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Tentative agreement reached on teacher salaries TOUGH NEGOTIATIONS COULD END EARLY FOR THE MOUNTAIN VIEW WHISMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT By Kevin Forestieri
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Volunteers Joan MaDonald stands with boxes of signtures for a proposed rent-cap measure for the November ballot.
Rent-control measure expected to go to voters in November TENANT ADVOCATES DELIVER SIGNATURES TO CITY By Mark Noack
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ertain to be a lightning rod in city politics, a ballot measure to restrict Mountain View’s apartment rents is expected to go before voters in November.
Members of the Mountain View Tenants Coalition on Tuesday morning delivered more than 7,300 signatures to City Hall. That number should give the measure’s advocates a sizable cushion to secure a spot on the ballot. To qualify
their measure, the group says, they needed to submit 4,761 signatures from registered Mountain View voters. The rental measure is certain to be a hot-button issue for the See RENT, page 9
Construction boom brings revene, and problems, for city’s projects By Mark Noack
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ith construction cranes and work crews ubiquitous across town, Mountain View is experiencing a surging development market like never before, bringing a wave of public improvements and filling the city’s coffers with fees. But at least one aspect of the construction boom is actually a
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bust for Mountain View — city staff say that some public projects are stalling due to wildly inflated construction costs stemming from the high demand. In recent weeks, city officials say they had little choice but to reject two projects — including a package of school safety improvements — because submitted contractor bids were way over budget. “The city’s revenues are up due
to the economy, but sometimes the costs go up too,” said Public Works Director Mike Fuller. “Sometimes that’s just the way it is, and we have to go back and ask for more money.” The problem came to head last month when the Mountain View City Council reviewed a request for proposals for a See CONSTRUCTION, page 11
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he Mountain View Whisman School District has announced that it has reached a tentative agreement with its teachers’ union, following stalls and tough negotiations on teacher pay that threatened to extend bargaining meetings into the fall. The agreement would bump teacher salaries by 8 percent, according to the union’s president. Superintendent Ayinde Rudolph announced in a newsletter Tuesday that the district’s negotiation team reached an agreement with the Mountain View Educators Association (MVEA) during a negotiation meeting on June 7, ending disputes on all of the contract terms for the coming school year. Prior to the meeting, teacher union representatives indicated that little progress had been made towards reaching an agreement, and that negotiations would likely need to be discontinued into September. Jonathan Pharazyn, who served as the MVEA president during negotiations and is now retired, told the Voice in an email that district administrators have agreed to an 8 percent increase in teacher pay across the entire salary schedule, which was one of the primary sticking points for both parties. District administrators agreed to also reduce class sizes to 24 to one for kindergarten through third grade, maintain the current health care benefit contributions for the coming school year, and provide stipends for music teachers who attend overnight music performance trips approved by the board, Pharazyn said. The MVEA does not have a meeting until school resumes in
August, which means the teaching staff will not have an opportunity to vote to ratify the agreement for more than a month. Teacher union representatives clashed with district administrators earlier this year during negotiations, claiming that the district’s “Negotiations News” newsletter was biased and indicated that all the teachers’ union cares about is money. A proposal to work together on a joint news release after each meeting was rejected by district staff at the March 28 negotiation meeting. Teachers flooded the May 19 school board meeting wearing MVEA shirts to support the push for higher pay, and Graham teacher Derek Mulkey told board members that to see the district communicate to the public that teachers don’t want to do what’s best for the students dampened morale. The district has yet to release the expected costs of the 8 percent salary increase, and how it will affect the district’s reserve fund in the coming years. At the May 19 board meeting, Chief Business Officer Robert Clark noted that the district’s offer at that time was to increase teacher pay by 4 percent on the salary schedule, as well as a 2 percent increase in one-time pay. The change would have cost the district $1.32 million in the 2016-17 school year, followed by $900,000 the following years. A recent poll of 199 teachers found that two-thirds would only be willing to accept a pay raise of 7 percent or higher going into the next school year. School district officials declined to comment on the tentative agreement, including the terms of the contract. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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NEW LAW AIMS TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY AND PUBLIC CONTROL OVER POLICE TECH By Kevin Forestieri
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Buses are ready to roll at the VTA North Yard. The city is looking for ways to encourage more riders on the sometimes near-empty vehicles.
Buses remain empty along city’s worst traffic spots CITY LEADERS RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT NORTH BAYSHORE TRAFFIC DATA By Mark Noack
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t was 8:30 a.m., rush hour, and Shoreline Road was jammed with sedans, corporate shuttles and cyclists crossing Highway 101 to the corporate headquarters of Google, LinkedIn and others. Yet perhaps the only uncrowded spot to be found during that morning commute was the aisle of the 40-route bus, the VTA transit line that cycles from Foothill College to Mountain View’s tech center.
Only three people were riding, not counting the driver. Call it one of the curious oddities of Mountain View: One of the city’s most congested spots also has some of the lowest numbers for public transit ridership. Andrew Meyers, a professor riding the bus on the following morning to visit the Google campus, said he decided to take the bus since it came up when he asked Google Maps for directions. He found it quite convenient. “I don’t understand why
more people don’t take the bus,” he said. “It’s a lovely service.” Why indeed? That’s an issue that city leaders were pondering last week as they reviewed the numbers in their twice-ayear traffic report for North Bayshore. The review, known as the “trip cap” report, is a big deal for city planners as well as the many tech firms and developers interested in building out new offices in the city’s See VTA, page 6
City sinks paid-parking due to dismal numbers HUNDREDS OF VACANT SPACES DURING LEVI’S STADIUM GAMES By Mark Noack
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he city is pulling the plug on a paid-parking program meant to help control the downtown lots during 49ers football games at the nearby Levi’s Stadium. The decision came on Tuesday night, June 7, in the city’s first follow-up report on its
preparations for this year’s Super Bowl. At the time, city officials were concerned that an estimated 1.3 million fans streaming into the Bay Area for the big game could overwhelm the downtown area. But those fears turned out to be a bugaboo — just 130 people opted to pay $20 to park in town for the Super Bowl, bringing in $2,600
and leaving almost 700 vacant spaces. Implementing the parking program for just that day cost the city about $4,000, but Mountain View also absorbed other Super Bowl-related costs. The city police maintained a full complement of officers See SUPER BOWL, page 11
n a landmark decision hailed as the first of its kind in the country, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance last week that would limit the kinds of surveillance technology county law enforcement can purchase, and put into public view the types of spy equipment already in use throughout region. The board voted 5-0 at the June 7 meeting to adopt the new law, which requires county law enforcement agencies to provide a detailed report on how new and current surveillance technology will be used to investigate and prosecute crimes. Each report will need to justify the use and effectiveness of the technology, and will have to pass public scrutiny at an open meeting prior to use. County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who has championed the ordinance for the last 18 months, said the county spends millions of dollars on surveillance technology each year, and that residents ought to know basic information about what technology is being purchased, how it will be used and who will have access to that information. The law does not preclude any spy tech from the outset, he said, but it does shift into public view what privacy trade-offs are being made to fight crime. “It doesn’t prohibit any technology,” Simitian told the Voice. “It simply says that if the county is going to acquire and use surveillance technology, you first have to address the impacts on privacy and civil liberties.” The ordinance specifically governs county agencies, and does not affect the adoption and use of surveillance technology by local police departments using funding from other sources. The ordinance also does not restrict the sharing of evidence in criminal investigations and prosecutions between agencies that are not restricted by the new requirements. The law has received national
attention since the adoption, in part because the ordinance aims to be as “future-proof” as possible. Existing surveillance technology is called out in the ordinance as examples of what would require approval by the board today, including drones with cameras, automated license-plate readers, closedcircuit cameras and cell-site simulators — more commonly referred to as “StingRay” technology designed to track the location of cellphones. The ordinance includes a broad definition of surveillance equipment in order to cover future technology that has yet to be created. Any technology used by law enforcement to collect or share audio, electronic, visual, location, thermal, olfactory or similar information would fall under the purview of the law. “The question is how do you make an ordinance futureproof,” Simitian said. “And you don’t do that by limiting it to a handful of known technologies.” Under the new law, county law enforcement agencies will need to submit “surveillance use policies” stating the purpose of each technology, what it collects, how it collects the information, who has access to it, how it’s protected and how it’s being retained. These reports will come to the Board of Supervisors, who will ultimately decide whether the benefits of the crime-fighting technology outweigh the loss of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights. The agencies will also have to submit annual reports detailing how the technology was used, whether it was effective and what complaints were received from the community. The ordinance won praise from privacy advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Adam Schwartz, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the new regulations on surveillance will See SPY TECH, page 20
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City lifts emergency drought rules DROUGHT STILL ONGOING, BUT COUNCIL OPTS TO RELAX LIMITS By Mark Noack
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ith 2016 proving a wetter year, the Mountain View City Council voted on Tuesday to relax some of the local restrictions on water use, despite pleas from advocates that a statewide drought was hardly a thing of the past. In a 6-1 vote, with Ken Rosenberg dissenting, the council agreed to drop the city’s local water conservation plan from “Stage 2” to “Stage 1” levels, which essentially reverts to water restrictions in place in 2014. The action also lifts some onerous restrictions on household water use, including bans on washing cars with hoses, daytime garden watering and outdoor fountains. “We aren’t going back to our profligate ways in the 1950s, but in fact a lot of people enjoy their gardens and yards and they have
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hottest neighborhood. One stark tidbit came to the forefront in last week’s discussion: During an average weekday rush-hour commute, just seven people were riding the public bus into North Bayshore, according to the report. “That’s terrible utilization! Terrible!” said Mayor Pat Showalter. “That’s really shocking — that single data point is something we need to take away from this report.” It’s one piece of a larger problem Mountain View officials are facing with their plans to transform North Bayshore. As part of the area’s precise plan, new office development is tied to corporate developers demonstrating they can reduce the overall traffic congestion heading into the area. The crucial number here is what city planners call the “single-occupancy vehicle mode share” — in other words, the percentage of motorists driving solo, the most inefficient and congestion-causing form of driving. This percentage of solo drivers is supposed to be eventually capped at no more than 45 percent in order to accommodate 3.5 million square feet in new office development as well as thousands of new workers squeezing into North Bayshore. But the latest report pegged that number of solo drivers at 60 percent — basically the same level where the city was when its precise plan was first published two years ago. Until this trajectory is reversed, city officials may have no choice 6
a right to do that,” said Councilman Lenny Siegel. “We should improve efficiency, conserve and work on recycling, but also let people have a little bit of water.” The statewide drought has been a harrowing tale across California, throwing the state’s agricultural bounty and suburban growth into question like never before. The drought officially started in 2012, but the real alarms began ringing after the state experienced its third dry year. At that time, Gov. Jerry Brown declared an emergency and imposed severe mandatory water conservation measures. In 2015, state water officials mandated that Mountain View reduce its water use by 16 percent, although local water agencies strongly encouraged further reductions. For the most part, Mountain View residents showed remarkbut to hit the brakes on the various ambitious office projects, warned Councilman Lenny Siegel. “Any of the developments we’re looking at will bust the trip cap; we’re not going to be issuing building permits until we solve this problem,” he said. “We aren’t headed in the right direction.” But previously, it seemed as if Mountain View was on the right path. All the previous trip-cap reports showed the number of solo drivers had been dropping, explained Community Development Director Randy Tsuda. But the news isn’t as bad as it seems at first glance, he noted. The formal trip cap imposed by the city is 18,900 vehicles on the three access roads to North Bayshore, he said. If that limit is crossed, city officials must call a halt to constructing any new office buildings or Googleplexes. The 45-percent limit on solo drivers is the target the city has calculated that traffic patterns will have to eventually reach to squeeze in all the proposed projects within the trip cap, he said. Tsuda indicated he wasn’t too worried about the new numbers because the total count of reported vehicle trips had actually gone down. The percentage change was due to the total count of car trips being reduced considerably, he said. It was high school math, he added. “Why would this number go back up to 60 percent? Well, when you go into the data in more detail, it’s the total number of drivers,” he said. “Because the denominator went down, that makes the solo trips ratio go up.” But finding transit alternatives
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able success in turning off their faucets, said Elizabeth Flegel, city water conservation coordinator. Last year, the city had met all its water-reduction targets and consumed 28 percent less water than in 2013, she reported. Local water agencies, including the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, will still keep in place reduction targets, but SFPUC officials are reporting that the agency has sufficient water supplies to last three years in a drought. Choosing her words carefully, Flegel said that means Mountain View could go for a “lesser reduction” than in recent years. In other words, people could use more water, she eventually came around to saying. But she stressed that conservation measures were still needed because, historically, it’s taken several years to fully rebound from a drought.
Some public speakers urged the council not to relax the city’s water rules. They consider the harsher emergency water restrictions as “the new normal” for living in the dry California climate. “Rather than flip-flopping on the rules, let’s be conservative and stay that way,” said Old Mountain View resident Deb Henigson. “Just because we’ve got some rain and snow doesn’t mean we can go back to the way things used to be.” But council members for the most part said residents deserved to use more water if the emergency had passed. Many residents made sacrifices by tearing out lawns and lugging buckets into the shower, pointed out Councilman Mike Kasperzak. Some of those watersaving lifestyle changes would remain in place, he said. In opposing the change, Rosenberg said that loosening the rules sent the wrong message to residents. As long as the drought remained in place, the city should keep its restrictions in place, he said.
Exactly how much water Mountain View would be required to save under the Stage 1 restrictions was not clear in the staff report. Flegel noted the exact amount would depend on the reduction levels set by the Santa Clara Valley Water District and SFPUC. That reduction amount would likely range from 3 percent to 10 percent compared with 2013, she reported. In a similar move, the Santa Clara Valley Water District this week also decided to relax its restrictions, albeit with many warnings. Board members agreed on Tuesday that the water utility should scale back its reduction target from 30 percent to 20 percent while emphasizing that residents still need to curb their usage. “Four years of drought is not erased by one year of decent rain,” board president Barbara Keegan said in a statement. “We are still in a drought. We don’t know if next year is going to be another dry year.” Email Mark Noack at mnoack@ mv-voice.com V
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will remain a crucial priority in the coming months. This is the raison d’etre for the Mountain View Transportation Management Association, a coalition of companies in the area that are partnering up to monitor and control traffic in the area. The TMA funds its own free shuttle service — MVgo — and the shuttles make many of the same stops as the public buses, which may explain the bus service’s low ridership. In addition, many companies operate their own private shuttles to bring employees from Caltrain or light-rail stops. Tom Herrington, chairman of the TMA, expressed confidence that the area’s tech firms could taper off their congestion, and he said public transit would
remain part of that strategy. “We look forward to making continued progress,” he wrote in an email. “The TMA believes public transit plays a much larger part in getting folks into and out of North Shoreline than the survey demonstrates.” In that goal, VTA officials feel much the same way. Last year, the transit agency announced a partnership with Google to study a possible light-rail extension into the area. The study, which is expected to be completed by the end of this year, will examine a range of options, including possible changes to bus service, said VTA spokeswoman Stacey Hendler Ross. Pretty much everything would be on the table, said Tsuda,
the city’s community development planner. As projects come forward for consideration, companies will be expected to help pay for a host of upgrades meant to reduce traffic volume, including dedicated bus lanes, bike catwalks and a variety of road improvements. While dedicated bus lanes would be a major improvement, Tsuda explained, those special lanes were intended primarily for private shuttles. Public bus service, while helpful, wasn’t considered a “cornerstone” of the transit plans for the area, he said. Reporting interns Perla Luna and Anna Laman contributed to this story. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@ mv-voice.com V
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Los Altos School District continues to pursue new school site BOARD AGREES NOT TO DITCH REAL ESTATE TALKS, DESPITE SOARING COSTS By Kevin Forestieri
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he Los Altos School District board of trustees agreed Monday night to continue real estate negotiations for a new school site on El Camino Real, turning down the opportunity to focus on building a school on an existing campus in favor of land acquisition plans. School district officials have grappled for years with the question of whether to buy new land for a tenth school site or build a second school on an existing campus to solve the district’s enrollment-growth woes. In an effort to get mov-
ing with concrete plans, the school board set the end of the school year as the deadline to decide whether to continue negotiating a real estate deal or start looking at district-owned property for the new school. The construction plans are fueled by the district’s $150 million Measure N bond, which voters approved in November 2014. The bond was intended to buy land for a new school site, possibly to house Bullis Charter School, but the lack of available public land and the expensive local real estate market have made it challenging to make those plans a reality. Despite the hurdles, board
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president Pablo Luther announced at the June 13 meeting that the board has agreed to keep pursuing a new school site at 5150 El Camino Real, an office complex in Los Altos owned by Boston-based TA Realty just blocks away from the San Antonio Shopping Center. Luther said it was a tough decision to make, but the land scarcity within the district boundaries means the board needs to act now if the district ever wants to increase its footprint. “One of the overarching factors was the fact that land is fast disappearing from our community,” Luther said. “We felt that getting land today was an opportunity that we should not pass up, because we may not have that opportunity again.” Despite the commitment, real estate negotiations are still ongoing, and Luther said the board will have to go through a period of “due diligence” to look at the costs and appropriate designs for a new school site before deciding on whether to buy the property. Board member Sangeeth Peruri agreed that buying new land ought to be the district’s priority, and said it was an important step in preparing the school district for the future. He said the Los Altos School District cherishes the small-school model, and that kind of school would be hard to preserve amid land scarcity and future enrollment growth. “I don’t see how, if we don’t add square footage and acreage with this bond, we will be able to accommodate that growth 20 or 30 years from now,” he said. Details on what the school would look like were scant Monday night. Lut her described the potential new campus as “21st century” and “different” from what the rest of the district’s schools look like. Board member Tammy Logan said the classroom and teaching space would be significantly larger per student — on the order of 50 to 60 percent more room per student. Cost estimates for the potential new real estate were also absent from the discussion, though previous estimates have shown that it will take a significant portion of the bond proceeds. A staff report earlier this year estimated that purchasing land in the area north of El Camino Real could cost between $15 million and $17
million per acre, meaning land acquisition for a school site could cost between $75 million and $85 million. Building a multi-story school facility at the site could tack on an extra $75 million, according to the report. Board member Vladimir Ivanovic said he was mindful of the district’s need for more space, but that he still had reservations on supporting a land purchase because of the cost of building a school. He said he wanted to see how feasible the plans would be once the costs are laid out for board members. Seeking help from Mountain View School district administrators have long maintained that a new school site would be necessary to handle enrollment growth in the coming years. That growth, according to a recent district-commissioned study, is virtually all coming from housing developments in the pipeline north of El Camino Real in Mountain View. Although more than a quarter of the district’s students live in Mountain View, none of the district’s nine schools is located here.
received a report by the firm Lapkoff and Gobalet Demographic Research, which found that a big increase in housing developments approved in Mountain View is expected to add hundreds of additional students to the district. Shelley Lapkoff said the facilities are already strained and are not designed to accommodate existing enrollment — which was determined using the district’s own assumptions on ideal school and class sizes — meaning there’s no space to handle the bulge of new students expected to enter the district by 2018. The most recently approved and proposed projects combine to continue that trend, Lapkoff said. The San Antonio Center East proposal, for example, would add as many as 2,650 new residences to the 33-acre section of the southern side of the shopping center plaza. “I was flabbergasted when I saw this — 2,650 housing units are being proposed for this area,” she said. “Granted it’s a 45-year period and it’s uncertain, but if anything like that gets approved, that’s probably another 500 students in your district.”
‘I was flabbergasted when I saw this — 2,650 housing units are being proposed for this area.’ SHELLEY LAPKOFF, DEMOGRAPHER
In more than one letter, Superintendent Jeff Baier has made an appeal to Mountain View City Council members in recent months requesting that the city find more ways to help finance new school construction in the district. In a letter to council members dated May 4, Baier suggested that new housing developments could meet public benefit requirements in the San Antonio Precise Plan by facilitating the development of a public school in the area. Baier sent another letter to the council on June 6 expressing “serious concerns” about the increase in residential units recently approved by the council, causing projected enrollment to spike at an “unprecedented” rate. Baier told council members at their June 7 meeting that developer fees are not enough, and that the school district would be interested in working with the city to find ways for developers to contribute to the school district. The day before the council meeting, the school district
Mountain View council member Ken Rosenberg, who served on the school district’s Enrollment Growth Task Force, told the Voice that it’s become a frequent occurrence for members of the Los Altos community, particularly parents of school-aged children, to tell him that Mountain View is overcrowding the district with its new development. The divisiveness between cities, he said, is a little strange when 27 percent of the school district comes from Mountain View. The real problem, Rosenberg said, lies in the adjacent cities on the Peninsula that continue to ignore the jobs-housing imbalance, and cities like Los Altos ought to do more to take up the slack in order to improve the quality of life in the region. “We’re not trying to harm the Los Altos School District by building more housing,” Rosenberg said. “We want workers to live near their work, reduce traffic (and) greenhouse gas emissions.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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upcoming election since it takes direct aim at the skyrocketing housing costs that recently have taken center stage in local politics. In a concerted effort last year, hundreds of renters and advocates made regular appearances at City Council meetings and pushed the city to make their concerns a top priority. The tenants’ group in April announced plans to place a ballot measure before Mountain View voters after most City Council members signaled they would not support direct restrictions on the local rental market. Instead, most council members backed a beefed-up mediation system to settle disputes between landlords and renters. While landlords would be obliged to attend these resolution meetings, they would not be required to accept any deal. The city’s new mediation sys-
tem took effect this month, and city officials have been holding educational seminars to teach landlords and tenants about the new policies. But critics have blasted the new program as essentially being toothless for avoiding any binding restrictions that would limit how much landlords can increase rents for current tenants. Mountain View is not expected to be alone in bringing a rentcontrol measure to voters this November. Signature-gathering is underway for similar ballot measures in San Mateo, Burlingame and Alameda. For these cities, it will be a “David versus Goliath” battle, said tenant coalition spokesman Daniel DeBolt. (DeBolt is a former Voice reporter.) Speaking to the Mountain View City Council on Tuesday, he referenced recent reports that landlord groups would spend a considerable sum on an opposition campaign to defeat these
measures. The tenant coalition’s proposed measure would create a system of rent control, restricting rent increases to a minimum of 2 percent and a maximum of 5 percent. For the most part, the measure would require that annual rent increases adhere to the Consumer Price Index for the Bay Area. The measure would also put in place justcause eviction protections and
create a new rental-housing committee that would oversee rent increases and other regulations. The restrictions have become necessary since landlords have recklessly notched up their rents in recent years, advocates say. From 2011 to 2015, average rents in Mountain View increased 52.7 percent, according to a RealFacts market report cited by the Mountain View Tenants
Coalition. Landlord advocates have criticized the measure for potentially creating a disincentive for property owners to maintain rental housing in Mountain View. They argue the measure will ultimately worsen the housing shortage in the city because it would discourage developers from building new units. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@ mv-voice.com V
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Volunteer Joan MacDonald gets the last signture from local resident Duc T.Doung to put a rent control measure on the November ballot in front of city hall on June 14, 2016.
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Mountain View Tenants Coalition members Rosario Portocarrero, left, and America Caballero, 12, hold signs to support renters’ rights in front of City Hall.
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for the day based on concerns that the event would be a high security risk. A total of 54 police staffers were on hand for the festivities, costing the city about $49,000, according to estimates from the department. Mountain View officials first decided to implement a paidparking program in 2014, relying on estimates that up to 600 vehicles would be left in the downtown area as ticketholding fans took the VTA’s
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slate of safety improvements along Castro Street near Graham Middle School. This project called for modifying car lanes into protected bike and pedestrian paths, adding lighted crosswalks, and making other improvements meant to prevent accidents. School officials and parents said they had been waiting for the safety measures ever since three students were struck by vehicles near the school in a period of a few weeks in 2012. But at the May 24 meeting, city staff asked council members to delay the project because they received only one bid from a contractor. That bid — a $1.37 million cost estimate from Wattis Construction of San Jose — was well over what the city had budgeted for the project. Staff had estimated the project should cost just $1.08 million, an amount they believed would sufficiently account for the surging market. But getting only one response effectively scuttled the whole process, Fuller explained. The city was relying on about $850,000 in federal school-safety grants to finance the project. But those grants required that the city receive multiple bid responses to ensure adequate competition. Adding to the problems, the project would now have to wait until 2017 because it would need to go forward during the summer months when school would be out of session. Parents and bike-safety advocates made their disappointment clear to city leaders. Thida Cornes, a candidate for City Council, said the school community had been waiting too long for the project, and she suspected that the costs would only increase the longer it was delayed. “This was supposed to be done last summer and now there’s another delay,” she said. “I just don’t know why the city couldn’t have found two contractors willing to take on this project.” Public Works staff interviewed
light rail system to the stadium. On football game days, the city imposed a three-hour time limit at the downtown public parking lots, and about $75,000 was spent in that first year to help enforce those rules. In the end, an average of about 90 drivers paid to park during an event at Levi’s Stadium, city staff reported. The city renewed a scaleddown version of the program for the 2015-16 football season, but these numbers dropped further. Just 24 cars on average were parking in the paid lots contractors to determine why so few answered the request, and they determined that construction firms were being very selective about which projects they competed for. Many contractors were also reluctant to sign up for a summer project, which typically is the busiest time of year for construction. At the May meeting, council members asked if any temporary safety measures could be implemented in the meantime. Fuller recommended against it, saying partial improvements could do more harm than good. In an interview, Fuller said he was confident that the project would go forward in 2017. He said he would start the bidding process earlier to try to build interest during the slower winter months. Trying to gauge the right costs for a project can be particularly challenging for public agencies, Fuller said, because government budgets are typically drafted well in advance of when a project goes to bid. “For some of our projects, the estimates are based on an original budget that’s established a couple years ago,” he said. “We try to account for inflationary increases, but it’s hard to keep up.” Earlier this month, the city saw a repeat of this problem when the council was asked to reject a citywide project to replace cracked and crooked sidewalk slabs. This time around, city staff received three responses to the project, which they estimated should cost no more than $300,000. Only one of the bidders, Dalian Construction of Bakersfield, came in below that amount, but city staff reported that the company failed to prove it had the proper experience to handle the project. The other two bids both came in more than 50 percent higher than the city’s estimate. The council agreed to reject the project with the idea to try again in the fall or winter months. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@ mv-voice.com V
members said. Meanwhile, the city indicated it would continue a residentialpermit program through the
during a game. Based on the evidence, city staff said there wasn’t enough demand to justify continuing
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next year, allowing locals to park on city streets without fear of getting ticketed. The action was approved by
the program. The Caltrain parking lot with its 330 parking spaces should be adequate to handle any future events, staff
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Hospital budgets for big expansion plans MORE THAN $200M EXPECTED TO BE SPENT ON NEW FACILITIES AT EL CAMINO HOSPITAL By Kevin Forestieri
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l Camino Hospital staff are budgeting for a lucrative year next fiscal year, calling for cost-cutting measures and another bump in prices in order to keep the community hospital financially stable in a fiercely competitive local market. Perhaps overshadowing all of these new budget plans, however, is the beginning of a massive overhaul of the Mountain View hospital campus, which is expected to take a big bite out of the hospital’s reserves. Starting in the 2016-17 fiscal year, which begins next month, El Camino Hospital will be putting aside more than $200 million to start construction on a new medical office building and behavioral health services facility. The plans, which were revealed early last year, include a new seven-story 265,000-square-foot medical office building with an adjacent parking garage, to be placed near the center of the campus, as well as a new behavioral health building and an
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expansion of the existing parking structure on the north end of the campus. The construction plans are expected to alleviate parking woes on the campus by bringing 611 additional spaces — a roughly 30 percent increase. The project is estimated to cost $1.1 billion. Most of the $204 million committed to facilities for the coming fiscal year will go towards starting work on the medical office building, replacing the existing behavioral health building and expanding the Women’s Hospital, according to a hospital budget report. Construction spending is expected to heat up less than a year after the hospital wrapped up its last major capital improvement: switching to an online medical records system. In November, the hospital announced that it had gone live with its new iCare program, which cost an estimated $150 million. Iftikhar Hussain, El Camino’s chief financial officer, said the hospital’s cash on hand is roughly $695 million as of March, which is down from $700 million.
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Ending on a sour note El Camino Hospital has been in good financial shape in recent years, putting away upwards of $70 million in the 2014-15 fiscal year and $75 million the year after, beating projections and giving the hospital more leverage to plan for big facility upgrades. But this year ended on a sour note, as cost-cutting measures fell flat, the launch of iCare cost more than expected, and hospital investments ended up a money-loser. The hospital originally budgeted to end the fiscal year with about $50 million left over, but staff are now projecting that it will fall short of the goal by roughly $9 million for myriad reasons. Going live with iCare cost the hospital $4 million in additional unexpected costs, and attempts to increase efficiency in order to slice $6 million off the budget fell short. At a joint board meeting with the hospital’s finance committee, hospital board member John Zoglin said he was “nervous” about the costs per employee remaining high at the same time the hos-
pital will be hiring more staff in the next year. A hospital budget report found that the average cost per full-time employee, including salary and benefits, is expected to surpass $180,000. Hospital investments were expected to rake in an extra $18.6 million in revenue, according to the original 2015-16 budget, but are now estimated to actually lose money for the hospital. Reports from May show the hospital faced a $12.8 million loss, though Hussain said that has since decreased to just $5 million. “This was not a big year,” Hussain told the Voice. “Target earnings are lower than last year, but we hope to catch up by the end of the year.” To improve the hospital’s financial picture for the coming fiscal year, hospital staff plan to increase prices across the board by 6 percent. The hospital has kept prices close to flat — increases amounted to a fraction of a percent — until last year, when the board agreed to a 5 percent increase in prices. The second big bump in prices for
the coming year, Hussain said, is an important step towards staying competitive with other local hospitals. According to data from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, neighboring Stanford University Hospital has increased prices by anywhere from 6.9 percent to 9.6 percent each year over the last four years, averaging 7.6 percent. Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose has increased prices by an average of 8.6 percent over the same period. Between a growth in patients and the price increase, El Camino is expected to rake in an extra $22.8 million for the coming fiscal year. Hussain said that the price increases shouldn’t have a big effect on most patients covered by commercial insurance companies or government payers like Medicare. Patients who are uninsured, he said, will still have the option of using the hospital’s discount policy in order to waive costs they cannot afford to pay. When asked whether more price increases are on the way, Hussain said it depends on future trends, and the goal is to See HOSPITAL, page 17
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LinkedIn’s office plans going forward despite merger
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n big news for the local tech sector, Mountain Viewbased professional networking giant LinkedIn is being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion. The merger of the two companies is not expected to change LinkedIn’s plans to build a new landmark headquarters at the city’s North Bayshore gateway, according to a spokesman. “This acquisition will not affect our office location strategy.” said LinkedIn spokesman Stephen Lynch in an email to the Voice. “As always, we will continue to regularly evaluate our workforce strategies, including the location of our work sites and facilities.” Both companies maintain a
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always stay in the mid-range for prices in the area. Hospital board member Dennis Chiu said the price changes, as well as the big plans for facilities improvements, are both nec-
large presence in North Bayshore, but LinkedIn’s future development is seen as having major ramifications for the tech neighborhood. The company’s project — dubbed the “Shoreline Commons” — would create a 10-building campus adjacent to Highway 101 that would bring a new hotel, movie theater and commercial promenade. In recent weeks, company officials indicated they were also interested in adding housing to the project. Overall, the LinkedIn project is seen as integral to the city’s vision to transform North Bayshore into a business park with a thriving residential neighborhood. The acquisition by Microsoft was first announced early Mon-
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essary measures to keep up with “enormous” competition from other hospitals in the neighborhood. He said growth is critical if El Camino is to continue to exist at a time when the health care industry is quickly changing towards preventive care. “We have to grow or die, and
that’s why we’re investing so much more back into Mountain View and Los Gatos,” Chiu said. “We will take our cash down more than what people are used to, but that is the future where the hospital can survive.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com
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Mountain View Whisman School District will serve Seamless Summer Meals! Breakfast & Lunch are FREE Monday – Friday in the summer for ages 1-18 years old Breakfast: 7:30 am - 8:30 am • Lunch: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm •
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Las comidas serán servidas en los siguientes lugares: • Escuela primaria Theuerkauf : del 13 de junio al 22 de julio, estará cerrada el 4 de julio, 1625 San Luis Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043 • Escuela primaria Stevenson: del 13 de junio al 22 de julio, estará cerrada el 4 de julio, 750 “B” San Pierre Way, Mountain View, CA 94043 • Iglesia Metodista de la Trinidad: del 13 de junio al 5 de agosto, estará cerrada el 4 de julio, 48 Mercy Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
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be a good way to improve the trust between the public and law enforcement, and that it’s important for the supervisors to ultimately decide whether the benefits of new surveillance technology outweigh the costs. “We believe the decisions about such powerful, transformative technologies ought to be made at the very top,” Schwartz said. Sameena Usman, the government relations coordinator
for the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations, also supported the ordinance, and said the Muslim community in Santa Clara County is very concerned about the use of technology against congregants at mosques, restaurants and in their own homes. She said there needs to be a transparent process for when and how surveillance technology is going to be acquired and used, which the proposed law provides. Representatives from county law enforcement were less than thrilled about the ordinance,
and continued to oppose it in its current form at the meeting. County Sheriff Laurie Smith said she has concerns about how much paperwork would need to be done in order to adhere to the new law, and described the ordinance as “onerous” and timeconsuming. She said there may be unintended consequences if the ordinance encumbers the ability of law enforcement to adopt and use new technology to fight crime. In a letter to the board, District Attorney Jeff Rosen said he was “acutely” aware of the
dangers posed by advanced surveillance equipment, but said the law was too vague and ambiguous in defining what constitutes “surveillance technology.” Assistant District Attorney Brian Welch, who was at the meeting in place of Rosen, called it an “extremely difficult exercise” trying to include future technology in the ordinance, and that it unfortunately led to a far too broad definition of what constitutes spy tech. “As I look at it now, my assessment is that the definition of surveillance technology is so
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broad that it encompasses the use of technology that I don’t think anyone would think of as surveillance,” Welch said. Rosen also called the ordinance a fundamental misunderstanding of what role the Board of Supervisors play in criminal justice, and that it would be beyond the authority of the board to enact the legislation. The District Attorney’s Office requested an independent review of the ordinance by the law group Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai, which largely agreed with Rosen. The analysis found that while the Board of Supervisors controls the purse strings, it does not have control over how criminal investigations and prosecutions are handled. That power, according to the review, comes from the state, the courts, the sheriff and the district attorney. “We believe the proposed Ordinance extends far beyond that authority and purports to regulate the investigatory functions of the Sheriff and District Attorney,” the review states. The county’s legal counsel, however, stated at the June 7 meeting that the ordinance is legally defensible, according to attorney Rob Coelho. He said it is within the right of the supervisors to oversee budgetary items related to surveillance, as well as law enforcement as it relates to investigation and prosecution of crimes. Coelho also said that the violations of the law can amount to a misdemeanor offense, which is typical for county ordinances. How the new county-wide law will affect local police departments is still unclear. Katie Nelson, a spokeswoman for the Mountain View Police Department, said they are aware of the new ordinance and are still going over how, or if, the changes will affect the department. The department recently rolled out a new body camera policy, along with a detailed sevenpage policy on proper use of the devices, and currently have 60 officer-worn cameras in use by all patrol and traffic officers in the city. At a City Council meeting last November, Police Chief Max Bosel said the Mountain View Police Department currently does not use StingRay technology to track cellphones, but has asked federal law enforcement officials to use similar technologies to assist in detaining a suspect. The Board of Supervisors preliminarily adopted the ordinance at the June 7 meeting, and is expected to vote on the final adoption on June 21. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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A sense of connection ‘SOMETHING NEW IN SIGHT & SOUND’ OFFERS A COLLABORATIVE CONCERT EXPERIENCE by Karla Kane
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ost music lovers would agree that music is not only an auditory sensation but an emotional one as well. “Something New in Sight & Sound” seeks to celebrate that ear-heart-mind connection with an innovative, interactive blend of live music, visual art, emotional feedback and — this is Silicon Valley, after all — an app. “Something New in Sight & Sound” which will hold its debut concert at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View on June 18, is a collaboration between local musicians Justin Schrum and Hazel Keelan, who will play three works by the English composer John Ireland (1879-1962). While they perform, Caroline Mustard (of the Mobile Art Academy) will create and display digital art inspired by Ireland’s “Three Pastels.” Audience members will have an active role as well. In addition to creating their own digital art, they can use a new app, Sensemo (developed by the Menlo Park company Vtricity), to share their emotional responses to the music in real time, as well as gain some insights into the minds of the musicians. “Getting people inspired by something different, that’s the plan,” violinist Keelan said. John Ireland’s highly emotional, Impressionist compositions were a major influence on the project’s development, and pianist Schrum, who said he’s been “obsessed” by Ireland’s music for years, is eager to shed new light on the composer’s work.
Keelan, originally from the U.K., teaches with Schrum at a school in Sunnyvale and happened upon him playing an Ireland piece about a year ago. The two soon hatched collaboration plans, with Keelan especially fascinated to learn that Schrum experiences synesthesia — the phenomenon in which one type of sensory stimulation or cognitive perception leads involuntarily to another. In Schrum’s case, he senses colors with music. The two pondered what it would be like if audiences could see the colors Ireland’s music brings to Schrum’s mind. Would that forge a greater connection between the musicians and their listeners? Schrum worked with Sensemo creator Peter Ebert to program the app so that the colors displayed on the audience’s devices correspond with those Schrum experiences at certain points of the music. App users are also able to select — from a wheel of choices including “amazed,” “peaceful,” “sad” and “cold” — words that express their own emotional response to the music, as well as choose colors to add to the collective projection, and trace colored lines and shapes onto Sensemo’s Tetris-like grid (which are also visible to everyone using it). Sensemo, Ebert said, is “the world’s first instant emotionfeedback cloud.” Attendees can download and install the app upon arrival at the show. “All audiences are allowed to do at (a typical) classical concert is clap,” he said. “We would like to create an environment where they can instantly share their emotions with others, including the performers.”
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Graphic designer Lisa Martinez enjoys creating digital art while listening to live classical music. This is one example.
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Hazel Keelan and Justin Schrum rehearse for their performance in Keelan’s home.
He said it could bring up some interesting insights, such as whether getting real-time feedback from the audience changes the way the musicians play, how people from different cultural backgrounds respond differently, and how the colors Schrum perceives differ from those selected by the audience. “All these emotions become visible in the room and you can share and have conversations about it; that’s the big dream,” Ebert said. The June 18 concert will be Keelan’s first-ever recital as a soloist (she usually performs in orchestras or chamber groups), and while she’s nervous, she’s interested to find out whether the connection between her and the audience will have a positive impact on her anxiety — and her performance. “It’s way bigger than two people playing. It’s more about inspiring people, and bringing community to a project,” she said. “It’s not about how good or bad I am as a player ... the idea is that everybody gets something amazing out of it.” The team hopes to build on the project for future endeavors, including broadcasting performances via live stream (so people can listen, watch and contribute from anywhere) and exploring musical improvisation based on the colors and emotions expressed by listeners. The team has also been trying out the music and mobileart pairing by performing at
social gatherings and in classes throughout the community, with everyone from young children to senior citizens. At a recent rehearsal in Menlo Park, Keelan and Schrum played while a small group of listeners tried using an iPad sketch program and experimented with Sensemo’s features. As the music changed from a slower, placid style to a lively, joyful one, the words on the screen began to switch from “peaceful” to “anxious” and “cheerful,” transforming as they rained down from blues and purples into sunny, golden yellows. “The project started from (Schrum’s) passion for this composer and became this bigger vision of, ‘How can we bring this all together so the audience will be part of the performance in a new way, to transform what a classical concert could be like?’ We’re just, like, buzzing with excitement,” Keelan said. “Hazel inspires people to do things they wouldn’t have tried otherwise,” said Lisa Martinez, an artist and docent with the Los Altos School District who was so moved by Keelan and Schrum’s visit to an art class (taught by Mustard) that she ended up becoming the project’s graphic designer and helped coordinate workshops. She said she loves the feeling of creating visual art while absorbing music. “You can see your hand creating the brush stroke as that music ebbs and flows ... you stop worrying about what you’re cre-
ating and you just listen without thinking,” she said. And while some might feel trying to chronicle their emotions via a technical device distracts from the musical experience, Martinez said there is great value in the interactive aspects of “Something New in Sight & Sound.” “For the audience to be able to emote their feelings and see what they’re feeling up on the screen, that’s going to really generate more excitement,” she said. “Audience reaction might be stronger if they know the artists are reacting to how they feel about it.” Martinez is especially enthusiastic about inclusivity, dispelling the notion that classical music is best suited to a stuffy, formal atmosphere. “I’ve been to classical concerts where you have to shush, and you can’t bring your kids. I really feel strongly that I can bring my 8-year-old and he can be on that iPad, realizing that classical music is really amazing,” she said. “They are free to be creative, participate and, hopefully, say, ‘I like classical music and this is cool.’” V
Q I N F O R M AT I O N What: “Something New in Sight & Sound” When: Saturday, June 18, 7:30 p.m. Where: Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View Cost: Tickets are $10 adults/$5 kids and seniors. Info: Go to sightnsound.net.
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n Mountain View we love our downtown. My neighbors, family, and I enjoy walking to Castro Street, where we can select from a wide variety of delightful restaurants. When I tell elected officials elsewhere in our region that I’m from Mountain View, they rush to volunteer the name of their favorite Mountain View eating-place. But Castro Street doesn’t do so well as a thru-way. When the trains are running, traffic backs up in all directions. As Caltrain electrification and high-speed rail bring even more trains, traffic could get much, much worse. Fortunately, there is a solution that will improve traffic, enhance pedestrian and bicycle safety, and strengthen the vibrancy of our downtown. Closing Castro to auto traffic at the railroad tracks is one part of that solution. We learned a long time ago that having people delayed in traffic is a poor way to get them to try the restaurants and other retailers where they find themselves “parked.” Walking the sidewalks works better, and in this day and age many people use the internet and mobile phones to surf the landscape, picking out destinations and making reservations from the comfort of their homes or cars. Here’s my vision for re-plumbing downtown mobility:
1. Close Castro Street at the railroad grade separations that just seem like part of tracks, and connect Evelyn across Castro. If the building. We’ll need longer platforms possible, connect Evelyn to Shoreline Bou- and level boarding to accommodate the new trains. Maybe, with levard, and even run Evelyn trains and no horns, under Shoreline. Use the Guest Opinion quieter we can even create housing space freed up on the north on upper floors. side of the tracks to harbor And yes, we’ll still need parking and the shuttle buses that connect the Transit Center to the northern half of town, rout- boarding platforms. In the long run, the ing them away from the neighborhoods Transit Center could serve more than Caltrain, light rail, and the public and prithey currently disrupt. 2. Eliminate all grade crossings for vate buses. It should anchor our proposed vehicles, bikes, and pedestrians. Provide elevated link to North Bayshore, tie into a round-the-clock, well-lit, ADA-compliant Highway 85 corridor transit system, serve pathways for bikes and pedestrians under as a ride-sharing/van-pooling hub, and or over the tracks, Central Expressway, and perhaps even serve as a station on higheven Moffett Boulevard. No one should speed rail. This approach not only would save us have to walk across tracks to catch the northbound Caltrain or light rail. Let’s face money by avoiding the need to burrow a it: The Chamber of Commerce’s proposal full roadway under the tracks, but it would to continue relying on crossing gates does implement the hottest concept in transit funding: value capture. The rent or other not pass the safety test. There is an ancillary benefit to removing payments from uses that occupy the new all grade crossings. The ear-splitting train Transit Center could not only help fund the horns, which many of us hear late into the construction and operation of the center itself, but could help defray the ongoing night, would go away. 3. Finally, move the Transit Center to costs of the transit system. If we think carefully and creatively, the west, building it as a gateway at the end of Castro Street, connecting to and we can turn the challenge of impassable enhancing downtown. Now it’s simply a traffic into an opportunity to improve parking lot where one can catch a train or mobility, enhance safety, and strengthen bus. I envision a multi-level Transit Center our downtown. that includes stores, restaurants, protected Lenny Siegel is a member of the Mountain bicycle parking, bathrooms, and bike-ped View City Council.
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CONSIDER MOFFET FOR MORE HOUSING The council seems to be grasping at straws with its action to loosen restrictions on granny units to solve the housing crisis. While it is certainly helpful for retired people and others with large lots who want to build, the likelihood that they will rent to the homeless families one sees living in vehicles on Cristano Avenue and Latham Street is fairly low. As the article in last week’s Voice mentions, AirB&B is a more likely destination, since, like the landlords, they can get a better return. A solution that could help right now would be to pressure the federal government (through Rep. Anna Eshoo, who is running for re-election this year and therefore should be especially attentive) to open up the dorms at Moffett Field. These dorms are sitting there, completely empty and boarded up, while young families are forced to live in vehicles.
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Longer term, Mountain View and Sunnyvale should petition the government to dedicate some of the land at Moffett for building new urban communities, including housing. James Kempf Foxborough Drive
CONGRATS TO GRADS — ALL OF YOU Another year has gone by and our high-schoolers have closed a chapter of their life awaiting to start a new one. Every year at this time we honor those students who have put forth their best efforts to achieve academic excellence. All the 4.0’s and above, the AP scholars, the best in science, the best in literature and so on and so forth. I would like to send my warm congratulations to all those who worked hard to achieve their goal. What we fail to do every year is to congratulate those who cannot be recognized by any ordinary measures at schools. Each year many high-school-
ers go through the toughest years of their life while going through the “normal teenage turmoils” and “normal high school challenges.” Every year many students are diagnosed with chronic physical and mental illnesses including but not limited to cancer. These students push through to achieve academic excellence despite many missed days of school for doctor’s appointments, to deal with side effects of drugs or to simply understand and accept what is happening to them. There are others who go through major life events: parents’ divorces, or death of loved ones. While there are others who achieve their best despite struggling with learning disabilities. These students push through and succeed despite those challenges. They may not be our ordinary or extraordinary 4.0’s or valedictorians, but their efforts and achievements are certainly not any less. I presume, it is too difficult for schools to recognize the success of every student in every category. I realize this is a very complicated task. Here, I would like to take this time and send a warm
round of applause to those who have achieved the resilience award. You guys have done an amazing job. You all need to be proud of yourselves for overcoming the obstacles that most adults have a hard time facing and overcoming. You are a role model for your fellow classmates. Although you are not recognized by any formal means, you are seen and regarded as great examples by which most fellow students will live by. Remember that people succeed in many different ways that are equally commendable. Your success is as notable if not more than those who did not face the challenges that you did. Let’s give you another round of applause for facing the unimaginable challenges of life while going through what is considered the ordinary challenges of high school. Kudos to you all. You have won the “the most resilient award” in the eyes of many while achieving academic excellence. Good luck in the next chapter of your lives. You will do amazing things in your lives! Fojan Haeri Salehi Doyle Place
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