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Sneak peek: Bradley’s Fine Diner
Elena Kadvany
R
enowned chef Bradley
Ogden’s much-anticipated Bradley’s Fine Diner,
or BFD, is officially opening
in Menlo Park the first week of
November.
Mr. Ogden has transformed
a massive 4,000-square-foot
space at 1165 Merrill St., across
from the Caltrain station, into
his vision of a modern California “diner,” drawing on the
now widespread farm-to-table
sensibilities he helped pioneer
throughout his career.
Early iterations of the menu,
which he showed me on a
visit to the restaurant a few
weeks ago, include starters like
wood-grilled artichoke with
chanterelle and Dungeness crab
salad; beef steak tartare with
apple and caramelized onion
mustard, quail egg and anchovy
parsley toast; and Littleneck
steamed clams with lemongrass, chilies, lime and spicy
oyster sausage. (Now do you get
why I put diner in quotes?)
Dinner options range from
mushroom toast and popcorn
shrimp to fish and chips, pot
roast and an oak-grilled chuck
burger. Don’t miss his famous
butterscotch pudding or apple
turnovers for dessert.
He said he’s checked out the
Menlo Park farmers’ market
and has been making connections with local farms to supply
the restaurant.
“The whole concept is American diner plus organic (and)
natural,” he said.
Armed with a full liquor
license, BFD will also have a
daily happy hour with artisan
cocktails, beer, wine and discounted small bites.
Sure to be popular for brunchstarved Peninsulites is a large
brunch menu with everything
from pigs in a blanket and
doughnuts to smoked salmon
sliders, buttermilk pancakes,
short rib hash and steak and
eggs. Grab an “eye opener”
to wash it all down: a Bradley’s bloody mary, BFD bellini
or blended champagne and
watermelon margarita. (There’s
also plenty of coffee and freshpressed juice.)
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“The whole idea of it is this new
vision of what a diner should be
from an American-California
viewpoint,” Mr. Ogden said.
“(It’s) an all-day sort of fun
place just to hang out, to have a
glass of wine or a beer.”
Mr. Ogden, a James Beard
award-winning chef, worked
as executive chef at San Francisco’s Campton Place Hotel in
the early 1980s before opening
his own The Lark Creek Inn
in Larkspur in 1989. Numerous fine-dining restaurants
throughout the Bay Area to
follow would become part of his
Lark Creek Restaurant Group.
(He said he actually looked at
the Merrill Street space in the
1990s, hoping to snag it, but
had no luck.)
A restaurant he opened in Las
Vegas in 2003 — Bradley Ogden
at Caesar’s Palace — earned
him the much-coveted James
Beard award for Best New Restaurant in 2004.
He said the Menlo BFD actually has a similar feel to Lark
Creek, which he described
as “housey” and comfortable.
Despite its large size, the plantation-style building does have
that feel. Inside there is repurposed wood, exposed brick,
bulb lights and deep booths.
Outside along Merrill, there’s
the same wood-plank, wraparound porch, which seats
about 60 people.
Mr. Ogden got the space
this time around through his
partner, Atherton entrepreneur Chris Kelly, who recently
purchased the building. Gambardella’s closed in December
2012; at the time, it looked
like neighbors Crepes Cafe
and Lisa’s Tea Treasures would
remain, but both eventually
closed.
When Crepes Cafe announced
its closure in July, owner Janet
Scopazzi posted a message on
the cafe doors that said the
building’s new landlords had
“other plans” for the space,
located at 1195 Merrill St. A
longtime cafe employee told the
Almanac that BFD would be
taking over the entire building,
which it has.
Mr. Ogden said Crepes Cafe
“decided to leave,” leaving him
a 2,000 square-foot space that
he might turn into some sort
of BFD spinoff, though he’s not
sure what yet.
BFD is one of a few more
casual concepts for the finedining chef. They’re all housed
under the umbrella of Bradley
Ogden Hospitality, a restaurant
group and consulting company
started by Mr. Ogden, his son
(and chef) Bryan Ogden and
industry veteran Tony Angotti.
Menlo Park is the second
BFD location (following Houston) and Mr. Ogden promises
there will be many more. After
living in San Jose for the past
few years, he’s relocated to the
Peninsula, so he promises to
be hands on at the new restaurant. A
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Green light for Middlefield Road redesign
By Barbara Wood
Almanac Staff Writer
S
an Mateo County is ready
to design improvements
that will slim down a
section of Middlefield Road,
between Redwood City and
Atherton, from four to three
traffic lanes while adding bike
lanes, wider sidewalks and other
amenities.
A project to redesign the seven-block stretch of Middlefield
Road, in an unincorporated
area between 5th and Pacific
avenues, moved ahead on Tuesday, Oct. 21, when the county
Board of Supervisors approved
preparing preliminary designs
for the project.
The board unanimously
approved the recommendations
of the North Fair Oaks Community Council, which include:
Q Eliminating one traffic
lane, making the middle lane a
turning lane and the other two
lanes “through” lanes in each
direction.
Q Putting in bike lanes
Q Designing wider sidewalks
with benches, plantings, decorative lighting, refuse cans and
street art.
Q Putting in public spaces
and parallel parking.
All utilities will be undergrounded.
The project is part of the
Drawing courtesy San Mateo County
This redesign of Middlefield Road, between 5th and Pacific avenues in unincorporated Redwood City, is the version favored by the
North Fair Oaks Community Council. It has two travel lanes (one in each direction), a middle turn lane, bike lanes, parallel parking and
wider sidewalks. The county supervisors have approved going ahead with preliminary designs for the project.
North Fair Oaks Community
Plan, approved by the supervisors in November 2011. Funding for the Middlefield Road
redesign is from Measure A,
which is a 0.5 percent sales tax
voters approved in 2012.
The supervisors have budgeted a total of $12.5 million
in Measure A funds for fiscal
years 2013 through 2015 for
Middlefield Road.
The supervisors also
approved the community
group’s recommendation to
do further studies on three
aspects of the plan: managing traffic and adding signals;
parking solutions; and sustaining local businesses.
The recommendations from
the community group came
after seven months of community outreach, including
community meetings, surveys
and publicity. Materials were
in English and Spanish and
translations were available at
the meetings. Nearly 500 people
submitted written comments
and 1,300 people took the survey, according to a report by the
community group.
Elizabeth Dallman, the county’s outreach coordinator for
the project, said the next step
is for the county’s Department
of Public Works to put out a
request for proposals for a project designer. “As the consultant
is working,” she said, the community “will receive updates
and there will be opportunities
for input and feedback.”
Due to the complexity of the
project, she said, the design and
construction is expected to take
four to five years. A
Community college bond measure faces new kind of opponent
By Dave Boyce
Almanac Staff Writer
W
hen there is organized
opposition to school
construction bond
measures, it usually comes from
anti-tax people, such as those
associated with the Silicon Valley
Taxpayers Association.
Measure H on the Nov. 4
ballot would authorize the San
Mateo County Community
College District to borrow up
to $388 million in the bond
market to finance new and
updated facilities and to buy
equipment, such as computers,
for its three campuses. The taxpayers association, in its typical
plain-spoken manner, opposes
Measure H, but this time it has
company.
Maxine Terner, a longtime
resident of the city of San Mateo
and a former member of the
city’s Planning Commission,
leads a campaign she calls “Vote
No on Measure H.” She has a
polished website that lays out
arguments in some detail, and
provides photographs, renderings and links. It also hits hard.
The district, the website says,
is lying about Measure H. “This
is not the first time they have
done so. It’s not what they tell
voters they are doing with the
bond money — it’s what they’re
not telling.”
Ms. Terner says she has a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University and has spent her career in
the public sector, focusing on
land-use issues.
“I have always supported
public education, am proud to
pay taxes and strongly believe in
government accountability,” she
wrote in an email
to the Almanac.
In response to
Ms. Terner’s complaints, district
Chancellor Ron
Galatolo said the
district neither lies nor misuses
public funds and has received
commendations from a civil
grand jury on its bond-related
construction practices and its
use of bond funds. As Mr. Galatolo noted, a 2007 grand jury
concluded that the district’s
practices should be models for
public education agencies in the
county.
Two independent rating services — Standard & Poor’s and
Moody’s — recently gave the
college district their highest
marks, making it easier for the
district to refinance bonds at
favorable interest rates.
The district includes Canada
College in Woodside, the College of San Mateo in San Mateo,
and Skyline College in San
Bruno.
Three years ago, the district
proposed a $564 million bond
measure but it failed at the ballot box, missing the necessary
55 percent voter approval by 1.9
percentage points. Measure H
also needs a 55 percent majority to pass. The measure would
increase annual taxes by an
estimated $8.22 per $100,000 of
a property’s assessed value.
The state constitution requires
school districts proposing such
measures to provide voters with
“a list of the specific school
facilities projects to be funded”
and to have a citizens committee oversee the spending.
There is a “Bond Projects
List” in the bond measure lan-
guage, which is in county voter
information pamphlet given
to registered voters, but the
language refers to goals — such
as “Prepare students for highdemand 21st century jobs” and
“Modernize decades-old aging
infrastructure” — rather than
specific buildings and facilities.
Misrepresentation?
Ms. Terner’s website looks
back at how the district spent
$254 million on the campus of
the College of San Mateo after
voters approved a $468 million
bond measure in 2005.
The district spent $57 million,
for example, on a health and
wellness center that is “primarily a private health club,” the
website says. The wellness center
includes classrooms for nursing,
See BOND MEASURE, page 17
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Menlo council to examine
‘public benefits’ process
in the specific plan area
By Barbara Wood
Almanac Staff Writer
T
he Menlo Park City
Council has agreed to
examine the city’s process that allows developers in
the downtown/El Camino Real
specific plan area to build extra
square footage if they provide
public benefits.
A joint study session with
the City Council and the Planning Commission will “discuss refining the public benefit
process and the public benefit
thresholds,” said Mayor Mueller, who had proposed this
reevaluation.
The council agreed to this
reevaluation at its Oct. 21 meeting.
City staff will bring to the session information on the market
value the extra square footage
gives developers when public
benefits are provided.
The request for a study session came after an Oct. 6 Planning Commission meeting on
three amendments to the specific plan led to a discussion of
what size project should require
public benefits.
Mayor Mueller said the sole
topic of the study session will
be public benefits, but that
another study session about
traffic will also be scheduled.
City staff said both sessions will
have to be held off until at least
next January or February. The
specific plan’s two-year review
also comes up next year.
At the October Planning
Commission meeting, several commissioners, including
Vince Bressler, Katie Ferrick
and John Kadvany, said the
topic of public benefits needed review because the council failed to recommend any
changes to that aspect in its
review of the specific plan. Mr.
Kadvany referred to the lack of
action as “the biggest mistake”
the council has made in recent
years.
Mr. Mueller could not take
part in the the 2013 review of
the specific plan because he
owned property within the
plan’s boundaries; he no longer
owns the property.
Measure M on the November
ballot would modify the specific plan, but does not make any
changes to the public benefit
thresholds. The measure’s supporters have argued, however,
that public benefits should be
required in smaller developments.
Of the two mixed-use projects
currently proposed, one would
exceed the threshold and require
public benefits: Greenheart’s
proposal at 1300 El Camino
Real. The other, Stanford’s proposal for 500 El Camino Real,
would not meet the threshold,
but the university is negotiating
to provide public benefits with
the city anyway. A
How horses can help veterans
A short documentary about
a veteran who recovers from
post-traumatic stress disorder
and a traumatic brain injury
with the help of a horse will be
shown Nov. 8 in Woodside by
the National Center for Equine
Facilitated Therapy (NCEFT).
The documentary, entitled
“Riding My Way Back,” will
be shown at 7 p.m., Saturday,
Nov. 8 at NCEFT, 880 Runnymede Road in Woodside.
The center provides “equineassisted” therapies to children
and adults.
The documentary is the story
of Staff Sgt. Aaron Heliker, who
in 2010 returned from multiple deployments to Iraq and
Afghanistan. On 42 medications
and suicidal, Mr. Heliker meets
a horse named Fred, who helped
him reconnect with the world
and heal his wounds.
A panel discussion and coffee reception will follow the
showing. The panel will include
representatives of NCEFT and
the Department of Veterans
Affairs, medical professionals
and veterans who are clients of
NCEFT.
Go to nceft.org or call 8512271 to buy tickets ($25 in
advance and $30 at the door).
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Keith raises $20,274
for council campaign
By Sandy Brundage
Measure M fundraising picks up
By Sandy Brundage
Almanac Staff Writer
Q MEN LO PARK
Almanac Staff Writer
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s befits a small city election, Menlo Park council
candidate campaigns are
weighed in thousands of dollars,
rather than hundreds of thousands. This holds true for the
latest batch of campaign finance
reports, which reflect donations
and expenditures from Oct. 1
through Oct. 18 (or Oct. 20, if you
are incumbent Kirsten Keith).
Ms. Keith, who is running for
a second term, remains the top
fundraiser of the six candidates,
bringing in $4,028 from Oct. 1
through Oct. 20. Her campaign
has seen $20,274 in total contributions so far this year, including
$2,303 in nonmonetary donations.
Her major contributors this
period included the California
Association of Realtors political
action committee ($1,000); Atherton resident Elizabeth Dunlevie
($500); and Atherton resident
and Menlo Park Fire Protection
District board member Peter Carpenter ($400).
She reported no nonmonetary
donations for this period.
Ms. Keith reported spending
$3,329 on campaign literaturerelated expenses, Facebook ads
and voter data, and had $2,758
in unpaid invoices. Her expenses
total $9,423 for the year to date.
Incumbent Rich Cline, seeking
a third term on the council, raised
$2,740 this reporting period, and
$6,240 total this year through Oct.
18, including a $1,000 loan from
himself.
His major donors for October included the Silicon Valley
Association of Realtors and San
Leandro-based accountant Luigi
Pietrantoni ($1,000 each); the
David Bohannon Organization
($990); executive Rich Dunn
and Atherton resident Elizabeth
Dunlevie ($500 each). He reported
no nonmonetary donations this
period.
Mr. Cline spent $4,363 on
campaign literature during this
reporting period; his total expenses this year so far added up to
$8,239.
Former councilwoman Kelly
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Save Menlo
Save Menlo, representing the
“Yes on M” faction, reports
accumulating $74,787 in contributions, and $321 in nonmonetary donations, through
Oct. 18.
The group reports collecting
$26,695 and spending $34,109
in the latest reporting period. It
has $9,665 in outstanding bills.
Overall spending through Oct.
18 adds up to $96,449.
Top donors to “Yes on M”
include Menlo Park resident
Kathryn Henkens, who gave
$10,000, and Citrix Finance vice
president Lynn Micklebaugh,
who contributed $5,000.
Giving $1,000 each were
attorneys Michael Brady and
George Fisher; consultant James
Dickerson; Apple senior vice
president Sina Tammadon;
nurse Catherine Wilson; writer
Michele Lamarre and photographer Brent Townshend; and
former councilman Heyward
Robinson.
Portola Valley resident Ivan
Morvay, Realtor Mary Seabury
and Menlo Park resident Norman Harris III each chipped in
$500.
Including invoices unpaid as
of Oct. 18, Save Menlo reports
spending $25,101 on Stearns
Consulting and $4,000 on consultant Jon Golinger, both based
in San Francisco. Other expenditures relate to postage and
other campaign literature costs.
The group also spent $133 apiece
on party invitations for council
candidates Drew Combs, Kristin Duriseti and Kelly Fergusson. A
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Bill Widmer has " our strong support...
Mr. Widmer has been a watchdog of town spending...
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T
he latest batch of campaign finance reports
shows big spending on
both sides of the Measure M
debate. The new reports cover
contributions and expenditures
from Oct. 1 through Oct. 18.
The “No on M” Committee
for a Vibrant Downtown reports
raising a total of $202,500, all
from Greenheart Land Co.,
which has proposed a 420,000
square foot office, residential
and retail development on El
Camino Real. The latest report
includes $2,500 in nonmonetary donations for consulting
services by Greenheart.
The
Greenheart-funded
committee reports spending
$132,922 as of Oct. 18, with 38
percent of the expenditures
made during October. The money went for campaign literature
and newspaper advertisements.
The other “No on M” coalition, Menlo Park Deserves Better, reported $16,173 in contributions through Oct. 18 — with
$2,371 in nonmonetary donations that include web design
services and event refreshments.
Major donors to “Deserves
Better”
are:
Atherton resident Elizabeth
Dunlevie and
Portola Valley
resident Roxy
Rapp, who each
gave $1,000; the David Bohannon Organization, which gave
$990; and Realtor Tom LeMieux,
who gave $688.
Giving $500 each were Menlo
Park residents William Moody,
George and Elise Liddle, Gloria
and Alexander Walker, Laura
Thiele Sardina, Roy Thiele Sardina, and Los Altos resident
Charles Troglio.
Menlo Park Deserves Better
reported $8,966 in expenses
through Oct. 18, with $1,416
spent during the latest reporting period for items related to
campaign literature.
Endorsements from Active Community Leaders
Anna Eshoo, Congresswoman for CA's 18th District
Jerry Hill, State Senator
Rich Gordon, Assemblyman
Warren Slocum, County Supervisor
Don Horsley, County Commissioner
Phil Lively, Planning Commission Chair
William Grindley, Planning Commissioner
Larry Sweeney, Transportation Committee Chair
Gary Lauder, Transportation Committee Vice Chair
John Ruggerio Transportation Committee
Denise Kupperman, Environmental Programs Chair
Bob Roeser, Parks and Rec Committee Chair
Marylu Timpson, Parks and Rec Committee Chair
Sandy Crittenden, Parks and Rec Committee
Marilee Gardner, Parks and Rec Committee
Frank Merrill, HPP Foundation Chair
Bob Polito, Finance & Audit Committee Chair
Jim Massey, Finance & Audit Committee Vice Chair
Alain Enthoven, Finance and Audit Committee
Paul Jones, Rail Committee Chair
Jack Ringham, Rail Committee
Ted Ullman, Atherton Arts Foundation Board
Betty Ullman, Atherton Arts Foundation Board
Hanna Malak, ADAPT
Peter Carpenter, Menlo Park Board
Rob Silano, Menlo Park Fire Board
Alan Margo, Atherton Tennis Pro
Michael Killen,Regional Sustainability Activist
Walter Sleeth, Lindenwood Disaster Preparedness
Greg Conlan, Rail Committee and
Candidate for State Treasurer
Atherton Residents Endorsements - Partial Listing
Wiliam Zappettini
Zach Whitman
Karen Bliss
Mike McPherson
Lingfeng He
Robert Barker
Rosemary Enthoven
Diane Crittenden
Erv Ericksen
Janet Ericksen
John Lillie
Scott Barnum
W Widmer Jr
Joe Personeni
Rachel Croft
Herb Clough
Jean Schaaf
Ellenrose Godard
Janet Dore
Lou Paponis
Griff Baker
Hsiao-Lin Chou
Nancy Butler
Diane Sandhu
Gene Elsbree
Linda Liebes
Sharon Roeser
Susan Massetti
Sid Liebes
Judith Sleeth
Smith McKeithen
Sandy Kaye
Bob Oster
Marion E. Oster
David Barca
Etta Mae Mehler-Bauer
Kathleen McKeithen
Elyse Barca
David Bliss
Marcy Elsbree
Pat Dobbie
Tom Holt
Kathy Holt
Susan Grindley
Marie Zahn
Sandy Levison
Karen Bacon
Barbara Ringham
Joan Sanders
Joyce Lively
Judith Massey
Mo Sanders
Joe Davis
Stacey Wueste
Roger Schwab
Clarice Merrill
Mary Sweeney
M B Widmer
Ildiko Barker
Gail Whelan
Penn Butler
Mary Widmer
Daryl Lillie
Elsa Arata
Charles Ramorino
Joann Ramorino
Joan Solari
Douglas Hamilton
Joyce Hamilton
Julie Quinlan
Farida Kaye
Sandy Levison
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College bond measure:
Big gifts boost coffers
By Dave Boyce
Almanac Staff Writer
T
In its first report on the district, the grand jury presided over by Superior Court
Judge Quentin L. Kopp (Ret.), said “…it is the responsibility of the Sequoia Healthcare District
to expend its tax and other revenues for the purposes approved by voters. The grand jury finds
that the Sequoia Healthcare District has not done so.” Subsequent Grand Juries have continued to
question the district’s spending of those tax dollars.
The majority board members have failed to bring the issue of the district’s legitimacy to the
voters. They continue to grow their constituency with their tax funded “charitable giving” and PR
“branding“ activities. These majority board members, with only 6 regularly scheduled meetings per
year, voted for benefits which reimburse directors $1,500/month for health insurance premiums.
And, they created a CEO salary which is higher than that of Governor Brown!
The CEO manages 1 full time and 3 part time employees.
he campaign for Measure H, a bond measure
in the Nov. 4 election
that would pay for more modernizing of the county’s three
community college campuses, received $116,500 in campaign contributions in October,
including $95,000 from three
donors.
The San Mateo County Community College District is seeking voter approval to borrow
up to $388 million in the bond
market to finance new and
updated facilities and to buy
equipment, such as computers.
The latest contributions,
made by 10 commercial or
institutional donors between
Oct. 1 and 18, bring the total
contributions to $284,100 since
July 1, according to finance
reports filed with the county
Elections Office.
The three biggest recent
donations to Measure H are:
Q $50,000 from the San
Mateo Community Colleges
Foundation in San Mateo.
Q $25,000 from Hensel Phelps
Construction in San Jose.
Q $20,000 from Robert A.
Bothman Inc. of San Jose.
Hensel Phelps and Bothman
were also major contributors to
the college district’s 2011 campaign for a $564 million bond
measure, giving $25,000 and
$50,000, respectively. That mea-
Hickey, DePaula and McDowell will bring the issue of the district’s future to the voters.
Should the district be expanded into a countywide healthcare district or should it be dissolved?
COUNCIL CAMPAIGN
ELECT
We will bring the Sequoia
Healthcare District
“legitimacy” issue to the
voters, but you must elect
ALL THREE of us to the 5
member Board of Directors
to make this happen!
“Hickey - DePaula - McDowell”
on November 4
District no longer owns Sequoia Hospital
Sequoia Hospital District (a.k.a. Sequoia Healthcare District) sold Sequoia Hospital in 1996.
They continue to collect property taxes originally assessed for the hospital, and have assumed a
new purpose unintended by voters.
San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury issues findings
Such an election can only happen if ALL THREE are elected.
Superior Court Judge Quentin L. Kopp (ret.) and 22 former
Grand Jurors endorse Hickey, DePaula and McDowell
Kevin Arnold, Charles Bourne, Robert S. Bauer, Mason Brutschky, Jack Burget,
Therese M. Dyer, Willard Fee, Oscar Firshein, Samuel Goldberg, Bruce Hasenkamp,
John Hoffman, Herbert V. Hwang, Jean B. Johnston, Kenneth Lavine, Marion McDowell,
Roger Mertz, Gwendolyn Mitchell, John O’Shaughnessy, Harry Redlick, Roger Trinkner,
MickeyWinkler, Frederick Wolfe
Other team endorsements include:
Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, Libertarian Party of San Mateo County, Terri Armstrong, Peter
Carpenter, Lee Duboc, Coralin Feierbach, Warren Gibson, Thomas Goodier, Matt Grocott, Coleen Jordan
Hallinan, Harland Harrison, Marie Kolstad,Edwin Peacock, Henry Riggs, Paul Sanfilipo, Reino “Ray” Wantin,
Christopher T. Yonts.
Listen to the candidates
Go to www.youtube.com
enter- Sequoia Healthcare District Board Candidate Statements.
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Fergusson reported $2,370 in
donations, adding up to $11,172
raised this year, with $136 in
nonmonetary donations from the
“Yes on M” coalition Save Menlo.
Her major contributors for this
reporting period included former
councilman Heyward Robinson ($500); Montessori preschool
Casa del Bambini in Palo Alto
($300); and the San Mateo County
Building Trades Council ($250).
Ms. Fergusson spent $1,400 on
campaign literature, Facebook
ads and beverages for this reporting period, bringing her expenditures this year to $5,788.
Incumbent Peter Ohtaki, seeking a second term, raised $1,690
this period. That brings his overall contributions so far this year to
$10,325.
Major donors included the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors
($1,000) and the David Bohannon
Organization ($990).
He reported $250 in nonmonetary donations for Oct. 1 through
Oct. 18 for flier distribution via
sure failed at the
ballot box, missing the necessary 55 percent
voter approval
by 1.9 percentage points.
Measure H also needs a 55
percent majority to pass. The
measure would increase annual
taxes by an estimated $8.22
per $100,000 of a property’s
assessed value.
The other recent contributions are $5,000 each from the
Northern California Carpenter
Regional Council in Oakland,
Artik Art & Architecture in
San Jose, and IWRNS Studio
in San Francisco; $2,500 from
Verde Design Inc. in Santa
Clara; $1,500 each from Newcomb Anderson McCormick
Inc. in San Francisco and the
Sheet Metal Workers International Association in San
Ramon; and $1,000 from Burke,
William & Sorenson LLP in Los
Angeles.
Major contributors earlier in
the campaign were Swinerton
Management & Consulting in
San Francisco, BCA Architects
of San Jose, Blach Construction
in Santa Clara, and MediFit
Community Services in New
Jersey.
Total campaign expenses are
$159,300, the bulk of it on campaign literature, including
$151,428 with TBWB Strategies
in San Francisco, according to
the report. A
Greenheart Land Co.’s “No on M”
Committee for a Vibrant Downtown.
Newspaper ads and campaign
literature accounted for the $5,270
spent this period, bringing Mr.
Ohtaki’s expenses to $9,619 overall this year.
Environmental Quality Commissioner Kristin Duriseti listed
$925 donated from Oct. 1 through
Oct. 18, bringing her campaign
fund total to $9,843, including a
$4,000 loan to herself.
Ms. Duriseti spent $3,722 on
campaign literature from Oct. 1
through Oct. 18. That brought her
overall expenditures to $8,697 so
far this year.
Planning Commissioner Drew
Combs raised $900 this period,
for a total of $8,550 in contributions this year through Oct. 18.
He reported no non-monetary
donations in his most recent filing.
Mr. Combs spent $4,245 in the
first half of October, adding up to
$7,169 in expenses this year,
including $618 in unpaid invoices.
The money went toward signs and
campaign literature, with $600
invoiced from Studio City-based
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www.MenloParkDeservesBetter.org or www.mpcdforum.com
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Greenheart Land Company, 68 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, FPPC ID# 1369207
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Photo by Michelle Le/The Almanac
Yikes!
Will there be a soft scuttling from above as little ones visit this creepy corner at Princeton Road and
Cambridge Avenue in Menlo Park on Halloween night? Some say that kids like being scared. Well, here is an
excellent opportunity.
Rose Hau top council fundraiser
By Barbara Wood
Almanac Staff Writer
R
ose Hau remains the top
fundraiser of the four
candidates running for
three Atherton City Council
seats, according to campaign
finance statements for the period
Oct. 1 through Oct. 18.
She reported raising $18,047
in contributions to date, with
$1,800 of that coming in during
the latest reporting period.
Candidate Mike Lempres
reported $1,900 in new contributions, for a total raised to date
of $8,998.
The campaign finance reports
were filed by Oct. 23.
The other candidates in the
race are two incumbents: Rick
DeGolia and Bill Widmer. Mr.
DeGolia was elected in a special
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election in 2013 to serve out the
remaining year in Jerry Carlson’s term after his resignation.
Mr. Widmer was first elected in
2000.
Mr. DeGolia reported raising
$950 during the filing period for
a total of $6,528 to date. However, he began the campaign with
$13,475 in his coffers, left over
from last November’s election.
Mr. Widmer reported raising $1,347 for a total to date of
$6,419.
Mr. Lempres spent $3,240 this
period and $15,834 to date, the
most of any candidate. Ms. Hau
reported spending $6,846 during the period with $13,683 in
total expenditures. Mr. DeGolia
spent $804 for a total of $6,694
and Mr. Widmer, $1,989 this
period and $6,299 to date.
Listed below are contributors
of more than $400 to each candidate, with their occupation
and city of residence or business.
The full campaign reports can
be found on the town of Atherton website under the dropdown menu, Transparency.
Q Mike Lempres: Stephen
Ackley, president Pacific Peninsula Group, Atherton, $1,000;
Michael Ference, consultant
Edgewater MD, $500.
Q Rose Hau: Selina Cha,
homemaker, Atherton, $500;
Peter Eng, attorney, Palo Alto,
$900.
Q Bill Widmer: C. Munger Jr.,
physicist, Palo Alto, $500.
Q Rick DeGolia: Stephanie
Evans, clinical psychologist,
Sausalito, $500.
Not much spending in open space race
Incumbent Larry Hassett has
still not yet raised any money in
his attempt to return for a fourth
term on the board of the MidPeninsula Regional Open Space
District, while his opponent,
Brandon Lewke, has raised only
$425, with $200 of that his own
money.
According to the latest campaign finance filings covering
Oct. 1 to Oct. 18, Mr. Hassett’s
campaign is still operating on the
$4,700 he has lent it. He had no
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new spending during the period.
Mr. Lewke filing shows he has
received three new donations, all
of them for $50 or less. Only one
$25 donation was from a resident
of the area is running to represent.
Mr. Lewke has been making
recorded calls to voters in the
district that say they are paid for
by the Republican Committee of
San Mateo County. Mr. Lewke
said he was told to report that
donation after the election is
over.
The executive director of the
San Mateo GOP told him, Mr.
Lewke said, when the election is
over “I will receive a statement
detailing the number of calls on
my behalf, and all cost sharing
information needed to make
public disclosure.”
Mr. Lewke reported spending
$112 this reporting period, on
Facebook ads, Internet donation
processing fees, envelopes and
postage.
Rick
DeGolia
Atherton Council
www.rickdegolia.com
“Rick DeGolia has demonstrated his skill to
reach out and listen to the concerns of residents.
Rick will serve the town
well in helping to tackle
regional issues. I strongly
support Rick DeGolia
for Atherton Council.”
Please join more than 400 of your Atherton neighbors
in supporting Rick DeGolia for Atherton City Council.
Vote for Rick on Nov. 4th and “Let’s get things done!”
Rick’s Vision
and Priorities to
Improve Atherton
1. Manage our Town’s resources
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3. Prioritize communication to
residents and always be accessible
Past Mayors:
Jerry Carlson
Malcom Dudley
Didi Fisher
John Fisher
Jim Janz
–Jerry Carlson,
former Atherton Mayor
Other Supporters:
“Rick is an intelligent,
thoughtful person who
will lead with integrity on
the Atherton Council. He
will be an excellent City
Council member.”
–Anna Eshoo,
Member of Congress
“Atherton needs someone with Rick’s
leadership abilities to join the Council. He
approaches problems
carefully and is committed
to a collaborative Council.
I strongly support his
election to the Council.
He will be an excellent
City Council member.”
–Malcolm Dudley,
former Atherton Mayor
“Rick brings the right
balance of working to
make Atherton attractive
to young families and
respecting the needs
and interests of our
older residents”
–Steve Westly,
former CA State Controller
“I’ve worked with Rick on the Atherton
Civic Center Advisory Committee. Rick
is thoughtful, analytic, and most of all, he
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solutions to issues and problems. Rick truly
has the best interests of Atherton at heart. He
always mentions ‘the history of Atherton,’
and ‘what Atherton is all about’ as we move
forward with the Civic Center project.”
–Paul Tonelli,
Atherton Civic Center Advisory Committee
and Planning Commission
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo
Maryan and Steve Ackley
Gail Alberti
Karen and Ellis Alden
Jamie and Bianca Alexander
Muffie and Fred Alvarez
Colleen and Grant Anderson
John Anderson
Tom and Tami Arrington
David and Marty Arscott
Marianne and Alan Austin
Melissa and Jim Badger
Dave Bagshaw
Rafi Bamdad
Ilda and Carl Barbieri
Elyse and David Barca
Ildiko and Robert Barker
Scott Barnum
Bill and Kay Bates
Todd and Inna Beardsley
Margaret and Daniel Beltramo
Edith and Eric Bergstrom
Rebecca and Jeff Berry
Cameron and Edith Bianchi
Susan Bird
Kerry and George Bischoff
John and Linda Bolger
Gwen Books
Lori and Steve Bouret
Joni and Tom Brown
Beverly Browne
Suzanne and Bill Burrows
Sandra Buscemi
Ferne Calcaterra
Jerry and Shirley Carlson
Peter Carpenter
Jennifer Carrico
Armando Castro
Kay Clarke and Herb Lechner
Leslie Coleman
Chris Darwall
Liz and Mark Daschbach
Christine and Mike David
Jean and Duncan Davidson
Patti and Mark Davis
Michael Demeter
Kathy and Norm Dewitt
Susan and John Diekman
Michelle and Gary Dillabough
Dimitrios Dimitrelis
Betsy and Don Dixon
Dave Dollinger
Steve Dostart
Julie and Mark Douglass
Jim Drake
John Duane
Malcolm and Cosette Dudley
Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie
Louise El-Sum
Alain and Rosemary Enthoven
Kyle Enright
Carolyn and Scott Feamster
Claire Feder and Ernie Goiten
John and Chris Fennell
Sandra Ferrando
Judi and Jerry Finch
David Fleck
Judi and Jerry Finch
David Fleck and Elaine Wong
Mark Flegel
Jill and Norm Fogelson
Diana and Freeman Ford
Laura and John Foster
Karen Francis
Keiko Franklin
John Friedenrich
Liz and Doug Fritz
Marilee Gardner
Valerie Gardner and Jonathan Tiemann
Eva and Dominic Geraghty
Dianne and Charlie Giancarlo
Margaret Gill
Betsy Glikbarg
John and Marcia Goldman
Edward Goodstein
Carol and Peter Grassi
Judy and Josh Green
William and Susan Grindley
Anne and Bob Gunderson
Susan and Steve Hailey
Sherman and Jane Hall
Jim and Marsha Hannay
Griff Harsh
Ken Hausman
Bob Hellman and Holly Cao
Sarah and Stephen Herrick
Margaret Hinman
Tom and Kathy Holt
Susan and Joel Hyatt
Frauke Janssen
Jim and Kathy Janz
Rita Jenson
Anita and Chris Joy
Linda and Kent Kaiser
Alyce and Steve Kaplan
Guy and Beth Kawasaki
Chris Kelly
Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy and Andy Kessler
Ed King
Gail and Fred Kittler
Kris Klint
Ross Konningstein
Vivian Kral and Tom O’Dowd
Denise Kupperman
Kathy and Michael Ladra
Sangeeta and Rajeeva Lahri
Lisa and Randy Lamb
Joan Lambert and Mark Silverman
David Lampert
Janet Larson
Lois Larson
Laura and Gary Lauder
Linda and Skip Law
Jeffrey Lee
Bren and Larry Leisure
Darcy and Mark Leschly
Ginger and Doug Levick
Sandy and Dave Levison
Joe Lewis
Linda and Sid Liebes
Erica and Rob Linden
Debbie and Mike Linton
Joyce and Philip Lively
Connie and Robert Loarie
Greg Loew
Jean and Larry Lowry
Connie and Bob Lurie
Helen and Dick MacDonnell
Jillian Manus
Susan Masetti
Jim and Judy Massey
Louis Matas
Anne and William McNertney
Linda and Tonay Meier
Janice and Kevin Meisel
Clive Merredew
Frank Merrill
Alan Miller
Bill Miller
Suzanne and Indra Mohan
Russ and Kate Moore
Mark Moriconi
Jeff Morris
Mervin Morris
Elissa Murphy
Gib and Susan Myers
Ben and Alex Narasin
Maaike Neves
Lorrie Norrington
Pejman and Mania Nozad
Sue and Bob O’Donnell
Michelle and Erik Olsen
Marion and Bob Oster
Robert Oyster
Hana and Peter Palecek
Lorie and Vic Para
Roslyn and Lisle Payne
Wendy Petersmeyer
Bill Peterson
Barbara and Ron Peyton
Jack Phillips
Bob Polito
Barbara and Charles Preuss
Linda and Eric Protiva
Helen and Russell Pyne
Andrea and Geoff Ralston
Jan and Neil Rasmussen
Jenny Redo and Kevin Brown
Earl Rennison
Jack Ringham
Walter and Judith Robinson
Mindy and Jesse Rodgers
Bob and Sharon Roeser
Danielle and Mario Rosati
Debbie and Stuart Rosenberg
Shelley and Bernard Ross
Pete Rukavina and Wendy Adams
Kim and Henry Sabet
Liza and Mansour Salame
Lisa and Steve Schatz
Randy and Kelly Schmitz
Bill and Lee Schroeder
Bobbie Schumacher
Alicia and Jim Seebold
Susan and Richard Seiler
Anne Senti-Willis
June and Mario Sevilla
Hildy Shandell
Sheri and John Shenk
Howard and Susan Slayen
Carol and Ned Spieker
Madeline and Isaac Stein
Mary and Mark Stevens
Margaret Tao
Libby and Barry Taylor
Debbie and John Thibault
Marylue Timpson
Paul Tonelli
Tom Toy
Shanker Trivedi
Carolyn and Todd Tuomala
Roxanne Velez
Loren Viegas
Stephanie and Gregg von Thaden
Ann Yvonne Walker and David Jones
Ray Walton
Sylvie and Don Way
Betty and Michael Weinstock
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hand-held aerial drone,
probably one with four
helicopter blades, will
likely take up residence soon in
the Menlo Park Fire Protection
District to help survey the scene
of a fire from above.
With no comment from the
public at a fire district board
meeting on Oct. 21, a consensus of board members gave
the green light to the district
administration to proceed with
a purchase and a drone-use
policy.
Division Chief Frank Fraone
told the board he would be
meeting soon with drone manufacturers and with the Federal
Aviation Administration about
becoming licensed.
The device under consideration would be equipped with
a camera and hover above a
fire and send real-time video to
firefighters’ smart phones and
tablet computers.
Ahead of the meeting, Fire
Chief Harold Schapelhouman
solicited email from the public
about their concerns, if any.
The Menlo Park district serves
Atherton, Menlo Park, East Palo
Alto and nearby unincorporated areas. The overall response
was positive, Chief Schapelhouman told the board.
Board member Virginia
Chang Kiraly said the email
she received on the topic was
mostly positive. Buying one is
“an opportunity to show how it
can be used in the best way and
the correct way,” she said. “We
can be an example.”
Board member Peter Carpenter said the policy should make
use of the drone a matter of public record, including when it was
used and what it was used for.
Most of the videos would be
available to the public via YouTube, in the way photos of fires
are available on the fire district’s
website, Chief Schapelhouman
told the Almanac.
“The responsibility is on us to
do this the right way,” he told
the board. “(A drone) is something that’s viable, it’s useful,
it lasts a long time. I’m for it as
long as we can make our policy
very clear as to how it’s being
used,” he added. “There’s not
some sinister agenda that some
people think we have.”
It’s unlikely that the district
would lend the drone to any
other agency, though another
firefighting agency might be
an exception if it remained in
the possession of a Menlo Park
district firefighter trained to
operate it, Chief Schapelhouman told the Almanac.
“The biggest issue seems to
surround law enforcement
using (the drone) for surveillance,” he said. “We’re just not
going to (let it be used for) that
except under extreme circumstances. ... People don’t want
people spying on them and
that’s not what we do.” A
Facebook funds upgrades to
fire district technology, tools
By Tiffany Lam and
Barbara Wood
T
hanks to $150,000 from
Facebook, the Menlo Park
Fire Protection District is
upgrading a system that turns
red traffic lights to green as
emergency vehicles approach,
and is adding emergency equipment to some of its stations and
vehicles.
When the social media company moved its headquarters three
years ago to the end of Willow
Road, Facebook agreed to pay the
fire district $150,000 in impact
costs, with the caveat that the
money benefit the community,
the district and Facebook.
The funds have enabled the
district to add the latest signal
preemption equipment on eight
traffic signals along Willow Road
and on 14 signals along University Avenue, Marsh Road and
Bayfront Expressway. Also, the
funds are being used to upgrade
fire engines and other emergency
vehicles to use global positioning
system (GPS) technology. The
existing traffic system, which
was in place only along Willow
Road, uses infrared, or line-ofsight, technology to change the
traffic lights.
The district plans to spend the
remainder of the impact funds
($50,000) for two new defibrillators for its fire stations in East
Palo Alto and Belle Haven (the
closest stations to Facebook’s
headquarters), as well as for a
new portable “jaws of life” tool
that can be used when someone
is trapped in a vehicle.
“Facebook benefits because
every traffic signal between
the Facebook campus and four
firehouses would use the preemption system,” said Fire Chief
Harold Schapelhouman. “It also
improves response times for any
call for service we receive from
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Will voters weigh in on future
of Sequoia Healthcare District?
By Dave Boyce
Almanac Staff Writer
O
ne race in the Nov. 4
election has the potential
to correct what some see
as a miscarriage of the democratic process. But a correction
would likely jeopardize grants for
local healthcare-related activities,
including food banks, drug-andalcohol abuse programs, school
nurse programs and K-5 physical
fitness programs.
A slate of three candidates is
running for the five-member
board of the Sequoia Healthcare District: incumbent and
retired research scientist Jack
Hickey and challengers Mark De
Paula, a retired telecommunications industry worker, and John
McDowell, a marketing professional.
If elected, they say they will ask
voters to weigh in on whether to
dissolve the district. The district,
founded by voters in 1946, legally
changed its mission in the mid
1990s but did so without voter
approval.
In actions that would not
need voter approval but would
need a board majority, the slate
candidates say they would suspend the district’s grant-making and reduce property taxes.
The state tax code allows an
agency to annually decline to
collect property tax revenues in
an amount determined by the
agency board. This provision
has not been tested in San Mateo
County and probably not in the
state either, and would require
analysis, county officials told the
Almanac.
The slate candidates also complain about programs that fund
the education of nurses, for
example, who then graduate
and move away; about the whole
notion of using tax revenues for
charitable causes; and about the
district’s chief executive making
$193,000 annually while supervising one full-time employee
and three part-timers.
The district runs from Millbrae
south to Menlo Park and west to
the foothills and includes Atherton, Woodside, Portola Valley
and much of Menlo Park. Northern communities are covered
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the community.”
“Infrared is old technology,”
the chief said. “With GPS, fire
vehicles can activate traffic light
signals from much further distances to clear the intersection
faster.”
by the Peninsula Healthcare
District. East
Palo Alto and
the Belle Haven
neighborhood of
Menlo Park are
not covered, nor are residents of
Half Moon Bay, La Honda, Pescadero and other communities
on the coast side.
Opposing the slate’s agenda
and seeking re-election to the
district board are incumbents
Arthur Faro and Dr. Jerry
Shefren. They see an ongoing
positive role for the district
and say they look forward
to improving outreach with
innovative programs and more
public contact. Mr. Faro is
retired from a career in healthcare administration, including
as the former chief executive of
Sequoia Hospital in Redwood
City. Dr. Shefren is an ob-gyn
and the former vice president
of ambulatory care at Stanford
University hospital.
About a third of the district’s
$9.5 million outlay for the 201415 fiscal year will go to schools
and to help pay for nurses and
prevent drug abuse and domestic
violence, Dr. Shefren said.
“The district certainly helps
plug some of the holes in our
healthcare system, or lack of a
healthcare system,” he said. Children with obesity problems often
live in poor households where
proficiency in English is absent,
as is an understanding of the
importance of healthy diets, Dr.
Shefren said. Insurance companies typically ignore preventive
healthcare, he said, so funding
efforts to improve its understanding “is simply a recognition that
improving the health of the community isn’t about keeping people
in the hospital. It’s about keeping
people out of the hospital.”
sor agency,” such as the county
government, to take over distribution of the district’s revenues
for healthcare purposes. Or she
could distribute the revenues
to other public agencies that
serve district residents, including
school, mosquito-abatement and
open-space districts, and every
city and town, she said.
In an interview, Mr. Hickey
said he has considered the idea
of a new healthcare district for
the whole county. He said he
would present the idea to voters,
provided it did not raise property
taxes. If voters turned it down,
the Peninsula Healthcare District should also be dissolved, he
said, adding: “I personally think
that any beneficial functions of
the district are best assumed by
existing agencies who already
have those capabilities.”
Mr. McDowell agreed. “Many
of the District’s programs can be
maintained by the county,” he
said in an email.
Mr. De Paula said he favors
dissolving the district and not
resuscitating it. “I don’t believe in
special districts,” he said. If there
are decisions to make on funding
school nurses or a clinic in North
Fair Oaks, the county supervisors should make them, he said.
Board benefits
If the slate candidates are
elected and call an election, and
voters choose to dissolve the
district, the matter would go to
Martha Poyatos, a county official
who oversees the formation of
public agencies.
She would have two options.
She could look for a “succes-
Board members receive $1,500
a month for their own healthcare, the challengers say. The
only benefit they should get is
a small stipend for attending
meetings, as is done in the Peninsula district, Mr. Hickey and Mr.
McDowell said.
Both men would also change
the 4:30 p.m. start time for
meetings to something more
accommodating to the public,
and both would have the meetings recorded and posted on the
district website.
The only people who come to
the meetings are people seeking
grants, Dr. Shefren said. “How
many of us actually know what
any of the special districts are
doing?” he said. “I honestly think
that the community just feels like
it’s working. ... When people are
not voicing negativity about what
you’re doing, they’re likely to be
agreeing with you.” A
“Essentially, every traffic signal
between four of our fire stations
and the Facebook campus will
be upgraded or new in their traffic pre-emption capability,” said
Chief Schapelhouman.
If two emergency vehicles
heading to different scenes try
to preempt a signal at the same
time, the light would change for
the first unit that triggers the sig-
nal, noted Chief Schapelhouman.
The GPS technology has
already been installed. Once the
system is tested, within the next
few weeks, it can used, the chief
said.
Chief Schapelhouman said the
district has another $150,000 to
spend in Facebook money paid to
offset impacts from its planned
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Menlo College hosts forum for Atherton candidates
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four candidates competing for
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p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in the
college’s Russell Center Great
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in Atherton.
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press release
that “with over 500 students in
residence halls as well as faculty
and staff in on-campus housing,
Menlo College represents Atherton’s largest voting bloc and
could be decisive in the election
for the Atherton City Council.”
Menlo College may be particularly interested in the outcome
of the election, when a majority of the five-member council
will be elected, because the
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the schools’ athletic facilities.
The schools need a conditional
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by the Menlo College community could mean the difference
between victory and defeat,” Ms.
Michelson said.
San Mateo County Elections
Manager David Tom said that
as of Oct. 24, there were 288
registered voters at the college’s
address. Atherton had 4,910 registered voters on that same date,
meaning almost 6 percent of the
town’s registered voters are now
at Menlo College.
Oct. 20 was the deadline to
register to vote on Nov. 4, but
voter registration applications
postmarked by that date may
still be added. He said there are
no voters registered at the Menlo
School’s address.
All four candidates — incumbents Bill Widmer and Rick
DeGolia and challengers Roes
Hau and Mike Lempres — are
scheduled to participate in the
forum.
The forum will be moderated
by Menlo College student Kennedy Tanaka, and will include
written questions from the audience and questions prepared
by Ms. Tanaka and her fellow
students. Recently inaugurated
Menlo College President Dr.
Richard Moran is expected to
attend, according to the college.
Cartan Field
In late 2012, Menlo School and
Menlo College jointly proposed
demolishing and rebuilding
Cartan Field and all of its facilities. Cartan field is shared by
both schools.
Atherton asked for an environmental impact report on the
project, but before the report
came up for final consideration,
the project was put on hold by
the applicants.
The original plan called for
adding parking for more than
100 cars, with access to the
parking from El Camino Real in
addition to the current Alejandra Avenue access. A new pool
for water polo and competitive
swimming with seating for 200
would be added.
Seating, locker rooms, 30-foottall safety netting, indoor batting cages and restrooms would
be added to the two baseball
fields. The track would be
made smaller, and a larger
multipurpose soccer, lacrosse
The college is
proposing a major
rebuild of the school’s
athletic facilities, shared
with Menlo School.
and football field replacing the
current field. Four tennis courts
would be added to the current
six courts. A 20-foot-tall fence
would surround the courts and
multipurpose fields.
Lighting improvements would
include 16-foot-tall zero-cutoff
fixtures in the parking lot,
12- to 16-foot-tall light fixtures
in the new aquatic center and
12-foot-tall zero-cutoff fixtures
on pathways.
The original proposal included allowing the athletic facilities
an exception to the town’s noise
ordinance, which limits noise to
60 decibels beyond the property
line. Under the original proposal, noise levels would be allowed
up to 75 decibels (a level now
permitted at Holbrook-Palmer
Park for Little League activities).
Ms. Michelson said many of
her students have been active
in the election. “Many are
volunteering with one of the
City Council candidates, and
everyone is talking to their peers
about the importance of registering and voting on Nov. 4,”
she said. “They’re seeing the link
between city politics and their
everyday lives here at Menlo. I’m
anticipating a strong turnout.”
The voter registration drive
does seem to have been successful. A printout of registered
voters at that location on July 30,
before school started, showed
only 190 registered voters at
Menlo College, with about 25
percent of those not having
participated in recent elections
and therefore not considered
active voters. By Oct. 24, there
were 288 voters registered at the
school’s address.
The four candidates have
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political science classes at Menlo
College.
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dental assistants and skin-care
programs, district records show,
but the project list makes no
mention of health or wellness.
The No website claims the following list entry is the district’s
justification: “Reconstruction/
renovation of existing facilities
for nursing, anatomy and other
science laboratories & classrooms.”
“So what the voters think
they are voting for is essentially
meaningless,” Ms. Terner says.
“This gives the District a blank
check.”
There are specifics in a postelection 2006 district master
plan, prepared by Steinberg
Architects of San Jose. The plan
describes a “new wellness/workforce/aquatic center” that would
include “facilities for a community-oriented Fitness and Wellness Center,” with the wellness
center to “house work-out space,
locker rooms and a lobby, in a
model similar to athletic clubs.”
“Workforce” in this instance
refers to cosmetology, dental
assistant and nursing programs,
with cosmetology to have “a
strong public presence that may
facilitate transition to ‘spa-like’
to attract more clientele.”
Responding to Ms. Terner, Mr.
Galatolo says the district spent
the $57 million on “a state-ofthe-art allied health and workforce development complex”
for the college’s nursing, dental
assistants, skin-care specialties
and fitness programs. The new
pool supports classroom activities and team sports as well as
masters swimming and youth
swim events, he says.
“I find that taxpayers are
critical of (facilities) that don’t
do anything,” Mr. Galatolo told
the Almanac. The district is
being “smart” about building
multi-purpose facilities, he said.
The wellness center is used by
transfer students required to
take physical fitness classes, by
students seeking certificates in
programs like Pilates and yoga
instruction, and by the public,
with membership fees reinvested
in the facilities, he said.
A second San Mateo County
civil grand jury report, this one
in 2011, took issue with the district’s handling of this particular
project. “The Board of Trustees,
the authors of Measure A, did
not include on the ballot its
proposed use of bond funds to
construct an athletic facility that
would be operated as an athletic
club as well as a teaching facility.
In looking for the wellness
center on the project list, the
grand jury came up with a different interpretation: an item
calling for a “workforce development center” for biotechnology,
international trade development
and other economic development programs.
“The project list for Measure
A,” the grand jury says, “is so
broad it permitted generous
interpretation in the purpose of
the funds. For example, College
District officials stated that the
bond language ‘workforce development center’ was the basis for
the construction of the wellness/
fitness center.”
This year
The county’s voter information pamphlet does not have
specifics on projects that would
be funded by this year’s Measure
H, but members of the district’s
bond oversight committee did
receive specifics, including a
description of the function and
estimated costs for eight new
and nine remodeled buildings,
with the remodeling to include
seismic retrofits, energy efficiency improvements, and access
for the disabled.
How can voters make informed
decisions without such details?
“I think it really depends on the
level of detail it takes to make an
informed decision,” Mr. Galatolo told the Almanac.
Given the competition for contractors in a vibrant economy,
districts need flexibility to reengineer a project, he said. If
you say you’re going to build a
blue tennis court, you then have
to build it, he said. “Whatever
you say to the voter, that’s what
you’re saying you need the
money for.”
Why not give voters brief
descriptions with estimated costs
like those given to the bond oversight committee, along with a
commitment to act in good faith?
“Nobody does that,” he said.
Keeping pace?
Ms. Terner cites a college
district survey that picks out
healthcare, accounting, digital
arts, biotechnology and com-
puter information science as the
five fastest growing sectors of
the regional economy. Why, she
asked, is the district planning
to spend $100 million on a new
creative arts building at Skyline
College?
Arts students, many of whom
intend to transfer to four-year
schools, need a new building,
Mr. Galatolo says. The current classrooms are not wired
for “21st century teaching and
learning,” he said. Denying community college students modern
facilities is “offensive,” he said.
Enrollment is down, Ms. Terner notes, and the district is performing poorly in “completion
rates” — the rates at which students transfer to four-year colleges or earn associate’s degrees
or certificates. She claims that
fewer than 10 percent of students
are reaching those goals.
In a 2013 “fact book,” published by the district and meant
to assist officials in making decisions, completion rates are low,
but above 10 percent. The rates
are calculated using standards
set by the state.
Completion rates in 2009 were
25 percent statewide compared
to 12 percent at Canada College
and CSM and 17 percent at Skyline, according to the fact book.
Mr. Galatolo disputes these
numbers. The real completion
rate is 21 percent at CSM and
is about 20 percent for the
district, he says. The fact book
tracks only students transferring to California public colleges
and universities. Local students
transferring to private schools,
such as Stanford University,
Notre Dame de Namur in Belmont, and out of state are not
accounted for, he says.
Ms. Terner questions the district’s spending on recruiting
international students, given
the remedial education needs of
about 65 percent of local community college students.
Mr. Galatolo defended the
recruiting. International students pay $250 per unit, compared to $46 for domestic students. Three international students in a classroom “pays for
that class and then some,” he
said, adding: “We proudly accept
100 percent of the students who
apply to us.” A
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TOWN OF WOODSIDE
2955 WOODSIDE ROAD
WOODSIDE, CA 94062
INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR COMMITTEES
ARTS AND CULTURE COMMITTEE
Meets first Thursday of each month, 5:00 p.m.; appointed for two-year term
The Committee strengthens multigenerational community involvement by
initiating, sponsoring and celebrating local art, creativity and cultural activities
including, but not limited to, the areas of art, photography, design, music, horticulture, culinary arts, literature, drama and dance. The Committee will create
opportunities to educate, inform and engage the community about cultural
affairs and will organize and supervise events to showcase local creative talent
CIRCULATION COMMITTEE
Meets third Thursday of each month, 7:30 p.m.; appointed for two-year term.
The Committee supports the General Plan goal to balance circulation
system user needs and works to foster a community of all users of the public
roadway system, including motorists, bicyclists, pedestrians, and equestrians; works with the Town Engineer, Sheriff ’s Department and local and
regional organizations to develop educational programs to promote traffic
safety; advises staff and the Council about ways to make the roadway system
safer for all users, to encourage effective traffic enforcement and to promote
safe, convenient access to schools, Town businesses, public and private institutions and neighborhoods; reviews applications for special event permits
for the Town’s roadways, offers expert participation on the C/CAG Bicycle
and Pedestrian Advisory Committee and makes recommendations regarding grant applications that seek to improve the Town’s bicycle and pedestrian
systems; confers with the Trails Committee on programs and recommendations of mutual interest.
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE
Meets second Wednesday of each month, 5:30 p.m.; appointed for two-year term.
The Committee supports the General Plan Policies to institute or participate
in education related to natural hazards and to support emergency preparedness education; works with Town staff to develop and maintain appropriate
plans and procedures for responding to disasters, including wildfires, earthquakes, flood and other emergencies; supports the work of the Citizens’
Emergency Response and Preparedness Program (CERPP) to develop a
network of volunteers to respond to emergencies at the neighborhood level;
works with staff to recruit, organize, train and maintain a team of volunteers
who can assist staffing an Emergency Operations Center when Town staff is
partially or wholly unavailable; works with staff to develop emergency communication facilities and capabilities and to provide residents of the Town
with information and training in emergency topics.
OPEN SPACE COMMITTEE
Meets fourth Thursday of each month, 5:30 p.m.; appointed for two-year term.
The Committee advises and assists the Town Council, Planning Commission
and staff in implementing the policies and goals of the Open Space and Conservation elements of the General Plan, specifically with respect to acquisition
and maintenance of conservation easements and open space preservation.
RECREATION COMMITTEE
Meets first Thursday of each month, 7:30 p.m.; appointed for three-year term.
The Committee guides the activities of the community recreation programs.
SUSTAINABILITY AND CONSERVATION COMMITTEE
Meets fourth Monday of each month, 6:00 p.m.; appointed for two-year term.
The Committee advises and assists the Town Council, Planning Commission, and staff on conservation, open space, noise, public services and facilities as pertaining to the elements of the Town’s General Plan.
WOODSIDE HISTORY COMMITTEE
Meets second Thursday of each month, 10:00 a.m.; appointed for two-year term.
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Interested residents may request information and applications Monday through
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October 29, 2014QTheAlmanacOnline.comQThe AlmanacQ17
N E W S
Twelve inducted into M-A Athletic Hall of Fame
By Tiffany Lam
Special to the Almanac
M
enlo-Atherton High
School has inducted
12 members into its
eighth Athletic Hall of Fame
class. The list includes five athletes, a coach, two teams, and for
the first time, athletic boosters
and a parent volunteer.
Boosters and volunteers “contribute tremendously to athletics
and that’s what we’re trying to
honor,” said Steven Kryger, M-A
athletic department co-director
and hall of fame chairman.
An induction banquet will be
held on Saturday, Nov. 8, at 5
p.m. at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge
at 4249 El Camino Real in Palo
Alto. Tickets are $30 and can be
purchased by calling 322-5311.
The inductees are:
Q Plato Yanicks, “one of the
most successful coaches ever at
M-A,” said Kryger. From 1965 to
1994, he had coached approximately 300 boys and girls dual-
meet wins in cross country and
track and field. He also started
the Northern California championship cross-country meet
and scheduled it at the same
time as the SoCal finals, with
both eventually leading into
the first state meet. Further, he
launched the M-A sports hall of
fame 20 years ago.
Q Connie and Owen Hawkins,
who founded the athletic booster club in 1989. The club raises
funds for unmet needs of the
athletic department.
Q Susan Mohr, co-chair of
the M-A Boosters in 2004, who
was responsible for initiating
the first Big Bear Run in 2005,
which continues to be the M-A
Booster’s biggest fundraiser,
Kryger said.
Q Kitty Moore, a parent volunteer for boys soccer who got
involved with M-A athletics in
1969, and stayed on for 30 years.
She mended uniforms, brought
snacks to games, created rosters,
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Q Greg Camarillo, class of
1999, a four-year letterman,
first team All-Peninsula Athletic League honoree, and AllSan Mateo County selection in
football. He played football for
Stanford University and was a
wide receiver in the NFL, playing with the San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, and New Orleans
Saints.
Q Kelly Eaton, class of 2006,
who “is one of the most talented
two-sport athletes in MenloAtherton history,” Kryger said.
She was named MVP in water
polo every year she was at M-A,
and left as the school record
holder in the 50-meter backstroke, 100-meter backstroke,
200-meter medley relay, and
400-meter freestyle relay for
swimming.
Q Erica Hayes, class of 2008,
who was selected MVP for
girls basketball for three years,
All-Peninsula Athletic League
first team for three years, and
PAL MVP her senior year. She
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record at the Toro Park course in
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TOWN OF PORTOLA VALLEY
NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING ON A NEW
PORTOLA ROAD CORRIDOR ELEMENT
OF THE TOWN OF PORTOLA VALLEY
GENERAL PLAN AND THE RELATED INITIAL
STUDY/NEGATIVE DECLARATION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Town Council of the
Town of Portola Valley will hold a public hearing on the
proposed new Portola Road Corridor Plan Element of the
Town of Portola Valley General Plan, related General Plan
amendments, and the Initial Study/Negative Declaration on
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 7:30 p.m., in the Town
Council Chambers (Historic Schoolhouse), 765 Portola
Road, Portola Valley, California. Copies of the proposed
Corridor Plan and related General Plan amendments, and
the Initial Study/Negative Declaration, are available on the
Town website at www.portolavalley.net and at Portola Valley
Town Hall, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley, California.
Comments may be submitted in writing prior to the Town
Council meeting, and all interested persons are invited to
appear before the Town Council to be heard at the time
and place herein above mentioned. The Town Council will
consider all written and oral communications pertaining to
the proposed Element, related General Plan amendments,
and Initial Study/Negative Declaration.
Public hearings provide the general public and interested
parties an opportunity to provide testimony on these items.
If you challenge a proposed action(s) in court, you may be
limited to raising only those issues you or someone else
raised at a Public Hearing(s) described above, or in written
correspondence delivered to the Town Council at, or prior
to, the public hearing(s).
Dated: October 29, 2014
Signed: Karen Kristiansson, Deputy Town Planner
Catherine Patricia Gilligan Smyth
Catherine Patricia “Patsy” (Gilligan)
Smyth died on October 22, 2014, at the age
of 95, in her Atherton home. Patsy was
born December 1, 1918 in Salt Lake City,
Utah. Her parents were Ada M. (Kronner)
Gilligan and George E Gilligan, pioneer
ranchers in Boulder, Wyoming.
Patsy was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.
She lived there during the school year
with her grandmother, Bridget Griffin
Kronner, while she attended grammar
school, Judge Memorial Catholic High
School, and St Mary’s of the Wasatch. She completed her studies at
Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles.
Patsy met Edward M. “Ted” Smyth in Salt Lake City, and they
were married in the Cathedral of the Madeleine on September 9,
1941. Ted was a graduate of St Mary’s College, Moraga, and after
their wedding they moved to San Francisco, later settling and raising
their seven children in Atherton.
Patsy Smyth is survived by all seven of her children: Sheila Mary,
Kathleen Anne (Art), Patricia Collette (Marv), Daniel Patrick
(Anne), Maureen Agnes, Thomas Gilligan (Peggy) and Joseph Healy
(Bea). Additionally, she is survived by fifteen grandchildren and 10
great-grandchildren. Pat and Ted loved spending time with their
family at their home in Atherton and especially with their family and
grandchildren at their ranch in Wyoming. Summers in Wyoming
and winter in California was a migration they followed for all 62
years of their marriage and Patsy into her nineties. All of Pat and
Ted’s children graduated from St Joseph’s in Menlo Park.
Patsy had a special affection for the Religious of the Sacred
Heart and was devoted to the Children of Mary. In lieu of flowers,
Memorials may be made to:
The Society of the Sacred Heart
Oakwood Retirement Center
4120 Forest Park Avenue, St Louis, MO 63108
A Mass of Christian Burial of Patricia Gilligan Smyth will be
held November 8th, 2014 11:00 a.m. at the Church of the Nativity,
210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park.
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Marguerite Malgoire, Woodside resident
Marguerite C. “Marge” Malgoire, a resident of Woodside
since 1950, died at home Oct.
19 after complications from hip
surgery. She was 94.
Ms. Malgoire summered in
Woodside as a child. The
family slept in tents on land
behind what is now Woodside
Elementary School, walked to
Caldwell’s market (now Roberts), and delighted in seeing
Tony the Iceman bring them
huge blocks of ice, say family
members.
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heard lions roar at night from
the menagerie at the Whitell
estate on Trip Road, they say.
A resident for 64 years, Ms.
Magoire and her husband,
Marcel, raised their family in
Woodside and worked together
at their store, The Little Brown
Jug, next to the Woodside Cafe
& Bakery. She was a skilled
cook, learning the basics of
French country cooking from
her father-in-law, say family
members.
Ms. Malgoire
is sur vived
by her son,
Paul, daughter Mary and
Mary’s spouse
Bea; siblings
Georgette and
Marguerite
Malgoire
Ed Salles; five
nephews and a
niece. The family is grateful to
Francisca Tan, who provided
care for Ms. Malgoire during
the last five years of her life.
A memorial service will be
held at a later date.
Dave Iverson’s ‘Capturing Grace’ wins honors
“Capturing Grace” by Dave
Iverson of Menlo Park was honored as the Audience Favorite
Documentary at the 37th Mill
Valley Film festival held Oct.
10-11.
“It’s been exciting to have our
film screened in front of a soldout audience, Mr. Iverson said,
“and to now receive this award
is both humbling and incredibly gratifying.”
“Capturing Grace” documents a year in the life of a
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This information is based on reports
from the Menlo Park Police Department. Under the law, people charged
with offenses are considered innocent
unless convicted. Police received the
reports on the dates shown.
MENLO PARK
Robbery: An armed Hispanic man
described as about 35 years old and
wearing gray shorts and a dark-colored
security vest with a badge on it attempted to rob a 76-year-old man walking on
Market Place in front of the Marketplace
Park. The robber poked the man twice
in the stomach with a black .22 caliber
handgun and asked if he had drugs,
weapons or money, police said. The man
replied that he had none of those things
and the robber walked away. There were
no injuries. Oct. 21.
Residential burglaries:
Q Police arrested Manuel Hernandez,
19, of Menlo Park on charges that
include burglary. Police called to the
scene saw a man fleeing, set up a
perimeter and took a man into custody.
Deputies from the county Sheriff’s Office
and the East Palo Police Department
participated in the search. Oct. 24. Q A
thief entered a house on Central Avenue
through an unlocked front door and stole
Poetry celebration
The public is invited to attend
a free celebration of poetry,
including readings selected
from the “Poetry Is” contest, at
6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, at
the Belmont Library, 1110 Alameda de las Pulgas.
The “Poetry Is” contest, held
in September, received 158
entries from 27 communities in
its first year. Poets were asked
to use the name of their city or
town in the title of the poem
and to use sensory images to pay
homage to their hometown.
The contest was the project of
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laureate, Caroline Goodwin, in
partnership with the San Mateo
County Library. Call Marci
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an Omega men’s watch and gold bracelet from a coffee table in the living room.
Estimated loss: $7,000. Oct. 19.
Q Someone entered a house on Chilco
Street, possibly through an unlocked
door or window, and stole an Apple iPad,
an MP3 player, gift cards and clothing.
Estimated loss: $860. Oct. 23.
Q An unlocked window allowed a thief
to enter a house on Oakland Avenue and
steal an Apple iPod and loose change.
Estimated loss: $140. Oct. 21.
Commercial burglary: Police arrested
and booked into jail a Menlo Park woman
who allegedly took items from the Safeway supermarket on El Camino Real. The
stolen goods were returned. No loss.
Oct. 18.
Thefts:
Q Someone stole a bicycle from in front
of the Safeway supermarket on El Camino Real. Estimated loss: $1,000. Oct. 17.
Q A woman who left her wallet on an
unattended stroller in a gym locker
room at the Burgess Community Center
returned to find it gone. The wallet was
later found, but without three credit
cards and cash. Estimated loss: $450.
Oct. 17.
Q Police cited a man at Hollyburne
Avenue and Van Buren Road for possession of a bicycle stolen from Google
Corp. The bike was recovered and the
man released. Oct. 22.
Prowling: Police responding to a report
of an attempted residential break-in on
Rosefield Way arrested and booked two
men into jail, but a third avoided arrest.
Police in the vicinity of Hobart Street and
Middle Avenue were catching up to the
suspect vehicle, a white Ford Taurus with
three men inside, when one man jumped
out and fled. A search of the area was
unsuccessful. Oct. 17.
Hit and run accident: The District
Attorney’s Office will be reviewing the
case of a driver who allegedly left the
scene of an accident involving a bicyclist
at Middlefield and Willow roads, and
who police later located stuck in traffic.
The cyclist suffered minor injuries as
the result of a collision with the alleged
vehicle, a Honda, and was treated and
released at the scene. Oct. 21.
Fraud:
Q A resident of Hermosa Way reported
that photos of herself in the nude had
been posted on a fraudulent Facebook
account. Oct. 19.
Q Over two days, someone tried four
times, unsuccessfully, to arrange a wire
transfer of money from the bank account
of a resident of Maywood Lane using the
resident’s account information. Oct. 22.
Maria Anne Lind
INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR
ARCHITECTURAL AND SITE
REVIEW BOARD Unexpired Term
Ending in February 2015
The Architectural and Site Review Board reviews applications for site design and recommends to the Planning Director for approval or disapproval; suggests
modifications or imposes conditions in accordance
with standards set forth in the Municipal Code.
Meetings are held on the first and third Monday of
each month, 4:30 p.m. Appointment is for an unexpired term through February 2015.
Interested residents may request information and
applications Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m.-12
noon and 1-5:00 p.m. at the Town Clerk’s Office, 2955
Woodside Road, by telephone at (650) 851-6790, or
through the Town’s web site at www.woodsidetown.
org, Residents, Volunteer Opportunities. Deadline for
applications is Monday, November 10, 2014, 5:00 p.m.
Marguerite Cecile Malgoire
Maria Anne Lind passed away on
October 3, 2014 from complications
of leukemia. Maria was born on
January 30, 1967 and grew up
in Racine, Wisconsin where she
developed an early passion for art,
academics, and impersonating
Donald Duck. Maria attended The
Prairie School where she designed
a mural of cartwheeling human
forms that set a playful rhythm of
energy, hope, and determination
for those passing through its halls.
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her creative passion for art throughout her career as a graphic
designer and an art director. She designed ad campaigns and
directed photo shoots for national hair salons. She also designed
extensively for the Stanford Alumni Association. Whimsy, simplicity,
and elegance were common motifs across her designs, including
the crafty drizzle of syrup on her kids’ pancakes.
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been focused on providing nurturing care and love for her family,
including her husband Dan, their daughter Sophia (14), and their
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Nisswa, Minnesota, and her brother and sister- in-law, Rolf Windh
and Karen Tourian, of Philadelphia. She was preceded in death by
their beloved dog Bono, with whom she is now enjoying long and,
at times, rambunctious strolls on a beach in heaven.
PA I D
O B I T U A RY
April 28, 1920-Oct. 19, 2014
Marguerite C. (Marge)
Malgoire, 94, passed away
at home on October 19 after
complications from surgery to
repair a broken hip.
She was a long-time resident
of Woodside. Her parents
bought a small parcel of land
there after spending summers
camping at the creek behind
what is now Woodside
Elementary School.
As a young child, Marge
and her siblings spent summers in Woodside. They slept in
“tents” on the property, walked to Caldwell’s market (now
Roberts) to purchase supplies, delighted in seeing “Tony
the Iceman,” who brought them huge blocks of ice to keep
everything cold, and ran, barefoot and carefree, over the dirt
roads of Woodside.
She remembered that, as a young child, she heard lions roar
at night from the menagerie of wild animals at the Whittell
Estate on Tripp Road.
As permanent residents from 1950, she and her husband
Marcel raised their children in Woodside, and worked
together at their store – The Little Brown Jug, now the Art
Shop next to the Woodside Cafe & Bakery.
Her family benefited from her skill as a cook; early in her
marriage, she learned the basics of French country cooking
from her father-in-law, and spent many hours watching and
(often) critiquing chefs on TV cooking shows.
In her later years, she enjoyed the beauty and calm of her
home, where she lived for 64 years until her death.
She was predeceased by her husband, Marcel, in 1986,
and is survived by her son Paul, daughter Mary and Mary’s
spouse, Bea; siblings, Georgette and Ed Salles; and nephews
Don, Gary, Jerry, Tom and Bill; and niece Barbara. The family
is grateful to Francisca Tan, who provided expert and loving
care to Marge during the last five years of her life. Mom, you
were the core of our family, and we will miss you deeply.
A memorial service is planned for a later date.
Contributions in Marge’s memory can be made to Pathways
Hospice
PA I D
O B I T U A RY
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By Heyward Robinson
and Patti Fry
percent office. Measure M will
help bring real vibrancy to
t is surprising and dis- downtown by limiting office
appointing that despite uses and encouraging the balacknowledging the funda- anced development that resimental issue that Measure M dents asked for and expect.
Besides dampening vibrancy,
addresses — excessive office
development in downtown Men- excessive offices create othlo Park “squeezing out other uses er problems. Too much office
on El Camino” — the Almanac means too much rush-hour trafchose not to endorse Measure M. fic. Office workers, 90 percent
Residents consistently asked of whom drive from out of town
for new and revitalizing growth (3), concentrate their commutes
downtown and on El Camino during rush-hour. Thousands of
that preserves Menlo Park’s out-of-town office workers will
small town character, is sensitive simply make Menlo Park’s rushto and compatible with neigh- hour gridlock and cut-through
borhoods, offers more shopping, traffic that much worse.
Office uses
dining and neighboralso do not generate
hood services, creates
any sales or hotel taxplazas and park spaces,
es. Office-dominated
and provides a safe and
development of Downwell-designed pedestown would result in
trian and bicycle neta $282,000 loss (4) to
work.
the city’s general fund.
The
downtown/
In contrast, Measure
El Camino Real speGUEST
cific plan’s balanced OPINION M’s balanced mix of
uses would add over
growth, mirrored in
$2,100,000 to the city’s
Yes on M’s provisions,
supports that kind of develop- coffers annually.
The editor’s claim that Meament. The recently proposed
sure M’s language is “ambigumassive office projects do not.
Balanced growth includes ous” is not true. Measure M
office, but doesn’t allow office to incorporates standard terms
overwhelm everything else. One widely used in land-use iniof the 30-year downtown plan’s tiatives. The city’s attorney
primary goals is to “generate reviewed Measure M before
vibrancy” in downtown Menlo signature gathering began, and
Park through “a mix of retail, again when he wrote the voter
residential and office uses that guide’s Impartial Analysis. He
complement each other to bring made no objections, nor did any
vitality and increased retail sales member of press or public, during the period when the entire
to the area”(1).
To this end, the plan pro- text of the initiative was publicly
jected that office space would posted for review.
Developers and their allies
constitute just over half of the
plan’s non-residential develop- on the council would like us to
ment, allowing ample oppor- believe that the plan is working
tunity to create true mixed-use as it should. It’s not. Stanford’s
“retail nodes” (2) that include “public plaza” has a driveway
residences, shops, services, and though it. Neither Stanford nor
Greenheart are proposing any
hotel space.
The proposals from Stanford senior housing — something
and Greenheart — with over that was extensively discussed
90 percent of the nonresidential during the public workshops
development devoted to office and that we desperately need;
and nominal retail, with no and both are trying to fulfill
hotel and no services — will not their open space requirements
using private balconies and
achieve this.
To put this in perspective, rooftops.
While Measure M doesn’t
Menlo Center, home of Cafe
Barrone and Kepler’s book- fix all of the downtown plan’s
store, has about 35 percent
ground-f loor retail and 65
See ROBINSON, page 23
I
22QThe AlmanacQTheAlmanacOnline.comQOctober 29, 2014
Measure M raises
many concerns
By Mark Flegel
and Richard Draeger
with any significant new development. When the office/retail
s long-term owners of development including Kepler’s
Menlo Park family- and Cafe Borrone was first
owned businesses, we proposed, the community angst
— along with representatives was even higher. Few of us now,
from Alys Grace, Borrone’s, Car- however, can even imagine our
paccio’s, Cheeky Monkey Toys, downtown without what has
Menlo Chevron, Red Cottage become a true “gathering place”
Inn & Suites, and Village Sta- for so many residents and visitioners — have all been closely tors.
The Stanford and Greenheart
following the Measure M debate.
We care greatly about our proposals under consideration
community and our down- (if not blocked by M) would protown. We participated in the vide roughly 50 percent houssix-year process that led to the ing, 50 percent office, and some
downtown specific plan, and ground-floor restaurants and
are excited about the potential retail. These projects are located
close to the train stafor rejuvenation of our
tion, allowing them
downtown.
to not only help enerThe plan isn’t pergize our downtown,
fect, and we have some
but our public transit
concerns about it, but
systems as well.
it represents the comIf M passes,
bined input of thouthe reality is that
sands of residents, electwe don’t really know
ed leaders, and planGUEST
ning experts. And over OPINION what will happen to
those parcels. Meatime, we all can and
sure M doesn’t reduce
should continue to work
the total amount of developtogether to improve it.
Measure M, however, would ment on El Camino or in our
make significant changes to downtown, but it does limit the
the specific plan via a ballot amount that can be “general
measure. It’s not clear what office.” In its place, we may see
the long-term impacts of those no development, or we could
changes will really be. So, while end up with other, more trafficwe appreciate the intent of Mea- intensive uses (e.g., medical
sure M, we feel it is important offices or chain-store retail).
And instead of enabling our
to share our concerns regarding
the impact that it might have on City Council to continue negotiating on our behalf for improveour community.
The biggest concern is that if ments to the two major planned
Measure M passes, we’ll likely projects, we may find that we
see continued empty parcels get a series of uncoordinated
along El Camino, possibly for ad hoc projects, with fewer
many more years. Aside from public benefits like open plazas
the obvious concerns associated and pedestrian/bicycle improvewith any blight, we currently ments. Long term, we very well
have an opportunity to see that could end up with something
unused land transformed into that doesn’t include the positives
new mixed-use developments of what’s currently on the table.
And since Measure M would
that would bring residents,
workers, and visitors to our lock all of its changes into place
downtown — providing much- unless future city-wide votes are
needed local foot traffic for our taken, we’re concerned that it
will result in litigation, divisive
downtown businesses.
Instead of eyesores, those par- city politics, and more delays
cels become revenue generators, and continued blight along El
providing millions of dollars per Camino.
With these concerns in mind,
year to our schools, fire district,
police and other services from we encourage you to read the
full ballot measure and associatproperty taxes alone.
But we’re also sympathetic
to the anxiousness that comes
See FLEGEL, page 23
A
V I E W P O I N T
LE TTE R S
Our readers write
Fergusson hides
Stanford conflict
Editor:
I am the author of the Menlo
Park council candidate forum
question, “Is there anything
that would restrain you from
discussing the specific plan if
elected to council?”
While Kristen Duriseti
responded that she would be
recused regarding Stanford
since she and her husband work
there, Kelly Fergusson hid that
same conflict, and instead asked
how Kirsten Keith dare post a
picture of herself with developer
John Arrillaga — at the opening
of Menlo Park’s new gym that
Arrillaga funded, an event that
Fergusson also attended.
Hmm, I see Kirsten and Kristen feel no need to hide, but
someone does: Didn’t Kelly say
she’s in this race so she can put
the brakes on the Stanford project? She was recused from discussions in 2010 and if elected
she’d be recused again.
Henry L. Riggs
Callie Lane, Menlo Park
No public benefit for
doubling development
Editor:
We entrust the City Council to manage development.
They have not lived up to this
responsibility. Consider: How
can they explain doubling allowable development on El Camino:
Q Without requiring anything
in return?
Q Without retaining the ability
to negotiate public benefits such
ROBINSON
continued from page 22
flaws, it’s a good first step.
Measure M helps bring imminent projects back in line with
our community’s desire for a
more vibrant downtown, with
“expanded shopping, dining,
and neighborhood services.”
Passage of Measure M is the
surest way to revitalize our
downtown in ways that generations to come can enjoy. Please
vote YES on M on Nov. 4.
Heyward Robinson served on
the Menlo Park City Council
FLEGEL
continued from page 22
ed ballot statements before you
vote. This issue is too important
and complex to be decided by
lawn signs and campaign slogans. Thank you for joining us
as funding for bike/pedestrian
undercrossing, senior housing,
reassessing the land for significantly more school funding
from property taxes, ... ?
Q Without a plan to manage
traffic generated by an additional 1.4 million square feet of
downtown development?
Q While allowing developers
to count private balconies as
open space?
Q Without eliminating medical office?
Q Without placing restrictions
on big box retail, as other cities
have done?
Q Without ensuring that
downtown development is balanced with a mix of retail, restaurants, senior housing, and
neighborhood services?
Q While allowing the public
plaza at Middle Ave. to have a
three-lane driveway through it?
The council has had numerous chances to fix these problems — when they approved
plan and last fall when they
reviewed it. Measure M doesn’t
take away their ability to control
these things. But it’s clear this
council isn’t interested.
Jane Garratt,
Bay Road, Menlo Park
Challenges are
regional in scope
Editor:
The Bay Area, with its rich natural and recreational resources
and employment opportunities,
is a magnet for people seeking
new horizons and ways to make
a decent living.
The resulting population
increase will continue to put
pressure not only on the infrastructure and amenities of existing communities but also on the
from 2006 to 2010. He was
mayor in 2009, the final year
of the specific plan’s public
visioning workshops. Patti
Fry served on the Menlo Park
Planning Commission from
2000 to 2004. She has participated in numerous city task
forces on land use and zoning.
Footnotes
(1) Specific Plan Environmental Impact
Report, page 3-8
(2) “Menlo Park Specific Plan Retail Case
Study,” Strategic Economics, 2012
(3) Circulation System Analysis, Fehr and
Peers (2010)
(4) Menlo Park Ballot Measure Impact
Analysis, Lisa Wise & Assoc. page 5-4
in carefully considering the pros
and cons of Measure M.
Mark Flegel owns Flegel’s
Home Furnishings in Menlo
Park and Richard Draeger is
an owner of Draeger’s market
in Menlo Park.
Money and politics in Menlo Park
T
he unseemly role of
money in politics at the
state and national levels
has a local counterpart these
days. Rather sizable amounts
are being spent for and against
Menlo Park’s Measure M,
which aims to reduce the scale
of office complexes allowed on
El Camino Real.
Greenheart Land Co., one
of the developers proposing
building about 200,000 square
feet of office on El Camino,
has contributed $200,000 to
a political committee it organized to defeat Measure M.
Save Menlo, the grass-root
proponent of Measure M, has
reported spending $96,000 so
far to convince voters to adopt
the measure.
One would hope that voters
will make their decision on
the merits, or demerits, of the
measure rather than on the
number and size of advertisements, signs and fliers. But
with busy lives and insufficient
beautiful open spaces that many
of us have worked very hard to
preserve and protect.
This creates challenges that
are regional in scope and will
not be solved by a Nimby attitude of individual communities.
Menlo Park has an opportunity
to take a positive step by encouraging development of several
parcels along El Camino Real into
a planned unit development that,
because of its size, can provide
special amenities to its residents
and satisfy parking requirements
in underground garages.
Measure M would not only
dramatically limit the implementation of current proposals but it would curtail future
operation of our city’s planning
staff, Planning Commission and
City Council for my years.
Please vote NO on Measure M.
Ernst O. Meissner
Johnson Street, Menlo Park
Protecting the good
things about Menlo
Editor:
My words are not about square
footage, threatening Walmart
Witches or the specter of six
lanes on our Royal Highway.
I want to reflect on signs —
not the “Yes on M” signs I plant
in front of hedges and gardens
across Menlo Park, but rather
the human indicators of a rich
and varied community life.
In Menlo Park, I live on a street
rich with human engagement.
This evening kids played ball
in the street, a dad rode a razor
scooter, a toddler played in a rock
pile, some kids dress-rehearsed
EDI TO R I A L
The opinion of The Almanac
bandwidth to grasp highly
complex land-use issues, voters may be influenced by more
simple messages.
In addition to the magnitude
of local political spending, the
Greenheart committee contributed to the re-election campaigns of the three City Council
incumbents, who, if elected,
would be making critical decisions regarding the proposed
Greenheart development.
Those contributions were
not cash, but assistance in
the form of producing and
mailing slate cards to defeat
Measure M and re-elect the
incumbents, and hiring a paid
canvasser that handed out the
candidates’ “campaign literature.” These “nonmonetary”
contributions had an estimated value of about $900 for each
for Halloween. This safe neighborhood off Middle Avenue
backs up to Nealon Park where
kids and seniors share space.
Like other neighborhoods,
we experience rush-hour traffic even as the town encourages
bike riding and walking. Traffic
can get much worse. If we allow
development that doesn’t respect
our community, how can we protect and enhance the good things
about Menlo Park. I have come
to love our town, my town. Let’s
develop it with some heart sense.
This is why I support “Yes on
M.”
Lynore Banchoff
Morey Drive, Menlo Park
Incumbents compromised
by developer donations
Editor
The article entitled “Incumbent candidates comment on
Greenheart’s campaign support” provides only the candidates’ bland assurances that they
would never let contributions
affect their votes. The reporter
did not interview anyone other
than current council members
who have already compromised
their position by accepting contributions from developers with
current and future projects that
require council approval.
Given that all three incumbent
candidates have received a substantial amount of funding and
in-kind donations from Greenheart, whose project is pending
before the council, those members should not be allowed to
vote on any matters pertaining
to that development.
of the candidates, according to
a campaign finance filing by
Greenheart on Oct. 7.
Greenheart’s political committee is independent and did
not need the candidates’ approval to hand out the fliers, but at
least in the case of incumbents
Rich Cline and Peter Ohtaki,
received their consent.
“When the Committee
learned that (Kirsten) Keith
preferred not to have her flyers
handed out by the Committee,
they immediately stopped,”
Bob Burke, principal with
Greenheart Land Co., said in
an email.
Although she has accepted
donations from other developers, we think Ms. Keith made
the right decision here. It’s just
not a good idea for candidates
who, if elected, will be making
consequential decisions about
the Greenheart complex to be
receiving the developer’s campaign assistance, however
small, if they can stop it. A
Comments like “my vote can’t
be bought for $500” (Peter Ohtaki,
League of Women Voters forum)
beg the question: What is their
price? All three incumbents have
also received large donations from
real estate and developer interests,
including $1,000 each from SILVAR, the local real estate Political Action Committee. What do
those interests expect to receive
in return for that money?
“News” articles that fail to
address these important concerns should be labeled as opinion pieces rather than as fact. As
our city’s only local newspaper,
the Almanac should be probing the possibility of corruption
rather than remaining complicit.
JoAnne Goldberg
East Creek Drive, Menlo Park
Vote Hassett for
open space district
Editor:
Larry Hassett has been our
stellar representative for Ward 6
for 14 years. As a Coastside resident and preserve neighbor, he is
uniquely qualified to represent
these important constituents.
As a Bayside business owner and
long-time community supporter
for numerous causes, he also
represents the rest of us with
fairness and integrity.
Larry helped win passage of
Measure AA and would be a tremendous asset to us all in seeing
this important funding source
put to the best possible use for our
local open space preserves. Please
vote for Larry Hassett on Nov. 4.
David Smernoff
Foxwood Road, Portola Valley
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