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I love teenagers — they’re just awesome. — Katya Villalobos, who begins as Gunn High School principal July 1. See story on page 3.
Around Town
UNDER FIRE ... Tension between the Palo Alto City Council and local firefighters flared up Tuesday night, when the council’s Finance Committee was reviewing the department’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2011. The review came just minutes after the committee recommended approval of the Police Department’s budget, which eliminates two financial-crime investigators, a member of the traffic-enforcement team and the crime analyst responsible for gathering traffic-stop demographic information. The Police Department identified further cuts in order to help the city meet its projected $7.3 million budget gap, but the committee agreed that the department has sacrificed enough and voted to restore some of its boldest proposed cuts. The committee had a harsher assessment of the Fire Department’s proposed budget, which would raise department expenditures by more than $750,000. Tony Spitaleri, president of Palo Alto Firefighters union, told the committee that the department’s command staff has already been “torn apart� by past cuts. The committee was not impressed. “I don’t think the Fire Department is stepping up to the plate like all other departments,� Councilman Larry Klein said. The committee then ordered staff to “redo� the Fire Department budget and assume in its new proposal a 4 percent reduction in employee compensation. Vice Mayor Sid Espinosa, the lone dissenter, argued that making assumptions about the firefighter contracts while the city is negotiating with the firefighters union over these contracts is a “bad way to do budget.� THAT BUZZ ALL AROUND US! ... If you’ve ever doubted the ability of small people, or things, to make a difference, well, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito, author and Web entrepreneur Arianna Huffington told a mostly female crowd of tech executives last week. Huffington addressed an awards gathering of the Palo Alto-based Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, a group aimed at promoting technical women at all levels. Honorees included
Lila Ibrahim of Palo Alto, general manager of Intel’s Emerging Markets Platform Group, and U.S. Undersecretary of Energy Kristina M. Johnson, who earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Musing on leadership, “fearlessness� and the state of the world, Huffington warned that lack of sleep and too much multi-tasking have led us astray. “Do not plug in your devices near where you’re sleeping,� she advised. “When you wake up in the middle of the night, the temptation to look at your Blackberry or your iPhone is overwhelming. You might go back to sleep, but it’s not the same.� ‘BETTY MELTZER HIGHWAY’ SIGN UNVEILING FRIDAY ... A ceremony marking the official renaming of El Camino Real in Palo Alto the “Betty Meltzer Memorial Highway� will be held Friday, May 28, at noon at the entrance to El Camino Park. The renaming is to honor her work on behalf of planting trees along the state highway, prior to her death last year. The unveiling of the new sign will complete the dedication process, which will be commemorated by several speakers. FUMIGATION ... Next year, the Main Library on Newell Road will receive a long-awaited facelift, thanks to a $76 million bond voters approved in 2008. But first, city officials will tackle a more pressing need: killing the termites infesting the popular library. This Memorial Day, a Terminix crew will set up a tent around the library and fumigate the building. The library will be closed May 28-30 and reopen June 1, following the holiday weekend. Library staff discovered the termite problem earlier this year, when they found “termite debris� falling from the ceiling in one of the library’s staff areas. In February, Terminix inspected the building and found the wood-chewing pests. During the fumigation, the library’s book drops, including the one in the parking lot, will be closed. No items will be due until after the library reopens. N