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<strong>WOODSIDE</strong>: <strong>Venture</strong> <strong>capitalist</strong> <strong>offers</strong> <strong>solution</strong><br />

<strong>to</strong> Jackling house dilemma. | PAGE 5<br />

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Menlo Madness<br />

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Ather<strong>to</strong>n<br />

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Menlo Park<br />

■ City’s community services direc<strong>to</strong>r Barbara<br />

George resigns post. Page 13<br />

Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley<br />

■ Town <strong>to</strong> ban commercial use of chippers, chain<br />

saws on Saturdays. Page 14<br />

Woodside<br />

■ <strong>Venture</strong> <strong>capitalist</strong> Gordon Smythe <strong>offers</strong><br />

<strong>solution</strong> <strong>to</strong> Jackling house dilemma. Page 5<br />

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M E N L O P A R K | A T H E R T O N | W O O D S I D E | P O R T O L A V A L L E Y<br />

Smythe <strong>offers</strong> <strong>solution</strong> <strong>to</strong><br />

Jackling house dilemma<br />

■ <strong>Venture</strong> <strong>capitalist</strong> says he would extract his<strong>to</strong>ric<br />

elements and rebuild with them elsewhere.<br />

By Dave Boyce<br />

<strong>Almanac</strong> Staff Writer<br />

The end may be near for<br />

the saga of the Jackling<br />

house, a 30-room Woodside<br />

mansion built in 1925 by<br />

a noted architect and owned by<br />

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Mr.<br />

Jobs has spent eight years arguing<br />

with preservationists over his<br />

plans <strong>to</strong> remove the house and<br />

build something more modern.<br />

But it may be a new beginning<br />

for parts of the house.<br />

Gordon Smythe, a Palo Al<strong>to</strong>based<br />

venture <strong>capitalist</strong> with a<br />

long-standing interest in this<br />

home and others designed by<br />

By Andrea Gemmet<br />

<strong>Almanac</strong> Staff Writer<br />

Members of a city council<br />

might detest each other<br />

in private, but they usually<br />

manage <strong>to</strong> keep things civil in<br />

public, at least for the duration of<br />

a council meeting.<br />

A brouhaha over getting things<br />

on the Ather<strong>to</strong>n<br />

City Council<br />

agenda, however,<br />

appears <strong>to</strong><br />

have fractured<br />

whatever veneer<br />

of collegiality<br />

that body possessed.<br />

On June 17,<br />

a split council<br />

decided it will<br />

now take a majority of council<br />

members <strong>to</strong> approve even the<br />

hearing of an item, a turn of<br />

events that had the two council<br />

members in the minority leveling<br />

accusations of censorship at<br />

their colleagues.<br />

“To me, the idea that we are<br />

trying <strong>to</strong> censor people doesn’t<br />

make any sense whatsoever,”<br />

said Councilman Jim Dobbie,<br />

who said he was the driving<br />

force behind changing the<br />

rule <strong>to</strong> require a three-member<br />

majority. “The council represents<br />

George Washing<strong>to</strong>n Smith,<br />

informed the Woodside Town<br />

Council on June 23 that he has<br />

assembled a team <strong>to</strong> remove<br />

his<strong>to</strong>rically significant elements<br />

of the house and use them in a<br />

new family home — if he finds<br />

“a great piece of land” on which<br />

<strong>to</strong> build it.<br />

An official list of parts that<br />

haven’t “been damaged beyond<br />

repair” is in preparation, Mr.<br />

Smythe <strong>to</strong>ld The <strong>Almanac</strong>. A<br />

preliminary list in the Woodside<br />

council’s staff report includes<br />

roof tiles, an organ, a copper<br />

mailbox, a flagpole, and decorative<br />

tile and woodwork.<br />

A new house using these<br />

New Ather<strong>to</strong>n rule: Is<br />

aim <strong>to</strong> stifle dissent?<br />

‘ It would appear, from<br />

the outside, <strong>to</strong> be the<br />

majority stifling dissent<br />

from the minority.’<br />

FORMER ATHERTON COUNCILMAN<br />

ALAN CARLSON<br />

everybody, it should be up <strong>to</strong><br />

the whole council how we spend<br />

time at a council meeting.”<br />

Critics said the change will<br />

prevent the council from having<br />

<strong>to</strong> discuss controversial or<br />

embarrassing <strong>to</strong>pics. Mr. Dobbie<br />

claims he doesn’t see it that way.<br />

“It’s very simple. Previously,<br />

two council members that<br />

may or may<br />

not have the<br />

interest of all<br />

of the residents<br />

(of) Ather<strong>to</strong>n<br />

in mind, who<br />

may be representing<br />

special<br />

interests, could<br />

put on an issue<br />

that’s very<br />

divisive <strong>to</strong> the<br />

<strong>to</strong>wn,” Mr. Dobbie said.<br />

Elected bodies such as the<br />

Menlo Park Fire Protection<br />

Board allow a single board<br />

member <strong>to</strong> request a <strong>to</strong>pic be<br />

added <strong>to</strong> a meeting agenda for<br />

consideration. Some others,<br />

such as the city of Palo Al<strong>to</strong>,<br />

require a second from another<br />

council member before something<br />

can be agendized.<br />

Mr. Dobbie said he did not<br />

know of any other cities that<br />

See AGENDA, page 8<br />

recycled elements would run<br />

between $4 million and $6<br />

million, Mr. Smythe <strong>to</strong>ld The<br />

<strong>Almanac</strong>, with Mr. Jobs contributing<br />

about $604,000 <strong>to</strong> pay for<br />

the deconstruction.<br />

For the plan <strong>to</strong> proceed, Mr.<br />

Jobs, Mr. Smythe and the <strong>to</strong>wn of<br />

Woodside must agree <strong>to</strong> a contract<br />

that would obligate Mr. Smythe<br />

<strong>to</strong> extract the his<strong>to</strong>rical elements<br />

within 60 days of signing.<br />

The parts may be in s<strong>to</strong>rage for<br />

a while. Mr. Smythe would have<br />

five years <strong>to</strong> use them, at which<br />

point parties with a his<strong>to</strong>rical<br />

interest in the house, including<br />

the <strong>to</strong>wn of Woodside, would<br />

have the right <strong>to</strong> take them.<br />

The council voted 5-2 <strong>to</strong> issue<br />

a demolition permit <strong>to</strong> Mr. Jobs<br />

on the condition that he and Mr.<br />

Smythe sign the contract, which<br />

seems likely <strong>to</strong> happen.<br />

Mr. Smythe <strong>to</strong>ld the council<br />

the deal is “pretty much done,”<br />

and Howard Ellman, Mr. Jobs’<br />

at<strong>to</strong>rney, said as much, adding<br />

that Mr. Jobs wants <strong>to</strong> work with<br />

the preservationists.<br />

A key unknown is whether<br />

Uphold Our Heritage, a preservation-minded<br />

group that has<br />

argued for res<strong>to</strong>ration of the<br />

house, will sue <strong>to</strong> s<strong>to</strong>p its demo-<br />

lition. In an earlier lawsuit,<br />

Uphold convinced a San Mateo<br />

County Superior Court judge<br />

<strong>to</strong> invalidate a 2004 demolition<br />

permit. Mr. Jobs appealed that<br />

decision and lost in state court.<br />

No one from Uphold spoke at<br />

the council meeting. Douglas<br />

Carstens, Uphold’s at<strong>to</strong>rney<br />

and a partner at the Santa<br />

Courtesy, Rob Caughlan<br />

Pete McCloskey, left, a much-decorated veteran of the Korean War, tries <strong>to</strong> teach Rob Caughlan, a<br />

self-described anti-war activist, how <strong>to</strong> salute. Mr. Caughlan’s documentary on Mr. McCloskey will air on<br />

KQED-TV July 5.<br />

Documentary salutes Pete McCloskey<br />

By Sean Howell<br />

<strong>Almanac</strong> Staff Writer<br />

Filmmaker Rob Caughlan<br />

spent eight years trying <strong>to</strong><br />

pack an account of the life<br />

and career of Pete McCloskey<br />

in<strong>to</strong> his allotted 54 minutes, the<br />

length of the program that will<br />

run on KQED-TV (Channel 9)<br />

on Sunday, July 5, as part of the<br />

station’s “Truly CA” series.<br />

It’s no easy task <strong>to</strong> condense<br />

any life s<strong>to</strong>ry in<strong>to</strong> that time<br />

frame, and Mr. McCloskey’s<br />

is certainly no exception. A<br />

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early 1970s in the House of Representatives.<br />

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Plans <strong>to</strong> reuse the house’s<br />

meaningful elements may be the<br />

preservationists’ last chance, Mr.<br />

Ellman said. The Uphold group<br />

should settle, he said.<br />

Mr. Smythe <strong>to</strong>ld The <strong>Almanac</strong><br />

that he’s looking forward <strong>to</strong><br />

working with Uphold “as much<br />

as possible.”<br />

He said that he and his wife spent<br />

a week in Santa Barbara <strong>to</strong>uring<br />

homes designed by Mr. Smith,<br />

the Jackling house architect. “We<br />

like the architect a lot. We love<br />

his buildings,” he said. “We want<br />

<strong>to</strong> reconstruct it in a way that he<br />

would be happy with.”<br />

The public hearing on the<br />

matter was brief, with just one<br />

speaker: Woodside resident and<br />

preservationist ally Steve Rubin,<br />

who raised a process question<br />

about the adjacent property, also<br />

owned by Mr. Jobs.<br />

Mayor Peter Mason and Councilman<br />

Dave Burow voted against<br />

the re<strong>solution</strong>.<br />

Mr. Mason has said he laments<br />

the tearing down of his<strong>to</strong>ric<br />

resources in <strong>to</strong>wn, while Mr.<br />

Burow disagreed with the proviso,<br />

advanced by Councilman Ron<br />

Romines, that conditions a demolition<br />

permit on Mr. Smythe and<br />

Mr. Jobs signing the contract.<br />

Finding a site<br />

If Mr. Smythe hasn’t found a site<br />

suitable for a rebuilt version of the<br />

house in five years, the elements<br />

would be offered, in order of priority,<br />

<strong>to</strong> the <strong>to</strong>wn of Woodside,<br />

the San Mateo County His<strong>to</strong>rical<br />

Association, and the University<br />

of California at Santa Barbara,<br />

according <strong>to</strong> the staff report.<br />

Councilwoman Carroll Ann<br />

Hodges asked Mr. Smythe how<br />

the search was going.<br />

“That’s not an issue that we<br />

have nailed down,” he replied.<br />

“I wish it weren’t the case. I<br />

wish we had a site. I don’t think<br />

a house like this deserves <strong>to</strong> be<br />

thrown just anywhere.”<br />

The parcel should be at least<br />

10 acres, he said, adding that he’s<br />

said he’s looked in Southern and<br />

Central California and the Bay<br />

Area. “This house should not be<br />

crammed in somewhere, but it’s<br />

difficult <strong>to</strong> find a great piece of<br />

land,” he said.<br />

One site near San Jose has<br />

“amazing views (but) it didn’t<br />

feel right,” he said. “This house is<br />

about being surrounded by trees<br />

and having privacy.”<br />

The team that would dismantle<br />

the house works “on a nail by<br />

nail basis, I understand,” Mr.<br />

Ellman said, adding that of the<br />

many inquiries Mr. Jobs received<br />

regarding the house, “Gordon is<br />

the one guy who has really stuck<br />

with this.” A


N E W S<br />

Documentary salutes Pete McCloskey<br />

MCCLOSKEY<br />

continued from page 5<br />

side resident, Mr. McCloskey<br />

still maintains a home in Por<strong>to</strong>la<br />

Valley, at the Sequoias retirement<br />

community.)<br />

His many accomplishments are<br />

detailed in Mr. Caughlan’s progressive-minded<br />

documentary,<br />

“Pete McCloskey: Leading from<br />

the Front,” set <strong>to</strong> air on KQED<br />

at 6 p.m. The film focuses on<br />

Mr. McCloskey’s political career,<br />

following him from childhood<br />

in Southern California <strong>to</strong> semiretirement<br />

on a farm in Rumsey,<br />

California, where he still takes on<br />

the occasional case (and wages the<br />

occasional political battle). The<br />

documentary, narrated by Paul<br />

Newman, presents Mr. McCloskey<br />

as an “original maverick” who<br />

repeatedly shook up the political<br />

system; a man who by his own<br />

admission is “perfectly agreeable<br />

<strong>to</strong> losing, if I can make my point,<br />

and make it hard.”<br />

The documentary marks the<br />

first foray in<strong>to</strong> filmmaking for<br />

Mr. Caughlan, who for 30 years<br />

ran a “good deeds” advertising<br />

and public relations firm out of<br />

an office near the Menlo Park<br />

Caltrain station. He wanted <strong>to</strong> tell<br />

Mr. McCloskey’s s<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>to</strong> honor<br />

the man, and <strong>to</strong> propagate what<br />

he views as the movie’s central<br />

message: that the country needs<br />

people who are willing <strong>to</strong> fight for<br />

a cause, regardless of whether it’s<br />

popular at the time.<br />

Predictably, editing the film<br />

proved <strong>to</strong> be a challenge. Many<br />

of Mr. Caughlan’s favorite s<strong>to</strong>ries<br />

about Mr. McCloskey ended<br />

up on the proverbial cuttingroom<br />

floor.<br />

In the documentary, we learn<br />

of a heated argument in the<br />

back of a limousine between Mr.<br />

McCloskey and John Ehrlichman,<br />

a close adviser <strong>to</strong> then-President<br />

Nixon, over Nixon’s invasion of<br />

Cambodia. What we don’t learn<br />

is that the men had been good<br />

friends, up until Mr. McCloskey<br />

advocated impeaching Nixon on<br />

the floor of the House — and that<br />

the men resumed their friendship<br />

when Mr. McCloskey visited Mr.<br />

Ehrlichman in an Arizona prison<br />

after the fallout from the Watergate<br />

break-in.<br />

Another s<strong>to</strong>ry that didn’t make<br />

the cut was Mr. McCloskey’s role<br />

in a case brought by the nonprofit<br />

Surfrider Foundation, against a<br />

polluting pulp mill in Humboldt<br />

County. As Mr. Caughlan tells<br />

it, Mr. McCloskey — whom the<br />

Surfriders recruited <strong>to</strong> help with<br />

the case, at Mr. Caughlan’s suggestion<br />

— waited patiently during<br />

the trial while a lawyer defending<br />

the pulp mill tried <strong>to</strong> explain <strong>to</strong><br />

the judge Congress’s intent in<br />

Pho<strong>to</strong> by Rob Caughlan<br />

Pete McCloskey, left, and the late ac<strong>to</strong>r Paul Newman, who narrates<br />

the film about the former congressman and political maverick.<br />

drafting the Clean Water Act.<br />

When the pulp mill lawyer had<br />

finished, “Pete gets up and humbly<br />

says that he helped write the Clean<br />

Water Act, and that in fact that was<br />

not the intent behind it. ...”<br />

Recounting the s<strong>to</strong>ry, Mr.<br />

Caughlan — a longtime surfer<br />

and environmental advocate —<br />

grins. He had an artist make<br />

courtroom drawings depicting the<br />

incident, but couldn’t find space<br />

for it in the finished product. Mr.<br />

McCloskey’s life has been marked<br />

by so many other miles<strong>to</strong>nes that<br />

“winning the largest clean-water<br />

action in American his<strong>to</strong>ry didn’t<br />

fit in,” Mr. Caughlan says.<br />

Met in 1967<br />

Mr. Caughlan first met Mr.<br />

McCloskey when he walked a precinct<br />

for him, during Mr. McCloskey’s<br />

1967 bid for a local seat<br />

in the House against Woodside<br />

resident Shirley Temple Black.<br />

“My mom thought I went over<br />

<strong>to</strong> the dark side” in joining a<br />

Republican’s campaign, he says.<br />

He and Mr. McCloskey kept in<br />

<strong>to</strong>uch; he even stayed at McCloskey’s<br />

Washing<strong>to</strong>n, D.C., home<br />

for a few weeks. At the time, Mr.<br />

Caughlan was house-hunting in<br />

D.C., having landed a job with as<br />

a special assistant <strong>to</strong> the administra<strong>to</strong>r<br />

of the Environmental<br />

Protection Agency.<br />

“I asked Pete, ‘Do I need a key?’<br />

He said, ‘Nah, the door’s broken,’”<br />

Mr. Caughlan remembers.<br />

“Leading a bayonet charge takes<br />

one kind of courage,” he says (Mr.<br />

McCloskey led six of them during<br />

the Korean War). “Living in D.C.<br />

without a lock, well — that’s a different<br />

kind of courage.”<br />

When Mr. Caughlan set out <strong>to</strong><br />

make the documentary, he didn’t<br />

expect it would take eight years.<br />

But he encountered a number of<br />

stumbling blocks, not the least of<br />

which was Mr. McCloskey himself.<br />

The film was nearly finished<br />

when a restless McCloskey came<br />

out of retirement <strong>to</strong> challenge Rep.<br />

Richard Pombo in 2006 for the<br />

House seat in Tracy, forcing Mr.<br />

Caughlan <strong>to</strong> revise the ending.<br />

Mr. McCloskey had been roused<br />

<strong>to</strong> action by Mr. Pombo’s plan <strong>to</strong><br />

sell public land <strong>to</strong> private bidders.<br />

He lost in the primary, but<br />

succeeded in his ultimate goal<br />

when the Democratic candidate,<br />

Jerry McNerny, bounced Mr.<br />

Pombo in the general election.<br />

Mr. Caughlan put the documentary<br />

aside for six months <strong>to</strong><br />

work as Mr. McCloskey’s press<br />

secretary, then ended up spending<br />

another half-year working for Mr.<br />

McNerny.<br />

Mr. Caughlin anticipates taking<br />

some heat for not giving enough<br />

attention <strong>to</strong> Mr. McCloskey’s<br />

faults. But “I’ve got Nixon, (Spiro)<br />

Agnew, and (Pat) Robertson criticizing<br />

him,” he says. “It’s just that,<br />

coming from them, it sounds like<br />

a compliment.”<br />

“I just wanted <strong>to</strong> tell Pete’s<br />

s<strong>to</strong>ry,” he says. “I don’t care about<br />

the reviews.”<br />

In producing the film, Mr.<br />

Caughlan got help from some<br />

big names. Paul Newman, who<br />

worked on Mr. McCloskey’s campaign<br />

for the Republican nomination<br />

for president in 1972, agreed<br />

<strong>to</strong> narrate. Woodside resident<br />

Joan Baez donated her song<br />

“Saigon Bride.”<br />

And Robert Redford convinced<br />

Warner Brothers <strong>to</strong> let<br />

Mr. Caughlan use a clip from<br />

“All the President’s Men,” in<br />

which Mr. Redford’s character<br />

works in an empty office while<br />

on a nearby television set, a news<br />

anchor announces Mr. McCloskey’s<br />

defeat in the 1972 presidential<br />

primary.<br />

The film cost $200,000 <strong>to</strong> produce,<br />

according <strong>to</strong> Mr. Caughlin.<br />

It was funded by various<br />

foundations, and by Mr. McCloskey’s<br />

friends, he says. He even<br />

reached in<strong>to</strong> his own pockets:<br />

He has an outstanding credit<br />

card bill of $30,000 associated<br />

with production costs.<br />

“If the worst thing I lost is<br />

$30,000 and eight years, it’d still<br />

be worth it,” he says, flashing that<br />

big grin. A<br />

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equire a majority vote just <strong>to</strong><br />

put something on the agenda.<br />

“It wouldn’t bother me if we<br />

were the only <strong>to</strong>wn <strong>to</strong> do it this<br />

way,” he <strong>to</strong>ld The <strong>Almanac</strong>. “To<br />

me it’s the right way.”<br />

The situation in Ather<strong>to</strong>n<br />

prompted former Ather<strong>to</strong>n<br />

councilman Alan Carlson <strong>to</strong><br />

quote Wins<strong>to</strong>n Churchill’s<br />

assessment of post-World War<br />

8 � The <strong>Almanac</strong> � July 1, 2009<br />

II Eastern Europe: “An iron<br />

curtain is descending.”<br />

“All the people who voted for<br />

it ran on a platform of open<br />

government and transparency,<br />

and they’ve pulled the shade<br />

down on transparency. It would<br />

appear, from the outside, <strong>to</strong> be<br />

the majority stifling dissent<br />

from the minority,” Mr. Carlson<br />

<strong>to</strong>ld The <strong>Almanac</strong>. “That’s never<br />

how it worked when I was on the<br />

city council.”<br />

During his nine years on the<br />

Ather<strong>to</strong>n council, there was<br />

N E W S<br />

New Ather<strong>to</strong>n rule: Is aim <strong>to</strong> stifle dissent?<br />

AGENDA<br />

continued from page 5<br />

never any formal policy in place,<br />

Mr. Carlson said. To get a <strong>to</strong>pic<br />

discussed by the council, all you<br />

had <strong>to</strong> do was call the city manager<br />

and request that it be placed<br />

on a meeting agenda, he said.<br />

Prior <strong>to</strong> publishing the meeting<br />

agenda, the city manager would<br />

go over it with the mayor, who<br />

could choose <strong>to</strong> pull things off<br />

the agenda.<br />

“I don’t know that anybody ever<br />

said that something should not<br />

be on an agenda, and <strong>to</strong>ok things<br />

off. I was mayor twice, and that’s<br />

how it used <strong>to</strong> work,” said Mr.<br />

Carlson, who resigned his seat in<br />

November 2007 when he moved<br />

<strong>to</strong> Carmel Valley. Mr. Dobbie was<br />

elected <strong>to</strong> finish out the remainder<br />

of Mr. Carlson’s term.<br />

Councilman Charles Marsala<br />

said he feels he is being targeted<br />

by the new rule, a situation that<br />

inspired him <strong>to</strong> quote at length<br />

from George Orwell’s “Animal<br />

Farm.”<br />

“Are they chasing me off the<br />

farm? You bet,” he <strong>to</strong>ld The<br />

<strong>Almanac</strong>.<br />

The <strong>to</strong>wn’s controversial<br />

decisions about basements and<br />

restrictions on youth sports<br />

organizations using public<br />

school campuses — all would<br />

have benefited if he had been<br />

allowed <strong>to</strong> put them back on the<br />

agenda, Mr. Marsala said.<br />

“As council members we come up<br />

with ideas and brains<strong>to</strong>rm them,<br />

and if people don’t like them, they<br />

don’t like them,” he said.<br />

While it may appear that tightening<br />

up the agenda-setting rule<br />

was triggered by a divisive <strong>to</strong>pic<br />

championed by Mr. Marsla in<br />

May — <strong>to</strong> expand the Ather<strong>to</strong>n<br />

branch library by “selling” it<br />

the <strong>to</strong>wn council chambers, and<br />

using the proceeds from the sale<br />

<strong>to</strong>ward building a new <strong>to</strong>wn hall<br />

— Mr. Marsala said the majority<br />

has been stifling him for longer<br />

than that.<br />

Mr. Marsala pointed <strong>to</strong> another<br />

<strong>to</strong>pic he tried <strong>to</strong> revisit — the<br />

controversial series of audits of<br />

the <strong>to</strong>wn’s building department<br />

in 2006, which resulted in a<br />

major shake-up and the sudden<br />

retirement of building official<br />

Mike Hood.<br />

“There is a desire <strong>to</strong> block the<br />

truth from getting out that Mike<br />

Hood did a great job for our<br />

<strong>to</strong>wn and we erred in not getting<br />

a second opinion on the audit,<br />

which might embarrass people<br />

who were looking for something<br />

as a way of controlling building<br />

(in <strong>to</strong>wn),” Mr. Marsala said.<br />

Mr. Dobbie said that as for<br />

the library issue, it should never<br />

have gone on the council agenda<br />

because it was clear that the Joint<br />

Powers Authority that runs the<br />

library would never allow library<br />

funds <strong>to</strong> be used <strong>to</strong> purchase the<br />

<strong>to</strong>wn council chambers.<br />

“What’s the point of the council<br />

talking about it if the JPA<br />

assured us that we would not be<br />

allowed <strong>to</strong> use the funds,” said<br />

Mr. Dobbie. A<br />

Report released on<br />

high-speed rail<br />

The agency that oversees<br />

the high-speed rail project has<br />

released a report summarizing<br />

comments the agency received<br />

from local governments, agencies,<br />

and residents, in regard <strong>to</strong><br />

the section of the proposed route<br />

from San Jose <strong>to</strong> San Francisco.<br />

The 75-page scoping report<br />

divides the comments received<br />

in<strong>to</strong> 10 <strong>to</strong>pics, including concerns<br />

over property acquisition, the rail<br />

line’s alignment, and coordination<br />

with other transit systems.<br />

The report is preliminary <strong>to</strong><br />

the release of the environmental<br />

impact report, expected<br />

<strong>to</strong> be completed in 2010. That<br />

report will identify the potential<br />

impact of one or several design<br />

configurations on the surrounding<br />

environment.<br />

To read the scoping report,<br />

visit tinyurl.com/HSRscope.


N E W S<br />

Trial starts for public works supervisor<br />

By Andrea Gemmet<br />

<strong>Almanac</strong> Staff Writer<br />

Opening arguments began<br />

Monday in the jury trial<br />

of Ather<strong>to</strong>n public works<br />

supervisor Troy Henderson, a<br />

33-year employee of the <strong>to</strong>wn who<br />

is facing misdemeanor assault and<br />

battery charges for allegedly attacking<br />

an Ather<strong>to</strong>n police officer.<br />

In a June 3, 2008, incident caught<br />

on videotape, Officer Pilar Ortiz-<br />

Buckley was sitting in the police<br />

station staff room when she was<br />

threatened by public works supervisor<br />

Troy Henderson, who then<br />

lunged at her, according <strong>to</strong> Steve<br />

Wagstaffe, the chief deputy district<br />

at<strong>to</strong>rney of San Mateo County.<br />

In an opening statement, defense<br />

at<strong>to</strong>rney Jamie Harley said, “This<br />

is an opportunity for her <strong>to</strong> retire<br />

Councilman says he’s now cancer-free<br />

Ather<strong>to</strong>n Councilman Jim Dobbie<br />

<strong>to</strong>ld The <strong>Almanac</strong> that he is<br />

now cancer-free, following chemotherapy<br />

<strong>to</strong> treat lymphoma.<br />

Mr. Dobbie said that he was<br />

diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma<br />

and underwent the removal of his<br />

spleen. His initial prognosis was<br />

not good, he said.<br />

“Now I’m trying <strong>to</strong> recover from<br />

the chemotherapy, but the cancer<br />

is all gone,” he said.<br />

He called the five months of<br />

chemotherapy “absolutely, <strong>to</strong>tally<br />

terrible.” Despite undergoing treat-<br />

Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley: ‘Extremely difficult’ budget passes easily<br />

By Dave Boyce<br />

<strong>Almanac</strong> Staff Writer<br />

Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley Town Manager<br />

Angela Howard had used the<br />

words “extremely difficult” <strong>to</strong><br />

describe her recent efforts <strong>to</strong> balance<br />

the <strong>to</strong>wn’s budget for the fiscal<br />

year that starts on July 1.<br />

But that budget’s passage by a<br />

unanimous Town Council on<br />

Wednesday, June 24, could not<br />

have been smoother. The discussion<br />

and vote <strong>to</strong>ok less than<br />

10 minutes, including a public-<br />

Hilary Giles named among <strong>to</strong>p 100 financial advisers<br />

Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley resident and private<br />

wealth adviser Hilary Giles is among<br />

the <strong>to</strong>p 100 women financial advisers<br />

for 2009, according <strong>to</strong> an annual<br />

list compiled by Barron’s Magazine,<br />

the financial weekly published by<br />

Dow Jones & Company.<br />

Ms. Giles works out of the Menlo<br />

Park office of Merrill Lynch’s<br />

Private Banking and Investment<br />

Group and manages more than<br />

$1 billion in assets for individuals<br />

with a typical net worth of $50<br />

million and a typical account under<br />

management of $15 million, the<br />

Barron’s listing said.<br />

Inclusion in the list is a reflection<br />

of an adviser’s volume of<br />

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with full benefits and say she was<br />

violated by a <strong>to</strong>wn employee.”<br />

Prosecuting at<strong>to</strong>rney Sharron<br />

Lee said: “We all know there is<br />

a certain line we’re not allowed<br />

<strong>to</strong> cross. We have the right <strong>to</strong> be<br />

free from unwanted, harmful or<br />

offensive <strong>to</strong>uching. You’ll see the<br />

defendant cross that line.”<br />

Mr. Henderson, 58, is also<br />

named in a civil lawsuit that Officer<br />

Ortiz-Buckley filed against<br />

the <strong>to</strong>wn, alleging ongoing sexual<br />

harassment by Mr. Henderson. In<br />

her April 22 complaint, Officer<br />

Ortiz-Buckley said that once she<br />

reported the incident, she faced<br />

retaliation and disability discrimination<br />

related <strong>to</strong> the injury she<br />

suffered in the incident.<br />

ment for cancer,<br />

Mr. Dobbie<br />

points out that he<br />

didn’t miss any<br />

regular council<br />

meetings.<br />

“It was one<br />

of worst things<br />

Jim Dobbie<br />

I’ve ever been<br />

through, but it was successful,”<br />

Mr. Dobbie said.<br />

During his ordeal, Mr. Dobbie<br />

said, he was <strong>to</strong>uched by the support<br />

he received from his fellow<br />

Ather<strong>to</strong>nians.<br />

comment period during which no<br />

one from the small and scattered<br />

audience volunteered <strong>to</strong> speak.<br />

The council voted 4-0, with<br />

Councilman Ted Driscoll absent.<br />

In doing her routine calculations<br />

<strong>to</strong> prepare the budget, Ms.<br />

Howard said she discovered a<br />

$420,000 hole, much larger than<br />

the $40,000 or $50,000 she was<br />

used <strong>to</strong>. Expenses are up and the<br />

<strong>to</strong>wn’s interest earnings are down<br />

24 percent, and revenues from real<br />

estate transfer tax and building<br />

assets, revenues<br />

generated for<br />

the firm, and the<br />

“quality of the<br />

adviser’s practices,”<br />

according<br />

<strong>to</strong> the Barron’s<br />

Web site.<br />

Ms. Giles’ 16 Hilary Giles<br />

years in finance include leading the<br />

Northern California account management<br />

group of New York-based<br />

wealth management firm Bessemer<br />

Trust, and researching and managing<br />

a portfolio for Sand Hill Advisors.<br />

She started her career with<br />

JP Morgan in venture and private<br />

equity, according <strong>to</strong> a biography<br />

Through his at<strong>to</strong>rney, Mr. Henderson<br />

has said that he is innocent.<br />

Prosecu<strong>to</strong>rs sought <strong>to</strong> include<br />

evidence about Mr. Henderson’s<br />

alleged harassment of other female<br />

<strong>to</strong>wn employees, but Judge Craig<br />

Parsons denied it, said Chief<br />

Deputy District At<strong>to</strong>rney Steve<br />

Wagstaffe. However, the judge<br />

didn’t rule out the possibility that<br />

the evidence could be brought up<br />

later in the trial, as a rebuttal <strong>to</strong> Mr.<br />

Henderson’s defense testimony.<br />

Judge Parsons did grant a<br />

motion <strong>to</strong> exclude any evidence<br />

concerning the defendant’s medical<br />

condition. The defense claims<br />

Mr. Henderson is impotent and<br />

has no sex drive due <strong>to</strong> medical<br />

treatment for prostate cancer,<br />

according <strong>to</strong> Mr. Wagstaffe. A<br />

“I found a number of wonderful<br />

people here in Ather<strong>to</strong>n. They did<br />

all kinds of things for me and my<br />

wife,” he said.<br />

Mr. Dobbie was elected <strong>to</strong> the<br />

Ather<strong>to</strong>n City Council in the special<br />

election held in June 2008 <strong>to</strong><br />

fill the seat vacated by Alan Carlson.<br />

A 15-year Ather<strong>to</strong>n resident,<br />

he is a retired high-tech executive<br />

and a former pilot in the Royal Air<br />

Force Reserve.<br />

– By Andrea Gemmet<br />

permits are down 69 percent and<br />

47 percent, respectively.<br />

The new budget includes hiring<br />

and salary freezes at Town<br />

Hall, cuts in funding for various<br />

volunteer committees, and no<br />

capital improvements other than<br />

road repair.<br />

Mayor Ann Wengert asked Ms.<br />

Howard about the possibilities for<br />

increasing the <strong>to</strong>wn’s income.<br />

“I have lots of ideas for generating<br />

revenues,” Ms. Howard<br />

replied. A<br />

provided by Merrill Lynch.<br />

She has a master’s degree in<br />

business from Columbia University,<br />

and a bachelor’s degree from<br />

George<strong>to</strong>wn University, where she<br />

graduated Phi Beta Kappa, according<br />

<strong>to</strong> the biography.<br />

Ms. Giles is a trustee of Por<strong>to</strong>la<br />

Valley’s Woodside Priory School, a<br />

Benedictine Catholic college prepara<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

school for grades 6-12, and a<br />

career adviser for Summer Search,<br />

a national leadership development<br />

program, the biography said.<br />

She and her husband have four<br />

children. She sails competitively<br />

and collects post-modern lithographs,<br />

the biography said.<br />

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Tesla Mo<strong>to</strong>rs has received<br />

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music and activities for all ages.<br />

Kids and their families are invited <strong>to</strong> dress in<br />

red, white and blue and bring decorated tricycles<br />

and bikes, wagons, pets and floats <strong>to</strong> join the July<br />

Fourth parade, which begins at 11:45 a.m.<br />

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Avenue and Chestnut Street.<br />

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inflatables, rock climbing, crafts and face painting.<br />

Johnny Vegas and the High Rollers will play<br />

music from noon <strong>to</strong> 2:30 p.m.<br />

Wrist bands, required for games and activities,<br />

will be sold for $6 each. Food and drink will be<br />

sold separately.<br />

For more information, go <strong>to</strong><br />

www.menlopark.org.<br />

JUNIOR RODEO IN <strong>WOODSIDE</strong><br />

The 59th annual NorCal Junior Rodeo, sponsored<br />

by the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo<br />

County, will be held Saturday, July 4, at the<br />

Mounted Patrol grounds at 521 Kings Mountain<br />

Road in Woodside.<br />

Gates open at 8 a.m. The full day of events will<br />

include cowboys and cowgirls, ages 6 <strong>to</strong> 18, taking<br />

part in bull riding, steer and calf riding, barrel<br />

racing and team roping. The Rodeo Queen and<br />

her court of princesses will be in attendance. The<br />

main events start at noon with Presentation of the<br />

Colors by the Mounted Patrol Color Guard.<br />

Family entertainment will include an afternoon<br />

pig scramble and a petting zoo, which will be<br />

open all day.<br />

Admission is $15 for adults, $7 for ages 6-17,<br />

and free for kids 5 and under.<br />

The Mounted Patrol will also hold a dinnerdance<br />

at the Mounted Patrol grounds on Friday,<br />

July 3, starting at 6 p.m. No reservations are<br />

needed for the barbecue dinner. For more information,<br />

call 851-8300.<br />

REDWOOD CITY PARADE AND FESTIVAL<br />

“All Things Musical” is the theme for the 71st<br />

Redwood City Independence Day parade, which<br />

starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, July Forth, at the<br />

corner of Brewster and Winslow streets.<br />

The parade will feature decorated floats, local<br />

performing groups, college bands, horses, and<br />

military groups.<br />

The Peninsula Celebration Association is also<br />

sponsoring an arts and crafts festival along<br />

Middlefield Road from 9 a.m. <strong>to</strong> 5 p.m. There will<br />

be more than 60 crafts vendors and food and<br />

beverage booths.<br />

The ninth annual Battle of the Bands, starting<br />

J U L Y 4 T H 2 0 0 9<br />

A weekend of parades, carnivals, a street fair, and the<br />

NorCal Junior Rodeo await local Fourth of July celebrants<br />

By Jane Knoerle | <strong>Almanac</strong> Lifestyles Edi<strong>to</strong>r<br />

at 1:30 p.m., will be held in the San Mateo Credit<br />

Union parking lot, with the U.C. Davis Marching<br />

Band and the Leland Stanford Junior University<br />

Marching Band competing.<br />

The Marshall Law band will play on the entertainment<br />

stage from 2 <strong>to</strong> 5 p.m.<br />

The day will end with the annual fireworks show,<br />

launched from the water at the Port of Redwood<br />

City. The fireworks are expected <strong>to</strong> begin at<br />

approximately 9:30 p.m. For more information,<br />

go <strong>to</strong> www.parade.org.<br />

KIWANIS CARNIVAL<br />

The Woodside Terrace A.M. Kiwanis Club<br />

of Redwood City will hold its annual carnival<br />

Saturday and Sunday, July 4 and 5, in the<br />

county government center parking lot, corner<br />

of Veterans Boulevard and Middlefield Road in<br />

Redwood City.<br />

The Kiwanis Web site says the carnival features<br />

family-oriented rides, with seats wide enough for<br />

a parent and child <strong>to</strong> sit <strong>to</strong>gether.<br />

The carnival starts right after the Redwood<br />

City parade and continues until 10 p.m. It will be<br />

open from noon <strong>to</strong> 10 p.m. on Sunday. For more<br />

information, call 592-3250.<br />

LITTLE HOUSE BARBECUE<br />

Little House, at 800 Middle Ave. in Menlo<br />

Park, invites you <strong>to</strong> put on your Western finery<br />

and join them for a barbecue from 11:30 a.m.<br />

<strong>to</strong> 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 1.<br />

Cowgirl Chryle Bacon will entertain. Cost is $10<br />

per person. For details, call 326-2025.<br />

RAGTIME PIANO MUSIC<br />

Nan Bostick of Menlo Park will perform two,<br />

four, and six-handed ragtime music with fellow<br />

musicians Chris and Jack Bradshaw at 3:30 p.m.<br />

Saturday at the First Baptist Church of Menlo<br />

Park, 1100 Middle Ave. at Arbor Road.<br />

The trio will be accompanied by percussionist<br />

Pete Devine and Robyn Drivon on tuba. Offerings<br />

will benefit the U.S.O.<br />

Following the concert, there will be a church<br />

barbecue at 5:30 with Pas<strong>to</strong>r Rick Line as head<br />

chef. Cost is $5 per person<br />

For more information, call Carol Maslin at<br />

323-8544.<br />

NO STANFORD CONCERT<br />

Pho<strong>to</strong> by Holly Winnen<br />

Steer riding is one of the July Fourth events<br />

at the 59th annual NorCal Junior Rodeo,<br />

sponsored spons by the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo<br />

County, Count and held at the Mounted Patrol grounds<br />

at 521 Kings Mountain Road in Woodside.<br />

There will be no pre-Independence Day concert<br />

at Stanford University’s Frost Amphitheatre<br />

this year because of ongoing construction<br />

around the amphitheatre, making it unsafe <strong>to</strong><br />

launch fireworks. The event usually includes a<br />

jazz festival sponsored by Lively Arts, as well<br />

as a fireworks display.<br />

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Palo Al<strong>to</strong> Center<br />

795 El Camino Real<br />

Living Well Classes<br />

Learning About Heart Failure<br />

Friday, July 10, 10 – 11:30 a.m.,<br />

Thursday, July 30,<br />

2 – 3:30 p.m., Thursday, August 6,<br />

6 – 7:30 p.m.<br />

650-853-2960<br />

What You Need <strong>to</strong> Know About Warfarin<br />

Wednesday, July 15, 2 – 4 p.m., 650-853-2960<br />

Managing Your High Blood Pressure<br />

Wednesday, July 15, 6 – 8 p.m., 650-853-2960<br />

Supermarket Wise<br />

Thursday, August 6, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., 650-853-2960<br />

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction<br />

Free orientation, Monday, September 2, 6:30 - 9 p.m..<br />

Classes start Monday, September 14 and Tuesday,<br />

September 15, 6:30 – 9 p.m., 650-853-2960<br />

Nutrition and Diabetes Classes<br />

Living Well with Prediabetes<br />

Monday, July 6, 9 – 11:30 a.m.,<br />

650-853-2961<br />

Healthy Eating with Type 2 Diabetes<br />

Tuesday, July 14, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.,<br />

650-853-2961<br />

Feeding Your Toddler (ages 1 – 3)<br />

Thursday, July 16, 10 a.m. – noon,<br />

650-853-2961<br />

Heart Smart Class<br />

Tuesdays, July 21 & 28, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., 650-853-2961<br />

Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Child Care Classes<br />

Breastfeeding – Secrets for Success<br />

Saturday, July 18, 10 a.m. – noon, 650-853-2960<br />

Moving Through Pregnancy<br />

Mondays, August 3 – 17, 7 – 9 p.m., 650-853-2960<br />

Preparing for Birth<br />

Wednesdays, August 5 – September 9, 7 – 9 p.m.,<br />

650-853-2960<br />

Support Groups<br />

Cancer<br />

650-342-3749<br />

CPAP<br />

650-853-4729<br />

Diabetes<br />

650-224-7872<br />

Drug and Alcohol<br />

650-853-2904<br />

12 � The <strong>Almanac</strong> � July 1, 2009<br />

Healing Imagery for<br />

Cancer Patients<br />

650-279-8772<br />

Kidney<br />

650-326-2107<br />

Multiple Sclerosis<br />

650-321-4121<br />

Community Health<br />

Education Programs<br />

Mountain View Center<br />

701 E. El Camino Real<br />

Living Well Classes<br />

Advance Health Care<br />

Directive Appointments<br />

650-934-7380<br />

HICAP Insurance<br />

Counseling Appointments<br />

650-934-7380<br />

Mind-Body Stress<br />

Management (3 sessions)<br />

Monday, July 13, 7 – 9 p.m.,<br />

650-934-7373<br />

Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Child Care Classes<br />

Breastfeeding Your Newborn<br />

Mondays, July 6, 13 or August<br />

3, Tuesdays, July 7 or August 4,<br />

6:30 – 9 p.m., 650-934-7373<br />

Feeding Your Toddler<br />

Tuesday, July 7 or August 4,<br />

7 – 8:30 p.m., 650-934-7373<br />

Preparing for Baby<br />

Tuesday, July 14 or August 4, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.,<br />

650-934-7373<br />

Infant Emergencies and CPR<br />

Wednesday, July 22 or<br />

Wednedays, August 5 & 26,<br />

6 – 8:30 p.m., 650-934-7373<br />

Sunnyvale Center<br />

201 Old San Francisco Road<br />

Breastfeeding Support Group<br />

Tuesdays, 10:30 – noon<br />

Sunnyvale City Council Chambers<br />

456 W. Olive Avenue<br />

Understanding Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)<br />

Community Lecture<br />

Nicole Simpson, M.D., PAMF Gastroenterology<br />

Wednesday, July 22, 7 – 8 p.m., 408-523-3295<br />

Sunnyvale City Library<br />

665 W. Olive Avenue<br />

A Conversation with Gwendolyn Smith, Master of Social<br />

Work (MSW): Becoming Your Own Advocate<br />

Wednesday, August 5, 7 – 8:30 p.m., 650-934-7380<br />

For a complete list of classes, lectures and<br />

health education resources, visit: pamf.org.<br />

N E W S<br />

Little League:<br />

Partners team<br />

wins city title<br />

This s<strong>to</strong>ry was submitted by the<br />

Alpine-West Menlo Little League.<br />

The Partners team of the Alpine-<br />

West Menlo Little League Majors<br />

Division faced as formidable a<br />

challenge as it had all season in<br />

Mike’s Cafe of the Menlo-Ather<strong>to</strong>n<br />

Little League. But Partners<br />

scored two runs in the <strong>to</strong>p of the<br />

sixth <strong>to</strong> earn a 2-0 vic<strong>to</strong>ry June 19<br />

at Burgess Park and win bragging<br />

rights in the 37th renewal of the<br />

Menlo Park city championship.<br />

Conor Bonfiglio launched a<br />

two-out shot over the left-field<br />

fence and pitcher Kodiak Conrad<br />

put the finishing <strong>to</strong>uches on<br />

a pitching masterpiece <strong>to</strong> give<br />

Partners a Little League tri-fecta:<br />

the Alpine-West Menlo league<br />

championship, the playoff championship,<br />

and the city championship<br />

on the way <strong>to</strong> a 20-3 record.<br />

Mike’s Cafe earned its way <strong>to</strong><br />

the championship by winning<br />

the M-A league playoffs.<br />

Conrad struck out eight and<br />

faced just three batters over the<br />

minimum 18 on the way <strong>to</strong> a<br />

one-hit, 81-pitch complete game.<br />

Catcher Andrew Cox played a big<br />

role, throwing out two of those<br />

three base runners at second base.<br />

Rio Zelayo delivered Mike’s<br />

Cafe’s lone hit, a single in the<br />

second inning.<br />

Jackson Salabert limited Partners<br />

<strong>to</strong> four hits in five innings,<br />

but gave way <strong>to</strong> relief in the sixth.<br />

That’s when Bonfiglio struck.<br />

Bonfiglio and Cox both had<br />

two hits for Partners.<br />

Transit agencies get<br />

$16 million from feds<br />

The Peninsula Corridor Joint<br />

Powers Board, which oversees<br />

Caltrain service in San Mateo,<br />

Santa Clara, and San Francisco<br />

counties, will receive a $9 million<br />

grant for track, bridge, signal<br />

and bicycle improvements,<br />

Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, D-Menlo<br />

Park, announced June 10.<br />

Also, the San Mateo County<br />

Transit District will receive a $7<br />

million grant <strong>to</strong> purchase buses<br />

and for preventive maintenance,<br />

she said.<br />

The two grants, approved in the<br />

American Recovery and Reinvestment<br />

Act passed by Congress earlier<br />

this year, “will allow the Peninsula<br />

Corridor Joint Powers Board<br />

and the San Mateo County Transit<br />

District <strong>to</strong> complete much needed<br />

upgrades and maintenance,” Rep.<br />

Eshoo said in a press release.<br />

“These grants will help keep<br />

our trains and buses running<br />

safely and on time, while creating<br />

new jobs and investing in our<br />

regional economy,” she said.


N E W S<br />

City official<br />

resigns post<br />

By Sean Howell<br />

<strong>Almanac</strong> Staff Writer<br />

Barbara San<strong>to</strong>s George, direc<strong>to</strong>r<br />

of Menlo Park’s community<br />

services department,<br />

has resigned. The department<br />

oversees the city’s recreation programs,<br />

child care services, and<br />

programs for senior citizens.<br />

Her last day with the city will<br />

be Thursday, July 2, according<br />

<strong>to</strong> Personnel Direc<strong>to</strong>r Glen<br />

Kramer. Library Direc<strong>to</strong>r Susan<br />

Holmer will help <strong>to</strong> oversee the<br />

department on an interim basis,<br />

according <strong>to</strong> Mr. Kramer.<br />

The city will hold off on finding<br />

a permanent replacement for<br />

Ms. George, said City Manager<br />

Glen Rojas. Instead, the administration<br />

will evaluate whether<br />

the city can realign its existing<br />

staff structure <strong>to</strong> compensate for<br />

the vacant position, as the city<br />

tries <strong>to</strong> weather the recession,<br />

Mr. Rojas said.<br />

Mr. Rojas said he was “a little<br />

surprised” at the news of Ms.<br />

George’s resignation. She started<br />

working for the city in November<br />

2006. “We’re scrambling<br />

<strong>to</strong> make arrangements for the<br />

department <strong>to</strong> move forward,”<br />

he said.<br />

Ms. George said her resignation<br />

“did not have anything <strong>to</strong><br />

do” with the beleaguered city<br />

child care program that operates<br />

out of the Civic Center complex.<br />

“I just wanted an opportunity <strong>to</strong><br />

try a couple of new things, and<br />

this seemed like a good chance<br />

<strong>to</strong> do it,” she said.<br />

The debate over whether the<br />

city should continue <strong>to</strong> run the<br />

child care program has consumed<br />

most of Ms. George’s<br />

time over the past few months,<br />

she has said, as the department<br />

looked for ways the city could<br />

recoup more of its costs. The<br />

City Council is tentatively scheduled<br />

<strong>to</strong> give direction regarding<br />

the program’s future at its July<br />

21 meeting. A<br />

TOWN OF PORTOLA VALLEY<br />

INVITES APPLICATIONS<br />

FOR TOWN COUNCIL<br />

The Town of Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley is seeking candidates for<br />

three Town Council seats, which are up for election.<br />

All are 4-year terms, which expire in November 2013.<br />

The Town Council meets on the second and fourth<br />

Wednesdays each month at 7:30 p.m.<br />

Interested residents may request information and<br />

nomination papers Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.<br />

– 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at Town Hall,<br />

765 Por<strong>to</strong>la Road. Candidate filing period is July 13<br />

– August 7, 2009, unless an incumbent does not file<br />

for re-election, in which case the deadline will au<strong>to</strong>matically<br />

be extended until 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday,<br />

August 12, 2009. There is no fee for filing.<br />

Sharon Hanlon<br />

Town Clerk<br />

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS<br />

BID PROPOSALS SOUGHT FOR<br />

RESURFACING OF VARIOUS FEDERAL AID<br />

ROUTES PROJECT ESPL 5273(020)<br />

CITY PROJECT NUMBER 20-051<br />

The City of Menlo Park invites qualified contrac<strong>to</strong>rs <strong>to</strong> submit sealed bid<br />

proposals for the construction of the RESURFACING OF VARIOUS FEDERAL<br />

AID ROUTES PROJECT. Work required as part of this project consists of, in<br />

general, resurfacing selected federal routes within the City by means of (a)<br />

reconstruction including a deep area grind and installation of new asphalt<br />

concrete pavement; or (b) applying an asphalt concrete overlay. Other related<br />

work includes: manhole, valve and monument adjustment; wedge cut; deep<br />

lift asphalt; installing concrete ADA accessible ramps; installing traffic striping/markings;<br />

and all appurtenant work in place and ready for use at various<br />

locations in the City of Menlo Park; all as shown on the plans and described<br />

in the specifications. Performance of this work requires a valid California<br />

Contrac<strong>to</strong>r’s License Class A. The UDBE contract goal for the project is<br />

3.6%. The DBE contract goal for the project is 7%. Project documents and<br />

copies of the prevailing rate of wages can be obtained from the Menlo Park<br />

Engineering Division, located in the Administrative Building at 701 Laurel St.<br />

Sealed bid proposals will be received at the Engineering Division office until<br />

2 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2009, at which time they will be opened and<br />

publicly read. Additional information can be obtained on the City’s website:<br />

www.menlopark.org/cip<br />

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14 � The <strong>Almanac</strong> � July 1, 2009<br />

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING<br />

AND<br />

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING<br />

CITY OF MENLO PARK<br />

PLANNING COMMISSION<br />

MEETING JULY 13, 2009<br />

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission of the City of<br />

Menlo Park, California, is scheduled <strong>to</strong> review the following items:<br />

PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS<br />

Use Permit and Variance/Jeremy and Susan Stieglitz/1066 Laurel<br />

Street: Request for a use permit for interior modifications and first and<br />

second floor additions that would exceed 50 percent of the replacement<br />

value in a 12-month period and 50 percent of the existing square<br />

footage of the existing nonconforming single-s<strong>to</strong>ry, single-family residence<br />

on a substandard lot in the R-3 (Apartment) district, and for a<br />

variance <strong>to</strong> construct a one-car garage where the distance between the<br />

main buildings on the subject property and adjacent left side property<br />

would be 17 feet, 9 inches where 20 feet is required. The proposed<br />

remodeling and expansion are considered <strong>to</strong> be equivalent <strong>to</strong> a new<br />

structure.<br />

Use Permit/Yvette Keller and Mark Bessey/1015 Berkeley Avenue:<br />

Request for a use permit <strong>to</strong> construct single-s<strong>to</strong>ry additions <strong>to</strong> an existing<br />

single-s<strong>to</strong>ry, single-family, nonconforming residence that would<br />

exceed 75 percent of the replacement value of the existing structure in<br />

a 12-month period in the R-1-U (Single-Family Urban) zoning district.<br />

Rezoning, Planned Development Permit, Lot Merger and Minor<br />

Subdivision, BMR Agreement, Heritage Tree Removal Permit,<br />

and Environmental Review/Sand Hill Property Company/1300 El<br />

Camino Real: Requests for the following: 1) Rezoning the properties<br />

from C-4 General Commercial District (Applicable <strong>to</strong> El Camino Real) <strong>to</strong><br />

Planned Development (P-D) District, 2) Planned Development Permit <strong>to</strong><br />

establish development regulations including parking, building height,<br />

landscaping, and building setbacks, and conduct architectural review<br />

for the proposed development of 110,065 square feet of commercial<br />

space (51,365 square feet of retail/restaurant/service uses and 58,700<br />

square feet of non-medical office uses), 3) Lot Merger and Minor<br />

Subdivision <strong>to</strong> merge the existing six lots and create up <strong>to</strong> four commercial<br />

condominium units, 4) Below Market Rate (BMR) Agreement<br />

for the payment of in-lieu fees associated with the City’s BMR Housing<br />

Program, 5) Heritage Tree Removal Permits <strong>to</strong> remove two on-site and<br />

four off-site heritage trees, and 6) Environmental Review of the proposed<br />

project for potential environmental impacts. This item will focus<br />

on the Parking Study and Fiscal Impact Analysis (FIA) prepared for the<br />

project. No action will be taken on the proposed project.<br />

STUDY MEETING ITEM<br />

Study Session/El Camino Real/Down<strong>to</strong>wn Specific Plan: Review of<br />

project status and opportunity for individual commissioner comments.<br />

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that said Planning Commission<br />

will hold a public hearing on public hearing items in the Council<br />

Chambers of the City of Menlo Park, located at 701 Laurel Street, Menlo<br />

Park, on Monday, July 13, 2009, 7:00 p.m. or as near as possible thereafter,<br />

at which time and place interested persons may appear and be<br />

heard thereon. If you challenge this item in court, you may be limited<br />

<strong>to</strong> raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public<br />

hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered<br />

<strong>to</strong> the City of Menlo Park at, or prior <strong>to</strong>, the public hearing.<br />

The project file may be viewed by the public on weekdays between<br />

the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and<br />

8:00 a.m. <strong>to</strong> 5:00 p.m. on Friday, with alternate Fridays closed, at the<br />

Department of Community Development, 701 Laurel Street, Menlo Park.<br />

Please call the Planning Division if there are any questions and/or for<br />

complete agenda information (650) 330-6702.<br />

Si usted necesita más información sobre este proyec<strong>to</strong>, por favor llame<br />

al 650-330-6702, y pregunte por un asistente que hable español.<br />

DATED: June 25, 2009 Deanna Chow, Senior Planner<br />

PUBLISHED: July 1, 2009 Menlo Park Planning Commission<br />

Visit our Web site for Planning Commission public hearing, agenda, and<br />

staff report information: www.menlopark.org<br />

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N E W S<br />

Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley<br />

OKs revised<br />

noise law<br />

By Dave Boyce<br />

<strong>Almanac</strong> Staff Writer<br />

There will be quieter weekends<br />

in Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley,<br />

quieter than they would<br />

have been, that is.<br />

A late change <strong>to</strong> the <strong>to</strong>wn’s<br />

noise ordinance, which the Town<br />

Council approved on June 24,<br />

now prohibits the use of wood<br />

chippers and chain saws by commercial<br />

gardeners on Saturdays.<br />

Residents are allowed <strong>to</strong> use<br />

such <strong>to</strong>ols, including leaf blowers,<br />

on both weekend days<br />

between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. To<br />

encourage brush removal for<br />

wildfire safety, between mid-<br />

April and mid-June, residents<br />

can use these <strong>to</strong>ols until 8 p.m.<br />

Commercial gardening is prohibited<br />

on Sundays, and no one,<br />

residents or gardeners, can use<br />

such noisy <strong>to</strong>ols on holidays. A<br />

late push <strong>to</strong> ban weekend commercial<br />

use of leaf blowers came<br />

up for discussion but not a vote.<br />

The council voted 3-1 <strong>to</strong> introduce<br />

the updated ordinance, with<br />

Councilman Ted Driscoll absent<br />

and with Mayor Ann Wengert<br />

opposed <strong>to</strong> the ban on commercial<br />

use of chippers and chain saws.<br />

The ordinance is available online<br />

in a staff report on the <strong>to</strong>wn Web<br />

site at tinyurl.com/lr6bv6.<br />

With a second reading, probably<br />

at the July 8 meeting, the<br />

council would officially adopt<br />

the ordinance and it would<br />

become law 30 days later.<br />

In opposing the ordinance, Ms.<br />

Wengert said the new provision<br />

would confuse residents, and<br />

that they should have commercial<br />

services available on Saturdays<br />

<strong>to</strong> clear brush and reduce<br />

wildfire risks, a priority that<br />

trumps other concerns.<br />

The council vote came after an<br />

unusual fifth public hearing, the<br />

extra hearings made necessary<br />

by several small but substantial<br />

changes the council made <strong>to</strong> the<br />

ordinance language in recent<br />

meetings.<br />

One of those changes opened<br />

up Saturdays <strong>to</strong> commercial use<br />

of garden <strong>to</strong>ols, and another<br />

redefined garden <strong>to</strong>ols <strong>to</strong> include<br />

chippers and chain saws — suggested<br />

by Councilwoman Maryann<br />

Moise Derwin in the interest<br />

of lowering the wildfire risks.<br />

Leaf blowers<br />

There was an elephant in the<br />

room: extending the Saturday<br />

ban <strong>to</strong> include the commercial<br />

use of leaf blowers.<br />

Councilman Steve Toben has<br />

Continued on next page


F O R T H E R E C O R D<br />

� POLICE CALLS<br />

This information is from the Ather<strong>to</strong>n and<br />

Menlo Park police departments and the<br />

San Mateo County Sheriffís Office. Under<br />

the law, people charged with offenses are<br />

considered innocent until convicted.<br />

ATHERTON<br />

Fraud reports:<br />

■ Unauthorized use of account numbers<br />

and identification in purchase of Apple<br />

iPod, South Gate Ave., June 21.<br />

■ Unauthorized credit card charges<br />

possibly linked <strong>to</strong> obscene phone calls<br />

resident had been receiving, 100 block of<br />

Encinal Ave., June 22.<br />

■ Check fraud, Valparaiso Ave., June 25.<br />

MENLO PARK<br />

Residential burglary reports:<br />

■ Attempted break-in but no loss, 1100<br />

block of Woodland Ave., June 19.<br />

■ Cell phone and two sets of earrings for<br />

a <strong>to</strong>tal loss of $300, 1300 block of Hollyburne<br />

Ave., June 24.<br />

Au<strong>to</strong> burglary reports:<br />

■ Purse with credit cards s<strong>to</strong>len, 1600<br />

block of Marsh Road, June 19.<br />

■ DVD player, GPS device and CDs<br />

s<strong>to</strong>len, 1100 block of Windermere Ave.,<br />

June 21.<br />

■ Window smashed and lap<strong>to</strong>p computer<br />

s<strong>to</strong>len, 1000 block of Hobart St., June 25.<br />

S<strong>to</strong>len vehicle reports:<br />

■ Maroon 2006 Mitsubishi Endeavor,<br />

1100 block of Madera Ave., June 19.<br />

■ Maroon 1998 Ford Expedition, 100<br />

block of Hedge Road, June 19.<br />

■ 2008 Toyota, 300 block of Lexing<strong>to</strong>n<br />

Drive, June 21.<br />

■ Bronze 2000 Infiniti I30, 1100 block of<br />

Hidden Oaks Drive, June 25.<br />

Theft reports:<br />

■ GPS device s<strong>to</strong>len from unlocked vehicle,<br />

200 block of Hedge Road, June 19.<br />

■ Car stereo and GPS device s<strong>to</strong>len from<br />

vehicle, 500 block of Laurel St., June 22.<br />

Fraud report: Unauthorized use of credit<br />

card and loss of $776, 400 block of Claremont<br />

Way, June 19.<br />

Spousal abuse reports:<br />

<strong>WOODSIDE</strong><br />

Residential burglary report: Closets<br />

opened and Panasonic TV valued at $100<br />

s<strong>to</strong>len, 100 block of Skywood Way, June 17.<br />

Au<strong>to</strong> burglary report: Apple iPod, key<br />

ring, business cards, and cell phone<br />

charger s<strong>to</strong>len, intersection of Edgewood<br />

Road and Interstate 280, June 18.<br />

PORTOLA VALLEY<br />

Bracelet missing from recently deceased<br />

resident, 501 Por<strong>to</strong>la Road, June 19.<br />

WEST MENLO PARK<br />

Weapons report: Arrest and booking<br />

of Nicholas Belich of Union City after<br />

search of vehicle, with his consent, yielded<br />

police-type ba<strong>to</strong>n, 23-inch machete, air<br />

Sequoia board<br />

Continued from previous page<br />

■ 800 block of Santa Cruz Ave., June 23.<br />

■ 1300 block of Sevier Ave., June 25.<br />

gun altered <strong>to</strong> resemble real gun, illegal<br />

fireworks and pipe suspected of marijuana<br />

use, intersection of Alameda de las Pulgas<br />

and Oakley Ave., June 22.<br />

said repeatedly that residents<br />

in community workshops <strong>to</strong>ld<br />

him that they want <strong>to</strong> be able <strong>to</strong><br />

direct the work of hired gardeners<br />

on Saturdays, including their<br />

use of leaf blowers.<br />

During the June 24 public<br />

comment period, three residents<br />

spoke up against that idea, echoing<br />

sparse public complaints<br />

from past meetings.<br />

Town Planner George Mader<br />

informed the council that all the<br />

Planning Commission members<br />

at a recent meeting said they<br />

opposed the commercial use of<br />

leaf blowers, chippers and chain<br />

saws on Saturdays.<br />

That opinion resonates with<br />

Councilman Richard Merk, who<br />

has said all along that commercial<br />

leaf blowing should not be<br />

allowed on weekends.<br />

He could have thrown a<br />

wrench in the works by demanding<br />

a vote on the issue. With Ms.<br />

Derwin on board, saying that<br />

she could not ignore the opposition<br />

of five planning commissioners,<br />

and with Mr. Driscoll<br />

absent, a tie vote could have<br />

delayed the ordinance again.<br />

Mr. Merk chose not <strong>to</strong> do that,<br />

implying in an interview that<br />

democratic government is about<br />

participation, and that leafblower<br />

opponents in the public<br />

missed their chance. “If you want<br />

<strong>to</strong> change this, you’ve got <strong>to</strong> come<br />

<strong>to</strong> the meetings,” he said. “People<br />

have had any number of opportunities<br />

<strong>to</strong> speak up.” A<br />

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Barbara Greer<br />

Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley resident<br />

Barbara Greer<br />

died peacefully<br />

on May 25 at<br />

The Sequoias in<br />

Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley,<br />

where she had<br />

lived since 1991.<br />

She was 96.<br />

Ms. Greer,<br />

F O R T H E R E C O R D<br />

Barbara Greer<br />

born Barbara Balfour, was born<br />

and raised in South Pasadena.<br />

She graduated from South Pasadena<br />

High School and Stanford<br />

University. After graduating, she<br />

remained at Stanford an additional<br />

year <strong>to</strong> earn a teaching<br />

credential. She returned <strong>to</strong> South<br />

Pasadena and taught school for<br />

several years in West Los Angeles.<br />

In 1938 she married Lt. Harry<br />

Holt Greer, a young U.S. Navy<br />

officer. They began a 26-year<br />

life as a Navy family, moving 35<br />

times during that period. After<br />

his retirement, the family moved<br />

<strong>to</strong> Poughkeepsie, New York,<br />

where he worked for IBM. Mr.<br />

Greer died in 1973.<br />

After his death, Ms. Greer<br />

moved back <strong>to</strong> South Pasadena,<br />

where she lived in the house<br />

where she grew up for the next<br />

18 years. During her last years in<br />

South Pasadena, she worked as a<br />

travel adviser and <strong>to</strong>ur guide, taking<br />

several trips <strong>to</strong> the Orient.<br />

In 1991 Ms. Greer moved <strong>to</strong><br />

The Sequoias <strong>to</strong> be with several<br />

of her friends from Stanford. She<br />

started a lip-reading class for residents<br />

and was able <strong>to</strong> travel well<br />

in<strong>to</strong> her 90s, say family members.<br />

She was a member of Valley Presbyterian<br />

Church and served as a<br />

deacon for several years.<br />

She is survived by her children,<br />

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE<br />

Fees Due for Garbage, Recycling<br />

Material and, Plant Material Collection<br />

for Fiscal Year 2009-2010<br />

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Menlo Park,<br />

California, will hold a Public Hearing <strong>to</strong> consider the report of the City Manager<br />

<strong>to</strong> place unpaid fees due for garbage, recycling material, and plant material<br />

collection services for Fiscal Year July 1, 2009 <strong>to</strong> June 30, 2010, on the San<br />

Mateo County property tax rolls, pursuant <strong>to</strong> Sections 7.06.040 and 7.06.050 of<br />

the Menlo Park Municipal Code.<br />

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that said City Council will hold the<br />

aforementioned Public Hearing <strong>to</strong> consider this report in the Council Chambers<br />

of the City of Menlo Park, Civic Center - 701 Laurel Street, at 7:00 p.m. on<br />

Tuesday, the 14th day of July, 2009, or as near as possible thereafter, at which<br />

time and place interested persons may appear and be heard thereon.<br />

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that “If you challenge this matter<br />

in court, you may be limited <strong>to</strong> raising only those issues you or someone else<br />

raised at the Public Hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence<br />

delivered <strong>to</strong> the City of Menlo Park at, or prior <strong>to</strong>, the Hearing”.<br />

Dated: June 23, 2009<br />

/s/<br />

MARGARET S. ROBERTS, MMC, City Clerk<br />

� OBITUARIES<br />

Gaby Pryor of La Canada; G.<br />

William Greer of Richmond,<br />

Virginia; James B. Greer of<br />

Menlo Park; and Adelia Greer of<br />

Galway, Ireland. Other survivors<br />

are nine grandchildren and 12<br />

great-grandchildren.<br />

Services have been held. Interment<br />

will be at Arling<strong>to</strong>n National<br />

Cemetery in July.<br />

Ruth Ann Jordan<br />

Golfer, pianist and artist<br />

A memorial service will be<br />

held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 17,<br />

at Ladera Community<br />

Church,<br />

3300 Alpine<br />

Road in Por<strong>to</strong>la<br />

Valley, for<br />

Ruth Ann Jordan.<br />

Ms. Jordan<br />

died peacefully<br />

at her Menlo<br />

Park home on<br />

June 22, surrounded by family.<br />

She was 74.<br />

Ms. Jordan was born in Belmont,<br />

Massachusetts, and<br />

attended Lesley University in<br />

Cambridge, Massachusetts. She<br />

moved <strong>to</strong> Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley in 1971,<br />

where she, her husband, Bill Jordan,<br />

and six children lived for 30<br />

years.<br />

An avid golfer, Ms. Jordan<br />

enjoyed playing at Emerald<br />

Hills, Deep Cliff, and Blackberry<br />

Farms golf courses, say<br />

family members. She was also<br />

an accomplished pianist, a tireless<br />

gardener, and “world class”<br />

grandmother, they say.<br />

Since all the Jordan grandchil-<br />

Published in THE ALMANAC on July 1, 2009 and July 8, 2009.<br />

Ruth Ann Jordan<br />

Continued on next page


Continued from previous page<br />

F O R T H E R E C O R D<br />

dren live in the Bay Area, their<br />

grandparents enjoyed attending<br />

their sporting events, plays and<br />

recitals, says Mr. Jordan.<br />

For many years, Ms. Jordan<br />

belonged <strong>to</strong> an art group that<br />

met weekly at Christ Church<br />

in Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley. Her paintings<br />

were displayed in local restaurants.<br />

She is survived by her husband<br />

of 53 years, Bill Jordan of Menlo<br />

Park; children Pamela, Jennifer,<br />

Wendy, Chuck, Rick and Rob;<br />

and eight grandchildren.<br />

Vic<strong>to</strong>ria Madison<br />

Rathbun Gill<br />

Former Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley resident<br />

A celebration of the life of Vic<strong>to</strong>ria<br />

Madison Rathbun Gill will<br />

be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, July<br />

2, at the Swedenborgian Church,<br />

2107 Lyon St. in San Francisco.<br />

Ms. Gill died at her home in San<br />

Francisco on May 30. She was<br />

57.<br />

Born in Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley, Ms. Gill<br />

attended both Por<strong>to</strong>la Valley and<br />

Corte Madera schools. She spent<br />

her freshman year of high school<br />

at Crystal Springs for Girls, then<br />

transferred <strong>to</strong> Woodside High<br />

School, graduating in 1969.<br />

She attended Reed College and<br />

the University of Oregon before<br />

graduating in 1974 from Sonoma<br />

State University with a bachelor’s<br />

degree in European studies.<br />

Ms. Gill worked for many years<br />

at Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon<br />

law firm in San Francisco.<br />

During this time, she wrote a<br />

great deal and had her poetry<br />

published in both books and<br />

poetry journals, say family members.<br />

She also worked as a book<br />

edi<strong>to</strong>r.<br />

She earned a second bachelor’s<br />

degree in French from San Francisco<br />

State University in 1987,<br />

then obtained a master’s degree<br />

in French from Middlebury College<br />

in 1989, studying in Paris and<br />

Vermont.<br />

In 1988 she married Kim Gill,<br />

who shared her love of France.<br />

They traveled there <strong>to</strong>gether several<br />

times, say family members.<br />

They separated in 1996.<br />

Ms. Gill was a judge twice for<br />

the French National New Fiction<br />

Award, sponsored by Club Med.<br />

Ms. Gill worked for 12 years for<br />

Seifer, Murken, Despina, James<br />

& Teichman Law Office in San<br />

Francisco. She left in September<br />

2008, when she began experiencing<br />

health problems.<br />

Ms. Gill is survived by her<br />

father, Alvin Rathbun, and stepmother,<br />

Sally Lemoin Rathbun of<br />

Los Al<strong>to</strong>s; sister Susan Rathbun<br />

Martin; step-sister Lisa Lemoin<br />

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as her husbands, Bernie and Lou before she departed <strong>to</strong> god.<br />

She was an active member of the Italian Catholic Federation<br />

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Ideas, thoughts and opinions about local issues from people in our community. Edited by Tom Gibboney.<br />

Censorship feud in Ather<strong>to</strong>n<br />

As if they do not have enough <strong>to</strong>ugh issues before<br />

them, now the Ather<strong>to</strong>n City Council has found time<br />

<strong>to</strong> knock heads over who controls placing items on<br />

the body’s agenda, a perk that just a few months ago was<br />

available <strong>to</strong> all members.<br />

But not now. The ideological 3-2 split on the council has<br />

festered and a couple of weeks ago burst in<strong>to</strong> flames when<br />

members Jim Dobbie, Kathy<br />

EDITORIAL<br />

The opinion of The <strong>Almanac</strong><br />

Another view of Ather<strong>to</strong>n<br />

‘censorship’ dispute<br />

Edi<strong>to</strong>r:<br />

Your article last week regarding<br />

the claim of censorship by<br />

council members really misses<br />

the facts.<br />

As council members we are<br />

here <strong>to</strong> represent all the residents<br />

of Ather<strong>to</strong>n and as such it is<br />

important that we spend our<br />

time in council meetings on an<br />

agenda that is approved by the<br />

council. If two council members<br />

under the previous rules were<br />

allowed <strong>to</strong> place items on the<br />

agenda that may represent only<br />

special interests then it can be<br />

very divisive, the last thing we<br />

need.<br />

The agenda item in the May<br />

council meeting regarding the<br />

use of library funds was placed<br />

on the agenda by council member<br />

Charles Marsala who represented<br />

it as coming from a committee.<br />

The only committee involved is<br />

the Blue Ribbon Task Force. I am<br />

a member of that committee and<br />

it never approved putting this<br />

item on the council agenda. Mr.<br />

Marsala clearly thought that up<br />

on his own.<br />

This item was received by the<br />

McKeithen and Mayor Jerry<br />

Carlson agreed that it should<br />

take three votes <strong>to</strong> get any<br />

item before the council.<br />

After passing this new ordinance, the majority can now<br />

blithely ignore any issue minority members Charles Marsala<br />

and Elizabeth Lewis want <strong>to</strong> place on the agenda, effectively<br />

muzzling their ability <strong>to</strong> have the council even discuss items<br />

they believe are important <strong>to</strong> their constituents. Mr. Marsala<br />

and Ms. Lewis, who often vote <strong>to</strong>gether, are blasting the<br />

majority for censoring their ability <strong>to</strong> speak and act freely on<br />

the council.<br />

Mr. Dobbie <strong>to</strong>ld <strong>Almanac</strong> reporter Andrea Gemmet last<br />

week that “Agenda items can be very dangerous if they’re<br />

not approved by the council,” a ridiculous observation that<br />

on this council simply means that he and his two majority<br />

partners determine the degree of “danger.”<br />

In support of the majority-rule on setting the council<br />

LETTERS<br />

Our Regional Heritage<br />

community with great concern.<br />

The cry of censorship by two of<br />

the council members is a laugh. If<br />

a worthwhile item needs <strong>to</strong> be on<br />

the agenda then the council will<br />

approve it. If it is an item which<br />

agenda, Mr. Dobbie said at the June 17 council meeting<br />

that there could be “absolute chaos” if a majority did not<br />

approve an item before placing it on the agenda.<br />

Ms. McKeithen chimed in: “If the council doesn’t allow<br />

it, we’ll have <strong>to</strong> take the flak from the public.”<br />

All of this seems ludicrous when looking back <strong>to</strong> prior<br />

years when it <strong>to</strong>ok just one member <strong>to</strong> send a request <strong>to</strong> the<br />

mayor and city manager <strong>to</strong> place an item on the agenda.<br />

Former mayor and council member Alan Carlson, who<br />

now lives in Carmel Valley, <strong>to</strong>ld The <strong>Almanac</strong> last week<br />

that during his two terms as mayor there was never a<br />

written policy on placing items on the agenda. While the<br />

mayor had discretion <strong>to</strong> remove or block an agenda item<br />

request, he didn’t know that anybody ever used it, Mr.<br />

Carlson said.<br />

The residents of Ather<strong>to</strong>n deserve better. They don’t need<br />

their local council members engaging in bitter partisan<br />

wrangling. There is enough of that in Washing<strong>to</strong>n, D.C.,<br />

and Sacramen<strong>to</strong>. In a community of fewer than 2,500<br />

households, there should be nothing but collegiality and<br />

respect among council members.<br />

And finally, if the council majority does not wish <strong>to</strong> act<br />

on an agenda item placed by Mr. Marsala or Ms. Lewis,<br />

they can simply vote <strong>to</strong> table it and move on. We have yet<br />

<strong>to</strong> see an agenda item that is so dangerous it could not be<br />

discussed.<br />

In the late 1800s, tanbark wagons like this triple rig driven by William H. Shine were a common sight<br />

in Woodside. In this 1897-98 pho<strong>to</strong>, taken about an eighth of a mile from the Woodside S<strong>to</strong>re on Kings<br />

Mountain Road, Mr. Shine guides his nine-horse team <strong>to</strong>ward Redwood City, the final destination for his<br />

trip that began miles away in the Coastal Range above the <strong>to</strong>wn.<br />

may divide the community or<br />

appeal only <strong>to</strong> special interests,<br />

or take up valuable time that<br />

should be spent on pressing<br />

issues, then the council should be<br />

involved in the decision and may<br />

Woodside Library Collection<br />

not approve.<br />

Jim Dobbie<br />

Ather<strong>to</strong>n Council member<br />

See LETTERS, next page


V I E W P O I N T<br />

LETTERS<br />

Continued from previous page<br />

Preserve scent of<br />

the great outdoors<br />

Edi<strong>to</strong>r:<br />

Thank you for the article on<br />

using our solar dryer: the backyard<br />

clothesline. And thanks <strong>to</strong><br />

your paper and Ami Jaqua for<br />

raising the public’s awareness of<br />

the virtues of hanging clothes<br />

outside.<br />

I often wonder how many families<br />

on Bay Laurel Drive beside<br />

mine enjoy their time involved<br />

in this activity.<br />

When we take an evening walk<br />

on our wonderful street replete<br />

with lovely gardens, the dominant<br />

and ubiqui<strong>to</strong>us fragrance is<br />

not that of the flowers. Too often<br />

it’s the smell of fabric softener<br />

emanating from dryers.<br />

Upward with clotheslines!<br />

Florrie Forrest<br />

Bay Laurel Drive,<br />

Menlo Park<br />

A meatless July 4th<br />

will avoid food bugs<br />

Edi<strong>to</strong>r:<br />

What ever happened <strong>to</strong> the<br />

good old days when the worst<br />

things we had <strong>to</strong> fear on the<br />

Fourth of July were traffic jams<br />

and wayward fireworks?<br />

According <strong>to</strong> the USDA’s Meat<br />

and Poultry Hotline, this year’s<br />

<strong>to</strong>p threat is food poisoning by<br />

nasty E. coli and Salmonella<br />

bugs lurking in hamburgers and<br />

hot dogs at millions of backyard<br />

barbecues.<br />

The hotline’s advice is <strong>to</strong><br />

grill them longer and hotter.<br />

Of course, they don’t bother <strong>to</strong><br />

mention that the high-temperature<br />

grilling that kills the bugs<br />

also forms lots of cancer-causing<br />

compounds.<br />

Luckily, a bunch of enterprising<br />

food manufacturers and<br />

processors have met this challenge<br />

head-on by developing a<br />

great variety of healthful, delicious,<br />

and convenient, veggie<br />

burgers and soy dogs. These<br />

new foods don’t harbor nasty<br />

pathogens or cancer-causing<br />

compounds. They don’t even<br />

carry cholesterol, saturated fats,<br />

drugs, or pesticides. And, they<br />

are available in the frozen food<br />

section of every supermarket.<br />

This Fourth of July <strong>offers</strong> a<br />

great opportunity <strong>to</strong> declare<br />

our independence from the<br />

meat industry and <strong>to</strong> share<br />

wholesome veggie burgers and<br />

soy dogs with our family and<br />

friends.<br />

Miles Barne<br />

Sharon Park Drive,<br />

Menlo Park<br />

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING<br />

CITY OF MENLO PARK<br />

CITY COUNCIL<br />

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of<br />

Menlo Park, California is scheduled <strong>to</strong> review the following item:<br />

Public Hearing on the Adoption of a Re<strong>solution</strong> <strong>to</strong><br />

Abandon Portions of Public Rights of Way Along Alma<br />

Street and Mielke Drive for Future Construction of the<br />

Burgess Gymnasium.<br />

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of<br />

Menlo Park, California, will hold a Public Hearing on the Adoption<br />

of a Re<strong>solution</strong> <strong>to</strong> Abandon Portions of Public Rights of Way<br />

Along Alma Street and Mielke Drive for Future Construction of<br />

the Burgess Gymnasium.<br />

The Public Hearing will be continued <strong>to</strong> July 21, 2009 (originally<br />

scheduled for July 14, 2009). Testimony for the Public Hearing<br />

on this matter will be held in the Council Chambers of the City<br />

of Menlo Park at 7:00 p.m., or as near as possible thereafter, on<br />

Tuesday, the 21st day of July, 2009, at which time and place<br />

interested persons may appear and be heard thereon.<br />

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited <strong>to</strong> raise<br />

only those issues you or someone else raised at the Public Hearing<br />

conducted for this project, or in written correspondence delivered<br />

<strong>to</strong> the City of Menlo Park at, or prior <strong>to</strong>, the Public Hearing.<br />

Visit our Web site for City Council, public hearing, agenda, and<br />

staff report information: www.menlopark.org<br />

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING<br />

CITY OF MENLO PARK<br />

CITY COUNCIL<br />

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Menlo<br />

Park, California is scheduled <strong>to</strong> review the following item:<br />

Public Hearing is set for July 14, 2009 on the Adoption<br />

of a Re<strong>solution</strong> Overruling Protests, Ordering the<br />

Improvements, Confirming the Diagram and Ordering<br />

the Levy and Collection of Assessments at the Existing<br />

Fee Rates for the Sidewalk Assessment and at a Five<br />

Percent Increase for the Tree Assessment for the City of<br />

Menlo Park Landscaping Assessment District for Fiscal<br />

Year 2009-10.<br />

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of<br />

Menlo Park, California, will hold a Public Hearing on the Adoption<br />

of a Re<strong>solution</strong> Overruling Protests, Ordering the Improvements,<br />

Confirming the Diagram and Ordering the Levy and Collection of<br />

Assessments at the Existing Fee Rates for the Sidewalk Assessment<br />

and at a Five Percent Increase for the Tree Assessment for the City<br />

of Menlo Park Landscaping Assessment District for Fiscal Year<br />

2009-10.<br />

The Public Hearing on this matter will be held in the Council Chambers<br />

of the City of Menlo Park at 7:00 p.m., or as near as possible thereafter,<br />

on Tuesday, the 14th day of July, 2009, at which time and place<br />

interested persons may appear and be heard thereon.<br />

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited <strong>to</strong> raise only<br />

those issues you or someone else raised at the Public Hearing conducted<br />

for this project, or in written correspondence delivered <strong>to</strong> the<br />

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