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Ravenswood Family Health Network New CEO Luisa Buada, RN, MPH is the Chief Executive Officer for the newly formed Ravenswood Family Health Network (RFHN) She brings to her position several decades of health care administration, and organization development. Her professional life includes the founding of several health care institutions including Clinicas de Salud in the Salinas Valley and the Berkeley Primary Care Access Clinic and the co-founding of the Lifelong Medical Care in Berkeley, a merger with Over 60 Health Center in 1996. Her first association with East Palo Alto was as a consultant in the development of the Ravenswood Family Health Center. She first served as the Center’s Interim Chief Executive Officer before assuming the permanent CEO position in 2003. Luisa received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing in 1977 and her Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) Policy and Administration from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. A recipient of many awards, including induction into the San Mateo County Women’s Hall of Fame in 2010; receipt In 2013 of the California Senate Woman of the Year Award for the 13th District; honoree of the 2016 San Francisco Chronicle and the School of Economics and Business Administration at St. Mary’s College Visionary of the Year Award; receipt of the 2016 American Leadership Forum of Silicon Valley John W. Gardner Exemplary Leadership Award; and the 2018 California State Assembly Woman of the Year award for the 24th District.
New Street Sweeping Signs To Be Installed The City of East Palo Alto will be installing new street sweeping signs in more neighborhoods. There are neighborhoods where limited or no street services have been provided due to the nonexistence of signs warning motorists about street sweeping days and times and advising them to move their parked cars. The 2200 block of Menalto is such street where not street sweeping occurs and yet property owners pay for the service through their property taxes. The city began street sweeping services in 1992, according to a report presented to the city council recently, and to inform residents to move vehicles for street sweeping, signs were installed on streets indicating street sweeping days and times. Vehicles that 28 MAY/JUNE 2020 EL RAVENSWOOD
are not moved risk being cited. Signage, according to the staff report, was initially only installed on major arterials. In 2008 however following complaints from residents, the city reportedly installed 110 addition signage in the Kavanaugh/Gloria Way neighborhood and in 2012 and 2017 additional signs were installed in the Village and Gardens/University Square neighborhood. Street signs usually indicate not only the days street sweeping occur but the times, usually between 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. when parking is prohibited on those streets. Currently the city has a co ntract with Clean Streets a company that sweeps streets citywide, including streets with no signage such as Menalto Avenue
between Bay Road and East Bayshore road. The city anticipates that the project would cost approximately $110,000 and with the council approval of the project city staff will be seeking a contractor to put up the signs. Adrian Biggs, the city’s Assistant City Engineer anticipates that approximately 260 signs will be installed.
