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icon Valley to build a two-theatre, 40,000-square-foot performing arts Palo Alto City Council on Monday center at 4000 Middlefield Road. But council members are also planmay sign an agreement with TheaterWorks for a new theatre at Cubberley ning to review results from a poll that Community Center, but residents don’t ran from Jan. 5 to 12, which shows only seem likely to approve a new tax for a 48% of voters support either a parcel rebuild of the dilapidated community tax or general sales tax to fund such updates. A parcel tax needs a simple a center, new polling data shows. Council may formally recognize two-thirds vote to pass, while a general an agreement with TheatreWorks Sil- sales tax needs a simple majority. BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
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The poll was conducted by Fairbank, Maslin, Metz & Associates (FM3),a market research firm. In a report to the council, FM3 said Palo Alto may want to consider waiting until 2028 to push for a tax or bond to give the city more time to generate support. In a November 2025 poll about Cubberley updates, 55% of respondents said they saw at least “some need” for additional funding to improve the facil-
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Palo Alto High School junior Summer Devi Mehta had a seemingly endless list of activities she loved to do: from listening to hip hop music, and performing in local plays, to playing Minecraft and learning how to do her makeup. What she loved most of all, was making people in her life happy. But as a transgender girl who struggled with depression and worried about how people would treat her, Summer wasn’t always convinced she could do that, her family said in an online remembrance of the 17-year-old. On Tuesday, Summer died by suicide. She was identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner as the 17-year-old who was hit and killed by a Caltrain that day at Churchill Avenue. Before the incident Summer had written a letter, her family said, saying she hoped her [See TEEN, page 18]
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