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Palo Altans have been generous with the school district over the years, approving the last three parcel taxes by wide margins. This time, with just days before ballots hit the mail, the Committee to Protect Palo Alto Schools has raised no money, according to the latest
BAD WATER: Some 67 homes in Mountain View remain under a strict “do not use” water advisory following a water main break, with water safe for consumption not expected until at least today. The homes are in the 600 block of Cuesta Drive and the 600-700 blocks of Leona Lane.
DIPLOMACY STALLS: As the U.S.-Iran conflict continues, Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi is heading to Russia for talks with Vladimir Putin after declining direct negotiations with American officials.
KING VISITS: King Charles III has arrived in Washington D.C. for a four-day trip to visit President Trump amidst strained relations between the UK and the U.S.
MJ BLOCKBUSTER: The Michael Jackson biopic “Michael” defied bad reviews to secure a record-breaking $217 million global box office opening weekend.
TEMPERATURE TAMPERING: A major investigation is underway regarding a mystery trader who allegedly tampered with a Paris weather station to profit from energyrelated market bets.
Parcel tax campaign sputters
‘Yes on B’ doesn’t have any donations
campaign finance reports. And a look around Palo Alto shows the campaign hasn’t put out any yard signs for the June 2 election.
During the last renewal campaign in 2020, the campaign had raised over $68,000 at the same point.
“It seems like the community is sour-
ing on the parcel tax,” said Todd Collins, a former board member who is opposing the renewal effort.
“The incredible drop-off in support between 2020 and 2026 is telling. With the district holding $100 million in re-
Suspect had grievances
He
Cole Allen, the teacher accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, railed against Trump administration policies and referred to himself as a “Friendly Federal Assassin” in a manifesto sent to family members minutes before the shooting.
The writings, sent shortly before shots were fired at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, repeatedly alluded to President Trump without naming him directly and cited grievances over a range of administration actions and recent events, including U.S. strikes on drug smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific, the official said.
Investigators are treating the writings, along with a trail of social media posts
SHOOTING SUSPECT — Cole Allen lies on the floor of the Washington Hilton after he was arrested for opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. At left is a DMV photo of Allen. [See SUSPECT, page 14]
City may ax 22 positions
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent
After increasing its workforce for four years in a row, the city of Palo Alto is now proposing to cut 22 positions, including librarians, planning staff and police personnel.
Fewer librarians, crossing guards
fees for the Junior Museum and Zoo, trimming the contract for school crossing guards, and reducing landscape maintenance at city properties.
liminary budget for fiscal year 2026-27, which begins July 1. The budget will now be discussed during a series of meetings, starting with the City Council meeting on May 4. Council will then vote on the budget on June 15.
The proposed budget for the next fiscal year includes other belt-tightening measures, such as raising admission
The proposals are in the city’s pre-
The proposed budget of $1.05 billion is a $19.3 million increase from this year’s budget, or a 1.9% increase. But the
[See AX, page 15] MONDAY, April 27, 2026
Former deputy on trial
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
A former San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office deputy is on trial for beating a stranger up in a bar, a prosecutor said yesterday.
Nicholas Maier, 33, now a deputy in Idaho, is charged for knocking a man unconscious after questioning his military service, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
Military service questioned
Maier, who worked for the sheriff’s office at the time, was at the Saddle Room bar at Woodside with fellow Deputy Sheriff Zachary Felise on Sept. 14, 2021, when they started a conversation with two strangers.
Joseph Miller and his ex-girlfriend spoke with Maier until around 2 a.m., close to closing time, Wagstaffe said. Miller and Maier were having friendly banter about what deputies do, until Maier started questioning Miller, suggesting he was a “fake” Marine, the DA said.
The fight begins
Miller got up to use the bathroom, and Maier grabbed him by the throat and tried to force him out of the bar, according to Wagstaffe. Miller resisted, and Felise helped Maier push him outside, where Maier started punching Miller in the face, Wagstaffe said.
Felise also jumped in, and both knocked Miller unconscious, and
the right side of his face was severely injured, Wagstaffe said. Miller’s eye was swollen shut, and he could not open his mouth fully. Other deputies came to the bar, but Miller downplayed the incident because he was scared it would hurt his chances for an upcoming promotion and refused medical attention, Wagstaffe said.
The sheriff’s office conducted an investigation into the incident, and Felise was placed on leave, according to Wagstaffe. Felise was able to go back to work in 2022, Wagstaffe said.
Maier is out of jail on his own recognizance.
The trial is set to continue today at 9 a.m. in San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City.
Stanford settles water dispute
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
Stanford and Valley Water have reached a settlement in their sevenyear battle over whether the university should have to pay to use the groundwater underneath its campus.
Stanford will pay for the groundwater but get credit for water that collects in Lake Lagunita and seeps through the soil.
Valley Water will refund Stanford $83,935 for replenishing 57.3
million gallons of groundwater in the last two years, according to a settlement agreement obtained by the Post.
Stanford and Valley Water have been fighting over bills since 2019, when Valley Water raised its rates for groundwater pumped from wells.
$80,000 water bills
Stanford uses wells to supplement its main supply from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir system,
and bills have averaged around $80,000 per month.
Stanford’s Senior Director of Water Resources Tom Zigterman said in a claim that Stanford replenishes its groundwater through its on-campus reservoir and shouldn’t be charged.
But Valley Water attorney Andrew Gschwind said a study showed Stanford’s wells have drawn on the groundwater basin 10 miles to the south.
The agreement lasts 10 years.
Births
Readers
the information at a delay. All births and deaths are public record under state law.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto:
Sept. 5
Kazim Abdulqadir Auwal, a boy
Marcos Adrian Cux Chajon, a boy
Amelia Rose Frechman, a girl
Anthony Edward Frechman, a boy
Mateo Aldahir Gonzalez Vasquez, a boy
Sept. 4
Eleanor Elise Araiza, a girl
Genesis Daniela Bravo Vasquez, a girl
Benicio Da Costa Mendonca, a boy
Aug.us Chen Du, a boy
Wisdom Daviano Etu, a boy
Myla Alessandra Gardner, a girl
Elias Emrien Mendoza, a boy
Joel Lizhi Morency, a boy
Ilyas Aderemi Leo Owolabi, a boy
Abisaid Sanchez Manrriquez, a boy
Carlo Serrano, a boy
Cadence Reed Staresnick, a boy
Owen Nguyen Tran, a boy
Zaraya Consuelo Velazquez, a girl
Freya Hongfei Yan, a girl
Sept. 3
Kiana Aleesi Bet Guerrero, a girl
Emilio Damian Chavez Brambila, a boy
Eli Long Chen, a boy
Jett Ghimire, a boy
Selaima Mafi Lihau, a girl
Prescott Jackson Hudak Matagrano, a boy
Leo Alexander Musicalvarado, a boy
Celestia Aurora Nguyen Pham, a girl
Elias Afnan Rabbani, a boy
Emma Rios Juarez, a girl
Shawn Francisco Valdez, a boy
Mililani Carmil Wolfgramm, a girl
Sept. 2
Julianny Alana Mockson, a girl
Charlie James Morales, a boy
Johnny Josiah Mouton Mendoza, a boy
Maria Del Carmen Paz Julio, a girl
Emily Itzel Saavedra Garcia, a girl
Vivienne Lee Stanford, a girl
Madison Yohana Vasquez Lopez, a girl
Iris Helena Yuen, a girl
Opinion
City may strike blow to a free press Council to
Politicians like to say they support a free press. We’ll find out tomorrow night if anybody on the Menlo Park City Council actually believes in the First Amendment.
Council will vote on a list of new and increased fees, and slipped into the 245page document is a requirement that newspapers pay $373 for each rack. For a paper with 25 racks, that would be a $9,325 hit.
Renewing a permit would cost $233 per year for each rack.
If a newspaper wanted to dispute these fees, the city would charge it $373.
Put another way, Menlo Park wants to start charging people to exercise
Newspapers needed
Dear Editor: Since 2005, roughly one-third of all U.S. newspapers have closed. Does the Menlo Park City Council want to drive our local papers out of business by charging them for distribution racks?
In a world where fake news and media bias makes it challenging to learn the truth, we’re lucky to have many local news sources.
Menlo Park should not balance its budget on the backs of newspapers that are struggling to stay alive. We need them today more than ever.
Pat Marriott Los Altos
vote on fees for news racks
their constitutional rights. How long before the city slaps a tax on people who want to exercise their right to free speech, or to peaceably assemble?
The council is looking to impose this news rack fee, along with hundreds of other new fees or increases, because the state has reduced how much car tax money the city gets.
If the city needs to save some money, it could eliminate its “public engagement manager,” Kendra Calvert, who made $156,923 in 2024, according to the government salary tracking website Transparent California. With benefits, her compensation was $250,325.
That’s a lot of money for a PR person.
Cutting her job would result in a
savings much greater than the revenue the city would get from news rack fees.
But city governments rarely look at saving money — they focus on raising taxes and fees.
The city calls this a “fee for service,” but the city won’t be providing any service to newspapers. The newspa-
LETTERS
Parking plaza measure
Dear Editor: The Los Altos community and our neighbors value the character of our town. There is an overwhelming desire for a resident vote on changes to our downtown parking plazas. A defining characteristic and a critical function of the town, the parking plazas are worthy of having a safeguard.
Some have raised concerns that the proposed parking plazas ordinance voter initiative could jeopardize the city’s state-certified Housing Element or expose Los Altos to “Builder’s Remedy” under state housing law. The facts don’t support those fears.
The Housing Element is valid until 2031 and cannot be revoked by the initiative. And Los Altos is protected from Builder’s Remedy. That surplus also means that giving voters a say about the use of our parking plazas will not trigger “no net loss” provisions or force upzoning in residential neighborhoods.
The initiative preserves flexibility for affordable housing. Parking Plazas 7 and 8 are exempted from the measure’s voter approval requirement, allowing for affordable housing development.
The ballot initiative simply ensures that any major change in use or any proposal to sell our downtown public
pers purchase and maintain the news racks. The newspaper is available to readers at no charge. Yet the city wants to charge us for providing a free product. Can you tax something that’s free?
If approved on Tuesday, Menlo Park would become the first Mid-Peninsula city to charge such a fee.
Local newspapers are typically small businesses. These fees are prohibitive. They’ll make a paper consider the idea of dropping distribution and news coverage in Menlo Park. After all, newspapers usually don’t have to pay a fee to exercise their First Amendment rights. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.
If council members really support a free press, they should drop these fees.
Editor Dave Price’s column appears on Mondays.
parking plazas goes to a community vote. It gives the city leeway to maintain and improve the parking plazas for parking. It does not prevent any projects from happening.
A signature on the petition puts the question on the November ballot: To vote or not to vote on future uses of our downtown public parking plazas?
Driven by the all-volunteer, all Los Altos residents group For Los Altos, petition details and signing locations can be found at forlosaltos.org.
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Police see more e-bike violations
BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
Palo Alto police are seeing an uptick in student e-bike riders violating traffic laws, and not stopping when officers approach them, according to police Lt. Kara Apple.
Apple made the observation Thursday during the Palo Alto Unified School District and City Council’s joint committee meeting, where members discussed how to encourage student e-bike safety and awareness.
E-bikes and e-motos, or electronic motorcycles, are becoming popular modes of transportation in Palo Alto and there are a “high proportion” of motorized devices parked at Gunn and Palo Alto high
schools, according to Ria Hutabarat Lo, the city’s chief transportation official.
In March, there were six collisions across different PAUSD campuses involving e-bikes and e-motos, with one resulting in major injuries, according to Apple.
To address e-bike safety, Hutabarat Lo said the school district should consider an on-campus ban. She also suggested more enforcement on school campuses and more education about the dangers of e-bikes for parents and students.
Acting Superintendent Herb Espiritu said the district is looking at educating students and families about the laws pertaining to e-bikes.
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Hearings planned to rename school
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
The Ravenswood School Board will ask students and residents which names it should consider for the renaming of Cesar Chavez Ravenswood Middle School.
The board on Thursday reviewed a lengthy process to rename the school at 2450 Ralmar Ave. after reports that its namesake, Cesar Chavez, had raped and sexually abused women when he led the farm workers unionization movement.
People will get a chance to propose names during eight meetings, according to Superintendent Gina Sudaria.
Between May 29 and June 5, the district will whittle down the list of names. From June 5 to 12, people can submit their favorite name.
The board will hold two meetings in June to consider the proposed names and vote.
“If calling something a name that is potentially inappropriate or demeaning, I think the sooner we can get rid of it,
the better,” Board President Tamara Sobomehin said.
Sudaria said it was hard to find time to consider new names because there are many end-of-school events.
Board member Jenny Bloom said that if the board were to speed up the process, it wouldn’t have enough time to conduct community outreach.
“I would hate for us to go through this whole process and then people say that we still didn’t do enough,” board member Samuel Tavera said.
The board is also renaming Costano Elementary School after Edwin Magana-Lopez, an archaeologist at Stanford. But some say the word “costano” is offensive to the Ohlone tribe.
The process of renaming the elementary school will begin after students from The Primary School settle in, Sudaria said.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, decided to close The Primary School, forcing over 400 students to find a new school. Most of those students will end up in the Ravenswood City School District.
Unusual Flock searches prompt an investigation
Police in the Denver suburb of Thornton are looking into allegations that somebody in their department did 20,000 searches on license plate data stored on their Flock system, with only 29 tied to case numbers.
If true, the allegations might suggest a police officer was checking the backgrounds of people who weren’t part of police investigations.
The request for the investigation was sent to the police from a local group, Thornton for All, which has been calling for changes to the city’s automated-license plate reading system.
Across the country, cities have turned off their Flock cameras out of concern that they were being used by federal immigration agents to track illegal foreign nationals.
Jacob Wilson of Thornton for All said he became suspicious when he checked the third-party website Have I Been Flocked, which compiles public records of Flock data audits from Flock’s national camera network, according to KUSA-TV in Denver. The website showed an unusual number of searches by a Thornton police officer identified only as “D. McT.”
Men more likely to die of a broken heart
Men are more than twice as likely than women to die from a condition known as “broken heart syndrome,” according to a new study from the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA).
Broken heart syndrome, formally called takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is a heart condition that is brought on by physical or emotional stress, which can mimic the symptoms of a heart attack, such as sudden chest pains or shortness of breath.
Large study
The study from JAHA analyzed data from 200,000 adults in the U.S. who were hospitalized with broken heart syndrome from 2016 to 2020. In that
group, around 11% of men died from the condition compared to roughly 5% of women dying.
NewsNation reports that researchers said the difference in outcomes between men and women could likely have something to do with what triggers the condition.
Cause of syndrome
In men, broken heart syndrome is usually brought on by a physical stressor such as a stroke or a surgery, while in women, it’s likely triggered more by emotional stressors such as losing a loved one. The study also suggested men may have a harder time recovering since they tend to have a lack of social support to help them manage stress.
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Real Estate
The Post prints the latest real estate transactions.
PALO ALTO
1042 Cowper St., 94301, 6 bedrooms, 4490 square feet, built in 2004, Leslie and Sean Doherty to California Sunshine Trust for $9,250,000, closed March 26 (last sale: $5,750,000, 09-02-16)
161 Lowell Ave., 94301, 5 bedrooms, 4529 square feet, built in 1987, Juliana Sonneveld to Cristina and Jason Toff for $11,550,500, closed March 23 (last sale: $6,375,000, 04-20-17)
4159 El Camino Way #E, 94306, 2 bedrooms, 1310 square feet, built in 1987, Yusheng Li to Sahej and Fateh Singh for $1,050,000, closed March 25 (last sale: $855,000, 04-24-14)
430 Jacobs Court, 94306, 3 bedrooms, 1439 square feet, built in 1993, Gomez-Schumacher Family Trust to Minlan and Jeffery Wu for $2,100,000, closed March 26 (last sale:
$1,700,000, 04-15-16)
1108 Juana Court, 94303, 3 bedrooms, 1770 square feet, built in 2025, Summerhill West Bayshore LLC to Aditya and Jingwen Bian for $2,268,000, closed March 27
MENLO PARK
2445 Sharon Oaks Drive, 94025, 2 bedrooms, 1700 square feet, built in 1972, Massoudi Living Trust to Ramamurthy Shankar Trust for
$1,440,000, closed March 9 (last sale: $701,000, 0405-04)
1277 Laurel St. #4, 94025, 4 bedrooms, 1884 square feet, built in 2016, Leland Stanford Junior University Trust to Dong and Suzie Noh for $1,475,000, closed March 11 (last sale: $1,625,000, 07-23-25)
642 14th Ave., 94025, 2 bedrooms, 1180 square feet, built in 1955, Marchand Trust to Josipa and Antonio Bencun for $1,785,000, closed March 12
LOS ALTOS
1941 Deodara Drive, 94024, 5 bedrooms, 3189 square feet, built in 1964, Moturi Trust to Shweta and Rajeet Chatterjee for $4,700,000, closed March 23 (last sale: $2,240,000, 06-18-13)
613 Paco Drive, 94024, 3 bedrooms, 1157 square feet, built in 1939, White Living Trust to Mingjie Jiang for $5,108,000, closed March 26
439 Valencia Drive, 94022, 4 bedrooms, 2212 square feet, built in 1957, Yee and Lau Family Trust to Zhuang and Shi Family Trust for $5,250,000, closed March 25 (last sale: $1,170,000, 06-11-01)
780 South El Monte Ave., 94022, 5 bedrooms, 4316 square feet, built in 2008, Innovation Excellence Trust to Akanksha and Mohit Garg
for $6,000,000, closed March 23
REDWOOD CITY
1741 Connecticut Drive, 94061, 4 bedrooms, 2970 square feet, built in 2021, Hengky Kurniawan to Sigal Family Trust for $3,700,000, closed March 10 (last sale: $2,975,000, 08-30-21)
76 Liberty Hall Lane, 94062, 4 bedrooms, 3295 square feet, built in 2017, Bercovici Family Trust to Su and Joo Hwang for $4,345,000, closed March 13 (last sale: $3,000,000, 09-11-17)
SAN CARLOS
3387 Brittan Ave. #2, 94070, 2 bedrooms, 1040 square feet, built in 1973, Beeger-Kanner Trust to Julie and Joshua Bedell for $724,000, closed March 13
793 Elm St. #17, 94070, 2 bedrooms, 1539 square feet, built in 1982, Scherba Trust to Gary Lee for $1,357,000, closed March 9 (last sale: $537,500, 0818-03)
1015 Cherry St., 94070, 3 bedrooms, 1050 square feet, built in 1940, Michael Alcantara to Ariana and Brian Kent for $1,850,000, closed March 10 (last sale: $1,435,000, 04-30-19)
2024 Eaton Ave., 94070, 3 bedrooms, 1560 square feet, built in 1941, Fan Wang to Shuang and Runze Li for $2,610,000, closed March 9 (last sale: $2,088,000, 09-02-20)
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PALO ALTO
TUESDAY
4:43 p.m. — Richard Benjamin Villicana, 53, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 100 block of University Ave.
7:36 p.m. — Rickey Lee Albin, 78, transient, arrested on a warrant, Stanford Hospital.
WEDNESDAY
9:25 a.m. — Grand theft, 200 block of Pasteur Drive.
11:38 a.m. — Larry Miller, 54, transient, arrested for public drunkenness, University Ave. and Emerson St.
11:40 a.m. — Vandalism, 100 block of El Camino.
5:59 p.m. — Nancy Dinh, 34, of Palo Alto, arrested for domestic violence, Waverley St.
11:30 p.m. — Jeffery Damien Vasquez, 25, of Fresno, arrested for violation of a court order and on a warrant, 500 block of Sand Hill Road.
4:02 p.m. — Bicycle stolen, 300 block of Campus Drive.
MOUNTAIN VIEW
APRIL 18
12:36 a.m. — Daveon Wimberly, 27, transient, arrested for trespassing and battery against police at Mountain View Police Dept., 1000 Villa St.
8:45 a.m. — Disturbance at Crestview Hotel, 901 E. El Camino. John Martinez, 50, of Mountain View, arrested for obstructing police.
12:42 p.m. — Christian Rios, 26, of Redwood City, arrested on a warrant, 300 block of Escuela Ave.
5:15 p.m. — Trespasser reported at the library, 585 Franklin St.
6:19 p.m. — Asia Holliday, 38, transient, arrested for theft at Target, 555 Showers Drive.
9:53 p.m. — Theft at St. Athanasius Church, 160 N. Rengstorff Ave.
APRIL 19
12:29 a.m. — Gerard Pulido, 31, of Morgan Hill, and Teddie Fox, 37, of Santa Clara, both arrested by Mountain View police for robbery, drug possession and conspiracy to commit a crime, 3000 block of Fresno St. in Santa Clara.
8:09 a.m. — Burglary at Erik’s Deli, 1350 Grant Road.
10:55 a.m. — Battery, 300 block of Castro St.
11:52 a.m. — Battery, 400 block of Castro St.
12:56 p.m. — Grand theft at In N Out, 1159 N. Rengstorff Ave.
2:42 p.m. — Kenneth Jensen, 58, of Mountain View, arrested for violation of a court order, 700 block of W. Dana St.
3:27 p.m. — Person reported to be brandishing a weapon, Rengstorff Park.
4:23 p.m. — Home burglary, 1900 block of Golden Way.
7:59 p.m. — Theft at Goodwill, 855 E. El Camino.
10:26 p.m. — Theft at Safeway, 580 N. Rengstorff Ave.
TIME FOR A NEW FLAME?
ATHERTON
FRIDAY
3:14 p.m. — Phone stolen, 1000 block of El Camino.
5:52 p.m. — Vehicle accident causes minor injuries, Marsh and Middlefield roads.
SATURDAY
5:56 p.m. — Identity theft, 200 block of Park Lane.
NORTH FAIR OAKS
WEDNESDAY
5:35 p.m. — Atilano Perez Fulgencio, 48, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Fifth Ave. and Spring St.
REDWOOD CITY
THURSDAY
Time not given — Chelsea Rachelle Mijares, 36, cited for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, Manzanita St. and Middlefield Road. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies. 12:50 a.m. — Eric Giovanni Belan, 35, arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and falsely identifying himself to police, Hancock and Laurel streets. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
2:06 a.m. — Orlando Nava Romero, 32, arrested for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia and on warrants, Chestnut St. and Bay Road. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
3:48 a.m. — Jose Mauricio Aboytes Mosqueda, 57, cited on a warrant, Broadway and Warrington Ave. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
7:24 a.m. — Dump truck stolen, Manzanita St.
8:34 a.m. — Burglary at a business, El Camino.
10:01 a.m. — Two-vehicle collision, Jefferson Ave.
12:56 p.m. — Fired employee comes into a business, asks for money and then starts yelling at people, 3000 block of Spring St. Romer Rolando Rojas Davila, 38, arrested for being under the influence of drugs and obstructing police.
3:37 p.m. — Medications stolen, Blomquist St.
4:12 p.m. — Man grabs money out of a tip jar and runs away, Broadway.
8:31 p.m. — Janessa Denise Silva, 22, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, El Camino and Laurel St. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
BELMONT
FRIDAY
7:49 p.m. — Noninjury hitand-run, 1100 block of Shoreway Road.
SATURDAY
11:19 p.m. — Traffic
collision causes minor injuries, Buena Vista Ave. and Cipriani Blvd.
CHP
From the Redwood City office of the CHP, which covers the Mid-Peninsula.
APRIL 18
Cristian A. Madriz Gonzalez, 18, arrested for DUI.
Bryan A. Pacheco Quinatnilla, 20, arrested for DUI. Jason D. Paucar, 26, arrested for DUI.
APRIL 19
Julien A. Henderson, 25, arrested for DUI.
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Collins and fellow former board member Ken Dauber said they are running a barebones opposition campaign. They have intentionally done no fundraising, having spent just $30 to set up a website, www. no-on-B.org, Collins said.
“As former board members,” said Dauber, “we know what a healthy, community-backed campaign looks like. What we are seeing now is a historic lack of enthusiasm from the very people — parents and donors — who usually provide the backbone of school support.”
‘Yes’ campaign has pledges
Sarah Cornwell, a leader of the “yes” campaign, said several donors have pledged funds that will show up in the campaign’s next finance report.
“Lawn signs will be going up as soon as we ramp up our campaign before voters start receiving ballots in about 10 days,” Cornwell told the Post.
She said the “yes” campaign is a grassroots effort which has strong support from parents and teachers.
According to Collins, who co-chaired the 2020 renewal campaign, almost 300 signs were in place two weeks before ballots arrived six years ago.
“At this point, there don’t appear to be any lawn signs supporting the renewal,” he said.
Need for tax questioned
Dauber and Collins said they’re opposing the renewal because there doesn’t appear to be a need for the tax.
“With enrollment down by 20% and funding per student doubling in the last 10 years, we really don’t need the parcel tax any more,” said Dauber.
Dauber said that donors are looking at the district’s record-high $100 million reserves and 20% enroll-
ment decline and concluding that the “financial crisis” narrative simply doesn’t match the math.
“It was a critical tool 10 or 20 years ago, when enrollment was rising and property tax funding was lower,” he said. “But things have changed dramatically, and the district no longer has a gap to fill to maintain its excellence — as shown by the $100 million in reserves.”
The school board says it has responded to criticism that the tax is too high by lowering it from roughly $941 per parcel to $800, and freezing that amount for four years. But they say that if the $800 tax isn’t approved, the district will be forced to layoff teachers and increase class sizes.
While the two sides disagree over how much support there is for a parcel tax this year, the district’s voters have routinely approved such taxes in the past.
• In June 2005, voters approved a $465-per-parcel tax with 73% of the vote.
• In May 2010, voters approved a $589-per-parcel tax with 79% of the vote.
• In May 2015, voters approved a $758-per-parcel tax with 77% of the vote.
• And in November 2020, voters approved a $836-per-parcel tax with 77% of the vote.
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and interviews with family members, as some of the clearest evidence yet of the suspect’s mindset and possible motives.
Authorities also uncovered what the official described as numerous anti-Trump social media posts linked to Allen, a 31-year-old Torrance, Calif., man accused of trying to breach a security checkpoint at the dinner while armed with multiple weapons.
Allen’s brother contacted police in New London, Connecticut, after receiving the manifesto.
Federal agents have interviewed Allen’s sister in Maryland, who told investigators her brother had legally purchased several weapons from a California
gun store and stored them at their parents’ home in Torrance without their knowledge, according to the official.
Radical statements
She described her brother as prone to making radical statements, the official said.
Allen legally bought a .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol in October 2023 and a 12-gauge shotgun two years later.
Allen is believed to have traveled by train from California to Chicago and then onto Washington, where he checked himself in as a guest at the hotel days earlier where the gala dinner was held with its typically tight security, said acting attorney general Todd Blanche. He is believed to have acted alone and is set to face criminal charges today.
Law enforcement officials who have interviewed Allen’s relatives and examined the gunman’s electronic devices and his writings preliminarily believe he intended to target administration members in attendance at the dinner. He attempted to charge into the cavernous ballroom at the Washington Hilton but was tackled to the ground in a violent scene that resulted in shots being fired, Trump being hurried off the stage unharmed and guests ducking for cover beneath their tables.
“It does appear that he did in fact set out to target folks who work in the administration, likely including the president,” Blanche said.
Tutor and video game developer
Social media posts that appear to match the suspect show he is a highly educated tutor and amateur video game developer.
As a tutor, he received a “Teacher of the Month” award from his employers, and a photo of him in connection to the award is displayed on his social media.
A picture on social media shows him in a cap and gown after graduating with a master’s degree in computer science from California State University,
Three arrested in restaurant fight
San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies arrested three men early yesterday following reports of a fight at Mariscos El Sanignacense at 2561 Middlefield Road in North Fair Oaks.
Shortly before 2 a.m., deputies were dispatched to the restaurant for a report of a stabbing.
Deputies found three men suffering from lacerations and puncture wounds. Two additional victims were later found at a hospital, and they are said to be in stable condition.
The sheriff’s department said the three men who were arrested are Claudio FajardoGomez, 37, Kevin LopezLima, 29, and Nixon PerezMorales, 30.
Dominguez Hills. Allen earned a bachelor’s degree in 2017 in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He listed his involvement there in a Christian student fellowship and a campus group that battled with Nerf guns.
A local ABC station in Los Angeles included an interview with Allen during his senior year of college as part of a story about new technologies to help people as they age. He had developed a prototype for a new type of emergency brake for wheelchairs.
Donated to Kamala Harris campaign
Allen contributed $25 to a Democratic Party political action committee in support of Kamala Harris for president in 2024, according to federal campaign finance records.
Trump was unusually conciliatory after what he saw as a third attempt on his life in less than two years. He suggested that his personal politics had made him a repeated target, but he also called for unity and bipartisan healing in an increasingly violent world.
city’s general fund — which covers day-to-day services — is facing a $17 million deficit partly due to reduced sales tax revenue and property tax revenue growing more slowly than expected.
At the same time, the city is facing new expenses. Those include hiring professional safety monitors to watch the city’s four railroad crossings 24 hours a day in an effort to reduce suicides. The Palo Alto Unified School District will share the $1.7 million annual cost.
Another expense is for managing the number of people living in RVs and parking on city streets.
The city had been adding back jobs and restoring city services after cutting the equivalent of 103 fulltime positions during the pandemic. In this fiscal year, the number of budgeted positions was the equivalent of 1,110 full-time workers, an increase of 18 positions from the previous year.
With the 22 positions cut from next year’s budget, the workforce would drop to 1,088.
Cuts proposed for libraries
Among the cuts proposed in the budget for the next fiscal year are a senior librarian and a library associate position, and the conversion of two other full-time library positions to part-time. The changes would save the city $444,738.
Those changes would mean the children’s library would be open only five days a week instead of six.
The proposed budget would also cut the libraries’ yearly budget for adding new materials by $125,000.
Fire department budget cuts
In the fire department, the city would freeze a firefighter trainee position, saving $176,716. The freeze means the position could be brought back when money is available.
The trainee position is the last one in the department’s hire-ahead program. Without a pipeline of trainees, the department could end up short-staffed, increasing the risk of firefighter burnout and injuries, the budget said.
Another proposal is to postpone until 2029 the purchase of an electric fire engine and to buy a diesel fire engine instead. The $1.3 million savings would be spread out over two years.
The city would also cancel its contract for fire hydrant maintenance, which the utilities department would handle instead, saving $79,000.
One less community service officer
In the police department, the budget calls for cutting one of five community service officer positions, saving $129,074. The officers’ duties include ticketing parked cars and RVs, directing traffic at accident scenes, and taking police reports.
The city would freeze a “special operations” sergeant position, responsible for overseeing security for city and Stanford events, protests, and dignitary visits. The sergeant also works with other agencies in responding to terrorism threats. The 13 remaining sergeants would pick up those responsibilities “based on availability,” the proposed budget said.
Fewer crossing guards
The city would also reduce its contract for crossing guards to work at 29 instead of 33 locations, saving $102,500. One of the locations eyed for elimination is near an elementary school.
The budgets for radio maintenance and uniform replacement would also be reduced.
In the planning and development services department, the budget would cut two full-time planners and a part-timer.
‘Business vibrancy’ takes a hit
“These reductions will result in longer planning application review timelines, and may negatively impact the pace of council priorities, such as ‘enhancing business vibrancy,’ and decrease customer satisfaction,” the proposed budget said.
Meanwhile, two administrative jobs would be switched to planning coordinator positions to improve customer service in development services.
Mother’s Day Brunch at Crowne Plaza Palo Alto
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the Los Altos Kiwanis Pet Parade is a celebration that brings out the community and their pets every year. Hundreds of kids, adults and their pets; dogs, cats, birds, chickens, turtles and even worms will be participating, while a thousand or more parents and other community members watch and cheer the marchers on. For more information on how to participate in the Los Altos Kiwanis Pet Parade, please visit the Los Altos Kiwanis website at www.LosAltosKiwanis.org. Alternatively, if you wish to volunteer, please email them at info@ losaltoskiwanis.org or call (650) 735-1552.
Day gift? Check out their Spring flower collection featuring Michael Aram tabletop pieces and Annabel Aram Wildflower jewelry. Owner Belinda Chung said that they have loyal customers whose children shopped there three decades ago and are now parents themselves. Their friendly and knowledgeable staff can help you select personal and office gifts. They provide free gift wrapping. Packing and shipping are available. BK
State St. in Downtown Los Altos.
THE 79TH LOS ALTOS KIWANIS PET PARADE WILL BE taking place Saturday, May 16th. A beloved community tradition since 1947,
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