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Home My Public Portal About20171009plCC 701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 10/9/2017 Document dates: 9/20/2017 – 9/27/2017 Set 1 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/27/2017 12:53 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Robert Neff <rmrneff@sonic.net> Sent:Tuesday, September 26, 2017 11:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Re: 2321 Wellesley Street project Dear City Council, On September 21 I wrote you about the proposed rezoning at 2321 Wellesley Street. Since then the owner has reached out to me to explain more about his proposal. In particular, I wrote: "I don't think this rezoning makes sense without a requirement to have the two dwellings be substantially similar, as they are in neighboring properties in the RMD zoning district. With the 2 units so dissimilar, as they are proposed here, then this should be accomplished with R1 zoning and an ADU." In fact, the second unit in the proposed design is 900 square foot, probably 2 bedroom, and the first floor is raised to give it more light. This is certainly more substantial than I had realized, and is possibly comparable to the units in the adjoining RMD zoned multi‐unit properties. At that scale, I think it can increase housing density, which I see as the purpose of the RMD zoning, and with a larger scale than could be done with an ADU. I am not familiar with process for developing an RMD zoned property. If the planning department normally insures that all dwellings in an RMD zoned development are viable and appropriately scaled, then I am no longer concerned about this rezoning. Thank you for your service to our city of Palo Alto, Robert Neff Emerson near Loma Verde Palo Alto City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:47 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Robert Neff <rmrneff@sonic.net> Sent:Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:59 PM To:Council, City Subject:2321 Wellesley Street project look like an end run around R1 zoning and scale. Dear City Council, I'm writing regarding item 2 on the Oct. 2 Agenda, a proposed rezoning of a property in College Terrace from R1 to RMD (NP). In general I am in favor of increasing density in Palo Alto. Converting the zoning would allow 2 modest homes on the lot, perhaps a duplex, instead of one larger one, and we do allow increased bulk and FAR for RMD zoning. That makes this request seem reasonable at first look. What is actually proposed is to change the zoning, and use the RMD rules to build a larger primary residence, and then have a small apartment IN THE BASEMENT! The owner could build a larger single family home than would normally be allowed in the R1 district, and then just choose to live in the house, and not even rent out the 2nd unit. It looks like an end run around the normal limitations for sizing a home in an R1 district. I don't think this rezoning makes sense without a requirement to have the two dwellings be substantially similar, as they are in neighboring properties in the RMD zoning district. With the 2 units so dissimilar, as they are proposed here, then this should be accomplished with R1 zoning and an ADU. Thank you for your service to our city of Palo Alto. Robert Neff Emerson near Loma Verde Palo Alto CITY OF 5 PALO ALTO TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL BETH MINOR, CITY CLERK OCTOBER 2, 2017 AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 5-Selection of Applicants to Interview on October 24, 2017 for the Architectural Review Board, the Historic Resources Board, and the Planning & Transportation Commission. Planning and Transportation Commission applicant Lisa Peschcke-Koedt provided the attached resume for consideration along with her application for the Planning and Transportation Commission. Beth Minor City Clerk 1of1 1 LISA PESCHCKE-KOEDT E-mail: lisa_peschcke_koedt@hotmail.com Professional and Biographical Information – 2017 Summary: want to contribute to making the world better. Do something important that matters. Care about and respect others, and build friendships across countries and cultures. Be happy. Recognized as an excellent leader, with very strong strategic, analytical, listening and communication skills. Have always led and been part of global teams, acknowledged for excellent diversity and inclusion. Decided to retire early to pursue other interests including contributing to my local community and hopefully to the broader world, as well as more time for personal and family interests. Career Information  Retired January 2017 from Cisco Systems, Inc. Planned early retirement to pursue personal, civic and other interests.  February 2006 to January 2017: Vice President, International Tax & Customs, Cisco Systems, Inc., based in San Jose, California. Cisco is a publicly traded global (Nasdaq: CSCO). Cisco has operations in over 90 countries requiring tax and customs management. • Lead global team of tax and trade professionals. Responsible for compliance, audits, planning, government relationships, business partnership and other advising. Also includes overall organizational development for the team and individuals, longer-term vision and strategy, communications, training and similar matters. • Help drive Cisco's and Finance's overall leadership and management goals. This includes Chairing the Finance Inclusion & Diversity Committee, participating in internal leadership development, and speaking at various manager and broader training sessions.  June 2010 – January 2011: Vice President, Finance Transformation, Cisco Systems, Inc. I undertook a special project under the leadership of Cisco’s Chief Financial Officer to establish the Finance Business Capabilities Transformation focus. Included engagement on the vision, strategy and design; leading the team responsible for delivering the specific capabilities; establishing the high-level execution roadmap for the deliverables; and using change leadership to engage and align across the company. My role was intended as a “start up” role with transition to business/functional owners at the appropriate time. These transformational capabilities and goals have been absorbed into the broader company. The initial work we did as a focused team accelerated progress for the company.  May 1999 to January 2006: Vice President Global Tax, Agilent Technologies Inc., and until November 2004 also Vice President Global Trade, based in Palo Alto, California. Agilent is a publicly traded global multinational headquartered in California (NYSE: A). Agilent has facilities in over 35 countries and does business in over 100 countries. Agilent spun off from Hewlett-Packard Co. in June 2000. Led global team of tax and trade professionals, advising the business, negotiating with governments, managing the financial impacts of tax and trade, and building and leading the team. Also participated in broader finance and business aspects of forming a new multi-billion-dollar public company from "scratch" (from corporate infrastructure perspective, the business was ongoing). 2  May 1996 to April 1999: Director of European Tax, Licensing & Customs, Hewlett- Packard Company, based in Geneva, Switzerland. (I also continued the International Tax Counsel role summarized below.) Full management, leadership and professional responsibilities for a team of over 100 individuals, including 25 tax professionals. HP's revenue in Europe exceeded US$15 billion at this time (the company had $40-$50B in revenue). HP operated in over 120 countries. Built a very motivated and integrated tax team in Europe. Established the European Chapter of Tax Executives Institute, the first chapter outside of North America.  September 1992 to April 1999: International Tax Counsel for Hewlett-Packard Company, based in Palo Alto, California. Managed HP's overall international taxes, including transfer pricing, international tax planning and business and functional relationships.  June 1987 to August 1992: Senior Tax Attorney, Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California. Responsible for all international tax matters for HP's activities in Asia-Pacific, Canada and Latin America.  February 1984 to January 1985: Law Clerk to Judge Samuel Conti, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California.  1982 through 1985 (various periods): associate in law firms of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Washington, D.C., Miller & Chevalier, Washington, D.C., Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C. and Ware & Freidenrich, Palo Alto, California. Responsible for legal and tax matters for clients in various industries. Education, Professional Activities and Awards  J.D., Cornell University School of Law, New York, 1983. Graduate magna cum laude with specialization in international legal affairs. Editor Cornell Law Review (1982-83). Member, Order of the Coif. Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia (1983, currently inactive) and California (1985). Member of the American, California and District of Columbia Bar Associations.  B.A., Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1978. Major in political science. Earlier emphasis on mathematics.  Awarded YWCA of Silicon Valley 2005 Tribute to Women and Industry Award. Nominated by Agilent Chief Executive Officer.  Featured in May 2005 Tax Intelligence Report focused on leadership in the tax profession.  Earlier active on the Board of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of Tax Executives Institute (TEI). Founder and first President of the TEI European Chapter (1997-1999). Vice-Chair of TEI International Tax Committee (1996-1999). Member of other industry tax executive associations, such as MAPI (Manufacturers Alliance) Tax Counsel.  Author, A Practical Approach to Permanent Establishment Issues in a Multinational Enterprise, 98 Tax Notes Int'l 95-15 (May 18, 1998). Drafted Hewlett-Packard and TEI 3 submissions to the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs. Speaker at George Washington IRS Tax school, TEI and other external professional courses in the U.S. and Europe. Volunteer Activities  Volunteer member of the Palo Alto Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) focused on the Comprehensive Plan 2030, from July 2015 through May 2017. My mother, Ditter, participated in the Palo Alto comprehensive plan/planning process in the 1970s as a volunteer as well.  Member, League of Women Voters Palo Alto. Board member for part of 2017, then "off Board" member (continuing). Chair of new Civic Savvy Committee for LWV Palo Alto, focused on assessing information and informed voting (including facts matter and fake news topics).  Member of American Civil Liberties Union (ongoing). Most recently focused on immigration rights as part of ACLU Freedom City People Power grass roots initiative.  Volunteer for various political and civic activities, such as phone banks for specific candidates. Personal Information  Born in Palo Alto, California. Parents Ditter and René Peschcke-Koedt were recent immigrants from Denmark who settled in Palo Alto.  Attended Addison Elementary, Jordan Junior High and Palo Alto High School (graduated PALY 1973).  Attended high school in Denmark for six months before starting at PALY.  Married to Bill (William) Koopman. Bill has retired from law practice and focuses on woodworking (luthier especially), photography and trekking.  Enjoy riding my bicycle, swimming, reading (especially mysteries which I hope to write someday), time with family and friends, and being by or in the ocean.  Fluent in English and Danish (speaking and reading better than writing). Very limited understanding of French and German. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:51 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:J. Shi <jian1@sbcglobal.net> Sent:Wednesday, September 20, 2017 2:14 PM To:Council, City Cc:Jian J. Shi Subject:Against to install Verizon tower at 4010 Villa Vera Our neighbors are all against to install the Verizon tower at our neighborhood. Our reason is this tower will highly effect our children and adults health because just in one of our houses. Thanks Jian Shi 4010 Villa Vista, Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-251-9570 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:51 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Jeff Hoel <jeff_hoel@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 20, 2017 1:34 PM To:Council, City Cc:Hoel, Jeff (external); UAC Subject:Beverly Hills -- FTTP Council members, I want to correct some details in my message to you of 08-17-17, 2:05 pm, "Work Plan for Fiber to the Premises" (available here, pages 32-42) about Beverly Hills' FTTP efforts. http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/59339 * I said their Council voted 7-0 to proceed with the project. But the vote was actually 5-0. * I said it was to spend $19 million on a phase 1 project. Actually, it was to spend $32 million on a citywide project. (The project is divided into two phases -- or "waves" -- both citywide. Within each wave, they report what will be spent this fiscal year and in subsequent fiscal years. They'll spend $19,839,842.81 this fiscal year on wave 1. They'll spend $31,422,502.49 in TOTAL.) The Palo Alto 08-21-17 staff report http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/59071 said Beverly Hills would be doing a "pilot installation" starting in July. Technically, that's true. At the 02-21-17 Council study session, CIO David Shirmer said it was because "there's some engineering methodologies that we want to explore and perfect as part of the pilot." But on 05-02-17, the Beverly Hills Council approved going ahead with a citywide deployment (rather than waiting for the results of the pilot). In other words, Beverly Hills could turn out to be a great example of how a municipality in California can successfully deploy citywide municipal FTTP. Please look over some of the references provided below the "###" line for further details. Thanks. Jeff ------------------- Jeff Hoel 731 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 ------------------- ########################################################################## References (most recent ones first, more or less): Beverly Hills Fiber -- sort of a "home page" http://www.beverlyhills.org/citygovernment/departmentsanddivisions/informationtechnology/itcorner/beverlyhillsfiber/?NFR =1 August 2017: "Beverly Hills City Council Approves Fiber to the Premise Funding" (sort of a "home page" from the Information Technology department's point of view) http://www.beverlyhills.org/citygovernment/departmentsanddivisions/informationtechnology/itcorner/fibertothepremise/ "* Pilot installation will continue from July 14th -- August 18th in the area north of Sunset blvd. & east of Alpine Dr." City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:51 AM 2 07-10-17: "Construction Notice" http://www.beverlyhills.org/cbhfiles/storage/files/9693266521266514708/Pilotfibertothepremise2017-07-10.pdf 05-02-17: Video of City Council meeting where they approved (5-0) moving forward -- for $32 million -- of which $10 million is from the general fund. http://beverlyhills.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=5551&meta_id=329103 * Costs are broken out by vendor (40:08) $23,012,502.49 -- phase 1 (of which $19,839,842.81 will be spent this FY) $8,410,000.00 -- phase 2 (of which $60,000 will be spent this FY) $31,422,502.49 -- TOTAL * it was pointed out that no decision has been made yet about whether the system will provide TV or phone services (but funding for it was still approved) (43:11) 02-21-17: Video of City Council study session http://beverlyhills.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=5471&meta_id=322857 * FTTP has been a Council "A" priority (2:23:59) * The network is part GPON, part AE (2:32:18) * Two "waves" (2:34:28) * Six huts (2:35:12) * About 40 percent aerial (2:36:39) * To underground the aerial portion would cost an additional $4 million (2:39:45) * Assumed Internet take rate: 36 percent (2:54:10) * A. J. Willmer has been advocating FTTP for about 15 years (2:55:40) * Council mandate: be the smartest city in the world (2:56:05) * Internet service take rate -- we ramp to 36 percent over 5 years. (3:05:20) * take rate estimates are from survey data, adjusted downward to be conservative (3:06:58) * Uptown Services' track record -- they've done 7 implementations, all doing well (3:08:39) (The staff report, page 5, names six.) * Why do a "friendly customer" pilot, and where (3:22:20) * 16:1 GPON split (3:26:34) * Hopefully, the first customers will be online this calendar year (3:33:26) 02-21-17: Agenda of City Council study session http://beverlyhills.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=5471 02-21-17: FTTP staff report (428 pages) http://beverlyhills.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=5471&meta_id=322859 * For electronics, they picked Calix E7-20, including some 10-Gbps stuff (pages 352-353) 01-18-17: "Beverly Hills Fiber | A Municipal Fiber-Optic Network" (1:40 video) https://vimeo.com/200083959 Goal: $50/month for 1-Gbps residential Internet service. 03-21-16: "City of Beverly Hills Investing in Fiber to Every Premise" -- interview with A. J. Willmer and David Schirmer http://www.planningreport.com/2016/03/21/city-beverly-hills-investing-fiber-every-premise November 2015: "FTTP Feasibiity for the City of Beverly Hills" Uptown Services (97 pages) http://www.beverlyhills.org/cbhfiles/storage/files/346187603499916308/UptownFeasabilityStudy11.2015.pdf Cost per premises (average): $647 (page 77). City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:43 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:PNQL-Now <info@pnqlnow.org> Sent:Monday, September 25, 2017 2:05 PM To:PA Neighbor Network Subject:Castilleja Compromise Not Imminent SEPTEMBER 2017 VOLUME 2 Castilleja Compromise Not Imminent The Daily Post has reported that Mayor Scharff is working with residents and Castilleja School to seek a compromise. PNQLnow has met with Mayor Scharff, but Castilleja has not agreed to discuss a compromise. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE DOWN YOUR YARD SIGN Mandatory Castilleja Neighborhood Meeting October 10 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:43 AM 2 Please Attend! The second and final neighborhood meeting of the year will be held October 10 at the Castilleja Dining Hall, at 7:00pm (entrance on Kellogg). Please attend to voice your opinions. Public outcry is our only hope of mitigating the impact on our neighborhood and surrounding community. City Council email: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org VISIT PNQLNOW.org → New Yard Signs We have ordered new yard signs. We have shifted the message from "Stop Castilleja Expansion" to "Talk to Residents." The image at the top of the newsletter shows the sign design. Please send us an email at info@pnqlnow.org to get a sign or to replace a stolen/vandalized sign. Castilleja Conducting Phone Survey, Asking Misleading Questions Castilleja is conducting phone surveys in Palo Alto. Questions are skewed to make it sound like Castilleja's project is providing a benefit to the neighborhood. Please let us know if you have been contacted. Email us at info@pnqlnow.org. Stay Informed City Council Meetings Every Monday The Palo Alto City Council meets every Monday evening, and anyone from the public can speak to any topic during oral communications. It's clear that Castilleja plans to be at every meeting, and so will PNQLnow.org. CALENDARS AND AGENDA → Stay Up to Date — Bookmark the City's Castilleja Page You can also subscribe to get email notifications of any developments CASTILLEJA UPDATES → City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:43 AM 3 PNQLNOW.org | Email: info@pnqlnow.org MAKE A DONATION City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:48 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:18 PM To:citycouncil@menlopark.org; Council, City; Council-John Seybert; Kniss, Liz (internal); bos@smcgov.org; council@redwoodcity.org Subject:City prepares ambitious affordable-housing package | News | Mountain View Online | FYI: https://www.mv‐voice.com/news/2017/09/21/city‐prepares‐ambitious‐affordable‐housing‐package Sent from my iPhone City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/27/2017 12:55 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 27, 2017 5:17 AM To:Lum, Patty Cc:Keene, James; Reifschneider, James; Council, City; Watson, Ron; Perron, Zachary; Philip, Brian; Scharff, Greg; Kniss, Liz (external); Jay Boyarsky; jrosen@da.sccgov.org Subject:Elder abuse.... 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Sent from my iPad City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:50 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 20, 2017 4:25 PM To:dprice@padailypost.com Cc:Kniss, Liz (internal); citycouncil@menlopark.org; Council, City; Council-John Seybert; council@redwoodcity.org; bos@smcgov.org Subject:Fwd: Los Angeles Settles Suit Filed by FAC View this email in your browser LOS ANGELES SETTLES SUIT FILED BY FAC Agrees To Retain City Records For At Least Two Years September 20, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Snyder, Executive Director, First Amendment Coalition 415-460-5060, dsnyder@firstamendmentcoalition.org The city of Los Angeles has agreed it must retain city records for at least two years as part of a settlement agreement reached today with the First Amendment Coalition--a victory for transparency and government accountability in the nation’s second-largest city, and an assurance that the public will have the access to city records to which it is entitled under California law. Under the settlement terms, the city agreed to amend its “records disposition schedules”--rules dictating how long records must be preserved--to specify that city City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:50 AM 2 records must be retained for a period of at least two years. The city’s attorneys had previously taken the position in FAC’s lawsuit against the city that California law does not impose a “mandatory duty” on government agencies to retain records for any specific period of time. “The people’s right of access to public records is meaningless if the government destroys those records before the public can see them,” said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. “This settlement ensures that public records in the city of Los Angeles will be retained for a reasonable period of time so that the public can see them.” FAC’s lawsuit, filed on August 25, 2016, focused on documents that went missing when a termed-out council member, Tom LaBonge, left office in 2015. Thousands of documents about city business—public records under California law—had been boxed up, marked for destruction, and removed from LaBonge’s council office, according to news accounts at the time. FAC filed a request under the California Public Records Act for LaBonge’s memos, communications and other records relating to city business in which LaBonge was involved during the final two years of his tenure. These included matters relating to the LA Department of Water & Power, the California Film Commission, and a controversial housing development in Sherman Oaks. FAC’s request was denied on the basis that a search found no responsive records. Today’s settlement agreement also provides that Los Angeles will pay $20,000 in FAC’s attorneys fees, and further provides that the city may destroy records that are less than two years old only where a specific provision of California permits it. “The premature destruction of records by government agencies is a large and growing problem in California,” Snyder said. “With this settlement, it is clear that, in Los Angeles at least, public records will not be destroyed before their time.” FAC’s lawyer in the case is Kelly Aviles of Los Angeles. Share Tweet Forward City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:50 AM 3 Copyright © 2017 First Amendment Coalition, All rights reserved. The First Amendment Coalition: Defending Free Speech and Your Right To Know Our mailing address is: First Amendment Coalition 534 4th Street, Ste. B San Rafael, California 94901 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? 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City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:50 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Wednesday, September 20, 2017 4:05 PM To:Loran Harding; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; David Balakian; Mayor; CityManager; Council, City; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; paul.caprioglio; Paul Dictos; kfsndesk; newsdesk; rosenheim@kpix.cbs.com; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; Cathy Lewis; midge@thebarretts.com; info@superide1.com; robert.andersen; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; Leodies Buchanan; bballpod; firstvp@fresnopoa.org; Raymond Rivas; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; Greg.Gatzka; huidentalsanmateo; steve.hogg; hennessy; jboren; Joel Stiner; johnhutson580; Mark Kreutzer; kclark; kevin cervantes; leager; lxcastro93@yahoo.com; Tom Lang; Mark Standriff; mmt4@pge.com; Mark Waldrep; nick yovino; nmelosh@stanford.edu; oliver.baines; popoff; parsons@brandman.edu; russ@topperjewelers.com; richard.wenzel; Steve Wayte; steve.brandau; terry; thomas.esqueda@fresno.gov Subject:Fwd: Powerful Westlands Water Dist. votes against Brown's twin Delta tunnels ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:13 PM Subject: Fwd: Powerful Westlands Water Dist. votes against Brown's twin Delta tunnels To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:01 PM Subject: Fwd: Powerful Westlands Water Dist. votes against Brown's twin Delta tunnels To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:40 PM Subject: Fwd: Powerful Westlands Water Dist. votes against Brown's twin Delta tunnels To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:20 PM Subject: Powerful Westlands Water Dist. votes against Brown's twin Delta tunnels To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:50 AM 2 Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 To all- Westlands Water District on the west side of California's San Joaquin Valley voted yesterday not to help pay for Gov. Brown's twin tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, meant to deliver more water to the big pumps that move Delta water south. http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article174229771.html Great news since there is a far better solution, I think. I have, numerous times now, sent out mails about Stanford's MAR ("Managed Aquifer Recharge") proposal for California's Central Valley. I believe, and I do not pretend to know all of the ins and outs of the Delta and Sierra and west side ag and CV city and industry and Southern California water supply issues, but I believe that the Stanford proposal deserves serious consideration. Here is the Stanford MAR plan: http://news.stanford.edu/2016/07/21/cost-effective-path-drought-resiliency/ Basically, the MAR plan would put Sierra runoff (trillions of gallons of it in a wet year) out into the Central Valley, on the land, and let it perc into the aquifer. In some places, the water would have to be injected into the aquifer. Whether this would only be done in the San Joaquin Valley or whether it would also be done in the Sacramento Valley, you'd have to ask the authors of the report at Stanford. The wasteful, corrupt, even dangerous Temperance Flat Dam proposed for the San Joaquin River, above the current Friant Dam and its Millerton Lake NW of Fresno, would be and should be cancelled. Millerton has a capacity of one-half million acre feet, and so trillions of gallons of precious fresh water were sent down the San Joaquin River in the winter just passed, 2016-2017. Once in the Delta, most of it flowed into San Francisco Bay and out to the Pacific. And then the local water officials, like the ones in Fresno, cried that the water table continues to fall, and, with it, the sky. The only solution, they propose, is to gouge water customers like me. We have over-pumped the aquifer (it was actually ag that did that), and the suckers in a town like Fresno, have to pay up. I say the dangerous Temperance Flat Dam because it will impound one million acre-feet of water, twice the capacity of Millerton Lake. So then Fresno would have, in a wet year, 1.5 million acre-feet of water impounded upstream from it on the San Joaquin River. Temperance Flat Dam would have the capacity of Hoover Dam. When I was studying where the San Andreas Fault runs about 10 years ago, I read about a serious fault that lies off to the east of Fresno. Any local geologist here would know all about it. I wonder where it runs relative to the site of the proposed T. F. Dam. Need I spell out my concern? A big quake causes T.F. Dam to fail, its water rushes down to Millerton Lake, it either over-flows disastrously, or, even more disastrously, Friant Dam also fails. Good-bye Fresno and a lot of other towns if either happens. Fresno, being 65 miles from the nearest part of the San Andreas Fault, if fairly safe from a big quake there, one like the Ft. Tajon quake in ~1868. It had an epicenter near Parkfield but broke the fault clear south as far as Ft.Tajon in the Tahachipies. But the impact on Fresno was slight, if we can believe reports of the time. But the potential of the fault lying east of Fresno should be studied carefully wrt to the safety of T.F. Dam. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:50 AM 3 BUT, what will for certain be very bad for Fresno will be the next big quake off the coast of Washington- Oregon, in the Juan De Fuca subduction zone. The last big one there was in 1700, and it has a 400-year recurrence interval. We are due for a repeat. I have heard estimates that the shaking in Fresno when it happens will be as bad as the shaking that occurred in downtown San Francisco in the 1906 quake. So what that might do to a dam the size of Hoover Dam on the San Joaquin above Fresno is also something calling for careful study. The Stanford proposal points out that you get a lot of evaporation from a reservoir, and probably none from the aquifer. You'd have some from the impounded water on the land, of course. The water which currently flows to the Delta to hold back salt water intrusion from San Francisco Bay (San Pablo Bay at its north end, connected to the Delta through the Carquinez Strait) could instead be put on the land and perced into the aquifer under the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. So then, if you put huge new amounts of Sierra run-off on the land in the Central Valley to perc in, what do you do to hold back the relentlessly rising salt water pushing into the Delta from San Pablo Bay? Read on. You save the entire San Francisco Bay area AND the Delta from sea level rise by merely building a big dam right across the Golden Gate, just inside the Golden Gate Bridge. Go to YouTube and find "The Earth Under Water", a documentary about climate change and sea level rise produced by the BBC. About midway through the 45 minute program, you see how the dam across the Golden Gate could be built. Here is "The Earth Under Water" by the BBC. See the proposal for a Golden Gate Dam about mid-way through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqdLD31FkW4 I think both would have to be done. If you put huge additional Sierra run-off onto the land in the CV to perc, you have to do something to stop what would then be huge additional salt water intrusion into the Delta. So the Stanford MAR plan and the Golden Gate Dam should probably be considered as one package. BTW, notice at the 3-minute mark in "The Earth Under Water" a depiction of how N. America would look if all of the ice on the planet melted. Florida and Louisiana are gone, and a large inland see develops far north and south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in California. It appears to reach south as far as Bakersfield. It is conceivable that damming the Golden Gate could generate one or more lawsuits, but I believe that it will have to be done due to sea level rise, already under way. Both of these proposals may appear crazy because they go against conventional thinking, but they should be evaluated by the big-gun experts of California water, local, State and Federal. The last number I heard for the Golden Gate Dam was $2 billion. If correct, it and implementation of the MAR plan might come in well below the estimated $17 billion cost of the twin tunnels under the Delta. BTW, damming the Golden Gate would turn San Francisco Bay into a fresh water lagoon. Also BTW, a poll should be taken among the 600 or so farmers in the Central Valley to see if they would be receptive to the impounding of huge amounts of fresh water on their land, probably on a rotating basis. That City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:50 AM 4 would be done by building a berm around a piece of land and putting water on the surrounded land to perc. That would take the land out of production for whatever period it was going to be used for impounding water. The farmer would be compensated for that loss of production. Lots of details would have to be worked out. The upside is that ALL farmers in the CV would then have a rising aquifer. No more sinking wells down 1500 feet in a drought, as happened in the recent drought. Before the Gold Rush, the water table was a few FEET below the surface in the CV, and Artesian wells were common. With the MAR proposal, we could start to restore the aquifer, benefiting ag, cities and industry. In a recent three-part series on water in the San Joaquin Valley, one farmer said that we have the pipes and canals now to move water around to perc. He did not refer specifically the MAR plan, but he was apparently familiar with it. I hope that the MAR plan and the Golden Gate Dam project will get careful consideration by those making decisions about water in California. They seem compelling to me. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. Stanford '64 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/27/2017 12:54 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> Sent:Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:41 AM To:Council, City; Aram James; Ruben Abrica Subject:Fwd: SCC YOUTH "Survey" HOMELESS COUNT, 2017- How U can Help... fyi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: neighborshelpingneighbors2013 <neighborshelpingneighbors2013@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:25 PM Subject: SCC YOUTH "Survey" HOMELESS COUNT, 2017- How U can Help... To: New county report finds widespread youth homelessness A stark new report publicized on Tuesday has found that homelessness among teenagers and young adult...(Tuesday, 1:47 PM) 9/26/17 Menu Uploaded: Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 1:47 pm New county report finds widespread youth homelessness More community colleges, high school students in Santa Clara County lack stable housing by Mark Noack / Mountain View Voice City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/27/2017 12:54 PM 2 NHN has been reporting to you since 2015, that the two dramatically increasing demographics of people who are displaced are seniors/elderly and youth in SCC and SMC. Of the NHN client households classified as unhoused with youth (both teen & young adults), most teens live with at least one parent (ages 13 to 16) while 80% ages 17-19 lives without parent(s). On the positive side, most all this youth demographic is enrolled in school (high school & college) while some young adults are enrolled in Job Training programs. And all work part time jobs. Off topic, senior/elderly households enrolled in NHN programs. There has been a dramatic increase of displaced senior (singles, couples and seniors with one adult family member/non related caregiver) ages, 62 to 74 in 2016-17. And an even greater number of displaced elderly ages 75-85 (singles, couples, with one adult family member/non related caregiver). In the displaced elderly ages 75-85, 99% of these NHN clients has type 2 diabetes plus other severe illnesses and or diseases. And all NHN client households have more frequent respiratory illnesses both housed and unhoused. What you can do. FOR DONATIONS: 📧 NHN.U.GiveFunds@Gmail.com ☎ 650-283-0270 P.O. BOX 113 Palo Alto, CA 94302 🚙 Drop off locations (Palo Alto & Mountain View) 🚗Funds donations of $100 or more can be picked up, call 650-283-9910. 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BOX 113 Palo Alto, CA 94302 Facebook: https://facebook.com/NeighborsHelpingNeighborsPaloAlto City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/27/2017 12:54 PM 3 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:50 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Elizabeth Wong <elizabethwong2009@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:08 PM To:French, Amy Cc:Brad Ehikian (PPM); Jon Goldman; Boyd, Holly; Eggleston, Brad; Architectural Review Board; Council, City; Keene, James; Shikada, Ed; Gitelman, Hillary; Lait, Jonathan; Stump, Molly; Hayes, Ken Subject:Garage D - 375 Hamilton Ave Attachments:gar arb walkway.pdf Hello Amy, Please see attached letter in response to ARB preliminary review of 375 Hamilton garage. Thank you. Elizabeth Via E-Mail Ms. Amy French, Chief Planning Official Planning and Community Environment City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Waverley Post LP P. 0. Box204 Palo Alto, CA 94302 September 20, 2017 Subject: Walkway next to 375 Hamilton Avenue Garage-[17PLN-00224] Dear Ms. French: At the ARB preliminary review of plans for the downtown parking garage at 375 Hamilton on September 7, 2017, the idea was raised to reduce the width of the 10 ft. wide pedestrian walkway between the new structure and the existing building at 560 Waverley. The purported reason is to provide or allow more of a setback for the garage at the Hamilton A venue property line. There is no need for more setback at Hamilton. Hamilton is already 60 ft. wide at this block. The Post Office across the street is set back say another 10 ft. The setback shown in the designs at the comer of Hamilton and Waverley already provide sufficient relief, both physical and visual, and no additional setback is warranted along Hamilton Avenue. The walkway should be of sufficient width to accommodate anticipated foot traffic into and from the back entries of CVS, Tai Pan, Prolific Oven and the recently closed toy store, as well as serve as a continuation of the Lane 21 foot and bicycle traffic. Narrowing the walkway, the traffic from Lane 21 would have to enter the garage and share space with vehicles inside the garage - a safety issue, especially for a City that promotes itself to be pedestrian-and bicycle- friendly. A walkway narrower than 10 ft. between two buildings would begin to resemble a canyon, receiving little light, allowing accumulation of debris, and, more importantly, eliminate its service as a two-way pedestrian and cyclist path, and hampers the loading trucks' deliveries to the nearby merchants. The City's consulting architects already stated that the garage must have a minimum percentage of open walls or be mechanically ventilated, and, per the fire code, it must maintain a 1 O ft. minimum separation at the walkway. Further along in the design process, you will be making shadow studies to examine the impacts of the proposed garage on neighboring structures. The shadows will greatly impact the two buildings to the north, currently housing Prolific Oven and Tai Pan. Reducing the separation between the structures at this location will only make it worse. There is a good example of a 10 ft. wide, workable walkway between City parking garage Rat 528 High and the adjacent mixed-use building to the north of it at 102 University Avenue. This walkway provides for pedestrians, cyclists and deliveries in the same way that is envisioned at the new garage on Hamilton. Narrowing the walkway by the new garage would render it unusable as a two-way pedestrian and bike corridor and as a delivery path for loading trucks. For all the reasons stated above, we oppose reducing the width of this walkway. cc: Brad Ehikian Jon Goldman Holly Boyd Brad Eggleston· ARB City Council James Keene Ed Shikada Hillary Gitelman Jonathan Lait Molly Stump Ken Hayes Sincerely, Elizabeth Wong City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:46 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, September 24, 2017 11:00 PM To:molly.o'neal@pdo.sccgov.org; myraw@smcba.org; swagstaffe@smcgov.org; jrosen@da.sccgov.org; Damon Silver; joe.simitian@bos.sccgov.org; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; dave.cortese@bos.sccgov.org; supervisor.yeager@bos.sccgov.org; jay.boyarsky@da.sccgov.org; Deborah Ann. Ryan; ppennypacker@scscourt.org; Watson, Ron; council@redwoodcity.org; citycouncil@menlopark.org; bos@smcgov.org; sscott@scscourt.org; jsylva@scscourt.org; bwalsh@scscourt.org; smanley@scscourt.org; Anna Griffin; bhushans@aol.com; eduardoguilarte@gmail.com; edie.keating100@gmail.com; Doug Fort; Jose Manuel Valle; mharris@scscourt.org; chuck jagoda; tom.dubois@gmail.com; egeffon@scscourt.org; David Angel Subject:How Conservatives Learned to Love Free Lawyers for the Poor | The Marshall Project Hi Folks, A very provocative piece on the 6th amendment right to counsel, includes a very interesting right wing conservative perspective on the issue. Regards, Aram https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/09/24/how‐conservatives‐learned‐to‐love‐free‐lawyers‐for‐the‐poor Sent from my iPhone City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:48 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Jeff Hoel <jeff_hoel@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, September 21, 2017 5:31 PM To:Council, City Cc:Hoel, Jeff (external); UAC Subject:OOPS! -- SB 649 -- done deal Attachments:SB 649 (Hueso) - REQUEST FOR VETO Governor.pdf Council Members, OOPS! SB 649 hasn't been signed into law, just "enrolled." Sorry. Jeff ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Shikada, Ed" <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org> To: "Hoel, Jeff (external)" <jeff_hoel@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 4:29 PM Subject: RE: SB 649 -- done deal Hi Jeff – Just to clarify, SB 649 isn’t law yet – it’s now with the Governor to sign or veto. Your link below is our letter requesting a veto, and I’ve attached a similar letter from the CA League of Cities. Cities across the state have been asked to do the same. Regards, --Ed From: Jeff Hoel [mailto:jeff_hoel@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 4:08 PM To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Hoel, Jeff (external) <jeff_hoel@yahoo.com>; UAC <UAC@cityofpaloalto.org> Subject: SB 649 -- done deal Council members, Well, it's official. SB 649 was "enrolled" (signed into law) on 09-19-17. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB649 See also this 09-21-17 announcement from the City: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/mgr/intergovernmental_affairs.asp Here's how our local representatives voted: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB649 Senator Hill voted for SB 649 on 04-04-17, 05-15-17, 05-25-17, and 05-31-17. He voted against SB 649 on 09-14-17, but by then it was too late; the Senate passed SB 649 with 22 yes votes, 10 no votes, and 8 non-votes. Assemblymember Berman was a non-vote on 09-13-17, when the Assembly passed SB 649 with 46 yes votes, 16 no votes, and 17 non-votes. --- City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:48 AM 2 I warned Council about SB 649 in messages of 02-22-17 and 03-15-17 (see pages 1-2 here). https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/56782 I mentioned that the California League of Cities had changed its position from "watch" to "oppose." This 05-08-17 staff report lists SB 649 as an "informational item." http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/57724 According to the transcript, "SB 649" was mentioned at Council's 05-08 17 meeting by Heather Dauler, and by Council Members DuBois and Holman. https://mg.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=61gg1tu2jn6p6# Dauler said, Originally, this bill was quite -- as you can imagine, it was daunting. We were going to seek an opposed position. However, just last week it was substantially amended. It allows cities to have a little bit more leeway and say over their own infrastructure. Because this bill was just amended, Staff is still analyzing it." Council approved the staff recommendation (9-0), which didn't say anything about SB 649. I again warned Council about SB 649 in a message of 05-12-17 (see page 3 here) https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/58111 and 05-19-17 (see page 132 here). http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/58012 Mayor Scharff sent a letter to Senator Hueso (sponsor of SB 649) on 06-24-17 saying that Palo Alto opposed SB 649. http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/58295 The letter doesn't say who else the letter was sent to. In any case, it was sent AFTER Senator Hill had already cast his four yes votes. This Letters from Citizens document contains a message opposing SB 649 from Tony Kramer (07-17-17). http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/58936 At the 08-28-17 Council meeting, during Council Comments, Council Member Kou asked that the City oppose SB 649. (Here are the draft action minutes. The transcript is not yet available online.) http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/59354 The discussion is from 5:50:19 to 5:51:40 on this video. http://midpenmedia.org/city-council-136/ Please see a mini-transcript below the "###" line. This Letters From Citizens document contains messages opposing SB 649 from Ligia Harrington (08-30-17), Jyotsna Nimkar (09-04-17), and Jeanne Fleming (09-05-17). http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/59456 --- What have we learned? Thanks. Jeff ------------------- Jeff Hoel 731 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 ------------------- PS: This page provides a list of analyses done for SB 649. Some of these analyses list entities that oppose. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB649# * 09-14-17 -- Palo Alto listed as opposing. * 09-07-17 -- no support/opposition listed. * 08-21-17 -- Palo Alto not listed as opposing. * 07-11-17 -- Palo Alto not listed as opposing. * 07-05-17 -- Palo Alto listed as opposing. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:48 AM 3 * 06-28-17 -- etc. I don't know why, after they knew for the 07-05-17 analysis that Palo Alto was opposed, that this opposition wasn't also listed in the 07-11-17 and 08-21-17 analyses. Whatever. ############################################################################ Excerpt from the 08-28-17 Council meeting, Council Comments: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/59354 5:50:19: Council Member Kou: There's also another bill, SB 649, which has to do with the data -- cell -- boxes that are going to be installed. And it's basically going to, again, take away local governance, in terms of putting these boxes up and -- in our own public spaces. So it further erodes our ability to control what goes up. And so, I think that it's something that we should look at, and also oppose. So, please take a look at that. And advise. 5:50:50: City Manager Keene: We've already taken an "oppose" position on this. ### Is City Manager Keene referring only to Mayor Scharff's 06-24-17 letter to Senator Hueso? Or were the City's efforts to oppose SB 649 more extensive? But it looks like it may pass. So, we'll be in a situation where it's going to go to the Governor's desk. And then, we'll probably then just respond with, you know, another letter advocating a veto by the governor. ### Was such a letter sent? 5:51:06: Mayor Scharff: Cory. 5:51:06: Council Member Wolbach: ** the conversation about it, I forgot to mention -- I think I -- I forgot to mention, when we came back from our break. But over our break, the Legislative Action Committee for the Peninsula Division for the League of California Cities met with a number of our local legislators and/or their staff, up and down the Peninsula, from San Jose to San Francisco. And they are aware of the League of California Cities' position opposing SB 35 and also the "small cells" -- SB 649, I believe it was -- because of local control issues. 5:51:38: 1400 K Street, Suite 400 • Sacramento, California 95814 Phone: 916.658.8200 Fax: 916.658.8240 www.cacities.org September 20, 2017 The Honorable Jerry Brown Governor, State of California State Capitol, First Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: SB 649 (Hueso). Wireless Telecommunications Facilities (as enrolled) Request for Veto Dear Governor Brown: The League of California Cities respectfully requests your veto of SB 649 (Hueso), which seeks to eliminate public input, eliminate reasonable local environmental and design review, mandate the forced leasing of publicly owned infrastructure, and eliminate the ability for local governments to negotiate fair leases or any public benefit for the installation of “small cell” wireless equipment on taxpayer-funded property. By eliminating local discretion and mandating a ministerial process, SB 649 effectively eliminates local residents and businesses from having fair input over the character of their own communities. Most troubling is the shift of authority from the community and its elected officials to for-profit corporations for wireless equipment installations that can have significant health, safety, and aesthetic impacts when those companies have little, if any, interests to respect these concerns that potentially conflict with their profit margins. Local elected officials play a critical role in balancing the important needs of their community and respect for its character with the need to close the existing/widening digital divide and ensure that the many benefits from state-of-the-art wireless technology are available to all. Local residents and businesses expect their local governments to be equipped to respond when they have legitimate concerns, especially as they relate to the location and design of these installations near or adjacent to their property. The plain language of SB 649 gives the wireless industry the ability to install extremely large equipment, 6 cubic feet worth of antennas and 21 cubic feet worth of equipment (about the size of a twin bed) on “vertical infrastructure,” such as street lights, traffic signals, and stop signs without any showing that the industry is incapable of delivering smaller cellular equipment that improves the safety and aesthetic qualities of these facilities. Further, the bill allows the industry to place up to 35 cubic feet (about the size of a commercial refrigerator) of equipment on the ground for each provider on every pole. But the ultimate size of a facility will be unknown as there are exclusions for at least eight “ancillary” pieces of equipment that have no size or quantity limitations. The loose language in SB 649 eliminates any incentives for industry to develop smaller and more discreet designs. To be clear, what SB 649 gives the industry is far larger than the claimed “pizza box” size “small cell” site. In an unprecedented move, SB 649 forces local governments to give access to public property funded by the taxpayer so that for-profit wireless corporations can install their equipment to sell their private services. By eliminating fair market rate leases for use of taxpayer funded property (including city halls, parks, county libraries, and “vertical infrastructure”), this bill effectively gives corporations discounted access to these facilities with no requirement to pass their cost-savings onto their customers. SB 649 creates billions of dollars of value for wireless industry shareholders by eliminating fair market rate leases. Furthermore, rents from the use of public property, which every other for-profit business pays, help pay for essential public services, such as police, fire, libraries, and parks. SB 649 sets a dangerous precedent for other private industries to seek similar treatment to benefit their shareholders over constituent funded infrastructure, further eroding the ability to fund vital local services. The term “small cell” is not defined in this bill by any technology standard, but instead by the size of the equipment. As long as the facility delivers “licensed and/or unlicensed spectrum” and falls within the loose size standards in the bill, it is a “small cell”. In other words, these wireless sites could be used for 4G technology that is already being deployed today, or to deliver Wi-Fi signals only, or for even more basic radio signals. The standards for 5G are still being developed and the technology is still years away from being deployed. Despite the industry’s most consistent talking point, this bill never even mentions 5G (nor any service) much less imposes any requirement, duty, or incentive to the industry to accelerate the deployment of this new technology. In addition to all these reasons why SB 649 is against the public interest, SB 649 also creates an arbitrary distinction between “small cells” and “micro wireless facilities” that violates federal law. States and municipalities are prohibited by federal law from discriminating among telecommunications service providers’ access to the public rights-of-way. See 47 U.S.C. § 253. By completely exempting “micro wireless facilities” typically deployed by cable operators from all permits and fees, SB 649 would result in state-sanctioned discrimination among similarly situated service providers in violation of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996. The League, accompanied by over 300 cities formally opposed and more than 250 city officials that participated at our September 15th press rally on the capitol steps, respectfully requests your veto of SB 649. If you have any questions regarding the League’s position on this bill, please do not hesitate to contact me at (916) 658-8283. Sincerely, Rony Berdugo Legislative Representative Cc: California State Senator, Ben Hueso Camille Wagner, Legislative Affairs Secretary, Office of Governor Brown Tom Dyer, Deputy Legislative Affairs Secretary, Office of Governor Brown City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:30 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Public Records Request Tracking System <public.records.request.tracking@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, September 26, 2017 6:26 AM To:Carnahan, David; Council, City; jrosen@da.sccgov.org; Jay Boyarsky; Sean Webby; David Angel; Scharff, Greg; Kniss, Liz (external); Keene, James Cc:Stump, Molly Subject:Open positions - California Public Records Request 1. Number of applicants having applied for Palo Alto Police Chief to date. 2. Number of applicants having applied for open positions new hire Police Officers to date. Ps. (Molly Stump) Were in compliance of your edict to submit CPRA requests in light of ordering your staff and city employees (Recorded on tape) not to return our phone calls Thanks, Mark Petersen‐Perez Editor: Palo Alto Free Press Ticuantepe, Nicaragua Sent from my iPad City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:43 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:ron ito <wsrfr418@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, September 25, 2017 5:32 PM To:Council, City Subject:Pension problems? Just like SJ has a few years ago. They had so much money going to pensions they could not even afford to meet weekly payroll. As a result they had to lay off city workers (and that includes police) I believe that is when people started to buy more guns. (but don't quote me on it). That was a few years ago but it is still fresh in my mind. The city needs pension reform, plain and simple. People either choose a pension and lower pay or they can choose no pension and higher pay. They should not get both because the city cannot afford it. City employees should not be encouraged to spend their entire careers here. They should be encouraged to move around. I know the COL is high here but the city should not be so eager to hand out raises when a large debt is hanging over it. This area has some of the best weather in the world and that should be one of the reasons people want to live and work here. Anybody who stays with the city because of the nice pension is doing it for the wrong reason. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:49 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:celia chow <celia.cchow@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:53 AM To:Palo Alto Public Records Center; Atkinson, Rebecca; Council, City; Architectural Review Board; Gitelman, Hillary; City Attorney Subject:Re: [Records Center] Public Records Request :: W000930-091817 Thank you for the response to my formal request. I appreciate the detailed information. I'd like to request you to let me know when the Cluster Two and Cluster Three clocks start running again. I would also like to know the City Attorney's Office response to the 90 day clock Verizon says applies to its Cluster One application and what they plan to do about it. Thanks! Celia Chow celia.cchow@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Palo Alto Public Records Center <paloaltoca@mycusthelp.net> wrote: --- Please respond above this line --- 09/20/2017 RE: PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST of September 15, 2017, Reference # W000930‐091817 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:49 AM 2 Dear Celia, I am writing in response to your requests for documents under the California Public Records Act (Govt. Code § 6250 et seq.) received by the City on 9/15/2017. Your request mentioned With my current understanding, there are 3 Verizon applications and I would like to know where the shot clock stands on each of cluster of Verizon’s applications to install small cell sites in Palo Also. If there are more than three clusters now, I would like to get the shot clock information on all of them. And if other cell companies have now filed applications, I would like the same information for those applications. The City has reviewed its files and has located responsive records to your request. Please see the response below: Currently, there are three formal Tier 3 Wireless Communication Facility applications on file from Vinculums/Verizon, although more are anticipated but have not been submitted. Pending formal applications and their shot clock status are summarized below: 1. Cluster 1 – 17PLN‐00169  Initial Submittal May 23, 2017 – Deemed Incomplete June 22, 2017 – Shot Clock Stopped  Resubmittal August 01, 2017 – Deemed Complete August 10, 2017 – Shot Clock Running from August 01, 2017  The City believes the 150 day shot clock expiration date is November 29, 2017. Verizon has asserted that a 90 day shot clock applies instead. 1. Cluster 2 – 17PLN‐00170  Initial Submittal May 24, 2017 – Deemed Incomplete June 22, 2017 – Shot Clock Stopped 2. Cluster 3 – 17PLN‐00228  Initial Submittal June 27, 2017 – Deemed Incomplete July 26, 2017 – Shot Clock Stopped If you have any questions, or wish to discuss this further, please contact me. Sincerely, Yolanda Cervantes Administrative Assistant Planning and Community Environment To monitor the progress or update this request please log into the [NAMEOFSYSTEM] City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:49 AM 3 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:46 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, September 24, 2017 12:53 PM To:Aram James Cc:jrosen@da.sccgov.org; swagstaffe@smcgov.org; Watson, Ron; Perron, Zachary; Council, City; Scharff, Greg; swebby@da.sccgov.org; csumida@da.sccgov.org; Keith, Claudia; David Angel; DOkonkwo@da.sccgov.org; Philip, Brian; Brian Welch; Jay Boyarsky Subject:Re: FYI: The power of elected prosecutors Jay.Boyarsky email rejected.... resending S/B jboyersky Sent from my iPad > On Sep 24, 2017, at 1:50 PM, Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> wrote: > > "But instead of focusing on police departments, sheriffs' deputies or judges, we're focusing on 36 individuals who most Oregon voters know little about: district attorneys." > > It's been my focas for months.... Vote no on Rosen!!! We you , the John Q. Public... We play and have the important role of educating the general public... on prosecutors and their role in a democratic society. > > They wield life and death. It's not so much the police I personally worry about, its..the corrupt DA's that stand behind corrupt police officers... > > Powerful article Aram... Thanks for sending this one along.... > > Mark > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Sep 24, 2017, at 1:35 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> https://articles.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/09/district_attorneys_can_block_o.amp >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:46 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, September 24, 2017 12:18 PM To:Aram James; Jay Boyarsky; jrosen@da.sccgov.org Cc:Sue Dremann; bjohnson@embarcaderomediagroup.com; Council, City; gsheyner@paweekly.com; Scharff, Greg; Watson, Ron; csumida@da.sccgov.org; swebby@da.sccgov.org; Kniss, Liz (external) Subject:Re: Reckless and biased - Tweet by Palo Alto Free Press on Twitter Aram, They the Weekly took this important story off the main page. "You're a sophisticated man" lol....Love that comment from Jay....did you notice that?... OMG the story on the leash law remains...front and center.... Again, great questions Aram... Grand Jury report... Of course Jay will play the role of the defense... But, the report / and grand jury was not, was not made up of a team of sophisticated lawyers.... Mark Sent from my iPad On Sep 23, 2017, at 3:15 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Mark, Thanks to your notice, to me re this event, I was able to attend an submit some questions ( no ability to follow up or cross x, since questions had to be written out). There was an exception, at the end, where I was able to ask Jay an oral question re the inherent racist nature of gang enhancements. Check out his resolution response, but only if your time permits. If I correctly recall my written questioned answered: 1. If it was your child who was arrested, would you want your youth to assert his/her 5th amendment right to remain silent, and have counsel present? If you child was a youth of color? ( not exact wording). 2. Wrote a question re what portion of the juvenile system most impact by race? ** I may have submitted a third written question, but will need to review the tape to refresh my recollection. Thanks for bringing this event to my attention. Regards, Aram City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:46 AM 2 On Sep 23, 2017, at 12:45 PM, Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> wrote: Reckless biased reporting Palo Alto Free Press (@PAFreePress) 9/23/17, 6:48 AM #PaloAlto Extremely biased presentation favor of prosecution No criminal defense attorney present on critical panel bit.ly/2xZSfUl pic.twitter.com/cY4ecF7nHz Download the Twitter app Sent from my iPad City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:49 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Sea <paloaltolife@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, September 20, 2017 4:43 PM Subject:Rosh Hashanah best wishes 2017 Sent from my iPhone City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:43 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Richard Stolee <rstolee@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, September 25, 2017 12:31 PM To:Council, City Subject:RV parking on Palo Alto Streets (especially El Camino Real) Dear Council Members Again, there is another Palo Alto Daily article about RV Dwellers parking on El Camino and using this important artery in Palo Alto as an RV Park. The Police Department indicated earlier in the summer that they would enforce our laws but have not followed through. The Law states: 10.44.020 Standing or parking, two a.m. to six a.m. (a) No person shall, between the hours of two a.m. and six a.m. of any day, unless authorized by a hardship permit issued pursuant to Section 10.44.021 or a construction or maintenance permit issued pursuant to Section 10.40.045, park upon streets or alleys located within a residential zone or public facility zone any of the following vehicles: (1) Oversized vehicles; (2) Trailers; (3) Camper shells; (4) Tow trucks as defined by California Vehicle Code Section 615; (5) Special construction equipment as defined by California Vehicle Code Section 565. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, no signs or markings are necessary to give effect to the restrictions and prohibitions contained in this section. (Ord. 4558 § 5 (part), 1999) It would seem that 10.44.020 should include Palo Alto High School, Stanford University, Town and Country Shopping Center, residents along El Camino next to Stanford. Why is the City Manager and the City Council not putting pressure on the Police Department to enforce our municipal code? Are we more concerned with 30 to 50 RV Dwellers who create a more dangerous street, an unsightly main street through our community, and possibly dangerous waste disposal on our streets than the rest of us who live and work in Palo Alto. If the City Council has compassion for these few individuals, than work regionally with other cities to find a parking area for these RV’s with all of the services needed, otherwise please enforce our municipal code and redirect RV’s to find a legal place to park their RV’s on a permanent basis. RV’s were not created to use on city streets to avoid paying rent, city and state taxes and utilities. The abbreviation RV stands for Recreational Vehicle. The problem is manageable now, but if the City avoids dealing with this issue, it could become unmanageable. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:43 AM 2 Please act soon. Richard Stolee City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:44 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Amy Christel <amymchristel@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, September 25, 2017 12:29 PM To:Council, City Subject:Shame on the five who voted to weaken office development cap! Dear City Council Members, The hypocrisy of the five council members who claim to be concerned about the housing deficit in Palo Alto while voting to weaken the office development cap is disturbing. It is clear that Wolbach, Fine, Tanaka, Kniss, and Scharff, have more interest in making gifts to developers and industry than in solving the housing problem and housing affordability in Palo Alto. None of you will have my vote in the future. More office space leads to more jobs, and more traffic and housing demand. You can't add housing fast enough and still you think we need more office space? It is so irrational. Thank you, to Karen, Eric, Lydia, and Tom for standing up for limits to office growth in our city! How about NO new office space until housing catches up? Sincerely, Amy Christel Midtown City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:44 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Arlene Goetze <photowrite67@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, September 25, 2017 11:07 AM To:Joe Simitian; Ken Yeager Subject:1st US study.--Fluoride in Pregnancy Lowers Kids' IQs An educational email forwarded by Arlene Goetze, NO Toxins for Children, photowrite67@yahoo.com From Fluoride Action Network. by Stuart Cooper & Ellen Connett, fluoridealert.org September 21, 2017 First U.S. funded study on fluoride, pregnancy & children's IQs * Study finds .1 mg can cause a drop of 5 to 6 points which would 'reduce half the bright' children with IQs over 130-- and 'double the mentally disabled' under 70 points. * This study is close to range of women in U.S. * U.S. women found to have same urine count as Mexican women in the study. (SCVWD buys fluoride for Silicon Valley in Mexico but won't say where it originates.) * This is a multi-million study by NIH with enormous implications. The results of the first ever US government funded study of fluoride/IQ have now been published. A team of researchers funded by the National Institute of Environmental Sciences--part of the National Institutes of Health--found that low levels of fluoride exposure during pregnancy are linked to significantly reduced IQ in children, according to a study published on September 19, 2017 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The study, entitled Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children at 4 and 6– 12 Years of Age in Mexico, was conducted by a team of scientists from University of Toronto, University of Michigan, Harvard, and McGill, and found: “…higher levels of maternal urinary fluoride during pregnancy (a proxy for prenatal fluoride exposure) that are in the range of levels of exposure in other general population samples of pregnant women as well as nonpregnant adults were associated with lower scores on tests of cognitive function in the offspring at 4 and 6–12 y old.” FAN (Fluoride Action Network) Comment The study found a very large and significant effect. An increase in urine fluoride of 1 mg/L was associated with a drop in IQ of 5 to 6 points. Such a drop of IQ in the whole population would half the number of very bright children (IQ greater than 130) and double the number of mentally handicapped (IQ less than 70). Most of the Mexican women had urine fluoride between 0.5 and 1.5 mg/L. Studies have found that adults in the USA have between about 0.6 and 1.5 mg/L, almost exactly the same range. From City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:44 AM 2 the low end of that range to the high end is a difference of 1 mg/L which is what caused the 5 to 6 IQ point difference in the children of the study mothers. This new study had fluoride exposures almost the same as what is found in fluoridating countries like the USA Important Points: 1. The loss of IQ is very large. The child of a mother who was drinking 1 ppm F water would be predicted to have 5 to 6 IQ points lower than if the mother had drunk water with close to zero F in it. 2. The study measured urine F, which is usually a better indicator of total F intake than is the concentration of F in drinking water. When drinking water is the dominant source of F,, urine F and water F are usually about the same. So, the average urine F level in this study of 0.9 mg/L implies that woman was ingesting the same amount of F as a woman drinking water with 0.9 mg/L F. 3. The range of F exposures in this study is likely to be very close to the range in a fluoridated area of the United States. The doses in this study are directly applicable to areas with artificial fluoridation. There is no need to extrapolate downward from effects at higher doses. The claims by fluoridation defenders that only studies using much higher doses than occur in areas with artificial fluoridation have shown a loss of IQ are squarely refuted by this study. Those false claims range from 11 times to 30 times higher, but are based on the logical fallacy that it is the highest dose amongst several studies that is relevant, when it is the LOWEST dose amongst studies that is most relevant. 4. This study was very carefully done, by a group of researchers who have produced over 50 papers on the cognitive health of children in relationship to environmental exposures. This was funded by the NIH and was a multi-million dollar study. This was the group’s first study of fluoride, their other studies mostly dealing with lead, mercury, and other environmental neurotoxicants. 5. This study controlled for a wide range of potential factors that might have skewed the results and produced a false effect. It was able to largely rule out confounding by these other factors. The factors ruled out included Pb, Hg, socio-economic status, smoking, alcohol use, and health problems during pregnancy. 6. This study offers confirmation of previous less sophisticated studies in Mexico, China and elsewhere. Some of those studies had higher F exposures than are commonly found in the USA, but many did not. The sole study in a country with artificial water fluoridation (as opposed to artificial salt fluoridation which was likely a main source of F in this new study) was by Broadbent in New Zealand. That found no association between water F and IQ and was trumpted by fluoridation defenders. But that study was shown to have almost no difference in TOTAL F intake between the children with fluoridated water and those with unfluoridated water, since most of the unfluoridated water children were given F supplements. 7. The study authors are cautious in their conclusions, as is common for scientists. But the implications of this study are enormous. A single study will never prove that F lowers IQ at doses found in fluoridated areas, but this is more than a red flag. It is a cannon shot across the bow of the 80 year old practice of artificial fluoridation. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:44 AM 3 Key Quotes:  Newsweek, Children’s IQ Could Be Lowered By Mothers Drinking Tap Water While Pregnant, by Dana Dovey, September 19: … “This is a very well-conducted study, and it raises serious concerns about fluoride supplementation in water,” says Dr. Leonardo Trasande, a pediatrician who studies potential links between environmental exposures and health problems at New York University Langone Health. Trasande emphasizes that the levels of fluoride seen among the mothers in this study are slightly higher than what would be expected in U.S., based on current fluoride supplementation levels. However, he also explains that fluoride is known to disrupt thyroid function, which in turn is crucial for brain development. “These new insights raise concerns that the prenatal period may be highly vulnerable and may require additional reconsideration,” Trasande says.  CTV (Canadian TV), Higher levels of fluoride in urine linked to lower IQ scores in children, by Angela Mulholland, September 19: … Dr. Howard Hu, the study’s lead investigator, and a professor of environmental health, epidemiology and global health at [the University of Toronto’s] Dalla Lana School of Public Health, says the fact that the fluoride levels in the mothers was most predictive of the drop in test scores may be due to the fact that the brains of babies develop so rapidly while they are in utero. “This is consistent with a growing appreciation in environmental health that the growing fetal nervous system is more sensitive to exposures than a developed nervous system,” he told CTVNews.ca by phone from Sydney.  Both the Montreal Gazette & the National Postran the same article: Researchers urge caution over study linking fluoride exposure in pregnancy to lower IQs in children, by Sharon Kirkey, September 21: … [The article quotes the lead investigator of the study, Dr Howard Hu:]“This is a very rigorous epidemiology study. You just can’t deny it. It’s directly related to whether fluoride is a risk for the neurodevelopment of children. So, to say it has no relevance to the folks in the U.S. seems disingenuous.” … “Why would anybody rate the equivalency or supremacy of reducing tooth decay by about one cavity a lifetime when what’s at stake is the mental development of your children? It’s utterly preposterous,” said Connett, executive director of the Fluoride Action Network. Press Releases:  University of Toronto: Higher levels of fluoride in urine associated with lower intelligence in children. The study’s lead investigator, Dr Howard Hu, is Professor of Environmental Health, Epidemiology and Global Health at the University’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:44 AM 4 September 19.  American Dental Association Response to Study Regarding Fluoride Intake in Mexico. September 19.  Fluoride Free New Zealand issued this press release New US Government Study on Fluoride Damage to Brain on September 21. Additional Media Coverage:  Collective Evolution, Fluoride exposure in utero linked to lower IQ in kids, study says, by Kalee Brown, September 20.  Daily Mail (UK), Pregnant women exposed to flouride are more likely to have kids with low IQ, study shows, by Mia De Graaf, September 20.  Medical Xpress, Higher levels of fluoride in pregnant woman linked to lower intelligence in their children, by Nicole Bodnar, September 20.  Readers’ Digest, If you drink this type of water during pregnancy, your child’s IQ could suffer, by Sam Benson Smith, September 20. STAY TUNED! MORE TO COME… See fluoridealert.org for more information. PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH ALL . City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:44 AM 5 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:45 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Neilson Buchanan <cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, September 25, 2017 8:21 AM To:Jim Wiley; Patti L. Fry; Brielle Johnck; Michael Griffin; Michael Harbour; Andres Mediavilla; Susie and Gary Hornbeek; Leslie Caine; Malcolm Beasley; John Guislin; Tim Lindholm; Norman H. Beamer; Furman, Sheri; Becky Sanders; Sallyann Rudd; Ronjon Nag; Lauren Burton; Marion Odell; Ted Davids; LaNell Mimack; Linda Anderson Subject:Surf Air Flight Path Meeting The following was posted to about 8,000 Nextdoor accounts: FAA seeks input on new flight paths to mitigate plane noise Residents living under the flight path into the San Carlos Airport will have an opportunity to weigh in on efforts to reroute Surf Air planes over the Bay and industrial zones at a community meeting the FAA is hosting in San Jose Wednesday. A similar meeting in San Mateo County is expected to be held in the coming months. The FAA’s community involvement workshop will be held 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium at 70 W. Hedding St. in San Jose. Comments on the Bayside Visual Approach can be submitted by emailing 9-awp-sql- cvfp@faa.gov or mailing written comments to Noise Concerns, AJV-W25, FAA, 1601 Lind Ave. SW, Renton, WA 98057. The comment period will be open for 30 days after the meeting. FAA seeks input on new flight paths to mitigate plane noise City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:45 AM 2 FAA seeks input on new flight paths to mitigate plane noise By Anna Schuessler Daily Journal staff Residents living under the flight path into the San Carlos Airport will have an opportunity to weigh in on effor... Neilson Buchanan 155 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 650 329-0484 650 537-9611 cell cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com Virus-free. www.avast.com City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:47 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Sea <paloaltolife@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, September 22, 2017 9:50 AM To:Keene, James; cityofpaloalto@service.govdelivery.com; Council, City Subject:Tweet by Sea-Seelam Reddy on Twitter Sea-Seelam Reddy (@SealamReddy) 9/22/17, 09:44 Dear Joe Simitian: Please get the county to fix this pothole on 2280 El Camino/Cambridge @jack in the Box. In paloalto311 also @joesimitian pic.twitter.com/bIn97l9pla Download the Twitter app Sent from my iPhone City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 9/26/2017 7:45 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Sea <paloaltolife@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, September 25, 2017 9:25 AM To:cityofpaloalto@service.govdelivery.com; Council, City; gsheyner@paweekly.com; bwarchangelmichael@gmail.com; jdong@paweekly.com; jspradling@yahoo.com; Marshall Childs; Sea; Seelam Reddy Subject:Tweet by Sea-Seelam Reddy on Twitter Sea-Seelam Reddy (@SealamReddy) 9/25/17, 09:22 2-3 years this pothole is growing on 2289 El Camino Real. Palo Alto Going south in front of Jack-in-the- Box pic.twitter.com/ALNyS38YqQ Download the Twitter app Sent from my iPhone 9/20/2017 At Places eived Before Meeting eceived at Meetin POLICY & SERVICES COMMITTEE -TENTATIVE AGENDA P&S Committee 1. Discussion of Ordinance Re-aligning Terms on the Architectural Review Board, the Historic Resources Board, the Parks & Recreation Commission, and the Planning & Transportation Commission and Other Related Municipal Code Changes (CLK) 2. Continuous Monitoring: Overtime Audit (AUD) 3. Fiscal Year 2018 Audit Plan 4. Audit Status Report: Palo Alto Animal Services (CMO/AUD) [UESDAY, October12, 18 or 26 TBD 2017 POLICY AND SERVICES COMM. MEETINGj 1. Taxicab Licensing & Ordinance (PD) 2. Audit Status Report: Parking Funds (PCE/ASD/AUD) 3. Audit Status Report: Utility Meters: Procurement, Inventory, and Retirement (UTL/AUD) 4. Audit Status Report: Inventory Management (ASD/AUD) 5. Palo Alto and Stanford University Air Quality Project -Array of Things (IT) [UESDAY, November 14, 2017 POLICY AND SERVICES COMM. MEETINGj 1. Audit Status Report: Disability Rates and Workers' Compensation 2. Audit Status Report: Community Services Department Fee Schedule Audit 3. 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