Palo Alto Weekly April 26, 2019

Palo Alto

Vol. XL, Number 30 Q April 26, 2019

City revives its interest in a business tax Page 5

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Palo Alto at 125

City looks back with a celebration, opened time capsule Page 7

Neighborhoods 11 Pulse 18 Transitions 19 Spectrum 20 Eating Out 27 Movies 30 Puzzles 55 Q A&E Stanford turns true stories into powerful theater Page 11 Q Home Tour showcases modern homes, a breathtaking view Page 32 Q Sports Stanford women host weekend water-polo tourney Page 53

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Palo Alto revives its interest in a business tax City Council approves work plan to place a measure on 2020 ballot that would pay for transportation projects

by Gennady Sheyner fter four years of false starts and sharp disagreements, Palo Alto kicked off on Monday a new effort to place a business tax on the November 2020 ballot.

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By a 6-1 vote, with Councilman Greg Tanaka dissenting, the City Council approved a plan for developing a revenue measure that would support various transportation projects, including the

redesign of four rail crossings. In the coming months, the city will be hiring consultants, crunching numbers, refining proposals and surveying the public. Under the adopted timeline, the city would decide by October which revenue-generating proposal to pursue and, after more outreach, polling and analysis, draft the measure by June 2020.

In crafting the work plan,

Administrative Services Department staff proposed an “iterative” approach, with regular check-ins by the council and its Finance Committee. According to a new report from Administrative Services, the plan anticipates “continued review and refining of proposals,” with regular polling and outreach along the way.

Councilwoman Alison Cormack lauded this method.

“I think it’s the beginning of the conversation,” Cormack said.

“This is the opposite of the ‘big bang’ approach. ... We need to have some options; we all need to think about it; we need to define it as we go.”

Palo Alto has explored a business tax numerous times already.

In 2009, the council proposed (continued on page 16)

TRANSPORTATION

Proposed train tunnel splits Palo Alto council Some members want to hang on to the popular but expensive idea

superintendent for what Vice President Todd Collins said is “very much a step in the right direction.”

No one on the school board raised a question or made a comment about the five-year lock-step pay increase.

In interviews with the Weekly, both Collins and President Jennifer DiBrienza said their thinking on the raises has changed since they ran for election to the school board.

DiBrienza said during the 2016 campaign that “’me too’ raises must be a thing of the past.”

Collins similarly said that “the ‘me too’ policy for most if not all administrators does not make sense and should be replaced with an approach based on cost-ofliving increases, with adjustments

by Gennady Sheyner s Palo Alto approaches a decision on the best way to separate the railroad tracks from local streets, city leaders remain divided over the most ambitious and expensive option on the table: an underground tunnel stretching from one end of the city to the other.

Everyone agrees that the tunnel option, which is one of six on Palo Alto’s current menu of design alternatives, is unlike all the others, each of which is limited to a particular section of the 4-mile rail corridor. That, however, is where the consensus ends.

Supporters of the tunnel believe the option is too good to pass up, a once-in-a-century opportunity to transform the rail corridor for the better. Opponents counter that it’s an expensive distraction, an option that is both too good to be true and too expensive to be realistic.

Both views surfaced during the council’s Monday discussion on “grade separation,” which concluded with the council agreeing to a new working group to shepherd the effort, with the goal of reaching a decision by October.

The group will be appointed by City Manager Ed Shikada and would not be subject to the state’s Brown Act requirements for public meetings. As such, members would have the flexibility to talk

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Wunderbar!

Gunn High School German-language students, from left, Clem Colwell, Luca Dalcero and Aadil Zariya, take a virtual tour on April 25 of Nürenberg, Hamburg and Frankfurt while exploring the WanderbUS, a traveling exhibition featuring videos, presentations and information about Germany. The bus is stopping at more than 60 schools across the United States as part of the yearlong program to celebrate German-American relations, “Wunderbar Together,” organized by the German Federal Foreign Office, Goethe-Institut and the Federation of German Industry.

EDUCATION

Once they opposed automatic pay raises for principals now school board’s OK with them

‘Me too’ clause ties Palo Alto school district senior managers’ increases to unions’

by Elena Kadvany espite prior opposition to the practice of tying raises for Palo Alto school principals and other district managers to those negotiated with the teachers’ union, members of the Board of Education are poised to approve a five-year agreement containing the clause at their May 14 meeting.

At least three current board members, including the president

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and vice president, have in the past criticized the district’s longstanding practice of providing “me too” raises to members of the Palo Alto Management Association (PAMA), a non-unionized group that represents 85 principals, assistant principals, directors, coordinators, school psychologists and other administrators.

Superintendent Don Austin

brought the revised memorandum of understanding (MOU) to the board this week, saying that the new, pared-down agreement — now a single page instead of nine — would generate a more positive “partnership” with the administrators.

Board members commented briefly but commended both the management association and new

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They won’t be easy, they won’t be popular. —Adrian Fine, vice chair of city’s finance committee, on making cuts to city budget. See story on page 10.

Around Town

COURT VICTORY ... Palo Alto’s growing community of pickleball players clapped and cheered on Tuesday night, when the Parks and Recreation Commission backed a plan that would create eight courts at Mitchell Park dedicated to the city’s fastestgrowing sport. By a unanimous vote, the commission supported a redesign of several tennis courts at the park to support the popular paddle-and-ball sport that has been winning a legion of followers in recent years. Under this plan, the city would convert one tennis court into four pickleball courts and establish two more dedicated pickleball courts at a vacant space next to them.

These would supplement the two dedicated courts that the city had recently established at the site of underused paddleball courts. In addition, the city will designate two other tennis courts at Mitchell Park as dual use, with pickleball getting priority from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and tennis getting priority from 3 to 10 p.m. (When these courts aren’t in use, anyone can play, provided they relinquish the space once players of the “priority� sport arrive.) Dozens of pickleball players attended the meeting to cheer the new plan, which means they will no longer have to set up their own nets on tennis courts every time they want to play. “We’ll be able to teach a lot more youth,� said Monica Williams, president of the Palo Alto Pickleball Club. “This gives us the possibility of people just coming in and playing, rather than having to put up a net.�

PARKING CRUNCH ... Changes come at a cost and in the California Avenue business district’s case for a new parking garage, that sacrifice is losing 143 spots. On Monday, the city closed parking lot C-7, which is located behind several businesses including Starbucks, Zareen’s and Antonio’s Nut House, to begin construction for a new 636-space parking garage. To help alleviate the loss of the C-7 spots, the city made arrangements to turn 43 spaces at the Santa Clara County parking lot at 275 Grant Ave. across the street from the Palo Alto Courthouse into two-hour public parking spots.

The construction work has also blocked traffic on Sherman

Avenue between Birch Street and Park Boulevard. The new parking garage, made up of two underground levels and four levels above ground, is expected to be completed by 2020. One the structure is completed, the city will begin building a new public-safety building next door slated to be finished by 2022. Earlier this year, the city removed 35 trees they deemed wouldn’t survive if they were replanted elsewhere to make way for the new structures. The largest tree removed from the site was a coastal redwood, which the city planned to take wood from to incorporate into the California Avenue district project or another city facility.

NOT SO FRESH AIR ... Santa Clara County may be home to successful tech companies that have turned the valley into a landmark for innovation, but it sadly claims a failing grade in this year’s “State of the Air� report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association.

The county maintained its “F� grade for its ozone level, rising just above the association’s annual weighted average number of high ozone days, and passed the association’s parameters for annual particle pollution as seen in last year’s report. However, its particle pollution within a 24hour span fell from a “C� grade in 2018 to an “F� grade this year. The county’s conditions reflect the state of air across the country, where more than four in 10 people live in counties with unhealthful levels of ozone or particle pollution, according to the association. Climate change is considered a major player in the harmful air quality resulting from warmer weather and varying rain patterns. In California, the report points out how higher temperatures and wildfires made an impact on air quality in several cities. “California communities face too many unhealthy air days, and we know that these burdens hit our most vulnerable residents hardest,� Will Barrett, director of clean advocacy with the American Lung Association in California, said in a statement. “We must confront the reality that climate change is making the job of cleaning our air much more difficult.� Q

Upfront INTERACTIVE T INTERACTIVE TIMELINE: IMELINE: G Go o online online for for a look look at at Palo Palo Alto’s Alto’s journey journey into into tthe he 2 21st 1st c century entury 1980: Steve Jobs talks on a landline in his office, nearly three decades before he introduces the first iPhone.

1983: A man protests a newly remodeled building at 300 Hamilton Ave. 1960s: Police arrest antiVietnam War protesters at an unidentified location in Palo Alto.

1974: Josina Bol’s donkey herd finds a permanent pasture at Bol Park.

COMMUNITY

Palo Alto at 125

Time capsule provides opportunity to look back at expectations, predictions from 25 years ago

by Linda Taaffe he last time Palo Alto celebrated an anniversary milestone —its centennial in 1994 Facebook didn’t exist.

Neither did Google. And the subject of how to reconfigure four railroad crossings was a debate way off in the future.

“I bet in the future, computers will be everywhere. ... Maybe transportation will be different,” contemplated Emilie Mead, a junior at Gunn High School at the time, who was among those who left a message in the city’s centennial time capsule for future generations to read.

For Rebecca Wunder, the first girl to play on Gunn’s football team, the future represented more opportunities for women.

“When you read this, girl football players may be more common, but now it’s really not normal,” Wunder wrote in her time-capsule message.

The girls’ thoughts from a quarter of a century ago, plus the rest of the contents from the recently opened time capsule, will be on display on Sunday, April 28,

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Photos courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association

Since its incorporation on April 23, 1894, Palo Alto has played a pivotal role in the fields of art, education, politics, technology and science, becoming the address of choice for dozens of Nobel Prize winners, tech visionaries, leaders of major arts movements and even a U.S. president.

The Palo Alto Weekly has created a timeline of photos and videos to highlight the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity of this tight-knit community and the people and events that have changed everyday life. Go to palo altoonline.atavist.com to view the interactive timeline and learn more about Palo Alto history.

during a celebration commemorating the 125th anniversary of Palo Alto’s incorporation on April 23, 1894. The event also launches a new annual city holiday: Palo Alto Day. The event will provide residents the opportunity to reflect on how the city has changed over the past 25 years. While computers have come to define much of Palo Alto’s culture, including everyday life, women are still a rare site on the football field.

Palo Alto historian Steve Staiger said that while many issues, such as traffic and growth, have remained top conversations throughout the city’s history, the cost of housing today is the one thing that’s most different from 1994. If he only had one item to put into a time capsule today, it would be an advertisement from a local paper showing housing prices, he said.

“When the first house sold for $100,000 in the 1970s, it was a really nice house, and you went ‘Wow.’ But now it’s shocking. You can’t find a home for less than a million,” Staiger said.

What’s a quasquicentennial?

While not commonly used, there are words for milestone anniversaries, derived from Latin roots. Palo Alto marked its 100th birthday, known as its centennial, in 1994. This year, the city is celebrating 125 years, called a quasquicentennial.

In another 25 years, in 2044, Palo Alto’s residents will observe the city’s sesquicentennial, or 150th birthday.

Palo Alto Day celebration on Sunday To honor Palo Alto’s 125th anniversary, the city is hosting a community party from 12:45-3:15 p.m. on Sunday, April 28, at King Plaza in front of City Hall at 250 Hamilton Ave. The official ceremony will start at 2 p.m.

The event will feature music, cupcakes, a historical retrospective and reflections on Palo Alto’s past, present and future. Contents from a time capsule, buried in the elevator shaft of City Hall during Palo Alto’s centennial year in 1994, will be on display at City Hall.

The scale of things, he said, has changed more rapidly.

“In the ‘50s, there were big traffic jams when Stanford had a football game and at 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday,” he said.

Palo Alto was primarily a bedroom community serving San Francisco, he explained.

“Today, this is a destination work place,” he said. “There’s thousands of more people here in the daytime; it’s much larger than the sleep population. That’s very different than before.”

Now, it’s a traffic jam coming to Palo Alto in the morning from both the north and south, and at the end of the workday, its reversed, he added.

Steve Player, who moved to the city in 1967 after graduating from Stanford University and served as president of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce during the 1994 centennial celebration, described Palo Alto as a very different place than it was two-and-a-half decades ago at the start of the dot-com boom, which created a real estate frenzy as billions of dollars in venture capital showered the area.

It’s a phenomenon that might have slowed slightly during the market crash in 2000 but has never really stopped.

“We already had a lot of things here. There was HP, Varian ... so we weren’t a small town, just a

different town,” Player said. “I think the energy the new techies brought to town is positive, but now it’s a little bit of a different environment.

In the morning when the commuter trains arrive, hundreds of “young, energetic” tech workers unboard and fill up downtown. It wasn’t like that before, he said.

The tech industry’s success also has created a lot of young homebuyers who can afford to purchase a home, tear it down and rebuild, he said.

“That used to be unusual, but now, you buy it and it’s gone.

Neighborhoods are changing,” he said.

The current president of the Palo Alto Chamber, Judy Kleinberg, who is organizing this weekend’s celebration and helped launch Palo Alto Day, said the influx of workers has revitalized downtown: There are more people staying in hotels, dining out and shopping.

But, like Staiger and Player, she recognizes that there are new, or at least more intensified, challenges.

“We’ve always had startups downtown, but the concentration of extraordinary ones have changed the face of those who can live here,” she said.

And for those trying to a launch a startup in a city known as the birthplace of Silicon Valley, the landscape also has changed for them.

“In some ways it’s probably harder, and in some ways, it’s a lot of easier,” Susan Packard-Orr, daughter of Hewlett-Packard cofounder David Packard, told the Weekly in May 2018. “My father started his company in 1939. He didn’t have any of the (resources) available now. There weren’t any venture capitalists, so he borrowed money from the bank. Tech startups now are surrounded by marketing firms and design firms and a CFO you can hire one day a week. ... There’s this whole infrastructure out there now for startups in Silicon Valley that wasn’t there at all.”

Staiger said the past 25 years also have allowed the city to finally reach an age where it’s old enough to spark genealogy inquiries from those who’ve discovered that they had ancestors living here as far back as four generations.

Genealogy inquires are on the rise, he said — right after requests for information about Palo Alto’s Midcentury Modern home builder Joseph Eichler, the Grateful Dead and Cubberley High School’s 1967 social experiment in fascism called The Wave. Q Associate Editor Linda Taaffe can be emailed at ltaaffe@ paweekly.com.

About the cover: Photos reflecting different eras in Palo Alto since its founding in 1894, from clockwise, include: Mayfield, 1888; University Avenue, 1930s; Hiller helicopter, 1940s; Queen Elizabeth II with David Packard, 1983; Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 2005 (by Veronica Weber); Gunn High School grad and NBA player Jeremy Lin, 2014 (by Ciera Pasturel); Loma Prieta earthquake aftermath at Midtown Safeway, 1989; Boy on tricycle rides on Interstate 28 prior to its official opening, 1969. Photos courtesy of the Palo Alto Historical Association, unless otherwise noted.

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Public Agenda

Teachers push back against arts department reorganization

A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Human Relations Commission, the Library Advisory Commission, the Storm Water Management Oversight Committee and the Utilities Advisory Commission. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, April 29, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss carbon emissions accounting options for the city’s electric supply portfolio, consider a resolution approving the 2020 Gas Utility Financial plan and amending gas rates; and consider the proposed operating and capital budgets for the Utilities Department for fiscal year 2020. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

COUNCIL APPOINTED OFFICERS COMMITTEE ... The commission plans to meet at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The agenda was not available by press time.

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by Elena Kadvany or the second time in as many years, Palo Alto Unified art teachers, students and parents are protesting the consolidation of a district-level art position, a decision they said was made without consulting those it would impact.

Superintendent Don Austin announced in a weekly message earlier this month that the district’s secondary-level art coordinator and music coordinator roles are being merged into one visual and performing arts coordinator.

“Throughout the school year, we have been reviewing our district’s organizational structure, including the arts, to identify areas in which we can make student experiences more consistent and coherent,” Austin wrote. “By reallocating funds from administration into classroom art instruction, we are able to establish consistency of art instruction for elementary students.”

The change will save the district about $100,000, according to Austin. The current music coordinator, Nancy Coffey, will fill the new job.

In 2017, Austin’s predecessor, Max McGee, faced a backlash after proposing to save money by cutting a visual arts coordinator position that oversaw the elementary schools’ SPECTRA art program and staff and to give that person’s responsibilities to a coordinator in

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Art teacher Deanna Messinger shows students in her Advanced Drawing and Painting II class the proper way to apply ink on a Plexiglas plate. Superintendent Don Austin announced earlier this month that Palo Alto Unified’s secondary-level art coordinator and music coordinator roles are being merged into one visual and performing arts coordinator. charge of both music and physical education. The proposal, opposed by the board at the time, was prompted by the retirement of the former longtime art coordinator, Sharon Ferguson. The district hired Li Ezzel to replace her.

Mark Gleason, a longtime Gunn High School arts teacher, told the school board Tuesday night that Austin’s decision has placed the arts department in a “state of alarming distrust” and “fear for

our subject area.”

“This episode makes our leaders seem as if they are oblivious to the people they are trying to serve,” he said, adding that neither he nor his colleagues had previously met or spoken with Austin. “Some foresight in communication about proposed changes to structure ... would have gone a long way.”

Gleason told the Weekly that he (continued on page 12)

COMMUNITY

Holiday Fund raises record-breaking $411K Fifty-seven nonprofits receive grants for services to children, families, individuals in need

The annual Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund campaign exceeded expectations this year by raising $411,000 for local nonprofits, the largest amount in its 26-year history.

The donations from community members were distributed to 57 nonprofit organizations serving

families and children in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and the surrounding area on Monday. The fund has now granted $7.2 million since launching in 1993.

“We are just passing along funds that our community members want to give to support the good work that you

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(organizations) all do,” Weekly Publisher Bill Johnson told representatives of the nonprofits, who gathered for a reception with donors Monday night at the Weekly’s headquarters.

This year’s major donors included the Hewlett and Packard foundations, which gave $25,000 each; the Peery and Arrillaga foundations, which contributed $10,000 each; and an anonymous family that donated $25,000.

Another family has donated $100,000 a year for the last eight years, according to Johnson.

More than 300 individual donors contributed to the campaign, which ran from mid-November to the beginning of January.

To read a longer article about the reception and the fund, go to PaloAltoOnline.com or to the Holiday Fund website at PaloAltoOnline.com/holiday_fund. A video of Monday’s event is posted at the Weekly’s Facebook page at facebook.com/paloaltoonline.

—Christian Trujano

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Upfront CITY HALL

Budget proposes more transportation staff, pension payments Shikada looks to increase general fund budget by 9.5% but still cut almost 10 full-time positions

by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto plans to freeze four Police Department positions, raise its stake in employee pensions and take a less central role in Project Safety Net (a community collaboration to promote youth well-being) under a budget that City Manager Ed Shikada presented Monday night.

The fiscal year 2020 budget, which will be reviewed, adjusted and ultimately adopted by the City Council in June, aims to address the council’s priority of “fiscal sustainability” by cutting the equivalent of 9.95 full-time positions across the City Hall organization from the general fund. Among the eliminated jobs are a librarian, an auditor, an associate engineer in Public Works and the chief sustainability officer, a position that was launched

by Shikada’s predecessor, James Keene.

Removing the top sustainability post, according to the budget, reflects “the shift in resources from a single chief sustainability

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officer to a program that spans the organization.”

Shikada also proposes in the budget to merge the city’s Department of Planning and Community Environment, which oversees land-use policies, code enforcement and long-term visioning efforts, with the Development Services Department, which handles planning and building permits.

He also plans to eliminate a deputy city manager position, which until recently was occupied by Rob de Geus, and to hold vacant the positions of deputy fire chief and division manager at the Community Services Department.

The Police Department, which currently has 13 vacancies, will keep four officer positions unfilled in the coming year, according to the budget.

Shikada told the council during his budget presentation that the document represents a balance between achieving “fiscal sustainability” and making investments in each of the council’s

priority areas (transportation, climate change and railway grade separation).

“These are difficult choices that had to be made to maximize the services provided to the community while recognizing fiscal constraints,” Shikada told the council.

Savings from these moves would be partially offset by the need to fill several key jobs that are currently vacant, including an assistant city manager position and a utilities general manager. Before Shikada took over as city manager last December, he had held both of these roles.

As such, his appointment as city manager thus left City Hall with two senior-level vacancies that he now hopes to staff.

Shikada also proposes to beef up the city’s newly created Office of Transportation (formerly a division of the Department of Planning and Community Environment) by adding a parking manager and a planner to an understaffed and

overextended department, which the general fund (which pays for has struggled over the past year most basic services aside from to meet the council’s and commu- utilities) is set to increase by nity’s demands for new residential 9.5%, from $210.7 million in the parking programs and traffic- current fiscal year to $230.7 milfighting initiatives. lion in fiscal year 2020, which “This new office will be bet- begins on July 1. The increase ter able to proactively engage the is driven in part by growing lacommunity and address critical bor costs, which are projected transportation needs,” the budget to rise by 9.2% between the curstates. rent budget and Overall, the the next, and by budget proposes ‘These are difficult more investment a cut of 9.95 fullin infrastructure. time equivalent choices that had Shikada’s budget positions in gen- to be made to proposes to transeral fund budget, fer $29 million which will not re- maximize the from the general quire any layoffs, services provided fund in 2020 to Shikada said. to the community i n f r a s t r u c t u r e, This includes the about $3.8 milsix positions that while recognizing lion more than the city has re- fiscal constraints.’ was transferred in cently cut as part the current year.

—Ed Shikada, of its new partAt the same Palo Alto city manager time, the city’s nership with the nonprofit Pets In overall budget, Need, which now operates the which includes utilities, is set to city’s animal services. decrease by 1.69%, from $711.2 The budget continues Palo million to $699.2 million, reflectAlto’s multiyear effort to address ing changes in the city’s Capital a projected pension deficit by Improvement Program and the contributing $6.2 million into an shift of planned projects that were irrevocable trust that the city cre- previously planned for 2020 to ated three years ago. Since then, future years.

Palo Alto has contributed $22 The budget also offers some million toward the Section 115 good news on the revenue front, trust, which is devoted to address- with staff projecting significant ing the city’s long-term pension increases in all major tax catliability. egories. This includes a 9.9% Even with the proposed position cuts and program reductions, (continued on page 16)

Investing in a free public commuter shuttle network that provides over 3 million rides per year.

So everyone has a better commute.

Stanford has called Santa Clara County home for 128 years. That’s why we’re investing in critical local transportation projects to provide more alternatives to traditional commutes. In fact, since 2003, the university has reduced the percentage of single-occupancy vehicle commuters to and from campus from 69% to 43% today. We're finding sustainable solutions to help the community get to where they need to go.

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Upfront

Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

FAMBRINI’S SEEKS ALCOHOL PERMIT ... Popular eatery Fambrini’s is seeking a beer and wine permit, according to city planning records. The permit request by developer Randy Popp was filed on March 26, according to the permit application. Fambrini’s is located at 2500 El Camino Real, Suite 105, adjacent to The Mayfield Place apartments and Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

NEW VENTURA NEIGHBORHOOD SURVEY ... The Ventura Neighborhood Association is inviting residents to take part in a new online North Ventura Developments Survey to gauge what residents want for the Fry’s site. Even if people responded to a survey last spring, the issues have changed, association leaders said on their website. The association hopes to collect more quantitative data so residents can have a say in what happens at the site. The survey can be found at venturapaloalto.org.

The association will also hold its monthly meeting on May 6 at 1:30 p.m., at the Ventura Community Center multipurpose room, 3990 Ventura Court, Palo Alto.

BROKEN TOASTERS ... If you’ve been finding broken items during spring cleaning that you just can’t part with, here’s a chance to make them useful again. The Repair Cafe is returning to the Museum of American Heritage on April 28 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. It’s a good place to run into neighbors and have volunteers repair small appliances, bikes, simple sewing or jewelry mending projects — or learn how to do it yourself.

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS ...

The Palo Alto Fire Department is available to come out to neighborhoods to help residents coordinate an emergency plan for when natural disasters occur.

The Palo Alto Neighborhood Disaster Activities program teaches residents how to respond to neighbors and the community in the event that normal emergency responders might be overwhelmed.

To arrange a training session, call 650-617-3197. Q

Mom creates TeenJobFind app for teens seeking work Resource allows the community to hire teens for neighborhood tasks

by Christian Trujano alo Alto mother of three Janet Shah wanted her kids to develop a sense of the value of money and to gain work experience, but she saw few opportunities.

The first lesson she demonstrated was taking the initiative. Shah created an app called TeenJobFind in August 2017. Midpeninsula residents can post odd jobs for teenagers such as gardening, washing cars and assisting with technology on the app. Teens can view all of the job listings and choose what works best for them according to their schedules.

Kids today don’t have the time for a traditional job the way she did when growing up because of school pressure, Shah, who is the company founder and CEO, said.

TeenJobFind is open to youth as young as 13 — there isn’t a work permit required for the jobs listed on the site. But teens must have a reference before they can register for the app. Their parents have to approve each job once they are notified, she said.

Community job posters must also comply with a mandatory seven-year criminal background check to see if they have ever been convicted or have pending cases for violent crimes, theft, felony, sexual or drug-related offenses. These measures help to ensure safety precautions are met before sending teens to people’s homes, Shah said.

Pediatrician and Palo Alto resident Linda Faust, who uses the app along with her daughter, said she appreciates the safety and the lengths to which the app goes to keep parents informed and teens safe. The app is a great opportunity for teens with busy schedules, she added.

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Meena Shah, daughter of TeenJobFind founder Janet Shah, assists with face painting during the TeenJobFind launch party in Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park.

“These days, teens are very a try, she said. app when she was 14 and has been scheduled and don’t have large Bertelsen primarily uses the app using it ever since. amounts of free time,” she said. to find babysitters. She is pleased Kelly has done various jobs, inTeenJobFind also isn’t just for with the teens she has hired so far cluding weed whacking, car washteens. One of the biggest challenges and likes to support small business- ing and other duties, which she Shah faces is getting parents to use es, she said. But she would like the described as not typical, easy tasks. it themselves, she said. Some adults ability to request sitters.

“It’s a fun experience because are finding the app and taking ad“It would be good to know which it’s not like a 9-to-5 job. It seems vantage of all it has to offer. teens are available at any given like it’s a chore but you’re making Resident Lisa Bertelsen, who time. Sometimes we just want money off it,” she said. works as a communications con- to have an impromptu night out, The jobs are a great way to build sultant for startups, learned about which is hard to do because most a work ethic in teens, Kelly added. the app last fall after moving back Palo Alto kids have full schedules,” “This app is a really good introto Palo Alto from New York. She she said. duction to real-world jobs.” previously used a similar service TeenJobFind is also reachShe could see the app becoming and decided to give TeenJobFind ing people outside of Palo Alto’s a service for teens who are not old neighborhoods. Jayne Uberti, who enough to legally get a job and a lives in San Carlos, heard about way to mentor and train them for the app through word of mouth future work, she added. eight months ago. She has liftingShah said creating the app is and-bending restrictions due to a gratifying. “I’m helping teach tosports injury. The app helped her day’s teenagers lessons that they find teens to assist with household will take with them for the rest of chores and cleaning. It was great their lives.” seeing the fulfillment in the faces She hopes to create a sense of of teens who have come to her community not only by helping house, she said. teens with finding jobs, but by “The opportunity for them to connecting everyone together, she earn money, to get the gratifica- added. She is pushing for the app tion of helping someone and com- to go national within three to five pleting a project ... that is a really years. great trade-off. They’re happy to “Everybody kind of wants that be here, and that makes all the dif- sense of community. This is bringference in the world. I don’t want ing that back in a way that had been someone who has to be here be- lost for quite some time,” she said. Q Editorial Intern Christian cause they have to be here,” she Trujano can be emailed at said.

TeenJobFind app user Nicholas Petrushin trims trees for job poster Fraser Kelly, 15, discovered the ctrujano@paweekly.com.

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Pay raises (continued from page 5)

based on individual performance.�

During budget-cut conversations at that time, the board discussed doing away with the automatic raises for senior administrators, a change then supported

by Board member Ken Dauber.

The question of eliminating the linkage came up again during budget talks through 2017, but the board never took any action to answer it.

Then last year, the Palo Alto Management Association received a separate compensation increase — a 1% raise and 1% off-schedule bonus, compared to the 3% raise that teachers received.

This caused such unrest among the senior management-group members, Collins said, that they considered becoming a formal union. So Austin made them an offer, Collins said: Scale back the memorandum of understanding in exchange for five years of salary increases tied to the teachers’ union’s. They agreed.

Austin said the existing memorandum of understanding with managers — itself unusual — contains “uncommon� provisions, including details on hiring and grievance procedures. The document was born out of intense distrust between managers and then-Superintendent Mary Frances Callan when the Palo Alto Management Association formed in 2006.

The memorandum “looked much more like a traditional union-bargained contract than an outlining of understandings of places with common interests,�

Austin said.

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and other visual arts teachers first learned about the reorganization in an email from Ezzel on April 10.

Ezzel informed them that “there will be a re-structuring, and that he will not be included,� Gleason said.

Soon after, Ezzel was placed on administrative leave and teachers were told by their instructional supervisor not to contact him, Gleason said. Austin confirmed this and said that Ezzel has since resigned but declined to comment further.

The news generated such “unrest,� Gleason said, that teachers considered boycotting the district’s annual K-12 youth art show at the Palo Alto Arts Center, but they ultimately decided against it.

Speakers emphasized at the board meeting, like they did two years ago, the need for specialized leadership in the visual arts, a program that provides everything from glass blowing at the high schools to ceramics at the middle schools. Gunn junior Jocelyn Wang, a graphic illustrator and artist, described the art coordinator

“The conditions (in the district) now are not the same as when that MOU was created — at least we don’t believe they are,� he said. “The PAMA group was willing to sign on for a five-year MOU to see if we’re going to work together the way I expect us to work together, which is trusting, collaborative, as more of one team instead of having this perception of a barrier between the two groups.�

Collins said he sees the tradeoff as worthwhile. “I changed my view based on new information and the situation, which allowed us to get something quite valuable in exchange,� Collins said. “If our management team isn’t a team then we can’t really expect the kind of results that we want.�

Both Collins and DiBrienza told the Weekly that developing an effective, performance-based compensation system for the management group has proven more difficult than they realized.

DiBrienza said that is particularly so given the variety of positions represented by the group, and high turnover at the district office added to the difficulty. “That still might be something we work towards. In the meantime, giving them a predictable raise throughout seems fair to me,� she said.

Collins said he looked for local public school districts that have created effective management compensation schemes and couldn’t find any. “We’d be out on the bleeding edge trying to invent something that I realized is really hard to do,� he said.

Austin defended “me too� raises as a traditional best practice that prevents disparity between the

bargaining units and “keeps the process a little more clean and stable.�

The memorandum does not apply to members of the district’s executive cabinet: the superintendent, assistant superintendent, deputy superintendent and chief business officer.

The board this week also briefly discussed a tentative agreement with the teachers union that would provide a 2% raise this year and 2% off-schedule bonus — salary increases that would then also apply to the managers group, if the new memorandum of understanding is approved.

The proposed raise, effective retroactive to Jan. 7, 2019, which is mid-year, would cost the district $1.2 million this year and $2.4 million in each of the following years. The off-schedule 2% bonus is based on employees’ salaries after the raise is applied and would cost the district $2.4 million.

Under the new three-year contract, raises would be negotiated each year, unlike the now-expired contract, which contained three year’s worth of salary increases and bonuses.

It also includes a memorandum of understanding to reopen four provisions during the next school year’s negotiations, including compensation and benefits, meaning the union and district will quickly return to the table to negotiate raises for the upcoming school year.

Given that the union has not yet ratified the agreement, the board members Tuesday refrained from commenting on it in detail publicly. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

as the “backbone� of the program and the “bridge between our peers, parents and mentors.�

Paul Gralen, who teaches art, ceramics and sculpture at Greene Middle School, said the fact that the school has four kilns is a “mark of a program that places high value on visual arts leadership. “None of this would have been possible without the sustained and disciplined commitment of a specific leader in the visual arts, he said.

In an interview Wednesday, Austin said Chief Academic Officer of Elementary Education Anne Brown and Nancy Coffey brought the consolidation proposal to him.

They have since met with groups of teachers to discuss the change, he said. “Arts have been, currently are and will continue to be a supported, necessary, vital part of our district,� Austin said. “I wouldn’t read anything into this other than we found a different way to provide administrative services.�

Under the reorganization of the arts department, a new part-time elementary-level lead arts teacher will be hired to provide support to other instructors and develop K-5 art curricula, Austin wrote in his

message. A part-time theater integration specialist will help teachers to incorporate theater-art skills into core curricula.

At the middle and high schools, a secondary steering committee will continue to provide support to the art departments. “This model is consistent with the way we handle all secondary disciplines, none of which have a subject-specific coordinator at the district level,� Austin wrote.

Coffey told the Weekly that there’s a “misconception� about the change, which she described as consolidating all of the arts-related administrative responsibilities under one person, freeing up staff at the school level to focus on instruction and professional development. “That’s exciting in that we’re removing a district office position and putting it into the classroom to work directly with teachers,� she said. “I think that hasn’t been said enough.�

Because the art coordinator issue was not on the board’s agenda on Tuesday, board members could not respond to speakers. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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But while much of the discussion was devoted to procedural matters, the most contentious part in the discussion centered around the tunnel. Councilwoman Alison Cormack suggested that it’s time to drop the tunnel idea, which carries an estimated price tag of between $2.5 billion and $3.8 billion and would require the acquisition of people’s property. This option, she said, really is not like all the others.

“It’s an order of magnitude different on costs, and the impacts are so much more significant than the others,” Cormack said.

Her argument was bolstered by a recent analysis from the city’s consultant, Aecom, which suggested that the tunnel would require significant property acquisitions to make room for “shoofly tracks,” temporary tracks that would need to be

constructed to keep rail service going while the tunnel is being built.

A recent video created by Aecom indicated that Palo Alto would need to acquire properties on the east side of the tracks south of Embarcadero Road and around Charleston Road to make the tunnel possible.

Vice Mayor Adrian Fine and Councilman Tom DuBois both shared her view and recommended that it’s time to drop the tunnel from consideration.

Fine called the option a “rabbit hole” and suggested that the city already has all the information it needs to remove it from consideration.

Councilwoman Lydia Kou disagreed and took issue with the Aecom video, which she suggested reflects staff’s anti-tunnel bias. Kou questioned the video’s suggestion that the tunnel option would require property acquisition and suggested that the animation was designed to “cause concern.” She argued that the city should explore other ways to

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build the tunnel that would not require acquisitions.

“I wanted to see more options on how to do tunnel,” Kou said.

“I’m not ready to let that loose yet.”

Councilman Greg Tanaka concurred and said he would like to see how the public feels about the tunnel before dropping it from the menu of options.

Though normally a fiscal hawk, Tanaka said he would have no problem moving ahead with the project if the citizenry proves willing to foot the bill. Many cities, including Boston and Berkeley, have underground tunnels, and Palo Alto should consider one as well, Tanaka said.

“I’ve heard so many people say that they really want this, so for me to say ‘Let’s just drop it’ doesn’t make sense,” Tanaka said.

Fine took issue with Kou’s and Tanaka’s assertions that the city’s studies — which are costing hundreds of thousands of dollars — are biased. But with the council limited to five members (Mayor Eric Filsth and Councilwoman Liz Kniss are both recused because they own property near the rail corridor) and needing four votes to make a decision, Kou and Tanaka were able to effectively veto the three-member majority’s desire to eliminate the tunnel.

In addition to the tunnel, Palo Alto’s design alternatives include the closure of Churchill Avenue to cars; a tunnel just for south Palo Alto; and either a rail trench, a viaduct or a “hybrid” design (which combines raised tracks and lowered roads) for the Meadow Drive and Charleston Road intersections.

After debating the tunnel, the council voted 5-0 to approve staff’s proposed work plan and timeline as well as the composition of the new working group.

Under the proposal adopted by the council, the group will include the 12 members of the existing Community Advisory Panel, which has been meeting monthly to vet the work of staff and Aecom. It also intends to include one representative from Stanford University, Stanford Research Park, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, the Palo Alto Unified School District and the Friends of Caltrain board, along with a representative from either Stanford Health or Stanford Shopping Center.

It will meet seven times between May and October.

The newly adopted work plan aims to achieve several goals: make progress on adopting a preferred alternative for grade separation, engage the business community on a potential ballot measure to raise revenues and set up a process that will allow the council to make key decisions on the two related efforts — grade separation and a revenue measure — in the same time frame. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com.

News Digest Ravenswood appoints new principals

The Ravenswood City School District Board of Education approved new leaders for two schools on Thursday, while other principals remain in interim district-level roles through the summer.

The fledgling Ravenswood Middle School, which suddenly lost its opening principal and vice principal last summer, will be led effective Aug. 1 by Amanda Kemp, the former principal of both Belle Haven Elementary School and Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy. Kemp was moved to Belle Haven in 2018 to replace former principal Todd Gaviglio, whose mid-year transfer to the district office drew protest from parents and teachers and led to an external discrimination investigation. Kemp will be the third principal for Ravenswood Middle School, which will be starting its third year this fall.

The board narrowly approved Kemp’s appointment in a 3-2 vote, with board President Tamara Sobomehin, Vice President Stephanie Fitch and trustee Marielena Gaona-Mendoza voting in favor and trustees Sharifa Wilson and Ana Maria Pulido against it. The district has not yet announced a new principal for Belle Haven.

The trustees unanimously approved Ravenswood Middle School teacher David Hicks as the school’s new vice principal, effective April 29.

They also unanimously approved Alejandro Quezada, Ravenswood’s STEM coordinator, as the new principal of Los RoblesRonald McNair Academy, effective Aug. 1. (This was a 4-0 vote, as Pulido was absent during this item.)

Two other schools, Willow Oaks and Brentwood Academy, remain under interim leadership while their principals fill temporary positions at the district office until June 30. Brentwood Principal Jennifer Gravem is serving as the interim director of special education and Willow Oaks Principal Cindy Chin as interim director of student services. Director of Student Services Gina Sudaria is still Ravenswood’s interim superintendent; the board has yet to announce details on its plan for hiring a permanent replacement for Gloria Hernandez-Goff, who resigned in March.

The board voted in March to appoint Willow Oaks Vice Principal Michelle Masuda as interim principal there and Brentwood Vice Principal Darice Thomas as Brentwood’s, both through June 30.

Meanwhile, there could be more district-level leadership shuffles ahead. To address a tight budget, the board approved last month notices of possible reassignment for 19 certificated administrators.

The board can rescind these notices if necessary. Q —Elena Kadvany

Ravenswood, KIPP reach rental agreement

In an eleventh-hour agreement, lawyers for the Ravenswood City School District and KIPP Valiant Community Prep Charter School reached a contract on Thursday night to expand the growing charter school at its current two school sites. The district’s Board of Education voted unanimously to accept the terms hours later.

KIPP will lease 25 classrooms and additional indoor and outdoor joint-use spaces for one year starting this summer. In return, the district will receive nearly $400,000 in 112 installments, more than three times what KIPP paid for use of 18 classrooms this year.

The agreement comes at a time when the district is seeing declining enrollment and flat revenues that are expected to continue dropping in the next two years. The district anticipates it could face a deficit of $1 million to $2.5 million through the 2021-2022 school year, interim Superintendent Gina Sudaria said during a presentation Thursday about the district’s finances.

KIPP is currently located at the contiguous Brentwood and Los Robles/Ronald McNair school sites and wanted to have a longterm, single campus starting this fall, when it plans to enroll 550 elementary and middle school students —150 more than this year.

Eventually, it plans to enroll up to 610 students when it includes an eighth grade by 2021.

Elizabeth Mori, an Oakland attorney representing the district, said the agreement didn’t get finalized until after 5 p.m. Thursday, April 18.

The decision to keep KIPP at the current schools is a departure from the board’s preliminary proposal in February to offer KIPP space at both Brentwood and the new Ravenswood Middle School, where its students would share space with that school’s students.

That idea was opposed by both the charter school and teachers and students at the district school. Q —Sue Dremann LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com/square

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Upfront revenue measure to pay for various infrastructure projects. (continued from page 5) It also sought to create a stakeholder committee to work on a a business license tax, which business-tax measure but scutaimed to address a budget short- tled that plan in May 2017 after fall brought on by the economic then-City Manager James Keene downturn. The measure, which warned that staff didn’t have the was designed to raise the general- capacity to work on it. fund revenues rather than fund Despite that setback, several specific projects, was rejected by council members have continthe voters. ued to view a business tax as the Former Councilwoman Karen most suitable way to pay for the Holman, who had opposed the reconfiguration of the city’s rail 2009 measure, said Monday that crossings and other transportation it failed in part projects. Counbecause its lancilman Tom guage was poorly ‘Fair share — DuBois, who crafted and its this year chairs purpose was “not businesses paying the council’s clearly laid out.” their fair share — is Finance ComShe urged the curmittee, has rent council not a substantial issue.’ been one of the — Greg Schmid, most strident to repeat those former Palo Alto vice mayor supporters of mistakes.

In 2016, the instituting the council renewed its push for a tax. Palo Alto, he noted Monday, business tax, though the effort is one of just a few cities in the fizzled when its Finance Com- region that doesn’t have such a mittee opted to move ahead with a revenue source. hotel-tax increase instead. As part “I think it’s important we don’t of that effort, the council commis- get stuck in analysis by paralysis,” sioned numerous surveys to gauge DuBois said. “It’s going to be vital residents’ interests in pursuing a that we go pretty quickly.”

Mayor Eric Filseth also supported staff’s proposed work plan, which he said creates “an orderly process.”

“I think this will be complicated and take some careful thinking and a lot of work,” Filseth said.

One of the council’s most critical tasks will be getting buy-in from area businesses, which is something that the city had failed to do in 2009. Judy Kleinberg, CEO of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, said businesses could potentially get behind a tax, provided the city involves them in putting the measure together and has a clear idea on what the revenues would be used for.

“We will support something that is fair, accountable and transparent and where the business community participates in the fashioning of the particular tax,” said Kleinberg, a former Palo Alto mayor.

But former Vice Mayor Greg Schmid — who is now a member of the group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, which favors slower city growth — urged the council to give residents a significant role in shaping the measure. A retired economist, Schmid cited U.S.

Census figures showing that jobs in Silicon Valley grew six-and-ahalf times faster than the number of residences between 2010 and 2017. During the same period, the share of property taxes paid by businesses declined by 10 percent, he said.

“Fair share — businesses paying their fair share — is a substantial issue,” Schmid said.

Palo Alto is hardly the only city to pursue greater contributions from its businesses to tackle transportation and housing problems.

Just last November, San Francisco voters approved a “homeless” tax on large businesses; East Palo Alto voters approved a parcel tax on office developments to pay for housing and job-training programs; and Mountain View voters approved a per-employee tax on large companies.

Other cities may soon follow.

Former Mayor Pat Burt told the council that he is part of a group of leaders and activists in other communities who are interested in putting similar measures on their ballots, in similar timeframes. Burt said the group has been concentrating on two uses for the new business tax:

includes revenues of $232.1 million, an 8.2% increase from the 2019 total of $214.5 million.

As part of its long-term effort to contain costs, city staff is also now compiling a “service inventory,” which will evaluate all city programs and their associated costs.

Shikada said the city is working with the consulting firm Concordia, which is leading the city’s Cubberley Master Plan effort, to “take the ‘budget-ese’ and turn it into English” so that the community could

easily interpret the document.

The council’s Finance Committee plans to review the budget over three hearings, which are scheduled for May 15, May 23 and May 28. On Monday, several council members noted that the document will force them to strike a delicate balance between addressing community concerns and setting aside more funds for pensions.

“This budget reflects the very difficult straddle we have before us, in

which we have continued cost escalation of everything in the Bay Area, the increase in demand for services and infrastructure as our community grows and our move to accurately recognize some of our cost structure, including our commitment to fund our long-term liabilities,” Mayor Eric Filseth said. “Those things to some extent mutually exclude one another.”

Vice Chair Adrian Fine, who sits on the Finance Committee along with committee Chair Tom DuBois

Business tax

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increase in sales tax revenues (which are projected to go up from $31.2 million to $34.3 million), a 7.3% increase in property tax revenues (which would rise from $45.3 million to $48.6 million) and a 17% increase in the hotel-tax revenues (which are estimated to grow from $25 million to $29.3 million). The general fund

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City Council (April 22)

Car burglars caught while fleeing

Two men who were caught allegedly burglarizing two cars at a downtown Palo Alto parking garage were arrested late last week with help from a witness who notified authorities of the break-ins as they unfolded, police said Wednesday. (Posted April 24, 8:57 a.m.)

Busted sprinkler damages Old Pro bar

A busted sprinkler head at Old Pro sports bar in Palo Alto gushed out enough water to force out customers and employees and close down the downtown business for repairs, a fire official said. (Posted April 23, 6:33 p.m.)

Two suffer ‘serious’ burns after explosion

Two workers suffered serious burns Tuesday morning while they were repairing an elevator in the Park Plaza Apartments building at 2865 Park Blvd. in Palo Alto, according to Palo Alto Deputy Fire Chief Kevin McNally. (Posted April 23, 1:03 p.m.)

Motocyclist killed in crash identified

A motorcyclist who died in a Menlo Park crash on U.S. Highway 101 early Saturday morning has been identified as 34-year-old East Palo Alto resident Fredrick Mahoni, according to the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office. (Posted April 22, 8:39 a.m.)

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Budget: The council heard a presentation about the proposed city budget for fiscal year 2020 Action: None Business Tax: The council approved a plan for placing a business tax on the ballot on the November 2020 ballot. Yes: Cormack, DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Kou No: Tanaka Rail: The council approved a plan for selecting a preferred alternative for grade separation by October, which includes the appointment of a new community working group. Yes: Cormack, DuBois, Fine, Kou, Tanaka Recused: Filseth, Kniss

Board of Education (April 23)

El Carmelo multipurpose building: The board approved a schematic design for a new multipurpose building at El Carmelo Elementary School. Yes: Baten Caswell, Collins, Dauber, Dharap Absent: DiBrienza Hoover portables: The board authorized staff to award a contract for the installation of seven portables at Hoover Elementary School at a cost of $773,000.

Yes: Baten Caswell, Collins, Dauber, Dharap Absent: DiBrienza CSBA election: The board voted for Trustee Melissa Baten Caswell on a runoff ballot for the California School Board Association (CSBA) Delegate Assembly Election Committee. Yes: Baten Caswell, Collins, Dauber, Dharap Absent: DiBrienza PAEA contract: The board discussed a tentative agreement with the Palo Alto Educators Association (PAEA). Action: None PAMA MOU: The board discussed a proposed revised memorandum of understanding with the Palo Alto Management Association (PAMA). Action: None

Parks and Recreation Commission (April 23)

Pickleball: The commission approved a plan to add dedicated pickleball courts at Mitchel Park. Yes: Greenfield, Lamere, McCauley, McDougal, Moss, Reckdahl Absent: Cribbs

Historic Resources Board (April 24)

Retreat: The board held a follow-up discussion about items from its March retreat, including salvaging of materials during demolition. Action: None

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transportation and affordable housing.

Burt said he supported devoting much of the transportation funding to railway redesign, though he noted that the funds could also be used to expand the city’s shuttle system, increase the local stock of affordable housing and expand the Palo Alto Transportation Management Association, a nonprofit that aims to give commuters alternatives to driving solo.

“We look forward to working with you on trying to support this, and we hope what you come up with is roughly aligned with what we have in mind and it will be able to become a support mechanism for a ballot measure, rather than having to put a separate measure on the ballot ourselves,” Burt said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com. and Councilwoman Alison Cormack, concurred and said the city will have to make some changes, particularly if it is interested in achieving the $4 million in savings that the council had previously discussed (the service inventory is expected to inform the council in making the cuts).

“They won’t be easy, they won’t be popular, but I think staff has set us up well to do it through the service inventory and other things that are in there,” Fine said.

One avenue that the city is banking on for savings is new publicprivate partnerships. In addition to its new partnership with Pets In Need, the city is also working with Friends of Junior Museum and Zoo to expand and renovate the popular children’s zoo at Rinconada Park, a project that is funded largely through private fundraising.

The new budget proposes $25,000 to help transition Project Safety Net away from the existing “community collaborative” model, in which the city plays a leading role, to a new structure in which Project Safety Net is either a separate nonprofit or part of an established nonprofit. This will reduce the city’s annual spending on Project Safety Net from the current level of $270,000 to $100,000 on an ongoing basis, the budget states.

While this shift is expected to save money in the long-term, Cormack cautioned that the benefits of public-private partnerships usually require some time to produce benefits.

“It’s not a switch we can flip quickly and it is something where everyone in the community will have to participate,” Cormack said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

April 17-April 23

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dependent adult abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 3 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 8 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Menlo Park

April 17-April 23

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 3 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

3897 El Camino Real, 4/17, 10:25 a.m.; battery.

Irven Court,4/17, 1:30 p.m.; dependant adult abuse.

El Camino Real,4/22, 11:50 p.m.; domestic violence.

Ross Road,4/23, 4:30 p.m.; child abuse.

Menlo Park

1100 block Sevier Ave., 4/18, 4:19 p.m.; battery.

1100 block Almanor Ave.,4/21, 9:27 p.m.; spousal abuse.

Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Martha Helen Baerg

WEDDINGS

Robinson-Syed

Nigel Xavier Robinson and Samar Syed were married April 19 in Palo Alto. They met at a Halloween party and then again at Foothill Community College, after which a friendship blossomed. Nigel proposed to Samar at Castello di Amorosa in Calistoga, California, in spring 2018. The groom is the son of Marc André Robinson

of Beverly, Massachusetts, and Rose Marie Valdez of Mountain View. A tech recruiter, he graduated from Gunn High School and University of California, Davis. The bride is the daughter of Jamshed and Samina Syed of Palo Alto. A recruiter, she graduated from Palo Alto High School and UC Davis. The couple will live in Redwood City.

Martha Helen Baerg, 84, died on April 13, 2018, at her home in Palo Alto. Marti, as she was known to friends and family, received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from Occidental College.

An elementary school teacher for many years, she taught in the cities of Ross, El Monte and Carmel.

She later earned a second master’s

degree from San Jose State University in clinical psychology, becoming a respected therapist in private practice for the remainder of her career. She was a volunteer at the Bay Window, a member of the American Association of University Women and a former president of the California Association of Marriage Family Therapists. Her family remembers her as a wise, warm and wonderful friend who helped transform many lives. She is buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park and is missed by all who loved her.

She is survived by her husband,

William Baerg; her children, Bonnie Lynn Schisler and Karl Morgan Schisler; her stepchildren, Lisa Cooper, Bill Baerg and Margaret Plavocos; seven grandchildren; two nephews; and several cousins. She was preceeded in death by her parents, Samuel and Martha Peck; and her sister, Suzanne Vanderbeit.

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Editorial The ‘me too’ raise is back School board poised to reverse positions and reinstate automatic pay raises for principals and other managers

abor negotiations with public employee unions remain one of the most opaque and intentionally hidden government processes in California. This is particularly frustrating in Palo Alto, where an engaged public expects more transparency and the opportunity for input.

To its credit, the Palo Alto school district is taking several baby steps toward opening up the process, including some limited sun-shining of the proposed agreements before they are actually approved.

This follows the closed session approval in 2016 of a disastrous three-year contract that was negotiated based on erroneous property-tax revenue estimates and without any public discussion, followed by a second embarrassing mistake the district tried to hide — its failure to notify the union it would exercise its right to cancel the final year’s 3% increase because of lower-than-expected tax revenues. It was the final straw that led to the resignation of then-Superintendent Max McGee and cost the district more than $4 million.

Last week the district gave the public a head’s up about two pending agreements, one with the teachers’ union, the Palo Alto Educators Association (PAEA), and another with the non-represented group of about 75 principals, vice principals, deans, psychologists and other management employees, the Palo Alto Management Association (PAMA).

Thanks to stronger-than-expected projected increases in property-tax revenue this year of 7.4% (compared to the budgeted 2.8%) the tentative agreement with PAEA proposes a 2% salary increase, effective in January 2019 through the end of the school year, plus a 2% bonus. According the district, the agreement will cost the district $3.6 million in the current fiscal year, and $2.4 million in each future year (plus whatever increases and bonuses are approved later for future years).

The proposed agreement is currently being voted on by union members and will come before the board for public discussion and approval if it is ratified by the union.

The agreement with the management employees, who informally bargain as a professional association but are not a union, contains not only across-the-board salary increases equal to the 2% negotiated with the teachers, but a five-year commitment to use this practice of so-called “me too” raises.

Three of the five current school board members have strongly opposed such automatic increases in the past. Todd Collins and Jennifer DiBrienza made their opposition clear in their 2016 election campaigns. Collins said the policy “does not make sense and should be replaced with an approach based on cost-of-living increases, with adjustments based on individual performance.” DiBrienza said management raises “should be based on a range of measurable outcomes as determined by the district.”

Board member Ken Dauber also criticized the automatic raises and voted against the controversial budget three years ago in part because of the “me too” provision.

After saying nothing about their change in position at Tuesday’s board meeting, Collins and Dauber each later told the Weekly it was a worthwhile trade-off in order to get PAMA to agree to ditch a detailed nine-page memorandum of understanding that outlines procedural protections and other guidelines for their interactions with the superintendent. However, neither could cite any specific problems with the agreement.

The PAMA group was formed in 2006 after a revolt of principals in response to personnel actions and organizational changes taken by then-Superintendent Mary Frances Callan and the school board. The controversy led to her resignation and the development of the lengthy agreement that quieted the tension and has remained largely in effect ever since.

As Dauber, Collins and DiBrienza argued just three years ago, no well-managed professional organization should set compensation of its senior managers by tying it to a rankand-file pay raise negotiated with a union. Compensating the highest-performing school principal identically to the lowestperforming one isn’t fair and removes the most basic tool to managing and rewarding performance. We don’t like the idea that well-paid managers have an unusual legacy agreement that includes detailed policies intended to outline and protect their rights, similar to a union contract. But unless problems with this agreement can be identified, agreeing to five years of “me too” raises in exchange for getting rid of it isn’t in the public interest and shouldn’t be approved. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Letters Stanford ‘side deal’

Editor, In violation of agreed upon ground rules with the county, Stanford University moved forward with a “side deal” with the Palo Alto Unified School District — and made that deal contingent upon county approval of Stanford’s development agreement.

Stanford is acting in bad faith, and Palo Altans should demand better. I hope the PAUSD leaders will ask Stanford to do the right thing and make a non-conditional commitment to Palo Alto’s schoolchildren.

Jon Kessler Dana Avenue, Palo Alto

Actions speak louder than words

Editor, Any further expression of concern about housing shortages by either the Palo Alto City Council or that of Mountain View can only be regarded as hypocritical when the Palo Alto council approves the conversion of a residential facility to a transient hotel and the Mountain View Council approves the demolition of affordable apartments in favor of a smaller number of town houses.

James R. Madison Holly Avenue, Menlo Park

Keep Palo Alto’s history intact

Editor, Must old building after old building in our town be torn down and replaced with ones that look much like many others that were constructed in the last few years?

Concerning 565 Hamilton Ave., the large yellow building is still in very good shape. The apartments in it can be made somewhat more modern, mostly when it comes to kitchens. Or, the building could become a social hall for gatherings, perhaps weddings in the church across the street, then they would also have a lovely garden in which to socialize. This garden was tended for many years by Althea Andersen, who owned the property for more years than I can give witness to.

Let’s not destroy something that is history in this town.

Marie-Louise Starling-Bell Webster Street, Palo Alto

Seniors still deserve better

Editor, Regarding the April 12 letter “Debunking concerns about

Avenidas building,” your reader wrongly claims that carpeting versus soft vinyl flooring is chosen for ease of cleaning and that there is no evidence that carpeting itself is bad for asthma and other healthrelated issues.

I’d like to quote retired nurse Sylvia P. Gleason: “Having worked in nursing at Stanford Hospital for 30 years, I understand the needs of the elderly since I have experience in geriatrics and also in infectious disease. I know how important it is to not use carpeting where elderly congregate. It is not only bad for health, it harbors germs. It also is a risk for elderly to fall or trip. We must be pro-active for our seniors and residents of Palo Alto.”

At great expense, over the past two years, downtown Palo Alto’s Lytton Gardens Senior Communities and Webster House Health Care Center have each replaced much of their carpeting with attractive, soft vinyl faux-wood flooring for health, safety, ease of cleaning and maintenance reasons.

Toxic chemicals are used to clean carpets; soap and water clean vinyl flooring.

Seniors deserve better.

Danielle Martell Guinda Street, Palo Alto

Poppies in bloom

Editor, Palo Alto residents are encouraged to visit Foothills Park and see a wonderful carpet of California poppies. They can be seen in Wild Horse Valley and are best viewed after 11 a.m. when the blossoms are fully open.

Twenty-five years ago, Greg Betts of the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission organized the Friends of Foothills Park. Since then, hundreds of schoolchildren, college students and adults from Belmont to San Jose and the East

Bay have cleared invasive weeds that overcrowded most of the native wildflowers. Those volunteer workers, plus the park staff, are responsible for this gorgeous, inspiring display.

Bob Roth Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

People should do more to help environment

Editor, In his letter “SB 50 would harm environment,” published in the Weekly on April 12, Rick DeGolia stated, “The largest source of pollution in the state is transportation.” An additional way to cut back on greenhouse gases besides “converting to electric vehicles” is for cities to encourage small businesses and to hire people from within the community — not from the Central Valley, another state or another country. As population decreases externally and internally, more people will be able to afford their homes, and there will be less stress to live with.

Building multistory housing/ apartments and businesses is forcing people to spend more money on mechanical means to meet their needs and wants, which adds to global warming. Large buildings and large trees block out the sun, which is free to all. Let the sun dry our clothes, heat our homes and water, provide us with light and grow our food. Passive solar is simpler and less expensive than depending on active solar, and if the power goes out, one would be better able to face the situation.

Electric cars and letting the Peninsula Clean Energy company provide us with our electricity and gas is great, but there is more each and every one of us can do as individuals.

Jackie Leonard-Dimmick Walnut Avenue, Atherton

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Guest Opinion

Are we too divided as a society? Even locally?

by Diana Diamond igidity. A lack of willingness to change one’s views — or really listen to other people’s points-of-view. It’s happening here in Palo Alto; it’s happening nationally. I don’t like it. In fact, I fear it.

An incident happened recently in town that went viral. As you probably read in this paper, at Starbucks on California Avenue in Palo Alto, resident Rebecca Parker Mankey verbally assaulted a 74-year-old man wearing a MAGA hat (Make America Great Again), drinking his coffee. That set her off and she started screaming at him.

Calling him a “hater of brown people,” she left the store but soon returned and continued to yell at him and kept on berating and swearing at him. She called the man “Nazi scum” and afterward posted pictures of him on social media.

Certainly bad behavior (outrageous is a better word) on her part, to say the least.

And because of the hat and the Trump MAGA logo, she quickly concluded he was a bad guy politically and apparently felt entitled to berate him. It is a raw, sordid example of the partisan divide that has enveloped our country.

We have drawn the red-blue lines and refuse to step over them. I had a discussion recently with a group of Democrats about Trump and there was disapproval

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about everything the president is doing. So I suggested we talk instead about some of the positive things the president has accomplished — and asked them to name a few.

Silence in the room.

“Nothing,” one person said.

“I can’t think of anything,” another replied.

“Not one”?

Not one.

“What about our low unemployment rate or our healthy economy?” I asked.

“That started when the Dems were in power, so Trump can’t claim he did it all,” several said.

A couple of days later I quizzed some Republican friends asking if they still support Trump as strongly as they once did.

“Well, I feel uncomfortable about his personality, but he’s done great things and is a really good president” was the common response.

“But what about his lies, his narcissism, his seeming disdain about our allies, and his continuing praise of Putin?” I asked.

That didn’t matter, they responded.

“He’s a strong leader, and it’s time our allies stopped taking advantage of the U.S. and the economy is thriving, and I support his policies” was the collective (paraphrased) answer.

I later asked them if they thought that Obama was a good president.

“Not really,” they said.

These conversations happened right here in Palo Alto.

All this was just two weeks before the Mueller report was released, but I fear the

answers would still be the same today — for Republicans and Democrats.

No objective analysis. No “right vs. wrong” value system. Only “them” vs. “us.”

No subtleties. Just a big black paint smear against “them”— on both sides of the redblue line.

This tenacity toward zealously defending one’s points of view is endangering our country. It’s part of that “Don’t bother me with the facts, I know what I believe” line of reasoning that is percolating through our nation.

And some of these rigid attitudes have permeated Congress. Certainly the Tea Partiers were unrelenting at times, and now the Democrats are having trouble in their ranks. Most Dems agree that their goal for 2020 is to get Trump out of office. Period.

THE Priority.

But the younger group of newly elected representatives, e.g., Alexandria OcasioCortez (“AOC”), D-NY, and her supporters, are pushing their Green New Deal, insisting on government health care for all and a variety of brand new programs, such as a guaranteed income for everyone. So far the newbie Congressional members’ strident voices are becoming louder every day.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants a less abrupt change of policy so that Democrats can come together by 2020.

This isn’t the way it used to be. Our political splits are much worse. During the Vietnam War there were people marching in the streets protesting the war, and others busy urging Washington not to lose a war. But whether one was for continuing or ending

the war didn’t prevent us from talking with those we disagreed with about other issues.

It didn’t bring on constant roadblocks in Congress, prevent anything bipartisan to be accomplished. Today, here and nationally, things have changed. We live in our own bubbles of similar views.

When I was a young reporter, I was told to objectively write about both sides. I had my political biases and wondered if I could, but I soon talked to those supporting and opposing issues and found each side actually had reasoned views and were ordinary people.

I learned that the differences were not based on malice but because each side had approached an issue, given their backgrounds, and had come to a conclusion in a way different from mine. I became more objective.

So how do we listen to each other and not attack “the other”? How can we once again start debating political issues in neighborhood gatherings without people feeling uncomfortable about even discussing the issues of the day because of the polarization that has taken place? How do we start to become a less divided country, hear and better understand each other, work together and compromise on issues facing our country?

Let’s try to find out how. That’s what Palo Alto should be all about, and that is what our country must be about. Q Diana Diamond is a lifelong journalist whose blog, “An Alternate View,” is posted at PaloAltoOnline. com/blogs. She can be reached at DianaLDiamond@gmail.com

Streetwise

Do you recycle; why or why not?

Asked at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Christian Trujano.

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“I do. It just feels good, feels like the right thing to do, you know, with the plastic and all that stuff.”

“We recycle everything. It cuts down on our trash bill because the recycling is free. ... I also recycle because of environmental concerns, though I am curious how much of the glass and cardboard really gets separated.”

“Yes, I do, because we only have one planet Earth and I think it’s very important that we take care of the place we live in and the place that gives us everything like air to breathe, water to drink and food to eat.”

“I do recycle, and the reason why I do it is because it’s good for the environment, of course. But more than that, I do it because I think about my future generations. I want to leave a place that is better than the way I found it.”

“Yes, I do, because it’s good for the environment and it’s good for our children’s future and it’s doable.”

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hen Stanford University graduate student Zack Burton had his first psychotic break, he and his girlfriend of several years, Elisa Hofmeister, felt scared and alone.

“It was just terrifying. His personality changed so dramatically for four months; I really didn’t know if he would go back to being the same,” recalled Hofmeister, a researcher at Stanford School of Medicine. “I didn’t feel like I had anyone I could talk to who had reassuring real-life experience with a chronic mental illness.

“After he was kind of OK again and we started getting more open about the experience, I actually realized I had three very close friends with some form of serious mental illness they’d been hospitalized for.

It is so common, but it’s not something most people feel comfortable talking about with each other,” she said.

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2017, Burton, a doctoral student in the department of geological and environmental sciences, successfully sought treatment but worried his diagnosis had somehow changed who he was. He found that mental illness was still stigmatized, and he longed for open discussions on the topic.

“I sort of had this fear that now that I had this mental illness, maybe I would be in some ways less capable, less confident,” he said. “Since then I’ve realized that wasn’t the case at all, but it’s hard to have hope in those frightening moments without some relatable experiences.

Stanford University’s Elisa Hofmeister, left, and Zack Burton, right, were inspired to create “The Manic Monologues” after Burton was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2017.

puts a spotlight on mental illness

Stanford collaboration turns true stories into powerful theater story by Karla Kane | photos by Jenny Rodriguez Around 20 monologues (the title is a nod to Eve Ensler’s taboo-breaking episodic play “The Vagina Monologues”) will be performed by a mix of auditioned actors and the authors of the pieces themselves, including Burton, who has experience in slam poetry.

Dr. Rona Hu, a psychiatry professor and advisor for “The Manic Monologues,” is also a performer in the show.

One in four Americans may experience mental illness in any given year. Where is the conversation?”

That question led Burton and Hofmeister to create “The Manic Monologues,” a theatrical performance premiering at Stanford May 2-4 that showcases the stories of people living with mental illness.

The pieces vary in length and range in tone from tragic to comedic and harrowing to joyful.

“I have heard God, sending me coded messages though the radio.

I have talked for hours to an empty room. While sitting at my desk at work, I have scratched my skin raw trying to remove the ‘cobwebs’

from my face. Do I talk about that?

After so many years what I’ve got is a lot of scars, physical and emotional. For every scar, there’s a story,” one author, who also identifies herself as a wife and mother, states in her monologue.

Another, joking about her experience with hypersexuality, a common symptom of a manic episode, says, after some surprising lustful thoughts about strangers at the airport, “The only thing I scored with was the Goldberg Mania Questionnaire: ‘Moderately to severely manic.’’’

“The Manic Monologues” team hopes to show that mental illness can happen to people of a variety of ages, backgrounds and experiences and that it’s not something shameful or that needs to be kept secret.

“That blend of authenticity and openness is critical. This is normal. People have mental illnesses and they shouldn’t be ostracized,” Burton said. “A big realization for me early on was that even in Silicon Valley, which is in a lot of ways more progressive than other areas, mental illness seems to be heavily stigmatized. There’s a lot of potential there to help disprove some of these stereotypes. ... There’s a lot of opportunity to show that people with mental illness can also be very high performers. I think that’s very salient here in ‘tech central.’”

To find contributors for the

project, Burton and Hofmeister solicited stories by posting flyers on campus, accepting submissions via email and an anonymous Google form, and reaching out to mental illness support groups and peer advocacy groups through social media.

They also connected with a variety of mentors from Stanford and beyond, including Rona Hu (clinical associate professor of psychiatry and medical director of Stanford Hospital’s acute psychiatric inpatient unit, who served as a consultant on Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why”). Hu will also be performing a monologue in the show.

“Mental illness is stigmatized in a way that other illnesses are not, with victims being blamed for their own suffering ... I hope this project can help provide a voice for people with bipolar and their friends and family, provide a sense of community and help show people that ‘maniacs’ — people vulnerable to episodes of mania — are first and foremost people,” Hu told the Weekly.

Burton and Hofmeister chose live theater as their medium in part because of its immediate emotional impact.

“A big part of the motivation was basically in thinking about platforms that force people to confront mental illness and to really have to deal with it. Theater is very much in your face; we thought that was the most fitting,” Burton said.

Hu, who’s also the creator of a series of theatrical vignettes focused on mental health in the Asian-American community, agreed.

“I’m as fond of lectures as the next Stanford professor but I think something lively and entertaining can reach people in a way that no pack of PowerPoint slides ever can,” she said.

It was important to Burton and Hofmeister that the show work on an artistic, theatrical level as well as on an awareness-raising level.

“They’re really great stories.

Most of them have a lot of artistic merit on their own. The people who submitted the stories are really good writers,” Hofmeister said of the monologues.

Stanford artist-in-residence (and Pulitzer drama finalist) Amy Freed also served as an advisor.

She got involved when Burton reached out to the school’s Theater and Performing Studies (TAPS) department for guidance from a theatrical perspective. (continued on page 24)

Steve Dobbs rehearses for “The Manic Monologues” production at Stanford University. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • April 26, 2019 • Page 23

Arts & Entertainment

A Q&A with Kaneza Schaal ‘Go Forth’ ponders the mysteries of mourning and mortality around the world

by Karla Kane aneza Schaal’s “Go Forth” is a multimedia performance piece inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the 3,000-year-old funerary text that gives the soul instructions on how to navigate the afterlife.

The performance, which involves photography, film and dance from a diverse range of cultural influences (from African and African American sculptural traditions to pop songs) to portray seven burial vignettes, ponders, “how we create space in our lives for the presence of the absent?”

Schaal will bring “Go Forth” to Stanford University’s Bing Studio on April 26 and 27.

How are you able to weave traditions from different cultures into a cohesive whole?

What was the biggest challenge when putting together the piece?

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What was your inspiration when coming up with “Go Forth”? Have you always been interested in mythology and ritual?

The performance is inspired by my own experience of ritualized grieving with my family in Rwanda. I am interested in how humans process and perform death, from the Black Lives Matter movement to ancient burial traditions. “Go Forth” considers the intimacy

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What: “Go Forth.”

Where: 327 Lasuen St., Bing Studio, Stanford.

When: Friday, April 26, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, April 27 at 2:30 and 8 p.m.

Cost: $40-$50.

Info: live.stanford.edu/calendar/ april-2019/go-forth.

between black people and death around the world.

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I believe that stories build the world. The stories we tell about ourselves and each other build architecture, and policy and our social and political fabric. Great storytelling requires speaking many languages — aesthetic, formal, creative languages as well as cultural, historical and experiential languages. Social practice is inextricable from creative practice. The diversity of my lexicons is fundamental to my pursuit of artistic excellence. The strongest tool of an ensemble is

“Go Forth” is a multimedia performance inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Photos by Maria Baranova. the culture of the group. I would say the biggest challenge and the biggest reward is setting up the team of artists to build a work.

What do you hope audiences will get out of the performance?

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I hope audiences will reflect on the presence of the absent in their own lives.

“Go Forth” paves (the) way for its audience to reflect on their

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individual and collective mourning processes. I hope they will laugh. And trust themselves.

Have you performed at Stanford/in this area much before?

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I grew up performing in Northern California and I went to summer camp at Hidden Villa, just across the way. This will be my first time performing in “Go Forth.” I built the piece when my father died. In many ways the work itself was a burial ritual for me. Performing in the piece, performing the piece in California where I grew up, and completing this iteration of the work from both sides of the stage is quite poetic and meaningful to me. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

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“I was immediately impressed with both him and the project. It seemed like he had a real sense of mission about it. I thought it was very important,” Freed said.

Structuring a performance that doesn’t have a through storyline can be challenging, she said, so she and Burton had a series of conversations about how to best shape the interview-based theater piece. Freed said she mostly gave practical advice on basics such as performance length, staging and arrangement of monologues. With the individual stories submitted, written and in some cases performed by the people who lived them, she said, “there is less formality and more immediacy; more cost to the speaker, who’s giving of themselves in a very pure way.”

Other advisors include performance artist Victoria Maxwell, journalist Tom Shroder and Stanford Health Communication Initiative Director Seema Yasmin, plus collaboration with several

Stanford theater groups.

Burton and Hofmeister said they hope “The Manic Monologues” can eventually reach beyond Stanford, perhaps spreading to other schools and theaters.

“We’ve been so supported by mental health communities and mental health advocates but we really want to see it spread to other kinds of communities, because mental illness can really affect anyone,” Hofmeister said. “We’re so hopeful that this kind of performance — making it artistic and emotionally powerful — will help other people become new stakeholders, bringing in new advocates for mental health awareness.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

What: “The Manic Monologues.”

Where: Pigott Theater, 551 Serra Mall, Stanford.

When: May 2-4 at 7 p.m.

Cost: $12-$18.

Info: themanicmonologues. org/ and arts.stanford.edu/ event/82551.

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Caught between two worlds

Judi Le tells the story of her familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey from Vietnam to small-town America

by Karla Kane n 1975, on the eve of the fall of Saigon, 4-yearold Judi Le fled her home in war-torn Vietnam. After some time in a refugee camp in Judi Le Arkansas, she settled with her family in Katy, Texas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One day youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing in the school yard, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having dinner with your parents and then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this dark period; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shift; somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s off,â&#x20AC;? she said of her fragmented early childhood memories of the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last days in Vietnam. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why are mom and dad packing everything? Why are there soldiers? This feels important to me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I kept it in my head. I think it also contributed to a little PTSD. I kept having dreams of trying to save things,â&#x20AC;? she said.

She became an American but, with the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wartime trauma still hovering and as one of very few Asians in her small town, grew up feeling like she never quite fully belonged to either her adopted new culture or the one she left behind.

As an adult, she noticed there were many books about the Vietnam War but few that spoke to her experience as a child, refugee and immigrant. She decided to write a book about her familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story, but her medium changed when the San Francisco writing course she thought sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d signed up for turned out to have a theatrical element. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize I had signed up for a performing class. I thought it was just a creative writing class,â&#x20AC;? she recalled, laughing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent too much money on it; I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get out of it now.â&#x20AC;?

To her surprise, Le found that her stories worked well told aloud, and that she enjoyed performing.

She moved to Los Angeles, where she worked on what became her autobiographical show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, What Are You?â&#x20AC;?, for eight years, eventually premiering it at a theater in Hollywood.

Le will perform the piece at the Menlo Park Library on April 30 (the 44th anniversary of when Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, fell to North Vietnamese forces).

Her performance is part of the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;War Comes Home: The Legacyâ&#x20AC;? program, connected to a national traveling exhibit of the same name and focusing on the impact of American wars on civilians and returning veterans.

In the show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;we hop back and forth from present day to the past, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s semi-chronological, so the bulk of it is about us coming to America,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Afterwards, there are stories of assimilation, of

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how I come out of it as a grownup and how I try to weave being Vietnamese and being American. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The premise is, really, trying to choose between the place that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re born to and the place that adopts you,â&#x20AC;? she said. But, she eventually realized, both places are crucial to her identity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to choose; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just part of who I am.â&#x20AC;?

The experience of telling her familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story has been cathartic.

It has helped her better understand her parents, extended family and wider culture. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vietnamese people in general donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talk about the past. They like to go, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, something bad happened but now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to put it away,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Writing the story made me that much closer to my parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience and what they had to go through.â&#x20AC;?

Though the topics covered are often serious and emotionally powerful, the show is also full of humor, something that, like her affinity for performing, came as a surprise to Le. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize I was funny until I started to perform it and people started to laugh â&#x20AC;&#x201D; maybe it was my delivery,â&#x20AC;? she said. Some of the humor comes from Leâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts at assimilating into mainstream American culture, and the generational and cultural gaps between her and her parents, such as when they try to set her up on dates. And what do her mother and father, who went to see the show in Los Angeles, think of her performing their life stories in front of strangers? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad ... I asked him if he

understood it and he said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;well not all of it, but you make people laugh. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud of youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; OK, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take it,â&#x20AC;? she chuckled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mom said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You called somebody a bad name in your show. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like that; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not how I raised you,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; so, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mixed bag.â&#x20AC;?

In the 1990s, when U.S.-Vietnamese diplomatic relations were established, Le went back to visit the land she had left in childhood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a bit of a culture shock,â&#x20AC;? she said, leaving her feeling as foreign in Vietnam as she had in Texas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always thought of myself as being very Vietnamese, so to go there and feel very American was an out-of-body experience.â&#x20AC;?

Though the war is now long in the past, Le finds that her story is still relevant to audiences. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The environment, the way it is politically, it still resonates,â&#x20AC;? she said, adding that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been especially gratifying when young women whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve felt isolated in their communities find comfort in her performances. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a story about coming to America. Everybody still has that dream, regardless of the environment, of trying to fit in. At the end of the day, we all have the same insecurities.â&#x20AC;? Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

What: â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, What Are You?â&#x20AC;?

Where: Menlo Park Library, downstairs program room, 800 Alma St. When: Tuesday, April 30, at 7 p.m.

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Eating Out Loyal fans flock back to reopened Rose International Market

by Elena Kadvany

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she quickly earned a reputation around Rose Market and started cooking for the owners when they added a kitchen, she said.

“I love it,” she said of cooking. In Persian culture, food, she added succinctly, is “everything.”

The market’s ever-popular khouresh (stews), herb-forward soups, fluffy basmati rice and succulent kebabs are the foods Attar has cooked at home for decades.

During the lunch rush at the new Rose Market, customers wait eagerly for steaming takeout boxes stuffed generously with saffron rice and kebabs or satisfying beefand-lamb koubideh wrapped in pillowy-soft lavash bread. Cooks make the rice in enormous vats in the new, larger kitchen while kebabs and vegetables char on two massive grills nearby.

Work your way through the khoresh bar for an education in the Persian palate’s affinity for tart flavors and herbs, like fesenjan (a thick stew of ground chicken, walnuts and pomegranate), bademjan (eggplant, tomatoes, bell peppers and sour grapes) and ghormeh sabzi, a fragrant herb stew. There’s also ash reshteh, a nourishing bean and noodle soup eaten during Nowruz, the Persian New Year. It’s filled with lentils, garbanzos, pinto beans, parsley, spinach and noodles, then garnished with kashk (whey) and crispy fried onion and mint.

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t’s a familiar script in Silicon Valley. Developer builds project. Existing tenants, often longtime mom-and-pop businesses, must move out. The community bemoans the closures. Trendy, bigger-name tenants move in and eventually, everyone moves on.

Mountain View’s Rose International Market represents a rare, happy plot twist in that script. After the community rose up against a proposed four-story apartment complex at the desirable corner of Castro Street and El Camino Real in 2014, the developer agreed to sign affordable, long-term leases for several small businesses then at the site, including the decadesold Persian market, so they would remain in the ground floor of the new building once it opened.

Five years later, loyal customers have quickly returned to the new and improved Rose Market, which reopened in February. The space is larger and updated, but the food and the people cooking it remain the same.

Mally Attar has been leading the Rose Market kitchen since its earliest days at its original location on Castro Street, which Iran native Saied Mehranfar opened with his brothers.

Attar left her native Tehran, Iran, 30 years ago for a better life for her 4-year-old son, she said in an interview. A self-taught cook who had also run a bakery in Iran,

Rose Market staff, from left, include Ebi Nasiri, Ahmad Alfagem, Ramin Mehranfar, Abdullah Alamoush and Saghar Norouzi.

Everything goes well with a side of hummus or mast-o-khiar, a creamy yogurt dip with cucumber and mint. While you wait for your food, peruse the market’s aisles of imported goods for D.I.Y. add-ons such as pickled cucumbers, whole sour cherry jam and fresh herbs.

For dessert, grab plump dates or a container of shole zard, saffron rice pudding.

Don’t sleep on the daily specials. On a recent Friday, Attar made heaping piles of shirin polo, a sweet, orange-hued rice studded with slivers of orange peel, barberries and toasted pistachios and almonds. Other specials include tahchin, baked saffron rice with yogurt, eggs and chicken; and baghali polo, dill and fava bean rice topped with a juicy lamb

shank (it’s Attar’s favorite dish to cook at home).

Ibrahim Almamorr, an Iraqi refugee who has worked for Rose Market since 1995, is in charge of breaking down animals for the all-halal meat case and preparing marinades for the kebabs. His current favorite is the chicken breast, marinated in yogurt, garlic, white and black pepper and paprika, then grilled. It’s best enjoyed over rice with a heavy dousing of tahini, he said. Customers can also now buy pre-marinated, raw meat to cook at home.

Almamorr said that food was central to his assimilation. When he first arrived in San Francisco from Iraq, he found comfort in what he said was the city’s only halal butcher at the time, a small

store in downtown. More than two decades later, he proudly boasts that Rose Market offers the Bay Area’s largest offering of halal meat cuts, with everything from chicken thighs and goat to New York steak and lamb hearts.

Rose Market continues to be a draw for local Iranians as well as the broader community, which has happily celebrated the return, rather than the loss, of a muchbeloved, family-run business. Q Staff writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

Rose International Market, 801 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View; rosemarketcatering.com; 650-960-1900. Open daily, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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The tabbouleh gets a garnish at Rose International Market, which reopened in Mountain View after being displaced by a redevelopment project.

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guys and gals find themselves deep in a funk, licking wounds and contemplating how and if they can fight back against Thanos. In the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early going, returning screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely beg a provocative question: Once a plan is hatched, should the Avengers save this day?

The reasons behind that question constitute spoilers Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll studiously avoid, other than to say the question hinges on some being luckier than others at Thanosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hand of fate. In a manner thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sometimes maudlin and sometimes quippy, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Avengers: Endgameâ&#x20AC;? takes its time getting into big action, first living in the pain, fear and doubt of its inciting circumstances in the confidence that its audience will follow.

Marvel Films haters often cite the abundance of humor in these films, and the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first act locates itself somewhat awkwardly at the intersection of comedy and tragedy (one characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alcoholism gets played for laughs, which suggests the filmmakers were a little too confident they could do no wrong).

Once the heroes resolve to play the longest of shots, returning directors Joe and Anthony Russo begin their endgame, a journey that requires acrobatic plot twists (in a supernatural spin on spoilers, one character tells another, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I tell you what happens, it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happenâ&#x20AC;?), passes through a climax that energetically flips through epic comic-book splash pages, and arrives at a coda that provides deeply satisfying closure for the end of an era in Marvel Films.

Markus, McFeely and the Russos conjure a convincing illusion of anything-can-happen abandon in their storytelling. The truth is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Avengers: Endgameâ&#x20AC;? uses every trick in the Marvel playbook (including one in reverse) to reach the culmination of years of calculation, but their valedictory address rewards the sprawling cast and the huge global audience with witty, nostalgic celebration and genuine heart.

The soul of these movies has always belonged to Downey, Jr., who in 2008 set the tone of cooler-than-thou humor and fierce emotional undercurrents, with Evans bringing up the all-American rear in the straight-man part of Boy Scout younger brother; both get franchise highlights to play here. If the calculations sometimes whiff (a shot highlighting the women of Marvel, for example, feels like the film simultaneously condescending and patting itself on the back), even the haters will have to concede that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Avengers: Endgameâ&#x20AC;? meets its degree of difficulty with a high level of popular entertainment.

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Supervisorial District: 5. File Nos. PLN98-7165 (7165-98P-99GP-99EIR) and PLN167165 (7165-16P-16GP- 6Z-16EIR).

WHEN AND WHERE: Thursday, May 9, 2019, No Earlier Than 1:30 p.m.

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Home Front Wildflower hike at Filoli ... A guide will lead visitors through the nature preserve at Filoli on Saturday, April 26, to get an upclose look at blooming wildflowers and learn about their unique qualities and how they adapt and thrive. The 90-minute hike, which covers about 2 miles of uneven terrain, is part of the organization’s wildflower hikes program that runs through May 4. Walks start at 11 a.m.

Reservations are required. Cost is $15 per person. Children 5 and up are welcome on hikes.

For more information, go to filoli. org.

Tickets avialable for Eichler tour ... Those looking to get a firsthand look inside of some of the area’s midcentury modern homes from an earlier era will have the opportunity on Saturday, May 4, during the Eichler-inspire Home Tour, which will showcase five homes in Palo Alto and Sunnyvale designed by Joseph Eichler. Sponsored

by Klopf Architecture, Keycon and Erdal Swarzt Team, the event provides tour-goers the opportunity to meet the owners, learn about their remodels, exchange ideas and share tips with Eichler enthusiasts and experts. Advance tickets currently are on sale for $8 and can be purchased at bit.ly/ EichlerTourPaloAlto. Proceeds will support Habitat for Humanity. 1431 Waverley St. Waterwise gardening tips...

Learn how to reduce the amount of water needed to maintain your garden at Gamble Garden’s basic gardening class on Saturday, May 4, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Garden Director Richard Hayden, will provide tips on plant selection, healthy soil, and irrigation and mulch techniques. The class also includes an instructional tour of Gamble Garden. The class is $25 for Palo Alto residents; $35 for non-residents.

Gamble Garden is located at 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto.

For more information, go to gamblegarden.org.

Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email editor@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

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Sheer elegance: A glass house with privacy

AIA home tour showcases architects’ modern works

by Carol Blitzer | photo by Peter Giles Set on a 2.7-acre hillside in Los Altos Hills, the Jun Junaid residence offers expansive views of the oak preserve and beyond to Silicon Valley.

Nearly every room in the home faces north.

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alk through the front door of the Los Altos Hills home designed by Malika Junaid of M.Designs Architects and your eyes are immediately drawn to the view: a nature preserve of oak trees sloping down the hill toward Silicon Valley.

Everyone who buys a ticket to the self-guided AIA Silicon Valley Home Tour on May 4 can experience that breathtaking view, as well as visit three other homes in Palo Alto and Los Altos. Architects will be on hand to discuss the projects and answer questions.

Altough Junaid had designed other homes in Los Altos Hills and really loved the area, she and her husband happened on their location almost serendipitously: Junaid liked to run in the hills, and she and her husband, engineer Junaid Qurashi, spotted a “for sale by owner” sign on undeveloped property.

“It was overgrown, a poison oak forest, with 10 to 20 feet of shrubs,” Junaid said.

After their offer was accepted, it took two-and-a-half years to design and build the nearly 10,000-squarefoot home.

This wasn’t the family’s first rodeo. Junaid had designed two earlier family homes, one in Sunnyvale when the couple was first married, a second in Los Altos when they had two small children and lived on a busy street with little privacy.

This time, she could achieve both privacy — because none of their neighbors on the 2.7-acre property have sightlines to the house — and an awesome view from practically every room.

Before starting her design, Junaid consulted with her husband and

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two daughters; each got a say in key aspects of the house.

The first must-have was the indoor pool: Both girls had been on swim teams, and everyone liked to swim year-round.

Next, they wanted this house to be much more open, “not to the public, but as a first impression,” Junaid said. “When you look out, the eye doesn’t stop inside. It goes out.”

That meant using as much glass as possible and blending with the environment.

The third — and key — piece was designing a house to reflect how the family lives.

“We are very casual. Friends hang out in the kitchen. The girls work in the family room,” she said.

In addition to the sofa and bigscreen TV, that family room contains two workstations for the parents (looking out at the trees) and two desktop computers along the wall for the daughters.

“When we are 24/7 working, we are together. We are visible and able to communicate,” Junaid said.

In the center of the main floor is a circular space, with a glass floor and railings surrounding a round dining-room table. You can see the indoor pool below, as well as the view beyond.

To the left is the open kitchen, with a 19-foot island topped with Krion by Porcelanosa, a tough man-made material that can stand up to what Junaid calls “bomb blasts” of turmeric or inadvertent Sharpie marks.

“There are six or seven kids here every weekend. We never say ‘don’t touch,’” she added.

An eating area at one end includes stool seating where the family takes most meals. The island

includes a two-burner induction cooktop as well as three FisherPaykel gas burners and a griddle.

There’s also pop-up storage for spices and a pot-filler spigot.

Gray cabinets sport a machinepressed, high-gloss finish, also by Porcelanosa. Special features include an entire cabinet devoted to tea, a must for the Pakistan-born couple. Along that wall are two ovens, a steamer and a built-in coffee maker.

The blue glass backsplash can be lowered to reveal an appliance garage, hiding everything from the juicer to a knife rack. Behind the garage is access to what Junaid calls “the messy kitchen,” a secondary kitchen with an additional dishwasher, a Miele induction cooktop and plenty of storage space. A door leads outside to a small deck and a chicken coop, containing chickens raised from chicks.

Upstairs, across a glass bridge, are the master-bedroom suite, including a double-decker closet and bathroom with a long white quartz trough sink. The girls share a room overlooking a roof deck topped with artificial turf. A secret stairway leads to an attic space devoted to art and reading.

Downstairs, a circular stairway leads to the indoor pool, as well as a seating area, exercise area, media room and a two-room unit with outside access that could be used for guests, a nanny or caretakers.

A one-person elevator floats up the center of the circular stairway.

Although there is glass everywhere — walls, railings, flooring — the house qualified for green certification because of its use of recycled water, rainwater harvesting and orientation. “The orientation could not be better — facing

north,” Junaid said. “It avoids heat gain during summer.”

They did install air conditioning upstairs but after a year they have not needed to turn it on, she added.

Asked if they needed to make any compromises, Junaid noted that they still haven’t had time to install the climbing wall behind the garage or figure out where to put the zipline.

“It’s pending because we want to do it as a family,” she said.

Other homes on the tour include: Q A Los Altos home with crisp, minimalist touches, but with strong Tudor roots (6,063 square feet, completed 2017, Noel Cross+Architects, San Jose) Q A Palo Alto home built next door to house the couple’s art collection, as well as expand living space (2,945 square feet, completed 2018, Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design, Oakland) Q A modern home in Palo Alto that balances privacy and daylight (5,500 square feet, completed 2017, Verner Architects, Palo Alto and Oakland). Q Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at carolgblitzer@ gmail.com.

What: AIA Silicon Valley Home Tours When: Saturday, May 4, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Four homes in Palo Alto, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Cost: $79 general admission; AIA members $65 (https://aiasiliconvalley. org/events/EventDetails. aspx?id=1219634&group=) Info: aiasiliconvalley.org; 408-298-0611; director@ aiasiliconvalley.org

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Here’s your opportunity to own a Spanish style cottage in a wonderful location. Located in the heart of College Terrace, this home offers the ability to expand or build new in one of the most desired neighborhoods in Palo Alto. Walking distance to Stanford University, California Avenue and Escondido School.

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THE ADDRESS IS THE PENINSU THE EXPERIENCE IS A IN PINEL

LOS ALTOS HILLS $9,300,000

PALO ALTO $7,388,000

MENLO PARK $6,500,000

LOS ALTOS $3,895,000

13936 Fremont Pines Lane | 6bd/6+ba Laura McCarthy | 650.269.1609 License # 01895605 OPEN SUNDAY 2:00-4:00

1429 Emerson Street | 5bd/3.5ba Samia Cullen | 650.384.5392 License # 01180821 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

1131 Hobart Street | 6bd/6.5ba Elizabeth Maulick | 650.799.3130 License # 01930548 OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30-4:00

351 Jaunita Way | 4bd/3ba Alireza Faghiri | 650.346.4727 License # 01247404

BY APPOINTMENT

LOS ALTOS $3,298,000

SAN CARLOS $3,295,000

MENLO PARK $2,095,000

MOUNTAIN VIEW $1,750,000

218 N. Avalon Drive | 4bd/2.5ba Dante Drummond | 650.400.9390 License # 00656636 OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:00-5:00

525 Vista Avenue | 4bd/3.5ba Rick & Suzanne Bell | 408.829.4853 License # 01051633 | 01422075 OPEN SAT 1:30-4:30 & SUN 12:00-4:30

789 16th Avenue | 4bd/3ba Katy Thielke Straser | 650.888.2389 License # 01308970 OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

1913 Milano Way | 2bd/2.5ba Connie Miller | 650.279.7074 License # 01275848 OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

REDWOOD CITY $1,648,000

MENLO PARK $1,598,000 +

MENLO PARK $1,549,000

MENLO PARK $1,249,000

1754 Kansas Street | 3bd/3.5ba Gary Bulanti | 650.483.5532 License # 01232945

BY APPOINTMENT

1326 Hoover Street #2 & #5 | 2 units Liz Daschbach | 650.207.0781 License # 00969220 OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 2:00-4:00

4411 Fair Oaks Avenue | 3bd/2ba Mary Gilles | 650.814.0858 License # 01789710 OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

20 Willow Road #45 | 2bd/2ba Michele Harkov/Liz Rhodes | 650.773.1332 License # 01838875 | 01179852 OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

MORGAN HILL $1,228,000

MENLO PARK $1,199,000

PORTO VALLEY $998,000

REDWOOD CITY $995,000

840 E. Central Avenue | 4bd/3ba Carla Anisman | 650.888.9521 License # 00916725 OPEN SAT 12:30-3:00 & SUN 1:00-4:00

150 Alma Street #213 | 2bd/2ba Liz Daschbach | 650.207.0781 License # 00969220

BY APPOINTMENT

35 Granada Court | 4bd/5ba Dean Asborno | 650.255.2147 License # 01274816

BY APPOINTMENT

3307 Spring Street | 2bd/1ba Elaine Klemm | 650.269.1035 License # 00972243 OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30-4:00

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OPEN HOMES ATHERTON

129 Karen Way

By Appointment Compass 46 Lilac Dr Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 1175 Osborn Av Sat 2-4/Sun 1:30-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 226 Park Ln Sat/Sun 1-5 DeLeon Realty 3 Irving Av Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass 357 Walsh Rd Sat 2-4 Compass 90 Macbain Av Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

BURLINGAME

525 Almer Rd #301 (C) Sat/Sun 1:30-4 Coldwell Banker

CAPITOLA

870 Park Av #217 Sat 2-4 Keller Williams Realty

CUPERTINO

10833 Northoak Sq (T) Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Intero

LEGEND: CONDO (C), TOWNHOME (T).

$7,195,000 3 BD/5 BA 400-8424 $6,995,000 3 BD/2 BA 465-6210 $1,995,000 3 BD/2 BA 464-608 $16,988,000 3 BD/3.5 BA 900-7000 $4,895,000 4 BD/3 BA 465-7459 $5,395,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 400-8428 $5,995,000 5 BD/3.5 BA 465-6210 $1,299,000 3 BD/2 BA 465-5602 $599,000 1 BD/1 BA 831-207-0725 $1,398,000 3 BD/2 BA 947-4700

FOSTER CITY

720 Promontory Point Ln 2309 (C) $1,238,000 Sat 1-4 3 BD/2.5 BA Compass 533-3628

LOS ALTOS

1495 Cedar Pl Sat 1:30-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 218 N. Avalon Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 15 Parsons Way Sat/Sun 1-5 DeLeon Realty 1401 Brookmill Rd Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Intero 523 Deodara Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Intero

LOS ALTOS HILLS 13940 La Paloma Rd Sat/Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s 25055 La Loma Dr Sat 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

MENLO PARK

$2,689,000 4 BD/2 BA 823-8057 $3,298,000 4 BD/2.5 BA 400-9390 $2,288,000 4 BD/2.5 BA 900-7000 $2,698,000 5 BD/4 BA 947-4700 $3,599,000 5 BD/3.5 BA 947-4700 $5,395,000 3 BD/2 BA 861-2488 $8,988,000 5 BD/5+2 half BA 900-7000

636 11th Av $1,298,000 Sat/Sun 11:30-3 2 BD/1 BA Compass 380-9415 204 Chester St $1,488,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 2 BD/1 BA DeLeon Realty 900-7000 1326 Hoover St 2 $1,998,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 2 BD/2 BA Alain Pinel Realtors 207-0781 675 Nash Av $2,075,000 Sat 1-4 2 BD/1 BA Compass 400-8427 2140 Santa Cruz Av #C205 (C) $850,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 2 BD/2 BA Coldwell Banker 302-2449 20 Willow Rd #45 (C) $1,249,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 2 BD/2 BA Alain Pinel Realtors 773-1332 2316 Blueridge Av $3,165,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 3 BD/2.5 BA Compass 400-0502 1983 Byers Dr $1,795,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 3 BD/2 BA Midtown Realty, Inc. 924-5728 946 Evelyn St $2,189,000 Sun 2-4 3 BD/2 BA Compass 400-8430 4411 Fair Oaks Av $1,549,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 3 BD/2 BA Alain Pinel Realtors 814-0858

124 Felton Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 DeLeon Realty 1047 Greenwood Dr Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Parc Agency 224 Hedge Rd Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass 1326 Hoover St 5 Sat/Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 44 La Loma Dr Sun 1-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s 873 Partridge Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Compass 657 Roble Av Sun 2-4 Compass 2325 Tioga Dr Sun 1:30-4 Coldwell Banker 15 Susan Gale Ct (T) Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s 789 16th Av Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 387 6th Av Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 2190 Avy Av Sun 1:30-4:30 Golden Gate Sotheby’s 900 Hobart St Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass 4 Palm Ct Fri 4-6/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 130 Royal Oaks Ct Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 2070 Sterling Av Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Intero 1131 Hobart St Sat/Sun 1:30-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 1321 Hobart St Sat/Sun 1-5 DeLeon Realty

MOUNTAIN VIEW 756 Calderon Av Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty 49 Showers Dr #W111 (C) Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Golden Gate Sotheby’s 306 Nita Av Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Intero 1072 Karen Way Sat/Sun 1-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s 827 Runningwood Cir Sat/Sun 1-5 DeLeon Realty 1639 Spring St Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Intero 1631 Grant Rd (T) Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Intero

PACIFICA

740 Serena Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

PALO ALTO

312 Emerson St Sun 2-4 Compass 717/723 Ellsworth Pl Sun 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty 1301 Hamilton Av

By Appointment Compass 638 Middlefield Rd Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 2281 Byron St Sat 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

$2,988,000 3 BD/2 BA 900-7000 $1,900,000 3 BD/1 BA 464-3896 $1,798,000 3 BD/1 BA 465-7459 $2,198,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 207-0781 $3,198,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 980-8866 $2,395,000 3 BD/2 BA 465-5971 $1,789,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 400-8426 $4,495,000 3 BD/3 BA 619-3621 $3,499,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 281-8028 $2,095,000 4 BD/3 BA 888-2389 $1,379,000 4 BD/2 BA 867-0199 $3,500,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 427-9211 $4,895,000 5 BD/3.5 BA 465-7459 $5,995,000 5 BD/4 BA 619-6461 $5,998,000 5 BD/4.5 BA 533-5102 $3,498,000 5 BD/3.5 BA 947-4700 $6,500,000 6 BD/6.5 BA 799-3130 $4,488,000 6 BD/3+2 half BA 900-7000 $1,898,000 2 BD/1 BA 269-1538 $998,000 2 BD/2 BA 690-1379 $1,895,000 3 BD/2 BA 947-4700 $2,995,000 4 BD/2.5 BA 408-314-2830 $1,988,000 4 BD/3 BA 900-7000 $1,898,000 4 BD/3 BA 947-4700 $1,675,000 4 BD/3 BA 947-4700 $850,000 5 BD/3 BA 400-2528 $3,289,000 3 BD/2 BA 400-8429 $2,488,000 4 BD/2 BA 900-7000 $7,649,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 400-8425 $3,349,500 4 BD/3.5 BA 619-6461 $7,988,000 5 BD/5.5 BA 900-7000

1429 Emerson St Sun 1:30-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 801 Homer Av Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Golden Gate Sotheby’s 5330 Irven Ct Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty 680/684 Loma Verde Av Sun 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty 3875 Magnolia Av Sun 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty 475 Melville Av Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass 2494 Tasso St Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty 123 Tennyson Av Sun 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty 1554 Walnut Dr Sat 1-4/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 1800 Webster St Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass 417 Seneca St Sun 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

$7,388,000 5 BD/3.5 BA 384-5392 $3,988,000 5 BD/3 BA 773-1271 $3,200,000 5 BD/4 BA 857-1000 $3,488,000 5 BD/3 BA 900-7000 $3,988,000 5 BD/4 BA 900-7000 $5,695,000 5 BD/5.5 BA 906-8008 $4,890,000 5 BD/5 BA 269-1538 $7,988,000 5 BD/5.5 BA 900-7000 $4,998,000 5 BD/5 BA 644-7708 $7,998,000 5 BD/5.5 BA 906-8008 $6,988,000 6 BD/4.5 BA 900-7000

PORTOLA VALLEY 377 Wayside Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 1019 Los Trancos Rd Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 55 Prado Ct Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 116 Russell Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 5 Sandstone St Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

REDWOOD CITY 27 Alverno Ct Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 39 Edgewood Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero 540 Leahy St Sat/Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker 1785 Maryland St Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 3973 Jefferson Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 3098 Muller Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Compass 421 Ruby St Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass 540 Santa Clara Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero

$1,995,000 2 BD/2 BA 851-1961 $1,695,000 3 BD/1.5 BA 851-1961 $2,350,000 3 BD/2 BA 851-1961 $1,995,000 3 BD/2 BA 851-2666 $3,195,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 619-6461 $1,898,000 2 BD/2.5 BA 851-2666 $1,498,000 3 BD/2 BA 543-7740 $1,380,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 678-7765 $1,550,000 3 BD/1 BA 773-1332 $2,395,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 434-4318 $2,798,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 766-7772 $1,698,000 4 BD/3 BA 906-8008 $1,899,950 4 BD/3 BA 947-4700

REDWOOD SHORES 401 Mendocino Way Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty

SAN CARLOS

$1,350,000 3 BD/3 BA 333-0592

1379 Chestnut St Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$1,398,000 2 BD/2 BA 465-8930

1811 Eaton St Sun 1:30-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,198,000 4 BD/2.5 BA 814-0374

60 Hartford Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s

SAN JOSE

$2,180,000 4 BD/4 BA 776-2828

1087 Harebell Pl Sat/Sun 1-4 Keller Williams Realty

$1,125,000 3 BD/3 BA 713-7148

2371 Sunny Vista Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Keller Williams Realty

$1,299,000 3 BD/2 BA 505-8665

1637 Indigo Oak Ln Sat 1-4 Keller Williams Realty

SAN MATEO

237 Arbor Ln Sat/Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s

$1,499,888 4 BD/3 BA 415-407-1090

$1,999,000 3 BD/2 BA 281-8028

29 Weepingridge Ct (T) Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Golden Gate Sotheby’s

$1,448,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 485-3007

175 W.Bellevue Av Sat 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

$6,488,000 6 BD/7.5 BA 900-7000

SANTA CLARA 1927 Stanley Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s

STANFORD

867 Cedro Way Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Golden Gate Sotheby’s

SUNNYVALE 1784 Lark Ln Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero

WOODSIDE

$1,439,000 3 BD/2 BA 980-8866

$2,400,000 3 BD/2 BA 208-8824

$1,999,950 4 BD/2 BA 947-4700

37 Big Tree Way Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,895,000 3 BD/2 BA 400-2528

133 Marva Oaks Dr Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$4,895,000 4 BD/4.5 BA 851-2666

518 Patrol Rd Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$3,695,000 4 BD/2.5 BA 851-2666

214 Raymundo Dr Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$5,495,000 5 BD/4 BA 851-2666

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Sports Shorts

(continued on page 54)

ON THE AIR Friday

College beach volleyball: Stanford at Pac-12 championship, 9 a.m., Pac12 Networks College men’s tennis: Stanford at Pac-12 championship, 1 p.m., Pac-12 Networks College baseball: Arizona at Stanford, 6:05 p.m., Stanford Live Stream College softball: Arizona State at Stanford, 7 p.m., Stanford Live Stream-2 College women’s lacrosse: Stanford at Pac-12 championship, 7:30 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

Erin Chang/ISI Photos

PREP SPOTLIGHT ... Gunn’s Tori Mock and Ashley Ng each drove in a pair of runs as the Titans softball team won their seventh straight, beating host Saratoga 13-3.

Maddie Ta had two hits and drove in a run for the Titans (13-2, 6-2), who return home to meet Monta Vista on Friday at 4 p.m. Madison Wiseman struck out six and did not walk a batter in six innings. Palo Alto (7-9, 5-3) dropped an 11-7 decision to Cupertino and travels to play first-place Fremont at 4 p.m.

Friday in Sunnyvale ... Palo Alto boys’ volleyball team beat visiting Eastside Prep, 22-25, 25-9, 25-21, 25-22, Wednesday and received a huge assist from crosstown rival Gunn, which knocked Wilcox out of first place with a 25-20, 25-21, 25-20 victory in Santa Clara. The Vikings (15-4, 9-1) own a half-game lead over the Chargers (16-11, 9-2) entering their match at Sacred Heart Prep at 6:45 p.m. Friday.

Palo Alto, on a 10-match winning streak, can’t afford to look past the Gators (17-6, 8-3), who have won five straight. The Titans (12-8, 7-4) meet Fremont at 6:45 p.m. Friday in Palo Alto ... Sacred Heart Prep’s Finn O’Kelly shot an even-par 36 to help the Gators down Crystal Springs Uplands, 210-246, in a West Bay Athletic League match Wednesday at Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club. Matt Flynn added a round of

Stanford senior Kat Klass will continue playing water polo at the club level while pursuing a master’s degree in Sustainability Science and Practice.

STANFORD WOMEN’S WATER POLO

Home in search of a national championship Cardinal look for first MPSF crown in four years this weekend

by Rick Eymer here’s plenty of water polo DNA in the Klass family but it took Stanford senior Kat Klass a little while before she gave the sport a try.

“It was the sport I tried last,” Klass said on the eve of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament, which begins Friday at Avery Aquatic Center. “I grew up trying gymnastics, soccer and swimming. I gave water polo a try when I was 12 and I really liked it.”

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Jose State (10-13) at 2:30 p.m.

Saturday. Sunday’s championship match is slated for 3 p.m. MPSF TV will live stream the first two days. Pac-12 Networks will televise the finals.

Klass is one of four seniors, along with Madison Berggren, Cassidy Wiley and twin Mackenzie Wiley.

“I have a voice in the back of my mind reminding me this is the last go-around,” Klass said.

“I can think about how many games I have left and the feeling (continued on page 54)

NCAA title for men’s gymnastics Cardinal men earn Pac-12 golf championship

by Rick Eymer tanford is in the midst of another banner year in terms of national titles and conference championships. The men’s gymnastics team captured the NCAA title in Champaign, Ill. last weekend, ending Oklahoma’s four-year reign at the top and ending the Sooners’ 121-meet winning streak. It was the school’s third national title of the current academic year.

Cardinal golfers just returned from Eugene, where they brought home another Pac-12 title. It’s their third consecutive tournament victory and the path to number four goes through the Stanford Golf Course, where the Cardinal host a NCAA regional tournament on May 13-15.

The participants for all regional sites will be announced Wednesday evening on the Golf Channel.

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brought home numerous individual honors. Thom Glielmi was named the National Coach of the Year, his second such honor and his first since 2009.

Stanford assistants Syque Caesar and Karl Ziehn were also named College Gymnastics Association’s National Assistant Coaches of the Year.

Much of Stanford’s success was the result of CGA’s Rookie of the Year Brody Malone, who earned that distinction on the eve of the championships and then went out and showed why he deserved it.

Glielmi made a shrewd decison in resting Malone, who was named the CGA’s National Player of the Week for his effort in Illinois, during Friday’s NCAA semifinals. He allowed the freshman to compete in a couple of events before letting him go for Saturday’s (continued on page 55)

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College women’s lacrosse: Stanford at Pac-12 championship, 1 p.m., Pac-12 Networks College softball: Arizona State at Stanford, 1 p.m. Stanford Live Stream-2 College baseball: Arizona at Stanford, 1:05., Stanford Live Stream College women’s water polo: MPSF championship at Stanford, 3 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

is the defending national champion.

In fact, USC, Stanford and UCLA are the only teams to have a NCAA women’s water polo title in the 18year history of the event.

Cardinal coach John Tanner is one of just three coaches with a national title, along with former USC coach Jovan Vavic and former UCLA coach Adam Krikorian, who currently leads the U.S. National team.

Stanford, which earned the top seed, has a bye into the semifinals and will meet the winner of Friday’s match between No. 4 Cal (15-6) and No. 5 seed San

STANFORD ATHLETICS

Saturday

College women’s tennis: Stanford at Pac-12 championship, noon., Pac12 Networks College women’s water polo: MPSF championship at Stanford, 2:30 p.m., MPSF TV College baseball: Arizona at Stanford, 5:05 p.m, Stanford Live Stream College softball: Arizona State at Stanford, 5:30 p.m. Stanford Live Stream-2

with the U.S. Women’s national team program and a NCAA title with Stanford (19-1) two years ago.

The one thing Klass and her teammates have never won is the MPSF tournament title, though the Cardinal won’t lose sleep over it.

“To be honest, it’s not on my mind,” Klass said. “The conference is so loaded it’s almost like a dress rehearsal for NCAAs. Because we’ve played each other already we know we’re going to get everybody’s best game. It will be intense.”

The top four nationally-ranked teams are all in the MPSF and USC

Stanford freshman Brody Malone earned five All-American honors, including on rings.

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Public Notices 997 All Other Legals

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ISABEL COSTA Case No.: 19PR185558 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ISABEL COSTA. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SCOTT COSTA in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: SCOTT COSTA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on June 24, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 13 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052

of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: David J. Lee 983 University Ave., Suite 104C Los Gatos, CA 95032 (408) 356-3000 (PAW PAW Apr. 12, 19, 26, 2019) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WILLIAM G. OLIVER Case No.: 19PR185389 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of WILLIAM G. OLIVER. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: LAUREN A. OLIVER in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: LAUREN A. OLIVER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on May 29, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 13 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Jennifer H. Friedman 1100 Alma Street, Suite 210 Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650) 324-9300 (PAW Apr. 19, 26; May 3, 2019)

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is scary. I’m putting everything I have into the year. I don’t want to look back and think if I could have done more.”

Klass and sophomore Sarah Klass are one of 3 1/2 sets of sisters on the team and they all bring something different. Freshman Ryann Neushul is the half, following older sisters Kiley and Jamie to The Farm and bringing a family name intertwined with Stanford history.

Olympians Makenzie Fischer, the team’s leading scorer, and Aria Fischer are also on the roster.

“The dynamics between each pair is fun to watch,” Klass said.

“Aria and Makenzie will always pass to each other at the beginning of practice, the Wiley’s love to needle each other and Sarah and I have similar personalties. She wants to show up and get things done right away. I’m like that too.”

Klass made an impression on Tanner even before enrolling at Stanford. She made the trip to Korea for the 2015 World University Games with the Cardinal, the

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 19CV345267 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: DORIS LORRAINE WITMER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: DORIS LORRAINE WITMER aka DORIS LORRAINE WITMER HILLEMAN aka LORRAINE W. HILLEMAN aka LORRAINE HILLEMAN to LORRAINE WITMER HILLEMAN. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: July, 30, 2019, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113.

A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: March 27, 2019 /s/ JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Apr. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2019)

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Stanford seniors Kat Klass, Mackenzie Wiley, Cassidy Wiley, Madison Berggren. designated U.S. representative.

“She was great,” Tanner said.

“She was impressive as an athlete but what really stood out was her presence. She had a maturity about her that stood out. She

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

(continued from page 53) 41 and Anikait Bhardwaj fired a 42 for the Gators (4-5, 4-4), who will compete at the WBAL tournament at Coyote Creek next Wednesday for a chance to qualify for the Central Coast Section tournament ... Palo Alto’s Max Valasek won the SCVAL De Anza Division diving title, scoring a 559.95 on Tuesday in his home pool. He had company as teammate Jack Callaghan finished second with a score of 475.05 and Paly’s Jack Masliah was fifth with a score of 337.40. Paly’s April Wu placed third on the girls side, scoring a 373.230. Gunn’s Erica Norton placed 11th with a score of 324.95.

The SCVAL De Anza swmming finals are scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday at Palo Alto High ... Hyunwoo Roh and two relievers combined on a fivehitter, Josh Kasevich hit a home run and Palo Alto beat visiting Saratoga 14-0 in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division. Zander Darby, Ritter Amsbaugh and Paul Thie each drove in three runs for the Vikings (14-7, 7-4), who travel to play Saratoga at 4 p.m. Friday ... Ronan Donnelly took a one-hitter into the seventh inning but ended up with a no-decision as Sacred Heart Prep dropped a frustrating 3-2 decision to Terra Nova in nine innings in a PAL Bay Division contest. Donnelly, who also had three hits, was solid after allowing a single in the bottom of the first. Aidan Macaluso had two hits and Alex Nissenberg drove in a run for the Gators (9-11-1, 4-5), who look to break even against the Tigers on Friday at 4 p.m. in Atherton ... Ian Collins and Max Chou each doubled and singled but Menlo fell to Capuchino 5-2 in a PAL Bay Division game. Bennett Norman pitched 2 2/3 innings of one-hit relief for the Knights, who have a home game Friday against the Mustangs at 4 p.m.

blended in real well.”

As for the MPSF tournament?

“Like the regular season, we go into every game believing we will win,” Tanner said. “We will lay it all out there and play our best.” Q

Alexandra Chan

Max Reyes

MENLO TRACK AND FIELD

MENLO-ATHERTON GOLF

At the Sacramento Meet of Champions on Saturday, the senior raced a personal best 14.64 in the 100 hurdles, ranking her second in the Central Coast Section. She also raced 47.57 in the 300 hurdles.

The junior earned medalist honors, with a 3-under 69, at the St. Vincent Mustang Invitational last week at the Marin Golf and Country Club, leading the PAL Bay Division champion Bears to the team title.

Honorable mention Ella Ball

Raymon Chen

Audrey Koran

Max Coupe

Kylie Liu

Jared Freeman*

Emma Sloan*

Julien Hernandez

Ria Sood

Kyle Mostofizdeh

Page Wolfenden

Hyunwoo Roh

Palo Alto track and field Menlo-Atherton lacrosse Gunn softball

Gunn softball

Gunn track and field Menlo lacrosse

Palo Alto volleyball Menlo-Atherton baseball Gunn track and field Menlo baseball

Palo Alto baseball

Palo Alto baseball

*Previous winner

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NCAA title (continued from page 53)

championship round. Stanford finished second to Michigan in the qualifier and only needed to finish among the top three to advance.

Malone, also named the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Gymnast of the Year, saved his best performance of the year for the final day, winning the allaround championship with a career-best 85.832. He also claimed the national title on floor with a career-high 14.800 and on high bar, scoring 14.633.

He became the first Cardinal to win three titles in one season.

He also became only the third

freshman to win the NCAA allaround title, joining Sam Mikulak (2011) and Yul Moldauer (2016).

Stanford has produced several world-class gymnasts over the years but none made an immediate impact like Malone, who can rewrite program history.

Also earning All-American honors on parallel bars (14.100) and rings (14.266), Malone matched Jair Lynch, Dan Gill and Akash Modi as the only Stanford gymnasts to earn five All-American honors at one meet.

“Brody was just solid and an anchor, really,” Glielmi said. “The best show of his competitiveness was high bar when the athlete before him missed. It is really important that the next guy nails his

routine, and he did that in spades.

He has one of the hardest routines in the nation and he nailed it. That totally shifted the way that event ended up.”

Malone is clearly headed in the right direction.

Stanford recorded 15 All-American honors, matching the program record set in 2008. Senior Grant Breckenridge joined Malone as an All-American in the all-around, finishing with a score of 81.464 to place eighth. Andrew Bitner and Ian Gunther also earned AllAmerican honors on rings, while Blake Sun (14.166) and Jacob Barrus (13.800) were named AllAmericans on parallel bars.

The Cardinal dominated the high bar. Malone was followed

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by Breckenridge (season-high never relinquished the lead. Stan14.200) as the runner-up and Da- ford closed with a 4-over-par 359 vid Jessen (13.933) in fourth to all in tough conditions to conclude at capture All-American 7-under 1,413. UCLA honors. earned second at 1,420 Bailey Perez (2nd, and Cal was third at 14.766) and Bryan Per1,421. la (5th, 14.466). Perla Senior Isaiah Salinda also nabbed All-Amerclosed with an even-par ican honors on vault af71 and placed fifth at ter taking second with 3-under 281, while sea career-best score of nior Brandon Wu (73) 14.933 to guide Stanand freshman Daulet ford to a season-high Tulebayev (72) tied for Isaiah Salinda 72.632. seventh at 1-under 283.

There’s depth on the Stanford Junior David Snyder (71) finished men’s golf team. at even-par 284 to secure a share Trailing Cal by four strokes of 10th. Sophomore Nate Menon starting the fourth and final (73) tied for 23rd at 6-over 290 round, the Cardinal surged in and junior Henry Shimp (75) tied front early on the front nine and for 37th at 10-over 294. Q

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