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Local couple raises $20M-plus to reunite immigrant families

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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fter seeing a gripping photo of a 2-year-old child crying at the U.S. border, Charlotte and Dave Willner of Menlo Park on Saturday morning, June 16, set up a fundraising campaign on Facebook.

They had hoped to raise $1,500 for the Refugee Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, or RAICES, a Texasbased immigrant legal services provider.

A little over a week later, they exceeded that goal thousands of times over: As of the morning of June 25, their campaign had raised a staggering $20.2 million, and garnered donations from 526,000 Facebook users, according to the campaign site.

At one point, for about two hours on June 20, the viral campaign was raising about $10,000 a minute, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The money raised will be used by RAICES to fund bonds to allow parents to reclaim detained children and offer legal representation for families and unaccompanied children in immigration courts in Texas.

The photo that triggered the Willners’ response shows a 2-year-old Honduran asylum seeker crying as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.Mexico border on June 12 in McAllen,

Texas, according to the Chronicle. It was taken by John Moore of Getty Images.

It has generated some controversy because the child was not separated from her mother for more than a few minutes while they were searched, according to the Washington Post, but has been used to represent the distress that other children who have been separated from their families at the U.S. border are going through, according to witnesses cited in media accounts.

“The photo is heart-wrenching and represents the fear kids face at the border,” wrote Malorie Lucich, acting spokesperson for the Willners, in an email to The Almanac. “We’re focused on providing RAICES with the resources needed to reunite those kids with their parents as soon as possible.”

In recent weeks, more than 2,000 children have been taken away from their parents as part of a Trump administration policy, which seeks to criminally prosecute all immigrants who illegally cross the border, according to the New York Times.

The administration launched a “zero tolerance” immigration policy in April, which laid out plans to prosecute adults who attempt to enter the country illegally and separate them from any children they might bring with them.

Children from Central America separated from their families by immigration

Photo courtesy of the Willner family.

The Willner family of Menlo Park raised more than $20 million in about a week for RAICES, a Texas-based nonprofit offering legal services to immigrants at the U.S. border.

authorities at the border have been documented crying and in great distress, including in a seven-minute recording released by ProPublica.

More than 100 children in detention are under 4 years of age, and the children are initially held in warehouses, tents or box stores that have been converted into border patrol detention facilities, the publication reports.

On June 20, President Trump signed

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Charlotte Willner wrote on the fundraising page: “Make no mistake that the administration is changing course because people spoke out. You spoke out.

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Voters to decide charter question in November

Surf Air is sued, pursued by IRS. Will it disappear from local skies?

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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urf Air’s distinctive blue and white planes may soon disappear from Peninsula skies, but not because of continuing noise complaints from local residents or measures San Mateo County has imposed on the commuter airline at the San Carlos Airport.

The company that has been operating the airline’s planes says Surf Air owes it $3.1 million, and county officials say the company has also been slapped with bills for $2.33 million in unpaid taxes.

On June 19, just after Surf Air announced it had hired a new company to operate its planes, the previous operator, Encompass Aviation LLC, filed a lawsuit in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Several business news outlets have reported Surf Air is in serious financial trouble and the

an order purportedly ending the policy of separating families at the border, but continuing the “zero tolerance” policy.

Photo by Michelle Le/The Almanac

An employee pushes a luggage cart on the runway as a Surf Air plane prepares to take off in this 2013 photo.

Encompass lawsuit says that by June 14, Surf Air owed it more than $3.1 million.

While Surf Air did not respond to requests for a comment on the lawsuit, it sent out a press release on June 20 saying: “The Encompass claims are not accurate, the lawsuit is without merit and Surf Air intends to defend itself vigorously. Surf Air is also considering counterclaims.”

Also on June 19, San Mateo County Public Works Director

Jim Porter said in an email sent to the Board of Supervisors that the number of flights Surf Air flies in and out of the San Carlos Airport would be temporarily reduced as the airline transitions to a new operator, Advanced Air LLC. “Surf Air is facing liens imposed by the I.R.S. for a total of $2.33 million in unpaid taxes,” Mr. Porter said in the email.

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ith a 3-1 vote on June 19, the Menlo Park City Council agreed to bring the following yes-orno question to city voters in November: “Shall the charter be adopted making the City of Menlo Park a charter city so that the laws of the City of Menlo Park shall prevail over state law only with respect to two municipal affairs: elections and term limits?”

Making Menlo Park a charter city would give it flexibility, where now it has none, to pursue an alternative voting system.

Councilwoman Kirsten Keith spoke in favor of a charter measure, saying it was an appropriate step to better enable local government control.

Councilman Rich Cline was absent.

Vice Mayor Ray Mueller voted against the motion not because he opposes the city becoming a

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charter city, he said, but because he prefers to start the charter process with a more public process, and bring a more fully fledged charter before voters.

“There’s no reason to do it now,” he said.

He also withheld support because he believes the question to be misleading, he said.

“Municipal law for a Charter City doesn’t trump the California Voters Rights Act,” Mueller said in a written statement.

Assistant City Attorney Cara Silver argued that there are some aspects of elections that cities can control over the state, though.

Other neighboring charter cities are Redwood City, San Mateo and Palo Alto.

Adding the measure to the ballot is expected to cost the city between $19,900 and $23,800, according to a staff report.

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altrain announced June 15 that it plans to install $3.5 million in rail crossing safety improvements at 15 rail crossings along the Caltrain line between San Francisco and San Jose.

At the Menlo Park Caltrain station, the agency will build new pedestrian gates at the northeast and southwest corners of the crossing; put down new, textured yellow strips on the sidewalks that help signal the start of a dangerous area to the blind or disabled; place new guardrails to encourage pedestrians to walk through the gates; add new striping and markings on the roads to indicate more clearly where cars must stop; and install new street bumps and markers to keep cars from turning onto the tracks, according to Caltrain spokesman Matthew Wilson.

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You showed that you’re not okay with this, that none of this okay, and that you won’t stand for it.

This fundraiser started with the hope of reuniting maybe one family, but it grew. It grew so big that it couldn’t be ignored.

It grew to a community, to a place that will help all families separated. And it’s groups like this and people like you that are responsible for progress in a matter of days, so that mothers and fathers can hug their children again. Your voice and actions matter. Keep them going strong.”

RAICES released a June 18 statement, also on Facebook, expressing gratitude for funds generated through the Willners’ campaign. “Thanks is inadequate for the work these funds will make possible. We know it will change lives. We know it will save lives by keeping people from being deported to unsafe countries. We’ve been occasionally crying around the office all day when we check the fundraising totals. This is such a profound rejection of the cruel policies of this administration.

Take heart. There are terrible things happening in the world.

And there are many people who are deciding not to look away but to do something.”

According to Lucich, RAICES

and 32 vehicle strikes along the Caltrain line, he reported. So far this year, there have been four fatalities and five vehicle strikes, he said.

“The big goal with this is to keep people away from the tracks,” he said.

Other rail crossings scheduled for changes similar to the Menlo Park crossing are: 16th Street, San Francisco; Broadway, Burlingame; Peninsula Avenue, Burlingame; 4th Avenue, San Mateo; Alma Street, Palo Alto; Charleston Road, Palo Alto; Rengstorff Avenue, Mountain View; Castro Street, Mountain View; and Mary Avenue, Sunnyvale.

In addition, some crossings are slated for medians to be installed. Those are 4th Avenue, San Mateo; Alma Street, Palo Alto; Churchill Road, Palo Alto; Charleston Road, Palo Alto; East Meadow Drive, Palo Alto; Sunnyvale Avenue, Sunnyvale; Auzerais Avenue, San Jose; and West Virginia Street, San Jose.

Construction is expected to start soon and conclude by the end of the year, Wilson said. A has started a joint project to join forces with other organizations so all of the children separated from their families can be located, reunited with their family members and receive pro bono legal help.

She reports that the organization has added staff who will meet the buses that transport immigrants in order to better track “who’s where and advocate for them,” she told The Almanac in a written statement.

“We also heard that fathers are only allowed to call their kids in detention centers if there’s $25 in their commissary, which of course they don’t have. So RAICES covered this for fathers in detention,” Lucich continued.

Go to is.gd/raices443 to access the Willner’s fundraising campaign online.

In addition to running their campaign through Facebook, the Willners have closer Facebook connections. National Public Radio reported that the two previously worked at the company, though now Charlotte works at Pinterest and Dave at Airbnb.

Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg both donated undisclosed amounts to the campaign, Politico reported.

The Times cited Roya Winner, a Facebook spokeswoman, who said the Willners’ page is the largest single fundraiser in the company’s history. A

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Commission tackles housing, traffic, parking in plan review

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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enlo Park’s Planning Commission on June 18 hosted two study sessions that pointed to two very different scales for development in different parts of the city, bound by the shared threads of traffic, parking requirements and affordable housing.

Downtown plan review

Menlo Park’s downtown plan, which was approved in 2012 and expected to remain in effect until 2030, and increased development allowances to 474,000 square feet of new nonresidential space and 680 new housing units, was under review in part because proposed and approved developments downtown are already nearing the upper limit of what’s allowed under the plan. So far, 505 housing units have been approved and proposed — or 74 percent of the maximum permitted — and 445,282 square feet of nonresidential development, or 94 percent of the maximum allowed, has been approved and proposed in the downtown plan area.

The Planning Commission was asked to consider whether the city should reconsider those maximum development limits. Lifting those caps would require further environmental analysis, which is typically a yearlong process at best.

Some members of the public spoke in favor of adding

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more affordable housing, and emphasized the role that the city could play if it were to dedicate public land — a large portion of which is on surface parking lots scattered through downtown.

Rachel Horst, a new housing commissioner, said she thinks downtown is a good place to build affordable housing because that’s where public transit and car-free travel opportunities are most available.

“I don’t want to talk about parking unless (we’re) also talking about opportunities to build housing,” she said.

One of the big questions under consideration is what the city should do about parking.

The City Council has as one of its top priorities the construction of a parking structure somewhere downtown, but the council is also considering adding other uses to such a structure, like housing or an entertainment venue. Both would require changes to the downtown plan.

Key to the downtown discussion is a debate as to how to preserve and support the city’s downtown restaurant and retail businesses.

Fran Dehn, president and CEO of the city’s Chamber of Commerce, was wary about reducing parking requirements, which could compromise the city’s retail operations, and recommended loosening some

of the architectural restrictions that seem to not allow enough variation and flexibility for retailers.

“As we talk about preserving retail, it’s important to create an environment for retail to thrive,” Commissioner Andrew Barnes said.

Downtown traffic, especially the El Camino Real bottleneck that runs along the city’s entire stretch of the road, is a major concern to Commissioner Henry Riggs. “It’s a citywide responsibility,” he said, not one that should be borne by single developments.

Commissioner John Onken offered another approach: “If you don’t build it, they won’t come.”

94 apartments

On just the other side of the freeway, in the rezoned M-2 area along Menlo Park’s stretch of the Bay, owner/ developer Sateez Kadivar has proposed to build an eightstory, 85-foot-tall apartment building with 94 units at 111 Independence Drive. That project, he told the commission, is among the smaller that will be planned in that area of the city.

(The largest is Facebook’s 59-acre “Willow Village,” with nine office buildings, 1,500 apartments, a grocery store and other retail offerings.)

Commissioners heard presentations about the proposed project’s architecture — curved in shape to mirror the nearby Menlo Gateway office building

Menlo Park budget clears final hurdle

By Kate Bradshaw

administrative services director.

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ith fresh, steady money coming from new hotels and doubledigit increases in property value assessments since last year, the Menlo Park City Council voted confidently and unanimously on June 19, with Councilman Rich Cline absent, to approve a $143 million spending plan for the 2018-19 fiscal year.

The adopted budget anticipates a surplus of $980,000 across all city funds and $320,000 for the city’s general fund by the upcoming fiscal year’s end.

The council also took the opportunity at the June 19 meeting to allocate the estimated $4.73 million in surplus funding from the current fiscal year toward various city projects.

Menlo Park experienced a 12.35 percent increase in assessed property values since last July 1, according to Nick Pegueros,

Budget basics

The council’s approval of the budget came with acceptance of the city’s capital improvement plan and salary schedule.

The budget proposed to add 9.25 new full-time employees in the city’s public works, police, library, community services and administrative services departments, including two new fulltime employees to maintain and improve the services of the Menlo Park Municipal Water District.

If all city positions are filled, the number of staff would rise to 287, an increase of 3 percent over this fiscal year and a 17 percent increase since the 2015-16 fiscal year.

The council also approved an ambitious five-year capital improvement plan for the city, a 78-item to-do list of things the city intends to build. The budget sets aside nearly $30 million for

building those projects and commits $17.3 million more to others.

Under the new capital improvement plan, the city will be saving for some big-ticket items, including building a separated road from the Caltrain line at Ravenswood Avenue and a separated bike and pedestrian path at Middle Avenue; flood protection projects along the Bayfront Canal and Atherton Channel; moving forward with improvement plans for Bedwell Bayfront Park; improving information technology; and building a downtown parking garage.

New projects on the list are street resurfacing; a study to design and build a Caltrain crossing for bicycles and pedestrians at Middle Avenue; a sidewalk power-washing program; a holiday lighting program in Belle Haven; removal of hazardous trees; expanded library services, including plans to clean

Image courtesy Sateez Kativar/BDE Architecture.

A rendering of the proposed apartment building at 111 Independence Drive.

that was recently completed — and landscaping, which would include a dog area, a bocce court and publicly accessible outdoor space.

The building would also come with 134 parking spots.

“I think that showing a more conservative approach to parking is responsive to neighborhood concerns,” said Commissioner Drew Combs. “I think it’s a well-designed building that takes a very unique, interesting site and puts a very interesting, unique building on it.”

Cutting parking requirements is seen as a way to force people to not drive solo and thereby reduce traffic.

Citing terrible traffic and other developments already planned and proposed nearby, Riggs said it was “going to

be hard to approve another project, even though (it is) housing.”

Commissioners asked for more clarity about how the city’s “community amenities” provision would work with the proposed development.

On both matters, the commission gave feedback to staff without taking votes. The commission will be the final decision-maker on the apartment building.

For the potential downtown plan revisions, staff will take the matter to other city commissions, prepare a scope of work, conduct environmental analyses, and bring the matter back to the Planning Commission before bringing any of the commission’s recommendations to the council for final approval. A

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Menlo Park’s interim police chief takes permanent post

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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tarting July 8, Menlo Park’s interim police chief, Dave Bertini, will lose the “interim” from his job title, City Manager Alex McIntyre announced June 25.

Bertini, most recently a police commander for the city of Menlo Park, stepped in as interim chief when the city’s former police chief, Robert Jonsen, began work in the same position for the city of Palo Alto in early January.

At that time, he noted that he was interested in the permanent position.

“Since stepping up as interim chief in January, Dave Photo courtesy City has shown me of Menlo Park.

Dave Bertini that he is the right person to serve this community and lead the department,î McIntyre said in a written statement.

Bertini started in Menlo Park in 2011, and since then, has worked as a patrol commander and in administrative services, leading initiatives in the department to improve technology and transparency. In 2015, he spent six months working as the city’s interim human services director.

Prior to working in Menlo Park, he did law enforcement work in Pacifica. He has about 30 years of experience in law enforcement, according to city staff. He said he came to Menlo

Park for several reasons: to work with a department that was “on the cutting edge,” to be challenged more, and to escape the coastal fog.

He began his career as a police explorer with the Pacifica Police Department. In 1986, he was hired as a reserve officer, and became a public safety dispatcher the following year. In 1988, he was hired as a full-time police officer, and in 2008, was promoted to captain.

Bertini holds a master’s degree

in military history from Norwich University in Vermont, a bachelor’s degree in business management from St. Mary’s College and an associate’s degree in administration of justice from the College of San Mateo.

As of last December, he planned to use his time as the chief to do more public outreach, such as hosting “chat with the Chief” events and adding more people to the police chief’s advisory board; add more officers to work on traffic enforcement; and work with other city departments on complex city problems. A

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Porta-potties to be replaced at Lyle Park

Koko the signing gorilla dies at her mountain home

By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

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oko the gorilla, a longtime resident of Woodside, a friend to kittens and visiting celebrities, and a practitioner of a version of American Sign Language, has died, according to a statement from the Gorilla Foundation, based in Redwood City.

Koko, a western lowland gorilla born on the Fourth of July in 1971 at the San Francisco Zoo, was 46 when she died in her sleep on June 12, the statement said. She was living in a preserve located in the Santa Cruz Mountains. “Koko touched the lives of millions as an ambassador for all gorillas and an icon for interspecies communication and empathy,� the statement said. “She was beloved and will be deeply missed. ... Her impact has been profound and what she has taught us about the emotional capacity of gorillas and their cognitive abilities will continue to shape the world.�

Koko’s ability with sign

language came about through the efforts of Stanford-educated psychologist and Gorilla Foundation founder Francine “Penny� Patterson. In 1972, Patterson began teaching her new student a system she called Gorilla Sign Language, the statement said.

Koko learned more than 1,000 signs and used her abilities to christen her Manx kitten companion All Ball and to mourn the loss of All Ball with the words “cat,� “cry� and “havesorry,� followed by a pause, and then “unattention� and “visit me,� according to an National Public Radio story broadcast this week. All Ball died after being struck by a car.

Her animal companions also included two male gorillas: Ndume and Michael. Michael died in April 2000 at the age of 27.

Koko once took a photograph of herself in a mirror and the photo was published on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1978.

Among the celebrities who visited Koko and whose visits were captured on video were the actress Betty White and

Photo by Dr. Ron Cohn, copyright (c) 2011 The Gorilla Foundation/koko.org

Actress Betty White and Koko the gorilla.

the comedian and actor Robin Williams, whose glasses she carefully removed and tried on. In a playful mood, she held hands briefly with Williams, tussled with him, invited him to tickle her, and laughed when he did.

In 2005, two former employees of the foundation sued their former employer, alleging sexual harassment and wrongful termination and claiming that they were routinely pressured

to expose their breasts to Koko in order to bond with her. The court sustained the foundation’s challenge to the claims and the case was resolved in November 2005.

The foundation is planning to honor Koko’s legacy. Among the projects: conservation efforts in Africa, a great-ape sanctuary on Maui, and a sign-language app that features Koko “for the benefit of gorillas and children,� the statement said. A

The Menlo Park City Council has approved a nearly $500,000 contract with Suarez & Munoz Construction to build permanent bathrooms at Jack W. Lyle Park, located at 640 Fremont St. The council accepted the $496,486 bid, along with a city designation of $75,000 in contingency funding. A total of $140,000 of that funding came from the city’s undesignated fund balance for the 2017-18 fiscal year.

Building permanent bathrooms at the park will also require new electrical, water and sanitary utilities to be installed, according to staff.

City staff said the park gets about 50 users a day on weekdays and 400 on weekends, and is used heavily by local soccer and lacrosse groups. In the past, the park has relied on rented portable toilet facilities.

The new bathrooms will be next to Rosener House, an adult day services center, and will include family-friendly and water efficient features, according to staff. —By Kate Bradshaw

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Atherton will redesign its civic center

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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therton’s City Council has voted to redesign its civic center in an attempt to bring costs down to about $41 million, after the lowest bid for the complex came in at $56.4 million, 40 percent more than consultants had estimated.

The redesign means the project will be at least six months behind schedule. Construction was to have begun this month, with the estimated time of completion two years.

The June 20 council vote was 3-0, with council members Rick DeGolia and Bill Widmer abstaining. DeGolia said he favored a redesign that includes the option to build the library separately from the rest of the project, and Widmer said he wanted the redesign to cut the cost even further.

DeGolia had also suggested that the town look at raising more donations to help pay for the project.

City Manager George Rodericks said the town will investigate how much it would cost to separate out the library project, allowing the council to take another look at that option.

All council members agreed that whatever they do, they don’t want to find themselves unable to award a bid in six months.

“We don’t want to be in this situation again,” Mayor Cary Wiest said.

What happened?

Before the council voted, it heard from Paul Beamer of Mack5, the consultants who have been providing cost estimates for building a complex that will include a new library and offices for town administration, police, building and planning. The current plans also included renovation of the historic building the town uses as council chambers and a new council chamber.

Beamer said receiving bids so much over estimates was unprecedented for Mack5.

“We’ve been estimating in this market for 17 years, and we’ve never seen this,” he said.

“We’d like to acknowledge there’s something wrong here.

We made a mistake.”

“Since bid day we’ve scratched our heads and talked to these bidders — what happened?” he said.

Beamer offered several theories for the extreme mismatch between the estimate — which was supposed to take into consideration factors such as the local construction market and the cost and availability of materials and subcontractors — and the bid. One was simply the fact that the customer was Atherton.

“I got a feeling maybe people said, well it’s Atherton and they want their civic center,” Beamer said. “That could have been an unquantifiable factor.”

Bid strategy backfires

He also acknowledged that the strategy of allowing bids only from a small pool of prequalified contractors may have backfired when three of the five prequalified contractors backed out, leaving minimal competition.

“Our strategy was to come up with a short list to minimize the number of contractors coming in, but in this market that was probably not the right strategy,” Beamer said.

He said that in its bid, C. Overaa & Co. “doubled their overhead and profit ... just because they could.”

The fact that Atherton planned to have the project built in phases, completing some facilities and moving in workers while other facilities were still under construction, also increased the price of the project. “Overall, they saw a hassle factor because the public was going to be in the middle of their construction,”

‘We should make some hard decisions on this project now and recognize there’s a lot of nice-to-haves that we’ll have to skip at this time.’

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Beamer said.

Overaa “said if we could simplify the phasing we could save $2 million,” Beamer said.

Timing also worked against the town, he said. Bids were originally supposed to go out in January, but weren’t ready until May, he said, when many contractors had already bid on other projects and were too busy to participate.

The council agreed to try to get the redesign approved by December, so the project could go out to bid in January, and to drop the prequalification requirement.

“If we can put a project on the street in January, it’s going to be a lot more competitive,” Beamer said.

Mack5 plans to talk to the bidders and their subcontractors to find out what aspects of the project resulted in the higherthan-expected bids and to use that information in the redesign, Beamer said.

He mentioned items such as teak windows and rammedearth construction in the library, and the costs of solar power and storage batteries.

Market uncertainties, including tariffs or proposed tariffs on lumber, photovoltaic panels, aluminum and steel “may have an influence on the bottom line” as well, Beamer said.

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Magee wins race for school superintendent The race for San Mateo County superintendent of schools post is over, and Nancy Magee is the winner. Her opponent and colleague in the county Office of Education, Gary Waddell, conceded the June 5 election in a statement on June 20.

“Nancy has spent her career in the service of students and I am certain that she will continue that tradition as San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools,” Waddell said in his statement.

“I look forward to supporting Superintendent-Elect Magee

in the service of San Mateo County.”

Waddell is currently serving as deputy superintendent in the county Nancy Magee office; Magee is an associate superintendent.

The semi-official results of the June 20 vote tally released by the county elections office showed Magee ahead by 0.62 of a percentage point. Magee led with 63,404 votes, or 50.46 percent.

Waddell received 62,247 votes, or 49.54 percent, the report said.

Waddell led the race in the initial tallies, but as the count progressed, his margin narrowed.

The June 15 report showed Magee ahead for the first time.

The elections office has about 700 votes in the “challenged” category, Jim Irizarry of the Elections Office told The Almanac. If analysis shows that some of these ballots are valid, they will be added to the final count for the certification of the election.

council member Mike Lempres, who was participating in the meeting remotely. “We should make some hard decisions on this project now and recognize there’s a lot of niceto-haves that we’ll have to skip at this time,” he said.

“I believe the priority ought to be a project that we can get built.”

Other council members agreed. “We need to make some hard decisions. We need to make them very, very quickly,” said Widmer.

Council members asked for updates on the progress of the redesign at all of their upcoming twice-mont hly council meetings and asked that Mack5 work with a “peer reviewer” knowledgeable about

the local construction market.

The only member of the public to speak at the meeting was Walter Sleeth, who is on the board of the Friends of the Library. He urged the council to make the library a separate project. “Move ahead with the new library plans,” he said.

In its bid, Overaa said it would build the library for only $10 million, below the Mack5 estimate of $11.8 million. Later, however, Overaa told the town that while its overall bid amount was correct, it had not divided the costs correctly. Overaa said it would cost $19 million to build the library and $29 million for the administration/ police building, plus an additional $8 million for site improvements. A

Bob Robarts August 30, 1921 – May 21, 2018 Robert Grant Robarts was born on August 30, 1921 in Logan, Utah. He attended San Jose State University where he was a member of the Delta Tau Omega fraternity and studied flying as part of the Civilian Pilot Training Program. In 1942, he went to work for Pan American World Airways, which had been taken over by the Naval Air Transport during World War II. He flew the legendary “China Clipper” across the Pacific. The plane took off and landed on pontoons on the San Francisco Bay waters next to Treasure Island.

He also started a flight school with one of his professors at Reid Hillview Airport in 1943. During the war, Bob flew the Boeing 314 carrying troops and supplies from Hawaii to many South Pacific islands. At wars end, he retired as a Lieutenant JG and was then transferred to Florida for Pan Am to fly the DC-3.

In 1954 he was transferred to New York and resided in Greenwich, Connecticut. While based in New York during the 1950s, he piloted the DC4. While living in Greenwich, Bob was grounded for a time due to some vision difficulties so he obtained his contractor’s license and built the first medical office building in Greenwich. In 1964 he was transferred again, this time to San Francisco, residing in Atherton. While flying out of San Francisco, he flew DC5s and 6s. By the late 60’s, Bob was flying 707s in which he set a world record time from Honolulu to San Francisco. He finished his 39-year career with Pan Am as a captain flying 747s (his favorite plane) and acting as a check pilot who graded the other pilots flying the plane.

Bob loved nature and from his days as a child liked nothing more than being active outdoors. His favorite activities included fly-fishing, skiing, tennis, two-man beach volleyball at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Honolulu and gardening. He enjoyed spending time at his vacation home on the island of Hawaii.

Bob was a very proud and loving father and grandfather.

He is survived by his wife of 73 years, Betty, his children Rebecca (Rick) Wilson, Carolyn Roth and Douglas (Lisa) Robarts – as well as nine grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

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Confessions of a Bone Woman: Portola Valley’s Cindie White

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Story by Kate Bradshaw | Photos by Natalia Nazarova

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hrough the blue barn doors at the historic Jelich Ranch lies Portola Valley resident Cindie White’s inner sanctum: a cathedral of naturalistic artifacts, every inch of the walls festooned with bones and pelts and taxidermied critters. An elegant oversize table holds stones and crystals arranged in formations that White says carry astrological significance.

The setting evokes the layout of one of those I-Spy kids’ books, but one’s eye is instantly drawn to the coyote skeleton dangling from the ceiling. White calls it her little wolf.

Cindie White, who was sporting a T-shirt and a friendly smile when The Almanac went out for a visit, has lived her life in extremes, intimate with both the opulence of Silicon Valley’s elite and the gritty realism of the natural world.

White recently published a memoir called “Confessions of a Bone Woman: Realizing authentic wildness in a civilized world,” which details the process she underwent while searching for deeper fulfillment in what, by external appearances, seemed to be a charmed life. It’s a journey that took her from having a personal stylist at the Stanford Shopping Center Neiman Marcus to digging for bones in Montana, with a lot of territory in between.

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In her book, White begins her story with her idyllic childhood visits to her grandparents’ Garr Ranch. As a teen, her mother remarried, and she moved to Portola Valley. She talks about struggling to adjust to her new life and grappling with body image issues.

She went on to UCLA, pursued an MBA and worked at IBM for a few years before coming home to Portola Valley at age 27 in a deep depression.

“I was living ‘the dream’ with three girls in a condo near the beach in Santa Monica, and I commuted to IBM in my Porsche. I was suntanned, blonde, and pretty, not to mention social, kind, and smart too. ... [T]he promise was that if I did as (my father and the surrounding culture) said, I’d be happy, loved, and adored. Therefore it made no sense that I was miserable,” she writes.

She began to do some soul-searching then, with the help of a psychologist.

She wanted to know how to become “enlivened,” she says.

Back in Silicon Valley, she found a job in marketing at Orgdata Inc. A couple of years in, the company brought in a new CEO, Rhys (Phillip) White, and they soon became a couple. In January 1992 they became engaged.

White said partygoing in high society became a big part of her life at that point. “Adorning myself with fabulous apparel was a thrilling and creative outlet for me, but it was also an important job, which I regarded as necessary to maintain my identity.”

After having two kids within three years of marriage, she became less entranced by the expectations of high society. A reading by an astrologer piqued a budding interest for her in the metaphysical — she claims the astrologer’s reading was more resonant with her than her mental health care provider.

For better or worse, White’s story was tied to the trajectory of her high-flying CEO husband, and in 1997, the family upgraded to a larger home in Atherton.

Three months later, Orgdata (Informix) announced a $140 million loss for first quarter.” Months later, Phillip White was pressured to resign as CEO. But it didn’t faze him, she recalls. “Ironically, he made far more money after being ousted from Orgdata than while he was there,” she wrote.

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During this time, she says, she internal- to hunt for the pestilent thoughts that ized her husband’s ouster and secluded her- plagued me. Owl wisdom guided me to self socially, diving into books like “Women grasp those pests, discern my inner truth, who Run with the Wolves,” by Clarissa digest the sustenance, and spit out what no longer served me.”

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Around that time, she also came across By the following year, she prepared for a comeback in the high-society circuit. As the a dead coyote that she put a fence around mom of young kids, though, trying to be and watched decompose over the course of beautiful and glamorous came with some a year. The now clean bones dangle from the ceiling of her barn, laid out in an elegant internal conflict, she writes.

“One moment I flourished in the gifts of framework of a once-living animal.

Less noticeable in White’s barn, but no less beauty and felt good for supporting my husband in his arena. But in the next moment, I significant, is an understated drawing of a felt shallow for loving the finer things in life woman and a coyote, inscribed “La Huesera.”

The term, which means “bone woman” and judged myself as a subpar housewife,” in Spanish, is a central figure in White’s she writes.

Just before her 40th birthday, on a vacation narrative. The drawing, she says, pulls from in Montana, White found herself instinc- a Native American tale of a mythical old tively compelled to dig for bones, she writes. woman who collected a full skeleton of wolf She describes coaxing a bone out of the dirt bones and breathed life back into them. near a cliff at a site known to have buffalo The wolf then transformed into a laughing bones, and the strong reaction she had: “It fell woman. Like “La Huesera,” White says, into my palm, flailing like a live wire. Skin to she uses animal bones to honor the natural bone, I curled my fingers around it and felt world and pursue a process of self-discovery.

More recently, White writes, she sent her my blood go hot as an electrical surge fired up the DNA in every cell of my body. The kids off to college and grew more indeflash ignited something primal in me, some pendent in pursuing her less mainstream interests. She attended a weeklong seminar kind of a memory.”

In 2000, she and Phillip bought Jelich at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, befriended an outdoorsy neighbor Ranch, which she threw in Atherton who invited herself into restoring. She ‘The bones were her on a wolf-tracking observed the life cycles of excursion in Michigan, animals, insects and birds. symbolic of my and traveled to Maun, “The bones were symbolic Botswana, in Africa on a of my discovering and discovering and wildlife immersion proreclaiming the parts of She felt personal my soul that had been reclaiming the parts gram. connections to the wolf tamed or rejected by social and the elephant on those conditioning.” of my soul that respective trips.

After that, she launched In subsequent years, her Camp Finbarr at the had been tamed or dog died and her cat had ranch, running outdoor rejected by social kittens, and those expeactivities for kids. Around riences gave her more the same time, she dove conditioning.’ appreciation for the cycle into learning about wilof life, she says. And in derness and gardening. [ CINDIE WHITE \ writing the book, she got Initially, she pursued better at setting boundarher interest in bones and ies with her family so she could work withdead animals in secret.

“I thought people would think I was out interruption, she says.

Now, after completing her memoir, she weird,” she says.

She’s had a lot of guides along her journey feels that she’s ready to take on the role of — soul coaches, Native American shamans, an “elder,” like the mythical bone woman, acupuncturists and astrologists — who have and impart her wisdom to young people, helped shape her beliefs in the metaphysical. she says. That wisdom, she adds, comes from “I kind of maxed out what they could teach “inside, from a life well-lived.”

Today, she runs a business as an “inner me,” she says.

East West Bookshop in Mountain View wildness guide,” organizes consultations, also gave her tools for exploring the mystical custom ceremonies and mother-daughter and spiritual she felt in the natural world. bonding experiences, writes a blog, and does “The best part was at each visit, I was seren- public speaking. dipitously drawn to certain books, trinkets, and tools that altered my perspective on life,” Lessons learned she writes.

Her belief now, she says, is that everything In 2002, things took a turn for the worse is about balance, and cycles. Sometimes, when White’s husband, Phillip, whom she she notes, people do need to work hard and refers to as Rhys throughout her book, was “manifest” toward their goals. indicted by a federal grand jury on charges Without balance, she says, people of carrying out a financial accounting fraud. become exhausted, anxious and depressed.

Eventually, he pleaded guilty to one count of “We need to go inward to receive energy criminal securities fraud and was sentenced and insights. That’s how we heal. That’s to two months in a minimum-security fed- what I help people do.” eral penitentiary, White writes. She says she “It’s really just about showing people it’s encouraged him to take the plea deal.

OK to get to know yourself,” she explains.

During that challenging time, she writes “[It’s] rewarding to be bold, to be brave, to in her book, she tried to learn from the go against the grain.” animals she studied, especially the owl. “As “The soul speaks in symbols,” she says. devastating as it was, my predicament was Animals, particularly the wolf and the owl, an opportunity for growth, and I knew it. carry particular personal significance for her.

Studying and observing Owl’s behavior, I “Everything decomposes except bones,” was inspired to sit patiently in my darkness she says. “They endure.” A

S T O R Y

Bones, furs, crystals and skulls adorn White’s barn.

La Huesera, depicted above, is a mythical “bone woman” who collected bones and brought a wolf back to life.

Since wolves are extremely rare in California, White had to settle for reconstructing the skeleton of a coyote, which she calls her “little wolf.”

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Study highlights impacts of adding Stanford housing

By Gennady Sheyner Palo Alto Weekly Staff Writer

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s Stanford University moves ahead with a proposal to build more than 2 million square feet of academic space by 2035, it continues to face calls from students, employees and local officials who believe the university should build more housing as part of the expansion.

But their preferred solution — requiring Stanford to greatly ramp up its housing on campus — would unleash its own problems, according to a new analysis performed by Santa Clara County’s Department of Planning and Development, which is now processing Stanford’s application.

The analysis, released last week as part of a revised draft environmental impact report (EIR) for Stanford’s proposed expansion, indicates that development alternatives that include more housing would come with increased traffic congestion on local roads and freeways, additional air pollution and greater demand for existing recreational facilities.

These impacts would also put the onus on surrounding cities, including Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Mountain View, to address the problems created by Stanford’s growth, according to the draft EIR. For proponents of additional housing — including the student group Stanford Coalition for Equitable 2035 (SCoPE 2035) and its allies in the SEIU, Local 2007 — the new analysis represents a mixed victory. On the one hand, they succeeded in delaying approval of the Stanford

application so that their concerns can be further vetted. On the other hand, this additional study suggests that the type of housing they say is needed comes at a great cost in terms of impacts on the area.

During community meetings last fall, members of SCoPE 2035 urged Stanford to provide more housing for university employees, many of whom commute from afar. Last month, SCoPE 2035 released a platform that calls for Stanford to provide 5,328 housing units for faculty, staff and workers to “better match the projected growth of its workforce over the lifespan of the 2018 GUP (general use permit).”

Palo Alto officials had also raised concerns about Stanford’s proposed academic growth and the potential inadequacy of its housing plans. In commenting on the original draft EIR, city officials argued in a letter that the region’s housing crisis will be “exacerbated by any project that proposes to add more jobs and more housing demand than housing.”

“We urge the county and university to reconsider parameters of the current proposal and either reduce housing demand or increase affordable housing proposed within and proximate to the campus,” the city’s letter states.

The county performed the additional analysis in response to an outpouring of concerns about housing in response to the initial draft EIR, said Jeff Campbell, the project planner for the GUP application. The county released its initial draft EIR for

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Q MEETING A meeting on the recirculated portions of the EIR is set for 6 to 8 p.m. on June 27 in the Menlo Park City Council Chambers at 701 Laurel St., in the Civic Center.

the Stanford application on Oct. 6, 2017. It extended the period for people to comment on the document, which concluded on Feb. 2.

Dire need

Campbell — whose firm, M-Group, is the county’s consultant for the project — said that initial DEIR elicited voluminous comments about “the dire need for more housing in the area.”

The fact that the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors had made the creation of housing one of its priorities also played into the county’s decision to analyze the new alternatives, Campbell said. Board President Joe Simitian has recently proposed a partnership between the county and cities to build teacher housing. The county also signaled support in May for raising the “affordable housing impact fee” that developers of nonresidential projects have to pay from $35 to $68.50 — a move that could have a significant impact on Stanford.

Given the concerns from the board and from the community about housing, the county recirculated a new draft EIR, with two additional alternatives, earlier this month. The comment period on the updated EIR kicked off June 12 and will stretch until July 26.

The county also plans to hold two meetings on the recirculated portions of the EIR, one on June 27 in Menlo Park (6-8 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 701 Laurel St.) and another on July 10 in Palo Alto (6-8 p.m. at the Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium, 1313 Newell Road).

The biggest change in the new document is the addition of two alternatives, each of which includes far more housing than the 3,150 faculty/staff units or student beds that Stanford had proposed in its permit application. One, known as Housing Alternative A, would provide a total of 5,699 units or beds — enough to completely accommodate the increase in the campus population from the academic expansion.

The other, known as Housing Alternative B, would build 4,425 units or beds.

The draft EIR looked at 111 different impacts that the Stanford expansion is projected to incur in areas including noise, air quality, traffic, recreation and public services. In at least 86 cases, the problem would be greater with either of the two housing alternatives than they would be with

the original project proposed

by Stanford; in a few additional cases, the impact would be “same or greater,” according to the EIR. Traffic: bad to worse

One identified area of concern is transportation. Even without the added housing, the Stanford expansion is expected to have “significant and unavoidable” impacts on traffic volumes at area intersections and freeways.

When considered with other “reasonably foreseeable future projects,” the added traffic would be “contributing considerably to significant adverse impacts,” the EIR states.

The county analysis concluded that Housing Alternative A would generate more traffic even after accounting for the students and faculty who would no longer have to commute to campus because of the new housing. During the morning and evening peak commute hours, the additional housing is expected to result in slightly more than 2,100 additional trips by residents. At the same time, it would reduce the number of commuter trips only by about 700, netting an addition of about 1,400 trips.

The analysis argues that oncampus residents tend to make more trips than commuters to campus and notes that residential rates include trips by both Stanford affiliates and other members of their households.

The county had also previously analyzed a “reduced project alternative” that would result in 1.3 million square feet of new academic space and 1,800 new housing units or beds, as well as a “no project” alternative and a “historic preservation” alternative that would prohibit Stanford from demolishing or remodeling historic resources unless these alterations are consistent with federal standards outlined by the Secretary of Interior’s office.

In evaluating the two new housing-focused alternatives, the EIR concluded that they would create more congestion than Stanford’s proposed expansion plan. While Stanford’s proposed expansion is already expected to create “significant and unavoidable” traffic impacts in the surrounding area, Housing Alternative A would further erode traffic conditions at several already congested roadway segments.

These include the northbound Interstate 280 ramp at Sand Hill Road; the intersection of Page Mill Road and El Camino Real; and the intersection of Alma Street and Charleston Road.

That alternative would also add two more Palo Alto intersections to the list of those affected by the project: Bowdoin Street and Stanford Avenue (where the level

of service would drop from “E” under Stanford’s proposal to “F” in Housing Alternative A); and Middlefield and Charleston roads (where the level of service would be “F” under both scenarios, though with greater delays under Housing Alternative A during both the morning and the evening peak hours).

Housing Alternative B is also expected to bring more traffic to the area, albeit to a lesser extent than Alternative A. The EIR concludes that scenario B would also “increase traffic volumes at area intersections” and create “adverse impacts.” And much like Alternative A, it would further exacerbate dozens of impacts that Stanford’s expansion is expected to bring, including higher school enrollment, more demand for police and fire services, increased construction noise, additional greenhouse-gas emissions and greater usage of neighborhood and regional parks.

Furthermore, the analysis concludes that both alternatives would “fail to achieve the primary project objective to develop the campus in a manner that reflects

The draft environmental impact report estimates that Stanford’s expansion would result in the demand for 2,425 offcampus housing units.

Stanford’s historical growth rates and the growth assumptions in Stanford’s approved Sustainable Development Study.”

The additional housing, according to the EIR, would “result in more intense development and construction activity than has occurred over the past several decades.” Alternative A would add about 2.5 million square feet of additional development to the campus, beyond what Stanford has proposed in its permit application, while Alternative B would add about 1.2 million square feet.

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In addition to evaluating the two new housing alternatives, the recirculated EIR also looked at the impacts that Stanford’s development of off-campus housing would have on surrounding communities, specifically Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Mountain View.

The document estimates that Stanford’s expansion would result in the demand for 2,425 off-campus housing units. The EIR notes that Palo Alto is currently home See STANFORD HOUSING, page 19

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Pig scramble protest is on for rodeo

By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

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he pig scramble — a controversial but longstanding event in which children chase small pigs around a rodeo arena in hopes of catching one and being given a ribbon — returns to Woodside with the annual July Fourth Junior Rodeo, sponsored by the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County.

Opponents of the scramble plan to place themselves outside the gate of the Mounted Patrol and at “certain other areas” to display hand-held signs and possibly banners to rodeo fans as they drive by, protest spokesperson and Woodside resident Jennifer Gonzales told The Almanac.

The rodeo begins at 8 a.m. on

Wednesday, July 4, at 521 Mountain Home Road, according to the calendar on the Mounted Patrol website.

Opponents of the event say that pigs, when chased, are terrified and that an event like the pig scramble implies to children that it’s OK to scare animals.

Advocates say the pigs and the children are having fun. Rodeo officials have noted that instructions now require all people handling the pigs, including the children, to treat them gently.

Opponents plan to be outside the gate of the Mounted Patrol and at “certain other areas” to display hand-held signs and possibly banners to rodeo fans as they drive by, protest spokesperson and Woodside resident Jennifer Gonzales told The Almanac.

Town Hall has been notified of the protest plans, as has the county Sheriff’s Office through Town Hall, Gonzales said. “This is to ensure that there are no misunderstandings about our right to be in the public right-of-way on Kings Mountain Road and certain other areas for a peaceful demonstration,” she said.

The protesters will be active from 9 a.m. to noon “to demonstrate our concern for the treatment of these animals,” Gonzales said. “We simply wish to exercise our freedom of speech to let the Mounted Patrol know that Woodside residents would like an end to the abusive pig scramble.”

Asked to comment, Michael Hutnick, captain of the Mounted Patrol, said the event’s organizers are “doing everything

Woodside’s new budget would study pedestrian needs in Town Center

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long with the hiring of a second full-time motorcycle patrol officer to monitor traffic on Woodside’s roads, the town’s budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 includes funds for an analysis of what might be done to improve things for pedestrians in Town Center, including ideas like public benches.

Those two items — a one-time study of pedestrian needs funded at $10,000, and a $300,000 annual allocation for a motorcycle officer — are included in the budget proposed to the Woodside Town Council recently for the 2018-19 fiscal year.

The budget projects general

fund expenses of $7.165 million on revenues of $8.285 million, with a reserve of $6.7 million.

The reserve in 2023 should be about $5 million, a reflection of five years of capital improvement spending and steadily rising costs for employee salaries, pensions and police services.

The largest revenue contributor is property taxes, Town Manager Kevin Bryant says in the report to the council. A conservative estimate puts property tax revenues at $3.6 million, a 3.5 percent increase over the 2017-18 fiscal year, Bryant says.

The council is expected to have voted on the budget at its June 26 meeting, after The Almanac went to press.

The budget shows expenses for the five-year capital improvement

program to include $515,000 to repair a road bank and retaining wall along Kings Mountain Road, $120,000 to rehabilitate storm drains, $600,000 for the road program, an annual expense; and a feasibility study and possible investment of $300,000 to install solar panels and electricvehicle charging stations at public facilities.

The draft budget proposes spending $852,500 on other capital projects, including design work for bridges on Old La Honda, Portola and Mountain Home roads; improving Safe Route to School conditions for walking and biking between the elementary school and the corner of Woodside and Canada roads; and replacing a guardrail on Mountain Home Road. A

Portola Valley releases proposed budget

By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

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ot water is an amenity not always found in outdoor locations, but it is reported to be a requirement for farmers’ markets by order of San Mateo County Environmental Health Services.

And so, at a cost of $12,000, a hot-water spigot and sink are going in near the Historic Schoolhouse at Portola Valley Town Center to supply the Thursday afternoon farmers’ market if the town’s proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 is approved.

The budget projects revenues of $5,350,000, up by $152,000 (3 percent) over the amended budget

for the current fiscal year. Fiftytwo percent of those revenues would come from property taxes, which are projected at $2,675,000 for the fiscal year, an increase of 4 percent over this year.

With anticipated expenses of $5,187,583, an increase of $310,359 (6.4 percent), the town projects a reserve of $2,013,433, the proposed budget says.

Other items in the budget of note: a new truck for the Public Works Department ($60,000); a window on the second floor of Town Hall that will open to allow air circulation inside and escape in case of emergency ($15,000); and digital conversion of historical paper documents ($21,400).

The library is expected to get

new carpeting and the drinking fountain there will be fitted with a water-bottle filling station ($29,000). The budget’s outlook for fiscal year 2020-21 includes $36,000 to equip other drinking fountains with water-bottle fillers.

This budget also kicks off a five-year, $6.3 million capital improvement plan, with 62 percent ($3.9 million) going to road rehabilitation and related programs. The other major expense totals about $1 million over five years for maintenance of the buildings at Town Center, now in their 10th year of existence.

The Portola Valley council reviewed the proposed budget on June 13 and is expected to approve the final version on June 27. A

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Ellen Sweeney protests last year’s Woodside rodeo pig scramble.

that we can” to ensure the safety and health of all animals and participants. He noted the event’s track record of no evidence of pigs suffering physical or psychological disabilities.

“That we’re going to have protest is fine,” Hutnick said. “This is a free country. ... We understand that protesters will be there and that’s certainly their right to do that.” A

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amount that the existing General Use Plan calls for. It has secured approval to build 215 apartments in Menlo Park and is now preparing an affordable-housing proposal on Stanford land targeting the school’s low-income workers.

McCown said Stanford plans to discuss this proposal with county officials in a few weeks.

Comments on the draft EIR should be addressed to David Rader at david.rader@pln.sccgov. org or at Santa Clara County Planning Office, County Government Center, 70 W. Hedding St., 7th Floor, East Wing, San Jose, CA 95110. A

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to about 19 percent of off-campus students, faculty and staff; Menlo Park and Mountain View have 9 percent and 10 percent, respectively. The potential effects of any off-campus housing development projects, the EIR notes, “would disproportionately affect these jurisdictions compared to other communities in the Bay Area that house Stanford affiliates.”

The EIR’s findings could make it more difficult for the Board of Supervisors to pursue the types of housing plans that SCoPE 2035 and other housing advocates had been calling for. Even so, Stanford officials have emphasized throughout the process that housing remains a top concern.

“Stanford put considerable effort into proposing a balanced and paced approach that provides new on-campus housing (3,150 student beds and faculty/staff units) in a way that preserves and enhances our academic mission and allows us to properly mitigate the identified environmental and transportation impacts,” Jean McCown, Stanford’s associate vice president in the office of Government and Community Relations, told the Palo Alto Weekly in an email.

By 2020, McCown said, the university’s stock will total 17,900 student beds and housing units.

The school has “and will continue to make very significant contributions to the supply of housing.”

She also noted that the university is constantly exploring opportunities to build and support construction of new housing, both on campus and in the surrounding region. Stanford is in the midst of building 2,020 new graduate-student beds at Escondido Village, exceeding the

Q B Y THE N U M B E R S Stanford’s proposal 2.275 million square feet: Net new academic space 3,150 units/beds: Net new housing 550 units/beds: New housing for faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and medical residents Reduced Project Alternative 1.3 million square feet: Net new academic space 1,800 units/beds: Net new housing 300 units/beds: New housing for faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and medical residents Additional Housing Alternative A 2.275 million square feet: Net new academic space 5,699 units/beds: Net new housing 2,892 units/beds: New housing for faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and medical residents Additional Housing Alternative B 2.275 million square feet: Net new academic space: 4,425 units/beds: Net new housing: 1,825 units/beds: New housing for faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and medical residents Source: County of Santa Clara

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He said the county is working with attorneys “to discuss how this announcement impacts operations at the San Carlos Airport.”

In a statement, Encompass president and CEO Steve Harfst, said: “We have been happy to serve as Surf’s primary carrier in the state of California. But we’ve come to the breaking point. Surf has repeatedly allocated its revenue on things other than paying in full for flight operations and aircraft maintenance.”

In the past year Surf Air has announced a number of acquisitions, the purchase of several aircraft and expanded service to Texas and Europe. Surf charges $1,950 per month for an individual membership within California for “unlimited” flights that BUDGET continued from page 7

the Belle Haven branch library more often; and an expansion of Project Read, a nonprofit that works with the library to provide literacy services.

The budget anticipates a city investment of about $73.5 million over five years to meet the needs for all the projects on its list. Yet the city is expected to have only about $44.6 million of that.

The budget also takes into account variables such as unfunded pension liabilities and revenue from a fund called the “education revenue augmentation fund,” or ERAF, which the city gets from the state but can’t rely on.

In December 2016, the California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPERS, cut its expected return rate from 7.5 percent to 7 percent, which increases the city’s unfunded pension liabilities by more than 40 percent and will more than double the city’s annual pension spending by the 2027-28 fiscal year.

Another question will be whether the state will continue to pass along to the city the

are limited only by how many reservations may be held at one time. An individual membership that also includes flights in Texas is $2,450 per month. The company also sells group memberships and by-the-flight memberships.

The Encompass lawsuit says that within four months of taking over the operation of Surf Air’s fleet of turbo-prop PC-12 planes, the airline stopped paying its bills.

“Despite collecting revenue from its members, Surf failed to pay the contracted costs for flight operations and related maintenance responsibilities undertaken by Encompass,” the statement from Encompass says.

Surf Air announced that Advanced Aviation LLC, based in Hawthorn, California, would take over from Encompass on June 14. The suit says that action

also violates the agreement Encompass has with Surf Air. Complaints about airportrelated noise began pouring in to the county-owned San Carlos Airport soon after Surf Air began using San Carlos for scheduled flights in June 2013. The airline offers unlimited flights for a monthly fee and has had as many as 45 scheduled flights a day to or from the airport.

Because Surf Air’s planes carry fewer than nine passengers, under FAA regulations the company may operate out of the San Carlos Airport even though it is a general aviation — not a commercial — airport. The airport is considered a “reliever airport,” keeping small planes out of busy regional airports such as San Jose, San Francisco International and Oakland.

Those who live and work under Surf Air’s flight path claim the

excess ERAF revenue. It’s a pool of tax revenue that’s automatically deducted by the state from city and special district revenues to help it pay for local schools.

Since Menlo Park generates what the state considers to be sufficient money to run local schools through property taxes alone, the state hasn’t claimed that money and has sent it back to the city.

Go to is.gd/budget452 to access the budget online.

fund another public agency, staff is working out a legal mechanism for the transfer.

The council discussed setting aside $550,000 from the surplus to fund a new bike path through Willow Oaks Park, but decided the city should first to seek grant funding for this item.

Council members also discussed the possibility of setting aside $100,000 for efforts to improve downtown Menlo Park. Council members Kirsten Keith and Ray Mueller talked about how the city might address downtown homelessness. Mueller suggested that the city dedicate $30,000 toward helping to provide publicly accessible restroom facilities and funding for a study session for council members to “all come together as a group and bring forward ideas.”

Exactly how that money would be spent is yet to be decided.

Adopting the budget came with some other formalities: The council agreed to a $63.24 million spending limit, which is set by the state and based on population growth and cost of living factors; and agreed to keep the city’s utility users’ tax at 1 percent. A

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There’s no timeline yet for when the city will fully take on those projects.

The council also agreed to set aside $1 million to offset some of the added costs that Stanford’s new development on El Camino Real will add to the Menlo Park City School District. Since the city isn’t permitted to directly

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PC-12s are extraordinarily loud and annoying, and the complaints became so frequent that San Mateo County hired several employees and contractors to deal with them.

In June 2017, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted to budget more than $1 million in spending over three years as part of a multi-pronged plan crafted in response to the wave of complaints. The board approved hiring an airport communications specialist to work with the public and pilots; hiring a contractor to investigate new air routes that avoid residences; and putting in place an automated flight tracking system tied to the noise complaint system.

Complaints fell after Encompass started routing many of the planes over San Francisco Bay, although residents of Sunnyvale

and nearby areas said that strategy moved more noise over their homes. But local residents say Surf Air flights still wake them up many days.

The Encompass lawsuit says that in the last six months of 2017, Surf “continued to demand full performance from Encompass in exchange for little to no payments.” It says the company “pleaded with Encompass time and again beginning in mid-2017 to continue to provide flight operations and maintenance of the aircraft so that Surf’s business would not come to a screeching halt.”

The lawsuit says that “Surf made and broke promises over and over again, and imposed on Encompass to be patient and allow, among other things, Surf to grow its cash balances to make its business seem more profitable.” A

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explained. Belle Haven residents would get to vote only on one council person, while other city residents would get to vote on the remaining four council members — which would hardly be fair, he pointed out.

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The specifics of changing the city’s election system are complex, and more than twice, the exculpatory refrain “I’m no lawyer, but ...” was heard over the public-comment mike and from the dais. (And even the lawyers in the room agreed that the regulations are confusing.)

The biggest point of confusion during the discussion was that there appears to be no sense for how the city’s election system would change if Menlo Park does become a charter city.

Advocates from nonpartisan election reform groups, such as Jennifer Pae from FairVote California and Steve Chessin from Californians for Election Reform, in past months also spoke publicly in Menlo Park informing residents about the potential benefits of alternative voting systems, like rankedchoice or cumulative voting.

Those options, however, are available only to charter cities.

Menlo Park is currently what’s called a “general law” city, which means it’s governed by a more standard, inflexible municipal constitution. Becoming a charter city would give it more flexibility to pursue alternative voting systems.

At one point, there was discussion of potentially creating a “hybrid” voting system, in which the city’s historically underrepresented area, Belle Haven, would be guaranteed a council member, while the rest of the city would be elected atlarge. But that would reopen the city to potential litigation under the California Voting Rights Act, because residents would get different voting opportunities depending on where they live, City Attorney Bill McClure

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If Menlo Park voters pass the measure in November, the City Council would then create a charter review committee, according to stipulations the council also approved June 19.

The committee would be an 11-member body appointed by the council, made up of two residents from each city district, with one at-large member, each ideally with experience serving the city in some capacity.

Once a committee is appointed, it could then work through potential changes to the city’s charter. Changes would have to be adopted by voters in a general municipal election, meaning during even-year November elections only.

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As part of this measure, Menlo Park voters will also be asked to weigh in on term limits.

Under the proposed term restrictions, people would be eligible to sit on the City Council for up to three consecutive four-year terms. Terms of two or more years would count as full terms.

There would be no lifetime limit — if a resident were to sit out a term after maxing out with three terms, he or she would be eligible to run again. And people would not be able to move to different districts to circumvent the term limits.

According to McClure, “This would probably be the most limited charter that any city has adopted that we’ve seen. ... This is really pretty minimal.” A

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Celebrating the Fourth of July with a parade, music, fireworks

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s Independence Day approaches, many families are looking for ways to mark the occasion by joining others in community celebrations and activities. For those eager to celebrate, there are numerous events listed below scheduled for Wednesday, the Fourth of July.

Menlo Park Menlo Park will hold its annual Fourth of July parade in downtown Menlo Park and its postparade celebration at Burgess Park.

Parade participants are asked to meet at Santa Cruz Avenue and Chestnut Street by 11:45 a.m.

Kids and families are encouraged to decorate their bike, tricycle, or wagon and join the parade from downtown to Burgess Park.

Once at Burgess Park, participants can enjoy live music, carnival games, jump houses, rock walls, face painting, putt putt golf, and many other activities.

Live music this year will be performed by Mustache Harbor, a band known for its vintage soft rock, classic songs, and mustaches.

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Through July 1, times vary. $40-$100. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. theatreworks. org/201718-season

Concerts

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The event is free, but an $8 wristband is required for certain activities, and can be purchased at the parade.

Woodside The Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County will hold its annual Woodside Junior Rodeo and Parade at the Mounted Patrol Grounds, located at 521 Kings Mountain Road in Woodside.

Gates open at 7:30 a.m., but the rodeo starts at noon with a special Color Guard presentation. The event will include pony rides, a petting zoo, a mechanical bull, a pig scramble, and other activities.

Admission to the rodeo is $18 for adults 18 and over, $15 for children ages 6 through 17, and free for kids, ages 5 and under.

The night before the rodeo, the Mounted Patrol will host a prerodeo dinner and dance, also on the Mounted Patrol Grounds. The dinner starts at 6 p.m.

History Museum in Redwood City The San Mateo County History Museum will present “An Old Fashioned Fourth of July� for children and adults at the anniversary. The series showcases a variety of jazz musicians and local favorites every week in the courtyard between Nordstrom and Crate & Barrel at Stanford Shopping Center.

Thursdays through Aug. 23, 6-7:30 p.m. Free.

Stanford Shopping Center, 660 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto.

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June 30, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info.

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The following celebration at Burgess Park will feature a variety of food and family-friendly activities such as crafts, face painting, rock walls, giant slides, bounce houses and carnival games. July 4, 11:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free, $8 wristband is required for some activities. Postparade celebration will take place at 701 Laurel St., Menlo Park. menlopark.org/4thofjuly

Film )LOP 6FUHHQLQJ Âś:DLWLQJ IRU .LDURVWDPL¡ “Waiting for Kiarostami,â€? a film inspired by a true story about a medical student who has to choose between her father’s wish for her to become a doctor and her own passion to become a singer and actress, will be shown at Stanford’s Geology Corner. Hossein Khandan, Iranian-American director of the film, will lead a discussion after the film screening and will be joined by Ana Bayat, one of the film’s lead actresses. June 28, 6:30 p.m. Free. Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info. )LOP 6HULHV &RQWHPSRUDU\ ,QN 3DLQWHUV Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Ink Worlds,â€? films by Britta Erickson from the

museum, in the former county courthouse at 2200 Broadway in Redwood City. The event is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Children will be invited to hand-crank and taste homemade vanilla ice cream while adults will have the chance to view vintage films of the San Francisco Peninsula from the museum’s archives starting at 1 p.m.

Museum admission will be halfprice for the day: $3 for adults, $2 for seniors and students, and free for kids 5 and under.

Fireworks at Shoreline Farther south on the Peninsula, the day can be capped by the 32nd annual Fireworks Spectacular at Shoreline Amphitheatre at 1 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View. The San Francisco Symphony performs in a concert starting at 8 p.m. “A Celebration of Heroes� will feature music from the films “The Incredibles,� “Toy Story 2,� and “Finding Nemo.� A performance by Capathia Jenkins singing “Girl on Fire,� “I Will Survive� and more is also on the program.

Ticket prices begin at $25 and are on sale at Livenation.com.

There is a $10 parking fee. A series “The Enduring Passion for Ink� will be shown. The film features artists like Xu Bing, Zheng Chongbin, Liu Dan, Wang Dongling and Yang Jiechang, whose work is included in the “Ink Worlds� exhibition. June 29, 1-4 p.m.

Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford. edu/programs

Talks & Lectures &RPPXQLW\ &RIIHH ZLWK 0DUF %HUPDQ Assembly member Marc Berman and Portola Valley Mayor John Richards will hold a conversation with community members. Coffee will be provided and anyone is invited to share his or her thoughts on community and legislative matters. June 29, 8-9:30 a.m. Roberts Market, 4420 Alpine Road, Portola Valley. &\UXV )DULYDU DQG /LQGD /\H RQ 'DWD 3ULYDF\ Technology news site Ars Technica journalist and author of “Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance� Cyrus Farivar and ACLU attorney, Linda Lye will speak about efforts to protect consumers from new tech.

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Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com for more info.

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, year-round. Free. First Baptist Church, 1100 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. sriorganon.com 7KH 6WUHHWV RI 0HQOR 3DUN Historian Bo Crane, author of “The Streets of Menlo Park,� will share the fascinating stories about how many of the local streets got their names. July 2, 7-8 p.m. Menlo Park Main Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. menlopark.org 7HUU\ %URRNV Best-selling author Terry Brooks will discuss volume two of his series, “The Skaar Invasion,� with Tad Williams. June 30, 4-5:30 p.m. $15-$50. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com for more info.

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This local boy rolled along in the 2013 Fourth of July parade in downtown Menlo Park. ongoing impact of historical techniques, materials and themes. Through Sept. 3, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info.

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June 29, 10-11 a.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on May 15, 2018.

(ALM June 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018) FIREKEEPER FORGE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277719 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Firekeeper Forge, located at 764 Live Oak Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): SAMUEL J FARNWORTH 764 Live Oak Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 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 May 15, 2018.

(ALM June 13, 20, 27; July 4, 2018)

THE PENINSULAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM SORIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S AUTO MOBILE DETAIL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277981 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Soriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Auto Mobile Detail, located at 1837 Clarke Ave., Apt. 21, E. Palo Alto, CA 94303, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): JUAN SORIA NUÃ&#x2018;EZ 1837 Clarke Ave., Apt. 21 E. 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 Feb. 16, 2017.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on June 11, 2018.

(ALM June 20, 27; July 4, 11, 2018) CRAFT AND OAK CRAFTOAK.COM FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277862 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Craft and Oak, 2.) craftoak.com, located at 200 Todo El Mundo, Woodside, CA 94062, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): PHYB LLC 200 Todo El Mundo Woodside, CA 94062 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 5/30/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on May 30, 2018.

(ALM June 27; July 4, 11, 18, 2018) ISSIMI INC. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 278047 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Issimi Inc., located at 1830 Industrial Way, Redwood City, CA 94063, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): ISSIMI INC. 1830 Industrial Way Redwood City, CA 94063 DE This business is conducted by: A

Corporation.

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 June 15, 2018.

(ALM June 27; July 4, 11, 18, 2018) RAVENSWOOD JUNIOR SOCCER CLUB FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277946 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Ravenswood Junior Soccer Club, located at 1166 Saratoga Ave., East Palo Alto, CA 94303, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): RAVENSWOOD JUNIOR SOCCER CLUB 1166 Saratoga Ave. East Palo Alto, CA 94303 This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 07-20-2015.

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

(ALM June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2018) PROPER CLEANING SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 278061 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Proper Cleaning Services, located at 1454 Regent St. #1, Redwood City, CA 94061, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): LILI RODRIGUEZ VALENCIA 1454 Regent St. #1 Redwood City, CA 94061 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 June 15, 2018.

(ALM June 27; July 4, 11, 18, 2018) ZEN-SATION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 278101 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Zen-Sation, located at 86A 88th St., Daly City, CA 94015, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): JUANA CORDERO 1655 Sweetwood Dr. Daly City, CA 94015 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 June 20, 2018.

(ALM June 27; July 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.: 18CIV02787 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: LOTTI MARIE LAWLIS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: LOTTI MARIE to LOTTI MARIE LAWLIS. 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: July 19, 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.

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: June 06, 2018 /s/ Susan Irene Etezadi JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (ALM June 20, 27; July 4, 11, 2018)

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