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OCTOBER 10, 2014 VOLUME 22, NO. 37
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Council moves ahead
with office-heavy
San Antonio plan
PRECISE PLAN COULD ADD 3,000 JOBS
AND 1,200 HOMES
By Daniel DeBolt
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VERONICA WEBER
Members of the 129th Rescue Wing of the California Air National Guard confer at a briefing before
launching “Soaring Angel” training missions out of Moffett Field last week.
Air Guard runs rescue training at Moffett
By Veronica Weber
O
n a dry, dusty lot at
Moffett Field, next to
Hangar 4 and the airfield’s runway, a series of temporary tent structures were
set up as command central for
about 150 troops from the California Air National Guard’s
129th Rescue Wing participating in operation “Soaring
Angel.” The four-day long tactical training exercise ran from
Oct. 2 to 5.
Troops performed intensive
search-and-rescue and personnel recovery training missions
that simulated wartime deployment at the base in Mountain
View, Fort Hunter Liggett in
Monterrey County and San
Clemente Island in Los Angeles
County.
Servicemen from the Rescue
Wing’s mission support group,
flight operations, maintenance,
medic support, as well as the
See SOARING ANGELS, page 11
El Camino Healthcare District
THREE CANDIDATES COMPETE FOR TWO HEALTH CARE DISTRICT SEATS
By Kevin Forestieri
T
he El Camino Healthcare
District is poised to have
its second contested election in a row after a decade of no
competition at the ballot box. To
fill two open seats on the district
board of directors, voters this
November will choose among
a neurologist, a City Council
member who will be leaving her
post in December, and a long-
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time district incumbent.
Challengers Margaret AbeKoga, a Mountain View City
Council member, and Dr. Peter
Fung, director of the stroke program at El Camino Hospital, are
running for the district board
along with incumbent David
Reeder, who is seeking a fifth
term. Board member Patricia
Einarson is not seeking another
term.
Board members oversee the
El Camino Healthcare District,
which comprises Mountain
View, Los Altos and Los Altos
Hills, as well as parts of Sunnyvale, Palo Alto and CuperSee EL CAMINO, page 16
VIEWPOINT 22 | GOINGS ON 29 | MARKETPLACE 30 | REAL ESTATE 32
n Tuesday night the City
Council decided it was
prudent to add office
space for 1,000 employees to the
precise plan for the San Antonio
shopping center and surrounding area, for a total 3,000 new
jobs in an area slated for 1,245
new homes.
The move was a change in
course after members of the
Campaign for a Balanced Mountain View called on the council
to prioritize housing in the plan,
which council members supported in July, to reduce the city’s
worsening housing shortage and
traffic.
In response, city staff proposed capping office development at 400,000 square feet,
but requiring that 620 housing
units be constructed after the
first 200,000 square feet of office
development, and 625 units after
an additional 200,000 square feet
of office are built. That would be
enough for 2,000 office jobs in
the plan at 200 square feet per
job — and would allow 1,620
employed residents to live in the
plan area in 1,245 homes.
Council members didn’t like
the staff’s plan, voting at the
Oct. 7 meeting to get rid of the
phasing and to raise the office
cap to 600,000 square feet, adding space for another 1,000
employees. Council members
Ronit Bryant and John McAlister
were opposed to the move and
member John Inks recused himself because he owns property
nearby.
“Of all of the places in Mountain View to have office, this is
the best situated near mass tran-
sit and housing,” said council
member Mike Kasperzak, who
proposed ditching the phasing
and raising the cap to 600,000
square feet. He said office development could be reduced elsewhere in the city to compensate.
“For me I’d rather have 400,000
square feet here and reduce
(office space by) 400,000 (square
feet) in North Bayshore,” Kasperzak said.
Council member Bryant raised
concerns that the city would see
too much focus on office growth
without the phasing, but member
Jac Siegel and others said the
phasing could mean one office
developer would have to depend
on what another housing developer does.
“What I heard from residents
is there’s way too many offices in
the plan,” Bryant said. “I heard,
‘Stop building offices.’ North
Bayshore is not the place for
housing, San Antonio is the place
for housing. The cap and the
phasing is difficult to take, but
staff has given us what we asked
for.”
City staff said they had selected
the 400,000 square foot cap
“because this amount of office
development would create
approximately the same number
of jobs as there would be working residents in the Plan Area’s
projected housing units.”
While a large number of residents called for making housing
a priority in the plan in June and
July, council candidate Lenny
Siegel was the only resident at
Tuesday’s meeting expressing
concern about the lack of housing. “Mountain View cannot
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BURGLARY SUSPECT ARRESTED
Police recently arrested a man believed to be the suspect who
broke into a Mountain View home last month, slept there, stole
several items and left the next morning.
Police contacted the man, identified as 26-year-old Orlando
Rivera, on Sept. 27 when he was walking down Castro Street at
around 10 a.m. Rivera was arrested on suspicion of burglary and
booked into San Jose Main Jail on $50,000 bail.
Rivera had allegedly forced his way into the residence at the 200
block of Church Street sometime between Sept. 22 at 3 p.m. and
Sept. 23 at noon and slept inside. When he left the next day, he
took a coat, ski pants and two sleeping bag straps, according to
the Mountain View Police Department website.
Police say Rivera returned to the residence on Sept. 24 shortly
before 3 a.m., but could not enter the building because of repairs
made to the interior door.
Video surveillance of the incident, provided by the homeowners, shows footage of Rivera entering and exiting the property.
The footage helped police identify the suspect, and ultimately led
to the arrest, according to the police website.
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Salem is top fundraiser
in council election
CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES’ WAR CHESTS RANGE
FROM $930 TO $33,000
By Daniel DeBolt
ment complexes in Mountain
View. There’s also the Mountain
he nine residents running View Housing Council (MVHC),
for three City Council a political action committee that
seats in the November council members say is made up
election have some very different mostly of apartment owners.
Margaret Capriles reported the
fundraising styles, as revealed in
their reports of campaign contri- most donations from landlord
groups, a total of $1,500. Kamei
butions received by Sept. 30.
The biggest fund-raiser so far took in $1,250, while Rosenberg
is attorney and newcomer to and Showalter each received
Mountain View politics Mer- $750.
In candidate interviews
cedes Salem, who raised $24,829.
Sometime before June she loaned with the Voice, Rosenberg and
herself $8,000, bringing her total Capriles were the most vocal
to $32,829. She told the Voice that opponents of bringing rent conshe doesn’t plan to spend more trol to Mountain View, while
than the city’s voluntary expen- Showalter and Kamei didn’t take
a solid position.
diture limit of
No candidates
$22,030. In keepsaid they were in
ing with MounLandlords
favor of seeking a
tain View’s tradirent control ordition of relatively
inexpensive coun- appear to be the nance.
PG&E has also
cil campaigns, all
biggest single donated
money to
nine candidates
this
year’s
counhave agreed to the
type of donor cil candidates,
expenditure limit.
giving $250 each
The next highin this year’s
to Pat Showalter
est fund-raiser
and Ellen Kamei.
is Ellen Kamei,
election.
Ken Rosenberg
policy aide to
says he was nearly
county Supervisent a check from
sor Joe Simitian,
who reported raising $21,288 in PG&E, until PG&E saw on his
donations as of Sept. 30, the last campaign website that he supday covered by the most recent ports “community choice aggrecampaign finance filing period. gation,” a legal mechanism cities
Candidates Lisa Matichak, Pat can adopt to allow residents to
Showalter, Margaret Capriles opt to collectively buy electricity
and Ken Rosenberg all raised generated from cleaner, carbonbetween $15,000 and $17,500, free wind and solar energy
while Lenny Siegel, with a large sources — in competition with
number of smaller donations, PG&E. A group of Mountain
raised $8,040. Jim Neal and View residents are already meetGreg Unangst reported that they ing to discuss the possibility, and
are largely paying for their cam- have set up a website: carbonpaigns themselves, with Unangst freemountainview.org
Rosenberg explained at Monloaning himself $21,000 and
day’s Old Mountain View NeighNeal loaning himself $830.
The bigger contributors to borhood Association candidate
more than one candidate include forum that PG&E called his
landlords, labor groups, Demo- home to say, “We’re not going to
cratic Activists For Women Now send him (Rosenberg) a check
and PG&E. Landlords appear because he supports community
to be the biggest single type of choice aggregation.”
Besides the usual banners, lawn
donor in this year’s election, as
they have been in past elections, signs, door hangers and mailers,
contributing $4,250 in total. candidates typically spent several
This includes the California thousand dollars on newspaper
Apartment Association (CAA) and newsletter ads, with some
— which represents apartment buying digital ads. Neal reported
owners in Mountain View, and paying $229 to Facebook for ads,
Todd Spieker, a real estate investor who owns numerous apartSee FINANCE, page 15
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Mountain View’s second annual Oktoberfest brought a little bit of Germany to downtown Oct. 4 and
5. Hosted at Stein’s Beer Garden, there was music, dancing, pretzels and plenty of German beer. From
left, Jannifer Butler, Noelani Neal, Rachelle Abbey, Jassica Maxey and Samantha Cardenas dance along
to tunes from Alpiners USA, while wearing costumes from left over from Palo Alto Players’ “Young
Frankenstein” production.
Preschool racks up funds for new site
5K ‘FUN RUN’ FUNDRAISER EVENT AT SHORELINE
By Kevin Forestieri
T
he Mountain View Parent
Nursery School has raised
big bucks in an effort to
move to a new location next year,
coming up with nearly $300,000
in donations. Now the preschool
is in the final stretch of their
funding goal, and will keep up
the pace with a 5K “fun run” at
Shoreline Park.
The morning event will be at
the Kite Field at Shoreline Park
on Saturday, Oct. 11, and will
include a 5K run at 8:30 a.m. and
a “tot trot” walk at 9:30 a.m. The
event will also have a Halloween
costume theme, face painting
and raffles.
The preschool started its
“School-on-the-Move” fundraiser earlier this year when it
was announced that the Mountain View Parent Nursery School
and Parent Observation, both
preschools that are housed on
Mountain View-Los Altos Union
High School District property,
would have to move in order to
make room for high school district expansion plans.
Next year, both preschools will
move to a vacant lot adjacent to
the Foothill Covenant Church
— just across the street from the
Mountain View High School
See PRESCHOOL, page 6
Big bucks for one water board candidate
By Sue Dremann
T
wo candidates vying for
Palo Alto voters in the
Santa Clara Valley Water
District Board race are spending vastly different sums of
money on their campaigns, with
the challenger, Gary Kremen,
outspending incumbent Brian
Schmidt by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Kremen, founder of Match.
com, is financially smoking
incumbent Brian Schmidt to
the tune of more than $280,000.
Much of it is in loans to the
campaign of Kremen’s own money. Schmidt has raised roughly
$13,000, according to campaigndisclosure statements both filed
in Santa Clara County on Monday.
The two filings reveal a considerable difference in approaches,
with Kremen’s campaign listing
$303,067.50 in outstanding debts
and Schmidt’s balance sheet listing none. The filing statement,
which covers the period from
July 1 through Sept. 30, includes
the totals for the year to date and
a list of donors.
Kremen has loaned his cam-
paign $248,500, according to
his filing; Schmidt has no loans,
instead relying on small donations largely from retired people,
individuals and a few environmental groups. He has donated
$500 to his own campaign,
according to the filings.
By contrast, Schmidt lists
$8,209.05 in total expenditures
with a $4,972.78 ending cash balance; Kremen lists $312,764.03
in total expenditures with
$22,614.63 in ending cash.
Email Sue Dremann at
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PRESCHOOL
Continued from page 5
campus, and a short walk from
the current location.
So far the preschools have
raised over $295,000 of the
$380,000 needed to pay for
estimated project costs, which
includes grading the land, installing utilities, lifting and relocating two portable classrooms and
installing a third classroom at the
new site. The fundraising goal
jumped from $200,000 to nearly
double in June after they lost an
expected line of credit.
The preschools have received
“tremendous” support from its
parents and alumni as well as
family and friends, according to
Marie Faust Evitt, a teacher at the
Mountain View Parent Nursery
School. One grandmother of
a preschool student pledged
$20,000 to match donations,
Evitt said, and an alumni dad
pledged another $7,500.
The fundraiser is run by volunteer parents involved with
the preschools, including Salila Sukumaran, who said they
weren’t likely to get much traction with a Kickstarter campaign
that relied on donations from
strangers. Instead, they focused
on reaching out to current and
former families of from the
preschool going back anywhere
from 30 or more years.
The preschools were slated to
move in June, but were given
another year to set up utilities
like plumbing and electricity
at the new site. It also gave the
preschools much-needed time
to continue raising funds for the
move.
Though the preschools still
need to raise upwards of $80,000
and are well beyond their previous fundraiser deadline of June
30, they have proceeded with the
first phase of construction. Evitt
said they are working with architects to finalize plans and prepare the new site, and will move
over the portable classrooms in
June.
The move will give the high
school district more room to
expand on the parcels currently
occupied by the two preschools,
next to the softball field near Alta
Vista High School and Mountain
View High School. Superintendent Barry Groves said enrollment is projected to grow by 20
percent in the next five years, and
with it comes a growing need for
the facilities currently occupied
by the preschools.
The district plans to use the
facilities to expand Alta Vista
High School and offer a place
for the district’s career technical
education program, Groves said.
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Three Los Altos schools win
National Blue Ribbon award
CHARTER SCHOOL, TWO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS HONORED
FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
By Kevin Forestieri
T
he U.S. Department of
Education named nine
Bay Area schools as
National Blue Ribbon Schools
last week, including Blach Intermediate School, Egan Junior
High School and Bullis Charter
school.
The National Blue Ribbon
Schools Program recognizes
elementary, middle and high
schools for exemplary performance in one of two categories:
high standardized tests scores
or improvements in closing the
achievement gap, according to
the U.S. Department of Education website. Only 24 schools in
California were recognized as
Blue Ribbon schools this year.
Sandra McGonagle, principal
of Blach, said it’s been an exciting few years for the school. She
said they applied to become a
California Distinguished School
a few years ago, which Blach won,
and just last week became one
of the few National Blue Ribbon
Schools in the entire state.
She said Blach fell under the
“Exemplary High Performing
Schools” category, and credits
the community of Los Altos
for pouring so much time and
money into their schools. She
said school officials also credited
the “fantastic” teachers and staff,
who she said strive to improve
and don’t settle for where they’re
at.
In a press release by the Los
Altos School District, school
board president Tamara Logan
said Blach and Egan both foster
a strong connection between
students and staff, and offer
“coordinated academics, creative
extracurriculars, physical education and social opportunities”
that lead to successful students.
“We are very proud of these
schools,” Logan said.
Superintendent Jeff Baier said
the schools have been recognized
nationally for their hard work
and sustained excellence, and
serve as models of what junior
high school should be. He said it’s
also a testament to the “outstanding” work at all the elementary
schools in the district that filter
into both Blach and Egan.
Some elementary schools have
been named Blue Ribbon Schools
in the past as well. Oak Elementary was recognized as a Blue
Ribbon School in 2012, and Santa
Rita Elementary in the early
1990s.
Bullis Charter School Principal
Jocelyn Lee said she is proud that
the school’s programs have been
recognized. She said the charter
school has maintained a focus
on innovation in education,
and introduced a STEAM curriculum — science, technology,
engineering and math curriculum with an added emphasis on
the arts — as well as personalized
learning tailored to individual
students.
Lee said the charter school is
committed to giving students
a well-rounded education, and
want to share their techniques
and experience.
Baier and site administrators
from all three schools will travel
to Washington, D.C. on Nov. 11
for an official ceremony. Bullis
Charter School celebrated the
announcement on Oct. 3 when
students, parents and staff came
to school wearing blue, the school
color, and plan to celebrate again
closer to the award ceremony.
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teacher after getting the news of the school’s Blue Ribbon award.
Students and teachers wore blue on Friday, Oct. 3, to celebrate.
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The man, identified as
27-year-old Russell Kershaw
of San Jose, is believed to have
punched a 63-year-old man in
a parking lot at Phyllis Avenue
and Grant Road on Sept. 26 at
4:50 p.m, according to Mountain View police.
The victim was aided by witnesses until fire and medical
personnel arrived, and he was
taken to a local hospital for a
facial laceration.
Two days later, a Sunnyvale
man was punched outside of
Erik’s DeliCafe at 1350 Grant
Road at 11:36 a.m. by a man
with a similar description, who
approached the victim from
behind and struck him in the
head. The victim’s eye area was
swollen, and he complained of
cheek pain, according to Sgt.
Saul Jaeger of the Mountain
View Police Department.
With help from a Santa Clara
Police Department officer,
Mountain View police identified Kershaw as a suspect,
and witnesses made a positive
identification of him in both
assaults.
Kershaw was located and
arrested by police on Oct. 5,
and booked into San Jose Main
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orkers who are contracted to maintain,
repair, upgrade or
demolish city structures are
now going to be guaranteed
prevailing wages, the City
Council decided Tuesday.
The move was made in
response to a new state law, SB7,
which requires that charter cities such as Mountain View use
prevailing wage requirements
— which favor union contractors — if they want state funds
for capital projects. The city has
received $2.7 million in such
funds since June 2011.
The city already requires
prevailing wages for public
works construction contracts,
but Tuesday’s move extends it
to contracts that involve “maintenance, repair, alteration, and
demolition” of city structures.
“Given that the city already
has prevailing wage on other
projects I don’t see why we don’t
make it uniform,” said council
member Margaret-Abe-Koga
at the Oct. 7 meeting, alluding to the council’s approval
a year ago of a prevailing
wage requirement for affordable housing projects. “We’ve
talked about the high cost of
living, (and) we have talked
about prevailing wage and costs
of it.”
Member Jac Siegel motioned
for the council to approve the
prevailing wage requirement
because “it’s a state law.”
City staff said the costs of
potentially higher wages were
unknown, and could mean
a financial impact anywhere
from $0 up to $760,000 for 56
such contracts during the 201314 fiscal year, or a 15 percent
increase at most. Council allocated $50,000 towards administrative costs of implementing
the new requirement, just in
case it’s needed.
A union official reminded the
council of major cost overruns
and delays on the Mitchell Park
library in Palo Alto because of a
non-union contractor’s work.
Member John Inks was the
only opponent of the measure,
saying the state legislation was
“payback to unions who are
major source of contributions”
to state legislators.
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“Horizon Beautiful” is one of the feature-length movies showing at
the Silicon Valley African Film Festival.
Silicon Valley African Film
fest opens next week
Mountain View’s Community
School of Music and Arts plays
host to over 25 films from Africa
next weekend when the Silicon
Valley African Film Festival
opens its fifth year.
The festival runs Oct. 17 to 19,
and embraces many countries
and cultures, from Ethiopia and
Eritrea to Nigeria and Ghana.
On Friday evening, Oct. 17, catch
the rousing opening ceremony
complete with dancing, drumming and a parade of flags before
settling in for the opening night
feature film, “The Mice Room,”
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the schedule are a number of
animated films, shorts.
But the festival isn’t all movies;
SVAFF also features live performances, post-screening Q&A
sessions with filmmakers, discussion forums and an African
marketplace with crafts and food
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Opening night attendance is
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want to ensure we maintain that
leadership role. My top priorities are:
1. Work to achieve attainable housing
and balanced growth
2. Expand infrastructure to support safe
bicycle and pedestrian modes of
transportation
3. Attain water conservation
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Air Force Pararescuemen, also
known as “PJs,” all participated
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Both the Wing’s MC-130P Combat Shadow and HH-60 Pave
Hawk helicopters were used in
the training missions.
Second Lt. Ian Freeman, a copilot on the MC-130P plane, said
that the experience tested out the
servicemen’s capabilities in realworld types of situations they
may face when deployed.
“This exercise in particular lets
us hone our skills as a composite
unit, which is not something we
get to do every day,” he said. “It’s
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VoterGuide
Measure N school bond
LOS ALTOS SCHOOL DISTRICT SEEKS $150 MILLION
TO HANDLE ENROLLMENT GROWTH
Kevin Forestieri
T
he Los Altos School District is asking voters to
approve a $150 million
bond that would help to fund a
new school site and additional
school facilities to deal with
growing enrollment in the district, particularly in the area
north of El Camino Real.
The bond would cost district
taxpayers a maximum of $30
per $100,000 of assessed value.
Opponents say the district’s
plans are too vague, and won’t
spell out what the money will be
used for. Others think the school
has plenty of room to expand
enrollment at existing school
sites.
Last year, the district Superintendent’s Enrollment Growth
Task Force found that enrollment
is the highest it’s been in 40 years.
The key difference is that in
1970, the district had 12 schools
to house the over 5000 students
in the district, whereas now the
district only has nine.
The task force recommended
the district pursue two school
sites — one to house Bullis
Charter School and one for Los
Altos School District students.
The recommendation went on to
say that it is “difficult to imagine
any solution for garnering school
sites (and) facilities without some
level of taxpayer funding.”
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Nov. 4. Polls are open from
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polling place, go to sccgov.
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of Voters link. Election
results for local races will
be available online after the
polls close at mv-voice.com.
Since the report, student
enrollment has increased faster
than expected. This year’s enrollment is at 5,380, which is more
than 100 students above projections made in May. Schools are
quickly approaching or exceeding “target” enrollment at school
sites across the district, according to Randy Kenyon, assistant
superintendent of business services.
Right now the district has more
than 1,000 students on the Egan
Junior High School campus, and
more than 800 at the Blach Intermediate School campus. Kenyon
said said Santa Rita Elementary
is also quickly approaching 600
students, and will likely get even
more crowded if more housing
is added to the area north of El
Camino Real. The result, he said,
is that both campuses are crowd-
ed and traffic is problematic.
The district has since established a 28-person Facilities
Master Plan Committee to identify potential projects for the
Measure N funds, and will
provide the school board with
recommendations for how to
prioritize those projects. Kenyon
said the committee understands
and agrees that the No. 1 priority is dealing with enrollment
growth through a new school
site. Following that are other
improvements on existing campuses, which the committee has
since started to prioritize.
The committee includes district parents and residents from
Mountain View, Los Altos and
Los Altos Hills, as well as representatives from Campaign for
a Balanced Mountain View and
the Greater San Antonio Community Association.
The school board’s “planning
direction” to the committee
states that the preferred option is
to build one new school at a new
site and modify existing schools.
Though the enrollment growth
task force last year recommended
two new schools, the school
board has since determined that
acquiring two new sites is too
“cost prohibitive,” Kenyon said.
According to the “Yes on N”
website, supporters of Measure N
include the Bullis Charter School
Board of Trustees, the Los Altos
Education Foundation and eight
of the district’s Parent Teacher
Associations. Individual supporters include Mountain View
Mayor Chris Clark, as well as
the mayors of Los Altos and Los
Altos Hills.
Opponents of the bond include
Los Altos School District resident
David Roode, Los Altos Hills
parent Robert Fagen and Mountain View City Council member
John Inks. The ballot argument
against Measure N states that
Measure N is too vague, and
needs to have detailed, site specific plans for how to spend the
money. It goes on to say the Los
Altos School District already
has over 110 acres of space, and
could accommodate enrollment
growth at existing sites.
In an op-ed to the Sept. 26
issue of the Voice, Roode said it’s
not clear the district is willing to
focus as much of the $150 million as possible on enrollment
growth. He said the list of capital
improvements proposed so far,
which totals $350 million, are
“heavy with those not increasing
capacity,” and that the district
may limit spending on the new
school site for improvements at
current schools.
The ballot argument against
Measure N states that the district doesn’t need to acquire
more land for a new school
when it could expand existing
school sites and use them more
efficiently. District schools are
“50 percent under-utilized on a
student-to-acreage metric” compared with other school districts,
according to the ballot argument.
Roode said that the Egan and
Covington campuses, the latter of which currently houses
the school district office, could
potentially house a second school
because of the size of the sites.
Mountain View City Council
member John Inks co-signed the
argument against Measure N due
to worries that the school district
may try to use eminent domain
to seize land for a school site.
In an email, Inks said the
bond measure does not specifically rule out eminent domain,
which has caused some concern.
He said attorneys for the Pear
Family Trust wrote to the school
district and confirmed that their
properties were not available for
sale, and that they were strongly
opposed to acquisition by eminent domain.
Kenyon said the board has no
plans to use eminent domain,
and believes members would be
reluctant to exercise the option
as anything but a last resort.
Other opponents include the
president of the Silicon Valley
Taxpayers Association, Mark
Hinkle, who said he opposes the
property tax on district residents.
He said the $30 per $100,000 of
assessed value adds up, and on
top of other property taxes poses
a burden to property owners in
the area.
Decisions depend on new
school location and size
A new school site north of El
Camino Real would be the preferred option for the Los Altos
School District, but it might also
be the most challenging area to
See MEASURE N, page 18
Measure A raises City Council pay to $1,000 a month
By Daniel DeBolt
A
fter an effort in 2006 to
raise City Council pay to
$1,500 a month failed by
700 votes, Measure A is another
effort to boost pay — this time
to a more modest $1,000 a month
— in what’s been called an effort
to make being a council member more attractive to working
people.
In discussions over the last
year, council members have
complained that working people
could never serve on the council,
given the $600 a month members are paid now; that amount,
they say, is less than minimum
wage. It amounts to $5 an hour,
given the 30 hours a week council
members say they work, on average. Raising it to $1,000 a month
would equal $8.30 an hour, still
below minimum wage in California (now $9 an hour).
There has been no organized
group of opponents to the pay
raise. Mountain View attorney
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and longtime resident Gary
Wesley wrote the ballot argument against Measure A. He
notes that if there’s a shortage
of candidates due to low pay, it’s
not evident in this year’s council
race, with nine candidates running for three open seats.
Wesley says the measure fails
to note the other benefits of
being a council member, which
include health benefits, expense
accounts, travel reimbursements, and stipends for attending regional board meetings.
He adds that the benefits also
include the ability to restrict
housing supply and approve
office space. That benefits all of
the current members because
they own homes that have
presumably gone up in value
because of the city’s housing
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shortage, he says.
“In approving more and more
office space in Mountain View,
the council has contributed
to the increased demand for
housing in the city. Partly as a
result, the price of the houses
in Mountain View has skyrocketed. All seven members
of the current City Council are
homeowners. They are benefiting handsomely,” Wesley wrote
in a recent op-ed.
In this year’s race, there are
three renters in the running for
a council seat who also work
full-time jobs: Ellen Kamei,
Mercedes Salem and Jim Neal.
The measure would allow more
such candidates to serve, proponents say. The current council
is made up of two retirees, two
business owners, a business
executive and two who have
been supported by their spouses.
“Mountain View deserves a
diverse, well-balanced council
that is accessible to all residents,
not just candidates who can
afford to serve,” says the rebuttal to the argument against
Measure A, signed by Joan
McDonald, resident and community volunteer, Mayor Chris
Clark and Oscar Garcia, CEO of
the Mountain View Chamber of
Commerce.
The measure would also automatically raise council pay every
year based on a formula reflecting inflation, not to exceed 5
percent a year. It also allows
council members to be absent
from regular meetings with the
consent of the council for official duties without being docked
$25, the current practice.
Council pay was last raised by
voters in 1984, to $500 a month,
which would equal $1,137 today
if adjusted for inflation. It was
later raised automatically to
$600 a month when the city’s
population hit 75,000 people
— the maximum automatic
increase allowed for Mountain
View under state law for charter cities, based on population
growth. The measure does not
change the city’s charter amendment, which requires council
pay raises to be approved by
voters.
A survey of City Council
salaries in nearby cities found
that the cities of Palo Alto and
Campbell pay council members
similarly to Mountain View.
Paying half of Mountain View’s
salary or less are Los Altos,
Morgan Hill, Saratoga, Los
Gatos and Los Altos Hills. Paying council members more per
month are Cupertino ($730),
Sunnyvale ($1,982), Santa Clara
($812), Milpitas ($861), Gilroy
($729) and San Jose ($10,583).
Most also pay mayors a bonus
— Mountain View pays an
additional $100 a month to its
mayor — along with offering
medical and dental benefits for
all members, as does Mountain
View.
Email Daniel DeBolt at
[email protected]
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while Unangst paid Google $228
for online ads.
Matichak and Rosenberg each
spent over $300 more than the
others on neighborhood association newsletter ads, each spending
$921 for ads in the newsletters of
the Old Mountain View Neighborhood Association, the Cuesta
Park Neighborhood Association
and Monta Loma Neighborhood
Association. Siegel was the only
one to not report any expenses for
digital or print ads, and reported
spending $463 on 500 brochures
printed in Spanish.
Few paid political consultants.
Rosenberg paid $275 to Fair
Oaks-based Tab Communications and Unangst gave Chris
Nicholson of Los Altos $3,000.
Salem was the only candidate
to expense “volunteer snacks”
— worth about $125 — including coffee, ice cream and $87 in
groceries. Showalter reported
the priciest fund-raising event,
spending $662 at the Tied House.
Lisa Matichak
Total raised: $17,207
Spent: $9,695
Notable contributions: $5,000
loan from herself; $5,000 from
Cupertino resident and engineer
Greg Schaffer; $500 from the
California Apartment Association; $500 from Real Estate Investor Todd Spieker; $250 from the
Mountain View Housing Council; $1,499 from resident Paul
Edwards; $400 from the Cuesta
Park Neighborhood Association;
$100 to $125 each from Konrad
Sosnow, Robert Cox, Bob Weaver
and council member Jac Siegel
and his wife Sharon.
Lenny Siegel
Total raised: $8,040
Spent: $4,776
Notable contributions: $500
from the League of Conservation
Voters in Palo Alto; $100 from
former council member Greg
Perry; $300 each from Michael
Fischetti and his wife Marilyn
Winkleby; $100 from transit
planner Cliff Chambers; $150
from former Mountain View
School District board member
Betsy Collard; $100 from Google
engineer Aldona Marjorek; $100
from community organizer Sylvia Villesenor; $890 in unitemized contributions of less than
$100 each.
Jim Neal
Total raised:$930
Spent: $939
Notable contributions: $99 in
unitemized contributions and a
$831 personal loan from himself.
Ken Rosenberg
Total raised:$15,054
Spent: $8,752
Notable contributions: $2,500
loan from himself; $500 from
real estate investor Todd Spieker;
$250 from Mountain View Housing Council; $250 from Sports
Page bar manager Thomas Graham; $100 from Google program
manager Deb Henigson; $150
from former Mountain View
School District board member
Betsy Collard.
Margaret Capriles
Total raised:$16,952
Spent: $10,614
Notable contributions: $2,000
from the Mountain View Firefighters Association; $100 from
Milk Pail market owner Steve
Rasmussen; $500 from real estate
investor Todd Spieker; $500 from
the California Apartment Association; $500 from the Mountain
View Housing Council; $100
from Rich Gordon for state
Assembly; $125 from City Council member Margaret Abe-Koga;
$200 from former mayor Art
Takahara; $2,000 worth of food
from Larry Chu, owner of Chef
Chu’s restaurant in Los Altos.
Ellen Kamei
Total raised:$21,288
Spent: $3,895
Notable contributions: $1,000
from Democratic Activists for
Women Now (DAWN); $200
from San Jose City Council
member Ash Kalra, $250 from
Santa Clara and San Benito
Counties Building and Construction Trades Council PAC;
$250 from Campbell City Council member Evan Low; $500 from
the California Apartment Association; $500 from real estate
investor Todd Spieker; $250 from
Mountain View Housing Coun-
cil PAC; $150 from Khahn Russo,
Cisco systems; $200 from PG&E.
Pat Showalter
Total raised:$15,620
Spent: $15,583
Notable contributions: $4,000
loan from herself; $500 from
Democratic Activists for Women
Now (DAWN); $500 from the
California Apartment Association; $500 from Santa Clara Valley Water District COO Norma
Camacho; $250 from Sports
Page bar manager Thomas Graham; $250 from International
Federation of Professional and
Technical Engineers Local 21;
$200 from Rod Diridon Sr.; $250
from the Mountain View Housing Council; $200 from PG&E;
$200 from the CEO of the Silicon
Valley Leadership Group Carl
Guardino.
Greg Unangst
Total raised:$21,000
Spent: $14,074
Notable contributions: $21,000
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tino. It’s a separate entity from
the hospital corporation, and
receives tax dollars from district
residents. The money is used to
invest in the hospital, and a portion of the money goes back into
the community through a community benefit program.
Past election issues include
opening facilities outside the district, and the results of a service
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review by the Local Area Formation Commission (LAFCo)
that found that the health care
district lacked transparency and
accountability in its role and in
how it maintained independence
from the hospital corporation.
All five health care district board
members also serve on the hospital corporation board.
Past stories on the candidates
can be found in the June 20 edition of the Voice for Abe-Koga,
and the Aug. 1 edition for Fung
and Reeder.
David Reeder
Age: 71
Occupation: Retired program
manager, business analyst
Education: MS in electrical
engineering from Stanford University; BS in Electrical Engineering from Washington State
University
City of residence: Los Altos
Website: reeder4echd.com
David Reeder is a former Los
Altos City Council member who
has served on the health care
district board
for the past 16
years. He said
his experience
gives him a
good idea of
where health
care was, and
the direction
it’s going today.
His last eight years on the board,
in particular, have been focused
on improving the quality of care
at the hospital, he said.
One of the hospital’s big projects, which Reeder said he hopes
to continue to work on as a
district board member, is creat-
ing a “continuum” of care in
which the hospital takes care of
patients before and after hospital
admittance. He said the system
is currently fragmented: The
doctors who refer patients to the
hospital, skilled nursing facilities
and home care providers all work
separately from the hospital, and
he supports creating partnerships to ensure that continuum.
Reeder said the health care
district has always maintained
transparency by operating under
the Brown Act, but was criticized
by LAFCo for not distinguishing
between the hospital board and
the health care district board. As
a result of the report, he said, the
health care district now has its
own separate website and its own
financial audits.
“I would say we got glowing
remarks from the LAFCo commissioners in terms of the work
that we’ve done to make it more
transparent,” he said.
The decision to open El Camino Hospital’s Los Gatos campus
was an effort by the hospital to
increase patient volume, according to Reeder. He said it’s difficult for a small, independent
community hospital to survive
with just one campus, especially
when the number of district residents remains static.
Reeder said the board needed
to accomplish two things when
it agreed that the hospital should
expand its service area: make
sure taxpayer funds were not
used to build the Los Gatos facilities, and provide some net benefit
to community members in the
district. Addressing the latter, he
said the district benefits from the
expansion because as volumes
increase across both hospital
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campuses, physicians and nurses
become more proficient in their
surgical and other skills, and the
quality of care increases.
On the community benefit
program, Reeder said the executive team at the hospital does an
“outstanding” job finding the
right groups to fund based on
the health care district’s goals,
including access to care, mental
health and obesity. He said the
district also has a rigorous set
of metrics for those who receive
funding to determine how many
patients they are going to serve,
and what improvements they
expect to get.
Reeder said he believes the
dual-board system, in which the
health care district board members also serve on the hospital
board, works well. He said if they
give up representation on the
hospital board, they risk losing
control and responsibility in how
the hospital is run.
“This hospital is owned by the
people the same way our parks
and our libraries are owned by
the people,” he said. “There has
to be some control in doing that.”
Margaret Abe-Koga
Age: 44
Occupation: City council member, nonprofit manager
Education: BA in government at
Harvard University
City of residence: Mountain
View
Website: www.mak4echd.com
Margaret Abe-Koga is finishing her second City Council
term; she served on the Santa
Clara County Board of Education
before that. While on the council
she also served on the regional
board of the Valley Transportation Authority, which was facing
a deep budget deficit. Now, she’s
ready to bring
her experience
in governance,
accountability
and budgeting
to the health
care district,
she said.
If elected to
the board, AbeKoga would be the only board
member from Mountain View;
all current members are from
either Sunnyvale or Los Altos.
Improving accessibility and
affordability in the district, as
well as ensuring good governance, would be among her
goals if elected, she said. She
serves on LAFCo, which took
part in the service review that
found the district lacked transparency and accountability to
its residents, and made suggestions for improvement. She said
the district has done a good job
responding to the criticism so
far, but that it’s still a work in
progress that she would like to
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work on first-hand.
“I would really like to be a part
of that and be able to ensure the
right governance structure, being
very mindful that this is taxpayer
dollars and they need to be used
wisely and correctly,” she said.
The LAFCo audit and subsequent changes to the district
are reasons she decided to run
for a spot on the board, she said,
adding that she wants to explore
the “best governance structure”
for the district and the hospital
corporation.
Abe-Koga said she understands that the health care industry is competitive and El Camino
Hospital needs to keep up to be
solvent, adding that expanding to
Los Gatos to net more customers
can be justified. That being said,
she believes the expansion of the
hospital should always have some
benefit to district residents.
“I’ve always said in our discussions with the hospital administration (that) we have to remember what the roots of the hospital
(are) and that’s back to the
district,” Abe-Koga said. “There
has to be a tie to benefiting our
district residents.”
She said it remains to be seen
whether the Los Gatos campus
has actually benefited people in
the district, and that the health
care district needs to provide
more charity care and community benefits to the people they
serve.
Abe-Koga said that both the
hospital corporation and the
health care district need to provide more resources to the community through the community
benefit program, and that both
organizations are on the right
track since the LAFCo report,
with each pouring millions of
dollars into the program each
year.
She said she would advocate
an increase in the total amount
of money granted through the
program, including more money
towards school nurse programs
and the RotaCare Free Clinic.
On the dual-board structure,
Abe-Koga said she would be
open to look at best practices
on whether to continue having
all five district board members
on the hospital board. She said
people seem to appreciate the
larger hospital board, which
includes people with areas of
expertise, and that she would be
willing to look at having just two
or three district board members
serve on the hospital board. She
would also be willing to look at
going the other way — reverting
to a model where only health care
district board members serve on
the hospital corporation board.
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Peter Fung
Age: 66
Occupation: Neurologist
Education: MD from the University of Hong Kong; MS in
Neurophysiology from the University of Michigan
City of residence: Los Altos Hills
Website: www.votepeterfung.
com
Peter Fung is the director of
the stroke program at El Camino
Hospital, and has been a practicing neurologist in the South Bay
for over 35 years. He is also a
founding member of the Chinese
Health Initiative, a program at El
Camino Hospital that seeks
to reduce the
health disparities in the Bay
Area’s growing
Chinese population.
Fung said
his long-term
career in health care has helped
him understand health care
delivery, and how everyday medical issues can affect people. His
goals include promoting good
health across the district through
improved access to care, addressing mental health issues, and
curbing the rate of obesity and
lack of physical activity.
He said the district has tried to
make some distinction between
the health care district board
and the hospital board, but that
it hasn’t been enough. He said the
district could to more to separate
the financial accounting and
audits as well as the websites for
both boards.
“There are a lot of logistics that
may be difficult to further distinguish it, but I think they should
be done,” Fung said.
Though the hospital operates
facilities well outside of district
boundaries, Fung said he thinks
it does come back to benefit
district residents, while at the
same time allowing El Camino
Hospital to stay competitive. He
said the hospital is running out
of space at its Mountain View
campus, and expanding the hospital infrastructure for services
into other areas will improve the
quality of care. Fung said the Los
Gatos campus, in particular, has
become a “center of excellence,”
and is highly specialized in men’s
health as well as orthopedic and
spine care.
On the community benefit
program, Fung said he was disappointed to hear the amount
of grant money this year had
dropped to $6.3 million. He said
there is a growing disparity in the
availability of health care for dis-
trict residents, and grant money
needs to increase each year to
accommodate their needs.
As a board member, Fung said
he would look to improve the way
the health care district decides
how to allocate money through
the program. He the district needs
to assess the needs of residents
within the district boundaries,
rather than using broad data
that accounts for people as far as
Milpitas and east San Jose, and
should include input that represents the ethnic makeup of the
area. He said the hospital should
also conduct a “health needs
assessment” every year or every
other year, instead of once every
three years, to better address the
needs of the community.
Fung said that having all five
health care district board members switch their role to hospital
board members, sometimes in
the same night, can be very confusing and hard for the public to
keep track of, making transparency and accountability difficult.
He said there should be a mechanism in place ensuring that
members of each board remain
distinct during meetings. He said
it was a good thing to introduce
health care professionals to the
hospital board because it brings
in representatives from practitioners in the field.
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trict calling for both parties to
collaborate on ways to build a
school site in the San Antonio
area. Clark responded with a
letter in response, dated Sept. 8,
and said staff from both agencies have talked “several times”
about properties in the area and
the precise plan process. He
said he believes the city is open
to contributing developer open
space fees for a field or other
open space areas associated with
a school.
Superintendent Jeff Baier said
the city of Mountain View has
also acknowledged the prospect
of a school in the area in the draft
of the San Antonio Precise Plan.
As it stands, the district would
likely have to acquire expensive
private property in the area
to build a school in the area.
Depending on the number of
acres, a lion’s share of the bond
measure money could be committed to land acquisition.
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of Mountain View, would have a
park or some other city land they
could dedicate to a new school.
But that’s not the case in the San
Antonio area.
Lenny Siegel, a council candidate and the leader of the
Campaign for a Balanced Mountain View, sent a letter to the
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And number of acres matters
in the context of what the district
does next. If the acreage of the
school is anywhere from 8 to 10
acres, the district could use the
school as a large neighborhood
school, or it could house Bullis Charter School and free up
space at the district’s junior high
schools. If the acquired site is
only 6 acres, it would likely be too
small for the charter school and
would likely be used as a magnet
or “choice” school.
The district is also considering shifting to a K-5 model for
elementary schools, with sixthgrade students attending the two
junior high schools. Kenyon said
if Bullis Charter School were to
be relocated to a new site, the
extra space at middle school
could accommodate sixth grade
students and decrease enrollment
at all the elementary schools.
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On Oct. 7, the Santa Clara
County Board of Supervisors
approved a plan that will provide
up to $1.1 million in funding to
make sure the homeless in the
North County area have a warm,
safe place to spend nights this
winter.
Due to the closing of the
Sunnyvale Armory Shelter last
March, the North County area
lost more than 125 shelter spots
during the four month cold
weather season.
In order to find a replacement
for the Armory shelter, which
was replaced by an affordable
housing development, the County spent the past several months
working with city and nonprofit
partners. However, County staff
found they would be unable to
find a facility by Thanksgiving.
“Right now, time is our enemy.
Last year, we lost four lives in a
week during an unexpected cold
spell. That can’t be allowed to
happen again,” said Santa Clara
County Supervisor Joe Simitian.
The motion made by Simitian
on Oct. 7 secured a plan to serve
the homeless this winter. This
plan includes a series of agreements with four non-profits
including Downtown Streets
Team, HomeFirst, InnVision
Shelter Network and Project
WeHope.
The Santa Clara County will
provide a motel voucher program
for families with children and
single adults, expanded shelter
services at Project WeHope in
East Palo Alto, Hotel de Zink
in Palo Alto, Commercial Street
Inn and the Boccardo Reception
Center in San Jose.
Simitian’s motion also directs
County staff to continue the
search for a permanent shelter
or shelters serving the North
County and West Valley areas,
and the Board also included a
provision for expanding other
homelessness reduction and prevention programs.
“In a region where affordable
housing is scarce, the Board’s
approval of this plan helps to provide additional options for those
among us who are in crisis,”
said Director of Real Estate and
Facilities for InnVision Shelter
Network, Mila Zelkha.
For more information, contact
Christine Stavem at Christine.
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The Computer History Museum is taking its acclaimed
speaker series, Revolutionaries,
on the road, and the first stop
will be National Public Radio’s
corporate headquarters and digital news center in Washington,
D.C. The Mountain View-based
Computer History Museum
holds the largest international
collection of computing artifacts in the world.
Revolutionaries series participants include Facebook founder
Mark Zuckerberg, journalist
Steven Levy, Dreamworks cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg, and
most recently, entrepreneur,
investor and philanthropist
Steve Case.
Revolutionaries enables listeners to learn about the
challenges some of the most
renowned innovators encountered on their way to success.
On Oct. 3, Computer History
Museum CEO John Hollar led
a conversation with Case about
his accomplishments and work
for America Online.
In order to fund the speaker
series the Computer History
Museum receives support from
Intel and KQED.
“Taking the series on the
road a few times a year gives us
the opportunity to expand the
influence and awareness of the
museum and Revolutionaries,”
said Revolutionaries series creator Carol Stiglic.
For more information go to
computerhistory.org/events.
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PUBLIC NOTICE
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF MOUNTAIN VIEW
WHISMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT
MEASURE G BOND PROJECTS
RFQ NO. 2
ALL qualifications must be submitted in a sealed envelope no later than
2:00 PM local time on Thursday, October 30, 2014.
Mountain View Whisman School District invites responses from qualified
firms, partnerships, corporations, associations, persons, or professional organizations to enter into agreements with the District to construct improvements to
the Mountain View Whisman School District Measure G Bond Projects (“Projects”) pursuant to the lease/leaseback structure (Education Code section 17406,
et seq.) and to leaseback a “turn key” Project(s) to the District.
Interested firms or persons are invited to submit one (1) original and five (5)
copies of your completed Qualifications package to:
RFQ #2 for Construction of MVWSD Measure G Bond Projects
Mountain View Whisman School District
Attn: Terese McNamee, CBO
750-A San Pierre Way
Mountain View, CA 94043
If you have questions regarding this RFQ, please submit in writing via fax on
or before October 24, 2014 at 2:00 PM to Greystone West Company, attention
Todd Lee, 707-996-8390. A complete RFQ may be obtained from the District’s
Construction Manager: Greystone West Co., at 707-933-0624 or downloaded
from http://www.mvwsd.org/measure-g-rfps-rfqs
A Mandatory Pre-Proposal meeting for these projects will be held
on Thursday, October 23, 2014. Please meet at: MVWSD District Office, 750A San Pierre Way, Mountain View, CA 94043. Time of Meeting: 2:30 PM
The District may, at its discretion, interview some of the respondents.
The District intends to schedule these interviews between November 10 and 14,
2014. This RFQ is neither a formal request for bids, nor an offer by the District to
contract with any party responding to this RFQ. The District reserves the right
to reject any and all responses. The District also reserves the right to amend
this RFQ as necessary. All materials submitted to the District in response to this
RFQ shall remain property of the District.
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afford to add twice as many jobs
as employed residents in the San
Antonio area,” he said after the
meeting.
Council members also decided Tuesday to remove from the
precise plan developer Merlone
Geier’s large second phase of its
project for the shopping center.
During the meeting, Planning
Director Randy Tsuda said he
wasn’t sure when developer
Merlone Geier would move
forward with its phase two
project — complete with hotel,
movie theater, offices, retail
shops and courtyard. Earlier this year, Merlone Geier
was told by the council to
remove one of the project’s
two, 200,000-square-foot office
buildings and replace it with
housing, a direction Merlone
Geier had protested at the time.
Rumors that Merlone Geier was
pulling out from that project
fueled speculation about the
council’s new interest in office
development for the San Antonio plan.
Council members also decided to not address priorities for
community benefits in detail in
the plan. Community benefits
are required for developments
at maximum density, which is
up to eight stories high in some
places. Instead, the council
opted to review their community benefit priorities periodically and on a case-by-case
basis as projects are proposed
in the area. The draft had made
affordable housing a priority, but that was removed by
members. Bike and pedestrian
mobility was also a priority in
the draft. Council members
and residents expressed concern that other possible community benefits, such as a
school, a park or shared parking, would never be built unless
called out in more detail in the
plan.
Residents and Los Altos
School District parents and
officials want a new school site
in the plan to accommodate
growing enrollment and the
hundreds of children in the
area who cross El Camino Real
to get to school. It’s is unclear
how many new news students
would live in new housing,
especially if it consists primarily of smaller apartments.
Merlone Geier representatives
have told the city that only two
children live in the 330 apartments at the new Carmel at
the Village development at San
Antonio shopping center, said
planning director Tsuda, adding that the number of students
in new apartments could go up
over time.
Council members did not discuss calls from cyclists for a better connection through the plan
area from the bike boulevard
on Latham Street, but member
Bryant expressed concern about
the the city delaying construction of the Latham and Church
street bike boulevard until 2017.
She also raised the issue of
having 22-foot-wide lanes for
cars around the Hetch-Hetchy
greenway that bisects shopping
center, nearly wide enough for
two car lanes. “That seems to be
inviting cars to go fast — I have
some concerns about that,” Bryant said, noting research showing significantly fewer accidents
on relatively narrow lanes. City
staff said the wide lanes would
help with emergency vehicle
access.
The council’s discussion is
expected to be the last one
before the council votes to
approve the final San Antonio
precise plan on Dec. 2. An
Environmental Planning Commission review of the plan is set
for a Nov. 17 meeting.
COURTESY CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW
Email Daniel DeBolt
at [email protected]
City Council members decided Tuesday to allow 200,000 square feet of
additional office space in the San Antonio precise plan area, in addition
to the 400,000 square feet of offices proposed for “area two.”
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Health care district choices
Yes on Measure A
V
o Mountain View residents want to limit the field of people
who serve on the City Council to only those who can afford
to work, for the public’s benefit, 20 to 30 hours a week at far
below minimum wage? To people who are retired or who have the
financial means to spend fewer hours in their workplace so that they
can devote more time to the public’s business? City Council members and other city leaders are hoping their fellow residents answer
“No” to that question, and that’s why voters
will be asked to say “Yes” to Measure A on
the November ballot.
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The ballot measure would raise the
U D E monthly
pay for City Council members to
$1,000
from
$600, and automatically adjust
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2 0 1 4 the pay annually
to reflect cost- of-living
increases, up to 5 percent. It would also end
the odd practice of docking a member $25 for a missed meeting even
when he or she is absent on official business.
Some current council members say they work an average of 30 hours
weekly in their capacity as public servants. Their $600 compensation
amounts to about $5 an hour, they say.
Voters in 2006 rejected an attempt to raise council pay to $1,500
a month, but the Measure A compromise seems fair compensation
for citizens willing to do the hard work of creating policy and making decisions that affect every aspect of life in Mountain View. The
council meets every week, except for a partial summer recess, and
in addition to those long meeting hours must spend many more
doing the homework it takes to make informed decisions and stay
in touch with the community.
Measure A may make it possible for more working people with
fresh ideas and a willingness to turn more of their efforts toward
public service to consider a run for a council seat in the future. The
Voice urges you to support Measure A.
oters in the El Camino Healthcare District have three strong
choices when they mark their ballots for two seats on the
district’s board of directors. Incumbent David Reeder wants
to continue working toward the district goal of ensuring better
continuity of care for patients; Margaret Abe-Koga wants to turn
her attention to public health matters as she leaves her seat on the
Mountain View City Council later this year; and Dr. Peter Fung
wants to work toward improving access to
health care, addressing mental health issues,
and stemming the growing health crisis of
VOTE
obesity through education and introducing
G
programs in local schools.
While we believe that all three candidates offer many strengths and would
serve the district well as board members,
we endorse Reeder and Abe-Koga for the four-year board seats.
The director of the stroke program at El Camino Hospital, Fung
has many good ideas for achieving his goals. But members of the
district board do double-duty as members of the El Camino Hospital board of directors, and because Fung works for the hospital,
the question arises over whether he would have to recuse himself
from certain decisions because of conflict of interest rules. Hospital
officials would not provide clarity on the question.
★
DAVID REEDER
Now finishing his 16th year on the board, Reeder wants to continue his work, saying he’s “uniquely situated” to help implement
the district’s recently approved strategic plan. Helping to create a
better “continuum” of care, in which El Camino Hospital patients
would have better medical oversight before and after their hospital
stay, including when they’re transferred to a skilled nursing facility
or rehabilitation center, is one of his highest priorities, he said.
As a board member, he responded in a constructive way to a
state agency’s assessment that the district lacked transparency and
accountability in key areas, and the board has since put changes in
place to address those concerns.
Reeder is knowledgeable, responsive and determined to further improve health care in the district. He deserves another
term on the board.
MARGARET ABE-KOGA
Abe-Koga is a member of that state agency, known as LAFCo,
that criticized the health care district for a lack of transparency and
accountability, so she’s up to speed on some of the issues involving the district’s governance. And with her experience on the City
Council and other public boards, she knows a thing or two about
effective governance.
Among her goals are improving accessibility and affordability of
care for residents of the district, which includes Mountain View,
Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, and parts of Sunnyvale, Palo Alto and
Cupertino. If elected, she would be the only member who lives in
Mountain View; all current board members and fellow candidates
are residents of Sunnyvale, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. She thinks
it’s important for a Mountain View resident with knowledge about
the district’s northernmost community to take part in the district’s
policy- and decision-making process, and we agree.
The Voice urges you to support Margaret Abe-Koga.
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Yes on Measure N
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nrollment in the Los Altos School District has burgeoned in
on students,
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recent years, and continues to grow.Continued
At 5,380
the highest it’s been in 40 years, according to a task force that
studied enrollment growth and reviewed options to address it. The
big difference in the enrollment situation the district was in 40 years
ago and that which it finds itself in today is that in the 1970s, the
district had 12 schools to house its students. Today, it has only nine.
Voters this fall will be asked to approve Measure N, a $150 million bond measure that would go far in addressing the district’s
enrollment dilemma. Along with helping to fund acquisition of a
new school site and creation of new space on existing campuses, the
passage of bond Measure N might even strengthen a now-tenuous
new detente between the district and Bullis Charter School, which
have locked horns in recent years over the housing of the charter
school. Officials and parents of both the district and Bullis have
joined forces to campaign for the bond measure’s passage.
If Measure N passes, property owners would annually pay $30 per
$100,000 of assessed value on their property. The district has in place
a 28-member committee charged with identifying potential facilities
projects to be financed with bond revenue, should the measure pass.
The committee includes district parents, representatives of community organizations, and residents of all three towns within the
district boundaries: Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills.
The time has come to address current and near-future overcrowding on the district’s nine campuses. The Voice urges Los Altos School
District voters to support Measure N.
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QLETTERS
VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY
CONCERNED ABOUT
‘MILITARIZATION’
Regarding the acquisition
of military-grade weapons,
I’d suggest that Sgt. Jaeger —
before he passes judgment on
any “reactionary” response by
Mountain View residents —
talk with the children of the
grandfather who was shot and
killed by a paramilitary police
force as he lay face-down on
his floor.
Or ask the man how he
feels about paramilitary police
after being punched, stomped,
laughed at and had his arm
broken but was released when
he turned out not to be the
drug dealer they were looking for. Or sit down with the
Miami cops who ordered a
woman out of her house at the
point of several guns and was
only then found to be a circuit
court judge. Or meet with the
elderly couple whose house
was raided up to three times
a week — more than 50 times
in total — due to a police computer glitch.
Then Sgt. Jaeger can tell
us how all of those victims
were made healthy, whole and
happy again.
There are too many of these
stories already. This is a serious
problem and it needs to be confronted before any more “free”
armaments are obtained. The
requirements for specific gear
need to be established clearly
before acquisition and the policies for using them, providing
training and limiting access to
only fully certified individuals must be defined, reviewed,
agreed upon and consistently
upheld.
I wouldn’t want someone to
dictate police practices without
fully understanding the reality
of the officers’ environment; in
turn, I would expect the police
and Mountain View government to make the same effort
in understanding why citizens
are seriously concerned about
the creeping militarization
of our local police force. Any
move which results in reduced
overall safety and increased
risk of incidents against innocent citizens should be summarily rejected by the police,
government and the people
of Mountain View. Take the
time to understand our fears
and work with us instead of
treating this as merely a costsaving issue and dismissing
our concerns with some glib
statements in the local paper.
Carl Madson
Wasatch Drive
‘ZERO EMISSIONS’ A
FEEL-GOOD MYTH
Let me say right upfront that
as an inventor myself with ethics and scruples, I hold Elon
Musk in the highest regard. He
is perhaps my No. 1 inventive
icon, not only for his cuttingedge technology in the EV
industry, but because he threw
open his patents to the world
in hopes that it would advance
the EV industry to dominance
in personal transportation.
However, having said all this,
I must scold Tesla for promulgating a falsehood. Yesterday
I drove behind a brand new
Tesla S car here in Mountain
View that had no license plates
yet, and inside the rear license
plate frame it said “Zero Emissions.” This is one of the biggest myths perpetrated on the
naive public. There’s simply no
such thing as “zero emissions”
— not now and not ever.
The collective carbon footprint in the manufacturing of
every Tesla car is not insignificant; indeed it’s on par with
the carbon footprints in production of most internal combustion engine cars. So there’s
clearly no such thing as “zero
emissions” in the production
of a Tesla.
Then there’s the matter of
the daily recharging of the
large battery packs of every
Tesla: 99 percent of the electricity to recharge the batteries
of a Tesla comes from the grid,
and the grid gets 99.99 percent
of its power from the use of
fossil fuels. Clearly no “zero
emissions” there!
Even if a given Tesla owner
has his/her own PV system at
home or work to re-charge the
Tesla’s batteries, the collective
carbon footprint to manufacture, ship, and install every
PV panel is not insignificant.
Loads of fossil fuels and their
byproducts are used in the PV
industry. Again, clearly no
“zero emissions” there!
Elon Musk needs to dump
the “zero emissions” claim
and perhaps just tell the factual truth based in the laws of
physics. The “zero emissions”
thing is a nice warm-and-fuzzy
notion to give Tesla owners the
sense they are eco-correct, but
it’s a complete falsehood, and
everyone needs to be enlightened to this.
Jeffrey Van Middlebrook
Easy Street
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INTRODUCING A COLLABORAT ION
THAT’S GOOD KARMA
FOR THE ENTIRE SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY.
THE PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDAT ION
AND THE SOUTH ASI AN HEART CENTER
ARE JOINING FORCES TO
PREVENT DIABETES AND HEART ATTACKS.
El Camino Hospital’s South Asian Heart Center and the Palo Alto
Medical Foundation (PAMF) are now collaborating to provide
comprehensive, collaborative care for South Asians. PAMF
offers expert medical management, with access to physicians
who understand the high risks facing South Asian patients. The
South Asian Heart Center offers advanced screening for heart
disease and insulin resistance to identify inherited and emerging
risk factors. Participants also receive lifestyle counseling on
meditation, exercise, diet and sleep. The two organizations are
now linked electronically, so communication and physician
referrals are seamless. It’s part of our commitment to delivering
personalized care to the South Asian community — a healthy
partnership with your wellbeing at heart.
From left:
Ashish Mathur, Executive Director, South Asian Heart Center
Ronesh Sinha, MD, Co-founder, PRANA South Asian Program at PAMF
Learn more: Watch a video about our new partnership at www.goodkarma.org
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