o pass on Monday night a resolution pledging the city's commitment t o diversity and unity and vowing t o oppose "any attempts to undermine the safety, security and rights of members of our community." The resolution, which the City Council will consider in its final meeting of the year, was prompted by a memo from Mayor Pat Burt and council members Karen Holman, iz Kniss and Cory Wolbach. Every person, the resolutio n states, is "nat urally entitled to live a life unmolested by, harassment , arscrimination, persecu io , or assault, whether per petrated by individuals, groups, businesses orlQ nment." It also points to a "significant and growing co ncern in our community based upon recent nat ional and regio nal incidents of hate crimes, discriminat ion, sexual harassment and assault, and fear of a rend towa rd more of these crimes in the future." "There also exists considerable concern in our community of risks to marginalized communities of persecution, deportation,@_epial o_Lcoost itut iooal and huma n ig bts, and relaxation of national law protecting people from discrimination, harassment and assault," the memo states. Palo Alto Police Department Policy Manual Law Enforcement Authority Copyright Lexipol, LLC 2017/03/02, All Rights Reserved. Published with permission by Palo Alto Police Department Law Enforcement Authority - 9 The person arrested out of state must be taken without unnecessary delay before a magistrate of the county in which the arrest was made (ARS § 13-3833; NRS 171.158; ORS 133.440). Peace officers of another state who enter the State of California in fresh pursuit to arrest a person who has committed a felony in the other state have the same authority to arrest and hold in custody such person as peace officers of this state have to arrest and hold a person in custody (Penal Code § 852.2). 100.4 POLICY It is the policy of the Palo Alto Police Department to limit its members to only exercise the authority granted to them by law. While this department recognizes the power of peace officers to make arrests and take other enforcement action, officers are encouraged to use sound discretion in the enforcement of the law. This department does not tolerate the abuse of law enforcement authority. 100.5 CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS All members shall observe and comply with every person’s clearly established rights under the United States and California Constitutions. City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/13/2018 2:21 PM Carnahan, David From: Sent: To: Subject: Gloria Pyszka <gpyszka@yahoo.com> Monday, August 13, 2018 11:01 AM Council, City Please read The below article is about the celebration of the new outdoor sports area at the JCC. There are only 4 comments . 2 of them by me "southem Palo Alto. " Naturally, I think that my comments are relevant and insightful. © Best, Gloria Pyszka East Charleston JCC to unveil new park and pavilion JCC to unveil new park and pavilion By Editor 1 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 2:21 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Michael Kieschnick <mkieschnick@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 10:42 AM To:Council, City Subject:President Hotel apartment Dear members of the City Council: I am writing you to register my substantial concern over the conversion of the apartment building into a luxury hotel. I am a multi-decade resident of Palo Alto, and have observed with great alarm the decline in housing affordability due to the jobs/housing imbalance and our community's failure to construct essentially any affordable housing in the past decade. To remove such a significant number of affordable units in one fell swoop is simply devastating. I readily acknowledge that I am not an expert in Palo Alto's zoning and permits and whether it is already illegal to convert the apartment building. I do know that you are elected to help solve the complex problems facing Palo Alto, and I urge you to stretch your capacity to the very limit to maintain the apartments as affordable housing. I would not see it as a solution simply to extract greater resources from the hotel developer for either these particular tenants OR future housing. We should maintain this housing. Sincerely, Michael Kieschnick 1467 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA. 94301 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:11 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Geoff Ball <ghball@aol.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 5:25 PM To:Council, City Subject:President hotel tenants Dear City Council Members, Please support the tenants of the President Hotel in their efforts to avoid eviction. Sincerely yours, Geoff Ball Geoff Ball, Ph.D. Geoff Ball & Associates 315 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 ghball@aol.com, cell: 650-279-9461 www.linkedin.com/in/geoff-ball-5259241 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 2:22 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Ellen Smith <ef44smith@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 11:57 AM To:Council, City Subject:President Hotel I urge you to find a solution that allows the President Hotel to remain as apartments and gives the current tenants priority in staying there. Ellen Smith 1469 Dana Ave. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 3:27 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:jon riley <jriley9555@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 1:31 PM To:Council, City Subject:Presidents Hotel Dear PA city council, Affordable housing is nonexistent in this area. Please allow these residents the year they have requested to relocate. We all know that most current residence of the Presidents hotel will never find a new place that is affordable, they will have to move out of the area. Once again we are losing what has made Palo Alto special. The Presidents Hotel is one of the treasures of downtown and desperately needed by the 75 or so residents of the PH. I hate to see this wonderful city turn its back on our not so affluent residents. Sincerely Jon & Alice Riley: I have lived in Palo Alto for 45 years and my wife's family is the 'first resident of PA', here is a passage from the official PA website: The tradition of caring in our community goes back to Palo Alto’s earliest residents --- in fact, its very first. (And yes, there actually was a first resident.) She was Anna Zschokke, a widowed German immigrant and mother of three who first settled in a house along Homer Street. Palo Alto History Palo Alto History City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:58 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Jeff Levinsky <jeff@levinsky.org> Sent:Sunday, August 12, 2018 2:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Protect Renters Dear City Councilmembers: It's been two months now since the Hotel President building sold. Apart from now saying the hotel conversion isn’t legal, the City has done nothing to preserve these lower-cost housing units and to protect their occupants. The City is standing idly by while the lives of the building’s residents are in turmoil as their evictions creep closer day by day. Please fix this by passing an urgency interim ordinance. For example, the ordinance could block no-fault evictions of tenants whose building has no permit for remodel, replacement, or change of use. The ordinance could also provide a guaranteed “right to return” at the same rent (adjusted for inflation) to a similar unit for any tenant displaced by a building remodel or replacement, as was included even in the pro-development SB 827 legislation. In combination, these offer a balanced approach to redevelopment, with owners retaining the rights to change to other legal uses and to rehabilitate or replace units, while preserving lower-priced housing options for existing residents. You might also boost relocation benefits to cover all moving expenses and any incremental rent for temporary housing during construction to tenants who opt to return. Absent such measures, other renters across the city are at risk too and rather than creating more low- and mid-range housing options, we will find them disappearing. The sooner you act, the better! Please make this a top priority. Thank you, Jeff Levinsky 1682 Hamilton Ave. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:56 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Tony Ciampi <T.Ciampi@hotmail.com> Sent:Saturday, August 11, 2018 10:15 PM To:Keene, James; Council, City; Stump, Molly; HRC; nathan_barankin@harris.senate.gov; kamala_harris@harris.senate.gov; elizabeth_warren@warren.senate.gov; Dan_Geldon@warren.senate.gov; Stephanie_Akpa@warren.senate.gov; Clint_Odom@harris.senate.gov; Lily_Adams@harris.senate.gov Subject:public records request Palo Alto Public Records Center <paloaltoca@mycusthelp.net> Today, 10:24 PMYou 08/11/2018 Dear Tony: The City of Palo Alto is dedicated and responsive to our community. Your request has been received and is being processed. Your request was given the reference number W001396‐081118 for tracking purposes. Records Requested: I have already informed Palo Alto City Manager James Keene and the City Council that at approximately 11:40 pm on 8/9/2018 to 11:59 pm on 8/9/2018 that Palo Alto Police Officer Christopher Conde falsely and wrongfully imprisoned me, a violation of California P.C. 236 and 237 (a). Therefore the detailed information of the incident is available to you from City Manager James Keene. 1) Has Ofc. Christopher Conde been charged with violating the above offenses? 2) If Ofc. Christopher Conde has not been charged with the above violations please explain why not. Should you state that the investigation is ongoing such a statement is a lie for you already have all of the information necessary as to whether you intend to charge ofc Conde or not to charge him. Therefore if you state that the investigation is ongoing then you are actually stating that you are not going to charge him and therefore there is no longer any investigation. Tony Ciampi Your request will be forwarded to the relevant department(s) to locate the information you seek and to determine the volume and any costs associated with satisfying your request. You will be contacted about the availability and/or provided with copies of the records in question. You can monitor the progress of your request at the link below and youʹll receive an email when your request has been completed. Thank you for using the Public Records Center. City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/13/2018 8:56 AM City of Palo Alto ---------------------- Pa lo Alto Public Records Center <paloaltoca@mycusthelp.net> Today, 10:44 PMYou A c1TY OF VPALO ALTO Dear Tony: 08/11/2018 The City of Palo Alto is dedicated and responsive to our community. Your request has been received and is being processed. Your request was given the reference number W001397-081118 for tracking purposes. 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M0tc iwponamly, UK Oq>wuun1 b.1J -.lrc-.IY doi:c ~ 1 .. , .. 11mM·1.-ntnon a'Jdi dw un" olfi.tl'f fnf 11r umt probl<'tn 10 ;01"' System ic Flaws corruptpaloaltopolice.weebly.com Inherent and Systemic, Yet Unnecessary, Flaws With Palo Alto Police Video Pol icy and Camera Systems https://corruptpaloaltopolice.weebly.com/missing-videos.html 2 City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8 /13/2018 8:56 AM ,,_. ..... """'7ob dood>odio eiu"P:""> it is •L°""""""' • ..-i..segroe or tcii191itk.oertlilll)'.611l ... f_tnd.....,--YMft'VldoOl:blw:tlilal&ladaild _ _...,._ • m --.,.AVl61eof_<lli .... 8 .... 1-C-Vldoo.(l cub< ....,... .. _) M issin g Videos corruptpaloaltopolice.weebly.com A History of Missing Videos One: Did Ofc. Christopher Conde record the above incident on the Mobile Audio Visual "MA V" unit from his patrol vehicle video/audio system? Two: Did the Mobile Audio Visual "MA V" unit from his patrol vehicle video/audio system record the audio dialog of the incident? Three: If the Mobile Audio Visual "MAV" unit did not record the audio dialog please explain why it did not? For example: the system malfunctioned, the officer forgot to tum it on; the batteries failed etc .... Four: Did the Mobile Audio Visual "MA V" unit from his patrol vehicle video/audio system record the video interaction of the incident? Five: If the Mobile Audio Visual "MA V" did not record the video interaction please explain why the system did not. For exan1ple: the system malfunctioned, the officer forgot to tum it on; the batteries failed etc ... Given that Ofc. Conde is not being charged or investigated with any crime or violation of department policy there is no active investigation in which you could use as an excuse to deny answering the above questions. Furthem1ore I am not requesting any detailed information of Ofc. Conde' s records or personnel information. I am requesting an answer as to whether a MA V system recorded an incident or not which will be revealed in the Police Auditor's report just as the police auditor has provided to the public numerous times in the past. Tony Cian1pi ---------------------------------- Palo Alto Public Records Center <paloaltoca@mycusthelp.net> Today, 10:58 PMYou A c1rv OF WPALO ALTO Dear Tony: 08/11/2018 The City of Palo Alto is dedicated and responsive to our community. Your request has been received and is being processed. Your request was given the reference number W001398-081118 for tracking purposes. 3 City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8 /13/2018 8:56 AM Records Requested: I have already informed Palo Alto City Manager James Keene and the City Council that at approximately 11:40 pm on 8/9/2018 to 11:59 pm on 8/9/2018 that Palo Alto Police Officer Christopher Conde falsely and wrongfully imprisoned me, a violation of California P.C. 236 and 237 (a). Palo Alto moves ahead w ith police body-worn cameras City Council approves buying 50 can1eras for Police Department https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/05/14/palo-alto-moves-ahead-with-police-body-cameras Pa lo Alto moves ahead w it h poli ce body- worn cameras I News ... www.paloaltoonline.com Seeking to boost transparency in police operations, Palo Alto has approved the purchase of 50 body-worn cameras for its Police Department. My video camera is not very good in the dark but I an1 certain I viewed a body can1 on Ofc. Conde. One: Did Ofc. Christopher Conde record the above incident on the "body cam" unit? Two: Did the "body can1" unit record the audio dialog of the incident? Three: If the "body can1" unit did not record the audio dialog please explain why it did not? For example: the system malfunctioned, the officer forgot to turn it on; the batteries failed etc .... Four: Did the "body cam" unit record the video interaction of the incident? Five: If the "body cam" unit did not record the video interaction please explain why the system did not. For exan1ple: the system malfunction ed, the officer forgot to tum it on; the batteries failed etc .... Given that Ofc. Conde is not being charged or investigated with any crime there is no active investigation in which you could use as an excuse to deny answering the above questions. Furthem1ore I am not requesting any detailed information of Ofc. Conde' s records or personnel infom1ation. I am requesting an answer as to whether a MA V system recorded an inciden t or not which will be revealed in the Police Auditor's report just as the police auditor has provided to the public numerous times in the past. Tony Cian1pi Your request w ill be forwarded to the relevant department(s) to locate the information you seek and to determine the volume and any costs associated with satisfying your request. You will be contacted about the availability and/or provided with copies of the records in question . You can monitor the progress of your request at the link below and you'll receive an email when your request has been completed. Thank you for using the Public Records Center. 4 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:56 AM 5 City of Palo Alto City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:15 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Lenore Cymes <lenraven1@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, August 10, 2018 10:47 AM To:Council, City Cc:crescent-park-pa@googlegroups.com; 'Trish Mulvey' mulvey@ix.netcom.com [dsfna] Subject:Re: [CPNA] University Ave. traffic With all the emails and discussion since the Mayor decided there really is not traffic problem - her lack of acknowledging that perhaps she “could” be incorrect in her assumption is amazing. Mayor Kniss has been involved with the council for a VERY long time - way before there was a traffic problem. We have an opportunity to put people on the council that are willing to govern according to today’s issues. My encouragement to all is get as involved In the upcoming election as you can. Carefully review the records of those seeking reelection. Carefully and astutely ask in depth questions to those candidates that don’t have present seats on the council. We can’t afford another council that so obviously supportive of developers. We need to learn how to" listen between the words" to those running to be in the position to run our city. VOTES WILL COUNT Lenore On Aug 10, 2018, at 10:03 AM, Ken <lowdown1@comcast.net> wrote: Perhaps an accumlation of photos presented all at once would give a greater impression. Ken Low On 8/10/18 9:40 AM, Amy Sims wrote: I also sent Mayor Kniss a couple of photos of traffic backed up on University Ave. I too had written to complain to her. I think it is important that we write to the mayor and the council, and not just to each other. We need to flood them with photos and videos. The mayor purports to care about the traffic issue but appears to be completely ignorant about what is actually going on. Amy Sims On Friday, August 10, 2018 9:34 AM, Ken <lowdown1@comcast.net> wrote: This is excellent. Recall I had written Kniss 2 weeks ago and she offered a ride with her to view the traffic. Perhaps it would be better to submit to her a series of City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:15 AM 2 this type of videos that the CPA can gather and present to her. This would eliminate the hap-haphazardness. Ken Low On 8/9/18 7:15 PM, 'Norman Beamer' via Crescent Park PA wrote: University Ave. outbound traffic at 7 PM today (starts out “not terrible”, downhill from there) https://youtu.be/losaMGe5Alw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crescent Park PA" group. 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City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:57 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, August 12, 2018 11:10 AM To:Aram James Cc:swagstaffe@smcgov.org; jrosen@da.sccgov.org; Perron, Zachary; Kilpatrick, Brad; Council, City; Lee, Craig; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; Kan, Michael; Jonsen, Robert; dcbertini@menlopark.org; Kniss, Liz (internal); stevendlee@alumni.duke.edu; HRC; gkirby@redwoodcity.org; Keene, James; mdiaz@redwoodcity.org; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; council@redwoodcity.org; myraw@smcba.org; molly.o'neal@pdo.sccgov.org; Stump, Molly; Binder, Andrew; Cullen, Charles; citycouncil@menlopark.org; ibain@redwoodcity.org; fred124c41@gmail.com; stephanie@dslextreme.com; Bains, Paul; dennis.r.burns@gmail.com; Constantino, Mary; Van Der Zwaag, Minka; roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu; nklippen@scscourt.org; dryan@scscourt.org; bwalsh@scscourt.org; sscott@scscourt.org; mharris@scscourt.org; rpichon@scscourt.org; jsylva@scscourt.org; aflint@scscourt.org Subject:Re: An L.A. County deputy faked evidence. Here's how his misconduct was kept secret in court for years A simple fix would be the elimination of the police officers special bill of rights: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law Enforcement Officers%27 Bill of Rights You wont find anyone, anyone outside of law enforcement willing to discuss to hot topic... police officers are notoriously known to receive unprecedented witness protection... by DA’s. Secondly, the first rule of discover asked in any criminal case involving the police? Prior misconduct. This should be explored first, during Pre-Trial Conference...and should be reviewed and confirmed independently.... Unfortunately, police are known to lie cheat and steal at the cost of being innocence. Including, but far from limited, exculpatory evidence withheld. Mark Sent from my iPad On Aug 10, 2018, at 1:37 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-brady-list-secrecy-court-20180809- htmlstory.html City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:57 AM 2 An L.A. County deputy faked evidence. Here's how his misconduct was kept secret in court for years They were at the tail end of their overnight shift when they spotted Gerald Simmons near a vacant lot in Inglewood. The two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies said they saw the 43-year-old toss a plastic baggie of rock cocaine to the ground. Their testimony would become the backbone of the 2009 criminal case against Simmons. After a six-day trial, the verdict was swift. Guilty. But jurors made their decision without knowing a crucial detail. Jose Ovalle, one of the deputies who also booked the evidence, had been suspended five years earlier for pouring taco sauce on a shirt to mimic blood in a criminal case. He nearly lost his job. Ovalle’s past was kept secret for years from prosecutors, judges, defendants and jurors, even though he was a potential witness in hundreds of criminal cases that relied on his credibility, according to a Times investigation. The deputy took the stand in 31 cases before the district attorney’s office found out about his misconduct. Once his credibility came into question, prosecutors City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:57 AM 3 offered some career criminals generous plea deals in pending cases or dropped charges altogether. Some went on to commit serious crimes. Ovalle is not an isolated example. Misconduct by law enforcement officers who testify in court is routinely kept hidden by California’s police privacy laws. The U.S. Supreme Court requires prosecutors to inform criminal defendants about an officer’s wrongdoing — but the state’s laws are so strict that prosecutors cannot directly access the personnel files of their own police witnesses. Instead, California puts the burden on defendants to prove to a judge that an officer’s record is relevant. Times reporters reviewed documents from hundreds of criminal cases in which the district attorney’s office identified Ovalle as a potential witness after he was caught faking the bloody evidence in 2003. Few defendants tried to obtain information about Ovalle’s past. A handful of those who did weren’t given information about the deputy’s discipline. Judges never gave them a public explanation for why it wouldn’t have been relevant. By the time the district attorney’s office learned about Ovalle’s misconduct, he had been a potential witness against 312 defendants. More than 230 were convicted. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:57 AM 4 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:57 AM 5 The California Supreme Court will decide whether law enforcement agencies can tell prosecutors if a police witness has a record of serious discipline. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images A Times investigation last year identified Ovalle and others on a secret Sheriff’s Department list of deputies whose misconduct included falsely testifying in court, pulling over a motorist and receiving oral sex from her while on patrol, and tipping off a drug dealer’s girlfriend about a narcotics bust. Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell wanted to disclose the so-called Brady list of about 300 officers to prosecutors, but the deputies union went to court to stop him. The state’s Supreme Court will soon decide whether McDonnell and other law enforcement agencies can tell prosecutors if a police witness has a record of serious discipline. An appellate court has ruled they cannot. Ovalle now works as a sergeant in the Sheriff’s Department’s Century station in Lynwood. Last year, he was paid $240,000 in salary, overtime and other earnings. When reached by The Times for comment, Ovalle said: “I don’t understand why the L.A. Times is so interested about me.” He declined to comment further and asked not to be contacted again. ‘It was stupidity’ Ovalle’s troubles began in August 2003. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:57 AM 6 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:57 AM 7 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jose Ovalle. (L.A. County Sheriff's Department) Several gang members at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic had slashed an inmate’s neck and head with razor blades. A 26-year-old deputy with just three years on the job, Ovalle was responsible for collecting the evidence and writing the incident report. When he realized a bloody shirt from one of the suspects had gone missing, Ovalle took a clean one from the jail laundry, topped it with taco sauce and took a photo, according to court and law enforcement records. A custody assistant watching Ovalle warned him not to do it, but the deputy went ahead and booked the photograph into evidence. The custody assistant reported him to a supervisor, according to court records. Confronted by sheriff’s investigators, Ovalle confessed. “It was stupidity now that I look back on it,” he told the investigators, according to a transcript of his interview obtained by The Times. “This uniform means everything to me, this badge and gun, it’s my life. … I’m embarrassed.” Sheriff’s Department officials told Ovalle he would be fired but then relented, noting that he had cooperated with investigators and accepted responsibility, according to internal documents. Ovalle was instead handed a 30-day suspension. He was ordered to serve 10 of those days and the remainder only if he committed a similar offense within the next five years. In testimony he gave years later, Ovalle blamed poor training for his conduct and downplayed the significance of what he had done, insisting he hadn’t fabricated evidence because the bloody shirt had once existed. “I don’t consider myself a liar,” he said. The Sheriff’s Department never notified the district attorney’s office about Ovalle’s actions to see if he should be charged with a crime, according to law enforcement records. As a result, prosecutors handling cases in which Ovalle was involved had no way of knowing about his past actions. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:57 AM 8 ‘Trying to hide misconduct’ Two years after his suspension, Ovalle was transferred to the Sheriff’s Department’s Lennox station in South Los Angeles, where he made arrests for drug possession, theft and assault and later testified in court. Defendants who faced him had only one method of possibly learning about his misconduct, a procedure that is itself cloaked in secrecy. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:57 AM 9 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:57 AM 10 "They are trying to hide misconduct, and everyone should be against it," said David Kanuth, a former Los Angeles County public defender, regarding California's police privacy laws. Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times Under California’s so-called Pitchess laws, defendants can ask a judge to examine an officer’s personnel records for allegations of excessive force, dishonesty, theft or other acts of “moral turpitude.” Few go through the trouble. By the spring of 2008, Ovalle had been listed by prosecutors as a potential witness against 125 defendants. Only five tried to delve into Ovalle’s background, according to a review of court records. If a defendant’s Pitchess motion is granted, a representative from the officer’s law enforcement agency meets with the judge in private to go over relevant complaints. Neither the prosecutor nor the defense attorney is allowed in the room. If a judge decides to turn over anything, it is usually only the name and contact information of someone who made a complaint against the officer within the last five years. It is then up to the defense attorney to figure out what happened. Supporters say the Pitchess laws prevent accused criminals from fishing for information about police witnesses that is irrelevant in their cases. David E. Mastagni, a Sacramento-based attorney who represents police unions, said most defendants don’t file Pitchess motions because “in the vast majority of cases, the officer’s credibility is not an issue.” If an officer has a history of dishonesty, he said, a judge will almost always disclose it through Pitchess. “It’s a pretty perfect balancing,” he said. But defense lawyers complain that the laws make it difficult for people facing criminal charges to ask for the information. Many of their jailed clients, they say, don’t want to spend weeks or months trying to find out whether a law enforcement witness has a history of complaints, especially if they could accept a plea deal that would speed up their release. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:46 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Benafsha Irani <birani@hotmail.com> Sent:Thursday, August 09, 2018 10:28 AM To:Mike Graglia; Kniss, Liz (internal) Cc:Council, City; Prof Richard Fikes; Dawn Macurdy Billman Subject:Re: Fw: Request for consideration Attachments:Honda Speeding Car License Plate.jpg Hello City Council, I completely agree 100% with Mike. If there is a fatality it is really going to be the City's fault since you are continuing to allow this to happen. I have also called into the Police traffic line requesting that an officer be placed during peak hours to monitor traffic but since I have lived here there has never been a police officer assigned to monitor traffic. We have about 6 small children less than 7 years of age and it is scary to think if something happened. Please really do something. If you want we can send you video footage of how fast cards are speeding down our street. A good example is of the Honda [photo included of license plate number] when my daughter and I were driving 3 nights ago on Lincoln Ave at speed limit. The driver of this car sped really close past us, made sure we felt uncomfortable before speeding off past us at 50+ mph. I decided to follow the car past Lincoln and finally caught up with him on the main traffic signal at the Red light on University and Woodland where my daughter was able to take a photo. He should be cited. But will he? Most likely not since he will deny it and do it again. His license plate information is attached for your records. Worst part is that big delivery trucks are also speeding down out street over the speed limit. Please consider doing something about controlling speeding cars on our street. Thanks, Benafsha From: Mike Graglia <graglia@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 4:52 PM To: Benafsha Irani; liz.kniss@cityofpaloalto.org Cc: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org; Prof Richard Fikes; Dawn Macurdy Billman Subject: Re: Fw: Request for consideration I have been sending emails to this effect to the travel office at the city for well over a year. The particular block in question seems to have been intentionally narrowed to choke traffic, which didn't work. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:46 AM 2 Thanks, when there's too much traffic in the neighborhood this block is completely gridlocked with cars parked on both sides and cars going both ways... resulting in pollution, noise, frustration and the potential for accidents as people try to find a way through. On the other hand ‐‐the problem B is referring to‐‐ is that when the streets are open and people are in a hurry they race down. But since it is narrow visibility is reduced they won't see kids / kids won't see them. If you just check your records there have already been numerous accidents both with bikes and cars on this block. If you don't do something to slow traffic on this street, it will result in a fatality, probably of a resident, likely of a child and it will be your fault because we've been emailing you about this for years. I fail to understand why wide‐open patch of Lincoln just a few blocks down has tons of speed bumps but this block which is narrower and far more dangerous has nothing. Please do something! Add a roundabout, speed bumps or traffic camera but please something. Mike On Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 09:20 Benafsha Irani <birani@hotmail.com> wrote: Hello City Council, Please include my request into your consideration. It is just getting out of hand here on Lincoln Ave [between Hamilton and University]. We have really young children and you do not want something happening to them because you allow for cars to get through out neighborhood at 45+ mph. We need a round‐about on the corner of Hamilton and Lincoln just like the one you have on Bryant Street. Thank you. Benafsha, Joerg and Ava From: Benafsha Irani <birani@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 12:51 AM To: welgreg@gmail.com Subject: Request for consideration Hello Greg, One of my neighbors suggested I contact you regarding the traffic problems we are having on Lincoln Ave. We have several families with young children and cars are just "zooming" past our street. They have on several occasions broken our side car windows and never even bothered to leave their contact information. I am always relieved when I leave my driveway that someone did not hit my car. That is not a great feeling on a daily basis. So we would like to request on the corner of Lincoln and Hamilton if we could have a round about [just like the one on Bryant Street] placed so that cars are forced to slow down and avoid our area using Waze. As I write this email I counted atleast 15 cars driving by at 45 mph which is a sad situation. All our neighbors are for this idea. Please advise how we can work with you to make this a reality. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:46 AM 3 Thanks, Benafsha [Lincoln and Hamilton] ‐‐ Michael Graglia mobile (202) 431‐9921 | fax (650) 440‐4967 @JMichaelGraglia | LinkedIn Join a conference | Schedule a meeting City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 9:01 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:D Martell <dmpaloalto@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, August 12, 2018 11:23 PM To:Hillary Freeman Cc:Dave Price; Bill Johnson; Jay Thorwaldson; Council, City; Stump, Molly; Keene, James; Aram James; Minor, Beth Subject:Re: Hillary Freeman experiences Racism from Kim's Nails on Emerson St. Hillary, it would be really great if you'd consider running again for City Council. Palo Alto loves you and misses your leadership. Best, -Danielle On Sunday, August 12, 2018, D Martell <dmpaloalto@gmail.com> wrote: Hillary, you are very kind, and very brave. -Danielle On Sunday, August 12, 2018, Hillary Freeman <hfreeman@nuevaschool.org> wrote: Thank you, Danielle. I sincerely appreciate your support. Because the Nextdoor thread is long, some of the facts are getting confused. The experience I had a Kim’s Nails involved: 1. Significant micro-aggression from a client 2. No correction of the micro-aggression by the on-duty manager after being asked to do so, twice. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 9:01 AM 2 A woman, who I did not know, that was in the establishment as the scene unfolded, verified my experience. I received a phone call apology from the business owner after he was alerted by the on-duty manager that said I was going to post the incident on Yelp, Nextdoor, and Facebook asking for my acquaintances to boycott the establishment. I realize that people make mistakes and that in the moment may not know exactly what to do (although I offered several suggestions to the store manager). I simply do not think that ignoring issues is the way to stem the tide of micro-aggression/elitist behavior. This kind of behavior and reaction to it certainly does not fit into the ethos of our beloved Palo Alto. My answer is simply not to return to Kim’s Nails. Any others who want to join me can. I appreciate the support from most of the community members who posted. I appreciated the call from the owner. My method of picketing is alerting neighbors through social media and letting them decide what course of action to take or not take. I think that is all we need to do. Thanks for listening. Hillary From: D Martell <dmpaloalto@gmail.com> Date: Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 5:23 PM To: Dave Price <price@baydailypost.com>, Bill Johnson <BJohnson@paweekly.com>, Jay Thorwaldson <jaythor@well.com> Cc: "Council, City" <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, "Stump, Molly" <Molly.Stump@cityofpaloalto.org>, "Keene, James" <James.Keene@cityofpaloalto.org>, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com>, "Minor, Beth" <beth.minor@cityofpaloalto.org> Subject: Hillary Freeman experiences Racism from Kim's Nails on Emerson St. City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/13/2018 9:01 AM Today, fo1mer Councilwoman Hillaiy Freeman posted on our online Nextdoor neighborhood bulletin board that she experienced racism by both workers and owner of Kim's Nails on Emerson Street in downtown Palo Alto! Hillaiy told her sto1y, and a female witness stepped fo1wai·d (who also posted) stating how ugly Hillaiy was treated and how badly she felt about it. The BB is lit up with suppo1i for Hillaiy ... I suggested we picket. -Danielle Ma1iell ----------Fo1warded message---------- From: Nextdoor Digest <no-reply@rs.email.nextdoor.com> Date: Sunday, August 12, 2018 Subject: Top post: Please Boycott Kim's Nails on Emerson. To: dmpaloalto@gmail.com I . PLEASE BOYCOTT THIS PLACE. I have been a client at this place for 20 yeai·s. I have spent THOUSANDS of dollai·s here. I am a Black woman. Today I was treated like a second class citizen. Even with an appointment, I was not given the next available chair -a White woman who strolled in after me (and saw me waiting) -late for her appointment -TOOK the next available chair. The person who rnns the store DID NOT CORRECT THIS BEHAVIOR but instead told me, "Sony , I know, you will have to wait" instead of telling the woman to get up an wait her tum. There was no coITection for this behavior. I walked out after I saw that she did NOTHING to coITect the privilege power play. I even went back to give the person who rnns the shop a second oppo1iunity to make the coITection. She still did not. PLEASE DO NOT GO HERE. I HOPE THIS WILL DEMONSTRATE TO THIS ESTABLISHMENT THAT SILENCE=complicity. We should not allow this kind of behavior in our city. Thank you. Nextdoor Community Center Get the app Daily Digest iPhone Posts • Please Boycott Kim's Nails on Emerson. • Searching for queen bedframe 3 City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/13/2018 9:01 AM 11 • Traffic Safety Reminder: School Resumes This Week -Please Drive Carefully! • 3BR/3BA House for Rent in Downtown Palo Alto • Free Nike Youth Soccer Team Bag -youth 10 and under • Energy Star gas tankless water heaters • Free 58" long x 36"wide x 4" deep Foam • House painter recommendation • Chamber Music and Chamber Orchestra Fall Session of the Palo Alto School of Chamber Music for children and adults! 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Send me a scanned copy of both complaints with case numbers. So what's the deal with Leonora Padilla? Is she dirty and scandalous? Does she need some attention? Send me her photograph. We will bring her and EAH lots of bad publicity. LH&R Jeremy Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 5:58 AM From: "Jason Smith" <mastermind.it.jason@gmail.com> To: markhamplazata@gmail.com, mastermindit@comcast.net, kenditkowsky@yahoo.com, jeremy4justice@activist.com, kimberly.d.johnson@hud.gov, angelo.c.tom@hud.gov Subject: Markham plaza listed as supportive housing which is a bold faced lie and defrauding the federal go They have no supportive here and yet they claim they do on their website and so does Core Developmdbfs http://www.eahhousing.org/management-services/eah-housing-commitment-to-ending-homelessness City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:13 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:M. Gallagher <writing2win@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 14, 2018 7:58 AM To:Council, City Subject:Re: Preserve Resident's Homes 8/14/2018 Correction to my email of 8/13/2018 (See below). I wrote the email after a long day and realized in re-reading the email a sentence that makes no sense. :) I have removed the sentence and re-submitting the content of my email to preserve the residencies of the socially-conscious residents that are facing eviction from the President's Hotel. Dear Members of the City Council: I write to implore the Council to preserve the residencies of those living at the President's Hotel. In 1982, a goliath firm purchased a 31-unit building in Boston, MA much like the AJ partners came to the President's Hotel. I was a resident in the building and fought the evictions collectively with the other residents. Some elderly residents chose to leave. However, about 13 of the 31 chose to stay and receive the first option to buy with zero money down and 30% below market. As we fast forward to the 21st century, I can see how history is repeating itself in my new home town of Palo Alto, CA. Consider selling the units to the residents--if they wish to and can buy to have equity in the place where they have lived for some time. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:13 PM 2 Gratefully, Mary Mary Gallagher, B.S. Content Strategist 650-683-7102 Copyright 2018 Security Alert Notice The information contained in this e-mail is confidential information, presumed to be virus free, and intended only for use by the individual or entity named above. Virus protection is the responsibility of the recipient. If the reader of this email is not the intended recipient, dissemination or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete the material from your computer. Thank you. On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:51 PM, M. Gallagher <writing2win@gmail.com> wrote: 8/13/2018. Dear Members of the City Council: I write to implore the Council to preserve the residencies of those living at the President's Hotel. In 1982, a goliath firm purchased a 31-unit building in Boston, MA much like the AJ partners came to the President's Hotel. I was a resident in the building and fought the evictions collectively with the other residents. Some elderly residents chose to leave. However, about 13 of the 31 chose to stay and receive the first option to buy with zero money down and 30% below market. As we fast forward to the 21st century, I can see how history is repeating itself in my new home town of Palo Alto, CA. Please let us share any domestic tasks. Consider selling the units to the residents--if they wish to and can buy. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:13 PM 3 Gratefully, Mary Mary Gallagher, B.S. Content Strategist 650-683-7102 Copyright 2018 Security Alert Notice The information contained in this e-mail is confidential information, presumed to be virus free, and intended only for use by the individual or entity named above. Virus protection is the responsibility of the recipient. If the reader of this email is not the intended recipient, dissemination or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete the material from your computer. Thank you. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:40 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Rohit Relan <rohitrelan7@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, August 11, 2018 2:16 AM To:cc: U.S. Senator Rand Paul; Press_Harris@harris.senate.gov; Press@usdoj.gov; info@parl.gc.ca; consular.moscow@dfat.gov.au; hcenquiries@parliament.uk; San Francisco Asylum; Police; mjr@stanford.edu; Office of the President; Council, City; Sheriff PIO; Board Operations; environmentalcrime@interpol.int; Rohit Relan Subject:Re: president trustees stanford university A device has been implanted in my body during the of 2016 (chris correia palo alto police "do you know your bike accident from 2016 was not an accident') that causes damage to and outside my body and broadcasts details of the damage and surveillance around the globe. that device is being repeatedly impacted so that it becomes difficult or impossible to remove. since your dept of public safety and sheriff's deputies have been involved in harassment and entrapment since november 2015, and your institution has been involved in public celebration of these attacks, it can only be assumed that stanford and its hospital have been complicit and negligent in this matter since november 2015. rohit relan city council palo alto sheriff's dept santa clara county board of operations santa clara county attorney genl us members us senate secy state defense dhs commerce treasury members can aus uk parls pa police white house counsel cc: interpol On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Rohit Relan <rohitrelan7@gmail.com> wrote: shocks convulsions spasms 1 hot oil drop a minute attorney genl us members us senate secy state defense dhs commerce treasury members can aus uk parls pa police white house counsel City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:13 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Wayne Martin <wmartin46@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 14, 2018 12:26 PM To:Council, City Subject:Relocation Aid For Residents of President Hotel? Palo Alto City Council City of Palo Alto Palo Alto, CA 94301 Elected Council Members: It would appear that the Council, in this an election year, is planning to pass some sort of emergency ordinance to force the new owners of the President Hotel to provide relocation assistance for those residents who will be leaving this location because of a change of ownership. Was interested in knowing if this ordinance was intended to aid ONLY the residents of the President Hotel, or ALL residents of Palo Alto who are forced to move because of a change of ownership of their rental property? Wayne Martin Palo Alto City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:58 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Jeff Hoel <jeff_hoel@yahoo.com> Sent:Sunday, August 12, 2018 1:46 PM To:UAC Cc:Hoel, Jeff (external); Council, City; CAC-TACC Subject:RFP 171422 (FTTN) interviews Commissioners, At the 08-01-18 UAC meeting (between 0:09:09 and 0:13:52 on the video) http://midpenmedia.org/utilities-advisory-commission-31-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/ staff announced that the City had received six bids in response to RFP 171422 (FTTN), https://nextcenturycities.org/wp-content/uploads/RFP-171422-FTTN-B1.pdf and that staff will interview five of the six bidders this week (08-13-18, 08-14-18, and 08-15-18). Staff invited UAC commissioners who were willing to attend all five interviews to do so, as observers and commenters. And Commissioners Forssell, Johnston, and Segal showed interest. RFP 171422 includes considering an option to deploy citywide fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP). I'd be very interested to see what the bidders have proposed for that. --- Council approved pursuing a FTTN approach at its 08-21-17 meeting. The 08-21-17 staff report https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/61084 said FTTN might cost between $12 million and $15 million. It would deploy about 62 miles of fiber cable to an unspecified number of "nodes." And that FTTN network might be useful later on if the City (or a third party) wanted to deploy a citywide fiber-to-the- premises (FTTP) network. --- It turns out that on 06-12-18, the City Council of Boulder, CO, voted (unanimously) to do something that looks remarkably like Palo Alto's FTTN idea. Perhaps that's not so surprising, since their consultant is also CTC. They will implement a "backbone" that will cost an estimated $15 million. They will deploy about 93 miles of fiber cable -- all underground -- to fiber distribution cabinets (FDCs). And that "backbone" might be useful later if the city (or a third party) wanted to deploy a citywide fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network. (In such an FTTP network, an FDC would serve up to 512 premises, and they're estimating about 44,000 premises citywide, so that means there would be at least 86 FDCs, and probably more like 100. But the staff reports didn't actually say how many FDCs.) See: * 06-12-18 staff report (8 pages) https://www-static.bouldercolorado.gov/docs/Broadband Memo 2018 06 12 FINAL-1-201806151013.pdf * 06-12-18 video (from 0.00.00 to 1:23:20) https://boulder.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/VODPreview.aspx?meetingVideoID=d7e6d7d8-0d75-476b-99df-13be6cbee786&index=4 * 05-08-18 study session memorandum (396 pages) https://www-static.bouldercolorado.gov/docs/2018 05 08 SS-Broadband packet-1-201806151108.pdf * 05-08-18 video (from 0.00:00 to 1:49:00) https://boulder.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/VODPreview.aspx?meetingVideoID=f58b1a2f-4307-4d2f-acdc- a507c7ee139f&index=9 Boulder decided to build its "backbone" without doing a "business case" analysis. Staff initially (05-08-18) said it would cost only $11 million, because it could generate $4 million in lease revenues. But Council decided they'd rather just figure out how to find the $15 million up front, and then the lease revenues would be gravy. Council was convinced that the "backbone" was necessary for FTTP, and FTTP was necessary for Boulder, so the money spent on the "backbone" wouldn't be wasted. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:58 AM 2 How can Boulder (population 108,090), which doesn't even start with a dark fiber network, build an all-underground 93-mile "backbone" for $15 million when Palo Alto (population 67,024), which does start with a dark fiber network, thinks a 62-mile FTTN network will cost $12 million to $15 million? --- Thanks. Jeff ------------------- Jeff Hoel 731 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 ------------------- City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:11 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Anne Schmitt <schmitta@pacbell.net> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 4:07 PM To:Council, City Subject:Routes through Palo Alto I was wondering if we will soon be seeing a booklet from the Council: ‘Routes to avoid traffic through PA'. Which neighborhoods is the mayor suggesting people drive through to avoid congestion? City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:09 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Mike Graglia <graglia@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, August 09, 2018 10:56 AM To:Mello, Joshuah Cc:Benafsha Irani; Dawn Macurdy Billman; Prof Richard Fikes; Council, City; Kniss, Liz (internal) Subject:Special needs kids sign Josh, Copying you in on our latest plea for CPA to do something on our block (1200 Lincoln) which you've been ignoring for well over a year. I was reflecting on why I get so frustrated by this. Part of the reason is in the past year my son has gone from having an to a rare disease diagnosis which includes giving him some very challenging behaviors. Like running into a street, dangerousdue to poor management by the city. So I'm wondering if --given you're likely going to continue to ignore these requests until we sue the city or until someone dies-- what is my approach for requesting a sign that says "special needs children slow down"? Please reply to this one. Mike On Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 10:27 Benafsha Irani <birani@hotmail.com> wrote: Hello City Council, I completely agree 100% with Mike. If there is a fatality it is really going to be the City's fault since you are continuing to allow this to happen. I have also called into the Police traffic line requesting that an officer be placed during peak hours to monitor traffic but since I have lived here there has never been a police officer assigned to monitor traffic. We have about 6 small children less than 7 years of age and it is scary to think if something happened. Please really do something. If you want we can send you video footage of how fast cards are speeding down our street. A good example is of the Honda [photo included of license plate number] when my daughter and I were driving 3 nights ago on Lincoln Ave at speed limit. The driver of this car sped really close past us, made sure we felt uncomfortable before speeding off past us at 50+ mph. I decided to follow the car past Lincoln and finally caught up with him on the main traffic signal at the Red light on University and Woodland where my daughter was able to take a photo. He should be cited. But will he? Most likely not since he will deny it and do it again. His license plate information is attached for your records. Worst part is that big delivery trucks are also speeding down out street over the speed limit. Please consider doing something about controlling speeding cars on our street. Thanks, Benafsha City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:09 AM 2 From: Mike Graglia <graglia@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 4:52 PM To: Benafsha Irani; liz.kniss@cityofpaloalto.org Cc: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org; Prof Richard Fikes; Dawn Macurdy Billman Subject: Re: Fw: Request for consideration I have been sending emails to this effect to the travel office at the city for well over a year. The particular block in question seems to have been intentionally narrowed to choke traffic, which didn't work. Thanks, when there's too much traffic in the neighborhood this block is completely gridlocked with cars parked on both sides and cars going both ways... resulting in pollution, noise, frustration and the potential for accidents as people try to find a way through. On the other hand ‐‐the problem B is referring to‐‐ is that when the streets are open and people are in a hurry they race down. But since it is narrow visibility is reduced they won't see kids / kids won't see them. If you just check your records there have already been numerous accidents both with bikes and cars on this block. If you don't do something to slow traffic on this street, it will result in a fatality, probably of a resident, likely of a child and it will be your fault because we've been emailing you about this for years. I fail to understand why wide‐open patch of Lincoln just a few blocks down has tons of speed bumps but this block which is narrower and far more dangerous has nothing. Please do something! Add a roundabout, speed bumps or traffic camera but please something. Mike On Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 09:20 Benafsha Irani <birani@hotmail.com> wrote: Hello City Council, Please include my request into your consideration. It is just getting out of hand here on Lincoln Ave [between Hamilton and University]. We have really young children and you do not want something happening to them because you allow for cars to get through out neighborhood at 45+ mph. We need a round‐about on the corner of Hamilton and Lincoln just like the one you have on Bryant Street. Thank you. Benafsha, Joerg and Ava From: Benafsha Irani <birani@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 12:51 AM To: welgreg@gmail.com Subject: Request for consideration Hello Greg, City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:09 AM 3 One of my neighbors suggested I contact you regarding the traffic problems we are having on Lincoln Ave. We have several families with young children and cars are just "zooming" past our street. They have on several occasions broken our side car windows and never even bothered to leave their contact information. I am always relieved when I leave my driveway that someone did not hit my car. That is not a great feeling on a daily basis. So we would like to request on the corner of Lincoln and Hamilton if we could have a round about [just like the one on Bryant Street] placed so that cars are forced to slow down and avoid our area using Waze. As I write this email I counted atleast 15 cars driving by at 45 mph which is a sad situation. All our neighbors are for this idea. Please advise how we can work with you to make this a reality. Thanks, Benafsha [Lincoln and Hamilton] ‐‐ Michael Graglia mobile (202) 431‐9921 | fax (650) 440‐4967 @JMichaelGraglia | LinkedIn Join a conference | Schedule a meeting -- Michael Graglia mobile (202) 431-9921 | fax (650) 440-4967 @JMichaelGraglia | LinkedIn Join a conference | Schedule a meeting City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:11 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Ruby B <ruby.bolaria@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 5:33 PM To:Council, City Subject:Stop evictions at the Palo Alto president hotel Hi - I cannot attend the council meeting tonight but am writing to voice my support to put a temporary hold on the eviction of tenants at the president hotel. There could be a temporary hold until January to allow time for residents to find new places - especially those with business's in the area. The existing tenant contracts should be obligated with or if not then there should be a 6 month rent stipened per evicted tenant. I am a developer and understand the complexity but at this time it's irresponsible to allow such evictions to put more people on the street. Ruby -- "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 3:28 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Peter Broadwell <peter@plasm.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 3:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:Support residents of President Hotel Dear Council folks ‐ I used to live on Cowper street, a short walk from the President Hotel. Over time, encountered numerous residents out walking... you run into your neighbors more often, eventually recognize, then befriend them. I have since moved to the College Terrace neighborhood, so not doing the same walks as before, but still engage in conversation with residents whom I first met long ago when we see each other at Farmers Markets etc. i.e. they are part of our community. Please do what you can to help them continue to be. ;;peter ‐‐ Peter Broadwell, College Terrace ‐‐ peter@plasm.com City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:11 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Randy Mont-Reynaud <rmontreynaud@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 4:36 PM To:Council, City; Eric Rosenblum Subject:Take Fast Action,UnPrecedented: please save Président hotel for residents Dear council, Don’t evict, these are our neighbors, our parents, our grandparents! Given the face of the housing shortage, it would be idiotic to allow the loss of 75 resident units. But then... Randy Mont‐Reynaud City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 3:27 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Suzanne Keehn <dskeehn@pacbell.net> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 3:13 PM To:Council, City Subject:TDMs Palo Alto needs to codify TDMs, they should be mandatory, and not left up the the developer or to the planning commission. All new projects should be fully parked, and not be allowed to buy parking permits in any existing or new RPP. This needs to be applied city wide, including the Stanford Research Park. Thank You, Suzanne Keehn 4076 Orme St. 94306 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:12 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Sarah J. Bell <bell.sarah@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 6:09 PM To:Council, City Subject:The President Hotel Apartments Hi, I'm writing in support of the residents of The President Hotel Apartments. We're in a housing crisis, and we need to keep people in their homes, not make more hotel space. Thanks, Sarah City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 3:28 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Kirsten Flynn <kir@sustainablehome.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 2:45 PM To:Council, City Subject:The President Hotel Honorable City Council Members, I am writing in support of the proposed emergency ordinance or moratorium to stop the evictions of the residents of the President Hotel. I also would support you NOT allowing it’s conversion to hotel use. My stance is philosophical in nature, and touches on trust. The purpose of government is to make society work for it’s citizens. Governance, especially in capitalist democracies, should take special care that they are hearing the voice for those who have less power. The voice of money always have a place at the table, the citizens need to be active and engaged to make sure that their needs are met. Government, with it’s elected structure, it’s open meeting rules, and it’s outreach to the citizens is the locus of their voice. Entrepreneurs are, and should be, part of this process. They enhance our economy, and are stakeholders in our city. But the good of the people should be paramount in the efforts of all elected, appointed and salaried government workers. So how does this apply to our situation at the President? This proposed hotel has several benefits, a historical structure in town will get a thoughtful renovation (judging from past projects.) Our transient occupancy tax is high, and thus this use would be good for the city budget. The new owners made their purchase in good faith that they could covert it’s use, and we would be honoring their investment. Yet I think that we should oppose it. This is because some of the worst problems facing our region would be exacerbated by this conversion. Hotel guests bring cars, and this use would have a huge effect on downtown parking. Affordable housing is practically non existent in the area, and the displaced residents would need to move far afield. The displaced residents commuting back into the area for their jobs and social connections would make it even more difficult for the city to lower their green house gas emissions from transportation. Finally, there is the issue of trust. It seems like their planned use conversion does violate our city code. If these evictions go forward, and the change of use is permitted in this grandfathered building, despite code provisions designed to protect residents, it is very concerning. It would send a message that the voice of outside investors speaks more loudly than the voice of residents already in our city. If we allow density in a neighborhood, because we care about economic diversity, what would prevent future affordable housing units from being converted to market rate units? I, and many citizen volunteers, participate in government in good faith, hoping to help shape our vibrant neighborhood community into a future structure that works for all. We have always considered Council and Staff our allies in our participation. We need to nurture the trust between our neighbors and the city agencies. Strong leadership is needed here, leadership that shows that Palo Alto residents are the priority. Thank you for your time in reading this, and for your service as council members. Kirsten Flynn City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/9/2018 10:46 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Richard Almond <rjalmond@stanford.edu> Sent:Thursday, August 09, 2018 9:35 AM To:Council, City Subject:traffic on University Madams and Sirs, Mayor Kniss has recently set off a flurry of discussion with her poorly‐informed appraisal of traffic problems. I live on University Avenue, and have a front‐row experience of the situation. Not only have I had to park several blocks away when returning home on certain days when there is a jam on the Dumbarton, but every day it can take me 15' to get around the corner of Lincoln and University to my house, even using the bike lane illegally. It is not that surprising that this situation has developed, and as political leaders you are of course subject to the influence of contributions as well as your constituents. Stanford plays a major role, along with all the businesses from downtown to the industrial park and Hospital. At some point, those interests are going to be affected by the traffic ‐‐ if employees, patients, customers cannot get in and out, the prestige advantage of PA will diminish. Certainly, the concern about emergency vehicles should move you to creative action. In addition to traffic light synchronization, what about peripheral parking with shuttles, strong pressure to car‐ pooling (with use of apps for it encouraged), and so on? Could Stanford engineering contribute creatively to solutions? PA has lagged other nearby communities in its creativity and good government. Why? You can be part of the solution. Thanks, Richard Almond, MD 1520 University Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Opinion pieces and other recommendations may not always be responded to quickly, due to time constraints, but they are appreciated. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:13 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Annette Ross <port2103@att.net> Sent:Thursday, August 09, 2018 2:35 PM To:Council, City Subject:Traffic/July 30 CC Mtg Today, in the 3 minutes between 1:50pm and ‐ 1:53pm I counted 21 large (10 ‐ 18 wheel) trucks between Hansen Way and the Alma underpass. I assure you I am not exaggerating; the driver of the car I was in can collaborate my count. Given where we were, I highly doubt these trucks were passing through Palo Alto on the way to or from a construction site in a neighboring city. WE generate traffic, WE have a lot of construction projects, and WE contribute to local and regional traffic and circulation problems. In fact, about a week ago I saw a dirt truck run a red light on El Camino. I tried to catch up to get the rig number, but could not. I think the complaints are valid and that the resulting problems are a big reason why the initiative was widely supported by the community. Annette Ross College Terrace Sent from my iPhone City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:12 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Adina Levin <adina.levin@friendsofcaltrain.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 5:47 PM To:Council, City Subject:Transportation fee and TDM requirements Honorable Council Members, Thank you for considering updates to the city's transportation fee program and TDM requirements in line with the policies passed in the Comprehensive Plan. Friends of Caltrain closely follows transit-supportive policies on the Peninsula Corridor. Setting trip reduction goals for areas of the city, reflecting the transportation options and mix of uses in the area reflects regional best practice and will help to reduce car trips with tailored programs. Following regional best practices, there is one change that we would strongly recommend. The current proposed policy has developments reporting on a regular basis to city staff. In addition, we would recommend annual reporting to City Council, as is done in the City of San Mateo. In that city, Rail Corridor Plan TDM reports are provided annually to the City Council, Planning Commission, and Public Works Commission. This reporting provides policymakers and community members a clear picture of the performance of the developments in the Rail Corridor Plan Area. Another feature in the San Mateo program is that the city takes responsibility for the reporting, with funding from the developments. There are different reporting methodologies used for different developments with different sizes and geographies, but the measurement is the city's responsibility. These practices would help provide accountability and transparency for a citywide set of programs to reduce vehicle trips and increase sustainable transportation. Thank you for your consideration, - Adina Adina Levin Friends of Caltrain http://greencaltrain.com 650-646-4344 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 2:21 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Anne Schmitt <schmitta@pacbell.net> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 9:41 AM To:Council, City Subject:two things 1. President apartments: I encourage whatever action the council can take to protect the tenants from eviction. 2. I was shocked that the Mayor thinks there is no traffic congestion in Palo Alto and/or that she thinks we can/should all do ‘work arounds’ for congested areas. I do question her judgement and wonder where she goes and at what time of day. I personally find that at any time of day there can be unexpected congestion. And, of course, we all know rush hour where and when. For example, for me going from College Terrace to the Y on Ross Road there is almost always congestion and I avoid rush hour whenever I can. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2018 2:11 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Tommy Pesavento <tommypez@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 13, 2018 4:08 PM To:Council, City Subject:URGENT: About the eviction notices sent to residents of President Hotel Please do not condone these evictions. These are people's homes and it is unfair for the new owners to simply kick them out so abruptly. As a local resident, I request the city council consider an urgency ordinance or a moratorium that would, for example, delay the expulsion for the residents until after the holidays and to explore the possibility of permanent residential use of the building. At least give them that long to figure out a solution with your help! Thank you, -- Tommy Pesavento LinkedIn | Website | Twitter Ⓥ City of Palo Alto I City Clerk's Office I 8/13/2018 8:53 AM Carnahan, David From: Sent: To: Subject: George Jaquette <jaquette@gmail.com> Saturday, August 11, 2018 7:58 PM Council, City What does a construction pause mean to the city council? I was relieved to hear that the destruction of our sti·eets had been paused. Now I read that the city plans to rip up Amarillo right when school sta1is, ensuring challenges for Ohlone. STOP THE MADNESS! And they are doing all this constmction on Amarillo next week when school is in session. Not the best timing. It will be interesting to see what transpires with parking, bicyclist, motorists and pedestrians walking and parents dropping of their children at school. I hope everyone is safe during this 3 week constmction period. fij George Jaquette email: jaguette@gmail.com 1 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:55 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Tony Ciampi <T.Ciampi@hotmail.com> Sent:Saturday, August 11, 2018 8:34 PM To:Binder, Andrew; Keene, James; Council, City; HRC; Stump, Molly; Shikada, Ed; Conde, Christopher; Burns, Dennis Cc:kamala_harris@harris.senate.gov; Nathan_Barankin@harris.senate.gov; Marguerite_Biagi@harris.senate.gov; Clint_Odom@harris.senate.gov; Lily_Adams@harris.senate.gov; dustin.brandenburg@mail.house.gov; katie.weiss@mail.house.gov; liz.argo@mail.house.gov; Anthony.Ratekin@mail.house.gov; Jilian.Plank@mail.house.gov; kelsey.smith@mail.house.gov; christopher.livingston@mail.house.gov; alexandra.gourdikian@mail.house.gov; Philip_Maxson@mcconnell.senate.gov; bharat_ramamurti@warren.senate.gov; elizabeth_warren@warren.senate.gov; Dan_Geldon@warren.senate.gov; Stephanie_Akpa@warren.senate.gov; blanca.jimenez@mail.house.gov; rykia.dorsey@mail.house.gov; scheduling49 @mail.house.gov; Phil_Maxson@mcconnell.senate.gov Subject:Will Ofc. Conde be charged for violating the law? Andrew Binder Captain Palo Alto Police Captain Binder, In less than 24 hours of informing City Manager James Keene on 7/24/2018 of bias policing that occurred on 7/23/2018 you sent me an email on 7/25/2018 wanting to discuss the bias policing that I had informed City Manager James Keene on 7/24/2018 the bias policing that occurred on 7/23/2018. On 8/09/2018 Palo Alto Police officer Christopher Conde unlawfully imprisoned me. I sent City Manager James Keene and the Palo Alto City Council detailed information of this false imprisonment at 12:37pm on 8/10/2018 . It is now 8:00 pm on 8/11/2018. How come you have not contacted about this blatant violation of the law and Constitutions as you did about the previous complaint? My second question is, in my email to City Manager James Keene and the City Council and others I informed Mr. Keene of the irrefutable evidence that Officer Conde violated Calif. PC 236 and 237 (a), false imprisonment, based upon violating numerous Constitution Clauses. Have you arrested and charged Officer Christopher Conde for violating California Penal Code PC 236 and 237 (a). If you have not charged Officer Conde with violating this law could you please explain why not. If a private citizen had falsely imprisoned another citizen based upon what Officer Conde did that private citizen would have already been arrested and charged with the crime therefore any excuse as to why you have not charged Ofc. Conde means that you are not going to charge or prosecute him. Therefore if you state that you are still investigating the incident such a statement is a lie and a deception to mislead me and the public. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:55 AM 2 Calif. PC 236. False imprisonment is the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another. (Enacted 1872.) Calif. PC 237. (a) False imprisonment is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. If the false imprisonment be effected by violence, menace, fraud, or deceit, it shall be punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:55 AM 3 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:55 AM 4 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:55 AM 5 Ofc. Conde went back to his vehicle and returned a minute or so later with his ticket book and mumbled off a vehicle code. (Lie number 2) I then handed over my identification to Ofc. Conde under t he threat of arrest for not providing Ofc. Conde my identificati on. Ofc. Conde went back to his vehicle and returned a minute or so later and stated that I was free to go. I informed Ofc. Conde that t here was no vehicle code for the rear light to which he acknowledged by stating that he "miss-spoke." In fact CVC 21201 (d){l ) states, ''A reel reflector or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that shall be visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle." My bicycle has a red reflector that meets the requirements of this law. I requested that Ofc. Conde write down the VC which states that a bike needs a red light. He gave me a piece of paper that he wrote "CVC 21201 (d){l )" on it. Ofc. Conde stated that this is the code for bikes needing light s at night. CVC 21201 (d){l ) states ''A lamp emitting a white light that, while the bicycle is in motion, illuminates the highway, sidewalk, or bikeway in front of the bicyclist and is visible from a distance of 300 feet in front and from the sides of the bicycle." This CVC does not require a rear light. (Ofc. Conde's 3rd lie.) Additionally I had a head lamp that meets the requirements of this law. 2) During this encounter when Ofc. Conde realized that he had no justification to stop me fo r not having a rear light he attempted to justify t he stop by adamantly asserting that the front head light needed to be mounted on the bike. That 's not true, CVC 21201 (e) City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/13/2018 8:55 AM 6 City Manager James Keene can fill you in on the remainder if you have not already received it. FYI‐‐‐‐ I've copied in more than Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. Tony Ciampi I support Castilleja's proposal to increase enrollment and modernize its campus because ... rf /s M4 &f e;}Jud- IA!./l..JJ;(uic 1 /,s IJ/v IJ ~ ~dJc;a/1/1 ,·f1Af1'1'~ ~ {o ~11, ~·hi ~h -------~~~~ ------------~~~ ----------~ ------····----. -n!? 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Mt ·17b1-g 7H£ 1P!tm::r~ ~c.. t/V ~IZ6 y~~. -----~ ~-· CD =4=4 ~ ,,.. -<...( e:: no Ci"> r -n J, ~~ ~ <JiO .... oJ> '° ..,,Ci Office of the Clerk ;.:., ~9 Please distribute to all c~ouJcl1-250 H 'It mbers am1 on Avenue, 7th Floor Palo Alto, CA, 9430l I j 11 I l I 1l\1 I l I \ l i 1l1\l1 I• l \ \ \ • I I j 1 \I\ i \•I l 1 I j 111i111} 1IIj1I1 • 1111 August 9, 2018 TO: STATE, CITY AND LOCAL OFFICIALS CITY Of PAL 9 ALT?ilt NOTICE OF PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY'S REQtftsf\.f8~~~~ASE RATES FOR ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS (A.18-07-021) l8 AUG l 4 AH to: 04 Summary On July 30, 2018, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) filed its Electric Transportation Pilot Project application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). This application requests $4.13 million to expand the electric transportation initiatives offered by PG&E and help California meet the goals outlined in Senate Bill 350: Clean Energy & Pollution Reduction Act (SB 350). The pilot is designed to provide electric vehicle charging stations for moderate to low income residential customers and provide education in these communities to support more customers getting electric vehicles. Background The goals of SB 350 are to reduce dependence on petroleum, meet air quality standards, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 2017, PG&E and the other California utility companies submitted their first applications under SB 350 to promote widespread electric transportation. In early 2018, the CPUC approved the applications and authorized the utilities to submit applications requesting to increase rates for the approved projects. How will PG&E's application affect me? Many customers receive bundled electric service from PG&E, meaning they receive electric generation, transmission and distribution services. Based on rates currently in effect, the bill for a typical residential bundled non-CARE customer using 500 kWh per month would increase from $111.59 to $111 .61, or 0.02 percent. Actual impacts will vary depending qn energy usage. How will PG&E's application affect customers who buy electricity from a third party? Direct Access and Community Choice Aggregation customers only receive electric transmission and distribution services from PG&E. On average, these customers will see an increase of 0.02 percent. Departing Load customers do not receive electric generation, transmission or distribution services from PG&E. However, they are required to pay certain charges as required by law or CPUC decision. These customers will not be impacted by this application. How do I find out more about PG&E's proposals? If you have questions about PG&E's filing , please contact PG&E at 1-800-743-5000. For TTY, call 1-800-652-4712. Para mas detalles Harne al 1-800-660-6789 • ~m~~~ 1-800-893-9555. If you would like a copy of PG&E's filing and exhibits, please write to PG&E at the address below: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric Transportation Pilot Project Application (A.18-07-021) P.O. Box 7442 San Francisco, CA 94120 A copy of PG&E's filing and exhibits is also available for review at the CPUC's Central Files office by appointment only. For more information, contact aljcentralfilesid@cpuc.ca.gov or 1-415-703-2045. PG&E's application (without exhibits) is available on the CPUC's website at www.cpuc.ca.gov. CPUC process This application will be assigned to an Administrative Law Judge (Judge) who will determine how to receive evidence and other related documents necessary for the CPUC to establish a record upon which to base its decision. Evidentiary hearings may be held where parties will present their testimony and may be subject to cross-examination by other parties. These evidentiary hearings are open to the public, but only those who are formal parties in the case can participate. 1 After considering all proposals and evidence presented during the hearings, the assigned Judge will issue a proposed decision which may adopt PG&E's proposal, modify it or deny it. Any of the five CPUC Commissioners may sponsor an alternate decision. The proposed decision, and any alternate decisions, will be discussed and voted upon at a scheduled CPUC Voting Meeting. The Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA) m~y review this application. ORA is the independent consumer advocate within the CPUC with a legislative mandate to represent investor-owned utility customers to obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels. ORA has a multidisciplinary staff with expertise in economics, finance, accounting and engineering. For more information about ORA, please call 1-415-703-1584, email ora@cpuc.ca.gov or visit ORA's website at www.ora.ca.gov. Stay informed If you would like to follow this proceeding, or any other issue before the CPUC, you may use the CPUC's free subscription service. Sign up at: http://subscribecpuc.cpuc.ca.gov. If you would like to learn how you can participate in the proceeding, have informal comments about the application or have questions about the CPUC processes, you may access the CPUC's Public Advisor Office (PAO) webpage at http://consumers.cpuc.ca.gov/pao. You may also contact the PAO as follows: Email: public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov Mail: CPUC Public Advisor's Office 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 Call: 1-866-849-8390 (toll-free) or 1-415-703-2074 TTY: 1-866-836-7825 (toll-free) or 1-415-703-5282 If you are contacting the CPUC, please include the application number (Electric Transportation Pilot Project Application; A.18-07-021). All comments will be circulated to the Commissioners, the assigned Judge and appropriate CPUC staff and will become public record. 2 08/07/2018 To the City Council of Palo Alto, CA CHY OF PALO ALTO. CA CITY CLERK'S OFFICE 18 AUG -9 AH g: 3' I am writing in opposition to the toll express lanes on the 101 on the Peninsula and in support of the positions of Mayor L. Siegel of Mountain View and San Mateo County Supervisor D. Canepa in the hope that the Palo Alto City Council will adopt a similar stand. Whenever I drive in the East Bay and see the toll express lanes I can't help feeling a sense of betrayal. We all agreed to move over in favor of those who carpool, but these are still our lanes, and if their purpose changes, they can only be given back, not sold back to us. But there are other arguments against toll express lanes: -They occupy more space than one lane, as they have merging lanes and double separation lines, so they are actually a space -wasting quasi-solution. It would be better if two regular lanes were added instead of this demanding, complicated and expensive one. And even if there is no room for two, and only one regular lane were added instead, it would be cheaper to do, and all the lanes could be somewhat wider and therefore safer. -They actually obstruct the flow of traffic, as their merging spots introduce areas of intense lane changing, as express lane drivers need to cut across all other lanes to and from the exit in a relatively small designated distance before and after each exit. This is much easier in the less strictly regimented and separated carpool lanes we have now. -When we gave them up, we did it to support socially responsible behavior such as carpooling, not to give the wealthier among us a way to get home faster. -Most insidiously, once the profit motive is introduced, by its inexorable logic, there will be no incentive to reduce congestion in the regular lanes; quite the opposite -the incentive would be to keep the regular lanes congested in order to increase revenue and force traffic into the pay lanes. This race for profit would lead to pressure for more toll lanes and eventually would result in the disappearance of the free "freeway". -Finally, tolls are a form of regressive taxation. When you ask a citizen about taxes, the first argument in favor that comes to mind is "roads". There must be other ways for all of us to provide for a 21st century freeway system through some other form of taxation. How come the previous generations were able to build the whole Interstate Highway System, and we in the most affluent area of the country can not even maintain and expand them? Sincerely, M. Milojkovic Palo Alto, CA ' Olt, a storm is tltreat'11i11g My very life today If I do11't get some shelter Yealt, l'mgomrafadeaway " -"GIMME SHELTER,• MICK JAGGER & KEITH RICHARDS VOLUME20 NUMBER 6 •JUNE 2018 •WRITTEN BY JIM HIGHTOWER Robbery that would make even Jesse James blush Gentrification shreds the fabric of our cities while making rich developers even richer Why do we allow rank profiteers to push the neighbor out of the 'hood? hen I moved to Austin in 1976, I lucked into finding a small, dog-run style house that must have had a lot of dogs running through it over the years, for it was pretty run down. That was good, though, because it meant I could afford it on my minimalist salary. Located in a working-class neighborhood just off of South Congress Avenue, the house was about 100 years old and needed a lot of work, but it suited me just fine. As did the mixed-race neighborhood of striving musicians, retirees, ex-hippies, unemployed writers, cab drivers, and several marijuana peddlers. It was an unpretentious, genuinely eclectic community oflaid-back, free-spirited Austinites. (Our unofficial slogan was, "We're all here because we're not all there.'') We had plenty of bars, churches, and other places where neighbors would gather periodi- cally in various groupings, but one spot was a magnet for the whole community, regularly pulling practically everyone in. The H-E-B, our area's supermarket, was part of a mid-sized chain ofTexas grocery stores named for its founder Howard E. Bufr. (The family smartly chose to market Mr. Burt's initials, rather than draw attention to his namesake body part.) Our H-E-B was widely popular because its workers paid attention to the community they were in, stocking staples like 20-pound bags of frijoles, smoked ham hocks, and cornmeal-breaded catfish, as well as auro-repair parts and low-priced barbeque grills made from barrels. Ironically, it was the store's attentive connection to its customers that suddenly made me aware of an unsettling reality in the late 1990s: The neighborhood was fundamentally changing. My wake-up call came from my friend Molly Ivins, the bigger-than-life Texas populist and gloriously talented writer who also lived in our offbeat, Southside habitat. "Hightower," she barked alarmingly into the phone, "you will not believe what! just saw them selling at the H-E-B." Before I could muster a guess, Molly drawled out: "Por-ta-BELLOW mushrooms!" Well, there it was-foodie evidence that gentrification had crept into our neighborhood without so much as a pretty please. Soon after, the gentry were spreading all around us. Modest old homes were spiffed up and marketed at jaw-dropping prices-now starting at around half- a-million bucks, with rentals above $4,000 a month. Likewise, the collection of inexpensive, fun-and-funky shops strung along a couple of main corridors has been thinned out by skyrocketing rents and escalating property taxes, and replaced by chic boutiques and pricey restaurants. And we were dismayed (and not a little embarrassed) when the new merchant class of absentee owners rebranded our whole South Congress neighborhood "SoCo." (It would've been more honest to dub it "SoEx," as in So Expensive.) As money poured in, many longtime friends, neighbors, and much of the 2 HIGHTOWER LOWDOWN JUNE 2018 funkiness were squeezed out. Nonetheless, I hasten co add char che neighborhood recains enough of a sprinkling of che uncommon places and unorthodox characters co remain a delighcful place to live and enjoy. If, that is, you can afford it. GENTRIFICATION is a function of power, not natural law or economic inevitability. Class War To che amazement oflongtime locals in many parts of America, gentrification has surged in recent years, suddenly swamping whole communities in US urban centers, as well as in close-in suburbs and quaint small towns. The developers, bankers, and public officials pushing such incursions try to soften che destructive impacts of gentrification by cloaking che term wich euphemisms like "revitalization" and "enrichment" - implying progress for all and a beautiful community uplift. In fact, chough, it has nearly always been a code word for a particularly ugly form of class war. The process often amounts to a forced taking and the involuntary removal oflower-income residents, businesses, and cultures from an area chat che affluent "discover." The discoverers decide they either want che area for themselves or wane to flip ic {ac an extraordi- nary pro.fie) co even more affluent buyers. The rationali- zation for chis raking and displacement rests on four wobbly pillars of conventional wisdom {perpetuated, of course, by che gentrifim, noc those gentrified upon). WOBBLY #l The "evolving affordability" PILLAR ofacommunityisanatural and immutable process through which wondrous free market forces transform low-income areas into prosperous neighborhoods-for the benefit of all. Wronu ~encrification is a func- -----~a~· uon of power, not natural law or economic inevitability. It occurs when wealthy, politically connected interests make decisions in closed-door meetings to take over the neighborhoods of people who have little money and power, thus no effective voice or recourse in the taking. The takers usually make Brooklyn Heights, NewYork.NYC(alte~photoJ. a pretense of negotiating with longtime prop- erty owners. But it's a scam, for the developers hurl high-pressure, low-ball pitches at the locals, overpowering fumilies that can't afford lawyers and lobbyists to go to bat for them. Renters are worse off, rarely even getting fair notice that a hellish Dickensian disruption is coming at chem. Even if they've been integral members of the neigh- borhood for decades, the ousted tenants' rights co appeal are curtailed by eco- nomic and legal realities. The seriously skewed balance of power is exemplified by eviction courts, where up co 90 percent of tenants don't even have lawyers co rep- resent them. In one of many recent examples here in Austin, more than 200 work- ing-class families (including 121 children) were abruptly ejected two years ago from an affordable apartment complex. Their lives were thrown into a tailspin when the mega-developer that bought the complex summarily cancelled cheir leases. In a backroom deal tenants were unaware of, much less involved in, the city had given special zoning exemptions that allowed the new corporate owner to bulldoze che long-standing family homes of these mostly Latinx residents and co erect high-end luxury apartments on cop of the detritus. Rents for these new, ritzy dwellings ran up to $36,000 a year-way above che the coral annual income of most of che displaced families. As one tenant said of che brusque eviction, "We didn't have any way co stop them. They treated us like din. All chcy gave us was a kick in the ass." DEEP CUTS IN FEDERAL SUPPORT have shifted fair housing responsibility to cities and towns. So start where you live! 0 SENDMETWOYEARSOF I 0 SEND ME ONE YEAR OF i T/Je Hlfhtowir Lewdown Tiie Hl1htower Lowdowa ,..,,.~..._.,: FOR JUST $27·00 FOR JUST $15·00 ' ' ' ' ' : ' . 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W Millions of middle-income rang. -Americans who were previ- ously secure in homes they owned or rented have had co move out of their neighborhoods and even out of their cities, because gentrifica- tion has drastically raised home prices, properry taxes, and rents. While it's obvioasly beneficial to have such ~rysuutgromyston,Wllllamsburg,Brooklyn. LWYang (lltmd photo). essential community servants as teachers, police, and firefighters live among the people they serve, who among them can afford it? When one Oakland, California, school principal started teacliing in 200 l, the story was: Teachers are never going to afford a house. And now it's: Teachers can~ afford an apartment. So the city's teachers have to move clear out of the counry and face long, dispir- iting commutes to and from their classrooms. In metro areas across the country, consumer demand for affordable apart- ments is huge and fast growing, but that mass market goes begging because devel- opers can make far greater profits by building upscale units for wealthy people seeking trendy neighborhoods. And so it goes: Gentrification begets gentrification. A survey by RENTCafe, a nationwide apartment search website, found that 75 percent of all new apartment complexes built in the US in 2015 were luxury developments! You might expect that skew toward housing for the affluent in the Northeast and California, with such super-pricey cities as New York and San Francisco, so I was surprised to see that luxury construction was most dominant in the South, where 78 percent of all apartments were upscale and in the Southwest where the number reached an appalling 88 percent. For poverty-income families, being gentrified out of an affordable space can mean more than a long commute. It often forces them to move into bad and JUNE 2018 HIGHTOWER LOWDOWN 3 BAD ATTITUDE · LIKE WALL STREET, SILICON VALLEY, and other centers of corporate conceit, the high-dollar world of real estate gentrifiers is filled with h1Jstlers pro- pelled by their own arrogance and avarice. In 2015, one of these, F&F Real Estate Ventures, was try- ing to cash in on a gentrifying boom sweeping East Austin's long-established Mexican-American community, rapidly displacing the residents' mod- est homes, small businesses, and proud culture. The Anglo impresarios of F&F had bought a commercial property in the community, intending to oust the owners of a local piilata store, demol- ish the building, and flip the property to some up- scale emporium with no ties to the community. Sure enough, in the wee hours of a February morning, it proceeded to crush the little shop. Alas, the gentri- fiers had not bothered to notify Sergio and Monica Lejarazu, who rented the store, aboutthe imminent destruction. All of their merchandise and business equipment were also crushed. Austinites erupted in outrage at the blunt-force immorality of these profiteers, but F&F pushed back. Jordan French, one ofthe Fs in F&F, had this defense: "Say you have a house that was infested by roaches. You have to clean that up." The Lejarazus were eventually compensated and have relocated their shop. F&F renovated the piiiata property and leased itto "Blue Cat Cafe" -an eatery that lets customers dine with cats. dangerous housing; pay up to 70 percent of the family's monthly income for a place to live; face eviction (there were 2.3 million in 2016, not counting the unofficial ones, with landlords often simply locking tenants out); and fall into deeper debt, poverry and, frequently ending up homeless-living in their cars or on the srreet. The toll lands heavily on children since they make up a third of Americans without homes-astonishingly, the average age of a homeless person is 9! WOBBLY #3 Gentrification is good for society PILLAR at large, reducing blight while Meanwhile, here comes Team Trump heaping scorn on poor people even as it it callously slashes budgets for pro- grams aimed at giving them a chance for decent housing. Indeed, Ben Carson, the incompetent US housing sec- retary, is pushing a vicious Trump proposal to triple the rent that the lowest-income residents pay for apartments in public housing projects. Toured as a deficit reduction plan, this outrage would cast a million of America's poor- est children out of their homes. And this from a multimil- lionaire cabinet honcho who tried to make taxpayers buy him a new $31,000 dining table and chairs for his private executive suite in America's housing agency. lifting low-value properties to their highest and best use. '\VT. Neighborhoods arc more than a wrong. collection of properties, and a community's value is far greater than the combined financial valuation of those parcels. While predatory developers know the minute details of zoning codes, campaign donation laws, and foreclosure loopholes, they know little and care less about unique cultures, Abandoned row houstt In Baltimore, MD. social fabric, local history, natural beaury, and other Carol M. Hlghsmi1h (altered photo). intangible, non-monetary sources of a communiry's true value. So they use the former to tear down or plasticize the latter ... and call it progress. Yes, we can all agree that lower-income neighborhoods need and deserve up- grades, amenities, and new vigor, but why are we allowing rank profiteers to pre- tend they're providing any of that by taking the neighbor our of the 'hood. Corporations assert that the ethical guideline for real estate development should be to attain the "highest and best use" of property-and then they con\!enicntly define "highest and best" only by the increase in their own profics. Such blatant robbery would make even Jesse James blush. 4 HIGHTOWER LOWDOWN JUNE 2018 ~DIN VOLUME 20 • NUMOE~ 6 • JUNf 2018 "1!14c Gentrification shreds the fa•rlc of our cities while 11takin& rich developers even richer ,..._ __ ._;r-i.....,..,.. MOVING? MISSED AN ISSUE? PINit cal., wrltt .. at l'llt ll/tll-'""'-". PO lol )109, u n9home PA 19M7 smafp~1*wttltlfllftDMJ Subsalllers'toH·fl'lt numbor. (877) 747-JS17 DO YOU WONDER why eventany middle-income Americans can't find affor ble apartments for their families? It's largely bet;; use corporate devel- opers have abandoned thf.m, building very few places for the majority af apartment seekers. In fact, in 2015, accordinq{to rentcafe.com, "in as many as 14 US cities, th} choice for renters be- tween luxury and non-hr urv new apartments was non-existent ... as all lj !,ge developments opened were luxury renta Is." 11J8fs 1 OOo/o luxuryv. 0% afford- able! Also, more th!f'h 90% of new construction in the fast-growing etroplexes of Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dallas, D nver, and Houston was built for high-end renters. Cities With lghest Percent of High-End Apartmen ofTotal Completed In 201r ALEXANDR YA: DURHAM, NC: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fl: '# JACISDNV 1.£, Fl: KANSAS CITY, MD: MIDLAND, TX: -Mil WA UK , WI; NASHVILLE, Tll: SAN ANTONIO, TX: I! .SH.AD.SU ·SCOTTSDALE, AR: SPRING, TX: -~~!: ~!!_: ~~~~o~~~~~~ ~~ --~~ ';;JI: ATLANTA, GA: DALLAS, TX: ~ -~ ~ -~~~v:~~~:------------~ . ;: AUSTIN, TX: ~~ -CHARLOnE, NC I ~ MADISON,WI: ~ RICHMOND, VA: = HOUSTON, Tl ';;le BDSTDN. MA: = FORTWORTH, TX •https:llwww.rentcafT!.com/bllJtl citieslatlanta-zalluxul)'·is·lhe·trend- ln-new-rental-ronslnlction -=-~ - WOBBLY #4 Okay, there is a bit of PILLAR downside to gentrifica- tion, but we should accept a little human dis- placement as a reasonable price for the finan- cial gains the process produces in the overall economy-and we definitely mutt not tamper with the structural forces at work. "\VT.fQfl!" f First, whene~~r the _W_ J---~--· vague phrase finan- cial gain" is Bashed as the neon-bright ra- tional for any big community disruption, the proper retort is: financial gain for whom? With gentrification, the answer al-Ad1ms·M«g1n,Washin91on,DC. Aud,(altmdphoto). most always is that the moneyed few gain at the expense of the struggling many. Second, financial gain at the price of fairness, diversity, and social harmony is a bottom-line loss for any community. Third, gen- ·trification is a direct cause of the gaping inequality dividing America, intentionally used by the affluent as a wedge to further separate their individual good fortunes from the Common Good. Not only is gentrification creating a nationwide housing crisis, but it has now metamorphosed into a devastating a~~aulr on America's democratic ideals, endan- gering our social unity. Embracing the process of gentrification as the natural course of things (and often benefiting from it), wealth-friendly politicians advocate merely sticking Band-Aids on some of the lethal ruptures-such as the often used "remedy" of requiring that developers pay some of the moving costs of families they displace and dispossess. But fur from accepting gentrification as an untouchable economic force, We the People must organize co protect ourselves from the predatory powers that are liter- ally invading our dries. This means going straight at such structural causes of gen- trification as unrestrained capitalist greed, corporate money in politics, institution- al racism, and, most fundamentally, the immoral sense of superiority a~d entitlement that has inflicted today's wealthy interests. Impossible? Not at all. In fact, the rampant spread of corporate outrages, human indignities, and community destruction caused by gencrifiers have sparked a rising "culture of resistance" all across grassroots America. After all, even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked. The millions who've been kicked out-along with those who sense that they're next on the list-are kicking back. To help, check out the Do Something Box. Illustration, f,ft, was altered whh gttdrawin9ucm; Alamo Squart, San Frindsco.John O'N,m. 8/13/2018 Petition · Halt Eviction of residents of Hotel President Apartments · Change.org Halt the eviction of residents of the President Apartments et's get to 1,500! ~· :=i~ (f .. Presjdent Hotel Tenants started this petition to City of Palo Alto 81£3 I . .: ~-lcou~ILrNG .. 1'<'.~ fl Placed Before Me.eung -~' . Update: The City of Palo Alto has met with and told the ~d at Meeung .: · developer that they definitely cannot violate the Municipal Code 18.18.120(b) and turn our homes into a hotel. However we have still been told that our leases will continue to be terminated and that City decisions have "absolutely no bearing or impact on" our tenancy. Please join us in requesting continued help from the City of Palo Alto in finding a solution for the President Apartments and its residents. Thank you! o Come to the Palo Alto City Council meeting Monday, August 13 at 6pm at City Hall o Write to Palo Alto City Council at city.council@cityofpaloalto.org o Sign this petition and please invite others to as well City of Palo Alto Please urge AJ Capital (out-of-state developer) to halt the eviction of the residents, and not to otherwise raise our rents in retribution! Background Our historic apartment building provides homes for Palo Altans who serve this community. We are Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) students, teachers both in PAUSD, other local schools and in our homes, medical researchers, service Share this petition https:l/www.change.org/p/halt-eviction-of-residents-of-hotel-president-apartments 1/10 Petition to +t-kl:f 1\-t-E E\Jl C.TlO"-l S hT A2-ESlD.t::NT Hon=L A-Pr.s . • .--..""" T----~ V t DfS s;u PPo 7( lG I -::;.,. 1' v. 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