-PDBM/FXT ing it unaffordable, according to the Water District. The board also asked about enlarging the controversial flood basin set for the Cuesta Annex in Mountain View, which the community clearly opposed during a lengthy master planning process for the Annex in 2008. The school board rejected the basin despite the water district agreeing to install a new track and combination football/soccer field with artificial turf, restrooms and a storage shed. Rouhani said there was a possibility that the school board members could change their minds, and that the water district would continue to work with them. Mountain View City Council
members have approved conceptual plans for flood basins at the Cuesta Annex and McKelvey Park that would each hold the same 60-acre-feet of water volume as Blach, while Santa Clara County has supported a flood basin at Rancho San Antonio that would hold 100 acre feet. The project is funded by the Clean and Safe Creeks Act approved by voters in 2000 with the goal of protecting 1,600 properties from flood damage. It would save property owners from having to buy flood insurance and would protect homes in the event of a 100-yearflood of Permanente Creek, meaning a flood that has a one percent chance of happening every year.
Germany. He has been honored multiple times with awards from the California Association of Meat Processors. He attributes the awards to never
compromising on the quality of his ingredients. “You use the best and you can make the best,� he said. Both his son and daughter work in the family business, he said. While he has yet to sort out all of the details with the insurance company, the city and the county,
Bubert is confident that his store will reopen soon. He said the store might reopen in as little as one week, although he said it could take as long as two months to get back on track. Bay City News Service contributed to this report.
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sumed him innocent until proven guilty. Carbajal, whom Wheeler knows through various community events, coached a Mountain View soccer league for at-risk youth before he was arrested in February 2009 and charged with molesting his two younger nieces and raping the eldest. “My sense of him was that he was an up-and-coming community leader,� Wheeler said. She said she has spoken with three attorneys regarding the case, all of whom said it is unusual that Carbajal has maintained the level of community support that he has. A group of five to eight people identifying themselves as “friends and relatives� of Carbajal have sat on his side of the courtroom since the trial began on Jan. 14 .
course to maintain the landfill caused tension with a golf course operator who leased the course until 1995. The course opened in 1983. Operators will also be asked to bid on running the pro shop only, as some City Council members believe that may be enough to cut costs. To reduce costs, the city has not filled two vacancies in the pro shop
where there were five full time employees selling golf gear and offering lessons. A maintenance worker position has also been left vacant. With $4 million in expenses this year and only $3.2 million in revenues, the city-run course has run out of reserves. Without changes it may begin taking as much as $1.5 million from the general fund in June, leaving less for core city services like the library and police.
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expressed previously by Mountain View City Council members, who hoped that their support of the project’s flood basins in two Mountain View parks would encourage Los Altos to make the sacrifice as well. “Mountain View should be part of the solution, but it should not be the main solution,� said council member Laura Macias in 2007. As an alternative, Los Altos School board members said they were interested in an underground reservoir at Blach, which would cost an estimated $38 million, mak-
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