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News Digest Bay Area Senior Games converge on Palo Alto A Solar Torch Relay at 5 p.m. at Stanford Pac-12 Plaza, followed by a pasta feed, kicks off Friday’s Bay Area Senior Games schedule, followed by a weekend of events ranging from team sports like soccer, basketball, water polo, rugby, raquetball and volleyball to individual events, such as swimming, fencing, golf, tennis and table tennis. A segment of the eighth annual Bay Area Senior Games, which seek to promote health and fitness for adults 50 years and older, will take place this weekend in Palo Alto and at Stanford University. The games began in March and will run until June in locations from Fort Ord to Walnut Creek. All events are free and open for public spectators, and volunteers are needed for some events both in Palo Alto and at Stanford University. The Bay Area Senior Games website, bayareaseniorgames.org/ index, lists more information. N — Palo Alto Weekly staff

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A statewide organization for renters’ rights has filed a Public Records Act request with the City of East Palo Alto after an audit of the city’s Rent Stabilization Program prompted the program’s highly regarded manager to resign. Attorneys for Tenants Together filed the request to City Attorney John Nagel on May 6. The request asks for documents between June 1, 2012, and May 1, 2014, related to the audit, including any communications by City Manager Magda Gonzalez. Gonzalez hired an outside consultant to conduct the audit, which was one of four program audits intended to increase efficiency, Gonzalez has said. The rent-program audit spotlighted manager Carol Lamont, although she was not directly named, and criticized her for “a perceived lack of neutrality� against landlords. Since Lamont announced her resignation to the rent board on March 12, board members and lawyers for tenants’ rights have blasted the audit as a targeted attack on Lamont. She is a longtime housing professional who worked for the San Francisco Foundation and on federal Housing and Urban Development programs before administering East Palo Alto’s rent-stabilization program. Gonzalez has said the audit is part of an overall plan to make city programs better. Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director of Tenants Together, said she is concerned that the lopsided audit might be the first salvo to knock the legs out from under the city’s rent-stabilization ordinance, which protects residents against exorbitant rent increases and provides both tenants and landlords with a platform for grievances. She added she hopes the public records request will reveal what, if any, influence landlords may have had in the audit’s launching or its outcome. N — Sue Dremann

Palo Alto man sentenced to year in jail for attack A 22-year-old Palo Alto man was sentenced to one year in San Mateo County jail on Friday, May 9, after having pleaded no contest to felony charges of auto burglary and assault of a 13-year-old Portola Valley boy with a baseball bat in April 2013. Alexander Stefan Dombovic, who has been and remains out of custody on $50,000 bail, is to report to jail on June 21 to begin serving his sentence, according to a report by Bay City News Service. He was also ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution and serve three years of probation. The string of incidents that led to his arrest began at around 10 p.m. on a Sunday night, April 21, 2013, according to accounts by prosecutors and Sheriff’s Office deputies. The Portola Valley boy had been reading in his bedroom when he heard a car come down the driveway of his home and park near his room. He went out to see what was going on and said he saw a man rummaging through his father’s vehicle. The boy asked the man what he was doing, and the man allegedly yelled at him and charged at him with an aluminum baseball bat, hitting him in the shoulder. The man then fled in a gold Toyota SUV. Deputies were in the area to respond to a nearby car burglary and saw an SUV driving on the wrong side of the road with its lights off. The deputies swerved to avoid the vehicle and a chase ensued. Dombovic was arrested after he lost control of his vehicle and plunged down an embankment. N — Dave Boyce and Bay City News Service LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com

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