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City could close Castro Street at train tracks COUNCIL MAJORITY LEANS TOWARD CLOSURE AS LEAST DISRUPTIVE PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN HUB By Mark Noack
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Debbie Kinslow and about 100 other residents of Santiago Villa mobile home park aired fears of evictions and rising rents at a meeting with general manager Maria Ahmad on March 16.
Battle emerges at mobile home park SANTIAGO VILLA RESIDENTS ALARMED AT RISING RENTS, NEARBY TECH DEVELOPMENT By Mark Noack
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or the hundreds of people living at the Santiago Villa mobile home
park, the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back came in the form of a letter from the landlord. The letters sent last month warned many of the 358
households in tightly worded legal language that their homes needed immediate work. One woman said she was told the Tibetan flags draping the outside of her house had to be removed. Another was instructed to sweep her porch, clean the steps and do something about all the animal fur on her property. But many homeowners said their
ountain View council members signaled early support for closing off Castro Street at the Caltrain tracks, making for a dramatic transformation of the city’s downtown strip. The idea, which is still being studied, would prevent traffic from crossing the tracks, blocking vehicles from Moffett Boulevard and Central Expressway heading to the downtown. At the March 22 study session, a majority of the council hailed the idea as the least disruptive way to preserve the character of downtown. “Closing Castro at the railroad is the best we could do for downtown for safety and for emerging transit options,” said Councilman Lenny Siegel. “By doing something simpler and cleaner, this would give us money we could use to improve transit
options.” The spot has long been considered a safety risk due to the large numbers of drivers, cyclists and pedestrians who regularly converge to cross the tracks. Those dangers are expected to grow as Caltrain moves forward with plans to electrify the tracks and run twice as many trains. In addition, the rail corridor is slated for future use as part of the California High Speed Rail project. With those projects on the horizon, city staff and a consultant team say they needed to find options for improving the crossing. Among those ideas, they considered lowering the Caltrain tracks to run below the street level. But making those modifications would be enormously expensive and complicated, possibly requiring miles of track modifications and even a new See CASTRO STREET, page 7
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School district could build apartments for teacher housing AFFORDABLE, NEARBY HOUSING OPTIONS SEEN AS KEY TO ATTRACTING, RETAINING FACULTY IN MV WHISMAN SCHOOLS By Kevin Forestieri
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he Mountain View Whisman School District took small steps towards addressing a big problem Thursday night, when board members agreed to look at constructing teacher housing. The skyrocketing cost of living in the Bay Area has fueled an
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exodus of teachers who can no longer afford to live in or near Mountain View. Superintendent Ayinde Rudolph told the board at its March 17 meeting that teachers would be hard-pressed to pay the average rent in Mountain View — between $2,600 and $2,900 a month — when the average teacher pay is close to $69,000 annually. Teachers
either move out of the area and endure a long commute, or rely on a shared-living situation. “It’s really an issue for our teachers, especially our youngest teachers,” Rudolph said. “There are reports out there of individuals who are renting out rooms like dorms in downtown See TEACHERS, page 12
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Council seeks tighter campaign disclosure rules NEW RULES SEEK TO SQUELCH HIDDEN INFLUENCE, ‘DARK MONEY’ IN UPCOMING ELECTION
in Mountain View politics. City officials say it was the first ust months away from a instance of this level of outside November election, the political spending in Mountain Mountain View City Council View’s history. Months after the election it on Tuesday endorsed a package of stricter campaign finance dis- was revealed that the Neighborclosure rules that aims to prevent hood Empowerment Coalition so-called “dark money” from was actually being funded by the California Apartment Associainfluencing voters’ decisions. Under a set of new regulations tion, a landlord advocacy group. The success of the commitproposed by the council, Mountain View would require inde- tee’s spending is debatable. Two of the three pendent political candidates the committees to group supportidentify any con‘It wasn’t ed — Mayor Pat tributors providing more than known who was Showalter and Cou nci lma n $2,500. In addiKen Rosenberg tion, those comcontributing to — emerged as mittees would these committees victors in the be required to The third disclose their top until the election race. candidate it five contributors supported, on any mailwas over.’ Ellen Kamei, ings or newspacame in sixth per advertiseCOUNCILMAN KEN ROSENBERG place and Lenments they send ny Siegel, who out into the was not backed by the commitcommunity. The suggestions came as the tee, won. Both Showalter and Rosenberg council deliberated over how to strengthen local rules following disavowed any connection with problems during the last elec- the group, and they publicly critition. In the 2014 City Council cized its activity as an attempt race for three open seats, a to anonymously influence local committee based in Long Beach politics. “It became the joke of the eleccalling itself the Neighborhood Empowerment Coalition spent tion,” Rosenberg said. “It wasn’t about $90,000 on promotional known who was contributing to materials for three candidates. these committees until the elecIt was not clear at the time who tion was over.” exactly was behind the committee and why they were interested See CAMPAIGN, page 12 By Mark Noack
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t may not be the most glamorous undertaking, but a local medical technology startup is booting up a new clinical trial aimed at helping patients with inactive bowels. Last week, El Camino Hospital announced that it will be the first site to try out the GutCheck System, a new technology designed to monitor the activity in the digestive track. Patients who undergo surgery often see a halt in movement and contractions in the small intestine and colon for days, and it’s a challenge to find out when the body is back in working order. The device itself is a small
patch that is attached to the abdomen. It’s designed by the company G-Tech Medical, at the Fogarty Institute for Innovation on the El Camino Hospital campus. Steve Axelrod, CEO of G-Tech Medical, described the device as a circular band-aid with electrodes on it that sends raw data to an app on a wireless device like a smartphone. Similar to the heart, the gastrointestinal track is full of muscles that contract by way of electrical signals that can be tracked. Axelrod said the GutCheck System could be described as an “EKG for the gut” and can monitor electrical signals well below the surface of the skin, giving physicians a
clear view of digestive activity in a non-invasive way. “We’re really excited about this. We really feel like we’re going to change health care in our area for these patients in seeing what’s really going on.” After surgery, it’s common for these muscles to completely cease working for hours or even days, Axelrod said, particularly after invasive surgery and a lot of anesthesia. But the methods for figuring out when the muscles are back in working order is more or less a guessing game based on whether patients can eat and digest food. This can be particularly tough after abdominal surgery. See GUT PROBLEMS, page 11
MV Whisman board gets schooled on bad behavior SPECIAL MEETING FOR SELF-EVALUATION DELVES INTO CONFLICTS WITH STAFF, FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS By Kevin Forestieri
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or years, the Mountain View Whisman School District’s board meetings have been marred by hostility, dysfunction, and tense, drawnout discussions. Now, through a self-evaluation, the board is seeking to change the way school board members act at meetings. The self-evaluation comes a few months after a scathing audit by the firm Cambridge
Education, which found major problems throughout the district office — including the school board. School board meetings are described in the report as “an absolute circus where nothing gets done.” At the heart of the problem, according to the audit report, is the school board’s inability to get along and make decisions in a timely manner. The paralysis makes it increasingly difficult to improve educational programs.
Parents, community members and district employees are “distressed by the behaviors displayed during board meetings,” according to the report. So the board members got together at a special March 12 meeting and watched video clips of themselves behaving badly. It wasn’t a highlight reel of the worst moments, but the board’s facilitator, Bill Attea, pointed out key problems in the way board members interact with each
other and district staff. “I think that there are spontaneous outbreaks that detract from the board meeting,” Attea said. One example came from a pretty innocuous agenda item — an update on summer school programs — when board member Steve Nelson grills district staff members over measuring student performance. Attea said it wasn’t necessary for Nelson to be so aggressive.
“It was almost like you are attacking staff, asking ‘did you know this’ and ‘did you study it,’” Attea said. “And it’s negative when you come back and say you will be inquiring of staff.” This isn’t the first time board members have been called out for being too tough on staff members. At a board retreat last year, Superintendent Ayinde Rudolph pointed See SCHOOL BOARD, page 9
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from their Social Security payments? Ahmed assured them any rent increases would come on slowly and it would take “a long time” for current residents to be brought into line with newcomers. One resident pointed out her rent had only increased by about $500 over the 30 years she had lived at the park. Rent affects sale prices
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demands were more onerous, like being instructed to reseal their driveways, power-wash the exterior of their homes and apply a new coat of paint. The letters warned residents — many of them retired seniors on fixed incomes — that if they didn’t comply within seven days they could face eviction proceedings, effectively losing their homes. The park could begin the 60-day process to terminate their tenancy or seek an injunction to bring a temporary restraining order against them, the letters said. “This is a statutory notice on our part to give you the opportunity to handle the above without the embarrassment of an eviction,” the letter said. For longtime residents at the park — some of whom still pay monthly rents of around $800 a month — the letters appeared to confirm their suspicions that the park’s ownership is looking for a way to kick them out. The residents of Santiago Villa say they are seeing troubling signs that they will be phased out in favor of younger tech workers willing to pay $4,000 a month to rent a mobile home. The park’s general manager has denied that the letters she sent out are part of a strategy to evict residents. She says the notices are necessary because residents were not keeping their homes tidy and up to the park’s standards. Fearful residents “This is going beyond the pale to longtime residents — it’s scaring the heck out of everyone,” said Karen Alexander, a Santiago Villa resident since 2010. “This used to be a senior park, and now you have a lot of people who can’t afford the new economy and are afraid they can’t afford to move anywhere else.” Alexander is just one resident facing a dilemma over her future prospects at Santiago Villa, located in North Bayshore near Google’s campus. A worker in the biotech industry, she’s also the caretaker for her 80-year-old mother Betty, who, after a recent stroke and two heart attacks, is not in great health. “I’m living on borrowed time, and I keep on borrowing,” her mother summed up with a chuckle. But along with the fear of losing her mother, Alexander is worried that she could also lose her home. With her mother’s name on the lease, Alexander said she expects she will need to sign a new contract that will double her monthly space rent to $2,000 or more. She is already 6
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Maria Ahmad, the general manager of Santiago Villa, tells residents to write down their questions and put them in a comment box at a meeting on March 16. Residents, worried about rising rents and possible evictions, opted to call out their questions instead.
preparing to move away. “I honestly don’t know if I’d be allowed to stay here,” she said. “If I qualified, I’d pay a higher rent for a time ... if not, then maybe I’d have to walk away and forfeit everything.” North Bayshore’s only housing Santiago Villa was built in the 1960s, and for much of its history it has served as a haven for seniors on a tight budget. Mobile homes, unlike houses or apartments, must be purchased, often with a traditional mortgage. However, mobile home owners also pay a monthly rent for the space, facilities and maintenance provided by the park management. Santiago Villa is unique in that it is was established as the lone residential neighborhood in Mountain View’s sought-after North Bayshore business district. Today, the park is just a short walk from the headquarters of tech companies like Google and LinkedIn — companies that are competing to acquire as much real estate as possible, both for offices and to house their growing workforce. For many residents at Santiago Villa, the neighborhood is in the eye of the hurricane with rapid tech development being planned all around the park. Local homeowners have watched warily in recent months as the Mountain View City Council moved forward with plans to allow development of 3.5 million square feet of new office space and create dense neighborhoods totaling more than 10,000 new homes near the mobile-home park. Given the pace of nearby development, many residents say they’ve felt it would be only a matter of time before Santiago Villa is transformed into part of some corporate campus.
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Those fears came to a head this year as residents saw Santiago Villa’s ominous maintenance letter and received what they call their highest rent increases in recent memory. Mobile-home residents have recently become a regular presence at City Council meetings, making emotional appeals for the city to save their homes. “Does the city have a heart and soul for those out in the North Bayshore?” said Santiago Villa resident Christine Cray at the March 3 meeting. “Where will I go if I don’t repair my home in seven days? I’ll be pushing a cart like an old lady on the street.” To the bafflement of city officials, many residents alleged the city and park management are in cahoots trying to rezone the park. Mayor Pat Showalter assured everyone that wasn’t the case, and city staff promised to look into the park’s situation later this year. Santiago Villa general manager Maria Ahmed hastily called a neighborhood meeting on March 16, the first in years, to dispel rumors that were spreading about the park’s future. More than 100 residents assembled into park’s clubhouse, a room that was sweltering from the afternoon sun and the tightly packed crowd. Ahmed stood in the center of the crowd of irate residents, trying to keep control of the discussion even though it sometimes descended into a shouting match. Santiago Villa is one of 10 mobile home parks Ahmed manages, but she noted that it’s special to her since it is also where she lives. She said she prides herself on the quality of life at the park, and she is known for curtly correcting anyone who refers to Santaigo Villa as a “trailer park.” Ahmed had set up a box for people to drop their written questions, but that idea was soon ditched as people began bellow-
ing out their comments to her. She backpedaled on a few issues regarding the maintenance letter after residents pointed out that power-washing their homes was illegal, given the city’s drought restrictions. Residents could use a mop instead, she suggested. Some residents alleged the park was trying to offload driveway repairs on them when state government code specifies that mobile home parks are the responsible party. Ahmed assured her tenants that no one was being threatened with eviction, and the maintenance letters were written in the same language as in past years. The issues had been exaggerated through a “game of telephone,” and she said certain people in the community were blowing the situation out of proportion. “These are your assets that we’re trying to make sure you upkeep,” she said. “Yes, there’s been rent increases, but if we have increases, it’s going back into the park.” Asked later about her statement, Ahmen clarified for the Voice that some, but not all of the money raised from higher rents was being invested in the park. She was running a business, after all, she said. The business aspect is partly what worries Santiago Villa residents. Many have expressed concerns that the mobile-home park is being squeezed for revenues to help pay for other losses by the park’s owner, John Vidovich. In 2014, Sandridge Partners, a farm consortium co-owned by Vidovich, ended up on the losing side of $238.6 million lawsuit centered on water rights in Kings County. At the meeting, a tense crowd of residents peppered Ahmed with questions about the park’s future. What would happen to long-term residents who couldn’t afford $2,000 a month in rent
Some voiced complaints they were seeing another financial hit if they tried to sell their homes. Like some of his neighbors, Ryan Babineaux was planning to put his home on the market, but he said he was concerned he would have to severely lower his asking price due to the Santiago Villa’s new rent increases. He and others point to a rule of thumb in the mobile-home industry that every extra $100 in space rent equates to $10,000 less in a home’s sale value. “This isn’t a little increase — everyone here has lost tens of thousands of dollars in their home equity,” he said to Ahmed. “You can keep increasing it to the point where no one will be able to sell their homes.” Ahmed ultimately responded that she would have to take these issues up with the park’s owner. Other Santiago Villa residents say they have already encountered this problem. Last year, Jacqueline Cohen decided to put her three-bedroom mobile home on the market so she could move to Atlanta to join her family. The 64-year-old former Stanford employee listed her asking price at $230,000, an amount that her real estate agent called comparable to other nearby sales in 2015. But after four months on the market, Cohen said no buyers ever approached with an offer, even though there was plenty of interest. A lot of prospective buyers backed off when they learned that Santiago Villa would be raising the rent to $2,000, or about twice what Cohen currently pays. After missing out on what she thought would be a surefire sale, Cohen said her life now is in limbo. Her house is showroom-clean and sparsely decorated, since she has already packed up all her furniture and sent it across the country. On top of that, she had already put forward the down payment to start building her dream house, a four-bedroom home near Atlanta’s downtown. She said she was able to cancel the construction, but the experience left a bad taste in her mouth. She is convinced that the park management is seeking to buy her home at a fire-sale price. “Santiago Villa has one agenda and that’s to make money,” she said. “Until we can sell this place, all our other plans have to Continued on next page
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League. But the devil is in the details, he said. “There’s nothing wrong with a (mobile-home park) buying a home, but what if that’s combined with interference from raising rents to an exorbitant amount?” he said. “You could piece this together as an unfair business practice or show a fact pattern that there’s an intent to
frustrate sales.” In general, he said individual mobile-home residents have little power to protest issues once they sign a lease and invest their money in a home. Despite the name, mobile homes are pretty much immobile, he said, and homeowners can find themselves stuck with the terms of their leases. “The park owner has the
homeowner over the barrel — it’s a monopolistic industry,” Stanton said. The disadvantages inherent in owning a mobile home has led about 100 jurisdictions throughout California to established some form of rent control at the parks, Stanton said. In fact, about a decade ago in Mountain View a voter measure was proposed to do this, but it never received enough signatures to qualify for an election. For her part, Ahmed is adamant that she never solicits to buy anyone’s home — people come to her looking for a facilitated sale, she said. In many cases, she said she ends up spending $200,000 or more to rip out a dilapidated home and replace it with a newer model. In total, the park owns 55 units, many of which are rented out for $2,000 to $4,000 a month, Ahmed said. But even this hasn’t convinced many residents, who say 55 is a suspiciously low number. More than one resident told the Voice
drivers. The idea would be great if the city had “an infinite pot of money,” said Councilman Chris Clark, but otherwise city officials have to be strategic about how they spend its resources. “My guess is we can handle a closure there,” Clark said. “If it’s a permanent closure, people will learn.” Only about 20 percent of the cars heading into downtown are coming from the Moffett Boulevard direction, according to a city traffic analysis. Nevertheless, the possibility of closing the Castro Street crossing raised concerns among some speakers from the downtown business community. Club owner Sarah Astles said she experienced, on average, a 17-percent business drop each time the city closed Castro Street for street fairs. “It’s hard to like any of these ideas,” she said. “People already have a hard time finding their
way into Castro if they’re not familiar with Mountain view.” City staff members said they would conduct an economic impact study and gather input from the business community, and council members urged them to get this information before any final decision is made. On this note, Councilman John Inks warned that the city was trying to craft plans even though there was a lot of uncertainty. “(These plans) are lacking and it makes it difficult to pick a design at this stage in the project,” he said. “We’re being asked to select a point design before the design for the whole (transit) system is established.” City staff agreed there were some mixed signals coming from the California High Speed Rail Authority over how the system would be built along the Peninsula. Mountain View’s downtown transit center has
been identified as a possible Midpeninsula station for the future high-speed rail trains. Adding to the complexity, Mountain View leaders are also investigating plans for a new automated mass transit system centered at the station. Given the many challenges, City Council members threw their support behind simplicity and certainty in backing the Castro Street closure. “I realize that any underpass proposal would just destroy downtown and its ambiance at the expense of citizens,” said Councilman Mike Kasperzak. “All you have to do is be downtown at lunchtime, and you can see (this traffic) blocks up downtown.” As part of the closure plans, staff members said they would look into expanding Evelyn Street so that it would connect with Shoreline Road, creating a new route into downtown. City
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be put on hold.” Vidovich, Santiago Villa’s owner, has weathered similar allegations before. About a decade ago residents at Sahara Village, another Mountain View mobile home park he owns, complained he was raising rents to scare away buyers. Sahara residents publicly accused Vidovich of trying to buy out residents so he could redevelop the parcel. Ahmed and city officials flatly deny there are any plans to replace Mountain View’s mobilehome parks, but many residents say they have noticed that Santiago Villa has been on what they describe as a buying spree in recent months. Based on the allegations, Santiago Villa residents could have grounds for legal action if it could be proved that park managers were deliberately trying to meddle in a private real-estate sales, said Bruce Stanton, an attorney with the Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners
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tunnel running under Stevens Creek. On Tuesday, staff presented a slate of other options that centered around lowering Castro Street about 18 feet to dip underneath the trail tracks. While this type of grade separation would require extensive construction, city staff suggested the idea could include also lowering Central Expressway. If the city desired, project manager James Lightbody suggested the city could even create a new downtown plaza space over the roads. Lightbody said the cost estimates for these ambitious plans would come at a future date. A majority of the council expressed wariness about trying to dramatically modify Castro Street for the convenience of
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that former residents had sold their homes to third-party buyers only to discover they were working on behalf of Santiago Villa. But no one could provide the Voice with a contact to verify this claim. If there’s one clear result from Santiago Villa’s recent brouhaha, it’s that the once-sleepy neighborhood is now abuzz with activity and engaged residents. The concerns swirling in the community have led locals to launch a string of new neighborhood groups on social media. Bee Hanson, a tech writer who’s lived at the park for 20 years, is spearheading an effort to create a new homeowner association, which Santiago Villa hasn’t had for at least a decade. She said she hopes that if the residents could organize and speak with unity, they could better work with city officials and the park’s management. “We’re fine with development, but we don’t want to wind up under the wheels of it,” Hanson said. staff expected to build some kind of overpass or tunnel across the Caltrain tracks so that pedestrians and bicyclists could still cross at Castro Street. Siegel suggested the city should look into creating some kind of pick-up/ drop-off area at the end of Moffett Boulevard. The City Council was only giving feedback at the study session on what options members wanted to pursue, and no final decisions were made. Through a series of straw votes, council members showed support for continuing to investigate closing off Castro. A minority of the council also asked staff to further study two alternative plans that would lower Castro Street beneath the tracks. The city is expected to have a community meeting on the transit center plans in May. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com
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from,” County Supervisor Joe Simitian said in a statement. “It’s just so important that we protect these pieces of our history for future generations.” Plans are underway to renovate and move the building to a new park at 771 N. Rengstorff Avenue, the site of the former Stieper property. The grant will be used to pay for window replacement, woodwork repair, painting and wallpaper. The total cost of the project is estimated to be about $180,000, according to a county report. The new funding marks the latest milestone in an ongoing effort to save the Immigrant House, which was uprooted from its original location on Bryant Road to make way for new development. Late last year, the Mountain View City Council unanimously agreed to grant formal
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historic status to the building, a designation that makes it easier to win grant money to repair and maintain the structure. Work on the Immigrant House using grant money must be completed within the next 36 months, according to the grant funding agreement.
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celestial bodies within the solar system and beyond. The research done by the institute provides support for future robotic and human space missions. “Dr. Boston is a leading astrobiologist and science explorer with a proven track record of leadership,” John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator at NASA, said in a statement. “I’m energized by her passion for NASA’s mission to seek signs of life in the solar system and beyond.” Boston replaces Carl Pitcher, who retired from the institute in 2013 and has been serving as an interim director part-time since April 2014. —Kevin Forestieri
POLICE OFFICER REUNITES WITH TODDLER HE HELPED SAVE A Mountain View police officer got the chance on Monday to visit with a toddler he helped save last week. On March 14, Officer Curtis Lau responded to a call about an unresponsive toddler. Lau arrived to find the 2-yearold staring blankly and not moving, and his family huddled around him.
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Lau turned the toddler over and patted his back to see if there was anything stuck in his throat. When the 2-year-old didn’t move or respond, Lau turned the boy back over and started performing CPR, police said. After a few seconds, the toddler blinked and gasped for air. Mountain View firefighters
and paramedics arrived and rushed the boy to the hospital. On Monday, a week after the incident, Lau visited the recovering toddler at his home and gave him a stuffed blue teddy bear during the reunion. Police said the toddler’s family thanked the officer for saving their boy. —Bay City News Service
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out that board members still come off as combative and “against the district office and the schools,” saying that he spends a great deal of his time repairing relationships and making sure staff members don’t feel like they’re being accosted by the board. As the audit report put it, that the relationship has been “strained to the point that progress is difficult to achieve.” Nelson defended himself at the meeting, and said that his goal is to make sure staff members are held accountable. He said he openly gives credit to staff members for “upping their game” from previous years, but he wasn’t interested in commending them for everything they do. “The difference is there are people on boards who are willing to say everybody is wonderful, and everybody is doing a wonderful job on everything that they ever do for us,” Nelson said. Attea suggested that the board consider ditching staff presentations entirely, which he said could go a long way in improving the board’s rough relationship with the district office. “If you’ve got a contentious board, your staff members would significantly appreciate the fact that there’s not a public presentation,” he said. The board will be scheduling another meeting with the facilitator to continue sizing up the board’s governance problems and finding ways to improve the flow of board meetings, according to board President Ellen Wheeler. Staying on track Among the major problems outlined in the audit report, the board was dinged for going off on lengthy tangents at meetings, extending agenda items into hours-long discussions that rarely lead to anything positive. Debates, according to the report, often “descend into prolonged arguments that ultimately arrive at no consensus.” As a blunt measure for fixing the problem, Wheeler often imposes strict time limits at board meetings, giving each trustee as little as two minutes to speak. Board members get as many turns as they want, but conversations end up getting chopped up and abridged, which some board members contend makes it very tough to have a real conversation. Board member Greg Coladonato told Wheeler at the March 17 board meeting that her time limits are cumbersome,
and recalled a time when Board Member Bill Lambert had to abruptly stop what he was saying five times in order to comply with the rules. “Having a conversation in twominute pieces like this is kind of absurd,” Coladonato said. “I’d like to have our board move away from that as soon as we can.” Lambert agreed that the time limits are hard to work with, but called it an important measure to keep the dysfunctional board on track. “It’s not ideal, in fact it’s an embarrassment to our school board and it’s a disservice to the public who listens to us,” Lambert said. “Nevertheless, because of the way the board has behaved over the last several years ... that has turned out to be the most effective way of doing it.” Later at that same meeting, Coladonato and Nelson clashed with Wheeler after her own comments weren’t subject to the same two-minute time limit. The district’s executive assistant, Kathi Lilga, spends a significant amount of time at each meeting monitoring and managing a giant red timer on the wall of the board room, which needs to be rapidly started, stopped and paused in order to keep up with the limits. Public comment time squeezed Wheeler has also put limits on community members’ ability to share their thoughts at board meetings. While any member of the public is typically given three minutes to speak on an agenda item, Wheeler has taken to reducing that to one or two minutes. Coladonato raised the issue at the March 3 meeting, and contended that the public ought to get three minutes to speak, barring a major time constraint — like a massive crowd of public speakers. Wheeler currently adjusts public comment limits based on how much time was allocated to the agenda item, meaning a 10-minute item with a five-minute staff report might prompt her to set oneminute restrictions on public comments. The board bylaws call for the public to get three minutes to comment unless the board agrees otherwise. Nelson and Coladonato voted for a motion to give the public three minutes to speak at the March 3 meeting, but the motion failed. “I want to follow our published rules about giving people three minutes to speak,” Coladonato later told the Voice. “It’s a very high value of mine, and I’ll continue to advocate for it.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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“Sometimes they can tolerate eating, but they really aren’t ready and their stomach has to be pumped,” Axelrod said. “That happens around 25 percent of the time.” The two-year trial is expected to include 80 patients in the hospital who undergo either open or laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery. Patients will put on the patch, which will record electrical activity and transmit it to a cloud server for analysis of activity in the digestive track. While the scope of the study is focused on the loss of gastrointestinal function following surgery, Axelrod said it can be a major step toward understanding maladies that cause bloating, chronic abdominal pain and constipation and bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease. An estimated 60 to 70 million people in the U.S. experience some type of disease that affects the digestive system, according to the National Institutes of Health. Disorders that affect gastrointestinal functions prompt about 40 million office visits annually, and while they aren’t life-threatening, they can be tricky to diagnose and can
have a serious impact on quality of life. In order to figure out what’s causing these problems, Axelrod said it’s going to take a large body of data and research, and a whole lot of tracking data, to see how activity in the gut changes under specific conditions. But so far, he said, there’s not a lot of movement towards new tech innovations for the digestive track. The G-Tech Medical team has been working on the GutCheck technology since 2011, and is currently operating out of the Fogarty Institute alongside several other entrepreneurial tech startups. Mountain View and the greater Bay Area has been a hotbed for new medical technology in recent years, Axelrod said, but advancements in gastrointestinal tech have been anything but explosive. “It’s not like cardiac or neuro (tech) where there (are) so
many companies doing so many new things,” Axelrod said. “But there’s a huge need. There hasn’t been a good way to measure the function of the gut.” Axelrod, a Yale graduate with a doctorate in elementary particle physics, said his mission really hasn’t changed much since he switched to developing medical technology — particularly in his larger data-driven goal to find out how activity works in the gut. When he spent time smashing particles together and observing the most basic building blocks of the universe, he said it was a constant search to find the Higgs boson — a key elementary particle that would do wonders to explain a cascade of theories. “That’s kind of what we’re doing here,” he said. “We’re finding the Higgs boson from the data in your gut.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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Mountain View for about $1,000 a pop.” Teachers have long complained that the district’s salaries fall short of the cost of living near Mountain View, a problem that has become increasingly hard for district administrators to ignore. Last year, the school district had to fill 55 teaching positions for the 2015-16 school year after a mass exodus of teachers who resigned — meaning about 1 in 5 teachers in the district are new hires this school year. It would be one thing if teacher retention was an isolated incident last year, but it’s been a chronic problem. Jonathan Pharazyn, president of the Mountain View Educators Association, told the Voice last year that the district has had to hire 170 new teachers in the last four years, following a
sustained loss of both new and veteran teaching staff. Pharazyn has frequently advocated for the district to make a bold move, such as partnering with the city, to find a way to make housing affordable for teachers. A recent poll found conducted by the Mountain View Whisman School District found that roughly 70 percent of its teachers live outside of the district’s boundaries, due in large part to the high cost of living in the area. Nearly all the district’s teachers — 229 — participated in the survey, and more than half said they would consider moving to the district if they were offered an affordable place to live. Board president Ellen Wheeler said she was all for moving forward with studying teacher housing options, which she said could help the school district attract prospective teachers in the Bay Area. “I’m interested in seeing if we
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can figure out a way to provide rental housing for teachers in some manner,” Wheeler said. “We always talk about attracting and retaining teachers, (and) I think this would be a draw for new teachers.” There are a couple of constraints limiting on the school district when it comes to building affordable housing, Rudolph said. The school district cannot pass a bond to fund a teacher housing project, and the school district cannot funnel general fund money into subsidizing a housing development. On the flip side, he said, the school district cannot use the apartments as source of revenue. Because buying land would be cost-prohibitive, the school district would have to use its own land for teacher housing, which Rudolph said could be a little tricky. The school district owns excess land at the former Whisman and Slater Elementary sites, as well as land at Cooper and Sylvan parks, but finding a spot that allows for high-density housing will be problematic. “We have a lot of land in our district that is available for us to use, but some of the most ideal spots that we have are actually not in places (zoned for) high density,” Rudolph said. “The residents that live there would probably put up a fight against putting up high-density property.” Affordable housing options do exist in Mountain View, but haven’t done much for teachers. The city’s Below-Market Rate (BMR) Housing Ordinance give teachers priority in a lottery system that allows residents to live in subsidized units, but Rudolph said wait lists are too long and the BMR housing stock is too low to make a big difference. The Mountain View
City Council has taken steps to add to affordable housing in the city, including a decision earlier this month that would pour $22 million into a dense, 116-unit apartment complex on Evelyn Avenue. But the income restrictions to live there — no more than $37,250 for individuals and $63,780 for a family of four — mean that most teachers don’t qualify because their salaries are considered too high. Board member Bill Lambert questioned whether building a single affordable housing development would put a dent in what has become a massive problem for teaching staff in the school district. Rudolph said it all depends on the scale of a project, and that something along the lines of a 70-unit apartment complex would be enough to house nearly a third of all the teachers in the district. The prime example of what could be built for teachers in Mountain View is not far away. In 2002, the Santa Clara Unified School District built 40 apartments solely for teachers, for the relatively low cost of $6 million. The district teamed up with Thompson Dorfman Partners, a residential development firm that specializes in teacher housing and works with school districts at a lower cost. The average rent for the units in Santa Clara’s development is between $800 and $1,400 a month, but there are a few strings attached. The apartments are only available to teachers who have been in the district for fewer than three years, and there’s a five-year limit for all the tenants. The expectation is that teachers are saving up while they live there, and may be able to afford a down payment and mortgage to buy a home.
Board members agreed at the March 17 meeting that it would be a good idea to look at housing options for teachers, but said they needed a better idea of the demand first. The district will be sending out a new survey to all district employees — not just teachers — to find out their average commute time, the rent they are currently paying, and other key information to assess the scope of any future housing project. One way the district could finance the project is through a certificate of participation, which the district could pay off solely through rental revenue from the teacher residents. Rudolph said the district would need to assess a break-even point where rents are high enough to avoid encumbering the general fund. Prior to the meeting, Rudolph said he spoke to Los Altos School District board member Sangeeth Peruri to discuss what teacher housing options are already up and running in the Bay Area, and what kind of models have been successful. In talking to Peruri, Rudolph said it became clear that someone — it wasn’t clear who — was going to have to spearhead the teacher housing effort to make it work, which he said was an essential ingredient for Santa Clara Unified School District’s housing project. “They were talking about it for over a year and the superintendent said, ‘It’s time to stop talking and it’s time to start doing something,’” Rudolph said. “There has to be a champion that’s willing to see it all the way through, because this is a big time commitment to pull this off.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com
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created only to channel funds.” City Attorney Jannie Quinn said the spirit of California’s elections laws is that political groups aren’t supposed to blatantly obfuscate their activity. She said the new rules could be fine-tuned based on what happens in upcoming elections. Coming out against the proposed rules, Councilman John Inks said the new requirements would add more complexity to the state’s rules, which he said were adequate. “The 2014 experience was an aberration and it backfired,” he said. “It seems like the state requirements are pretty stiff by themselves.” In a motion, Councilman Chris Clark proposed the new rules be applied to independent political committees, not
candidates’ campaigns, which have their own set of disclosure rules. He decided not to include a couple other ideas proposed by the city attorney, including a hard limit on contributions or requiring all disseminated campaign materials to be shared with City Hall. It passed 6-1, with Inks opposed. Council members indicated support for looking into creating an electronic filing system for campaign statements. Such a system would cost about $10,000 each year, according to staff. Based on the council’s decision, the proposed requirements for political committees will be drafted into an ordinance that will be brought back to the City Council for approval. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com
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On Tuesday, city attorneys suggested the council should find the “sweet spot” of requiring disclosure on political groups without leaving open the possibility for further obfuscation. But City Council members pondered whether political committees could just further game the system despite any new rules. If committee was required to identify its top contributors, what would prevent it from creating new shell groups to hide the donors? “Could the Neighborhood Empowerment Association say they’re getting money from the Association of Neighbors?” asked Councilman Lenny Siegel. “The problem is if it’s an organization
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hat will it take for Mountain View’s elected officials to fully acknowledge the severity of the crisis that’s driving average- and low-wage earners from this community — and do something meaningful about it? Do something that stands the chance of moderating the alarming rate of rent hikes now seen throughout the city, rather than enact soft, potentially counterproductive measures such as the ordinance the City Council tentatively approved on March 15? After signaling support late last year for an ordinance that would require mediation if a tenant facing a large rent increase requested it, and binding arbitration if a tenant and the landlord still couldn’t come to an agreement, council members backed down last week. On a divided vote, the council took the teeth of binding arbitration out of the proposed ordinance crafted by city staff. It was a dismal development, satisfying many who showed up that night representing landlord and real estate groups, but puncturing the hopes of renters and renter advocates who have been pleading with the council to approve policies that would offer real protections against double-digit rent hikes — sometimes two or more annually — and evictions without just cause. What is the city left with now that the binding-arbitration requirement has been removed from the ordinance? Rules that require mediation upon demand by a tenant, but “no incentive for mediation to work,” in Councilman Lenny Siegel’s estimation. We agree. The rules are a pretense, not a real solution for addressing a rental crisis Siegel rightly calls a “cancer in the community.” That cancer is forcing our neighbors from our schools, our workforce, our churches and community groups. It threatens to hollow out the heart of the community itself, leaving behind only those who
already own their homes or whose income level — necessarily very high — makes it possible for them to afford monthly rents that were unimaginable a few short years ago. The ordinance came before the council Tuesday night for a final vote, but because Councilman Mike Kasperzak was absent and a 3-3 vote was inevitable, the vote was postponed for several weeks. Kasperzak supported the ordinance last week when it was introduced, and the likely result of the next vote is that the toothless ordinance will pass. A major concern about the ordinance as it is now worded has been voiced by resident Gary Wesley, an attorney. He argues that the new requirements forcing landlords into mediation if a tenant protests a 7.2 percent or greater rent hike will ensure that some landlords, rather than raise the rent and risk the possibility of being forced into mediation, will evict a tenant instead. He has proposed the addition of a few words that might protect renters from such a ploy. “Without the protection I am suggesting,” Wesley wrote in a letter to the council, “tens of thousands of tenants could be given eviction notices, and landlords would be free to initially charge the new tenants whatever the market would bear. That would be a cruel hoax indeed.” The matter is likely to come back to the council on April 26 in the form of a second reading of the ordinance tentatively approved on March 15. It appears, unfortunately, that the majority of the council have already made up their minds to oppose binding arbitration. But it’s not too late to insert language suggested by Wesley to prevent pre-emptive evictions and give tenants at least some measure of protection against an almost certain unintended consequence of the ordinance the council is likely to pass next month. V
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CONSIDER BIG PICTURE WITH MASTER PLAN In developing the Downtown Transit Center Master Plan it is important to keep in mind that the transit center is not alone, either in space or time. Mountain View planning staff and the City Council are clearly considering the impact of the transit center on the Castro-Moffett Boulevard/ railroad-Central Expressway intersection and of the intersection on the transit center. But please don’t lose sight of the high-speed rail project just because it might not happen. I hope very much that the rail system will be electrified, HSR or not. Also, keep in mind that North of Bayshore is very much a stakeholder in this master plan. Bruce Liedstrand’s letter to the March 18 Mountain View
Voice makes a powerful point that plans need to be more than just the nitty-gritty of traffic counts. In other words, rail, light rail, bus (VTA, Mountain View shuttle, and other), taxi, automobile, bicycle and pedestrian elements are not all there is to the plan and transit center. The Voice made a related point in its March 11 editorial: The new North of Bayshore plan is about more than just housing units. It is helpful that the two plans seem to be growing concurrently, because they have strong impacts on each other. If for no other reason, a viable transit link between the transit center and North of Bayshore is essential. It is important that the Downtown Transit Center Master Plan addresses the transit center’s functions and services holistically, in the context of related elements such as the
intersection, downtown Mountain View, and North of Bayshore. In my opinion, the Moffett Boulevard business area is an integral part of downtown Mountain View and needs to be treated that way. A pet peeve of mine is that we
still, after way too many deaths, have not fully separated rail traffic from pedestrian, bicycle and automobile traffic. Just doing this for the Castro-Moffett/railroad-Central ExpressSee LETTERS, page 16
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11860 Francemont Drive, Los Altos Hills Luxurious Old World Villa Meticulous craftsmanship and beautiful details infuse high style into this 6 bedroom, 6 bath home of 5,565 sq. ft. (per appraisal) that ;//A<51? - <>5B-@1 8;@ ;2 U -/>1 I<1> /;A:@EJ -9.;; Ō ;;>? -:0 ?;->5:3 /1585:3? 3>-/1 @41 ?1:?-@5;:-8 5:@1>5;> C45/4 <>1?1:@? @4>11 ŋ >1<8-/1? - Ō 1D5.81 4;91 ;ő /1 -:0 - 8;C1> 81B18 C5@4 - >1/>1-@5;: >;;9 58810 C5@4 3>-/5;A? 1:@1>@-5:5:3 ->1-? @45? ŋ :1 4;91 -8?; 5:/8A01? -: -@@-/410 @4>11 /-> 3->-31 -:0 ;Ŋ 1>? 1-?E -//1?? @; 4575:3 @>-58? -:0 @;< ;? 8@;? ?/4;;8? For video tour & more photos, please visit:
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961 Ormonde Drive, Mountain View Offered at $1,488,000 Lovely Updated Home in Perfect Location Occupying a corner lot of 7,128 sq. ft. (per county) along a quiet street, this 4 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,576 sq. ft. (per county) exudes warmth and convenience. This charming residence showcases hardwood floors, a tastefully remodeled kitchen, and a family room with a fireplace, and also provides an attached two-car garage and a private backyard with a covered patio. With easy access to Google, this home also features walkability to local shopping, Stevenson Park, and Theuerkauf Elementary (buyer to verify eligibility).
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What You Need to Know About Colon Cancer Stanford Health Care invites you to a community talk about colon cancer. One of the most common cancers in the U.S., colorectal cancer most often occurs in men and women over age 50 or in those with a family history. Thanks to new screening methods and treatment advances, the ways to fight colorectal cancer are better than ever. Join Stanford Medicine doctors as they discuss the latest diagnostic tools and treatment options. JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MARCH 29 • 6:30PM – 8:00PM
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Student and family homelessness in Mountain View and Santa Clara County has reached a crisis, and the McKinney-Vent Homeless Assistance Act is highlighted very nicely in the article “Student homelessness on the rise in MV schools.” Policies such as the McKinneyVent Homeless Assistance Act are necessary to help students and families who are suddenly stricken with homelessness; however, it does not do enough. Unfortunately, we have reached a point in our society and economy that requires more substantial forms of assistance and prevention safety nets. We need to discuss ways we can radically prevent homelessness, instead of just applying a drop of ointment on third-degree burns. Currently, housing developers in most California communities are required by law to offer 20 percent of their units under affordable pricing when constructing new market-rate housing. However, with high-paying tech jobs on the rise, rise in rental rates, an overall increase in poverty, and an increase in homelessness, a 20 percent affordable development rate is not enough. Homelessness prevention needs to be at the forefront in family and child welfare. Suggestions such as increasing the affordable development rate to closer to 40 percent coupled with tax incentives for housing developers who maintain and surpass such rates need to be seriously considered. Many economic experts have predicted a coming crash in the housing market similar to the one that happened in 2007, which will only exacerbate the homelessness and housing crisis going on in Mountain View and Santa Clara County. There must be serious policy efforts in the areas of prevention and increased funding for existing policies such as McKinney-Vent to lessen the expected economic downfall. Christopher Nima Mountain View
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE HOMELESS? Almost daily I interface in one way or another with the chronically homeless in Mountain View, Los Altos, Santa Cruz, and Monterey, the venues where I conduct business and have family. If I’m not talking to them to find out their stories, I’m buying them food and occasionally giving them money. Most of the chronically homeless I’ve encountered are mentally ill to varying degrees. Whether their mental illness is genetic or environmental or drug-induced, the fact remains that mentally ill people cannot hold jobs — if they can ever get hired in the first place — and many of them are incapable of getting along with others in homeless shelters. In essence, the mentally-ill homeless are trapped in homelessness beyond their control. What is a conscionable, moral society to do with the mentally-ill chronically homeless? Do we with noble intentions pass laws that take away their freedom so we can lock them up in mental institutions “for their own good”? This is no small moral dilemma. America is not Nazi Germany — not yet anyway — where the mentally ill were gassed in order to “purify” German society. Every time I encounter a homeless person I think, “There but for the grace of God go I.” I am not better than any chronically homeless person; I’m simply luckier than they are. I was blessed with a powerful innate compass and intellect that allowed me to transcend the brutal childhood I had. I never let my childhood break my spirit as is the case with so many chronically homeless people. I have never been a drug addict or alcoholic so I haven’t been psychically broken in that way as so many chronically homeless people have. I do not have a genetic, organic brain defect as so many chronically homeless suffer from. I won the “birth lotto,” so to speak. In fact, every person who is not mentally ill and chronically homeless is damned lucky they also won the “birth lotto.” So nobody has a right to look down his or her nose at the mentally-ill chronically homeless. I find it difficult to see American society in the light of being a compassionate society when there are so many chronically homeless people in this extremely wealthy country of ours. Jeffrey Van Middlebrook Easy Street
What’s on your mind? From City Hall politics and the schools to transportation and other pressing issues, the Voice aims to keep readers informed about their community. But we also want to hear from you. Tell us what’s on your mind by sending your letters to letters@ MV-Voice.com. Or snail-mail them to: Mountain View Voice, P.O Box 405, Mountain View, CA 94042.
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Sustainable farming practices nurtured at Stanford’s O’Donohue Farm
PHOTOS BY Michelle Le
Above: Rose Madden, the facilities and production coordinator for O’Donohue Farm at Stanford University, checks on cabbages. Produce from the educational farm ends up in Stanford dining halls. Left: Chickens at the farm search for their morning feed.
cational Farm is a 6-acre learning facility and farm that offers classroom learning, community workshops and agricultural experimentation. A living laboratory of sorts, the farm is a space where new ideas and techniques for urban farming are put to the test by students and staff.
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Unlike the rest of campus, the rhythm of life at Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donohue Farm moves at a much slower pace, marked by the faint sound of hens clucking and scratching in the background, an occasional car driving by on West Campus Road and the soft crunch of grass under
Annie Shattuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brown leather boots. As Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donohue Farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program coordinator, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not only responsible for organizing a wealth of classes and workshops, but she is one of the first people out in the field every day, collecting fresh flowers and vegetables for Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residential dining halls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a teaching and learning farm, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re experimenting and prototyping a bunch of practices that you may not be able to do otherwise,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all an experiment, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing.â&#x20AC;? One of those experiments has been employing a permanent bed system for the farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main production plots, a technique where only the fieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raised beds are plowed. This allows the untouched pathways between them to go without tilling, allowing for healthy fungi and bacterial growth in the soil, Shattuck said. As winter vegetables like kale, broccoli, leeks and garlic thrive in the raised beds, clover grows abundantly in the pathways, feeding the bees that pollinate
flowers on the farm. While the farm was established in 2014 and broke ground for a greenhouse and two processing facilities a year later, allocating land for an urban farm was a 20-year endeavor by students from Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really the students who drove this, advocated for it, organized for it and planned it. Students were on planning committees for years before (Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donohue Farm) was founded,â&#x20AC;? Shattuck said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be here if it werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for them.â&#x20AC;? Students from a number of disciplines come together to test out small-scale farming techniques, addressing issues like sustainable agriculture and environmental science. Patrick Archie, a lecturer in the Earth Systems Program and the director of Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donohue Farm, said that students â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with backgrounds from human biology to urban studies to businessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; have brought unique perspectives and expertise to the farm. Most
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Produce grown at O’Donohue Farm includes Italian parsley, cabbage and pea sprouts.
recently, the farm planted a number drought-tolerant crops to investigate farming practices that could benefit small-scale and urban farms. In the next year, Archie’s goal is to establish an orchard around farmed plots, including traditionally drought-resistant trees like figs, citrus, olives, pomegranate and stone fruit. The aim is to promote biodiversity, soil management and water efficiency in the farm through “agroforestry,” or growing trees alongside animals and other crops.
‘This is a teaching and learning farm, so we’re experimenting and prototyping a bunch of practices that you may not be able to do otherwise.’ ANNIE SHATTUCK, PROGRAM COORDINATOR
With students’ help, Archie said he also hopes to prototype new equipment and farming techniques specifically for small-scale urban farms, such as raised-bed plowing machinery, affordable composting methods and IT systems that could track yields and manage sales. “There’s not as much (research and development) in this sector because, here in the U.S., there’s not as much demand for it,” Archie said. “There’s been a recent growth in serving the urban population. We hope to create tools and an urban demonstration garden to teach to scale.” Of the total 6 acres of land on the farm, only one is currently allocated for production
in winter and three for summer crops. Plans for rest of the farm over the next few years include building a barn to serve as a classroom and community gathering area, an outdoor cooking space for nutrition classes and fruit orchards, Shattuck said. The farm produces more than 2,000 pounds of produce a month for Stanford’s dining halls, catering services and coops, despite the fact that only a fraction of the land is in current use. The hope is that in a few years, the farm would be able to provide food to the Stanford community and community at large year-round, Shattuck said. With a current mix of produce that includes edible flowers like calendula and borage, and berries, dining halls have been able to incorporate fresh foods from O’Donohue into salads and other seasonal dishes. O’Donohue Farm also embraces diversity through the variety of programs, workshops and community events it hosts, ranging from drumming circles to internships for high schoolers. One of O’Donohue’s most popular events is a quarterly harvest party where staff, students and volunteers gather to feast on pizzas made in the farm’s woodburning oven. Last fall, over 300 people showed up, and more are anticipated as the farm builds out its outdoor kitchen and dining space this year. Though it will be years before O’Donohue ramps up to fullscale food production, 300 people have worked on the farm in the past two months alone, and Shattuck expects that number will only get bigger as the farm becomes more established. “My goal is to have a gathering place on campus where students get to learn with their hands and put into practice what they learned in the classroom,” she said. “It’s really exciting for me. We’re growing
people and we’re growing ideas as much as we’re growing vegetables and flowers.” Email Avi Salem at asalem@paweekly.com
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G U I D E T O 2016 S U M M E R C A M P S F O R K I D S
For more information about these camps, see our online directory of camps at www.paloaltoonline.com/biz/summercamps/ To advertise in this weekly directory, call: 650.326.8210
Arts, Culture, Other Camps Art and Soul Summer Camps
Palo Alto
Summer Unplugged! Art, Cooking, Yoga and Mindfulness. Weekly full, morning or afternoon options. Walter Hays Elementary School. Kinder-Grade Seven. June 6 –July 22. Register online.
www.artandsoulpa.com
650.269.0423
Hi-Five Sports Summer Camp
Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton, CA
Children enjoy up to 8 different team sports a week of outdoor fun and fundamentals. With over 25 years of experience and we are the best provider of youth recreational sports in the nation!
www.hifivesportsclubs.com/ 650.362.4975 bayarea_camp_summer_camp_atherton/
Camp Galileo: 40+ Bay Area Locations Innovation Camps for Kids Inspire a spirit of bold exploration in your pre-k – 5th grader. Art, science and outdoor fun while building lasting innovation skills like how to embrace challenges and create without fear. Four fresh themes for 2016.
www.galileo-camps.com
1.800.854.3684
Camp Imagineerz
Palo Alto
Imagine a space full of ideas, fun materials and limitless possibilities – where creativity is celebrated and failure is embraced. Where children learn the power of an “i-can” mindset through Performing Arts, Building, and Play!
www.imagineeerz-learning.com 650.318.5002 Community School of Mountain View Music and Arts (CSMA) 50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, School of Rock, Digital Arts, more! One- and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care available. Financial aid offered.
www.arts4all.org
650.917.6800 ext. 0
Environmental Volunteers Summer Camp
Palo Alto
Discover nature this summer at Explore! & Girls In Science summer day camps with the Environmental Volunteers in Palo Alto! Field trips, live animals, and hands-on science activities will bring nature alive to kids in grades 1-6. Register and learn more.
www.EVols.org/Explore
650.493.8000
Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC)
Palo Alto
PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities! We are excited to introduce two new camps to our lineup this year: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.) and PACCC Special Interest Units (S.I.U.). Also included are returning favorites F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps! Open to campers from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo Alto! Register online.
www.paccc.org
Stanford
EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford! Stanford EXPLORE offers high schoolers the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science, including bioengineProgramering, neurobiology, immunology and many others.
explore.stanford.edu
explore-series@stanford.edu
J-Camp at the Oshman Family JCC
Palo Alto
Adventure awaits at J-Camp! With options for grades K-12 that fit every schedule and interest, you can mix and match camps to meet your family’s needs. Are you looking for well-rounded camp sessions that focus on variety and building friendships? We’ve got you covered. Does your child have specific talents you’d like them to explore in depth? Send them our way. We’re looking forward to our best summer ever and want your family to be part of the experience!
www.ofjcc-jcamp.com
650.223.8622
Menlo School Sports Camps
Atherton
Menlo camps are designed for boys and girls grades 4–12 to learn from Knights coaches and staff. Join us this summer to develop skills, foster athleticism and promote sportsmanship in camps covering a range of sports — baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, soccer and water polo.
www.menloschool.org
Nike Tennis Camps
650.330.2001 ext. 2758
Stanford University
Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June & Aug). Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head Women’s Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s Coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun and get better this summer!
www.USSportsCamps.com
1.800.NIKE.CAMP (645.3226)
Stanford Baseball Camps
Stanford Campus
Stanford Baseball Camps have gained national recognition as the some of the finest in the country. These camps are designed to be valuable and beneficial for a wide range of age groups and skill sets. From the novice 7 year-old, to the Division 1, professionally skilled high school player, you will find a camp that fulfills your needs.
www.Stanfordbaseballcamp.com Stanford Water Polo
650.723.4528 Stanford
Ages 7 and up. New to sport or have experience, we have a camp for you. Half day or fully day option for boys and girls. All the camps offer fundamental skill work, scrimmages and games.
1.800.854.3684
Academics San Jose
Harker summer programs for preschool – grade 12 children include opportunities for academics, arts, athletics and activities. Taught by exceptional, experienced faculty and staff, our programs offer something for everyone in a safe and supportive environment.
www.summer.harker.org
408.553.5737
iD Tech Camps
Stanford
Students ages 7–17 can learn to code, design video games, mod Minecraft, engineer robots, model 3D characters, build websites, print 3D models, and more. Campers meet new friends, learn awesome STEM skills, and gain self-confidence.
www.iDTech.com
1.844.788.1858
iD Tech Mini
Palo Alto
At Palo Alto High School. Kids ages 6-9 can discover programming, game design, robotics, or graphic design. And with an emphasis on creativity, friendship, and exploration, every camper becomes a maker of fun. We’ve packed every halfday camp session with tons of tech awesomeness.
www.iDTech.com
1.844.788.1858
iD Programming Academy
Stanford
At this two-week, overnight academy, students ages 13-18 explore advanced topics in programming, app development, electrical engineering, and robotics. Create an awesome portfolio, get industry insights, and gain a competitive advantage for college and future careers.
www.iDTech.com
1.844.788.1858
iD Game Design and Development Academy
Stanford
At this two-week, overnight academy, students ages 13-18 explore advanced topics in 3D modeling and printing, video game design, programming, and level design. Create an awesome portfolio, get industry insights, and gain a competitive advantage for college and future careers.
www.iDTech.com
1.844.788.1858
Mid-Peninsula High School Summer Session
Menlo Park
www.iDTech.com
www.mid-pen.org
Academics Alexa Café
Bay Area Pathways Academy (BAPA)
Palo Alto High School
1.844.788.1858
College of San Mateo
www.BayAreaPathwaysAcademy.org
Palo Alto
www.galileo-camps.com
Girls ages 10-15 discover technology in a unique environment that celebrates creativity, philanthropy, and entrepreneurship. Girls learn engineering principles, code games, design websites, model and print 3D objects, and much more.
650.725.9016
stanfordjazz.org
TheatreWorks Summer Camps
Twelve innovative majors to explore. 5th – 8th graders dive into a subject that inspires you. Design video games, engineer catapults, build go-karts, paint with electricity, create a delectable dish. Every week is a new opportunity to realize your personal vision.
Mid-Pen’s Summer Session provides innovative, one-week courses that go beyond traditional high school curriculum. Our program offers students courses for summer enrichment and make up high school credits. We have designed creative courses in math, science, English, and Spanish, with options including Physics of Flight and Rocketry, History of the Reagan Years, College Essay Workshop, Creative Writing, Introduction to the Digital Arts, and Drama. Basketball and volleyball clinics suitable for beginning to advanced players. All high school students are welcome to attend. Dates are June 20th to July 21st. Classes are held from 9:30am–2:30pm. Visit our website for full class listings.
www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com
The Bay Area Pathways Academy(tm) (BAPA) is an enhanced new summer for students entering grades 6 to 9 which offers an exciting array of grade-appropriate academic classes, engaging enrichment classes and fun fitness and aquatics classes, including the opportunity to register for up to 3 two-week sessions.
Stanford University
8+ South Bay Area Locations
Harker Summer Programs
Week-long jazz immersion programs for young musicians in middle school (starts July 13), high school (July 19 and July 26), and college, as well as adults (August 2). All instruments and vocals.
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STANFORD EXPLORE: A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research
Galileo Summer Quest
Athletics
Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls
650.574.6149
Write Now! Summer Writing Camps
650.321.1991
Palo Alto / Pleasanton
Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Courses this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing, and Presentation Techniques. Visit our website for more information.
www.headsup.org
Emerson: 650.424.1267 Hacienda: 925.485.5750
Palo Alto
In these entertaining camps for grades K-5, students enjoy juggling, clowning, puppetry, playwriting, acting, improvisation, music, dance — and present their own original pieces at the end of each session.
YMCA Summer Camps Throughout Silicon Valley
Casti Camp offers girls a range of age-appropriate activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips.
At the Y, children and teens of all abilities acquire new skills, make friends, and feel that they belong. With hundreds of Summer Day Camps at 30+ locations plus Overnight Camps, you will find a camp that’s right for your family. Financial assistance is available.
www.theatreworks.org/learn/youth/summercamps
www.castilleja.org/summercamp
www.ymcasv.org/summer
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Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill star in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.”
Supreme court battle? ‘BATMAN V SUPERMAN’ SQUINTS TOWARD THE ‘DAWN OF JUSTICE’ 000 1/2 (Century Theatres 16 and 20) “Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent — I love it!” Most of the world will agree with Lex Luthor in Warner Brothers’ new monster tent-pole movie “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” Wayne (a.k.a. Batman) and Kent (a.k.a. Superman) have met before, of course: on radio, in comic books and in animation. But the two have never before met in live-action — until now. And wait a minute ... isn’t that Wonder Woman? This is not a drill, comic-book geeks. “Batman v Superman” is, more or less, a direct sequel to “Man of Steel” and, as such, tips to Superman as the protagonist and Batman as the antagonist. Playing off of fan reactions to the devastation in “Man of Steel” and Superman’s arguable corruption, Zack Snyder’s sequel pits Superman (Henry Cavill) against Batman (Ben Affleck) as two sides of the vigilante coin, neither ceding accountability to any authority but his own, and both fielding nagging, if quickly sublimated, self-doubts about certain of their choices. Egged on by murky external forces, each hero lays plans to contain the other until, inevitably, a more sinister threat forces them to join forces. (And wait a minute ... isn’t that Wonder Woman?) If “Man of Steel” dragged Superman
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A modest indie laffer, “Hello, My Name is Doris” turns Sally Field frumpy (but fun!) to play Doris Miller, a 60-something Staten Island resident who toils daily as an accountant in a hip Manhattan fashion
— in tonal terms — into Christopher Nolan’s world, “Batman v Superman” drags Superman into Batman’s world: a dark, dour, brooding space defined by shadows both literal and figurative. Chris Terrio’s rewrite of David S. Goyer (both share credit) finds surprisingly smart dialogue that proffers competing philosophical approaches to life and death, psychoanalysis (Alfred warns Bruce of “the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men cruel”), and personal and social concepts about whom we put our faith in to make the big decisions: government, parents, God, ourselves? If those ambitions don’t smoothly gel with clanging action, we can at least credit the D.C./WB brain trust for tickling the intellect at the risk of some box-office shekels. By the same token, effectively putting heroism on hold for most of the film’s 153 minutes, showing Superman burned in effigy, and hearing everyone’s favorite red-caped Boy Scout lament, “No one stays good in this world” beg the question of what today’s 8-year-old will think of this anti-adventure, this tamped-down escapism, this coloring book slathered with oil paint and handed over with no white space left to fill in. Move over kids, these seats are reserved for Peter Pans.
What else? Jesse Eisenberg as a Lex Luthor re-imagined as a diabolically insane Mark Zuckerberg (and a third “orphan boy” who thinks he’s above the law). Rising star Gal Gadot as a suspiciously Amazonian gentlewoman thief. A convincing “Batfleck,” grayer and brawnier than the previous model. Around 20 minutes of IMAX footage, mostly reserved for the showdown Luthor calls, “Black and blue. Fight night ... God versus man.” And the inescapable shadows of twin towers and domestic terrorism. Is “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” perfect? Nah, there’s plenty for fanboys to scoff at and nitpick, and those who’ve never set foot in a comic-book shop may not feel very welcome. But this is the sort of marquee franchise movie (“Dawn of Justice” teases that this film ties in to next year’s multi-hero “Justice League”) at which the studios throw every available resource and every dollar stockholder-responsibility allows. And wait a minute ... isn’t that Wonder Woman? Oh, let’s just call it a night and meet back at “Justice League.” Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action throughout, and some sensuality. Two hours, 33 minutes. — Peter Canavese
outfit. When a warm 30-something new art director John Fremont (Max Greenfield) shows up, Doris is instantly smitten. Her best friend Roz (Tyne Daly) frowns at the crush, but Roz’s 13-year-old granddaughter begins coaching Doris in social media and dating mores. Doris’ collection of quirks include colorfully clashing outfits, a pet cat and “a clutter habit” targeted by her brother (Stephen Root), in concert with a hapless therapist (Elizabeth Reaser). Doris’ deeply rooted issues lend the film enough
dramatic grist to support a classic Fieldian breakdown, but “Doris” is at its best when zoomed in on the relationship between Doris and John, which begins to seem as plausible to us it is to the willfully optimistic Doris. Rated R for language. One hour, 35 minutes. — P.C.
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT 000
Adapted from a memoir by print journalist Kim Barker, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”
10 Cloverfield Lane (PG-13) + Century 16: 9:10 & 11:45 a.m., 2:20 p.m. Fri. 4:55, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 5:10, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. 45 Years (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 2 & 7:30 p.m. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (PG-13) +++1/2 Century 16: 9:15, 10:45 & 11:30 a.m., 3:15, 4:45, 7 & 10:45 p.m. Fri. 12:15, 4 & 6:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:15 a.m. Sat. & Sun. 2:30 & 6:15 p.m. In 3-D at 10 a.m., 1, 1:45, 5:30, 7:45, 8:30 & 9:15 p.m. Fri. 10:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 10 p.m. Century 20: 10 & 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 2:50, 4:20, 5, 6:20, 7:50 & 8:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:50 p.m. In 3-D at 10:45 & 11:45 a.m., 12:50, 2:15, 3:15, 5:45, 6:45, 9:15 & 10:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:10 p.m. Sun. 9:50 p.m. In XD 3-D at 12:10 & 7:10 p.m. In XD at 3:40 & 10:40 p.m. In 3-D DBOX at 10:45 a.m., 2:15, 5:45 & 9:15 p.m. In DBOX at 10 a.m., 1:30, 5 & 8:30 p.m. The Brothers Grimsby (R) Century 20: 10:45 p.m. Deadpool (R) +++ Century 16: 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 4:55, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:40, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m. The Divergent Series: Allegiant (PG-13) Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:55 & 3:55 p.m. Fri. 7:25 & 10:25 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 7 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 10:15 & 11:40 a.m., 1:10, 2:30, 4, 5:20, 7:05, 8:25 & 10:05 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:15 p.m. Eye in the Sky (R) Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:15 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:45 p.m. Hello, My Name Is Doris (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 10:05 a.m., 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:45, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:40 p.m. Kappor and Sons (Not Rated) Century 16: 10:35 a.m., 10:35 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 7:35 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 1:35 p.m. Sun. 4:35 p.m. Knight of Cups (R) ++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 2:25, 5, 7 & 9:35 p.m. The Lady in the Van (PG-13) +++ Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30 p.m. London Has Fallen (R) Century 16: 4:50, 7:25 & 10:10 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 2:15 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 9:10 & 11:40 a.m. Century 20: 5, 7:40 & 10:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 2 p.m. Miracles from Heaven (PG) Century 20: 10:25 a.m., 1:10, 3:50, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 5:15 & 8:05 p.m. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (PG-13) Century 16: 9:10, 10:15 & 11:35 a.m., 12:45, 2, 3:10, 4:30, 5:35, 7:05, 8:15, 9:35 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 10:20 & 11:35 a.m., 12:45, 2, 3:10, 4:30, 5:35, 6:55, 8, 9:20 & 10:25 p.m. Only Yesterday (PG) Aquarius Theatre: 4:15 & 9:50 p.m. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (PG) Century 16: Sun. 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun. 2 p.m. Rebecca (1940) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 3:05 p.m. Suspicion (1941) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:40 & 9:50 p.m. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (R) +++ Century 16: 9:10 & 11:55 a.m. 2:40, 5:25, 8:10 & 10:55 p.m. Century 20: Fri. 11:25 a.m. Sun. 11:15 a.m. The Young Messiah (PG-13) Century 20: 10:40 a.m. Zootopia (PG) +++ Century 16: 10:10 & 11:05 a.m., 1, 3:55, 7:10, 8, 10:05 & 10:40 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 2:05 & 5 p.m. In 3-D at 9:20 a.m., noon, 3, 6:10 & 9 p.m. Century 20: 10:10 & 11:05 a.m., 12:50, 1:50, 3:35, 4:35, 6:20, 7:15, 9:05 & 10 p.m. AQUARIUS: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (327-3241) CENTURY CINEMA 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) CENTURY 20 DOWNTOWN: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CINEARTS AT PALO ALTO SQUARE: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-3456) STANFORD THEATRE: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) For show times, plot synopses and more information about any films playing at the Aquarius, visit www.LandmarkTheatres.com 0 Skip it 00 Some redeeming qualities 000 A good bet 0000 Outstanding centers on jaded TV journalist Kim Baker (Tina Fey), who takes an opportunity to embed herself in Afghanistan in 2003. Life in Kabul means dorm-style living amongst friendly-rival reporters and security personnel. For better or worse, much of the film’s suspense concerns which colleague Kim will deem worthy of sleeping with her, with the list including her Afghan “fixer” (Christopher Abbott), a Scottish photographer (Martin Freeman), a scrawny cameraman (Nicholas Braun) and
For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more movie info, visit www.mv-voice.com and click on movies. a brawny bodyguard (Stephen Peacocke). The movie isn’t especially interested in the Afghan people or politics, but it takes shots at the media and the military, as well as Islamic patriarchy. As the story of one woman finding strength and what truly matters 6,700 miles from home, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is a good look for Fey as a movie star. Rated R for pervasive language, some sexual content, drug use and violent war images. One hour, 52 minutes. — P.C.
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Q HIGHLIGHT SPRING EGG HUNT During this free annual Los Altos event, there will be activities for children and teens, including a visit from Fun E. Bunny and a concert with Oklin Bloodworth. At 10 a.m., children up to the age of 10 who are able to walk can participate in the Egg Hunt. At 10:45 a.m., teens will test out home-built egg launchers. March 26, 9:30 a.m. Free. Hillview Park, Soccer Field, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. www.losaltosca.gov/recreation/page/spring-egg-hunt
ART GALLERIES ‘Places I Love’ During the month of April, plein air pastelist Teresa Ruzzo will bring a show to Viewpoints Gallery called “Places I Love- Real and Imagined,” which includes new landscapes and skyscapes painted around the bay and in the studio. On April 2, 2-5 p.m., there will be a reception. March 29-April 30, Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Viewpoints Gallery, 315 State St., Los Altos. www. viewpointsgallery.com ‘Rooms and Blooms’ Gallery 9 in Los Altos will next offer “Rooms and Blooms,” a show of paintings by Jan Meyer in which she — taking inspiration from memories of New England and California — plays with pattern, shape and color while capturing interiors. On April 1, 5-8 p.m., there will be a reception with the artist. March 29-May 1, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Free. Gallery 9, 143 Main St., Los Altos. Call 650-961-4218. gallery9losaltos.com Oil paintings by Liz Fennell Throughout March, local plein-air artist Liz Fennell presents oil paintings that she hopes will make viewers feel like part of California landscapes. March 1-27, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Free. Gallery 9, 143 Main St., Los Altos. Call 650-941-7969. gallery9losaltos.com
AUDITIONS Foothill Symphonic Winds recruitment Percussionists and other musicians are invited to join the Foothill Symphonic Winds, which enables members to grow musically while bringing high-caliber performances to the community. Rehearsals, which resume on March 30, are held on Wednesdays evenings at Blach Intermediate School in Los Altos. Visit the website or contact the conductor for more info. March 18-April 6. Call 650-969-0191. fswinds.org
BENEFITS/FUNDRAISERS CSMA’s Got Talent 2016 The Community School of Music and Arts’ annual gala benefit will share visual art works and musical performances by talented student and faculty artists. Proceeds will support arts education for people of all ages, backgrounds and economic means. April 3, 4:30-9 p.m. $250. Computer History Museum, 1401 N.
Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. Call 650-917-6800 ext. 311. www.arts4all.org/gala
CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Foothill College Spring Registration Spring registration for Foothill College is underway. There are different opening registration dates for continuing, new and other students. New students must submit an admission application and create a myportal.fhda.edu account. Visit the Foothill College website for more info. March 2-April 3. $31 per unit for California residents (plus basic fees). Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. Call 650-949-7325. foothill.edu/ admissions.php HD Studio Basics (March 25-April 4) This five-session workshop will introduce students to all the roles involved in operating a high-definition TV studio, including producing, directing, switching, handling graphics, operating camera and audio, and more. Participants will learn skills while using the latest digital equipment. March 25, 29 and 31, and April 1 and 4, 6-10 p.m. $180. Midpeninsula Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. Call 650-494-8686. www.midpenmedia.org/ workshops Intro to Urban Bicycling The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition will host a workshop covering the basics of bicycling to help those who have not ridden for a long time or are looking for a review. March 30, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-9036882. mountainview.gov/librarycalendar Solving Sleep Issues Heidi Emberling of Parents Place will lead a workshop for parents of children ages 1 to 6 on establishing healthy sleep routines and teaching children to self-soothe during naps and the night. March 31, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6897. mountainview.gov/librarycalendar Voter Survival Guide This program will cover the mechanics of voting and provide strategies for choosing candidates and ballot propositions. It will also give voters some timesaving tips. The nonpartisan session will endorse no candidates or propositions. March 29, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6880. mountainview.gov/librarycalendar
Inspirations a guide to the spiritual community LOS ALTOS LUTHERAN Bringing God’s Love and Hope to All
Children’s Nursery 10:00 a.m. Worship 10:10 Sunday School 11:15 a.m. Fellowship Pastor David K. Bonde Outreach Pastor Gary Berkland 460 South El Monte (at Cuesta) 650-948-3012 www.losaltoslutheran.org
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MOUNTAIN VIEW CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Sabbath School: 9:30 a.m. Saturday Services: Worship 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Study Groups: 10-11 a.m. Pastor Kenny Fraser, B.A.M. DIV 1425 Springer Rd., Mtn. View - Office Hrs. M-F 9am-1pm www.mtviewda.adventistfaith.org Phone: 650-967-2189
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CLUBS/MEETINGS Mountain View Tennis Club: Q&A with Bill Simons The Mountain View Tennis Club will hold its 2016 Spring General Meeting and Dinner, featuring guest speaker Bill Simons, founder and publisher of Inside Tennis magazine. Registration will begin at 6 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. March 29, 6-9 p.m. $25; free for 2016 members. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Call 408-203-5377. mvtc.net Sing and Play Along Ukulele At this monthly meeting, beginners and ukulele enthusiasts will come together to sing, play and learn songs for the ukulele. Attendees can bring their own instrument or use one of the Mountain View Public Library’s. Registration is appreciated but not required. Fourth Monday of each month, Feb. 22-May 23, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6882. mountainview.gov/librarycalendar
CONCERTS ‘Big Band Cavalcade!’ The California Pops Orchestra’s next show will include swing music favorites from the ‘30s and ‘40s, including hits by Benny Goodman, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller. The orchestra will be joined by the 17-piece Black Tie Jazz Big Band with singer Peter Vilkin. April 3, 3 p.m. $20-$48. Foothill College, Smithwick Theatre, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. www.calpops.org House concert with T. Nile A genredisrupting Canadian artist, T. Nile will fuse together the traditionally conflicting styles of electro-pop and folk during this house concert performance. April 1, 7:45 p.m. $20 suggested donation. Tami’s House Concerts, address provided upon registration, Los Altos. www.meetup.com/ SouthBayHouseConcerts/events/228925949/
DANCE ‘Flamenco!’ A cast of talented and original Gypsy flamenco artists will give a passionate performance of song, guitar and dance. The show is presented by the Flamenco Society of San Jose. March 26, 7:30-9 p.m. $38-$58. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. www.mvcpa.com Social and Nightclub Dance Offered through Mountain View Los Altos Adult Education, this low-key class will teach beginners and seasoned dancers swing, nightclub two-step, and salsa styles of dancing. The course has eight weekly meetings. Mondays, March 28-May 23, 7:30-9 p.m. $68 person. Mountain View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-9401333. www.mvla.net/MVLA_Adult_Education/
EXHIBITS ‘Tokyo Jazz Joints’ The Krause Center for Innovation Gallery will welcome a photography exhibit by Philip Arneill and James Catchpole entitled “Tokyo Jazz Joints,” which attempts to preserve the beauty of these hidden, timeless places. On March 29, 5-7 p.m., Arneill will give a talk to mark the opening. March 29-May 7, Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; $3 parking. Foothill College, Krause Center for Innovation Gallery, Building 4000, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. krauseinnovationcenter.org/about/ gallery/
FAMILY AND KIDS Author Brandon Mull on ‘Five Kingdoms’ Linden Tree Books will welcome back author Brandon Mull to share the fourth book in his “Five Kingdoms” series, “Death Weavers.” March 25, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Linden Tree Books, 265 State St., Los Altos. Call 650-949-3390. www. lindentreebooks.com Opera for Families Presents: PurimPalooza! The performers behind Opera for Families will give a performance of fairy tale songs from musicals and operas, featuring Cinderella, Anna and Elsa, Aladdin and other characters. Attendees are welcome to come in costume. March 26, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $15 general;
$12 member, J-Pass; $8 child; $20 at the door. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. www.paloaltojcc.org
FILM ‘Growing the 8 Bit Generation’ The Computer History Museum will hold a screening of the documentary “Growing the 8 Bit Generation,” which focuses on the Commodore 64’s role in the home computer explosion and the personal computer revolution. The film was produced by the 8bit Generation Project. Online registration is requested. March 30, 7-9 p.m. Free. Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View. www.computerhistory.org/events/ upcoming/#growing-8-bit-generation
HEALTH Hatha Yoga Thursday Evenings Led by Patricia Joy Becker, these classes focus on proper alignment to balance the body. Each session offers a new sequence of poses that stretch and strengthen different body areas. Breathing practices and short meditations are often included. See website for pricing. Thursdays, ongoing, 7:15-8:30 p.m. $10 new student. Yoga is Youthfulness, 590 Castro St., Mountain View. Call 650-285-1867. yourhealthandjoy.com
FOOD AND DRINK linkAges Cooking Cafe This event will connect community members with fellow foodies and teach how to make dishes from local chefs. A community meal will be served at the end. All ages are welcome. March 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Historic Adobe Building, 157 Moffett Blvd., Mountain View. Call 650-691-6188. linkagescookingcafe.eventbrite.com
ON STAGE ‘tokyo fish story’ TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will continue its 2015-2016 season with the Northern California premiere of “tokyo fish story” by Kimber Lee — a comic drama centering on a sushi master’s struggles to preserve ancient artistry in the face of a society bent on change. See website for specific times and ticket prices. There will be no show on March 29. Wednesday-Sunday, March 9-April 3. Prices vary (discounts available for those ages 30 and under). Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. www.theatreworks. org/shows/1516-season/tokyo-fish-story Jewish Plays Project During this unique event created by the New York-based Jewish Plays Project, actors will read 20-minute portions of three plays; then the audience will pick a winner. March 29, 7:30-9 p.m. $7 student, member; $10 nonmember; $15 at the door. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. www.paloaltojcc.org
RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY Blues Good Friday Musicians from St. Timothy’s and friends will capture the passion of Jesus during a performance of blues songs by J.J. Cale, Blind Willie Johnson and Kelly-Jo Phelps. March 25, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, 2094 Grant Road, Mountain View. Call 650-967-4724. www.sttims.org Valparaiso Singers Easter Concerts The Valparaiso Singers choir will present two concerts of Gabriel Faure’s Requiem and Easter hymns. Guest soloists will be Erin McOmber (soprano) and Gregory Fair (baritone). March 20, 7:30 p.m. (Los Altos); March 25, 7:30 p.m. (Menlo Park). Free. LDS Grant Road Chapel, 1300 Grant Road, Los Altos, and LDS Valparaiso Chapel, 1105 Valparaiso Ave., Menlo Park. Call 650-823-3008.
SENIORS Diabetes Self-management: A Health Trust Workshop The Health Trust will offer a special six-week workshop on diabetes management. The program will be valuable for anyone living with or caring for someone with diabetes. Space is limited, and registration is required. Mondays, March 28-May 2, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266
Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6330. mountainview.gov/seniors Six Movies, Six Countries Stephen Gleit will lead a film series showing six international movies with stunning cinematography by native filmmakers in their languages. Films not in English will have subtitles. Tuesdays, Feb. 23-March 29, 9:30 a.m.noon. Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6330. mountainview.gov/seniors
SPORTS Silicon Valley Basketball Silicon Valley Basketball holds regular weekly pickup games at Castro Park in Mountain View, where there are typically over 20 players and multiple games going at once. Visit the website for more info. Sundays, year-round, 10 a.m. $1.50 monthly dues. Castro Park, Toft Avenue and Latham Street, Mountain View. www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Basketball/
LECTURES & TALKS ‘Gun Violence Prevention and Politics’ Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, will give a talk about American mothers fighting for public gun safety measures. March 30, 7:30-9 p.m. $15 general; $12 member, J-Pass holder. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. www.paloaltojcc.org ‘Sudden Oak Death in the Santa Cruz Mountains’ At this California Native Plant Society event, Cindy Roessler, an ecologist with over 30 years experience managing natural resources, will discuss Sudden Oak Death. The plant disease, caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, has killed millions of oaks and tanoaks throughout California forests. March 25, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, Program Room, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. Call 650-260-3450. www.cnps-scv.org ‘Women in Business & Tech - Celebrating Breakthroughs’ ARA Silicon Valley will celebrate breakthroughs of women in business and technology with an event featuring fireside chats with women and men who have broken barriers, innovated and found success in their industries. Visit the website for specific program details. March 29, 5:30-8 p.m. $20. Intuit Headquarters, 2632 Marine Way, Mountain View. Call 574-780-7749. www. aramentors.com Perlan 2 glider project luncheon presentation The Aero Club of Northern California will hold a luncheon with Einar Enevoldson, who will present on the Perlan 2 high-altitude glider project. The goal is to have the glider soar 90,000 feet over the Andes. Enevoldson set the current sailplane altitude record with Steve Fossett in 2006 at 50,722 feet. Preregistration for the event is required; no walk-ups will be allowed. March 31, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $25. Michaels at Shoreline, 2960 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. Call 408-634-8062. events.r20.constantcontact. com/register/event?oeidk=a07ecb1xp3412d91317 &llr=e8kqp6nab
TEEN ACTIVITIES Author Ally Condie on ‘Summerlost’ Ally Condie will make a stop at Linden Tree Books to share her touching middle grade debut “Summerlost,” which emphasizes the strength of family and personal resilience following tragedy. The book is best suited for ages 10 and older. March 31, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Linden Tree Books, 265 State St., Los Altos. Call 650-949-3390. www. lindentreebooks.com
VOLUNTEERS Living Classroom Docent Training (March 28) Living Classroom, which provides hands-on environmental lessons to students in Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos school districts, will hold a training session for its volunteer docents. Those interested are encouraged to attend to learn more. Training, materials and lesson plans are provided to volunteers. March 28, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Los Altos School District Board Room, 201 Covington Road, Los Altos. Call 650-960-1354. living-classroom.org
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M.C. MOVERS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614306 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: M.C. Movers, located at 1933 Gamel Way #1, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): CESAR ENRIQUE GARCIA BAÑOS 1933 Gamel Way #4 Mountain View, CA 94040 MARCO ANTONIO RANGEL SALAS 1933 Gamel Way #1 Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/19/16. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 24, 2016. (MVV Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016) ADVANCE MATH ACADaEMY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614227 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Advance Math Academy, located at 2235 California St., Apt. 187, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): RUTH LEUNG 2235 California St. Apt. 187 Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/23/2016. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 23, 2016. (MVV Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016) SHINING CITY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614343 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Shining City Music Entertainment, located at 122 Kittoe Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SEAN PASIN 122 Kittoe Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/28/15. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 24, 2016. (MVV Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016) Synergy@Silicon Valley FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614175 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Synergy@Silicon Valley, located at 1945 Latham Street Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): BLACK MOUNTAIN INVESTMENTS, LLC 2626 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 22, 2016. (MVV Mar. 11, 18, 25, Apr. 1, 2016)
TOP OVER BASE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614378 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Top Over Base, located at 860 Villa St., Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): HUONG DAO 1583 Dennis Ave. Milpitas, CA 95035 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 25, 2016. (MVV Mar. 11, 18, 25, Apr. 1, 2016) THE PHOENIX CAFE & JUICE BAR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614118 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The Phoenix Cafe & Juice Bar, located at 650 Castro Street #130, Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JAWAD ESSADKI 650 Castro St. #130 Mountain View, CA 94041 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 18, 2016. (MVV Mar. 18, 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016) BAILEY BEAUTY SALON FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614523 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Bailey Beauty Salon, located at 570 N. Shoreline Blvd. #C, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MY KHANH LE 2135 Little Orchard St. #55 San Jose, CA 95125 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02-29-16. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 29, 2016. (MVV Mar. 18, 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016)
997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 16CV292282 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: FABIA CRISTINA FAY BROCATO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: FABIA CRISTINA FAY, aka FABIA CRISTINA FAY-GRUNDIG, aka FABIA FAY BROCATO to FABIA CRISTINA FAY BROCATO. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may
grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: April 19, 2016, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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: MOUNTAIN VIEW VOICE Date: March 3, 2016 /s/ Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (MVV Mar. 11, 18, 25, Apr. 1, 2016) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: KERRY L. SCHULZ Case No.: 1-16-PR-178142 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of KERRY L. SCHULZ. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JAMES R. CHARD in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: JAMES R. CHARD be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 28, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: Richard J. Schachtili, Esq. P.O. Box 1469 San Jose, CA 95109-1469 (650)804-7600 (MVV Mar. 11, 18, 25, 2016)
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A Berkshire Hathaway Affiliate
CalBRE# 00893793
P OTE NTIAL R E TU R N O N I NVE STM E NT FO R R E MODE LI NG PROJ EC TS Roofing Replacement: 100.9%
WHY A TROYER TRANSFORMATION™? If you’re thinking of moving, but don’t know if your home is ready to receive top dollar in today’s market, give David a call. He’ll give you a personal consultation and let you know if your home could be ready with a little de-cluttering, refreshed with paint, or would benefit from more major updates. If you decide to go ahead, rest assured, David’s team of experts can take care of any or all of it. It’s all about Return on Investment. A $20,000 investment could have a 3 to 5 times return.
Master Suite Addition: 93%
Bathroom Remodel: 102%
Window Replacement (wood): 111%
Minor Kitchen Remodel: 135.8% Major Kitchen Remodel: 104%
Source: Remodeling’s 2016 Cost vs. Value Report for typical projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you would like to read the full copy of the “Cost vs. Value” report, give me a call! I would be happy to send it over.
RECENT SALES in Mountain View by David! 550 SLEEPER AVENUE
1643 FORDHAM WAY
775 SAN CARLOS AVENUE
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4-bedroom, 3-bath beautifully updated home in Waverly Park
6-bedroom, 2.5-bath spacious and updated home on the edge of Los Altos
3-bedroom, 2-bath newly updated home with flexible floor plan
Offered at $2,498,000 Sold for $2,650,000
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