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Cop wouldn’t

Former San Mateo County Sheriff’s Capt. Brian Philip, who quit instead of arresting the deputies’ union president, told a courtroom what happened the day he handed in his badge and gun, ending his law enforcement career.

Philip testified under oath before hearing officer retired Judge James Emerson on Friday

FIGHTING CRIME: President Trump, after using the National Guard to reduce crime in Washington, D.C., says he may take the same approach in Chicago, New York and Baltimore. Democratic politicians in those cities are pushing back.

DEI CUT: The Supreme Court says the Trump administration can slash $783 million worth of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) funding at the National Institutes of Health. The decision marks the latest Supreme Court win for Trump and allows the administration to forge ahead with canceling hundreds of grants.

FATAL CRASH: A truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida has been denied bond. Harjinder Singh was able to obtain his driver license in California even though he was in the United States illegally, according to the Trump administration.

CALISTOGA WILDFIRE: A fire northwest of Calistoga has grown to about 6,800 acres. The blaze appears to have slowed and evacuation orders

[See THE UPDATE, page 4]

in the removal proceedings of his former boss, Sheriff Christina Corpus.

Philip, a longtime Palo Alto officer, joined the sheriff’s office in 2023. Philip said on Nov.

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12, 2024, Capt. Bill Fogerty called Philip and told him he was going to pick him up for a meeting with Undersheriff Dan Perea. Fogerty also told Philip to bring his body camera.

When the two got to Perea’s office, Perea closed the door, turned on a white noise machine that eliminates the possibility of eavesdropping, and said to “sit down, it’s going to be one of

[See SHERIFF, page 18]

Three generations of Toths share the same birthday

A family is celebrating the birth of their newborn son at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto on a special day — Aug. 20, the same date that both his dad and grandfather were born.

Two generations sharing a birthday was already special for the Toth family, and making it three generations was something the nurses were cheering on.

“It was always something that made me feel close to my dad,” new dad Russell Toth

[See ODDS, page 18]

5-story housing complex approved

The Belmont Planning Commission has approved a five-story, 140-unit apartment building at 580 Masonic Way, despite concerns about increased traffic and the loss of neighborhood businesses. The commission voted 5-1 last week to approve the plan from Prometheus Real Estate Group.

Will result in a loss of local businesses

The 60-foot-tall apartment building will be on a block bounded by Masonic and Wessex ways and Granada and Hiller streets. It is in the Sterling Downs neighborhood in east Belmont,

near the Ralston Avenue interchange with Highway 101.

The building will replace a shopping center that has been home to businesses including an Indian restaurant and a preschool.

Because of state laws aimed at increasing housing production in California, the developer was able to double

[See HOUSING, page 18]

Russell Toth holding Riley Toth.
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Locally owned, independent

Bird Bath SALE

Santa Clara County has spent $450,000 defending District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s decisions to fire a prosecutor twice — decisions that were reversed both times, resulting in lawsuits and the prosecutor getting paid to stay at home.

Rosen asked the county to hire attorney Jonathan Holtzman and his firm, Renne Public Law Group, for $50,000 on Dec. 8, 2022, according to records obtained by the Post using the California Public Records Act.

Rosen said he needed help from an outside attorney because of a “potential conflict between the county’s interests and the DA’s interests based on the DA’s constitutional and statutory authority.”

The contract with Holtzman has been extended four times since then to reach $450,000 through June 30, 2026. Holtzman has increased his fee from $495 to $525 per hour, the contract said.

Getting tough on crime

Holtzman is defending Rosen against Deputy District Attorney Daniel Chung, who has sued Rosen three times and is running against him in next year’s election on a platform of being tougher on crime.

The feud between Rosen and Chung goes back to February 2021, when Chung published an opinion piece that criticized “progressive prosecutors” in the wake of several hate crimes against Asians.

Rosen, 57, of Los Altos, suspended

Chung for two weeks, but an arbitrator later reduced the suspension to one week.

In May 2021, Chung went to a Red Cross center where the families of mass shooting victims were gathered, but he didn’t get Rosen’s permission first.

So Rosen had Chung escorted out of the office and fired. But Arbitrator Paul Roose reduced the punishment to a 30-day suspension.

After Roose’s decision, Rosen gave Chung his $7,000 paycheck every two weeks but banned Chung from coming to work.

Chung ran against Rosen in 2022 and used his candidacy as a platform to criticize Rosen. He claimed prosecutors slept with witnesses, used campaign funds to reimburse non-campaign costs and withheld evidence in serious criminal cases.

Chosen or frozen

Chung said there was a saying in the office: “If you’re not one of Rosen’s chosen, you’re going to be frozen.”

At a debate in San Jose, Chung accused Rosen of tripping him behind the podium.

Chung received 79,378 votes to Rosen’s 181,851, and Rosen was elected to his fourth term.

Chung then went to a training seminar in San Diego in April 2023, despite instructions not to do so. Rosen fired him again. The Personnel Board reversed the firing and reinstated Chung on June 23, putting him back on payroll. Chung said he used his free time to golf, go to the movies and drink boba — but he wants to work.

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Caltrain makes plans to sell old fleet

Caltrain is making plans to off-load its old diesel locomotives and gallery cars to other rail agencies in California and a museum in Oklahoma.

The potential moves come as a bill to ban the sale of diesel locomotives makes its way through the state Legislature. Caltrain is selling some of its cars and locomotives to a commuter rail service in Lima, Peru.

Caltrain’s Finance Committee today will consider authorizing the disposal

of three gallery cars and one locomotive that were involved in a fiery crash in San Bruno on March 10, 2022, when a train hit a construction site for Caltrain’s electrification project.

The crash destroyed three construction vehicles and derailed the train.

Vandals hitting old cars

Rail Vehicle Maintenance Director

Henry Flores said the damaged locomotive and galley cars keep getting vandalized and broken into at the rail yard in San Francisco.

“The longer the cars sit idle, the more difficult it becomes to dispose of these units as their value and condition further depreciates,” Flores said in a report.

The Midwest Overland Rail Preservation Society in Oklahoma approached Caltrain to take the train cars for a museum, at no cost to Caltrain.

Caltrain would have to pay an estimated $460,000 to scrap the train cars and locomotive without the museum’s help, Flores said.

Another Caltrain committee on Wednesday will consider leasing three

locomotives, three cab cars and 13 coach cars to Caltrans.

Caltrans may pay Caltrain Caltrans would pay Caltrain $2.1 million annually for agencies such as Amtrak, ACE Rail and Capitol Corridor to use the trains.

Those agencies are facing equipment shortages because of increased ridership, Government and Community Affairs Officer Devon Ryan said in a report. Keeping the trains

[See CALTRAIN, page 19]

Catch the latest!

The Post has a reporter in the courtroom where San Mateo County Sheriff is appealing her firing. We’re providing updates on the testimony throughout the day at padailypost. com. CORPUS

THE UPDATE

FROM PAGE 1 were relaxed yesterday. Authorities closed a shelter for evacuees.

MEDICARE FRAUD: CVS Health’s pharmacy benefit manager, Caremark, was ordered to pay $290 million in a Medicare fraud scheme. Caremark was convicted of submitting false drug cost reports for reimbursement in 2013 and 2014.

TARIFF DEAL: The U.S. and European Union have reached an agreement to limit tariffs on pharmaceuticals, lumber and semiconductors to 15%.

MANY SUPPORT THEIR PARENTS: A new study has revealed that 23% of the country is responsible for financially supporting their aging parents. The study by LendingTree found that expenses adult children are covering for their parents include groceries (69%), personal expenses (49%), housing (44%), utilities (43%) and medical costs (42%).

LOST CITY FOUND: Egypt has discovered parts of a sunken city submerged beneath waters off the coast of Alexandria, including buildings, artifacts and an ancient dock that date back more than 2,000 years, the Guardian newspaper reports.

Births

Readers

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto:

Feb. 4

Aurora Valentina Avalos Diaz, a girl

Lakshya Gorripaty Bajaj, a boy

Feb. 3

Anya Siobhan Bhole Coey, a girl

Pilot Arthur Davis, a boy

Eliani Arisbeth Iraheta Landaverde, a girl

Noelle Jin, a girl

Olive Turner Letcher, a girl

Andy Yunfan Liu, a boy

Arika Mishra, a girl

Elesio Oliver Rios, a boy

Lucas Wong Turlington, a boy

Feb. 2

Beyla Arlette Boror Vallejo, a girl

Marshall Muchen Feng, a boy

Theo Kai Hickman, a boy

Ronan Karan Iyer, a boy

Joaquin Benicio Jimenez, a boy

Olivia Rose Soto, a girl

Romeo Apollo Soto, a boy

Feb. 1

Milo James Cargnello, a boy

Julian Oliver Gonzales Perez, a boy

Thiago Valentino Herqueza, a boy

Bruno Rafael Lara Rueda, a boy

Leran Li, a boy

Milan Magdaichuk, a boy

Liam Camilo Manzanares Ramirez, a boy

Joseph Aaron Moreno Rodriguez, a boy

Victoria Charlotte Yarovoi, a girl

Jan. 31

Mariano Ahumada Pinedo, a boy

Mila Rose Barahona, a girl

Ayra Bharath, a girl

Malina Davidovna Ivanova, a girl

Gabriel Isaiah Alexander Mataavila, a boy

Lainey Ann Mcreynolds, a girl

Teia Lani Keopuuhiipoi Starrbatalona, a girl

Edison Yicheng Wang, a boy

Jan. 30

Meisy Aurora Fuentes Velarde, a girl

Abel Jesus Garcia Ortega, a boy

Hana Karagic, a girl

August Jonah Lee, a boy

Luca Li, a boy

Yahya Mohamed Moustafa, a boy

Andrew Maximo Oropeza, a boy

Liam Thai Pham, a boy

Adriel Emiliano Sandoval Martinez, a boy

Skyler Shi, a boy

Isabella Skye Spencer, a girl

Jan. 29

Abigail Huang, a girl

Kyra Laurence Yien Levy, a girl

Genesis Li, a girl

Kieran Junhang Madigan, a boy

Alan Ruan, a boy

Jay David Sazonov, a boy

Caylie Salome Soler Rodriguez, a girl

Emmett Julius Vilmerhodes, a boy

Claire Cameron Yang, a girl

Sheriff is giving everyone the finger

What’s remarkable about the downfall of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus is her relentless defiance.

Two examples:

1. The official website of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office until last week featured the picture and bio of Victor Aenlle, her alleged boyfriend. The county Board of Supervisors fired Aenlle from his $246,979 a year job on Nov. 13.

At that point, you’d figure Aenlle’s bio would have been removed from the website. The other executives in the sheriff’s department who resigned or were fired had their bios scrubbed almost immediately.

Double standard

Dear Editor: In Saturday’s Post, there’s an item about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth firing Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse for leaking an assessment of the bomb strike on Iran.

Well, isn’t that a twist for Hegseth

But Aenlle’s bio disappeared from the website last week — nine months after he was fired — only after she was asked about it at the hearing where she is appealing her firing by the supervisors.

She explained that she was too busy to remove his bio. That’s hard to believe. All she had to do was send a one-sentence email to the county’s IT person to say she wanted his bio removed.

Witnesses transferred

2. It appears she is retaliating against witnesses who testified at her hearing. On Friday, Corpus announced the transfers of 13 officers, many to less desirable assignments.

She transferred Lt. Daniel Reynolds from the civil division to the jails. On Friday, Reynolds was on

the witness stand, testifying at her hearing. Reynolds said that there is mismanagement in the sheriff’s office because of Corpus and Undersheriff Dan Perea were failing to take action on internal affairs investigations. The mismanagement “erodes public trust,” Reynolds said.

She also transferred Lt. Brandon Hensel from transportation to transit policing. Hensel had testified Thursday about Corpus’ decision to arrest and jail deputies union president Carlos Tapia on charges of timecard fraud. The DA later threw out the case, saying there was no fraud.

Reynolds and Hensel had no choice but to testify at the hearing. They had received subpoenas and they were put under oath.

Regardless, both were handed less desirable assignments. Corpus has

LETTERS

especially after he included a journalist in a Signal group chat with other top administration officials to discuss planned military strikes in Yemen. Mr. Hegseth, time to step down yourself.

John P. Kennedy Menlo Park

It’s not the train

Dear Editor: It’s time to remove the train in the discussion of teenage suicide.

transferred those who criticized her before. She denied the transfers were punishment and were merely necessary to fill vacancies.

But the transfers provide more evidence that Corpus has been retaliating against her own employees.

A fired employee stays on?

When the county supervisors voted to fire Corpus on June 24, they should have removed her from office that day and put her on paid leave. Instead, she remains in office and her brazen misconduct continues.

She’s giving the middle finger to the supervisors and the 90,000 county residents who voted to approve the process to remove her.

Editor Dave Price’s column appears on Mondays.

we going to be picketing Gillette to solve the problem?

The trains have nothing to do with the issue. If a teen commits suicide by slicing his wrist with a razor blade, are

This is a mental health issue. Unfortunately, Caltrain executives, in an attempt to appease distraught parents, continue to throw money at “train safety” measures that are unlikely to act as

[See LETTERS, page 8]

Dave Price

EAT LOCAL!

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a deterrent. So why do we do it? Why do we point our fingers at the train as the cause and the solution?

Because it’s easier. But we should look inward. Were we in some way responsible?

Did we miss obvious cries for help? Did we give our kids the moral fiber to deal with adversity? Did we sit and talk with them on a regular basis or just ask them how they were doing? Did we stay in their lives?

Until we stop pointing our fingers at inanimate objects, whether they be trains or guns, we will never get to the heart of the problem. It is time to face the issue head on, as strictly a mental health issue. Yes, it will be more gut wrenching and there will be more tears, but it is the only way to start making progress saving our kids.

Fine the parents

Dear Editor: I am wondering if we could put a camera at the tracks where the “no crossing” signs are located. We use cameras to catch motorists who go through red lights or speed.

I say fine the parents $100 each time their teen runs across the tracks.

Walking to school

Dear Editor: I was disappointed to learn that students at Los Altos High School are complaining about having to park too far away and are now suggesting that the tennis courts be replaced with a parking lot.

One wonders whether their parents have shared their own stories of walking miles to school — shoeless, in the snow!

Oscar Lopez-Guerra San Mateo

Women in high-tech

Dear Editor: Here in the center of tech, dubbed long ago as Silicon Valley, we prize innovative companies the world over, and especially the people who have founded them.

People like Stephanie Shirley. You never heard of her? Hmmm. I wonder why?

She founded a software business in England in 1962 with $220 in today’s dollars. In the 1970s, its employees were 99% women.

About 70 of her female employees became millionaires when the company, then called Xansa, restructured to allow partial employee ownership.

Today, the company, which she sold in 1993, is worth about $3 billion following several mergers and acquisitions.

She was a Dame Commander of the

but she’s

It’s always the

No wonder the big Silicon Valley companies have fewer female programming employees now than they did in the 1980s, according to several articles in the New York Times. It’s always the guys.

Supe’s traveling

Dear Editor: After reading your story last Monday about the frequent trips of now former Mountain View Whisman School District Superintendent Ayinde Rudolph on the taxpayers’ dime, I remembered that I liked to travel too. But I did so at my personal expense. Didn’t they teach him that in

school? Or is he a high school dropout?

Lina Broydo Los Altos Hills

Redistricting needed

Dear Editor: Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-San Jose, said, “don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.” Yes, we are in a fight. We’re seeing a rise of the authoritarian state like Mussolini’s Italy. The new Republican Party of today has adopted similar tactics. Change the law when it suits you, and consolidate power in any way possible.

What should we do? The effort by Democrats to temporarily go back to the old ways of allowing parties to pick their voters is unfortunately the only way to fight the Trump administration’s power grab. We are left with no other practical alternative. Sad but true.

Mike Caggiano San Mateo

State loses another business

Bed Bath & Beyond, which closed its stores in 2023 when it went into bankruptcy, plans to reopen locations across the country except in California because the company says the state is anti-business.

‘Overregulated, expensive’

“California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive, and risky environments for businesses,” Beyond Inc. executive chairman Marcus Lemonis said in a statement posted on X. “It’s a system that makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep doors open and harder to deliver value to customers.”

The home goods retailer used to have 80 stores in California including Redwood City, Mountain View and East Palo Alto.

It joins other companies that have fled California.

Billionaire In-N-Out owner Lynsi Snyder announced she was leaving California for Tennessee in July, saying that doing business and raising a family in the Golden State was “not easy.”

Other high-profile firms have moved their headquarters out of the state in recent years, including Chevron, Tesla, SpaceX, Oracle and Charles Schwab.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the last year more busi-

nesses came to California than left was 2014. In 2023, 533 firms left the state than entered it.

A snarky goodbye Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to Bed, Bath and Beyond’s decision with snark. “After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed, Bath & Beyond no longer existed,” a statement from Newsom’s office said. “We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again.”

California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton said on X he was “disgusted” by Newsom’s “attack on job-creating businesses.”

Review Permit to construct an approximately 42,839 square foot, three-story addition (Wing J) to the existing main hospital building and site modifications including two new courtyards at an existing hospital campus (El Camino Hospital) on a 37.92-acre site; and a recommended determination that the project is categorically exempt pursuant to Section 15302 (“Replacement or Reconstruction”) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines. This project is located on the west side of Grant Road between North and South Drive in the P-24 (El Camino Medical Park) Precise Plan.

If you have comments or questions about this project, please contact the project planner, Jeffrey Tsumura at (650) 903-6306 or at Jeffrey.Tsumura@mountainview.gov

Draft recommendations and associated documents will be available for review the Friday before the hearing at mountainview.legistar.com. This meeting will be held with a virtual component and broadcast live at mountainview.legistar.com and on YouTube at MountainView.gov/YouTube. Members of the public wishing to provide comments to the ZA may: 1) send an email to azh@mountainview.gov 2) join the Zoom Webinar online at mountainview.gov/ meeting or call 669-900-9128 and enter Webinar ID 85261011237; or 3) attend the meeting in person in the Plaza Conference Room, Second Floor at 500 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041. Please consult the meeting agenda, which will be available for review the Friday before the meeting at mountainview.legistar.com. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Please check the final published agenda online at the web address listed above or

Real Estate

er Trust for $7,000,000, closed July 3 (last sale:

$2,850,000, 06-21-22)

PALO ALTO

300 Lowell Ave., 94301, 5 bedrooms, 3352 square feet, built in 1988, Zhu and Wang Family Trust to Galareana Holding LLC for $8,150,000, closed July 21 (last sale: $6,835,000, 09-12-17)

928 Matadero Ave., 94306, 3 bedrooms, 5473 square feet, built in 2002, Preminger Living Trust to SF Pacific LLC for $15,000,000, closed July 24 (last sale: $3,200,000, 10-25-11)

3469 Thomas Drive, 94303, 4 bedrooms, 1625 square feet, built in 1957, Dyson Trust to Huh-Noh Family Trust for $3,185,000, closed July 22

921 College Ave., 94306, 3 bedrooms, 2038 square feet, built in 1926, Hao Zheng to Maxim Stepanov for $3,270,000, closed July 21 (last sale: $2,800,000, 05-24-23)

MENLO PARK

117 Seminary Drive, 94025, 4 bedrooms, 3570 square feet, built in 1997, Carolyn and Jeffrey Hardy to Suzana and Paul Merolla for $5,750,000, closed June 30 (last sale: $2,650,000, 10-21-05)

1303 American Way, 94025, 3 bedrooms, 1530 square feet, built in 1948, 1303 American Way Ventures LLC to Nussbach-

1080 Creek Drive, 94025, 5 bedrooms, 5609 square feet, built in 1927, My Quintas LLC to Stanford Real Estate Holdings LLC for $10,175,000, closed July 3 (last sale: $4,076,000, 03-04-22)

MOUNTAIN VIEW

286 Hans Ave., 94040, 3 bedrooms, 1325 square feet, built in 1955, Angelika and Till Westmann to Hyo and Kevin Park for $2,750,000, closed July 24 (last sale: $885,000, 02-02-12)

LOS ALTOS

1108 Covington Road, 94024, 4 bedrooms, 2658 square feet, built in 1955, Marcos-Albrecht Family Trust to Suneeti and Jignesh Vakharia for $5,088,000, closed July 23 (last sale: $1,379,000, 06-02-06)

822 Jordan Ave., 94022, 2 bedrooms, 1200 square feet, built in 1977, Cole Family Trust to Yi and Jianan Li for $1,400,000, closed July 25 (last sale: $650,000, 04-24-12)

41 Deep Well Lane, 94022, 1 bedroom, 1972 square feet, built in 1972, Bobrove Family Trust to Tanigami Living Trust for $3,200,000, closed July 24 (last sale: $2,300,000, 10-26-18)

WOODSIDE

3295 Woodside Road, 94062, 4 bedrooms, 4000

square feet, built in 1993, Pike Family Trust to Temple Trust for $8,849,000, closed July 1

REDWOOD CITY

83 Nevada St., 94062, 3 bedrooms, 2470 square feet, built in 1951, Marquis Family Trust to Emily and James Poskin for $2,760,000, closed June 30

206 Frances Lane, 94062, 4 bedrooms, 2530 square feet, built in 1925, Surviving 1991 to Doyle Living Trust for $3,100,000, closed July 1

1151 Sanchez Way, 94061, 4 bedrooms, 2360 square feet, built in 1959, Michael and Barbara Delantoni to 1151-1153 Sanchez Way LLC for $1,572,000, closed July 1 (last sale: $550,000, 08-14-02)

1583 Mitchell Way, 94061, 3 bedrooms, 1600 square feet, built in 1954, Ovringmo Family Trust to Anna and Alexander Richter for $2,200,000, closed June 30

3 Circle Road, 94062, 3 bedrooms, 1776 square feet, built in 1953, Randy Phan to Romina and Franco Valoppi for $2,250,000, closed June 30 (last sale: $650,000, 03-26-09)

SAN CARLOS

3362 La Mesa Drive #5, 94070, 3 bedrooms, 1239 square feet, built in 1973, Moynihan Living Trust to Joanne and Charles Green for $780,000, closed July 1 (last sale: $447,500, 0718-00)

Gen Z is spending nothing on dating

More than half of Americans under age 28 — known as Generation Z — spend absolutely no money on dating, according to a Bank of America report.

The survey found that 53% of Generation Z men and 54% of Generation Z women say that on a monthly basis, they spend $0 on dates.

A ‘romance recession’

Bank of America’s findings support the so-called “romance recession” where young people are having less sex, going on less dates and spending more time alone.

“We’ve seen a continual decline in dating,” Damona Hoffman told Market Watch. “Some people are calling this the “romance recession” or the “sex

recession,” particularly when we look at Gen Zs and you think of when they came of age, and dating and the pandemic hit within that. I see more people tapping out of the dating market entirely and just having anxiety about even stepping into the dating scene if they don’t have the money to date.”

Finding friends online

While the pandemic led many people to turn to the internet to connect with others both platonically and romantically, Generation Z continues to rely on the internet — particularly dating apps — in their quest for a romantic partner. A survey conducted by Forbes found that 79% of Generation Z have experienced burn-out from their use of dating apps.

Save the climate, don’t get a dog

The article cites a study by the National Academy of Sciences that asked people to rank actions they could take to help the climate.

“It turns out many Americans aren’t great at identifying which personal decisions contribute most to climate change,” the radio network’s article said.

People picked things like recycling and using alternative energy as good choices.

But the article said most people don’t understand the harm dogs cause to the climate.

They eat meat

One problem with dogs is that they eat meat.

“Beef is especially impactful, in part because around the world cattle are often raised on land that was illegally deforested,” the article said.

“People just don’t associate pets with carbon emissions. That link is not clear in people’s minds,” said Jiaying Zhao,

who teaches psychology and sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

Zhao said not all pets are bad for the climate, Zhao told the radio station, pointing out that she owns a dog and three rabbits.

“I can adopt 100 bunnies that will not be close to the emissions of a dog, because my dog is a carnivore,” she said.

The owner of a meat-eating pet can lower their impact by looking for food made from sources other than beef, the article said. Zhao, for example, tries to minimize her dog’s carbon footprint by feeding her less carbon-intensive protein sources, including seafood and turkey.

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PALO ALTO

AUG. 5

7:50 p.m. — Vinay Kohli, 51, of Newark, arrested for shoplifting, Stanford Shopping Center.

AUG. 6

8:57 p.m. — Ronald Raymond Antoni, 71, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, Civic Center.

AUG. 8

10:12 a.m. — Edward Everett IV, 58, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance and on a warrant, 1000 block of Elwell Court.

1:09 p.m. — Thomas Eugene Smith, 63, transient, arrested for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, possession of a shopping cart belonging to a retailer and creating a public nuisance, 200 block of Lytton Ave.

AUG. 11

8:37 a.m. — Home burglary, 700 block of Homer Ave.

AUG. 12

11:19 a.m. — Anthony Emilio Nieblas, 25, of San Jose, arrested for theft from a vehicle, 200 block of University Ave.

TUESDAY

9:06 a.m. — Petty theft, 900 block of Webster St.

1:38 p.m. — Theft from a vehicle, 1500 block of Arastradero Road.

3:42 p.m. — Purse stolen, 700 block of San Antonio Road.

9:34 p.m. — Grand theft, Oak Creek Drive.

10:58 p.m. — Petty theft, 3700 block of Egret Lane.

WEDNESDAY

11:16 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 700 block of San Antonio Road.

MENLO PARK

FRIDAY

1:39 p.m. — Petty theft, 3600 block of Haven Ave.

6:53 p.m. — Cristobal Cardenas, 59, transient, arrested on a warrant, University Ave. at the railroad tracks.

11:47 p.m. — Hector Diaz, 28, of San Leandro, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, 3600 block of Haven Ave.

SATURDAY

7:56 a.m. — Burglary, 1800 block of Doris Drive.

11:57 a.m. — Jose Cisneros Pena Loza, 36, of Menlo Park, arrested on two warrants, Willow Road at the railroad tracks.

10:41 p.m. — Juan Lopez Fajardo, 48, transient, arrested for public drunkenness, Constitution and Jefferson drives.

MOUNTAIN VIEW

AUG. 15

2:52 a.m. — Home burglary, 1-99 block of Sherland Ave.

5:19 a.m. — Home burglary, 1900 block of San Luis Ave.

10:25 a.m. — Burglary at Photochau999, 853 Villa St.

12:35 p.m. — Theft at CVS, 2630 W. El Camino.

1:58 p.m. — Vehicle stolen, Dana St. and Palo Alto Ave.

5:01 p.m. — Assault at Safeway, 645 San Antonio Road.

5:05 p.m. — Cyrill Barredo, 36, of Mountain View, arrested for being under the influence of drugs and possession of narcotics, other drugs

and drug paraphernalia, 600 block of Franklin St. He’s also arrested on a warrant.

8:36 p.m. — Robert Gibbs, 57, transient, arrested for public drunkenness and failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements, 2000 block of Latham St.

10:05 p.m. — Christopher Rodriguez, 29, of San Jose, arrested for being under the influence of drugs at Safeway, 645 San Antonio Road.

10:21 p.m. — Fredy Guardado Sanchez, 30, of Santa Clara, arrested for driving under the influence of both alcohol and drugs, drug possession and driving with a suspended or revoked license, Shoreline Blvd. and Terra Bella Ave.

AUG. 16

1:35 a.m. — Alejandro Ibarra Rizo, 34, of Sunnyvale, arrested on a warrant, 500 block of Castro St.

2:08 a.m. — Hector Mota, 35, transient, arrested for public drunkenness and falsely identifying himself to police, 200 block of Castro St.

5:34 a.m. — Cheryl Weeks, 44, of San Jose, arrested for domestic violence, 700 block of N. Rengstorff Ave.

12:27 p.m. — Home burglary, 1900 block of Mt. Vernon Court.

2:12 p.m. — Home burglary, 1900 block of Mt. Vernon Court.

2:57 p.m. — Auto burglary, 2200 block of W. El Camino.

3:22 p.m. — Edwin Moore, 48, of Mountain View, arrested for public drunkenness, 200 block of Castro St.

6:34 p.m. — Jaime Lopez, 47, of Sunnyvale, arrested for being a felon in possession of a stun gun and probation violation, Rengstorff Park.

7 p.m. — David Cockrum, 22, of

San Jose, cited for lewd conduct, 1300 block of Grant Road.

10:12 p.m. — David Gearhart, 41, transient, arrested for possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia, Thompson Ave. and Laura Lane.

LOS ALTOS

FRIDAY

11:08 p.m. — Disturbance, 700 block of Sunshine Drive. Warning given.

11:39 p.m. — Disturbance, 100 block of Pepper Drive. Warning given.

SATURDAY

10:09 p.m. — Disturbance, 100 block of Lyell St. Warning given. 10:41 p.m. — Disturbance, Cedar Place and Deodara Drive. Warning given.

NORTH FAIR OAKS

THURSDAY

3:27 a.m. — William James Otsen, 47, cited on a warrant, Fifth Ave. and El Camino.

REDWOOD CITY

JUNE 5

Rudy Jauregui, 61, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, Sequoia Station.

JUNE 6

John Lawrence Arana Sr., 58, of Belmont, arrested for vandalism, 400 block of Howland St.

JUNE 8

Luis Alberto Luna Gutierrez, 32, of Redwood City, arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and child endangerment, 1400 block of Hudson St.

Tong Thach, 47, of Redwood City, arrested for public drunkenness, Broadway and Douglas Ave.

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Gabor Kovacs, 53, of Redwood City, arrested for trespassing at Target, 2485 El Camino.

Alejandro Correa, 50, of Menlo Park, arrested for DUI, 1-99 block of Finger Ave.

THURSDAY

6:44 a.m. — Vehicle and cyclist collide, causing minor injuries, Woodside Road.

11:51 a.m. — Property manager says a tenant who was evicted is back at the property and is drinking alcohol and refusing to leave, Marshall St.

11:53 a.m. — Electric bike stolen, Broadway.

4:01 p.m. — Frank Thomas Kazman, 76, arrested for indecent exposure, 1200 block of Woodside Road.

5:01 p.m. — Victim falls prey to a phone scammer, Harrison Ave.

5:59 p.m. — Vehicle hits a pole, James Ave.

SAN CARLOS

THURSDAY

10:25 a.m. — Nolber Guerra, 35, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Industrial Road and Howard Ave.

12:27 p.m. — Stanley Larue Huff, 69, arrested for grand theft, Brittan Ave. and Old County Road.

10:29 p.m. — Tawana Shanae

Ward, 51, arrested for shoplifting and falsely identifying herself to police, 1300 block of San Carlos Ave.

BELMONT

FRIDAY

12:59 p.m. — Driver in a red Audi hits a person, then a vehicle and then a house, Hastings Drive. Minor injuries reported.

3:17 p.m. — Unauthorized check for $25,800 cashed at a bank on a victim’s account, Waltham Cross.

SATURDAY

12:16 p.m. — Victim defrauded of $6,000, Old County Road.

1:46 p.m. — Man steals food from a store, El Camino.

2:16 p.m. — Woman reported to be hitting parked vehicles with a baseball bat, El Camino. The woman gets onto a bus.

At 2:44 p.m., Belmont police arrest Monica Anne Soto, 46, for obstructing police at El Camino and E. Hillsdale Blvd. in San Mateo.

CHP

From the Redwood City office of the CHP, which covers the Mid-Peninsula.

MAY 7

Michael E. Maness, 61,

arrested for trespassing and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia.

MAY 9

Jonathan F. Borca, 37, arrested for DUI.

Raymond M. Price III, 22, arrested for driving under the influence of both alcohol and drugs.

MAY 10

Ezequiel Agaterre Saul, 31, arrested for cycling under the influence.

Aravind Badavath, 27, arrested for DUI.

Anastasia Buitrago, 29, arrested for DUI.

Raul G. Estrada-Mejia, 31, arrested for DUI, resisting police and battery against police.

Omar S. Gonzalez, 38, arrested for DUI.

Phillip J. Maskiewicz, 46, arrested for DUI.

Jesus S. Ochoa Cortes, 42, arrested for DUI.

MAY 16

Luis Jaracuaro, 27, arrested for DUI.

Siaosi M. Kelemete, 32, arrested for being a felon in possession of a gun and ammunition, carrying a loaded gun in a vehicle and possession of a large-capacity magazine of ammunition.

Parisa Nadimi, 47, arrested for DUI.

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SHERIFF –--- ODDS –---------

those meetings,” Philip said. “Today at 1 or 2 p.m., we are going to place Tapia under arrest,” Perea said, according to Philip.

Philip asked for the reasoning behind the warrant-less arrest, but Perea never gave one, he said.

But Tapia, as the union president, was an outspoken critic of Corpus.

“He ordered me to make the arrest. He said if I didn’t, we’d be back in his office to discuss my insubordination,” Philip said.

Philip said he considered it an illegal arrest and was going to go to the DA’s office to report it, but Perea ordered him to sit back down.

Philip chose to resign.

He placed his badge on the table and slid it towards Perea, Philip said, choking up and holding back tears.

That was the end of his law enforcement career, Philip said.

Other officers arrested Tapia for timecard fraud, hours before the county released a damning report by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, saying Corpus and Aenlle used intimidation and retaliation to run the office. The District Attorney’s Office threw out the case against Tapia a month later.

Another questionable case Brook Dooley, an attorney for the county, asked Philip about a conversation he had with Perea in September about the investigation of Sgt. Javier Acosta, the head of the sergeants union.

Javier Acosta was placed on leave after rumors of him having an inappropri-

ate relationship with an intern started, according to a legal claim he has filed with the county. He was placed under house arrest without cause, according to his claim, and received a letter from the sheriff’s office saying he was under internal investigation. Acosta has denied the allegations regarding the intern. Philip said Perea told him he would be receiving a notice of complaint about Acosta from Human Resources Manager Heather Enders. Enders sent Philip an email on Sept. 3 asking him to sign the notice, but he noticed it lacked information and didn’t sign. He sent an email to Enders asking for more information, he said.

Transferred

Six days later, on Sept. 9, Perea had asked to meet with Philip. Former Assistant Sheriff Ryan Monaghan was also there. Perea said Philip was going to be transferred to work at the jail and to hand over the list of all his ongoing tasks, Philip said.

His responsibilities “were stripped away” from him, Philip said.

Philip said he asked Perea why he was being transferred, but he said Perea didn’t give him an explanation.

After the transfer, Philip sent an email on Sept. 25 to Corpus, Fox and Perea asking for clarification on where he stood as a captain.

A month and a half later, Philip turned in his badge rather than arrest deputies union president Tapia.

The hearing, in which Corpus is appealing a decision by the Board of Supervisors to fire her, will continue today in the San Mateo County Hall of Justice, Courtroom 2M, 400 County Center, Redwood City.

FOOD TRUCKS FOOD TRUCKS

said on a phone call from the hospital on Friday.

Riley Jonathan Toth was born at 10:35 a.m. on Thursday. His dad was born on the same date in 1986, and his grandfather, Dan Toth, was born in 1957.

Russell Toth joked that the world record is four generations sharing a birthday, so his son will have a chance to tie the record.

New mom Beth Cotter said she wasn’t trying to deliver a child on Aug. 20, but she knew that was a possibility when she learned her due date was Aug. 17.

Cotter works on children’s nutrition at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and Russell Toth works as a wealth manager at Kayne Anderson Rudnick in Menlo Park. They started dating in 2014, moved to California in 2017 and got married in 2022. They live together in Millbrae.

The new parents checked into the hospital on Aug. 18.

Grandfather predicted it

Grandfather Dan Toth, 68, told them he was confident the boy would be a few days late, and he ended up being correct.

At midnight on Aug. 20, Dan Toth texted his son: “This will be the best birthday you’ll ever have.”

Russell Toth, 39, said the message was meaningful because his dad was basically saying that the day he was born was the best birthday.

“Seeing it from that perspective is

something children don’t often have the chance to experience,” he said. “Having that connection on the same day just really hit home in a way that I wasn’t expecting.”

Dan Toth turned 30 when Russell Toth turned 1 and had a big party that set the tone for their birthdays growing up.

As Russell Toth got older, they started sharing a bottle of champagne on their birthday.

Now Russell Toth will turn 40 when Riley Toth turns 1, and they’re planning to have another party with all three generations there.

Cotter said Riley is doing well — he’ll cry if he needs something but is quick to settle down, and he looks just like his dad as a newborn.

HOUSING

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the number of apartments in the project by including a certain percentage of affordable units. There will be 11 apartments for very-low income residents, three low-income apartments and 11 moderate-income units.

The 147,000-square-foot building will be taller than the usual 45-foot height limit for the area.

The project also qualified for “byright” approval under state law. That means the Planning Commission could only consider “objective” factors, such as setbacks and lot coverage, in deciding whether to approve it. Factors that are more subjective, such as whether a project fits in with the neighborhood, can’t be considered.

Given the limits on its decision-mak-

ing, the Planning Commission approved the project.

Commission member Joanne Adamkewicz said that although she supports housing at the site, “this project is a lot more than what we were hoping to see.”

The project site is within the area covered by the city’s Belmont Village Specific Plan, which envisions a downtown area that’s a “vibrant, mixed-use activity center.”

Belmont is losing businesses

But the new apartment building will be all residential without any groundfloor businesses — just adding to a trend in which Belmont is losing its businesses, Adamkewicz said. She pointed to the closure of the ice rink, restaurants, a nail salon and a UPS Store among others.

“For any one development project, of course it makes sense to be 100% residential,” Adamkewicz said. “But we do it over and over and over. And what we’re going to be left with is a bedroom community that has no commercial, residential, recreation or any other amenities. And pretty soon it won’t be a good place to live.”

Commission member Nathan Majeski voted “no” and chastised Prometheus representatives over their project.

‘Ugly’

“You guys are doing what you think you can do with your lawyers and the state laws and a small community,” Majeski said. “What you’re doing is ugly. And you know it. Most of you can’t look people in the eyes as they’re talking. And it’s kind of pathetic. I hope it’s worth the money.”

Residents are concerned that the project will worsen already-snarled traffic in the area. Some worry about the safety of students heading to school at Nesbit Elementary.

“You are ruining our neighborhood,” said resident Shawna Mathe. “There are many, many mornings when we are trapped in our neighborhood and cannot get out because the traffic is so bad.”

Parking

Because the project is within a half mile of a Caltrain station, state law says the developers aren’t required to provide parking. But Prometheus will include a 138-space parking garage for residents, the amount the city would have required if the project was farther from a major transit stop. There will also be 142 bicycle parking spaces.

initial 70 units. That was one requirement for the developer to qualify for the “by-right” approval process. Other requirements for by-right approval are that the project site is listed in the city’s housing element — a plan for meeting the state’s housing quota — and has been “rolled over” from the previous housing element. And the city must have “upzoned” the project site, allowing more homes, as part of efforts to meet the housing quota. Those criteria all applied to the 580 Masonic Way project.

Cortese introduced SB30 after Caltrain reached a deal in November to sell its old diesel trains to the city of Lima for $6 million.

Lima will use 90 gallery cars and 19 diesel locomotives to start a new commuter rail line, Caltrain said.

The gallery cars and locomotives were built between 1985 and 1987. They were retired in September 2024 when Caltrain switched to electric trains as part of a $2.4 billion project.

Caltrain still runs diesel trains from San Jose to Gilroy and is exploring a switch to battery-powered trains in the future.

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would cost $350,000 for maintenance and $150,000 for insurance per year, Ryan said.

Exporting polluters

Some residents said that’s not enough parking.

“I do not see a lot of people cycling to work,” one resident said. “And on average, people have one to two cars per apartment.”

Because the project includes a certain percentage of low-income apartments, it can be denser than the 70 units that would be allowed if all units were market rate. There will be 11 units for very low-income residents, or 15% of the initial 70 units, giving the developer a 50% bonus, or an extra 35 units. And the inclusion of 11 moderate-income units allows another 35 units to be added, bringing the total to 140 apartments.

In addition to the 11 apartments for very-low income residents, the project includes three low-income apartments, for a total of 14 low- or very-low income apartments, which is 20% of the

BEAT THE TARIFFS!

The five-year lease would allow Caltrain and Caltrans to negotiate a sale, and Caltrain could take the trains back with 90 day’s notice if one of its trains are damaged, Ryan said.

State Sen. Dave Cortese is working on a bill that would ban the sale of diesel locomotives like the ones that Caltrain shipped off to Lima, Peru.

Caltrain’s board voted on Aug. 7 to ask Cortese to amend his Senate Bill 30 so that Caltrain’s nine remaining locomotives could still be sold.

Jason Baker, Caltrain’s director of government affairs, told the board that Caltrain would miss out on around $20 million if SB30 passes.

“That’s not an easy hit,” he said.

The board stopped short of opposing SB30 out of respect for Cortese, who represents parts of San Jose, Morgan Hill and Gilroy.

Cortese said California should be leading the world in clean energy, not shipping its pollution problems elsewhere.

“Are we not all fighting to decarbonize the same air?” he asked in a statement in July.

Cortese is chair of the Senate Transportation Committee and was previously on the VTA board, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

SB30 needs to go through the Assembly Appropriations Committee, the full Assembly and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk before becoming law.

The bill would require agencies to remove diesel engines from locomotives before they’re donated to a museum.

Baker said it’s expensive to take out a diesel engine, so he asked Cortese to allow the engines to be disabled but not removed.

SCHAPELHOUMAN

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

ADMINISTRATIVE ZONING HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mountain View Zoning Administrator will hold a public hearing on Wednesday September 10, 2025, at 4:00 pm in the Plaza Conference Room, Second Floor, Mountain View Civic Center, 500 Castro Street, at which time all interested parties may be heard regarding the following project:

PROPOSED PROJECT

LOCATION:

APPLICANT:

APPLICATION NO:

HEARING DATE: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Request to amend a previously approved Development Agreement (PL-2017-

mental Impact Report (EIR) for the project was adopted by the City Council on

unavoidable intersection impacts, for which a Statement of Overriding Considerations, and a Mitigation, Monitoring, and Reporting Program (MMRP), was adoptthe project conditions assessed in the adopted EIR and would not result in any new

Purissima Hills Water District - 26375 Fremont Road Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-2624

PUBLIC NOTICE

Sealed PROPOSALS for the West Fremont, St. Francis Water Main Improvements whether mailed or personally delivered, must be received by the Purissima Hills Water District (PHWD) staff by 2:00 P.M., Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at the District’s administrative offices located at 26375 Fremont Road, CA 94022. PROPOSALS will then be publicly opened and read aloud at the administrative offices.

PROPOSALS received after 2:00 P.M. will not be accepted. PROPOSALS will not be accepted if they are delivered by fax, telephone or other electronic means. Bidders dropping a PROPOSAL in the District’s mail slot are advised to confirm receipt by District staff via e-mail. BIDDER can contact William Lai, P.E., at (925) 224-7717 with any questions.

Project Scope: The project consists of installing approximately 5,500 LF of 8” DIP, and 30 LF of 8” FPVC to replace existing cast iron and asbestos cement pipe, cathodic protection of newly installed water main, installation of 2 combination air valves, 14 fire hydrants, 21 service connections of varying sizes, existing water main/appurtenance abandonments, various surface restorations including slurry seal (~70,000 SF), restriping, among other appurtenance work as identified in the bid schedule.

Work Location: The project is located in the Town of Los Altos Hills, County of Santa Clara, California. The work will be done for the Purissima Hills Water District (i.e., referred to herein as the “Owner” or as the “District”).

Cost Estimate: The District’s estimated total construction cost for this project is approximately $2,800,000. The estimate is intended to serve merely as a guideline of the magnitude of work. Neither the bidders nor the contractor shall be entitled to claims because of any inaccuracy in the estimate.

Contract Time & Liquidated Damages: The project is to be completed within a total maximum of One Hundred and Twenty (120) working days from the Notice to Proceed date. The District will assess liquidated damages in the amount of $2,400 for every calendar day of delay in finishing the work in excess of the contract time.

Obtaining Contract Documents: Complete bid packages, including project plans, technical specifications, bid forms and contract documents to be used for bidding can be acquired through BPXpress Reprographics at http://www.purissimawaterplans.com or by calling (707) 745-3593. Bid packages cost $100.00 per set, plus shipping and handling. This cost is non-refundable. For further information, contact Pakpour Consulting Group, William Lai, PE at (925) 224-7717.

This meeting will be held with a virtual component and broadcast live at mounof the public wishing to provide comments to the ZA may: 1) send an email to the meeting in person in the Plaza Conference Room, Second Floor at 500 Castro

agenda online at the web address listed above or view the posted agenda located outside the front door of City Hall at 500 Castro Street to verify the meeting date, -

COMMISSION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mountain View Environmental Planning Commission (EPC) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, September 17, at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, Second Floor, Mountain View Civic Center, 500 Castro Street, at which time all interested parties may be heard regarding the following project: PROPOSED PROJECT

LOCATION: 749 West El Camino Real, APNs: 193-02-049 and 193-02-050

APPLICANT: Leland Low for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

APPLICATION NO: PL-2022-001

HEARING DATE: Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Request for a Planned Community Permit and Development Review Permit to remove an existing commercial bank building, a vacant restaurant building and surface parking lot and construct a mixed-Use development comprised of 299 residential rental units, utilizing State Density Bonus Law, in a six-story building grade podium parking above two levels of underground parking; a two-story 11,500 square-foot bank building; a Heritage Tree Removal Permit to remove 28 Heritage Trees; and a Vesting Preliminary Parcel Map to create a single lot with up to four commercial condominium units from two existing parcels on a 3.05-acre site. An Environmental lmpact Report (EIR) was prepared for the project pursuant to Sections 15121 (a) and 15152 of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines. In accordance with CEQA Guidelines Section 15088(b), the Final EIR is being West El Camino Real and Castro Street in the P-38 (El Camino Real) Precise Plan. If you have comments or questions about this project, please contact the project planner, Margaret Netto at (650) 903-6306 or at margaret.netto@mountainview.gov. This meeting will be broadcast live at mountainview.legistar.com, on YouTube at MountainView.gov/YouTube, and on Comcast Channel 26. Members of the public wishing to provide comments to the EPC may: 1) send an email to epc@mountainview.gov 2) join the Zoom Webinar online at mountainview.gov/meeting or call 669900-9128 and enter Webinar ID 853 0070 5240; or 3) attend the meeting in person in the Council Chambers, Second Floor at 500 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041. Please consult the meeting agenda, which will be available for review the Friday before the meeting at mountainview.legistar.com. Meeting dates and times

address listed above or view the posted agenda located outside the front door of City Hall at 500 Castro Street to verify the meeting date, times, location, and agenda items. To arrange an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act for this hearing, please call (650) 903-6306.

Plan Holders List: Copies of plan holders list can be obtained from BPXpress Reprographics by calling (707) 745-3593 or online at http://www.purissimawaterplans.com

Builders Exchanges: Bid packages are available for viewing at several builders exchanges. A complete list of builders exchanges is available online at http://www.purissimawaterplans.com or by calling BPXpress Reprographics at (707) 745-3593.

Pre-Bid Meeting: A mandatory pre-bid meeting and tour is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 10:00 A.M. at the District office located at 26375 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022. Please contact William Lai, P.E. at (925) 224-7717 to verify the date, time, and location and to receive further updates on this project.

BIDDER must purchase a copy of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS and complete the mandatory prebid meeting to be considered eligible to bid the project. Plan houses and Bidders who purchased the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS will receive copies of the addendums and updates. Bidders should verify they are on the plan holders list prior to submitting a bid. PROPOSALS submitted by parties not attending the pre-bid meeting or not on the plan holders list will be rejected.

Contractor License(s)/Qualifications: The BIDDER must possess a valid Class A Contractor’s license in the State of California at the time of CONTRACT award and throughout the CONTRACT term. The Contractor must have performed work on three (3) cathodically-protected DIP water main installation projects over the last five (5) years. In addition, the project foreman must verify they were in charge of at least five (5) previous projects, three (3) of which are exclusively cathodically-protected DIP water main installation projects.

Department of Industrial Relations: This project includes public works as defined by California Labor Code section 1720. The successful BIDDER shall be responsible for the payment of prevailing wage rates, the training of apprentices and compliance with other related requirements. The prevailing wage rates for the Contract include the California Department of Industrial Relations’ General Prevailing Wage Determinations: 2025-1. Prevailing wage rates may be viewed online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/OPRL/ DPreWageDetermination.htm.

Contractors and subcontractors must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) at the time of bid, or else the bid may be rejected as non-responsive. (See Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1.) Each BIDDER must submit proof of Contractor registration with DIR (e.g. a hard copy of the relevant page of the DIR’s database found at: https://efiling.dir.ca.gov/PWCR/Search). This Contract is subject to monitoring and enforcement by the DIR pursuant to Labor Code Section 1771.4.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22300, the successful BIDDER may submit certain securities in lieu of the Owner retaining a portion of progress payments during the Project.

The successful BIDDER will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond, both in amounts not less than one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price.

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