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The Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program (Safe, Clean Water) is a voter-approved, 15-year program to implement the community’s priorities for the present and future water resources of Santa Clara County.

Notice of Public Hearing

What:

Public Hearing on Proposed Modifications to the Nitrate Treatment System Rebate Program and the Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project

When:

April 10, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.

Where:

District Headquarters, Board Room 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118

Modifications to the voter-approved program require a public hearing. Two changes are currently proposed.

Nitrate Treatment System Rebate Program The proposed modification is for Project A2, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) #3, the Nitrate Treatment System Rebate Program (Nitrate Rebate Program). The Nitrate Rebate Program provides funds to reimburse private well users for the costs of installing a nitrate treatment system to improve water quality and safety.

The proposed modification will reduce the maximum program funding to align with the demand for the Nitrate Rebate Program. This reduced program funding level includes the funds spent to date to develop, administer and advertise the program, along with an annual amount of $4,000 prospectively, which will be used for rebates through the project’s completion date of 2023. This will help ensure continued assistance for well users that want to take advantage of this opportunity to reduce nitrate levels in their drinking water. The remaining funds would be reallocated to another project within the Safe, Clean Water Program.

Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection (Coyote Creek to Dorel Drive – San José)

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The proposed modification is for Project E4, the Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project.

The primary objective of the project is to reduce the risk of flooding to homes, schools, businesses and highways in the Upper Penitencia Creek Watershed located in San José.

Contributors Kate Daly, Jane Knoerle, Marjorie Mader

The proposed modification would reduce the scope of the Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project to the planning phase only through FY19, and would reallocate the remaining funds to complete flood risk reduction along 9 miles of Coyote Creek, from Montague Expressway to Tully Road. The proposed modification would address the urgent demand for flood risk reduction along Coyote Creek. Completing the planning phase for the Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project would position the District to be able to pursue additional funding for design and construction in the future as grant opportunities and other funding sources may become available.

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Map of the Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project area.

Shaded blue areas indicate the 1% flood areas.

Proposed modification to Key Performance Indicator #3:

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Reduce number of private well water users exposed to nitrate above drinking water standards by awarding 100% of eligible rebate requests for the installation of nitrate removal systems; up to $30,000 for all rebates.

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School districts wary of Facebook’s ‘Willow Village’

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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ear Mr. Zuckerberg,” starts a March 2 letter Sequoia Union High School District Superintendent Mary Streshly wrote to the Facebook CEO, in which she raises some concerns she has with the company’s proposed “Willow Village.”

That’s not to say she opposes the project — “we can all agree that the region is in critical need of housing,” she writes — but she says she wants to talk to the company about how to mitigate the problems its proposed “Willow Village” development could create for the district.

Facebook plans to build 3.45 million square feet of office, retail and residential space on a 59-acre site in Menlo Park bounded roughly by Mid Peninsula High School to the west, Willow Road to the north, the Dumbarton rail corridor to the east, and the UPS Center and Pacific Biosciences office (on O’Brien Drive and Adams Court) to the south.

“One of the things we’re trying to do is get to the table so that we can understand more and have an accurate analysis of the impacts to the schools,” she said in an interview with The Almanac.

Her primary concern is the expected rise in enrollment that could come with the addition of 1,500 new housing units, she said. According to a state formula, she said, the new housing could mean an estimated 300 new high school students in the district, all of whom would be zoned to attend Menlo-Atherton High School.

Ancillary impacts of new development, such as an anticipated increase in traffic and subsequent possible decrease in student safety as a result of more cars on the road, would be borne throughout the district, she added.

“This is an unprecedented time on the Peninsula,” Ms. Streshly said. “There are thousands of new units of living space coming into the Peninsula.”

Since sending the letter to Facebook, Ms. Streshly said, she

Photo by Nathalie Camens.

Students mingle on the quad of Menlo-Atherton’s new G wing building in August 2017.

has met with representatives from the company.

“They basically characterized our conversations as philanthropic,” she said, noting that the representatives seemed dismissive that mitigating the new costs to schools should be part of the proposal.

She’s heard, but said she doesn’t buy, arguments that the number of households with teenagers would be low at

the corporate campus, where employee demographics are known for skewing young.

“Unless they’re planning on only hiring single adults with no children, the notion of not having high school kids is not a realistic concept to entertain,” she said.

The Ravenswood City School District, which is the public school district for the area of Menlo Park where the “Willow

Village” is proposed, is planning to work with Facebook, according to district superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff.

“Our district is currently in the process of studying how the proposed Willow Village development will impact our schools. Although certain the development will generate an increase in student population, See WILLOW VILLAGE, page 6

Council agrees to committee’s district boundaries

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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t least for now, Menlo Park’s governing body will stay a five-member council, but each council member will in the future have to come from the district he or she lives in, under new rules the City Council signed off on this week.

The Menlo Park City Council voted unanimously March 21 to accept a map splitting the city into five different voting districts, which had been developed by the city’s Advisory Districting Committee. The map breaks the city down into five districts: Q District 1: Belle Haven and everything east of U.S. 101; Q District 2: The Willows, Flood Triangle and Suburban Park; Q District 3: Vintage Oaks, Felton Gables, Linfield Oaks, the Caltrain line and a northern segment of El Camino Real; Q District 4: Downtown, Allied Arts and a southern segment of El Camino Real; and Q District 5: the remaining area of

Q MEN LO PARK

west Menlo Park, including Sharon Heights and Stanford Hills.

The committee, according to city staff, met eight times over six weeks and looked at more than 40 draft maps. It used as its criteria state and federal laws, traditional neighborhood boundaries, efforts to divide the population fairly, and visual cohesion, among other considerations such as where there are major roads, schools, and renter versus owner households.

Staff notes that the committee also gave consideration to how the boundaries might affect the ability of incumbents or other likely candidates to run for office.

Menlo Park is under pressure to comply with a lawsuit threat received in August from Kevin Shenkman, an attorney at Shenkman and Hughes, a Malibu-based law firm. He was representing an unnamed plaintiff and alleged that Menlo Park’s at-large voting system violates the California Voting Rights Act because it

makes it harder for candidates preferred by African American and Latino voters to get elected.

One challenge to the proposed district boundaries came from the Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce. Fran Dehn, chamber president and CEO, said that she wanted the line between districts three and four revised so that District 3 has more say over the Caltrain line. She also asked that the downtown section be extended from Crane Street to University Drive.

Advisory districting member Michael Cohen, speaking for himself rather than as a committee member, noted in public comment that to comply with districting law, which says that the population can’t vary more than 10 percent among districts, other district lines would have to be changed. Doing so could result in an “ugly carve-out” in either direction, he said.

Ultimately, while not all council members agreed the plan was See BOUNDARIES, page 6

Image courtesy city of Menlo Park.

The district lines for Menlo Park for the 2018 and 2020 elections.

After those elections, the lines will be redrawn using 2020 census data.

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in order to plan accordingly, we will be reaching out to Facebook to have a discussion that will provide us with more specific information,” she said in a written statement.

Concerns at M-A

Over the last several days, a group of parents in the school district, mainly at Menlo-Atherton High School, have taken matters in their own hands, launching a petition requesting Facebook work with the high school district to mitigate the impacts of the anticipated new residents.

According to Ms. Streshly, Menlo-Atherton already has the largest student population in the county. It currently has about 2,400 students and enrollment is already projected to rise to as much as 2,600 by

the 2018-19 school year.

In a newsletter to high school parents, Menlo-Atherton Principal Simone Kennel included information about how to sign the petition, noting that it was a parent-run effort, and offered to collect signatures. As of March 20, she said, she did not yet know how many copies of the petition had been signed.

“My sense is this: patience is running low,” she said. “We want to be partners with Facebook and the city of Menlo Park.”

Power to negotiate

One key question to any negotiations that might play out between the district and Facebook is just what a developer owes a school district when it comes to alleviating the stresses it might create by adding people to a community.

The high school district already charges developers impact fees, which are intended

to cover the added capital costs that are generated by a development. As of 2016, the rates were $3.48 per square foot for residential construction and $0.56 per square foot for commercial and industrial construction.

And it receives a certain percentage of property taxes for annual operating costs.

The preliminary master plan Facebook submitted to the city of Menlo Park indicates there would be roughly 1.59 million square feet of housing space, which, when calculated at the proposed $3.48 per square foot, would generate for the district about $5.52 million in impact fees.

Yet there’s a gap between what those impact fees would cover and what the school district says it needs. Ms. Streshly told The Almanac that, according to early calculations, she is expecting that it may cost $60 million in capital costs alone to build

the school facilities needed for 300 more students. It’s not yet known how much property tax the new development will generate, nor what the annual operating costs will be for the new students, she said.

“The only leverage I see is to advocate for what the needs of education for all of the community’s students are going to be, at some point,” Ms. Kennel said. “If we don’t have a long-term plan to account for that, we are going to be struggling in many ways.”

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perfect, they conceded that the proposed district boundaries were workable, given the tight time frame under which the city must work to finalize the district boundaries.

Councilman Peter Ohtaki suggested splitting districts 3 and 4 along Santa Cruz Avenue instead of El Camino Real.

“I don’t want to send it back and cause more work at this point,” Councilwoman Catherine Carlton said. “It seems to be OK the way it is.”

“We want to make sure we stay on our timeline,” said Councilwoman Kirsten Keith, noting that lines will have to be redrawn following the completion of the 2020 census anyway.

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The decision to split the city into five districts means forgoing the other option for structuring the council: creating six districts and having an at-large elected mayor.

More council members means longer council meetings, pointed out Mayor Peter Ohtaki.

“I think we do pretty well,” he said, adding that he’d be open to revisiting the topic if the city experiences a substantial increase in population.

Moving forward, according to Assistant City Attorney Cara Silver, the council is scheduled to have more mandatory public hearings. The first is scheduled for April 17 to introduce the ordinance, and another is scheduled for April 24 to finalize the ordinance. Then, the plan is to submit the finalized maps to the San Mateo County Elections Office May 1.

Advisory Districting Committee member Max Heim said that when he began working on the committee to draw the district boundaries, he thought it was a daunting task, but ultimately, he was “proud of what we accomplished in a short period of time” and considered it a good example of “civic engagement” and “democracy in action.”

Julie Shanson, a member

In any case, both Ms. Streshly and Ms. Kennel said they plan to participate in the public process and seek to work with Facebook and the city of Menlo Park in future negotiations.

“I believe the city has to play a leadership role in bringing both sides together,” Ms. Streshly said.

The company plans to invite interested parties to participate in a series of community discussion groups later this spring to talk about “the features and amenities of Willow Village.” A

of Belle Haven Action, said she supported the five-district option because it “puts everyone in the neighborhood they think they’re in.”

Which districts vote first?

One big question is the sequencing of the elections. In 2018, the terms for three incumbents are up: Rich Cline, Peter Ohtaki and Kirsten Keith. The council followed the districting committee’s recommendations and voted to hold elections for districts 1, 2, and 4 in 2018 and for districts 3 and 5 in 2020.

Currently, council members Cline and Ohtaki live in District 4 and council members Catherine Carlton and Ray Mueller live in District 5. Councilwoman Keith lives in District 2.

The council agreed to prioritize elections for District 1 because that is the problem area for which the city is facing the litigation threat — the letter from Mr. Shenkman argues that no Latino has ever run for City Council and that, in 2016, African American candidate Cecilia Taylor lost the election despite being preferred by Latino and African American voters.

Challenges

One outcome of the council’s decision is that District 3, which is currently vacant, will not have a representative until 2020, although there is at least one person interested in running for the seat: Jennifer Wolosin, founder of the city’s “Parents for Safe Routes” group, has filed preliminary paperwork indicating interest in running for office. She confirmed with The Almanac that she would run if the seat were open.

Another potential impact of the switch to districts, noted Councilman Rich Cline, is that council members typically must recuse themselves from any matter that involves a site less than 500 feet away from their home. In other words, there could be a scenario in which the sole representative of an area that could be affected by a council decision can’t vote on the matter because he or she lives too close. A

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Deputy looking at a steep climb in running for sheriff

By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

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eputy Mark Melville of the San Mateo County Sheriff ’s Office is on a road less traveled. In the June 5 primary election, he’s a challenger for an elective office in which challengers are rare in San Mateo County: the election for county sheriff.

It’s a matter of civics for Mr. Melville. “Everybody keeps getting the job handed down to

them,” he said. “This has got to stop. We have got to have an election.”

Elections Office records show a pattern of sheriff’s races in which there is no opposition, and in recent elections, the second in command, the undersheriff, has gotten the job when a sheriff retires.

Don Horsley, now a county supervisor, ran unopposed for sheriff in 1993, 1998, and 2002, records show.

Greg Munks, Mr. Horsley’s

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Mr. Lopez, who had candidate filing problems, “was going to try to make a true election of it.

It didn’t happen, unfortunately,” Mr. Melville said when asked to comment.

The current sheriff, Carlos G. Bolanos, served as undersheriff for Mr. Munks for 10 years.

While the election on June 5 will be his first, he is running as an appointed incumbent. The Board of Supervisors in July 2016 voted 3-2 to appoint him sheriff when Mr. Munks decided to retire early. The appointment was made with no opportunity provided for interested people to apply for the position.

That split vote notwithstanding, Mr. Bolanos now has the endorsement of all five supervisors as well as the elected officials in Sacramento who represent the Peninsula, the county district attorney, and a long list of other local officials and people in law enforcement.

Asked about that long list, Mr. Melville replied, “Carlos got all of his endorsements when there was only one horse in this race.

The county seems to roll over and endorse the incumbents. ...

It’s an uphill battle. I’m not letting that discourage me.”

Through a spokeswoman,

Mr. Bolanos said he had no comment.

Well-oiled machine

Asked why contested elections for sheriff are so rare, Mr. Melville said he didn’t know but had an opinion. “The county machine is a well-oiled machine,” he said. “The political machine in this county is pretty tough to crack.”

After then-deputy Lopez took on Mr. Munks in 2014, within a year he had been arrested twice and charged with conspiracy in connection with a jail inmate having access to a cellphone, and with violations of election law, including perjury. A judge recently dismissed the conspiracy and perjury charges, but Mr. Lopez still faces several election law-related charges, with a trial set for May 14. Mr. Lopez’s attorneys describe his case as retaliation by county officials over his run for sheriff.

When the Board of Supervisors elevated Mr. Bolanos to sheriff in 2016, there were a couple of notable complaints.

Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Menlo Park — both former county supervisors — co-signed a letter saying they knew of people in law enforcement who would have competed for the job, and that the incumbency bequeathed to Mr. Bolanos would leave competitors “severely disadvantaged” in an election.

“Her comments were right on

the money,” Mr. Melville said of Ms. Speier.

He said he sat down with Mr. Bolanos to let him know that he had a challenger. “He was very cordial,” Mr. Melville said.

“We talked about differences of opinion and philosophies. We agreed to disagree amicably.

There hasn’t been any animosity between us.”

A principal point of disagreement is management style, Mr. Melville said, noting that he manages from the bottom up and that Mr. Bolanos does the opposite.

Mr. Melville also said he would prefer that Mr. Bolanos not make high-level appointments in the department until after the election. “He might tell you that those promotions are necessary now, and I would disagree with that,” Mr. Melville said. “If he wins fine. If I win, then I’ll make the promotions.”

Mr. Bolanos said he had no comment.

A debate is set for 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 25, at the Woodside Methodist Church at 2000 Woodside Road in Redwood City.

More transparency

Mr. Melville, a deputy since 2008, is a former police officer in Half Moon Bay and Brisbane; a former fire captain in Brisbane; a former police chief, city manager and elected city See SHERIFF, page 19

Residents express opposition to proposed water facility

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

Although the Atherton City Council is waiting for preliminary plans for a water capture facility that could be built in Holbrook-Palmer Park to be completed, more than a dozen residents showed up at the March 21 council meeting to express their objections to the facility.

The California Department of Transportation has agreed to pay the $16.2 million cost of the facility, designed to prevent some flooding and remove pollutants from water before it reaches the bay.

Daniel Walker, who lives on Maple Avenue near the park, said he and his wife are against building the facility there. Especially during the construction of the new civic center, they need to be able to use the park so “that we can escape that construction,” he said.

“The project would forever

alter the beautiful park,” he said.

Mr. Walker cited earthquakes, the “potential for unpleasant smells” and ongoing maintenance costs as risks.

Julie Quinlan said she worries the project “will be a financial albatross to the town” and asked the council to consider what it might cost to decommission it at the end of its estimated 50-year lifespan. “I really encourage you to look at alternatives and not put this in Holbrook-Palmer,” she said.

Grant Bowers, who lives on McCormick Lane, said his family uses the park daily. “The idea of building this facility at this size and scale ... in our view is really something unacceptable,” he said. “There have to be simpler green methods,” such as bioswales to clean the water, he said. “Why are we capturing these pollutants in the park?”

Sandy Crittenden said he feels the project “is way too expensive, regardless of who pays for it.”

“There are better solutions,” he said, adding that he and others would be willing to help pay for them.

Council members said they will wait until the preliminary plans for the facility are brought back to them and hope they help answer residents’ questions.

“I think there is a misunderstanding of what this is and what it will do,” said council member Bill Widmer. “I think we need to do a better job of communicating the facts concisely.”

“We have to think about every move related to this project,” said Mayor Cary Wiest. “We heard from neighbors in the project areas,” and know they want more information, he said.

“We want to make the right decision, but we want to be informed,” Mayor Wiest said.

The project should come back to the council with the preliminary design completed in April or May. At that point, the council will decide if it wants to continue with the process. A

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Menlo fire board wants more info on employee housing proposal

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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efore a district employee and family are allowed to move into a home recently purchased by the Menlo Park Fire Protection District for $3.2 million, members of the district’s board say they want a lot more information from Chief Harold Schapelhouman.

The chief had recommended that one of two district employees who are interested be allowed to rent a home the district recently purchased on Valparaiso Avenue in unincorporated Menlo Park, in exchange for a $3,000 per month reduction in the employee’s salary.

The three-bedroom, twobathroom house at 2110 Valparaiso Ave., next door to the district’s Alameda de las Pulgas fire station, had been listed for lease at $6,000 per month when the district began negotiating for its purchase.

Chief Schapelhouman said each of the employees interested in the property has said they

would move to the home, which is in the Las Lomitas School District, with their family.

Under the chief’s plan, by paying the rent on the home with pre-tax dollars, the employee would not pay taxes on $36,000 in income per year. The amount paid by the district and the employee toward his pension would also be reduced.

The chief told the board that he had based the $3,000 rent on the rental costs where the employees are currently living.

The chief said having a district employee living in the home would allow that employee to “provide additional services to the district, to the community ... which they would not be able to do if they lived further away.”

But board members said they wanted a lot more information before endorsing the plan.

“I don’t think we have the information to make that decision,” said board member Virginia Chang-Kiraly. She said district residents have told her See HOUSING PROPOSAL, page 19

Atherton council OKs further study of fire district options

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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therton will continue looking at the details of leaving the Menlo Park Fire Protection District and at what legislative options exist to reallocate property taxes among public agencies.

The town has long known that more property tax revenues paid

by Atherton property owners go to the fire district than to the town. A study by the Matrix Consulting Group released in January shows the fire district spends less than half the property tax revenues it receives from Atherton property owners providing services to the town, with an operating subsidy of more than $7 million a year and growing.

The City Council voted Wednesday night, March 21, to spend $13,500 to have Matrix prepare another report, looking into exactly what the town would need to do to leave the fire district. The consultants will also explore what legislative options might exist that could reallocate property tax revenues.

The Matrix proposal says the

report will be ready in about two months. The actual process of separating from the district would probably take years, however.

“There’s an enormous opportunity cost to overpaying for fire services,” said council member Mike Lempres. The extra property taxes now going to the fire district would be redistributed to local agencies such as school districts and other special districts, as well as the town, he said. The difference could possibly mean, he said, that local school districts might not need to keep passing parcel taxes.

“In my view, this is an important thing to do, to keep moving forward,” Mr. Lempres said. “I think we need to know what the options are.”

The vote was not unanimous.

Council member Rick DeGolia moved to table the proposal to an indefinite future date, with support from council member Elizabeth Lewis. Mr. DeGolia said the town needs to concentrate on building a new civic center, the largest public project in the history of the town. “I think that this issue with the

fire district is a distraction from that,” he said.

“What are we going to do if we detach?” Mr. DeGolia asked.

“Why would we do that, (when) we have excellent service from this fire district?

It’s just that we pay a hell of a lot of tax dollars for it.”

“There’s nothing that I can see that we can do about it,” Mr. DeGolia said. “Our residents are not going to pay any less in taxes if we detach. It would just be redistributed.”

Ms. Lewis had different concerns about the proposal. She said she thinks the report will be a “boilerplate analysis” of the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) process for detachment. “I think they will be very, very light if at all on” ideas to change the legislative process for allocating the property taxes, she said.

City Attorney Bill Conners said the report would probably not be looking at changing Proposition 13, approved by voters in 1978 as a constitutional amendment. Instead, it See FIRE DISTRICT, page 22

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By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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fter sitting vacant for more than two years, a new tenant for the former Sunset Publishing headquarters has been announced: finance tech startup Robinhood.

“The space will accommodate our growing team as we continue to democratize America’s financial system,” according to company spokesperson Lavinia Chirico.

Robinhood, which offers free stock trades, will be relocating its headquarters from Palo Alto to the Menlo Park building located at 85 Willow Road.

The company currently has about 100 employees and plans to expand — its website listed openings for 19 positions in Palo Alto and more at an office in Orlando, as of March 19.

Menlo Park Mayor Peter Ohtaki said he was glad the

former Sunset headquarters won’t sit vacant and that he hopes the company preserves the gardens.

The company was co-founded by two former Stanford roommates, Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, and launched its app in December 2014. According to the Wall Street Journal, it is going through a new funding round and is in the final stages of securing around $350 million from a group of investors led by Russian firm DST Global. The publication reports the company is now set to be valued at about $5.6 billion.

In February, the company launched trading for the cryptocurrencies bitcoin and Ethereum in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, and New Hampshire, according to the company’s blog.

After Sunset

The company’s new headquarters has been vacant since the

120-year-old Sunset Publishing Corp. left Menlo Park for Oakland and Sonoma in December 2015. In 2017, the company was sold by Time, Inc. to Regent L.P., a Los Angeles-based private equity firm.

Sunset’s seven-acre campus was purchased by Embarcadero Capital Partners in December 2014, after Menlo College had briefly explored the option of buying the land to preserve and use for additional student housing. As of January 2016, the property owners planned to complete interior renovations but leave the existing building intact.

Robinhood expects to move in to the new offices when renovations are completed, sometime this spring.

When asked whether the company would continue Sunset’s tradition of an open house for the public to access the gardens annually, the company stated it was not familiar with that tradition. A

Middlefield Road bike plan nears completion

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$1.3 million plan to add bike lanes on Middlefield Road from Jennings Lane to Ravenswood Avenue is moving toward completion in Atherton. The town has received nearly $1 million in grants to pay for the project, which was deemed a high priority in the town’s capital improvements project list.

Encinal School and MenloAtherton High School are both located on Middlefield Road, which is used by many bicyclists

and pedestrians.

Council members were shown the 95 percent completed plans at their March 21 meeting.

While adding the bike lanes, signs and pavement painting will visually alter Middlefield Road, the changes are needed to make the route safer for the many students and pedestrians who use it, council members said.

“This is really going to change the look of Middlefield Road,” said council member Elizabeth Lewis. But, she said, “We have a responsibility to do as much as we

can to make it as safe as we can.”

“I think it’s the right thing to do,” she said. “People will not be happy, but they will get used to it.”

Council member Mike Lempres agreed. “It’s going to make a splash on Middlefield Road,” he said, but added “I’m comfortable with where we’re going.”

On April 16 the council will be asked to approve soliciting bids for the project. Construction would take place this summer with the project completed by the time school starts next fall. A

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Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz visits Menlo Park

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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ulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz recently stopped at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, and at Costano Elementary in East Palo Alto as part of a national book tour to promote his new children’s book, “Islandborn.”

The Kepler’s Literary Foundation brings authors to talk to students in the Ravenswood City School District.

Below is an excerpt from aQ&A session with Mr. Diaz at Kepler’s on March 21, which had roughly 250 attendees, according to Jean Forstner, executive director of the literary foundation. Mr. Diaz answeredQuestions from both children and adults in the audience. Responses have been edited for length.

Q: Did you ever think about being a writer when you were young?

A: Do you know what I really wanted to do when I was young?

I wanted to own a library. For real. I was so into books, and my family was so scary and didn’t like to read, it was like a perfect

match. They would never look for me in a library. So I thought I could own a library. And then I found out if you’re a writer, it’s kinda like the same thing.

Q: If you could do something, knowing that you’d succeed at it, what would it be?

A: If I could do something and I knew that I’d be really good at it, I don’t think I’d want to do it. And I’m not just being a pain. But part of every endeavor is that we’re not certain where it’s going to take us. ... Knowing something, knowing a journey to its end for me neutralizes what’s fascinating about the journey. It becomes instead of a mysterious labyrinth of experience, it becomes this determinative, already de-enchanted, weird paradigm. Who knows if you’re going to be good at a marriage? Remember, most of what we’re talking about can only be discovered in its praxis.

And that’s what’s really difficult.

You could be like, “Yo, I’m the best boyfriend in the world,” — wah wah — you discover you’re not. So I guess I’ve always — this probably reveals a lot about how screwed up I am — I

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Author Junot Diaz speaks to children and adults during a reading and question-and-answer session at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park on March 21.

tend to throw myself away from my strengths. I always found it very easy to move away from the things I was good at. And I guess part of me likes — this

seems ridiculous — but part of me never got away from the experience of learning English.

My natural state is being bad at speaking the language. I enjoy

being bad at whatever I’m doing.

It’s a weird thing. But it has been very generative for me.

See DIAZ, page 22

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PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities. We are excited to announce all of your returning favorites: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.), PACCC Special Interest Units (S.I.U.), F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps. Open to campers from all communities. Register online.

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These 17 former Friends of Filoli volunteers are just a few of the hundreds who have given up their unpaid jobs at the estate since 2015. They got together recently in an Atherton garden and said that one of the things they miss the most is the friends they made working at Filoli.

Help not wanted?

Filoli’s volunteer corps is dwindling in size and responsibility Story by Barbara Wood | Photos by Michelle Le

I

n 2014 Filoli, the historic Woodside estate, stated on its federal tax forms that it had 1,442 volunteers who — the volunteer newsletter reported the next year — had donated 103,769 hours to Filoli, the equivalent of 50 full-time employees.

That newsletter valued the time of the volunteers at $2.7 million, a figure that didn’t include the money volunteers paid for the Filoli membership required to volunteer.

The volunteers did everything on the property, from building trails for nature hikes to digging weeds in the garden and checking out customers in the garden shop.

Since then, however, the number of volunteers at Filoli has steadily declined.

In early 2015, Filoli officials said they had 1,300 active volunteers. By late 2017, despite quarterly volunteer recruitment events, Filoli Executive Director Kara Newport said the number of volunteers was down to 850.

Hundreds of volunteers left in 2015 after Filoli told them they had to sign a new volunteer agreement or give up their unpaid jobs. The agreement, among other things, released Filoli from liability for injury, death or damage to volunteers or their property

while working at Filoli, even if the harm resulted from Filoli’s negligence.

Many other volunteers said they stayed at Filoli only after management agreed to allow the liability release clause in the volunteer agreement to be crossed out.

In late 2017, however, volunteers were told they had to sign a new volunteer agreement, essentially identical to the 2015 agreement and including the controversial liability release. In addition, volunteers — regardless of whether they had been at Filoli for 40 years — had to submit to a criminal background check.

Hundreds more volunteers left then, with many of them telling The Almanac the new agreement and the background checks were the final straw, but not the only reasons they gave up volunteer jobs they loved.

After Filoli announced the most recent changes in its volunteer expectations late last year, many disgruntled former and current volunteers contacted The Almanac and asked to share their stories. The Almanac spoke with more than 15 former volunteers for this story.

The Almanac also spoke with Filoli Executive Director Kara Newport and to volunteers

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she suggested who support the recent changes.

Volunteers lose governing roles At the same time Filoli demanded that volunteers sign the new agreement and submit to background checks, the estate’s organizational structure was radically changed, depriving volunteers of the considerable power and leadership they had held at Filoli for four decades.

As in a corporate takeover in which the acquired company is stripped of all its assets, the volunteers’ organization, the Friends of Filoli, is now only a shell of what it once was.

A 1990 history of Filoli by one of the Friends founders, Timmy Gallagher, describes the Friends of Filoli as “a non-profit organization, which provides volunteer workers and financial support to Filoli Center. Friends of Filoli guides the work of the volunteers, including the training of docents who conduct tours, operates a Garden Shop ... and sponsors programs and workshops for the benefit of Filoli.”

Until Filoli’s reorganization went into effect in January, six members of the Friends of Filoli board also served on Filoli’s governing board. Now the Friends group, which formerly included

all volunteers and Filoli members, is merely a committee of the governing board. Only the head of the Friends’ committee retained a seat on the Filoli governing board, and with her title downgraded from president to chair.

A membership in Filoli is now a membership in Filoli Center, the organization that manages Filoli, leaving only volunteers in the Friends. Volunteers now must be members of Filoli Center if they want to donate their time and talents.

Decades ago, the Friends of Filoli had even more independence. Before 1987, when its leadership was combined with that of the governing board, the Friends was a stand-alone organization raising most of the money used to run Filoli.

An old organizational chart for Filoli shows the Friends of Filoli and the governing board as equal, with the executive director having no authority over the Friends.

Several longtime volunteers say the 1987 changes came because the Friends’ fundraising meant the group held the estate’s purse strings. Board members who wanted more say over where money was spent decided to share governing board leadership with the Friends’ leaders.

Having six Friends of Filoli

leaders on the governing board, however, meant that volunteers were managing the executive director.

More 2018 changes More new rules governing volunteers went into effect this year. Filoli’s website says volunteers now must contribute at least 72 hours annually, have an email address, and “be able to traverse (with an assistive device if needed) the uneven terrain of Filoli’s historic property.”

Kathie Shaw, a former governing board member and former president of the Friends of Filoli, said she believes the latest rules, especially those requiring use of email and the requirements about traversing uneven terrain (even for volunteers who work only in the house) “are a way of culling out anyone with an age problem.”

Filoli leadership said the terrain rules are needed for safety, in case the property has to be evacuated.

Even with the vast drop-off in the number of volunteers, Ms. Newport, who became Filoli’s executive director in September 2016, said Filoli still has more volunteers and fewer employees than similar properties.

“According to the American Public Gardens Association

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Benchmarking data, similar sized organizations have about 450 volunteers who are contributing the same number of hours as our volunteers (so more hours per volunteer),” she said in a statement sent to The Almanac.

Ms. Newport is the American Public Gardens Association’s treasurer.

Ms. Newport said the estate plans to add more employees.

“According to the American Public Gardens Benchmarking Study we were understaffed by 20 percent,” Ms. Newport said in the statement. “In the next three years we plan to incrementally add staff to cover basic operations like extended hours and extended seasons as well as functional areas like development and marketing.”

She argued that much of the reduction in the number of volunteers can be attributed to “a clean-up of our database.”

Volunteers tell their stories While the number of volunteers has dropped by nearly 35 percent since 2014, the numbers really don’t tell the whole story.

Many volunteers, some of whom started soon after Lurline Roth donated the estate, say giving up volunteering at Filoli has been like losing a close friend, and they mourn the severing of their close ties with the grand old estate.

Some say they’re angry, but many others say they’re just sad and even bewildered. Others say they understand why changes were needed, but they don’t like the way in which they happened.

A number said they’d return to Filoli if leadership changes.

Here are a few of the volunteers’ stories, including those of some who say they’re mostly happy with the changes.

A volunteer for 40 years Kathy Tharp said she became a Filoli volunteer in 1977, participating in the second training for volunteer docents. She said volunteers in the first class, which was trained at the end of 1976, were either friends or family members of Lurline Roth.

Ms. Roth donated the 125 acres including the Filoli gardens and manor house to the National Trust, and 529 more acres of the original estate to Filoli Center.

Today, Filoli Center manages the estate for the National Trust.

Ms. Tharp said her trainers included Ms. Roth’s twin daughters, Lurline Coonan and Berenice Spalding, and local gardening legends Maureen Smith, Sally MacBride and Timmy Gallagher.

“They presented (Filoli) as a

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Ms. Newport. “I think she’s very brilliant. I think she understands things very quickly,” she said.

“I haven’t always agreed with her,” she said, but “I think the direction we’re moving is very positive. I think it’s going to help Filoli last another 100 years.”

“She has an amazing vision of what Filoli can be,” Ms. George said.

“I think there’s just better days ahead for Filoli. I think it has a really bright future. I think it’s going to be sustainable,” she said.

Joan Sanders, a former president of the Friends of Filoli, stopped volunteering there after 29 years in 2015 and is now the presidentelect of the Gamble Garden board.

Former Filoli board member, Friends’ president

home and we were introduced to it as being our home, too,” Ms. Tharp said.

In those days, before Filoli had received many of the home’s original furnishings left to it in Ms. Roth’s will, the house had “not one stitch of furniture,” Ms. Tharp said. “We were taught to be very creative about how we talked about the house,” she said.

With just words, “we created an image of what Filoli was like when the families were living there,” she said.

In those early days only volunteers with horticulture degrees could work in the garden, Ms. Tharp said. When things became more settled, the requirements were loosened up and Ms. Tharp worked with head gardener Lucy Tolmach “to really develop the garden volunteer program,” she said.

Ms. Tharp said she personally interviewed each volunteer who wanted to work in the garden to find that person the right job and the right Filoli employee to work with. “We never, ever turned away one person who wanted to work for Filoli,” she said. “It didn’t matter if you were 19 or 90. There was always a job that needed to be done.”

Until recently, she said, more than 50 percent of Filoli’s garden volunteers had been there at least 10 years and worked once a week or more.

After finishing a shift, volunteers would gather in Filoli’s cafe. “Filoli was a very special place for us,” she said. Volunteers “loved it so much; they loved the camaraderie. All the fabulous friendships that were created throughout the years.”

“That’s why we miss it so much,” she said. “That opportunity has been lost to us now.”

Although Ms. Tharp was an active volunteer until last year, when she chaired the annual Farm to Table dinner, she left when the new volunteer agreement and background check requirements were put in place.

Volunteering at Filoli, she said, was no longer a positive experience for her. “It was not fun, it

Joan Sanders said she spent 29 years as a volunteer at Filoli, including stints on the estate’s governing board and as a president of the Friends of Filoli.

The 2015 volunteer agreement is what drove Ms. Sanders away.

“I felt the volunteer agreement was so ugly and punitive,” she said.

Now she volunteers with other organizations, including Gamble Garden in Palo Alto, where she is the president-elect of its board.

Gamble, she notes, does not require a paid membership of volunteers.

Ms. Sanders, a longtime Atherton resident, said she used to be happy to pay to be a volunteer at Filoli, donating hundreds of hours a year.

“It was a wonderful experience with lots of different jobs to do, lots of fun to be had,” she said. She especially enjoyed the “great community of volunteers” and made many lifelong friends there, she said.

Volunteers raised the money to run the estate, organized and ran special events, ran its cafe and gift shop, led tours of the home and garden, trained new volunteers, ran a nature program for students, sold tickets and memberships, and worked in the gardens and in offices, Ms. Sanders said.

“People could explore different talents,” she said.

Plus the working conditions — spending time on the grand old estate with its beautiful gardens, set at the base of the Santa Cruz mountains — couldn’t be beat.

Most volunteers worked at least two three-hour shifts a month, she said, but many worked far more.

“I think I worked at least 200 hours during the year, and I think a lot of people did,” she said.

During busy times, such as the now canceled Holiday Traditions event, she and others often worked 40 to 60 hours a week, she said.

Now, she said, volunteers get reassigned from the jobs they signed up for, and many of the

was a lot of hard work,” she said.

“It was pretty obvious it was time for me to go.”

Ms. Tharp said she’s now looking for another place to volunteer, maybe closer to her home in San Mateo.

Five-year volunteer not planning to leave Mary George, who has lived in Menlo Park and now Atherton for 35 years, said she started volunteering at Filoli after years of active volunteering in her children’s schools. She chairs the house and garden docents group of between 160 and 170 volunteers.

There were, she says, things that needed changing at Filoli.

The property is expensive to maintain, with many deferred maintenance projects in the more than century-old house.

More cash is needed to do that, she said. “I think the fundraising model was unsustainable.”

Other changes that some volunteers protested, such as changing the popular holiday programs and keeping the gardens open year-round, was also needed, she said. “If you move an antique, more than likely it is damaged,” she said of the previous practice of annually moving all the furniture out of the house to fill it with holiday merchandise and decor.

“Another thing we needed to look into is what would be attractive to families,” she said.

“We just need to be looking into the 21st century.”

But Ms. George also feels volunteers are very important to Filoli. “There’s no way Filoli could exist the way it is today if it wasn’t for volunteers,” she said. “I think there’s really an appreciation for what we do.

Some staff members appreciate the volunteers more than other staff members.”

She is not completely sure about the changes to the Friends of Filoli. “I don’t think it’s a problem,” she said. “But time will tell.”

Ms. George said she admires

more rewarding jobs have been taken from them. “Set up, clean up and break down” are all volunteers are wanted for, she said.

How volunteers interact with staff members has also changed, Ms. Sanders said. “If you say anything negative within hearing of staff, you will be asked not to volunteer anymore,” she said.

Working with volunteers, she said, is hard for managers who need control. “People feel they can’t control volunteers, because if volunteers are unhappy, they simply leave and go somewhere else.”

“I think volunteers were an important part of Filoli,” she said. “These are people who have been in all the top industries on the Peninsula. They’re retired, and they love gardens and they love history, and we are not utilizing their expertise at all.”

Ms. Sanders said that while she still loves Filoli, she has changed her will to remove a bequest for the estate. “I have taken Filoli out of my will and put another worthy organization in there.”

Volunteer booted after “not fun” remark Another 35-year volunteer said she suddenly lost her volunteer status after she remarked to a Filoli employee that volunteering at the estate was “not fun” anymore. The former volunteer, who asked not to have her name used, said soon after she made the remark the chairs of the committees she volunteered on were told she was no longer a volunteer.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself now,” she said.

“I was really putting a lot of time into Filoli.” She had worked at least 100 hours a year, and up to 200, in recent years, she said.

“I thought I was going to continue doing that,” she said.

“They just weren’t interested in having me around.”

The woman said she began volunteering at Filoli while working full time. Filoli attracted her because she had grown up in a 28-room estate on the Peninsula and “I’ve always loved gardens,” she said.

“I’m still a member,” she said.

“I support Filoli in theory. I’m not as mad as some people are.

I’m really just sad.”

The former volunteer said that when she began donating her time and effort, Filoli had only five employees other than the gardening staff. Ms. Newport said in November that Filoli had the equivalent of 64 full-time employees (which can mean many more actual employees, as many workers are part-time).

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the former volunteer said. For example, volunteers are not allowed in Filoli’s main house unless they have business in the house. “That’s just silly because all the volunteers are members,� the woman said, and members can go in the house at any time during their visits.

According to emails sent to volunteers, if they want to visit the garden after finishing a volunteer shift in the gift shop, for example, they must move their vehicles from volunteer to guest parking, remove their volunteer name badges and check in to get a wristband from visitor services.

The former volunteer said she felt volunteers have gone from being partners to being seen as interlopers.

She said that during her first 25 years of volunteering she rarely met any of Filoli’s executive directors. “They weren’t really visible on the property,� she said. “They didn’t need to be because everything was being run just fine by the volunteers.�

When Kara Newport started, however, the volunteer introduced herself and started to ask Ms. Newport a question about her background.

She said Ms. Newport interrupted her, guessed at what the question would be and abruptly answered her own guess. “That’s not what I was going to ask,� the former volunteer said. “I felt like I got slapped in the face,� she said. “What a way to meet her.�

Former board member, interim director Bob Walker, a retired HewlettPackard and Agilent Technologies upper-level executive, served on Filoli’s board of directors and was its interim director between the departure of executive director Jane Risser and the hiring of her replacement, Cynthia D’Agosta. He continues to volunteer at Filoli.

Mr. Walker, like many of the other volunteers interviewed, said change was needed at Filoli.

What is happening there, he said, is “part of a long-term process.� “Filoli’s getting more organized,� he said. “For a long time, it was running on inertia and people who had been around for a long, long time.�

Change, he said, is hard. Those who are driving and involved in the changes can find it invigorating and energizing, he said.

But for those the change is happening to, that’s not the case, he added. “Organizations don’t change easily,� he said.

Mr. Walker said Filoli has had

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too many executive directors said. whose stays have been too short.

She started volunteering when “The board was very concerned Lurline Roth was still alive and that somehow this was reflecting visiting her former home. “I met very badly on them,� he said. Mrs. Roth several times,� she “That’s a concern the current said. “I actually got to serve Mrs. board has.�

Roth wine.�

One problem that has frustrat“Filoli is different than it was ed the five executive directors 20 years ago. I understand that,� and two interim execshe said. utives Filoli has had Ms. Legallet is since 2005 is “volunespecially happy that teers and the role they Filoli will no longer play� at Filoli, Mr. close for three months Walker said. “There each year. “I’ve wantwas a real sense ... ed the garden to open that the volunteers year around forever,� just had too much she said. “It’s going to independence.� An be wonderful.� organization with lots She also Bob Walker of workers who do not believes volunteers have a clear chain of command is will still be able to be creative hard to run, he said. and come up with projects that In the early days, he said, are adopted by Filoli’s staff, Ms. volunteers ran Filoli. “As the Legallet said. “You’re going to do organization got larger and more it within a system,� she said. mature, it became a little less If she had an idea for a fundclear — who is in charge?� he raiser, after talking it over with said. a staff member, “I wouldn’t hesiThe fact that volunteers on the tate to go to Kara (Newport) and governing board supervised the say, ‘This is what I want to do,’ “ executive director made it “very, she said. very hard for the executive direcBecause the Friends group is tor,� he said. no longer as autonomous as it But replacing volunteers with once was, “I feel like I’d have a paid staff means Filoli needs lot more access to staff support� more money to operate, he for a project, she said. “I consider noted. That has brought in cor- us the worker bees.� porate events, which “change the “Kara’s a very strong leader,� ambiance of the place,� he said. she said. “She’s extremely com“For a long time, there was petent. She’s the boss,� she said. a sense of a feeling of family�

Some of the changes, such as among both Filoli employees encouraging corporate rentals and volunteers, he said. Now, that will shut down parts of “there is a real sense of loss.� the house and garden at times, Losing volunteers also means will also change Filoli, she said. losing people with detailed “Some of what Filoli has repknowledge of the operation of resented in peace and serenity Filoli, he said. and escapism is not going to be If the process for making the there.� changes had been developed If the changes don’t work, more “collaboratively� and with they won’t last, she said. “Filoli’s more “empathetic listening,� he learning.� said, “it would have gone more “Kara describes it as moving smoothly.� into the 21st century,� she said. “Change is a challenge.�

What’s happening is “growing Four-decade vet pains,� she said. happy with changes Ms. Legallet encouraged new Suzanne Legallet is one of the volunteers to give Filoli a try. “All Friends of Filoli leaders who of our problems are solvable, and was voted off the governing it’s a beautiful place to be,� she board this year. The change was said. “It’s a learning situation, requested by the National Trust, and it’s a great place to make friends. It’s just a good place to she said. “The new organization is be.�

Personally, she said, she loves much clearer� than the old, she Filoli because it always makes her said. “Change is difficult for people. feel like “I’m giving a party and The Friends of Filoli had won- didn’t have to do any work.� A derful opportunities,� she said. “I look at the change in Filoli About the cover: These now ... taking all of that goodfour former presidents of the ness that has been produced at Friends of Filoli, a volunteer Filoli for 40 years and building organization that has been on that.� stripped of the power and Ms. Legallet, a longtime Atherleadership it held for decades, ton resident, said she volunteers recently got together in an as many as 600 hours a year for Atherton garden. From left: Filoli. Other volunteers, such as Kathie Shaw, Claire Gardella, the Friends’ chair, put in two or Joan Sanders and Lucy three times that much time, she Dobson.

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they want the house to be rented at fair market value.

Fire board President Chuck Bernstein said he would like to see the property rented to an employee at a percentage of fair market value. Mr. Bernstein said if the home were rented to someone other than a district employee, “about half of (the rent) would go to property taxes.”

That prompted an angry response from Ms. Chang-Kiraly. “Those (property) taxes go to the Las Lomitas School District,” she said. “For us to even think about cheating a school district out of property taxes stinks, in my opinion.”

She asked for more information on the property tax issue and on the fair market value of the rental “so we make an unbiased decision,” she said. The public, she said “is entitled to know what they’re giving up.”

Board member Rob Silano said he would like to see one of the district’s homes reserved as a residence for a possible future chief. Chief Schapelhouman confirmed he is not interested in living in the home. The other home, Mr. Silano said, should be used as a “bunkhouse” for firefighters who need a place to sleep between shifts.

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council member in Gustine, California; and a former city manager and director of public safety in Livingston, California.

If elected, Mr. Melville said he would bring transparency to the Sheriff’s Office. “We in law enforcement do a horrible job” at transparency, he said.

Asked to explain what he means by transparency, Mr. Melville said he was referring to responding to complaints and educating the public. “Officers have to understand that everybody gets treated with dignity and respect. Period. I won’t tolerate anything less than that. ... I’m not saying that they’re not (being so treated), but we’re going to be better at it. ... It’s community policing taken to a higher level.”

Another focus: Putting the right people in the right positions. “It’s not my organization,” he said. “It’s their organization.

This is not about Mark Melville.

This is about the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. We can be better than we are.”

Addressing human trafficking is another priority. Mr. Melville recently attended a presentation on the subject in San Mateo.

“I was, like, wow,” he said. “I

Avenue house is located is needed for the district to build a larger station. That construction is at least three to five years in the future, he said.

The agenda said the board would also discuss another request by the chief to permit him to continue allowing other district employees to stay less than full time at other districtowned properties at no cost, but the topic was not discussed.

A fire training captain has been staying in the Atherton house the district purchased last year for $4.6 million three nights a week “to eliminate his commute,” a report from the chief says.

“Similar arrangements and incidental overnight uses have occurred for many years,” the report says.

In August, fire board members said they wanted the Atherton home to be rented on the open market. In September, Chief Schapelhouman returned with a report saying that it could cost up to $500,000 to make the house suitable for rental. That report was referred to the district’s Finance Committee. Although the matter has not returned to the board to change its original decision, the chief reported the home is now being used for temporary housing for district employees.

The board in December approved spending up to $500,000 in making improvements to the Atherton property. A was surprised. We need a unit that investigates all these massage parlors, all these low-end motels, and (to) try to ID, obviously with the help of the public, persons that might be involved in this. ... We have to protect our children. That’s really big in my book.”

Mr. Bolanos’ website includes community policing and combating human trafficking as priorities.

In 2007, before Mr. Melville joined the department, Mr. Bolanos and Mr. Munks were detained by Las Vegas police in connection with an FBI sting operation involving illegal brothels. Police found Mr. Munks inside a brothel he said he thought was a legitimate business. He apologized for his “lack of judgment,” adding that neither he nor Mr. Bolanos had broken any laws.

Both men were detained, but neither was charged with a crime.

Mr. Melville said that while more information about the incident is coming out, he declined to review it. “We know that the incident did occur,” he said when asked about the atmosphere inside the sheriff’s office. “I would say that it’s something that concerns everybody, but nobody wants to talk about it.” A

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Nancy Salmon, bookseller and reader for Kepler’s Books

By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

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ookseller and ardent reader Nancy Salmon was an institution within a Menlo Park institution. For 17 years at Kepler’s independent bookstore, Ms. Salmon would talk books with people interested in reading and buying them. As a critical reader, she was popular with authors, publishers and publicists.

Ms. Salmon died on March 12 at the age of 70.

Ms. Salmon was “first and foremost a reader across many genres,” including memoirs, mystery thrillers, narrative nonfiction and literary fiction, Kepler’s

manager Amanda Hall told The Almanac. “If she liked a book, she told you why. If she didn’t like a book, she told you why.”

Nancy Salmon One of her favorite books, Ms. Hall said, was “Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,” by Daniel James Brown.

“She just loved the book, and our customers bought the book,” Ms. Hall said. Mr. Brown sent her a personalized signed copy and a thank-you note, she added.

Along with authors, book

publishers and publicists knew of Ms. Salmon and appreciated her critical reading and her love of books, Ms. Hall said. She would read advance copies four to six months ahead of publication and be ready for inquiring customers.

As for publishers, her participation mattered in that they “want their books to hit the ground running, so to speak,” Ms. Hall said.

“I have always believed that the human element is important.

It’s why I believe in independent businesses,” Ms. Salmon wrote in a January 2016 letter to Kepler’s when she went into semi-retirement. “I believe in Kepler’s as a cultural hub in this area and one of the peninsula’s great assets.

“We are not an algorithm. We are individual resources who actually know the product we sell.

We read the (New York Times) book review and we know what’s on our tables. Our customers expect that of us, and they come back to us because of it.”

The people who sell books in Kepler’s spend a good part of their days talking about books, Ms. Hall said. “Because of the breadth of her reading, (Ms. Salmon) was a true asset of ours because she could reach so many readers,” she said. “You could disagree with her about a book, but it was still a great conversation.”

Ms. Salmon went out of her way to talk about authors whose books

she loved, but who did not have much of an audience,” Ms. Hall said.

Ms. Salmon’s shelf — Kepler’s booksellers each have a shelf of their favorites — was “well shopped,” Ms. Hall said. She did eventually back away from reviewing local authors out of concern for her friendships with them, she said.

A memorial was held Sunday, March 25, at St. Raymond Catholic Church on Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park, followed by a public reception celebrating her life at the bookstore on El Camino Real.

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Vicky Pardini: ‘The glue that kept everything and everyone together’

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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icky Stella Pardini, a longtime Woodside and Redwood City resident, died on March 13 after a major stroke.

She was 58 years old.

Ms. Pardini had been living with her son, Stavros Pardini, and his family at his home in Redwood Valley Vicky Pardini after the home she and her family had built themselves in Mendocino County and all their belongings were destroyed in the Redwood Valley Complex fire in October.

Ms. Pardini, relatives say, loved to be surrounded by her family. “She would light up when her

grandchildren were with her,” according to family members. She enjoyed singing Greek songs to them; making cookies, chewing bubble gum, watching scary movies and going on shopping trips with her seven grandchildren, ranging from 11 month old twins to a 12-year-old.

Friends say that once anyone met Ms. Pardini, they were friends forever. Toni Imbimbo, who met Vicky Pardini about 28 years ago when their sons were both preschoolers, says that “her heart was so big and simple, she just pulled you in.”

“She was the glue that kept everything and everyone together,” Ms. Imbimbo said of her friend. “There was no such thing as a quiet moment in her life.

Every minute was spent with family or gathered with friends.”

Ms. Pardini’s family members say that she also liked painting rooms, porcelain dolls and ceramic houses. Relatives say she also enjoyed “doing bookkeeping, getting good deals and fighting for what she believed in and winning.”

Vicky Kostakis was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1957.

She lived there for seven years before moving to Canada and then Daly City before the family settled in Millbrae when she was a teen. She graduated from Mills High School and received an associate’s degree in accounting from Heald College, and worked much of her adult life as a bookkeeper.

Ms. Pardini kept up with a group of her classmates from Mills, organizing an annual lunch get-together for as many as

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20 of them each year.

Dan and Vicky met when she was 19 and he was 21, while he was working in his father’s Speedo Ignition shop. When she came to pick up her car after a small repair and asked what she owed, the elder Mr. Pardini told her, “Just let my son Dan take you to lunch and we will call it even.”

The two were married in 1980 and would have celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary in May. Vicky and Dan Pardini had four children, including a daughter Christina who preceded her in death.

The Pardini family lived in Woodside from 1989 to 2000, when they moved to Redwood City, where they owned Dan Pardini’s Autobody and Fabrication. They lived there until 2015, when they moved into a home the

family had spent 10 years building themselves on land in Redwood Valley.

Vicky Pardini is survived by her husband Dan Pardini of Redwood Valley, California; her parents Mary and Stavros Kostakis, sister Stella and brother Chris Kostakis, all who live near Athens, Greece; her sister and brother Irene and George Kostakis from Redwood City; sons Stavros (Danielle) and Peter Pardini from Redwood Valley; son Danny (Amy) from Ukiah; and seven grandchildren: Austin, Shaylee, Delilah and Savannah from Ukiah and Serafina, Persephone and Colette from Redwood Valley.

The family plans to hold a celebration of Ms. Pardini’s life on May 20 in Huddart Park in Woodside. The Almanac will post details when they are available. A

Council to consider marijuana rules

By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

PLANNING COMMISSION April 4, 2018 6:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING 2. Arman Pahlavan ASRB2018-0009; XSET2018-0001; XMAX2018-0001 155 Bardet Road

Planner: Alex Byrd, Assistant Planner

Planning Commission review and approval, conditional approval, or denial of a proposal to demolish an existing one-story single-family residence and shed; and construct a new two-story single-family residence and pool. In addition to Design Review, the project requires Planning Commission review of a Setback Exception, to reduce the southeast side setback; and a Maximum Residence Size Exception.

All application materials are available for public review at the Woodside Planning and Building Counter, Woodside Town Hall, weekdays from 8:00 – 10:00 AM and 1:00 – 3:00 PM, or by appointment. For more information, contact the Woodside Planning and Building Department at (650) 851-6790.

Regulations for the small-scale commercial cultivation of marijuana within the borders of the town of Portola Valley are up for consideration by the Town Council at its 7 p.m. meeting on Wednesday, March 28, in the Historic Schoolhouse at 765 Portola Road.

In an ordinance proposed by the Planning Commission, the town would permit up to 12 plants grown for commercial purposes on land zoned residential, provided the grower obtains a license from the state and a “cannabis permit” from the town and observes distance requirements from sensitive areas, including schools and childcare centers.

The proposed ordinance would prohibit all other types of commercial activity, but would allow up to six plants for personal use.

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Q: Do you plan to go back to speaking as a Dominican man, rather than as a Dominican woman, which you used in “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”?

A: So I don’t feel like I’ve ever written from a woman’s voice. I feel like I’ve written from what a character like Yunior would like to think about a woman’s voice. ...

The reality is I’m not the Bible.

I am not a universal construct.

My text is by its nature limited.

I don’t want all of you as readers.

Not because I don’t like you, but because that’s the nature of literature. There’s a reason we have so many damn books. Because we all need books. And we can’t all have the same taste. ...

We don’t need a Dark Lord because we have approval. And we’re so desperate for approval, the high school regime, the high school paragon — we’ve mapped it over everything.

I don’t want approval. I’m from an ex-dictatorship. You know what I want, which is far more interesting? I want a relationship. And a relationship has nothing to do with whether you like a person or not. That is simplistic. Most of us have profound relationships with people we are ambivalent with. Sometimes we’re mad at them, sometimes we like them, sometimes there’s other things going on. If we are judging everything, because it’s likable, or we’re likable, we lose all of the complexity of what holds us to anything.

And one of the tricks that I

learned in this country is that is a trap. Everyone is so desperate to be liked. I mean, shoot, who doesn’t want to be popular?

Who doesn’t want smoochies?

Who doesn’t want when you walk in for people to clap? But I grew up in a country where everybody liked a genocidal lunatic. And I’m not certain that being liked is something that is a good idea at any level. None of us, I think, are good enough for us not to deploy that in malign ways. Who is so responsible that you can hold somebody’s like of you without using that? I don’t feel that responsible.

Q: What was it like for you getting to know and understand Afro-Latino and incorporating that into your writing?

A: In the United States it’s so easy to disavow the nightmare foundation of a nation. We live in a country where people are like “Oh, slavery, that happened a long time ago, why are you people still thinking about it?”or “Oh, the genocide of indigenous people, eh, that was old history.”

In a place like the Dominican Republic, it is almost impossible for you not to be surrounded by all the markers of what occurred.

I live in a nation that is completely haunted by all the obliterated indigenous presence. ...

We’re in a haunted house, and then we can’t get away from the fact of our blackness. And not only that, the agony of what it meant to be a person of African descent on islands that were nothing more and nothing less than plantation sites. Ultimately when it came down to it, they were work death camps. ...

I ended up growing up near a

“There’s no place like home.”

plantation. My grandfather cut sugar cane. My grandfather was a man of African descent. Before I left for the United States, my grandfather ... grabbed me and said, “You’re the descendant of slaves. You used to have to cut this (until) you died. Never forget that.”

And of course I promptly forgot. Because we come to countries like this one that insist that we forget everything but whiteness, and that we have no relationship over our love of whiteness. And that we should never identify with anyone but our white perpetrators. It took me a long time to remember that. To remember what my grandfather said. ... It doesn’t matter that I don’t satisfy anybody’s fantasy of what blackness is. I don’t care.

I might not look black enough for y’all. Guess what? You’re not the judge.

Q: What has been the reception of your work among family members, and how has it affected your relationships?

A: Nobody in my family understands me as a writer. I was Junior long before I was a writer. And I was him for so long that that’s the pattern. ... I have a completely different life outside of being an artist and I really like that life. And I like my friends. And I don’t want to turn my art into shop talk. One of the reasons I spend so little time around writers is because writers are so tedious. ... How in the world can we pay attention to the world, which is what we’re supposed to be doing as artists, when we’re surrounded by this constant professional crap we throw up?

Q: I feel like in your work, you’re unpacking (family) trauma. How do you deal with FIRE DISTRICT continued from page 10

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would look at changing the laws approved by the state legislature following Prop 13’s passage that allocate property tax revenues to various government agencies.

Mayor Cary Wiest, who is the council’s long-time liaison to the fire district, said not looking at the town’s options would mean the disparity in how much is paid for fire district services and how much is spent providing them would continue to grow. “We can

separating your family from your writing?

A: For many of us, we’re dealing with intergenerational transfer. We’re dealing with a lot of not only trauma but a lot of confusion, pain, nostalgia — weird stuff that ends up happening. And it’s been with us for a very long time. And figuring out, how do we metabolize things we have not begun to put names on, is not the easiest thing to do. ...

I do think all the basic stuff is what works the best. And what’s the basic stuff? You know the deal. You need solidarities, which means you need people that can be in a community with you to help you process and confront, but also when you’re bearing witness to your pain. Bearing witness doesn’t mean you say what happened.

Bearing witness doesn’t mean that you write it down. Bearing witness means that you tell somebody who’s sympathetic to what you’re going through and they hold it and resonate. ...

The best way to metabolize pain is to size it correctly. If you are hurt, or I’m hurt, chances are, it is the wrong size in us.

It grabs hold of us and it seems to have more weight than ever. ... What you forget most when you’re in pain is that you have agency. How do you remember that you have agency as you’re processing pain?

You do that by helping other people. You want to size your pain correctly? I come from a really broken, messed-up family. I have the burden of deep poverty, and I’m thinking, “Wow, all these things are on top of me.” I’m being encouraged just to suffer and not to remember the complexity of disenfranchisement and of agency.

And even more importantly, of

privilege. Because when we’re processing our pain, our privilege disappears. When I help other people, I find somebody more disenfranchised with less privilege than me. Two things happen psychologically when you’re helping other people: It helps you contextualize your pain. You’re like, “Wow, my parents, my ancestry suffered a lot. But I’m at Stanford. Or I’m at Rutgers. And this person doesn’t speak English and has a family of three, and is trying to get the proper medical care for their child and doesn’t have a car, and lives with abusive relatives who threaten to throw them out.”

Wow, suddenly my pain doesn’t disappear, but it becomes the correct size, and what you start to remember is that you have agency.

And then even more important, you remember you have privilege. That’s been the biggest problem about suffering pain. Your privilege disappears.

And if you can maintain your privilege, maintain your sense of agency, size it correctly, (and) help other people, you can process these things at a way better rate, way more healthfully, and understand that all those fractures we carry in our heart are what connects us to everyone else.

I don’t want to be on the team with Harry Potter.

I know you like Harry Potter.

I want to be on the team with all the people who did not make it to Hogwarts. We’re the reality, we’re the real deal. Everything that’s broken about us ties us to every other human that’s broken. A This story has been shortened for publication in print. Go to almanacnews.com to access more online.

sit on the sidelines and watch the figures grow, grow and grow,” he said. “I believe we do have a fiduciary duty” to Atherton taxpayers to further investigate.

“I believe we should be stepping up for the taxpayers of Atherton,” Mayor Wiest said.

“I don’t think anyone here is expecting, if there was a reallocation to be applied, that we would get that whole reallocation.”

Even if the town left the fire district, the district could bid on continuing to provide services,

Mayor Wiest said.

“Sitting here now and doing nothing will led to exactly that, nothing,” said council member Bill Widmer. “Yes the service they give us is very good. They do an excellent job for us.”

“I think we need to take this step and understand what the options are,” he said.

After Mr. DeGolia’s motion to table the discussion failed to gain the third vote it needed, the council voted to approve the new study 4-1, with Mr. DeGolia dissenting. A

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Fundraiser benefits Friends of Holbrook-Palmer Park balloon twisters, a magic show, a bunny rabbit rescue, and a aster is almost here, and so chance to take photos with the is Atherton’s annual Easter Easter Bunny, the Queen of Egg Hunt in Holbrook- Hearts and the Mad Hatter.

Participants should bring their Palmer Park on Saturday, March own baskets to hold their eggs.

31, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Admission to the annual fun- Frozen yogurt, coffee drinks draiser for the Friends of Hol- and brunch items including brook-Palmer Park is $10. The bagels, eggs, pastries and fruit will also be available. egg hunt starts at 10 a.m.

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Clarification: Don Horsley served four years with no salary The story in the March 21, 2018, issue of The Almanac on the race for the District 3 seat on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors was incomplete.

The story did not note that Supervisor Don Horsley — when in late 2012 he made public his thoughts about starting to take his then $120,000 salary after two years of forgoing it — waited a week and then chose to continue

forgoing it for the remainder of his four-year first term.

Mr. Horsley, who retired as sheriff in 2007, said he earned his $215,000 annual pension after a 35-year career in law enforcement. “I did and saw things that you guys just read about and write about,� he recently told The Almanac. “It’s a high stress, high risk occupation.�

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Presents Âś6NHOHWRQ &UHZ¡ TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its 2017 season with the regional premiere of “Skeleton Crewâ€? in a co-production with Marin Theatre Company.

A makeshift family of auto plant workers navigate the possibility of foreclosure in this American drama set in 2008. Ongoing until April 1, Thursdays-Sundays, 8 p.m. $40$100. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. theatreworks.org

Talks & Lectures $GULDQ 1LFROH /H%ODQF Âś5HVLVWLQJ WKH 3XOO RI ,PPHGLDF\¡ Stanford Humanities Center presents Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, an independent journalist who is best known for her 2003 nonfiction book “Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx,â€? which chronicles the struggles of two young women as they deal with love, growing families, poverty and prison time. April 5, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa St., Stanford. ethicsinsociety. stanford.edu 6/$& 3XEOLF /HFWXUH This lecture will describe the properties of the axion and explain how physicists are trying to observe this particle. April 3, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Panofsky Auditorium, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park. slac.stanford.edu 65, 2UJDQRQ 7RDVWPDVWHUV SRI Organon Toastmasters helps community members become better public speakers and leaders by providing a supportive, positive environment for practicing communication and leadership skills. Guests are welcome to visit and join. Tuesdays, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. First Baptist Church, 1100 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. sriorganon.com œ=RXSLQJ 5HYLVLWHG &KDQJH DQG &RQWLQXLW\ LQ D &KLQHVH &RXQW\¡ Zouping County was the first rural site in China where foreign scholars were given official access to conduct research in 1984 after China’s opening and reform. The late

professor Michel Oksenberg spearheaded the effort. This year, the Oksenberg Conference will be organized around “Zouping Revisited: Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County,� recently published by Stanford University Press. A panel of China specialists with deep personal and scholarly connections to Zouping will provide insights into the changes China has experienced since the 1980’s and how academic research and fieldwork has also changed over time as seen through this window in rural Shandong. Book sales will follow the conference. April 5, 2-5 p.m. Free, RSVP online. Mackenzie Room, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Building third floor, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford. aparc.fsi.stanford.edu

Family 6WRU\WHOOHU -RKQ :HDYHU Âś6WUDQJH -RXUQH\V¡ The Menlo Park Library will present a performance by professional storyteller John Weaver, sharing tales of “Strange Journeysâ€? specifically for listeners in elementary school and above. April 5, 4-4:15 p.m. Free. Menlo Park Main Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. menlopark.org/storyteller

Museums & Exhibits $UW ([KLELW Âś,Q 'LDORJXH $IULFDQ $UWV¡ “In Dialogueâ€? represents the vibrant and dynamic arts of the continent and its diasporas. Drawing primarily from the Cantor’s own collection, it considers the arts of Africa to be rooted in a deep and rich history that is locally, as much as globally, connected. Ongoing until May 5; 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Tuesdays, open until 8 p.m.

Thursdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu $UW ([KLELW œ5RGLQ 7KH 6KRFN RI WKH 0RGHUQ %RG\¡ This exhibition celebrates Auguste Rodin’s relentless pursuit to convey complex emotions, diverse psychological states, and pure sensuality through the nude.

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from 12 different countries, this exhibition presents a wide range of responses to photography as an artistic medium and a communicative tool uniquely suited to modern media landscapes and globalized economies. Ongoing, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Closed Tuesdays, Thursdays open until 8 p.m. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum. stanford.edu 3RUWROD $UW *DOOHU\ Âś$UW DQG WKH $QLPDO¡ The Portola Art Gallery presents “Art & the Animal,â€? an exhibit of new animal watercolor paintings by Belmont resident Teresa Silvestri. Ongoing until March 30, MondaysSaturdays, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Free. Portola Art Gallery, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park. portolaartgallery.com Portola Art Gallery Presents Misako .DPEH¡V Âś%HDXW\ RI :RRG )LUH 9RO ¡ The Portola Art Gallery presents “Beauty of Wood Fire, Vol. 3,â€? carved ceramic creations

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement DELIGHTS BY LISA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 276455 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Delights By Lisa, located at 25 West 25th Avenue #8, San Mateo, CA 94403, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): ELIZABETH CHAN 233 Mansfield Dr. So. SF CA 94080 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on December 18, 2007.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on January 26, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018) #1 HONEST PLUMBER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 276845 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: #1 Honest Plumber, located at 1111 W. El Camino Real Ste. 109-194, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County.

Registered owner(s): EDWARD HINOJOSA 301 Acalanes Dr. #29 Sunnyvale CA 94086 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on February 28, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018) FOUR SEASON DAY SPA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 276865 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Four Season Day Spa, located at 160 W. 25th. Ave. San Mateo, CA 94403, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): GOLDEN OX 2018 LLC 160 W. 25th. Ave. San Mateo, CA 94403 State of California This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 1, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 14, 21, 28; Apr. 4, 2018) BARRELHOUSE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 276921 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Barrelhouse, located at 305 California Dr., Burlingame, CA 94010, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): JNJL, LLC 305 California Dr. Burlingame, CA 94010 This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 6/2005.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 6, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 14, 21, 28; Apr. 4, 2018) VINYL ROOM FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 276922 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Vinyl Room, located at 221 Park Road, Burlingame, CA 94010, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): AGSJ, INC. 221 Park Road Burlingame, CA 94010 California This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 6/7/2006.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 6, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 14, 21, 28; Apr. 4, 2018)

STERLING & WOLFE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 276867 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Sterling & Wolfe, located at 253 Nevada St., Redwood City, CA 94062, San Mateo County; Mailing address: P.O. Box 1171, Redwood City, CA 94064.

Registered owner(s): MARY ELLEN SZMAGAJ 253 Nevada St. Redwood City, CA 94062 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 1, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 14, 21, 28; Apr. 4, 2018) DMV KWIK FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 276933 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: DMV Kwik, located at 90 17th. Ave., San Mateo, CA 94402, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): CAYABYAB AGENCY, INC. 90 17th. Ave. San Mateo, CA 94402 California This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/7/18.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 7, 2018.

(ALM Mar.14, 21, 28, Apr. 4, 2018) LOVELY COMPANY CLEANING SERVICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 276904 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Lovely Company Cleaning Service, located at 950 Main St. #303, Redwood City, CA 94063, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): CECILIA FRANCO AVILA 950 Main St #303 Redwood City, CA 94063 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 5, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 21, 28; Apr. 4, 11, 2018) KEATS BEADS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277017 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Keats Beads, located at 231 Erica Way, Portola Valley, CA 94028, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): MARYELLEN MCCABE 231 Erica Way Portola Valley, CA 94028 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/1/17.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 14, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 21, 28; Apr. 4, 11, 2018) HURTADO MAINTENANCE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277069 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Hurtado Maintenance, located at 245 E. Okeefe St. Apt. 11, Palo Alto, CA 94303, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): BENITO HURTADO 245 E. Okeefe St. Apt. 11 Palo Alto, CA 94303 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2012.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 16, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 28; Apr. 4, 11, 18, 2018) SMALL TOWN CLOTHING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 276883 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Small Town Clothing, located at 2535

Hazelwood Way, East Palo Alto, CA 94303, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): ERIK TAYLOR 2535 Hazelwood Way East Palo Alto, CA 94303 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/2/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 2, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 28; Apr. 4, 11, 18, 2018) A&D AUTO REPAIR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277103 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: A&D Auto Repair, located at 2303 Spring St., Redwood City, CA 94063, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): BINH ANDY TRUONG 2832 Akino Ct. San Jose, CA 95148 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 20, 2018.

(ALM Mar. 28; Apr. 4, 11, 18, 2018)

997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO Case No.: 18CIV00680 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: BRENDA GARCIA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: BRENDA GARCIA to BRENDA FARIAS. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: April 3, 2018, 9:00 a.m., Dept.: PJ, Room: PJ of the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo, located at 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063.

A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: THE ALMANAC Date: February 14, 2018 /s/ Susan Irene Etezadi JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (ALM Mar. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018) T.S. No. 063502-CA APN: 070-330-150-7 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 12/8/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 4/11/2018 at 12:30 PM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 12/13/2005, as Instrument No. 2005-217137, of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of San Mateo County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: LAWRENCE I. WOLFE AND CHARLOTTE A. WOLFE, HUSBAND AND WIFE, AS COMMUNITY PROPERTY WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: AT THE MARSHALL ST. ENTRANCE TO THE HALL OF JUSTICE AND RECORDS, 400 COUNTY CENTER, REDWOOD CITY, CA 94063 all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST The street address and other common

THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 180 ELENA AVENUE ATHERTON, CA 94027 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $3,285,147.76 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance

company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.COM, using the file number assigned to this case 063502CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844) 477-7869 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 (ALM 3/21, 3/28; 4/4, 2018)

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NOTICE OF HEARING: April 26, 2018, 9:00 a.m., Dept.: PJ of the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo, located at 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063.

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Pescadero | 4/4 full + 2 half | $7,750,000 301 Ranch Road West 186 Acre Exceptional Ranch Estate w/ 3 parcels complete this Rare Retreat in SF Bay Area.

Emerald Hills | 5/7 | $4,295,000 7 Colton Court 7,700 sq ft stunner on +/- a 1/2 acre on one of the most desirable st in Emerald Hills

Menlo Park | 5/4 | $4,150,000 101 Hillside Ave At the foot of Whiskey Hill, enjoy this sun filled home w/ views of the valley & tons more

Portola Valley | 5/3.5 | $3,395,000 900 Wayside Rd Stunning views across SF Bay from Mt. Diablo to Black Mountain!www.900wayside.com

Erika Demma & Paula Russ 650.851.2666 CalRE #01230766/00612099

Sam Anagnostou 650.851.2666 CalRE #00798217

Laurel O’neill 650.324.4456 CalRE #01758899

Jean Isaacson 650.851.2666 CalRE #00542342

Menlo Park | 4/3 | $3,195,000 510 Laurel Ave Completely remodeled, single level, 4 bd, 3 ba w/ open floor plan on 7,000 lot. MP schools

Menlo Park | 3/2 | $2,895,000 1181 Orange Ave Abundant light & cheerful garden views illuminate this special spacious comfortable home

Woodside | 4/3.5 | $2,600,000 580 Old La Honda Rd It’s worth the drive. Custom-built home on 9.5 acres w/splendid views. 580OldLaHonda.com

Woodside | 6/4.5 | $2,250,000 10691 La Honda Rd Magnificent country property bathed in sunlight against a backdrop of towering redwoods

Billy McNair 650.324.4456 CalRE #01343603

Hanna Shacham 650.324.4456 CalRE #01073658

Ginny Kavanaugh / Steve Gray 650.851.1961 CalRE #00884747, 01498634

Jean Isaacson 650.851.2666 CalRE #00542342

Menlo Park | 3/2.5 | $1,695,000 2417 Sharon Oaks Dr. Distinctive townhome in the sought-after Sharon Oaks neighborhood. 2417SharonOaks.com

San Carlos | 3/2 | $899,000 3330 Brittan Ave 1 sunny condo w/open flrpln, stainless appliances, big patio, great local & covered parking

Sharon Heights / Stanford Hills | 2/2 | $855,000 2140 Santa Cruz Ave D108 Light & bright 1st floor end unit faces grass area, pool etc. close to Stanford & shops.

Central Woodside | 4/4.5 | Price Upon Request Central Woodside Sophisticated modern farmhouse combines casual comfort & the elegance of a Woodside Estate

Ginny Kavanaugh 650.851.1961 CalRE #00884747

Valerie Trenter 650.324.4456 CalRE #01367578

Beth Leathers 650.324.4456 CalRE #01131116

Erika Demma 650.851.2666 CalRE #01230766

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