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‘Lame duck’ council set to
vote on North Bayshore —
with no housing
WILL VOTE BE A ‘SLAP’ TO VOTERS WHO CHOSE
THREE PRO-HOUSING CANDIDATES?
By Daniel DeBolt
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A car passes by the Milk Pail Market on California Street. The developer that owns the
surrounding land announced it bought property adjacent to the Milk Pail to be used to meet the
store’s parking requirements.
New plan to save the Milk Pail
DEVELOPER BUYS ADJACENT LOT TO SOLVE POPULAR
MARKET’S PARKING SHORTAGE
By Daniel DeBolt
A
fter rescinding a deal to
save Mountain View’s
Milk Pail Market in
July, developer Merlone Geier
announced a new arrangement
to save the popular market
from closing when its parking
agreement expires.
The announcement comes
shortly before the City Council could take another vote on
Merlone Geier’s next phase in
the redevelopment of San Antonio shopping center.
The developer made the move
— which could curry favor for
its proposal to build a movie
theater, hotel, retail and office
space — in the days leading
up to the City Council’s Dec. 2
meeting, when it is expected to
take up Merlone Geier’s massive redevelopment plans for
the part of San Antonio shopping center that surrounds the
Milk Pail.
See MILKPAIL, page 10
espite calls from residents that action be
delayed to allow new
council members to take their
posts in January, the “lame duck”
City Council on Nov. 25 is set to
approve a plan for Google headquarters and the rest of North
Bayshore that would allow new
offices that could bring as many
as 20,000 new jobs, but no new
housing.
Voters this month elected three
candidates who favor at least
studying housing for North Bayshore, replacing three termed-out
council members who do not
favor doing so — an indication for
many that a majority of residents
support housing in that area, now
teeming with offices for thousands of high-tech workers.
“For the old City Council
majority to approve a draft Precise Plan that does not include
housing immediately after an
election in which the electorate
clearly voted to consider housing
in that area might, I believe, be
perceived as a ‘slap in the face’
of the community,” said former
Mountain View city manager
Bruce Liedstrand in an email.
Mayor Chris Clark said in an
email that the council is going
to move ahead with voting on
the North Bayshore plan, and a
four-person majority is expected
to continue its opposition to housing there, including member John
McAlister and outgoing members
Jac Siegel, Margaret Abe-Koga
and Ronit Bryant. “We plan to
move forward with its completion just as we completed the El
Camino Precise Plan last night,”
Abe-Koga said on Tuesday.
The plan lays out a slew of
development requirements for
traffic management, building
sizes and wildlife habitat protections in order to provide for
cohesive development in the area
north of Highway 101. The draft
plan would allow 3.4 million
square feet of new office space,
enough for 19,428 jobs at 175
square feet per employee, adding
See LAME DUCK, page 13
Superintendent resigns, cites need for new leadership
MV WHISMAN BOARD OKS $227K PAY-OUT FOR CRAIG GOLDMAN
By Kevin Forestieri
C
iting a need for new leadership for the Mountain
View Whisman School
District, Superintendent Craig
Goldman will step down at
the end of December. District
officials are now looking for
an interim superintendent to
replace him.
At a special meeting on Nov.
13, the school board met in
INSIDE
closed session and unanimously
approved Goldman’s resignation,
effective Dec. 31, along with an
agreement to pay him an additional 12 months’ salary.
The resignation agreement
includes a lump sum payment
equivalent to 12 months’ salary by no later than the end
of January, as well as medical
benefits for one year unless he’s
“employed otherwise” during the
year, according to board presi-
dent Bill Lambert. The lump sum
payment, based on Goldman’s
2014-15 annual salary, will be
$227,027.
Goldman said there is a growing disparity in the “priorities
and the methodologies” between
him and the five-member board,
and that only two of the trustees
who hired him to replace former
superintendent Maurice Ghysels
in 2010 are still board members. They are Phil Palmer, who
appears to have lost his re-election bid to district parent Greg
Coladonato, and Ellen Wheeler.
“There is a difference in
approaches to issues that has
to be aligned between district
administration and the board,”
Goldman said.
He said he was the one who
proposed resigning to the board,
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allegedly fled police on foot Friday night. Police say the man
appeared to be intoxicated, and that he ran when confronted by
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was walking down Castro Street at around 11:15 p.m. when he
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ARREST IN SEX OFFENDER SWEEP
Police and other local law agencies did a sweep Tuesday to see if
registered sex offenders in Mountain View are in compliance with
registration requirements. The effort led to the arrest of one person,
not registered as a sex offender, for an unrelated warrant offense.
Officers visited 48 registered sex offenders at their residences
across Mountain View Nov. 18. During the visits, one person was
issued a citation and another was arrested, according to a press
release by the sheriff’s office. Both people had outstanding warrants.
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Monique Kane, executive
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Kane was hired as a clinical
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Bullying, depression,
disengagement at school
MV WHISMAN STUDENT SURVEY COULD LEAD TO
MENTAL HEALTH, ANTI-BULLYING INITIATIVES
By Kevin Forestieri
A
district-wide survey of
Mountain View students
revealed that many kids
are victims of bullying and don’t
feel they have much meaningful
participation at school, according to a recent study.
The California Healthy Kids
Survey uses information gathered last year from students
in fifth and seventh grades in
the Mountain View Whisman
School District.
In the survey, 35 percent of
fifth-graders reported being hit
at school, and 41 percent said
Council approves major
plan for El Camino Real
By Daniel DeBolt
A
fter several years of discussion, the City Council
finally approved a plan for
the El Camino Real of the future
on Monday night — one that was
called a good compromise by
various community members.
Council members voted
4-1, with member John Inks
opposed, to approve the plan.
Members Chris Clark and John
McAlister recused themselves
because they own property near
El Camino Real.
The complex plan sets out
development requirements and
guidelines for the corridor, such
as building setbacks with residential neighbors and community benefits developers must pay.
Development is concentrated on
key intersections where “village
centers” could see heights of up
to six stories if developers provide
significant public benefits, which
would equal about 1 percent of
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they considered themselves victims of rumors at school. For seventh-grade students, 39 percent
had experienced harassment or
bullying in the last 12 months, 24
percent reported feeling chronic
sadness or hopelessness in the
last 30 days, and 9 percent said
they had used drugs or alcohol
in the last 30 days.
For both fifth- and seventhgraders, only 19 percent of students reported that they had
“high meaningful participation”
in school.
“We really want to work on
school engagement,” said Assistant Superintendent Phyllis Rod-
gers at the Nov. 6 district board
meeting. “And really increase
opportunities for students to participate more in the classroom.”
It wasn’t all bad news though.
Of the fifth-graders, an overwhelming 99 percent had either
a high or medium sense of connectedness to their schools, 83
percent said they felt part of the
school, and 98 percent plan to
continue their education after
high school.
For seventh-graders, 74 percent
said they viewed their school as
safe, and 84 percent reported
feeling academically motivated.
Rodgers said the information is
important for schools and school
districts focus their efforts to
create a more positive school climate, and to confront any issues
students have in the way they feel
about school.
the cost of development, for such
things as crosswalks, open space
and bike infrastructure.
“I think it’s a great plan; I’m
really happy with it,” said council member Ronit Bryant, an
opinion shared by much of the
council.
“I think everyone in this room
can point to something in this
document and say, ‘Oh, I would
change that,’” said Bill Cranston
of the Monta Loma Neighborhood Association. “Let’s adopt
this and move on.”
Council members opted to
require more community benefits by requiring benefits worth
$20 per square foot of development instead of $15. The coun-
cil also exempted ground-floor
commercial from those calculations when moving from $15 to
$20, but planners said the results
would still mean more community benefits from most projects,
including the large Greystar project proposed for the corner of El
Camino Real and Castro Street
where apartments would be built
over retail space.
Four new crosswalks are
included at the intersections
with following streets: Boranda,
Bonita, Mariposa or Pettis, and
Crestview, city staff said.
The plan includes bike lanes
on portions of El Camino Real
where there is no alternative
side-street route, including a
stretch from Sylvan to Calderon
avenues. A bike boulevard along
Church and Latham streets —
where cut-through vehicle traffic would be discouraged with
physical barriers — is included
as an alternative to bike lanes on
the rest of El Camino Real.
The new El Camino Real bike
lanes would replace street parking, and may include just a
painted buffer against car traffic.
Bicyclists would still have to go
around stopped public buses, city
staff said. Bike advocate Cherie
Wolkoviak and others called for
physical barriers to protect bikes
from traffic that goes as fast as
Weapons on campus
The survey results also showed
that 18 percent of students in seventh grade have seen a weapon
on campus in the last 12 months
— up from 12 percent two years
ago. Board member Phil Palmer
said that number “jumped out of
the page” as a cause for concern.
See HEALTHY KIDS, page 15
See EL CAMINO, page 12
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County had Bay Area’s slowest vote count
CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING GLITCHES IN ELECTION NIGHT TALLY; SUPERVISORS WANT ANSWERS
The Santa Clara County
Board of Supervisors on Tuesday requested administrators to
report in January about the slow
tally of votes in the Nov. 4 election in the county, which was
the last of nine Bay Area counties
to provide a total count for the
public.
Supervisor Cindy Chavez during the Nov. 18 board meeting
in San Jose criticized Registrar
of Voters Shannon Bushey for in
her opinion not communicating
enough with the community
about how her office operated
during the election.
Supervisor Joe Simitian said
that a glitch on the Registrar’s
website on election night prevented viewing of updated voting
results until about 9:30 p.m. and
a complete tally was not available
until after 4 a.m. Nov. 5, making
it the last county in the Bay Area
to complete its count and among
“the slowest in the state.”
Simitian also cited the controversy about the resignation of a
veteran information technology
manager for the Registrar the day
or morning before Election Day.
Reports in the news media
about the resignation prompted
Bushey to a seek a review of the
county’s election results by the
California Secretary of State,
which declined to do so.
The board directed County
Executive Jeffrey Smith to review
the methods and technology
used by the Registrar that may
have hurt its ability to add up
the county’s votes, seek requests
for qualifications from for-profit
and nonprofit groups that could
help the county solve problems
with its voting system and report
back by January.
The Registrar’s office has used
older vote counting technology
since 2007, when a modern touch
screen system it bought in 2003
was decertified by the Secretary
of State amid concerns over
potential security breeches.
The Registrar was faulted this
fall for having to resend 100,000
sample ballots to mail-in voters
due to printing errors that left
out a number of candidates and
their statements in races for the
Gavilan Joint Community College District and the Santa Clara
County Unified School District.
The office then repeated the
printing error in about 1,000
ballots it sent out later to voters
in the same two races.
Michael Helms, a board of
trustees candidate for the Santa
Clara County Unified School
District, told the board today
that he was one of the candidates
whose statement was initially not
printed for voters after he paid
the county’s fee of $2,500 for it.
Simitian replied that what
Helms and other candidates went
though would be looked at.
“I will ask that the county executive and the registrar of voters
take a look at cases where there
were problems with compliance
as far as voter communication
that they want to recommend to
our board,” Simitian said.
Bushey said she agreed that
“accuracy, integrity and timeliness are all important matters
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She said she had alerted the
board and the public that the
county’s vote total likely would
be ready by about 4 a.m. - the
final results were posted online
at 4:36 a.m. — consistent with
previous elections and not due to
any technical difficulties.
One major challenge for the
county is its use of a central
counting system, whereby paper
ballots cast at precincts after
polls close are stored and then all
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1555 Berger Drive to be counted.
The process is slow because
employees then have to pass
each of the paper ballots through
optical scanners and for mail-in
ballots, the signatures on the
envelope of each have to be compared to the signatures of the
voters on file before they can he
opened and the ballots scanned,
she said.
“In Santa Clara County we are
one of the last counties in California to post results because we
are one of the few remaining to
actually have a central counting
system,” Bushey said.
The county’s polling places
received 150,000 vote-by-mail
votes turned in on Election
Day, such a huge influx that the
county still had 119,000 votes left
to count two days after the election, Bushey said.
The county has the highest rate
of mail-in ballots of any major
urban county in the state, she
said.
A better solution for adding
up votes would be a precinct
count system, where optical
scanners are in every precinct
and poll workers put each vote
through the scanner as they are
cast throughout the day, with
the results stored in a memory
card and after polls close are
transmitted to the Registrar’s
office from a laptop computer,
according to Bushey.
The office plans to rid itself
of its old vote counting system
eventually, seek public input on
requests for proposals for a new
one by the middle of 2015 and
receive vendor proposals in 2016,
but the updated system would
not be approved and delivered
until after mid-2017, she said.
The Registrar’s office has
admitted that its longtime information technology manager quit
a day before the election but has
declined to detail why, citing
employee confidentiality.
Then news reports came out
at the same time about a missing hard drive, cellphone and
employee badge from the Registrar’s office, none of which was
true, Bushey told the board.
Chavez said that she received
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Controversial El Camino bus lane
plan back on the table
By Gennady Sheyner
A
controversial plan by Santa Clara County to create
dedicated bus lanes on El
Camino Real between Palo Alto
and San Jose is back on the table,
despite strong concerns from
local officials that the project
will only increase congestion on
local streets.
Two public meetings on the
topic were set for Thursday, Nov.
20, in the Mountain View City
Council Chambers, after the
Voice’s Wednesday press deadline.
The Santa Clara County Valley
Transportation Authority (VTA)
is analyzing the highly controversial “dedicated bus lane”
alternative in its environmental
analysis for a project it calls “Bus
Rapid Transit.” The goal of the
project is to improve bus service
on the 17-mile corridor between
downtown Palo Alto and San
Jose and get more people to
switch from cars to buses.
The decision to study the alternative comes despite a strong
preference by Palo Alto for a
“mixed-flow curb lane” alternative, in which buses continue to
travel in the right lane and bus
stops are enhanced with bulbouts and other amenities.
In June 2011, VTA officials
indicated at a study session that
the mixed-flow option is the pre-
ferred option in Palo Alto, even
as other communities would get
dedicated bus lanes. Since then,
the city has been corresponding
with the VTA and urging the
agency to conduct further analysis on the traffic impacts on the
mixed-flow option.
On Monday night, the council
learned that the more dramatic
“dedicated-lane” proposal is once
again being considered for nearly
the entire El Camino stretch.
Furthermore, because El Camino
Real is a state road, cities may not
have the power to prevent the
shifting of two central El Camino
Real lanes from bus to car use.
The VTA does, however, plan
to solicit cities’ opinions as to
whether they would like to
remove parking spots on El
Camino Real to create bicycle
lanes, John Ristow, the VTA’s
director of planning and program development, told the Palo
Alto council Monday.
The Bus Rapid Transit project,
Ristow said, would support the
investments made by the city
and private developers in the
El Camino Real corridor, and
would serve as a “catalyst” for
the “Grand Boulevard Initiative,”
a regional effort aimed at transforming the congested artery
into a more inviting destination
for pedestrians and bicyclists and
encouraging people to switch
from cars to buses.
“To us, it’s really the objective and purpose of project to
improve that transit choice and
in so doing ... we really want to
have a project that provides a terrific travel option that’s competitive with the automobile option,”
Ristow said.
The buses would run people
back and forth every 10 minutes
and serve local “jobs, schools and
entertainments,” he said.
The VTA projects that its
average number of weekday
boarding is expected to increase
from 12,512 in 2013 to 14,588 in
2018, even without the project.
With the mixed-flow option, the
ridership would jump to 15,303,
while the dedicated-lane option
would boost ridership to 18,616.
By 2040, the projected ridership
for the two design option would
jump to 22,228 and 30,336,
respectively.
The current plan would cost
about $233 million to implement
and require an annual operating
cost of $12.9 million. The mixedflow alternative in the entire
corridor would cost $91 million
to build and would come with
an annual operating cost of $21.6
million.
The county is estimating that
having dedicated lanes would
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to donate to local pantries, soup kitchens and
shelters. The goal this year is to receive 13,000
turkeys for this Thanksgiving and Second Harvest officials last week said they still need more
than 6,500 turkeys.
Turkeys can be dropped off at Second Harvest
Food Bank’s Curtner Center at 750 Curtner Ave.,
San Jose, and Bing Center at 1051 Bing St., San
Carlos.
“Turkey is a traditional holiday meal for many
local families, so we are depending on the community to help us meet our turkey goal,” said Kathy
Jackson, CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank.
On Monday, Nov. 24, from 4 to 6 p.m., San Francisco 49ers starting safety Antonio Bethea will sign
autographs and take photos with those who stop by
Second Harvest’s Curtner Center to donate.
Monetary donations are also encouraged as Second Harvest provides for almost 250,000 people.
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Judy Hannemann, a 33-year veteran school
board member for the Mountain View-Los
Altos Union High School District, will retire
at the tend of the month. To celebrate her more
than three decades of service to the district,
the board will honor Hannemann in a special
event next week at the school board meeting.
The event will be in the district boardroom
at 1299 Bryant Ave., on Monday, Nov. 24, at 7
p.m., and the public is welcome to attend.
A Stanford University graduate and former
member of the Los Altos School District school
board, Hannemann has been board president
eight times, and has served on committee
and in leadership roles on both the Mountain
View-Los Altos school board and the California School Board Association. According to
a district press release, Hannemann said her
experience with the school board association
helped her understand how the superintendent and the board have to work as “a team”
in making district decisions.
Hannemann continues to be an active
member of numerous local organizations and
foundations, including the Mountain View
Rotary Club, the Los Altos Community Foundation, the MVLA PTA Council, the MVLA
Challenge Team and the MVLA Community
Scholars.
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supervisor for CHAC by cofounder Dodie Alexander, and
took the lead as executive director in 2000. Kane was named
Woman of the Year by Santa
Clara County Supervisor Joe
Simitian in 2012, and a “Champion for Youth” by the MVLA
Challenge Team.
Kane said CHAC was unique
when it started in 1973 and
partnered up with local cities
and school districts to create a
joint powers authority. The JPA
gave CHAC the initial funding
it needed to get off the ground,
and continues to provide money
to the nonprofit today.
Since she joined, CHAC has
expanded its presence in the
community to offer support and
counseling to 33 school campuses across Mountain View,
Los Altos and Sunnyvale. Kane
said spreading out that far was a
difficult feat for the limited staff
at CHAC.
“It was a lot to take on,” Kane
said.
To take on the new challenges, CHAC hires more than
80 student interns to work at
the schools and do one-on-one
counseling for students in need
— up from 16 interns when Kane
joined back in 1986. Interns
with CHAC are often psychology graduates and marriage and
family therapists looking to fulfill academic requirements, and
their donated time is estimated
to be worth well over $400,000
a year, according to a CHAC
annual report.
The bolstered staff has been
met with an increase in need for
the nonprofit’s services. Kane
said over the years she has seen
more and more depression and
anxiety for youth in the area.
“Kids are very anxious over
academic and societal pressure,”
she said.
Kane said poverty also appears
to be more prevalent than when
she first came to CHAC, which
puts a lot of stress on families and
can take its toll on their mental
health and well-being.
A resource at school
CHAC and its mental health
counseling services have been
an invaluable resource for high
school students in Mountain
View and Los Altos, according
to Barry Groves, superintendent
of the Mountain View-Los Altos
High School District. Groves
said the district and CHAC have
worked very closely together,
and that Kane has been “wonderful” and will be a tough act
to follow.
“CHAC has been an incredible
partner with us,” Groves said.
Every week, four to five CHAC
interns come to Los Altos High
School for student counseling.
Grove said the interns, along
with a school site psychologist
and a part-time psychiatrist to
work with the most intense,
needy cases, are all available to
help students with their mental
health and well-being.
He said they’ve even hired
some former CHAC interns, like
Perla Pasallo, the assistant principal at Los Altos High School.
Pasallo said CHAC gives students at the school a discreet way
to get help with mental health
issues with weekly, 45-minute
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often referred to counseling by
teachers, parents, or the students
themselves.
The district has even carved
out a number of rooms specifically for CHAC counseling at the
high school, near the administrative buildings and out of the way
of common student areas for
more privacy.
“That’s how much we value
their services for these kids,”
Pasallo said.
Student demand for the mental
health services at Los Altos High
School is so high that CHAC
counselors consistently fill up
their schedules and run out of
time to see more students. But
there may be an alternative on
the way, and it resides in two
rooms in the new Mountain View
teen center, The View. Kane said
two rooms in the new facility
are closed off to the more public
areas, and could be strictly used
by CHAC for drop-in counseling,
workshops and teen talk groups.
Quick to fill up
the new facility
Kane, along with supervisors
and other staff at CHAC, say
the new building they work in
has been a wonderful and muchneeded resource. Last year in
a property swap deal, CHAC
moved out of its old facility and
into a larger new building on W.
El Camino Real near View Street,
which has given the nonprofit
room to grow.
And grow they did. More than
40 rooms in the facility have been
used either as officers or counseling rooms, and some of them are
used for both. A closet on the
second floor was even converted
into a small counseling room
with a table and two chairs.
“We love the new building,”
Kane said.
Kane said she used to have to
leave her office at 3 p.m. at the
old CHAC office so people could
hold counseling sessions in it, and
the board of directors had to use
the Mountain View Library for
meetings. Staff meetings often
involved people squeezed onto
staircases and out doorways as
they crowded into the tight space.
BUS LANE
Continued from page 7
reduce the time it takes buses to
travel from Palo Alto to San Jose
from the current level of 85.2
minutes to 48 minutes. The time
it takes to travel the 17-mile corridor by car is expected to go up
from 40 minutes to 43.7 minutes.
Though both the dedicatedlane and the mixed-flow alternative are being evaluated, VTA
officials noted in the presentation that “operationally, dedicated lane is superior to mixed flow”
and that car-travel speeds would
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A doll house and toy figurines are used in play therapy at CHAC.
Full steam ahead
on new programs
CHAC recently brought back
the Blossom Project, a program
designed to address teen pregnancy and support teen parents
in Mountain View, Los Altos
and Palo Alto. The program
ran from 1999 to 2013, and with
help from new grant money
has returned to high schools in
the community. The program
focuses on keeping young parents in school and preparing
them for college, while also
teaching them how to properly
care for their children.
The Blossom Project will be
able to support 20 teen parents,
and may be needed now more
than ever since the Mountain
View-Los Altos Union High
School District eliminated its
Young Parent Program earlier
this year. The Young Parents
Program supported eight teen
parents.
The project is coupled with
a program called School First,
where CHAC counselors go out
to schools, identify truants and
try to find the underlying causes
for the frequent absences. The
program will be at Alta Vista
High School, Crittenden Middle
School and Castro Elementary
School, though CHAC supervisors say truancy remains a
district-wide issue.
CHAC is also turning its focus
towards younger children as
well, partnering with FIRST 5 of
Santa Clara County. FIRST 5 is a
program that funds and sponsors
programs that ensure children
under the age of 5 are healthy and
ready for school.
The partnership kicked off the
Learning Together Initiative,
where CHAC provides classes,
events and individual consultations to build a healthy relationship between parents and children. The initiative gives parents
an opportunity to meet other
families, which reduces the sense
of isolation and increases the
support they have in the community, according to the 2013-14
CHAC annual report.
be “minimally affected.” Many
cars, Ristow noted, would be
diverted to other routes, modes
and times.
For Palo Alto officials, that’s
part of the problem. According to Chief Transportation
Official Jaime Rodriguez, the
dedicated-lane proposal would
cause many people to switch
form El Camino Real to Alma,
prompting the service level on
Alma to plummet to the level
of Service F, the lowest possible
level. The impacts are expected
to be particularly severe on
intersections of Alma with
Churchill Avenue, Charleston
Road and Meadow Drive.
“It seems we’re much better
off with it ending at Showers,”
Rodriguez added, referring to
Showers Drive in Mountain
View, where the dedicated-lane
alternative was expected to reach
its northern terminus under
the original proposal. Ristow
said staff dedicated to analyze
stretching the dedicated lanes
all the way to Embarcadero in
response to a suggestion from
Mountain View.
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A number of rooms in the
facilities have been built and
equipped for “play therapy,” and
are full of board games and toy
figures. One room in particular,
with a sign on the door that reads
“The Magic Kingdom” includes
a doll house and a small sandbox
for kids to use play as a means to
express the things going on in
their lives.
Kane said one girl, whose parents were separating and going
through a divorce, made up a
very segregated world where all
the women were on one side and
all the men were on another.
Shortly after the Loma Prieta
earthquake in 1989, she said kids
were able to use the doll house
to play out what happened in
their houses when they shook
violently.
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employers to negotiate wages and work
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Mentor Tutor Connection matches adult
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students, including some in high school and
beyond.
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Whisman School District. Nearly 45 percent
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MILKPAIL
Continued from page 1
On the same night, the council
is also set to vote on a blueprint
for the whole area, the San Antonio Precise Plan, that will guide
future development of the shopping center and surrounding
area.
Milk Pail owner Steve Rasmussen told the Voice he had yet to
hear directly from Merlone Geier
about a new parking arrangement.
“I assume there’s a pending
agreement because I learned
about it through the Chamber (of
Commerce) website,” Rasmussen said. “I haven’t seen the new
verbiage or pending agreement.”
Merlone Geier was not immediately available for comment. It
is unclear what the future would
be for the two existing restaurants on the corner site where
parking would be provided.
“An agreement requires a
meeting of the minds,” Rasmussen said. “I’ve got to know what
the exact details are. Whatever
occurs, I want the survival of the
Milk Pail to be viable for the long
term. The word I’m using a lot
lately is ‘viable.’”
Rasmussen owns the store’s
site, while most of the surrounding land has been purchased by
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Merlone Geier.
The San Francisco-based
developer released the news in a
relatively obscure way, by posting
to the Mountain View Chamber
of Commerce website last week.
The announcement was found
among its responses to several
frequently asked questions about
the proposed second phase of
Merlone Geier’s redevelopment
of San Antonio shopping center.
The key phrase in the document: “The Milk Pail will be
preserved in its current location.”
The document goes on to say
that “Merlone Geier acquired the
corner parcel immediately adjacent to the Milk Pail. About 31
parking stalls for customers will
be provided there, almost three
(times) the amount required by
city code.”
Rasmussen said he didn’t know
if the news meant that the parking spaces would be for Milk Pail
customers only, or shared parking for the cinema. “There’s some
uncertainties and questions that
have yet to be discussed,” he said.
The Milk Pail has been facing
closure as its agreement to lease
parking in the neighboring Ross
and BevMo! parking lots is set to
expire. Representatives of Merlone Geier, which now owns the
lots, had said the lease agreement
would not be extended. The city
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COURTESY OF MERLONE GEIER
San Antonio shopping center could soon see this courtyard with a
monument to the birthplace of Silicon Valley at 391 San Antonio Road.
requires the Milk Pail have 11
parking spaces in addition to the
five it has on site in order to stay
in business at its location.
The document indicates that
Merlone Geier hopes to break
ground in early 2015. On the site
around the Milk Pail, replac-
ing the Ross and BevMo! liquor
store, Merlone Geier has proposed an eight-screen movie
theater with a bar and restaurant,
106,000 square feet of retail
spaces around a courtyard, a
seven-story, 167-room hotel, two
six-story office buildings totaling
400,000 square feet and a parking garage with 1,480 spaces. The
offices would be leased by LinkedIn, according to the document.
A presentation on the latest
iteration of phase two is set for
Thursday, Nov. 20, from 5 p.m.
to 7 p.m. at Carmel at the Village
apartments, 545 San Antonio
Road, suite 402 on the fourth
floor.
In July, a shared parking
arrangement signed by Rasmussen was rescinded by Merlone Geier when the City Council didn’t support its phase-two
plans. It would have reserved
spaces in a parking garage in
the proposed office building to
be used by Milk Pail customers. Petitions and lobbying by
Rasmussen and his store’s loyal
patrons have made the survival
of the market, which specializes
in produce and cheese, a keystone for the city’s acceptance
of Merlone Geier’s redevelopment plans.
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40 to 50 mph. City planner Eric
Andersen explained that “there
are too many curb cuts (driveways) on El Camino Real in many
places to have barriers. There may
be some places where you could
have barriers where there are long
distances between curb cuts.”
“This plan has come a long way
— I’m really pleased,” said Wolkoviak. She added that bike lanes
shown in the plan for a stretch of
El Camino Real between Escuela
Avenue and El Monte Road “will
be a great connection.”
If significant public benefits
are negotiated, a “village center
floating district” zoning is triggered in the plan, which allows a
developer to go to six stories and
a 2.2 floor-area ratio at major
intersections — a density not
shown on the new zoning map.
The plan includes two other
basic tiers of development heights
and densities. The lowest is meant
for the shallow lots on the street
that have been a problem for the
city in attracting redevelopment.
Height limits for those lots are
three stories, but with a 45-foot
height limit to encourage groundfloor commercial space under
two stories of residential. No
public benefits are required, and
allowed floor-area ratio would
be 1.35, which would mean a
135,000-square-foot building
allowed on a 1-acre lot. A second
tier is meant for much of the street
and allows up to four stories and
a maximum 1.85 floor-area ratio,
and would require the standard
public benefit cost of $20 per
square foot (with ground-floor
commercial space exempted).
Council members declined to
raise affordable housing requirements in the plan from 10 percent to 25 percent, as advocated
by the Greenbelt Alliance and
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition.
Concern was expressed that
the plan lacked integration with
a bus rapid transit system, despite
VTA’s continuing study of dedicated bus rapid transit (BRT)
lanes on El Camino Real as a sort
of alternative to light rail down
the middle of the street.
“This BRT thing seems to be
happening; we should have some
thoughts on how it’s going to be
integrated into this plan,” said
council member-elect Lenny
Siegel. He suggested park-andride garages be integrated into
development on the street to
encourage use of the new bus
infrastructure.
Council member Jac Siegel
continued to object to bike lanes
on the street without barriers and
allowing buildings as high as six
stories. Member John Inks
expressed his disapproval in
vague terms, saying, “I predict
problems.”
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to a jobs-housing imbalance in
the city that is driving escalating
rents and commuter traffic.
Council member-elect Pat
Showalter said she wanted to
“respectfully request” that the
council be responsive to the voters. “The voters have spoken by
electing three people who are pro
housing in North Bayshore,” she
said.
Council member Mike Kasperzak said he didn’t see the election
of the three new members as a
referendum on housing in North
Bayshore, although it repeatedly emerged as the key issue that
divided the field of nine candidates. It became apparent during
the election that a growing number of residents see the current
council’s restrictions on housing
growth as a major reason that
rents are skyrocketing as the city’s
jobs-housing balance worsens in
yet another tech boom.
Showalter expressed concern
about extra work created for
city staff if the plan were to be
approved and then immediately
changed.
“It’s a lot of work for everybody
to go through all this,” Showalter
said. “It just seems like it would
be more reasonable to wait a little
bit.” She added: “I’m not going to
be a council member until Jan. 6.
I do want to be respectful of their
positions.”
“I don’t think it is my job to
lobby the current council either
way,” said council member-elect
Ken Rosenberg. “The council
knows there’s been an election,” and that the three winners
“campaigned on the concept
of a community in the North
Bayshore, a new neighborhood.
I campaigned on that, Lenny
(Siegel) campaigned on that, Pat
campaigned on that.”
“We’ll just deal with whatever
is handed to us,” Rosenberg said.
“Why rush to do something you
know is going to be out of date in
January?” said council memberelect Lenny Siegel. “It’s clear we’re
going to get housing out there,
and we would like to make sure
we get a neighborhood complete
with stores and services. We don’t
want just housing, we want a plan.
It doesn’t make any sense to adopt
a plan that is going to be fundamentally different than what we
are going to need.”
During the election, opponents
of North Bayshore housing said
it’s not a good place to put housing because of lack of infrastructure and services, Siegel said.
“My response was, ‘Let’s provide
the infrastructure and services.’
That has to be part of the plan.”
Kasperzak, who supports
housing in North Bayshore, said
he didn’t see any downsides to
moving ahead with the plan. He
said it was important to get several transportation management
requirements in place, including
car trip caps that could limit the
pace of office development.
Under a proposal made in
April, Google and others would
not be allowed to build up to 3.4
million square feet of new offices
in North Bayshore unless traffic
on the three roads connecting
North Bayshore to Highway 101
are kept under a collective capacity limit of 18,900 trips between 7
a.m. and 10 a.m. — the “cap.” In
April there were 13,900 inbound
trips during that period on an
average workday. Shoreline Boulevard is already over capacity
during morning rush hour.
Siegel said the approved trip
cap would likely be changed with
housing in the plan. “We will have
an entirely different expectation
of traffic patterns,” Siegel said.
The council appears set to
move ahead anyway.
“We have (a) lame duck session
under our charter,” said Kasper-
zak. “You don’t pick and choose
the things you want to work on
and delay the things you don’t
want to work on.”
Liedstrand said it could create a legal problem for the new
council if it decides to change an
adopted precise plan and property owners argue they had lost
“vested rights” if they saw their
property values decrease with
new residential zoning. But the
city attorney disagreed.
City attorney Jannie Quinn
said the plan could still legally
be changed to add housing next
year. “In California, property
rights — or the right to build out
a project — does not vest without
an entitlement, the issuance of a
building permit and the performance of substantial work,” she
wrote in an email.
“In this market, housing is
probably as valuable as office,”
added Kasperzak.
The concept of a large new
neighborhood for North Bayshore is an idea supported by
Google, which owns much of
North Bayshore, and Mountain
View’s Chamber of Commerce,
among others.
City staff members have said
the city could add zoning to the
plan for 1,100 homes in the area
in a matter of months with a
change to the city’s general plan,
as it was an option that had been
studied in 2012 when the City
Council rejected any residential
zoning for North Shoreline Boulevard between Highway 101 and
Charleston Road. Adding as
many as 5,000 homes in North
Bayshore — the number discussed during the election and
supported by Google — may take
years to plan.
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cerned about whether their votes
were counted.
She said that the Registrar’s
office needed to develop a communications strategy and a
broader review of its management beyond voter machine
technology to clear up confusion
over mail-in ballots and other
issues such as what the correct
postage needed on mail-in ballot is and allowing observers to
watch vote counting on Berger
Drive in San Jose.
She asked Bushey to take “a bigger step back than what you have
presented to us,” Chavez said.
Supervisor Mike Wasserman
noted that about 51 percent of
county’s approximately 575,000
voters cast ballots in the Nov. 4
election and that about 72 percent of county voters now request
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But Superintendent Craig
Goldman was quick to jump in
and explain that, while the issue
of weapons on campus is a real
concern, the survey question
was broadly worded and open
to interpretation. The question
posed to students was whether
they had seen a knife or a gun on
campus, which Goldman said
could be interpreted to mean a
pocket knife.
“It’s really not as clear as we’d
like it to be,” he said.
Weapons haven’t really been
on the radar for Arturo Noriega,
an at-risk youth counselor at
Crittenden Middle School. During his nine years at the school,
Noriega said he has only confiscated two weapons, both of
which were “very small” pocket
knives.
“It’s very safe. I haven’t seen a
weapon on campus for four or
five years,” Noriega said.
Physical violence doesn’t tend
to be a problem at Crittenden
either. Noriega said many of the
fights he witnesses on the campus are verbal confrontations
rather than physical fights.
“It’s definitely quiet and students seem to be well-adjusted
here,” he said.
Similar to Goldman, Rodgers
cautioned board members to
take the results with a grain of
salt, and that the questions are
subject to student interpretation. In assessing themselves,
she said, kids might have a different understanding of what a
“weapon” on campus is, or what
constitutes bullying.
Rodgers said in a past survey
there was a question asking students if they had ever seen a razor
blade at school, which one girl
percent casting votes at polling
booths.
That along with the large number of mail-in ballots dropped
off at precincts on Election Day
showed that mail-in voting “is
clearly the trend” in the county
as it is in other parts of the
nation, such as Oregon, Colorado
and Washington that are voteby-mail only, Wasserman said.
Wasserman said he would like
the county to discuss the possibility of having the county’s
elections be mail-in only.
After the board hearing, Bushey agreed that communication
from her office “could have been
better” and that there was “room
for improvement.”
She said that media reports
about items missing from Registrar’s office “did not originate
from me.”
The Registrar’s office was prepared for Election Day and had
by Nov. 3, counted all of the
posted mail-in ballots it had
received by the Oct. 31 deadline,
Bushey said.
But that was before the avalanche of mail-in votes that arrived
on Election Day from those who
did not send their ballots in by the
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“The issue was the 150,000 vote
by mail that all came in on one
day,” she said.
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got confused with the razors she
used to shave her legs. She said
the state has since gotten better
at wording the questions in the
survey to avoid ambiguity, but
that the district still needs to consider how students understood
the question.
“It’s not because we disregard
anything that students say, this
is all data that is useful,” Rodgers
said. “Some kids might take the
question and just be literal about
it.”
Participation wasn’t a problem
though. Roughly 50 percent of
fifth-grade students participated
in the survey, which Goldman
said gives a pretty good idea
of the campus climate for students. The survey didn’t require
students to have a computer or
internet access at home, but it did
need parent permission.
“We think we have a pretty
good picture of the kids, but we
would like a higher participation
rate and we can look at strategies in the future for doing that,”
Goldman said.
Rodgers called the report a
first glance and the start of the
discussion on school climate,
and a reminder to people that
the survey exists and the information is available. Regardless,
the report included a handful
of recommendations for school
improvements going forward.
The recommendations for the
district include more opportunities for students to participate in
campus operations and activities
in the classroom, as well as new
strategies to address bullying
and harassment. The district
also plans to confront mental and
physical health issues by teaching
students how to resolve conflicts
and build self-esteem.
“This is great information to
start off with,” Rodgers said.
“I think we’re seeing this as
a springboard into further
research and investigation.”
Board member Chris Chiang
said parents would likely want
to see the climate survey statistics, split up to show results by
schools, and that information
would mean a lot more to parents
than test scores and other typical
school information.
“As a parent, some of these
questions on the survey would
matter far more to me in choosing a school than API (scores),”
Chiang said.
How to improve
Though all the board members
at the meeting expressed interest
in the survey results and ways
to act on the new information,
there wasn’t much in the way of
specific plans for what to do next.
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tion” to improve the way the
board and district staff work
together.
“Nobody was happy about it,
but agreed it was in the best interest of the district,” he said.
Goldman said he hasn’t decided what to do after his resignation. He said he probably will
continue in the education field,
likely as an administrator, but
that he hasn’t identified what that
will be.
Board member Chris Chiang
said there was no scandal or controversy that spurred Goldman’s
resignation, and no one incident
that convinced him to resign. He
added that nobody was trying to
push him to leave the district.
“It really comes down to a
parting of ways. Nothing went
wrong,” Chiang said. “Everyone
has been really grateful for the
work that he’s done for the district.”
At the meeting, the board also
established an ad hoc committee
to start the process for choosing
officer, Walter said, he succeeded
in getting bus passes for all busriding students in the district
“for the first time ever,” and
saved the district the equivalent
of his entire salary.
She said that Goldman was a
visionary who “dreamed big” on
how to improve all nine of the
district’s school sites.
“The facilities plan is not
called a master plan — it’s called
the student facilities improvement plan because it is for the
students,” Walter said. “Craig’s
input to this plan was invaluable.”
Walter, along with Wheeler
and Palmer, chose Goldman as
superintendent after Ghysels
stepped down. As superintendent, Walter said, he shepherded
the Measure G school bond and
went out of his way to be publicly
visible in the community and
answer questions.
“Craig is one of those people
who leave a lasting, positive
impact on your life,” Walter said.
Parent Laura Blakely said she
has felt privileged to work with
Goldman when she worked on
Chris Chiang said there was no scandal
or controversy that spurred Goldman’s
resignation.
the next superintendent.
“It was a shock and a disappointment,” Wheeler said.
Lambert said he got the opportunity to get to know Goldman,
and understands his decision to
move on. He said Goldman, even
in his resignation, was thinking
about the district, and chose to
resign with the “best timing” to
replace him at the end of the year.
It was revealed at the meeting that board members had
been talking about Goldman’s
resignation for about a month in
closed-session meetings.
Though the meeting was short
and took place mostly in closed
session, a few people came out to
thank Goldman for his 16 years
of working for the district, and
bid him good luck.
Former board member Fiona
Walter said losing Goldman
represents a “tragic loss” for the
district, and that it was losing
a student advocate, a person of
integrity and an amazing educator.
As a Huff and Graham parent, Walter said, she remembers
meeting Goldman for the first
time in August 2002. “He was on
the shouting-end of a bullhorn at
Huff Elementary School telling
me to put my dog back on the
leash,” she said. “Thus began 12
years of friendship, collaboration, trust and respect.”
During Goldman’s first year
as the district’s chief business
the Measure C parcel tax campaign, the Share Shoreline team
and the Mountain View Education Foundation.
Blakely said she was both
heartbroken and angry that the
school board members could not
work collaboratively to “retain”
Goldman as superintendent, and
insisted that trustees set aside
their differences to foster a better relationship with Goldman’s
successor.
“As trustees of the Mountain
View Whisman School District,
you owe every resident of our
community and student in our
schools a fiduciary duty to act
in their best interests,” Blakely
said. “Not in the interest of your
own personal agenda, nor of your
political future, nor the limelight
you may garner in the local
media.”
The board has been criticized
for the dysfunctional and, at
times, hostile relations between
board member Steven Nelson
and district staff, as well as his
fellow trustees — a situation that
led the board to censure Nelson
late last year. Tensions between
Nelson and Goldman ran particularly high at times.
The district also recently
emerged from a polarizing battle
with its teachers’ union over salaries, and Goldman was criticized
for his role in contract negotiations that led to widespread
support for teachers by parents
and students who packed district
meetings this fall.
A district press release about
the resignation listed Goldman’s
accomplishments as superintendent: API scores for the district
increased from 826 to 863 during his tenure, including larger
increases for socioeconomically
disadvantaged students; three
schools were recognized as distinguished schools; a 10-year
agreement to receive Shoreline
Community funds was passed;
and $3 million in grant money
from Google was received to
improve access to technology and improve mathematics
achievement.
Although Goldman will resign
in less than two months, he said
there’s still work to be done. Prior
to his departure, the board is on
track to decide whether or not to
turn Castro Elementary School
into two schools, splitting its two
academic programs.
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Winifred “Wini” Gould Jecker Steiner
August 31, 1913 – October 21, 2014
Portola Valley
“Wini” Steiner died peacefully in her sleep
after visits from her family and friends.
Wini was born in England and emigrated
with her family in 1920, eventually settling in
Long Beach. Wini graduated from UC Berkeley
in 1935 with a degree in English. There, she lived
at International House where she
met Duroc Albert Jecker, whom
she married in 1935. Duroc
died in 1940. Not wanting to
teach English to support their
young daughter, Wini earned a
BS degree in home economics at
Oregon State.
In 1944 Wini was hired as
the first home economist for
the U.C. Cooperative Extension
service for the counties of Santa
Clara, San Mateo, and San
Benito, where she organized 24
community groups of mainly farm wives to
conduct workshops on food preservation and
streamlined garment making.
As Santa Clara County changed from rural to
urban, she stayed there, where her focus shifted to
consumer information in all areas of home making,
home furnishings, money management, clothing
and fabrics and food buying. She conducted short
courses and lecture demonstrations and pioneered
a daily radio show on several radio stations, a
weekly column for the San Jose Mercury, and a
show on KPIX-TV.
In the 1960’s Wini served as a cooperative
resource to school nurses, teachers, social
workers, and dietitians. Later she initiated a
nutrition program for low income families,
developing cultural and ethnic materials and
recipes.
In 1957, Wini married Russell R. “Russ”
Steiner, a local accountant. Shortly after their
retirement in 1972, they moved to Paradise, CA.
They traveled everywhere. Both loved Yosemite,
taking their grandchildren on high country
trips. Wini founded the Paradise branch of
AAUW, and led AAUW initiatives there and in
Chico to benefit re-entry women and research
child care for working mothers. Russ died
in 1988. Wini then returned to the Bay Area,
settling in the Sequoias Portola Valley in 1993.
Wini took leadership positions
in St. Nicholas Episcopal Church
in Paradise and St. Bede’s in
Menlo Park and was faithful at
Christ Church Episcopal, Portola
Valley.
“Wini the Walker”
couldn’t be missed anywhere, and
she celebrated her 80th birthday
walking across her beloved
England.
Wini volunteered in many ways
to care for students, international
visitors, and the elderly in nursing
homes. She founded the Jessie
Rau Anderson Scholarship at UC Santa Cruz in
1965 in honor of her counselor at Long Beach
Polytechnic, who lent her $100 so she could
start at UC Berkeley in 1933. Wini would take
the “Anderson Girls” out to lunch for decades
after that and maintain a correspondence with
many of them. Wini was known for her elegant
style, in manner, clothes, and furnishings, her
wide-ranging travels, love of the outdoors, high
energy, and storytelling.
Wini leaves her daughter, Mary Beth (Bruce)
Train of Palo Alto, two grandchildren, six stepgrandchildren, and five great grandchildren. A
memorial service will be in November.
Memorial contributions may be made through
the UC Santa Cruz Foundation. Please direct
your contributions to Jessie Rau Anderson
Scholarship in memory of Wini Steiner. Visit
giving.ucsc.edu or send a gift to the UC Santa
Cruz Foundation, Dept. 44787, PO Box 44000,
San Francisco, CA 94144-4787. You may also
give to the Friends of your local library or a
charity of your choice.
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LOCAL WINE EXPERTS OFFER SUGGESTIONS ON HOLIDAY FOOD-AND-WINES PAIRINGS
By My Nguyen
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lanning what wines to
serve at a Thanksgiving
dinner or figuring out
which to bring to a Christmas
party can be, frankly, overwhelming. Holiday foods tend
to be full-flavored — whether it’s
turkey, buttery mashed potatoes
or sausage-filled stuffing — so
here are a few options from local
wine experts to complement all
of your holiday meals:
Light meat
Chicken and pork tend
to be mild and lean, so they
should be paired with a
mild, lighter-bodied wine. Look
for flavors that can build a bridge
between the wine and dish.
Baked, smoked or honeyed hams
beg for wines with a hint of sweet.
“With a honey-baked ham, we
recommend a fruit-forward pinot
noir as it cuts the fat and complements the sweetness of the honey,”
said Emily Mathews, co-owner of
Vino Locale in Palo Alto.
“A honey-baked ham is usually glazed with maple or pierced
with cloves, to offer up both sweet
and salty flavors on your palate.
You wouldn’t want your wine
to compete with those flavors,
but instead, complement them.
A dry wine won’t clash with the
sweetness on your plate and will
avoid overpowering the entree,”
added co-owner Debra Szecsei,
who recommends a dry rosé or
an extra-dry champagne.
For an herbed pork roast,
Mathews recommends a creamy
chardonnay with hints of fruit
and oak, which “won’t overwhelm the herbal flavors in the
roast,” she said.
Mathews also suggests a light
red, such as a sangiovese or pinot
noir, which is quite flexible and
goes well with the multitude of
flavors presented at a holiday
table, she said.
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Turkey
A traditional Thanksgiving
turkey, with all the trimmings,
can stand up to a range of wine,
either red or white. Turkey is also
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Debra Szecsei, left, and Emily Mathews, right, co-owners of Vino Locale, pour
glasses of wine at the bar while talking about which wines they recommend for
holiday meal pairings.
adaptable in the way it is prepared.
Don’t forget: Side dishes also dictate what wine will pair best.
For white wine lovers, try a
riesling, which is “one of the
great white grapes,” said Laurie
Lindrup, director of business
development at Beltramo’s Wines
and Spirits in Menlo Park.
“Riesling is often highly fragrant, very delicious and totally
food-friendly,” Lindrup said. “(It)
is probably the best foodpairing grape, with its high
acid and fresh fruit spectrum it can stand up to
most foods and will enhance
the experience.”
Szecsei recommends a gewurztraminer or sauvignon blanc to
balance the acidity and stand
up to the richness of the holiday
meal.
“Gewurztraminer tends to be
aromatic with spicy notes that pair
well with turkey and gravy, bringing out the best in both,” Szecsei
said. “Sauvignon blanc wines are
dry and crisp with citrus flavors
and mineral undertones, making
it a great wine to pair with turkey
and mashed potatoes.”
For those who prefer red wine,
choose a wine with good acidity
and soft tannins — a textural element that makes wine taste dry
— to allow the wine to support
the flavors of the food, Szecsei
said, adding that a pinot noir or
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syrah would make good choices.
“Pinot noir wines will show
bright cherry notes and subtle
earthy undertone with few tannins — pairing well with traditional flavors of turkey and
stuffing,” she said.
Syrah is a more full-bodied
wine and has a hint of spice,
Szecsei said, which increases the
complexity, allowing it to handle
the multiple layers of flavors of
rich holiday dishes, including
stuffing and both white and dark
turkey meat.
Lindrup recommends a beaujolais, a light-bodied French red
wine with a fruity aroma.
“Gamay grapes grow especially well in the Beaujolais district of France, where they are
used to produce beaujolais wines.
Although the Gamay grape itself
has lots of tannins, the resulting
Gamay wines are characterized
by fairly low tannins,” Lindrup
said. “Wines made from Gamay
grapes have fresh, fruity flavors
like strawberry and raspberry and
aromas of pears. The high acid
and fruitiness of the grape make
it an excellent pairing for all the
flavors on a Thanksgiving table.”
Turkey isn’t eaten alone, so
Mike Garcia, owner of The Wine
Room in Palo Alto, said to take
into account the side dishes that
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accompany the bird, including
stuffing.
“If you put sausage in your
stuffing, a pinot noir will go
better with that,” he said. A fullbodied chardonnay or a pinot
noir with earthy flavors work
well with stuffing that incorporates mushrooms, he added.
Beef
There are many wines that
enhance the flavors of beef, and
as a general rule, red wine goes
well with plainly cooked beef.
But during the holidays, dishes
may be served with different
sauces and seasonings, and that
“kind of helps the wine selection,” Garcia said.
A pinot noir would go well with
roast beef tenderlion served with
a currant sauce, because the pinot
noir, which exhibits flavors of ripe
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red fruit like cherry, raspberry
and currant, will pick up the
fruity flavors of the sauce, he said.
For roast beef, Garcia recommends “going off the beaten path”
and serving a cabernet franc.
“Cabernet franc tends to be a
little more spicy, which will pick
up the pepperiness of a roast beef
dish,” he said. “If you are someone
who likes a bigger style red wine
and are doing a more meatier
course, I’d do a cab franc.”
Vegetarian dishes
Fat and acidity play a crucial
role in pairing an assortment
of non-meat dishes with wine,
Garcia said.
“If you’re going to eat sides of
mashed potatoes and dishes that
are fattier without the proteins, a
crisp, clean French-style chardonnay or unoaked chardonnay go
better with those dishes,” he said.
The gravy that comes with
mashed potatoes, and creams
in traditional dishes like a
green bean casserole “mimic
French cuisine with its heavy
sauces, that’s why the French
tend to like crisper wines with
higher acid, so that the acid cuts
through the fat and makes it
more refreshing,” he said.
Don’t forget the dessert
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Finish the holiday dinner with
something sweet by offering a
dessert wine. When considering what wine can accompany a
traditional pumpkin pie or apple
tart, Szecsei recommends a port
wine, which is a fortified wine
often served as a dessert wine.
“That’s an obvious choice,”
Szecsei said. “An alternative is
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For holiday meals, Beltramo’s
Director of Business
Development and Assistant
Operations Manager Laurie
Lindrup highly recommends
a 2012 Clos des Papes from
Chateauneuf du Pape, saying it
“pairs well with all flavors on a
Thanksgiving table, especially
with a pork roast and ham.”
a late-harvest riesling for rich
flavors of honey. Fortified wines
and late-harvest wines will bring
sweetness and viscosity to support the spice of the pumpkin pie
or apple tart you’re serving.”
Lindrup recommends a lateharvest gewurztraminer, which
has a spiciness to it that will pair
beautifully with the melange of
spices of a pumpkin pie, she said.
For darker and richer last
courses like pecan pies or baked
plum desserts, Garcia recommends a tawny port, which is
mellow, nutty and slightly woody,
and will pick up the nuttiness of
the pecan pie, or a vintage port,
which is a little more grapey and
will complement desserts with
darker fruit profiles.
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CHEFS DISH ON HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR HOLIDAY LEFTOVERS
By Elena Kadvany
Photos by Veronica Weber
W
hen Nov. 1 hits, so does
the holiday-meal planning. Are you brining,
roasting or smoking? Pumpkin
or pecan? Will you stick to your
family’s traditional side dishes, or
try something new?
Amidst all the food planning,
something crucial can fall to the
wayside: What to do with all
those holiday leftovers.
Many may default, in a postThanksgiving food coma, to
reheating plates of exactly what
was eaten the day before or making turkey sandwiches. There’s
nothing wrong with either, but
the potential for leftovers is endless. Leftover turkey can become
soup, pot pie, sauce, hash patties,
chili or salads.
Read on for the family traditions and suggestions from a
group of local chefs on how to
transform your holiday leftovers.
ANTHONY STRONG,
PIZZERIA DELFINA, PALO ALTO
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Anthony Strong, executive
chef for Pizzeria Delfina, loves
leftovers so much that he and
other Delfina staff who stay in
the Bay Area for the holidays
actually stay up the entire night
before Thanksgiving to make
turkey and all the trimmings for
an open house, and host a build-
Ingredients for chef Kelsey
Casavan’s turkey hash recipe
include leftover turkey, mashed
potatoes, fresh herbs, an egg (to
bind the ingredients together)
and gravy.
your-own-leftovers-sandwiches
day on the day of. They keep
the sandwiches simple: Pullman
bread (“just to keep it real,” he
says), stuffing, sliced turkey,
cranberry sauce and hot or cold
gravy (Strong likes it cold).
Strong also makes a Thanksgiving version of ribollita, a hearty
traditional Tuscan soup made
from bread, cannellini beans and
vegetables. (Strong called Tuscany
“the land of 101 uses for leftover
bread and beans.”)
“In Tuscany, you typically
make ribollita by making this
really rich, dense bean soup with
a bunch of pancetta and vegetables in it,” he said. “You heat
up that soup for dinner and take
the leftover bread, tear it up and
add it to that soup. Ribollita literally means reboiled or recooked,
more or less.”
So your leftover bread, vegetables (and added beans) can
be served as a soup. Or, the next
day, mash it into a cake-like patty
and then saute it slowly in olive
oil so it gets a crust, Strong said.
He does the same with leftover
stuffing — and don’t forget to
serve it “drenched in olive oil.”
Strong said at Christmas, he’ll
always make goose.
“We obsess over goose. Christmas goose is awesome,” he said.
Pro goose-cooking tip from
Strong: Get it a week or 10 days
before, salt it and let it sit uncovered in the refrigerator. Then
roast it very low and slow, at 250
degrees for an hour and a half.
But the best part? Puncturing the bird’s skin with skewers
before roasting so that all of the
fat renders out, he said.
“The best part, the gift of
Christmas that keeps on giving
is all of the goose fat that I get
to use throughout the year,” he
said. “I cook with that goose fat
constantly throughout the year.”
Alternatively, he’ll save half
the bird, shred up the leg meat
and whip it with some of the fat
to make rillettes, a preparation of
meat similar to pâté.
JARAD GALLAGHER,
CHEZ TJ, MOUNTAIN VIEW
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Chez TJ Executive Chef Jarad
Gallagher does his own version
of Thanksgiving ribollita. Take
your leftover turkey and separate
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the dark from white meat. Take
all of the skin, drippings from
the pan and even extra bones to
make a stock, then add leftover
potatoes and bread. The result
is a soup that can be enjoyed the
day or even weeks after if you
freeze portions of it.
He also offered some advice:
“When I design the meals themselves for Thanksgiving, I’m
always deciding with the plan
to do something specific with
leftovers,” he said. “I plan from
the beginning.”
KELSEY CASAVAN,
LB STEAK, MENLO PARK
Kelsey Casavan, who has risen
up the ranks in the Left Bank
restaurant group, from hostess
to the cold line and now head
chef at LB Steak in Menlo Park,
has brunch on the mind when
it comes to leftovers, although
she said her family is among
the many who eats turkey sandwiches for “probably longer than
is recommended.”
She makes turkey hash patties by combining pulled turkey,
mashed potatoes, chopped herbs
such as sage or parsley, a beaten
egg, salt and pepper and a small
amount of whole grain mustard.
Make small patties and fry them.
Then top with poached eggs and
leftover gravy.
In her words: “Soooooo good.”
BRADLEY OGDEN,
BRADLEY’S FINE DINER,
MENLO PARK
Renowned Bay Area chef Bradley Ogden, who just this month
opened a Bradley’s Fine Diner
outpost in Menlo Park, can’t wait
for leftovers.
His Thanksgiving standby is
an open-face turkey sandwich,
drenched in leftover gravy and
cranberry sauce.
“That’s a classic combination,”
he said.
But if you’re feeling more
creatively inclined, turn your
leftovers into holiday brunch by
using turkey, stuffing and gravy
to make a turkey hash.
Other turkey ideas from Ogden?
Turkey chili, turkey tacos, cream
of turkey soup and turkey pot pie.
Leftover pumpkin and bread can
become pumpkin bread pudding.
Turkey hash made from leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, fresh herbs,
a bit of mustard and topped with a poached egg and gravy and a green
salad prepared by chef Kelsey Casavan at LB Steak in Menlo Park.
DMITRY ELPERIN,
THE VILLAGE PUB, WOODSIDE
ANYA FERNALD,
BELCAMPO MEAT CO., PALO ALTO
If you need a recipe for that
turkey pot pie idea, here’s one
from a Michelin-starred chef.
Dmitry Elperin of the Village
Pub in Woodside said he starts
by making a simple crust using
three ingredients: all-purpose
flour, butter and ice water.
“When cooked, the crust is
golden brown, light and flaky,”
he said. “For the filling, I cook
together tender bite-size pieces
of turkey meat, glazed root vegetables, gravy, roasted potatoes,
butter, chicken stock, parsley
and sage.”
Another idea: mashed potato,
turkey and stuffing pancakes.
Mix together bite-size pieces of
turkey meat, mashed potatoes
and stuffing.
Using your hands, form the
mixture into disk-like shapes,
about 1 inch thick and 4 inches
in diameter.
In a clean large bowl, dredge
the potato disks in flour and set
aside to chill in the refrigerator
for 30 minutes.
In a large cast-iron pan over
medium heat, add grapeseed oil
to liberally coat the bottom of
the pan. Add more as needed.
Pan-fry each potato pancake for
about five minutes per side, or
until golden brown.
Top with leftover cranberry or
gravy — or both — and enjoy.
Not a soup or sandwich person? Try Palo Alto native and
Belcampo CEO Anya Fernald’s
curried turkey salad.
“This is a great recipe to make
after a lot of cooking — it takes
five minutes start to finish and
(there’s) no heat involved,” she
said.
Whisk together 1/3 cup of
mayonnaise, 2/3 cup of whole
milk yogurt (Fernald uses Straus
Family Creamery yogurt, which
she said blends particularly
well), one tablespoon of white
wine vinegar, one tablespoon of
curry powder and one teaspoon
of salt.
To lighten it up, you can
decrease the amount of mayo
and proportionally increase the
whole milk yogurt, Fernald said.
Finish it off by adding three
cups of chopped leftover turkey
(Fernald does half-inch cubes
of both dark and white meat)
and three stalks of celery (split
lengthwise and chopped very
finely).
“This salad gets better after a
day in the fridge, so it’s a great
option for sandwiches the weekend after Thanksgiving,” Fernald
said. “Letting the meat sit in this
dressing for a day is a great way
to keep your leftover bird really
moist and avoid the super-dry
day two sandwich.”
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Council should delay North Bayshore action
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here seems to be a disagreement stemming from the
results of the Nov. 4. City Council election. Was the election of three candidates who campaigned on the concept
of a residential community in North Bayshore a clear sign from
voters that they want housing built there? Reasonable people disagree on the answer, including Councilman Mike Kasperzak, a
North Bayshore housing supporter who nevertheless doesn’t view
the election as a message by voters on this issue.
But here are a few facts: The three winners in the race — Pat
Showalter, Lenny Siegel and Ken Rosenberg — will replace
three termed-out council members who oppose housing in
that area of the city to which thousands of workers travel for
their jobs at Google and other major high-tech companies. The
winners were among nine candidates, several of whom had bigname backing and solid experience as city commissioners but
who argued against North Bayshore housing.
So, were voters who chose the trio of newcomers, with solid
leads, sending a message? We think they were.
The question has become eminently relevant as the current
council marches ahead with plans to take action on a “precise
plan” for North Bayshore on Nov. 25, just six weeks before the
new council is seated. If the vote takes place, the plan is almost
certain to pass, with at least four current council members
(three of whom are “lame ducks”) opposed to housing in that
portion of the city. The problem for those who are calling on
council members to delay the action is: The plan before them
next week doesn’t allow housing.
Many in the community, as well as the Voice, view this an
egregious omission considering the city’s severe jobs-housing
imbalance that is resulting in out-of-control housing cost
spikes and a glut of traffic that is clogging the roadways on a
regular basis.
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QLETTERS
VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY
TRY TO TOP THIS FOR
INNOVATION
The Valley Transportation
Authority (VTA) is staging
some more community meetings on its plan for bus-only
lanes in each direction on El
Camino with boarding in new
center islands (Nov. 20 at Mountain View City Hall). Evidently,
the VTA wants to ensure longterm reliance on its services and
to land federal funds for a new
fleet of buses and bus line.
Innovative ideas being the key
to securing federal funds, may I
suggest something entirely new:
topless buses into which workers
and residents in the high-rises
planned for El Camino can simply jump. Sure, some jumpers
may land on other bus riders,
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but that is partly why we have
courts, lawyers, doctors and
hospitals. And if it rains, well
then bus riders would just get a
free shower. Many of them need
a shower anyway.
Topless buses. I can hardly wait.
Bring on the federal funding.
Gary Wesley
Continental Circle
AN ‘OUTRAGEOUS’
MONEY GRAB?
A new law (AB 94) requires
the University of California to
tell the public how and where
it spends, and from what funding source the money comes. I
absolutely applaud the students
and Gov. Jerry Brown for their
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Residents, including two of the Election Day winners —
Showalter and Siegel — have questioned the lame duck council’s decision to move ahead on a plan that, in all probability,
would be significantly revised once the new council members
take their posts on Jan. 6. Former city manager Bruce Liedstrand rightly pointed out that, in light of the election results,
council approval of a North Bayshore precise plan that doesn’t
include housing could be viewed as a “slap in the face” of the
community.
Council member-elect Showalter, the top vote-getter, has
“respectfully” asked that the council be responsive to the voters in its actions regarding the precise plan. “The voters have
spoken by electing three people who are pro-housing in North
Bayshore,” she noted in an interview with the Voice. And she
correctly pointed out that it’s a burden for city staff members to
have to put the final touches on a document that will inevitably
be changed in short order — a future task requiring still more
of their time and effort.
Termed-out council member Margaret Abe-Koga indicated
this week that she supports the council’s intent to “move forward” to finalize the precise plan. Yet, she told the Voice in
March that she tries to listen to the community as she and her
council colleagues attempt to address the city’s jobs-housing
imbalance. “I’m trying to understand better what people really
want,” she said.
We urge Abe-Koga and the rest of the council who might be
trying to understand what residents really want to consider the
message voters sent on Nov. 4. The council as it exists until Jan.
6 has every right to act on this precise plan. But would it be the
right thing to do? It would not, and we hope that when the item
comes before them next Tuesday, council members will vote to
delay action until a new council is seated.
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call for transparency with public
money.
In Mountain View, where I
live, sheer greed is apparent in
the local school district’s $30
million money grab from the
Shoreline Regional Park community. Coercing $30 million
from a regional park community that is currently $58
million in bond debt is simply
outrageous — and outgoing
City Council members cannot
be held responsible.
To top it off, Mountain ViewLos Altos High School District
Superintendent Barry Groves
actually suggested (on Nov.
13, at the very first joint powers authority meeting he ever
attended) that the $10 milliona-year coerced gift be made an
annual payment instead of the
three-year, one-time gift the
City Council agreed to. Sheer
unwarranted greed, I say.
Donald Letcher
Rengstorff Avenue
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CITY’S AEDS AT
FIRE STATIONS, TOO
Your Nov. 14 article about
AEDs (Auto External Defibrillators) was a good public
service. However, you failed
to inform the public that all
Mountain View fire stations
and apparatus have defibrillator service available by highly
trained firefighters and paramedics. Located strategically
throughout the city, this service
is available within five minutes
to most areas of the city.
This is not to diminish the
value of defibrillator use by
trained citizens who are willing to take immediate action. I
believe it was a miscalculation
to not inform the citizens of the
fire department’s service that
has been provided effectively for
years.
Bob Burns
Springer Road
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