Phil Scott, General Manager

Phil Scott, General Manager Of The West Bay Sanitary District, Is Retiring

In a farewell letter to rate payers published in the District Bulletin, Phil Scott, the General Manager of the West Bay Sanitary District, announced his retirement. The District is currently searching for his replacement and accepted letters of interest until March 16. The recruitment is being conducted by William Avery and Associates, Inc., an executive search and labor relations consulting firm.

Noting that he had served as the District Manager for the last 10 years, and had been in the water and wastewater business since 1981, he announced that it was time ”to let the younger men and women with fresh ideas and bright hopes for the future build upon the foundation that has been laid as they continue to make West Bay an innovative, responsive district.”

Mr. Scott made a point to note that he was proud to say that he had done his best” to serve the terrific communities and cities of Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Atherton and unincorporated portions of San Mateo County.” His list failed to mention the city of East Palo Alto and the Town of Woodside.

Mr. Scott told El Ravenswood that the omission was inadvertent and that during his tenure with the District, he has worked well with both East Palo Alto and the Town of Woodside.

West Bay Sanitary District provides wastewater collection services to the City of Menlo Park, the towns of Atherton and Portola Valley, and areas of East Palo Alto, Woodside and unincorporated San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Services include the maintenance and operation over 200

miles of main line sewer system. The District conveys raw wastewater, to Silicon Valley Clean Water (SVCW) for treatment.

The District serves 1,117 residential and 47 Commercial parcels in East Palo Alto according to District officials.

After nearly 12 years, Cari Pang Chen, Associate Director at Rebuilding Together Peninsula (RTP,) left the organization in late April “to focus more on our family and my volunteer activities for now. “

Cari Pang Chen is widely known and admired in East Palo Alto for her former role as Program Coordinator for the East Palo Alto Neighborhood Improvement Initiative. She coordinated the partnership between the Stanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service and the Initiative. The Initiative led to the creation of One East Palo Alto.

Rebuilding Together began in 1973, when a group of people in Midland, Texas, realized that homes in their community had fallen into disrepair and their inhabitants could not afford to fix them. The group volunteered their time and skills to rehabilitate those homes. The group became known as Christmas in April and committed to performing repair and rehabilitation work in their community every April.

The mission rapidly spread beyond Texas as well changing from an April only event to an all-year-round enterprise

Christmas in April opened its national office in 1988 and changed its name to Rebuilding Together. With its corporate and community partners, RBD not only repairs homes, it revitalizes communities and rebuilds lives.

Rebuilding Together’s local affiliates and nearly 100,000 volunteers, Cari Pang Chen Leaves Rebuilding Together Peninsula ( RTP )

reportedly completes about 10,000 rebuild projects nationwide annually.

Rebuilding Together has completed over 3000 projects in the Peninsula.