Mountain View Voice October 31, 2014 by Mountain View Voice

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Traffic claim on council candidate’s mailer raises questions ESTIMATES VARY WILDLY OVER POTENTIAL TRAFFIC FROM NEW HOUSING IN NORTH BAYSHORE By Daniel DeBolt

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THIS OLD (HAUNTED) HOUSE Rengstorff House got all decked out in its spookiest Victorian finery for the “Where History Meets Haunting” weekend tours and séance at the vintage manse. Seven-month-old Addison gets a boost from dad Myles Monroe as he investigates a skull decoration dubbed “Uncle Henry” by Friends of the Rengstorff House. More haunted house photos from Oct. 25 are on page 14.

City struggles to add park space UNDERSIZED PARK IN NEW HOUSING PROJECT DRAWS COUNCIL’S IRE By Daniel DeBolt

t Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, it became clear how difficult it is to add new park space in the city as council members discussed a 375-unit apartment project proposed for 400 San Antonio Road and approved a new parks and open space plan for the city. A consortium of landowners calling itself the Pilar Group has proposed to build four, fourstory buildings above parking garages, with 9,000 square feet of retail mostly facing San Antonio Road between Miller Drive and Fayette Avenue. It would replace the former home of Dittmer’s

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Gourmet Meats, a closed Firestone tire shop and Masa’s Sushi, among other commercial spaces totaling 75,000 square feet. Council members expressed frustration that developers of the 5.75-acre site were proposing only a half-acre park. The group of developers are opting to pay $6.9 million in park fees instead of adding another 1.75 acre of park space within the project to meet city guidelines. “We can’t do more than a halfacre (of park space) — if you want more than half an acre, we’d just start over,” said developer Scott Greer. The developers also stressed in a letter the “market realities” that were forcing them to build at maximum allowed

densities while restricting community benefits. “I’m sorry, I can’t buy it,” said council member Margaret Abe-Koga in reaction to Greer’s remarks. “I don’t get why these developers are going down this path. We need (park) land, this really shouldn’t be a surprise for folks. There’s some kind of disconnect I don’t really understand.” Later that evening the council unanimously approved a parks and open space plan that said the area around the project — dubbed simply the “San Antonio planning area” — had the highest need for open space of any area in the city. In the end, the council sup-

ity Council candidate Ellen Kamei has sent out a mailer that makes a controversial claim: Adding 5,000 new homes in North Bayshore — a key issue dividing the candidates in this year’s race — would cause a 10,000-car “traffic nightmare” on Highway 101. The mailer, which has a tiny embedded speaker that plays a recorded message with Kamei’s voice, proclaims in bold letters, “Ellen Kamei says NO to 10,000 new cars on Highway 101” and “Stop the Traffic Nightmare!” Inside, it says “Ellen Kamei opposes throwing up 5,000 new homes without the infrastructure to support them.” Other candidates cast doubt on the number, and a former Mountain View city manager has asked Kamei to retract her statement. Five of nine candidates in this year’s race support allowing housing in North Bayshore as a way to reduce commuter traffic, not make it worse, by accommodating more of Google’s growing workforce near the corporation’s

offices. Kamei, Lisa Matichak, Mercedes Salem and Margaret Capriles have all stated their opposition to changing zoning to allow housing there. Kamei, a member of the city’s Environmental Planning Commission, defended the mailer in an email, saying that there is no guarantee that those who live in North Bayshore would also work there, so “one can assume there will be significant commute out of North Bayshore to jobs elsewhere.” She said the mailer is based on Census data that says the average Mountain View household has 2.1 vehicles. Others say that’s an unlikely scenario for the yet-be-proposed residential neighborhood. “Logic says that 5,000 homes will not translate into 10,000 more cars on Highway 101 per day,” said candidate Pat Showalter. “That would mean that each of the housing units had at least two cars, that they all wanted to go on 101, that nobody carpooled or went directly to downtown Mountain View or worked in See CANDIDATE MAILER, page 16

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Asked in downtown Mountain View. Photos and interviews by Madeleine Gerson and Natalia Nazarova.

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Qualified to Lead 5th year on Environmental Planning Commission (EPC) Founding President Wagon Wheel Neighborhood Assn. 15-year resident (8 as renter, 7 as condo owner in N. Whisman) CERT certified since 2008 Master of Business Administration (MBA), UCLA Over 25 years in the high tech and IT security industries

Key Priorities Support our neighborhoods and enhance the quality of life for our diverse mix of residents Advocate for high-quality housing that is affordable Add parks and open space in our increasingly urban City Maintain Mountain View as a financially strong City

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District taps Shoreline funds for cost overruns NEW DESIGN INCLUDES COLLABORATIVE SPACE IN “INNOVATION CENTERS” AT MIDDLE SCHOOLS By Kevin Forestieri

ew building designs could mean a change of pace for Mountain View students starting next year. The Mountain View Whisman School District board voted 4-1 to approve more ambitious construction projects at the district’s two middle schools, despite the hefty price tag. The new building designs include a complete re-do of the library at Crittenden Middle School and six new classrooms at both Crittenden and Graham Middle School. The projects are paid for by the Measure G school bond passed by voters in 2012 to improve infrastructure at all the district’s school sites. But Measure G won’t be covering all the costs. The final

building designs approved by the board on Thursday, Oct. 23, are projected to cost more than $56 million — well above the $50 million in school bonds committed to upgrading middle school buildings. Rather than use more bond money and risk starving other campuses of future projects, the district will tap other sources of funding, including $4.9 million in “Shoreline” reserves. These reserves funds are a relatively recent addition to Mountain View school district budgets, and come from property tax revenue from the Shoreline Regional Park Community special tax district, which includes the area north of Highway 101. The city of Mountain View has agreed COURTESY OF THE MOUNTAIN VIEW WHISMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT

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An inside look at the new design for the Innovation Center at Graham Middle School.

Fung again tops healthcare district race spending By Kevin Forestieri

n a competitive race, all three candidates competing for two seats on the El Camino Healthcare District board ratcheted up spending as Election Day draws near, spending anywhere from $10,000 to $55,000 between Oct. 1 to Oct. 18, according to campaign finance documents filed Oct. 23. The candidates, who include incumbent David Reeder as well as practicing neurologist Peter Fung and current Mountain View City Council member Margaret Abe-Koga, reported spending between two to three times as much money in the last filing period leading up to the election on Nov. 4. Fung maintained his lead on campaign spending. So far this year, Fung reported spending a total of $74,731 on his campaign, while Abe-Koga spent $30,166 and Reeder spent $17,333. Fung received a single, $50,000 contribution from Julia Fung, identified as a retired Sunnyvale resident, which helped to fund the majority of his campaign spend-

ing during the filing period. Fung also received some smaller donations from physicians and retired Los Altos and Los Altos Hills residents, including $250 from otolaryngologist Fidelia Butt. Combined with previous contributions and $23,000 in loans to himself, Fung has been able to outspend his opponents. He spent most of the money on campaign consulting costs, including $49,446 to political consulting and public affairs firm Meridian Pacific. He also spent $4,449 on advertisements. Abe-Koga has not spent any of her own money to fund her campaign, relying solely on contributions. She reported raising an additional $2,250 in campaign contributions in October, putting her at a total $31,100 in contributions. Big donors in this filing period include a number of contributions from unions. Abe-Koga received $500 from a local chapter of the electrical workers union IBEW; $500 from Plumbers, Steamfitters & Refrigeration Fitters (PSRF) See HEALTHCARE, page 17

Trustee says ‘millions’ needed to boost Castro students NOV. 6 MEETING TO GATHER COMMUNITY INPUT ON SPLITTING SCHOOL By Kevin Forestieri

n an effort to address poor student achievement among low-income and minority students, the Mountain View Whisman school board will host another discussion on Nov. 6 on whether to split Castro Elementary into two schools. The meeting will be held at Castro School in hopes of eliciting feedback from parents and community members in the Castro neighborhood. The board decided to host the follow-up meeting after a lengthy discussion at the Oct. 23 board meeting on what needs to be done to improve academic achievement for the lowestperforming students at Castro. While the majority of trustees were in favor of the plan to split the school, some voiced concerns that PTA resources might heavily favor one of the two schools. Others said the district needs to do more than split the school in half — it needs to put millions of dollars into program

improvements. The proposed split would separate the traditional school program at Castro into one school, and the Dual Immersion program into another. Dual Immersion is a bilingual “choice” program in which students receive instruction in both Spanish and English, with the goal of becoming proficient in both languages. As a choice program, it draws district students from outside Castro’s attendance boundaries. According to the Castro Restructuring Task Force, which explored ways to improve student achievement in both programs, students in the traditional program lag behind Dual Immersion students by a large margin in math as well as English and language arts. About 90 percent of the students in the traditional program are English-language learners who come from low socioeconomic backgrounds. The task force presented its findings to the school board on Oct. 9, and recommended that the district split the school’s

programs into two schools. The idea is that the teaching staff and the district could better address the needs of the two very different programs better if they are isolated. The Nov. 6 board meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Castro School, 505 Escuela Ave. The Castro Restructuring Task Force and its recommendations will be the first discussion item, and Spanish translation will be provided. Two board members were part of the task force, including board president Bill Lambert. At the Oct. 23 board meeting, Lambert said the creation of two schools could be seen as a “positive” challenge for the district to give Castro families two equally valued schools with very different programs. But he cautioned that the district needs to create a situation where parents choose to send their kids to the DI program or the traditional program based on See CASTRO, page 15

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School PTAs rally behind Measure N LASD SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION BOND By Kevin Forestieri

hile no one knows how Measure N will fare at the ballot box, lop-sided campaign spending shows school bond supporters appear far more willing to put their money behind the cause. Supporters of Measure N have overwhelmingly out-raised and out-spent opponents of the bond measure, raising over $100,000 as of Oct. 18. The Measure N Los Altos School District bond is a $150 million bond to be voted on in the Nov. 4 election. District administrators say the money is essential to upgrade infrastructure and build a new school site to deal with growing enrollment at all the district schools, including Bullis Charter School. The campaign committee backing Measure N, called Keep Los Altos Schools Strong — Yes on N, has raised $102,500, according to campaign finance reports through Oct. 18. Almost half of that money comes directly from the school district Parent Teacher Associations, which con-

tributed a grand total of $45,000. All nine of the school PTAs contributed exactly $5,000 each to support the bond. PTAs weren’t the only big donors. The Huttlinger Alliance for Education, a non-profit education advocacy group based in Los Altos, contributed $10,000 to the committee to support the bond in September. The campaign committee also received $10,000 from Blach Construction, a Santa Clarabased construction company that managed construction at five elementary school modernization projects for the Los Altos School District in 2002 as well as the construction of the Gardner Bullis campus in 2008. Blach Construction worked with Gelfand Partners Artchitects on the school-site construction projects, an architect company that also contributed $7,000 to the campaign committee. Other notable big contributions include $5,000 from the Los Altos Education Foundation; $2,500 from Dannis Woliver Kelley, an education law firm that has done presentations at

previous school board meetings; $2,500 from Brian Carlstrom, a Los Altos Hills resident and engineer at Google; and $2,500 from Santa Rita parent Bryan Johnson. Superintendent Jeff Baier and three current Los Altos School District board members each donated $500 to the committee, as well as $1,000 from board candidate Sangeeth Peruri. The campaign spent $45,647 on consulting costs to TBWB strategies, a campaign consulting and strategy firm that specializes specifically in “public finance ballot measures,” including school district bonds. It also spent over $7,000 in postage costs, and over $5,000 in campaign literature. The campaign to oppose Measure N is smaller and more fragmented. According to David Roode, LASD resident and opponent of the bond measure, there are three efforts by separate “entities” that have spent under $1,000 each so far to oppose the bond. He said the “Yes on N” campaign has officially spent over $100,000, but also has additional support through candidate mailers that support Measure N.

Independent spending continues in council race By Daniel DeBolt

s the final days of the City Council election approach, the mysterious Neighborhood Empowerment Coalition continues to report spending money in support of council candidates Ellen Kamei, Ken Rosenberg and Pat Showalter. All three have said they have not cooperated with the NEC and that the mailers have photos and information taken from their websites. The NEC reported another round of mailers in Oct. 23 campaign spending disclosures, increasing its total spending on mailers for each candidate: $31,896 for Rosenberg, $19,603 for Showalter and $23,340 for Kamei. At least one of the mailers includes all three candidates. The Long Beach-based group claims on its website to be a coalition of community members but has a Long Beach lawyer special-

VOTE FOR • Currently serving as Environmental Planning Commissioner • 27 years at Hewlett-Packard , extensive international experience; then owned Consulting Business • Graduate, Leadership Mountain View; LMV Advisory Committee Chair • YMCA Advisory Board Member and past El Camino Branch Board Member • El Camino Hospital Foundation’s H2H Grants Committee, Co-Lead • Information Systems Management degree from USF • Distinguished Service Award , YMCA

izing in campaign finance as its only known member. It has reported receiving funds from Indian tribes, unions representing ship builders and iron workers, a DMV software company and perhaps most notably, the California Apartment Association. The CAA is a landlord group opposed to rent control Kamei, Rosenberg and Showalter have all posted the CAA’s endorsement on their campaign websites and oppose rent control. PG&E has also funded the NEC, but Rosenberg says he is not endorsed by PG&E but Kamei and Showalter are. None of the candidates reported spending their own campaign money over the voluntary limit of $22,689 that all the candidates agreed to at the start of the election, though some are coming close. The top spenders as of Oct. 18 are: Kamei, with $21,872; Rosenberg at $21,644; Greg Unangst at $18,896; and Lisa Matichak with $19,128.

(1'256(0(176 Having raised a family in Mountain View for over 45 years, I have seen the community change in many ways. Mountain View is a great city that serves as a role model in innovative thinking and management and I want to ensure we maintain that leadership role. My top priorities are:

1. Work to achieve attainable housing and balanced growth 2. Expand infrastructure to support safe bicycle and pedestrian modes of transportation 3. Attain water conservation 4. Encourage civic engagement for all residents

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Kremen’s financial tsunami continues in water district race CHALLENGER VASTLY OUTSPENDING INCUMBENT SCHMIDT IN THE FINAL WEEKS OF THE CAMPAIGN By Sue Dremann

rom a monetary perspective, Santa Clara Valley Water District board challenger Gary Kremen remains the race’s “War Admiral” to incumbent Brian Schmidt’s “Seabiscuit,” outpacing Schmidt’s spending by 23 to 1, according to campaign financial disclosure statements filed in Santa Clara County on Oct. 23. As of Oct. 18, Kremen has spent $397,993 to Schmidt’s $17,229, racking up $368,565 in outstanding Gary Kremen debts while Schmidt’s campaign lists none. Kremen’s monumental financial advantage is fueled by $36,223.45 from donors and $314,500 in loans he personally made to his campaign. His campaign has received a total of $350,723.45 for the year. In the financial reports covering the period of Oct. 1 through Oct. 18, Kremen reported giving his campaign a $66,000 loan. He reported receiving $3,950 in monetary contributions. Schmidt has collected $18,533 for the year. He donated $2,000

to his own campaign, including $1,500 during the Oct. 1-18 period. He reported receiving $5,351 during the period, which includes $4,900 from donors and $451 in non-monetary contributions. The candidates spent their money in vastly different ways. Kremen lists $85,229 in expenditures for the period, and he has a $6,833.57 cash balance, according to his statement. He owed more than $54,000 in unpaid bills for professional services. Schmidt lists $9,090 in expenditures for the periBrian Schmidt od, and had a $1,234 cash balance. His expenditures included $2,823 for campaign literature and $4,533 for postage. In non-monetary contributions, he reported receiving: PayPal processing fees worth $83; photocopies worth $63 and online advertising worth $338. Kremen’s biggest expenditures for the reporting period included: campaign consultants, $16,785; website-related services, $11,529; campaign literature, $52,740; and advertising, $2,812. Email Sue Dremann at sdremann@paweekly.com.

I am running for re-election as a Trustee on the Mountain View Los Altos High School District Board of Education. My wife and I are 23 year Mountain View residents with a recent MVLA graduate and two current students.

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During my seven years an MVLA Trustee, I have spent time on all MVLA campuses, reviewed MVLA High School Board academic data, and carefully studied District budgets. I have visited classrooms, and met with parents, student, I have spent time o

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x Christopher (MVWSD) Los District Altos Councilmembers: The cannot rest on its laurels, and should always strive for theChiang next higher level of (current/former) Rose Filicetti excellence. As a Board, that is our obligation to ourx students and to our(MVWSD) community. x

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x Jim Thurber x Steve Taglio (LASD) x Curtis Cole Mountain View Voice Ronabout Packard I amxexcited our District’s positive momentum, and proud of the achievement of our x David Casas students. Recent accomplishments and trendsMVLA include: District Teachers Association x Lou Becker Friends of Los Altos I would be honored to receive your vote on November 4 th.

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HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE This holiday season, Second Harvest Food Bank hopes to raise $15 million and receive 2 million pounds of food. Second Harvest is partnering with Barracuda and EMC to reach this goal. “The economy is rebounding, but the cost of living is soaring, making it difficult for many of the families we serve to get by,” said Kathy Jackson, the CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. The average households served by Second Harvest have an annual income of $20,000 or less. Second Harvest makes it a priority to make sure people have access to nutritious foods, which is why donations of fruits and vegetables are encouraged, according to Jackson. Currently, Second Harvest partners with more than 330 agencies to provide food at more than 770 sites throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. Donation sites in Mountain View are located at Mi Pueblo, Safeway and 7-Eleven stores, and at Whole Foods in Los Altos. Donations for the Holiday Food and Fund Drive are critical and nearly half of the food bank’s revenues are raised during the holiday season. For more information or to donate, visit sfhb.org or call (866) 234-3663. Anyone who needs food should call Second Harvest’s Food Connection hotline at (800) 984-3663. —Madeleine Gerson October 31, 2014 Q Mountain View Voice Q MountainViewOnline.com Q

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to share some of the property tax revenue from the Shoreline district’s funds since 2011, and approved an agreement last year to give school districts to boost the sum. The district received more than $2.8 million last year under the agreement, and will receive an estimated $3.2 million for the 2014-15 fiscal year. Up until last week, the district hadn’t spent much of the Shoreline money, and was sitting on just shy of $7 million at the end of the 2013-14 fiscal year. But Superintendent Craig Goldman expressed a willingness to use the money to help pay for the larger middle school project. “We have a significant ending balance because we (haven’t) necessarily put a plan in place for how to expend those monies going forward,” Goldman said. “I think with the focus on reserves recently, I think it’s been a call to utilize those funds for the benefit of the children that are here and now.” The Shoreline money, along with as much as $3.4 million in developer fees, will pay for most of the added costs for the middle school construction projects. The new design The redesigned projects include a two-story “innovation center” building at both middle schools, each with six classrooms and a shared open-space lobby area. Rather than isolated classrooms, the building is designed to allow all the classrooms to open up a large portion of the wall facing the lobby area to allow for multi-room activities and presentations. The innovation centers look very different from the project designs presented to the board last June. Erwin Lee, an architect for the Measure G projects at Crittenden, said the building was going to be a one-story, 15,000 square foot library building with classrooms attached. The new

design calls for a 17,500-squarefoot, two-story building with four classrooms on the first floor and two above. Unlike Graham, the Crittenden building will also include the school library, which will border the lobby area on the first floor. Similarly, Graham will have three classrooms on the first floor and three on the second floor. Both innovation centers will have balcony that wraps around the second floor to give second-story classroom students access to the main room for collaborative projects. Terese McNamee, chief business officer for the district, said the building design for the twostory innovation centers needed to have an area big enough so all

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the students could occupy the “wide-open” space and create large-scale presentations. Todd Lee, project manager for the construction projects at both middle schools, said they discovered, in looking at other projects being built, that innovation centers need to have high spaces with lots of volume. As a result, the square footage on the buildings didn’t change much but the cubic footage doubled as they added a second floor. “If you’re looking around at other similar projects, successful projects ... they’re all high-volume spaces, and that goes handin-hand with the program,” Lee said. Both middle school principals spoke in favor of the revised Measure G plans at the board meeting. Graham’s principal,

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Kim Thompson, said teachers are excited to see what the new building looks like. “In the design phase, we’re building something that doesn’t exist. We’re building for technology that doesn’t exist,” Thompson said. “It’s all up in the air, which is exciting.” Appropriate use of Shoreline funds? District staff at the board meeting emphasized to the board that Shoreline reserve funds were well-suited to pay for things like the innovation centers at the middle schools. McNamee explained that the money is restricted funds used for “programmatic” improvements and can be used by the district to help integrate the sites into “21st Century learning environments.” “I believe (the funds) are absolutely appropriate for the design that we’re showing tonight,” McNamee said.”We really see those innovation centers as a place to help change how we’re learning and teaching and collaborating with each other.” How the district can spend the money is spelled out in the Joint Powers Agreement between the Shoreline Regional Park Community and the two Mountain View school districts. Among other things, it states the money can be used for “creating and maintaining learning environments that provide academic rigor and foster 21st century learning skills such as critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration and leadership, initiative and entrepreneurialism, and effective communication.” Goldman presented some of the language in the agreement to the board and emphasized that expanding the overall budget for the projects would meet the purpose of the agreement. “I can’t imagine a better use of these funds than these innovation centers,” Goldman said. But the use of Shoreline funds to pay for the extra $6 million in costs didn’t sit well with some.

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New classrooms will include two-story buildings with large walls that open up for outdoor access.

Greg Coladonato, vice-chair of the Measure G oversight committee and school board candidate, said the money could be better spent elsewhere. “Unlike staff, I do not believe that the Shoreline reserves are absolutely appropriate to cover these budget overruns. Unlike staff, I can imagine a better use for these funds than constructing these buildings.” He said the money would be better spend on “classroom activities” and program improvements right away, including technology-based programs for English-language learner students to help them learn English at a more rapid rate. “I’ve also heard from our teachers that they’d like more training related to the technology involved in the Common Core,” Coladonato said. “There are a wealth of opportunities for this Shoreline reserve money.” Coladonato encouraged the board to turn down the proposal and ask staff for more options for how to pay for the cost overruns on the middle school projects, including tapping into more Measure G bond money or cutting the projects to stay within the original $50 million budget.

Board member Chris Chiang came out in full support of expanding the innovation centers, and said he can’t think of a more “game-changing” way to support the expansion of STEM and technology than through the new building designs. “I don’t see it as a cost overrun, it’s really that we’re doubling down on a bolder vision Board member Steve Nelson, who voted against the new designs and budget, said he felt “very uncomfortable” with a 12 percent cost overrun. He said the money could be spent to narrow the achievement gap through summer programs, among other things. Nelson emphasized that the Shoreline money can, and has been, used to pay for operating expenses including salaries, teaching materials, computer equipment and after-school materials. “This money isn’t going to be available because it’s going to be spent on ‘volume,’” Nelson said. “Operational and program reserves used just for building bigger is, I think, not really what the community supported.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com

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Civility Roundtable takes on housing crisis By Daniel DeBolt

ith a goal of having a difficult but civil discussion on housing affordability, Mountain View’s fifth Civility Roundtable event will bring together some opposing voices on Thursday, Nov. 6. The city’s Human Relations Commission created the discussion series, which has taken on such topics as immigration and gun control by facilitating an unlikely discussion between community members with opposing views, and allows pub-

lic participation in small groups in the second half. Chris Block, CEO of the American Leadership Forum, will again moderate. Organizers wanted to have a balanced discussion on the issue but faced difficulty finding someone to represent the slow housing-growth sentiment that has ruled Mountain View’s political culture for many years. A willing representative was eventually found in Louise Katz, an opponent of the mixed-use Greystar development at 801 El Camino Real (home of the Rose

Market) and an attorney and advocate for the developmentally disabled. Former mayor Laura Macias declined to speak, Konrad Sosnow had participated in a previous roundtable event, and city staff opposed the inclusion of council candidates, council members and planning commissioners, according to event organizer Lucas Ramirez. The panel will include Joshua Howard of the California Apartment Association, which represents landlords; Mark Kroll, managing director for housing developer Sares Regis; Santa

Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who has called attention to the “maddening cycle” of tech job growth out-pacing housing growth; Shiloh Ballard of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which reports that its member CEOs see a lack of housing as a major obstacle to tech job growth; and community organizer Aracely Mondragon, who is with Peninsula Interfaith Action and the San Francisco Organizing Project, the groups that recently held a forum pinning down council candidates on their opposition to rent control. Topics of discussion are set to include: rent control; home-

lessness; high-density housing; subsidized housing; the city’s “inclusionary zoning” practice that seeks a percentage of below-market-rate housing in large housing developments; the balance between job and housing growth; the merit of making developers pay fees toward affordable housing; and increasing housing stock as a way to reduce housing prices. The event will be held on Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Mountain View Senior Center at 266 Escuela Ave., from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Attendance is free, though an RSVP is encouraged via event pages on Facebook or Google Plus.

at Hope and Evelyn streets, adding that the city may ask Virgin Hotels to participate in a bidding process for the site. Council members also asked city staff to return with information for a council discussion about the properties in January. Local architect Bill Maston had been hired for the Mountain View Virgin Hotels project and said in May that “Our hopes are to build, as part of a new parking structure, a Virgin Hotel that would help finance the new park-

ing garage on existing lots.” “This would be a public benefit that would actually increase available parking in downtown Mountain View while bringing a first-class hotel into the downtown area,” he said. Local labor leaders have asked to council to ensure labor peace agreement is part of any project they approve on the site. Virgin Hotels is set to open its first hotel in Chicago this December. —Danie DeBolt

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council approved a 4 percent raise for the three appointees. The raise includes a 2 percent merit increase. Council member John McAlister said that “everything was on a positive note” during the council’s closed-door discussion of the raise. Council candidate Jim Neal backed the raise, saying he had “great respect for work they’ve done on city’s behalf” but resident Don Letcher strongly opposed the raise, calling certain appointees “enemies of the public” for chang-

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El Camino readies for Ebola HOSPITAL PREPARES WITH SAFETY DRILLS, TASK FORCE AMID ANXIETY OVER THE VIRUS

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ocal hospitals are ramping up efforts to prepare for an Ebola case, and El Camino Hospital is no exception. Through safety drills, staff training and developing a plan for coping with the infectious disease, medical officials say they could handle a case without endangering hospital staff. The often-fatal disease has spread throughout West Africa and the rest of the world. There are now nearly 10,000 reported cases of Ebola in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization, and cases continue to trickle into the United States. Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer was placed in isolation at a New York hospital on Oct. 23 after returning from Guinea, where he was treating Ebola patients. Ebola has flu-like symptoms including fever, abdominal pain and vomiting, as well as internal and external bleeding. The disease is spread through blood or other body fluids contaminated with the virus and is not spread through air or by water, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). El Camino Hospital has prepared extensively for the virus despite the “very low” chances that an Ebola case will make it to the smaller community hospital, according to Dr. Eric Pifer, El Camino Hospital’s chief medical officer. Pifer said the hospital established a task force that meets every week on a strategic plan for dealing with a patient infected with Ebola. One of the challenges, he said, is that if hospital staff suspects patients might have Ebola, they need to treat the patients as if they have it until a state or regional medical center determines whether the patient tests positive. That hasn’t happened yet, as the hospital has yet to receive a patient who has shown the flu-like symptoms associated with Ebola after traveling to the three West African countries where the disease is prevalent — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Still, there’s general anxiety over Ebola in the community, and even among hospital staff, including rumors of expected or possible cases of the virus, Pifer said. “We feel like there’s so much attention on this that it can create more problems here in the community than it solves,” he said. Beyond the task force and

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The Ebola virus causes flu-like symptoms and is spread through bodily fluids.

logistics planning, the hospital has also done a number of safety and practice drills to run through exactly how staff would treat a patient with the virus, including transferring the patient from the emergency department to intensive care. In the drills — on Oct. 15 and Oct. 23 — hospital staff worked with a simulated case of a person who had traveled from West Africa and was displaying some of the flu-like symptoms associated with Ebola. Pifer said as the virus progresses, patient symp-

The hospital has yet to receive a patient who has shown the flu-like symptoms associated with Ebola. toms start to include intestinal problems and bleeding, complicating treatment and care. Doctors and nurses handling an Ebola patient will be suited up in waterproof clothes, based on recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control, and respiratory masks. Pifer said hospital staff has practiced the process of putting on and safely taking off the protective suits, as well as a subsequent decontamination process. The hospital also has four “negative-pressure” rooms — rooms that generate negative pressure and allow air flow into the room but not out — that could house Ebola patients. Though negative-

pressure rooms are normally for airborne, infectious diseases like tuberculosis — a relatively common disease in the Bay Area — the CDC recommends using negative-pressure rooms for Ebola patients to reduce possible exposure to the virus. Pifer said he can’t say for sure how many Ebola cases El Camino Hospital could handle at one time, and that in the event of more than one case, the hospital would consider transferring patients to a nearby facility. There were some lessons learned, Pifer said, from the “breakdowns” in the way that nurses and staff at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital protected themselves in treating Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States since the start of the outbreak in west Africa. He said in the later stages of the virus, the patient produces about 10 liters of “body fluid” contaminated with Ebola every day, which the hospital struggled to manage. Kaiser Permanente has taken similar steps towards preparing for Ebola as well. According to an email sent out by the health care group, Kaiser has updated caregivers with the equipment and training needed to treat a patient with the virus, and is following national and state guidelines for early detection and care. The email includes information on symptoms and how the disease is spread, and emphasizes that the risk of contracting the disease in the U.S. is minimal. More information on Ebola, including symptoms and transmission of the disease, can be found at www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com

On June 5, 2012, voters residing in the Mountain View Whisman School District passed Measure G, which is a $198 million bond measure that authorizes funding for needed repairs, upgrades, and new construction projects for the District’s schools. After a bond authorized under Proposition 39 is passed, state law requires that the Mountain View Whisman School District Board of Trustees appoint a Citizens’ Oversight Committee to work with the District. The Committee responsibilities include: informing the public regarding the District’s expenditure of bond proceeds, ensuring bond proceeds are expended only for the purposes set forth in Measure G, and presenting an annual report to the Board of Trustees on their conclusions regarding the expenditure of Measure G proceeds. If you wish to serve on this important committee, please review the committee by-laws for more information about the committee’s role and responsibilities and complete the application from the COC website at http://www.mvwsd.org/citizens-oversightcommittee. Completed applications should be sent or faxed to the Chief Business Officer of the Mountain View Whisman School District by 4:00 PM on Wednesday, November 5, 2014.

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Clockwise from top: The Victorian-era Rengstorff House was decked out in macabre fashion for Halloween, as volunteers from the Friends of the Rengstorff House led tours (and handed out candy) last weekend; Maryanne Roger plays the house’s ghost as she adjusts the seat at a ghoulish repast; Adriana, 8, leaves the room where Bailey Matthews, in period dress, is ready for a séance.

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ported a compromise with the developers of 400 San Antonio Road that would seek an agreement for “a significant number of affordable units in exchange for allowing some of the park area to be included in the FAR (allowed floor area ratio),” said City Manager Dan Rich. Along with allowing a higher-density project, the City Council directed staff to accept .5 acres in park land dedication and the remainder of the obligation in in-lieu fees, said Rich. Developers can opt to pay “park in-lieu fees” instead of their park space obligation, depending on a project’s size. Developers have usually opted to pay the fees rather than provide the full amount of park space. City staff said the fees are commensurate to the market value of the lost park space, but

added that cities up and down the Peninsula are taking fees instead of requiring parks in new projects. Council member Mike Kasperzak suggested it was time to raise the park fees to discourage the practice. “We’re losing ground if we do this and we take only half an acre of park. I can’t justify that for people who live in the area; to me it’s just wrong,” said council member Jac Siegel. “If you can tell me where we can buy 1.75 acres for $7 million I’ll go for it, but you can’t.” He suggested that the city buy the corner property at Fayette and San Antonio, which is an office for lease, but not for sale, developers said. The city has managed to acquire only 2.2 acres of new park space in the last six years, excluding Stevens Creek trail extensions and ball fields in North Bayshore, “which is pretty deplorable,” said council member

John McAlister. The city is sitting on millions in park fees paid for by developers but can’t find land to buy with it. Zoning administrator Gerry Beaudin said the city has only been able to acquire land for parks “between .3 and .8 acres, not anywhere near 1.75 acres” in recent years. “We have to do more,” said J.P. De la Montaigne, community services director, adding that the city is looking into technology that could allow the city staff to jump on property as soon as it goes up for sale, indicating that competing with developers when buying land is difficult. Bill Cranston of the Monta Loma Neighborhood Association spoke in favor of the 375-apartment development, noting that the half-acre park could become a full acre if the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission allows the addition of anther

half-acre along the Hetch Hetchy right of way. Negotiations for that are complicated by the SFPUC’s demands for other properties in the city, Rich said. That portion is now a parking lot for which the developers have the rights. The San Antonio area “has 1.34 acres of park land per 1,000 (residents) — that number is by far the smallest in all of Mountain View,” said resident Serge Bonte. “This is by far the most deficient area in terms of parks and open space. It is deficient in schools, deficient in trees, and deficient in parks and open space.” According to the parks and open space plan, the Rengstorff and Sylvan-Dale areas are the second most in need of park space. To meet the city’s goal of 3 acres of open space for every 1,000 residents, another 30.85 acres would need to be purchased. In recent years, the city has lost ground as population

growth exceeds park development, with the ratio decreasing in recent years from 2.61 acres per 1,000 residents to 2.58. In the last six years the city acquired 20.81 acres of open space, mostly Stevens Creek trail extensions and the planned 6-acre Shoreline ball fields on Garcia Avenue. Only 2.2 acres of parks — or “mini-parks” — have been built or planned in the last six years, including Del Medio and Mariposa mini-parks and the newly acquired Stieper property at 771 North Rengstorff Ave. All three were the site of older homes. City staff reported that 98 percent of land in the city is now developed. Developers have paid the city $50 million in park fees over the last decade, half of which was paid over the last two years.

fight and was issued a citation for assault and battery.

of Modesto, manipulating a hanger inside the car’s closed window, according to Sgt. Saul Jaeger of the Mountain View Police Department. Police said that Santacruz was trying to unlock the vehicle and told officers he believed it was his vehicle. Police suspect that he was under the influence of a controlled substance at the time. Santacruz was arrested on a charge of vehicle tampering and booked into San Jose Main Jail. Kevin Forestieri

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on charges of assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly pulled a sweatshirt over a person’s head and struck the victim on the head with a metal flashlight.

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with a pipe. The fight, which involved three construction workers, broke out at 881 East El Camino Real on Friday, Oct. 24, at 7:42 a.m. Two brothers from Sacramento, Daniel and David Trejo, got into a fight with the victim, a 23-year-old Oakland man. Based on witness statements and a police investigation, officers believe Daniel Trejo struck the victim with a 16-inch pipe during the fight. Police say it’s unclear what started the fight, but they believe

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it may have been the result of a disagreement the day before about job duties, according to Sgt. Saul Jaeger of the Mountain View Police Department. The victim suffered abrasions to the head, face and back, and complained of pain in his left arm. He refused medical assistance at the scene. Daniel Trejo, 38, was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and booked into San Jose Main Jail. Police say David Trejo, 34, was also involved in the

VEHICLE TAMPERING A 19-year-old man was arrested last week after he allegedly attempted to jimmy open a vehicle at 1250 Grant Road. Police received a report at around 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 24, that someone was trying to open a vehicle using a hanger. When officers arrived on the scene, they witnessed the man, identified as Enrique Santacruz

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what’s the right fit for the child, rather than choosing the school that’s thought to be “better” than the other. “What I don’t want to see happen is one school ... having a reputation of providing better education or being more desirable than another school,” Lambert said. “I think that’s a challenge for the board (and) the administration.” Board member Ellen Wheeler, who was also part of the task force, said there was overwhelming support by parents to make a better academic environment for the students at Castro the ultimate goal of the restructure. “People were just fervent about that. I’m very happy to see that at the end of the process, this was something that is highlighted,” Wheeler said. Wheeler said Castro parents emphasized it was also important to keep the “community feeling” in the Castro neighborhood, and that whatever decision the district makes should not split the community in some way. Board member Steve Nelson expressed concerns about how well the two Castro schools would pool together and share volunteer work and PTA leadership, which might end up lopsided in favor of one school. He said the relationship between Theuerkauf and Stevenson schools is a good example of how little can be shared by two schools on the same campus. “If it ends up like Theuerkauf and Stevenson, I think it’s a failure,” Nelson said.

Board member Chris Chiang said he would support the recommendation to split the school if the district is willing to pour millions of dollars in the coming years into improving the traditional program. He said it’s not enough to separate the schools and see what happens next. “It’s not just about separating the school structurally. The ‘turn-around’ model is about dollars. It’s about all kinds of

‘If you want to do something different, you need to allocate serious money.’ DAVID KESSENS, PARENT

programs,” Chiang said. Until the district identifies and sets aside money to support the traditional program at Castro, Chiang said, he would not be comfortable splitting the school and just “hoping” the money is out there. Teresa Coughlan, a traditional program kindergarten teacher at Castro, said she is optimistic and happy to hear the board discuss ways to improve Castro’s traditional program. “What you gave me today was a message of hope by focusing on the details on how are we going to fund this, how important it is and how Castro can be a catalyst for academic achievement in the

district,” Coughlan said. DI parent David Kessens said he felt the task force was too constrained and only looked at four options, all of which revolved around real estate. Kessens said he was glad to see the board is shifting its focus towards improving the educational programs at Castro and committing “real” money to do it. If the district’s goal is ultimately academic improvements, Kessens said, it’s not building improvements that are going to make a big difference. “In the end, it’s actually the program that counts. It’s the education they get,” Kessens said. “The reality is that if you want to do something different, you need to allocate serious money.” Kessens said the district might need to re-think how it teaches the traditional program, which doesn’t meet the needs of the primarily low-income and Hispanic students. “Those kids are not traditional students, they are simply not. We have a traditional program and that is not what they need. They need a program that’s actually focused on English learners,” Kessens said. “That’s what we don’t offer today.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com

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the North Bayshore. If people are given the opportunity to live near their work, many of them will.” Candidate Lenny Siegel, who has led the charge for more housing in North Bayshore, said it is a “useful exercise” to estimate traffic impacts, but that he came to a much different conclusion than Kamei. “Substituting 5,000 units of housing for 2.1 million of the 3.4 million net new square feet of office in the draft Precise Plan would reduce commute traffic by about 15,000 vehicles a day,” he said. His calculations are based on assumptions of significant office space reductions and 75 percent of North Bayshore residents also working there. “If we reduce the number of new jobs from 17,000 to 6,500, that means 23,000 fewer commute trips (inbound plus outbound) each day,” Siegel said. “Then,

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if 75 percent of the hypothetical 6,500 employed residents of new housing commute within North Bayshore, the number of outside commutes (inbound and outbound) falls by an additional 9,750.” Planning director Randy Tsuda said the traffic impacts of 5,000 homes in North Bayshore have never been studied by the city. In 2012, the City Council rejected a general plan option that would have added 1,140 homes in North Bayshore and several thousand around the city. Tsuda said the traffic study for that option found an increase in trips but a decrease in vehicle miles traveled because people would be living closer to their work destinations. The “increased housing” option was found to be the “environmentally superior” option because of the reduction in car commuting emissions. A slim council majority rejected that alternative after express-

ing opposition to housing in North Bayshore, citing threats to Shoreline wildlife and distaste for what some members thought would be dorm-like housing. Some hint as to how many drivers might actually live in a new North Bayshore neighborhood can be found in recently approved apartment projects. The Madera complex on Evelyn Avenue near the downtown train station, where many units have been reserved for Google employees, has 1.5 parking spaces per unit. Owners report that the garage is only 75 percent full on any given night. The 184-unit complex recently approved for 100 Moffett Boulevard has 229 parking spaces planned, a ratio of 1.24 parking spaces per unit, or one per bedroom. 10,000 more cars In an email to the Voice, Kamei backed away from the mailer’s claim of 10,000 new cars on

Highway 101, referring instead to “an additional 10,000 vehicular trips on our current roadway network.” “With no amenities in North Bayshore such as grocery stores, schools, or retail, residents would need to take trips across Shoreline Boulevard to engage with those fundamental needs,” Kamei writes. “With a singleoccupancy vehicle rate of 61 percent currently and the average household having 1-2 vehicles, it is projected that developing housing in North Bayshore would result in an additional 10,000 vehicular trips on our current roadway network.” Former city manager Bruce Liedstrand called the mailer “a substantial distortion of the truth,” and asked Kamei via email to “publicly disavow this mailer and set the record straight immediately.” “As you probably already know, a city traffic study indicates that

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creating a residential neighborhood in North Bayshore actually helps manage traffic congestion,” he wrote. Kamei pointed to a city study of existing North Bayshore traffic problems and of future traffic impacts from 3.4 million square feet of office space in the North Bayshore precise plan, bringing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 new employees to the area. Kamei said that at the Sept. 3 Environmental Planning Commission (EPC) meeting, city staff told commissioners that Highway 101’s Shoreline exit is at vehicle capacity during the morning commute hours, with the San Antonio and Rengstorff exits also highly impacted. “The Shoreline Corridor Study is still underway but given the information we received through the North Bayshore Precise Plan and the associated EIR, significant traffic impacts can be deduced,” she said. Kamei added,”I do strongly support additional housing and smart growth in the city of Mountain View.” Candidate Mercedes Salem, who also opposes North Bayshore housing, said “both Lenny and Ellen’s numbers are conjecture.” “The results from the 2012 general plan using 1,140 (North Bayshore) homes cannot be used as a correlation to 5,000 homes,” Salem said. “With 1,140 units there is no need for a school or grocery, whereas with 5,000 units, a different analysis has to be done. I would suspect that there will be way too many car trips at 5,000 units because of lack of services, and that would most likely make it the environmentally inferior choice.” Candidate Lisa Matichak, a planning commissioner who opposes North Bayshore housing, said, “We would need to estimate the mix of housing types, as different housing type assumptions will result in different traffic impacts.” “It is reasonable to assume that traffic would decrease only for those who work in North Bayshore that move to North Bayshore. It is equally reasonable to acknowledge that traffic would increase since neighborhoodserving retail, health services, schools, etc., with a 1,000- to 5,000-home community would be available only on the south side of 101.” Matichak pointed out that such problems already exist in her own Whisman neighborhood, which lacks a school and a grocery store. “In order for me to assess this situation it’s critical that I have data provided by a reliable thirdparty source,” said Margaret Capriles, the third planning commissioner in the council

LocalNews race. “In my mind, the main issue that we must address in (North Bayshore) today is traffic congestion, before considering housing.” Candidate Greg Unangst, who is in favor of North Bayshore housing, said he agreed with Siegel’s calculations and said Kamei’s 10,000 car estimate “makes no sense to me.” “Having people live near their jobs will reduce vehicle commutes and (vehicle miles traveled),” Unangst said. “People are moving into the mobile home park and near the bike/pedestrian bridge over 101 specifically so they can walk/bike to work. Putting housing in (North Bayshore) — whether 1,000 or 5,000 — will help meet this growing demand.” Candidates Ken Rosenberg and Jim Neal also support housing in North Bayshore. Neal did not respond to the Voice’s request for comment by press deadline

Wednesday. “I am interested in examining options to address the city’s and the region’s housing shortage and improvements to the traffic situation and will encourage additional study of these issues in North Bayshore,” Rosenberg said in an email. “Construction of up to 3.4 million more square feet of office space will add thousands of new cars going into the (North Bayshore) area daily. Adding housing to the (North Bayshore) area will reduce the square feet of available new office space and put potentially thousands of Mountain View citizens near their place of work.” Rosenberg said he believes that if voters elect candidates on Nov. 4 who support housing in North Bayshore, it will be a mandate for the City Council to act accordingly. Email Daniel DeBolt at ddebolt@mv-voice.com

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SANTA CLARA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT BOARD Brian Schmidt (incumbent)

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MOUNTAIN VIEW MEASURE A (Pay increase for City Council members) Vote yes

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MOUNTAIN VIEW-LOS ALTOS UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION Debbie Torok (incumbent) Joe Mitchner (incumbent) Fiona Walter (See editorial published Oct. 3)

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STATE ASSEMBLY Rich Gordon-D (incumbent)

EL CAMINO HEALTHCARE DISTRICT BOARD David Reeder (incumbent) Margaret Abe-Koga

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‘BLANK CHECK’ WOULD INTENSIFY FIGHT The reason we can’t get specifics on how Measure N money would be spent is because the district is afraid to present a detailed plan. If they prioritize a charter school, they’ll lose votes. If they prioritize other schools, they’ll lose votes. If they identify a location for a new campus or close a campus, they’ll lose votes. Handing the district a blank check will intensify the battle between the district and Bullis, and we’ll witness increased hostility dragging on for years. That’s not what our kids need. Vote NO on N. Pat Marriott Oakhurst Avenue, Los Altos

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Please join me in voting for Fiona Walter for the MVLA High School Board. Fiona’s extensive experience includes

eight years on the Mountain View Whisman school board, leadership roles in multiple parcel tax/bond efforts, and PTA roles across elementary/ middle/high school levels, most recently as the 2013-14 MVHS PTSA President. With two students currently attending MVHS, Fiona’s strong voice will be a positive addition to the team. Both the Voice and the Town Crier endorse Fiona, with the Voice calling this new role, “a seamless move” for her. I enthusiastically agree and encourage you to vote for Fiona on Nov. 4. Laura Blakely View Street

Council candidates Rosenberg, Showalter and Kamei. If these were sent to all the voters in Mountain View, it means an investment, by interests who don’t wish to be identified, on the order of $100,000 to get the “right” City Council members

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