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Palo
Vol. XXXVII, Number 30 (cid:81) April 29, 2016
Alto
District lags
behind others
in publishing
decisions
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Transitions 19 Spectrum 20 Worth a Look 30 Eating Out 31 Movies 33 Puzzles 86
(cid:81) Arts South Asian fashions meet Silicon Valley sharing economy Page 27
(cid:81) Home Monroe Park’s identity comes from its location Page 36
(cid:81) Sports Paly divers share success — and history Page 88
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Upfront
(cid:47)ocal news(cid:15) information and analysis
Commission: Don’t make neighborhoods vie for parking programs
Four neighborhoods are requesting relief from pile of requests for parking relief. spoke to the commission. the commission. The adjacent
The city currently has a process “I think it’s criminal to pit resi- neighborhoods, located between
congestion on their blocks
in place that effectively forces dent against resident,” Lenicheck California Avenue to the south,
by Gennady Sheyner neighborhoods to compete for said. “All of our needs need to be Churchill Avenue to the north,
restricted-parking programs by met in a thoughtful fashion.” El Camino Real to the west and
T
he causes are different, but the tions for new residential parking setting an application deadline Of the four requests, the two Alma Street to the east, have each
problem facing the four Palo programs, commissioners agreed — March 31 — and empowering largest ones are from Evergreen been inundated with cars in recent
Alto neighborhoods seeking that each makes a compelling case the Planning and Transportation Park and Southgate. The other years. Evergreen Park’s streets fill
help from the city is the same: a for restricting parking for non-resi- Commission to prioritize which two concern a small section of up with cars belonging to Caltrain
worsening parking shortage that is dents. To that end, the commission program would be pursued this Crescent Park and the streets commuters, Stanford University
leaving residents fuming. voted to recommend that the City year and which would be deferred. near Edgewood Plaza in the Du- students and area employees (full
And on Wednesday night, as the Council increase the transportation That doesn’t sit well with Ever- veneck/St. Francis neighborhood. disclosure: the Weekly’s office
Planning and Transportation Com- division’s budget and staffing so that green Park neighborhood resident Evergreen Park and Southgate
mission weighed the four applica- it can accommodate the growing Lucinda Lenichek and others who garnered the most support from (continued on page 16)
NONPROFITS
Child care director leaves
after alleged ‘rough play’
El Carmelo Kids’ Club cited by state
for two child-safety concerns
by Sue Dremann
P
alo Alto’s largest child care of care or supervision, access
agency, Palo Alto Commu- to open bodies of water, lack of
nity Child Care, has received a fire clearance for the building
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ica W of its centers had endangered the are always issued even if the vio-
eb safety of children, according to in- lation is corrected on the spot, the
Flush with fliers er vestigation reports by the Califor- department noted on its website.
nia Department of Social Services. A “Type B” violation is one that, if
Dressed as a high-efficiency toilet, Catherine Elvert, center, and Jordan Cowman, right, of City of
The department’s Community not corrected, “may become an im-
Palo Alto Utilities, hand out fliers to passersby at Lytton Plaza promoting the city’s “Great Race
Care Licensing Division issued mediate risk to the health, safety or
for Saving Water,” a 5K run/walk and Earth Day festival taking place on Saturday. For details,
the citations on March 9 for ac- personal rights of clients.” Examples
see page 12.
tions at El Carmelo Kids’ Club, include faulty medical record keep-
a facility operated by PACCC. ing and lack of adequate staff train-
An investigator substantiated ing, according to the department.
COMMUNITY two complaints that El Carmelo’s PACCC “removed and trained”
then-director, David Higareda, Higareda after the second inci-
Nonprofits get $385,000 boost from had violated children’s safety dent before the state investigation
by allegedly putting at least one began, the state report noted.
child in a head lock and dropping But Angela Dillingham, the
Weekly Holiday Fund another on his head in the play- mother of the two children, claims
ground during “rough play,” ac- that PACCC has soft-pedaled the in-
cording to reports. cidents. A letter the nonprofit sent to
Recipients of annual grants honored at reception PACCC, which runs 20 in- parents characterized the head-lock-
fant and child care facilities, ing incident as a misinterpretation by
L
ocal nonprofits chosen to their organizations at the reception gender stereotypes, mental illness, self-reported the incidents to the the child rather than a violation of
receive grants from the at the Weekly’s offices, including sexual orientation and bullying. licensing board after a parent the child’s personal rights and safety.
Palo Alto Weekly’s 23rd Rose Jacobs Gibson of Hagar Ser- “This year, we were super hap- complained of the rough treatment The March 11 letter to parents,
annual Holiday Fund drive were vices Coalition; Mora Oommen, ex- py to have East Palo Alto Phoenix of two of her children, which oc- from Kristiane Turner, PACCC
announced Monday night, April ecutive director of Blossom Birth; Academy join us and, in fact, they curred on Dec. 16, 2015, and Feb. school-age program coordinator,
25, at a reception in their honor. Tuyen Fiack, education director of joined us with the City of Palo 18 of this year. states that during an altercation be-
The David and Lucile Packard Silicon Valley FACES along with Alto Leadership Group, so there An investigator visited El Car- tween children on the playground,
Foundation, Peery and Arrillaga Elisha Jackson, principal of East were Gunn and Paly students melo Kids’ Club, located at 3024 Higareda “went to one of the chil-
family foundations, as well as nu- Palo Alto Phoenix Academy; and there. ... To have all three of those Bryant St. on the El Carmelo dren, putting his arm around the
merous other family foundations Paul Thiebaut, founder and execu- schools there at one time was re- Elementary School campus, on child so that he could quietly talk in
and individuals matched the do- tive director of 10 Books a Home. ally amazing to watch the differ- March 1 and then cited it for a the child’s ear without being over-
nations of almost 500 donors to Silicon Valley FACES received ences and acceptance,” Fiack said. “Type B — Personal rights,” vio- heard by the others. The child was
raise a total of $385,000. $15,000 this past year to expand Phoenix Academy’s Jackson lation for the December incident uncomfortable with this, indicating
The Holiday Fund supports its diversity program, Camp Ev- said the opportunity to send some in which the child was dropped that he was put into a ‘head lock.’”
programs serving families and erytown, to include high school of his students to Camp Everytown onto his head, and a more serious The state investigator’s report,
children in the Palo Alto area. students from East Palo Alto was “something incredible for us “Type A — Personal rights” vio- however, found that Higareda had
The recipient organizations were Phoenix Academy. to be able to do for our students.” lation for the February head lock. in fact head-locked “children.”
picked by a committee made up The four-day retreat in the Santa “When Tuyen came and met “Type A” is the most seri- “After interviewing children,
of Weekly employees and retirees. Cruz Mountains is designed to get with me, she told me I could choose ous violation, “in which there is analyst learned that one staff person
This year, more than 100 organiza- high school students out of their some students who were leading in an immediate risk to the health, played rough and head locked the
tions applied and 59 were chosen. comfort zones and talking about safety or personal rights of those
Four grantees spoke briefly about difficult topics, including racism, (continued on page 15) in care.” Examples include lack (continued on page 14)
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and questions are Editor Jocelyn Dong (223-6514)
Sports Editor Keith Peters (223-6516)
handled quickly. Arts & Entertainment Editor It’s criminal to pit resident
Karla Kane (223-6517)
Home & Real Estate Editor
Elizabeth Lorenz (223-6511) against resident.
Express & Digital Editor My Nguyen (223-6524)
Assistant Sports Editor Rick Eymer (223-6521) Lucinda Lenichek(cid:15) Evergreen Par(cid:78) resident(cid:15)
Serving the community for over 26 years!
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Contributors Dale F. Bentson, Peter Canavese,
Kit Davey, Tyler Hanley, Iris Harrell, Sheila Himmel,
[email protected] Chad Jones, Karla Kane, Ari Kaye, Chris Kenrick,
Kevin Kirby, Terri Lobdell, Jack McKinnon, Andrew MOVING ON ... Just days before month, with the city receiving
Preimesberger, Daryl Savage, Jeanie K. Smith,
Susan Tavernetti City Manager James Keene a net payment of $1.46 million
warned the City Council about the based on its ownership stake
ADVERTISING
Vice President Sales & Marketing emerging worker “retention crisis” in the property. In addition, an
Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) at City Hall, several departures existing loan of $325,284 that
Multimedia Advertising Sales underscored his point. Jessica the city had made to Benest was
Adam Carter (223-6573), Elaine Clark (223-6572),
Connie Jo Cotton (223-6571), Janice Hoogner Sullivan, the city’s transportation paid off. The two parties will also
(223-6576), Wendy Suzuki (223-6569)
planning manager, stepped down receive $474,871 from State Farm
Digital Media Sales Heather Choi (223-6587)
Real Estate Advertising Sales from her position last week to Insurance Company for the fire
Neal Fine (223-6583), Carolyn Oliver (223-6581), join Google, where she will be damage, a sum that will be divvied
Rosemary Lewkowitz (223-6585)
working in the real estate division. up based on ownership rights
Inside Advertising Sales Irene Schwartz (223-6580)
Legal Advertising Alicia Santillan (223-6578) Sullivan has been the city’s chief (with Benest receiving $205,144
point person on all things relating and the city getting the rest).
ADVERTISING SERVICES
Advertising Services Lead to parking — an issue that had
Blanca Yoc (223-6596) been flummoxing officials and VIRTUAL DIVER ... OceanOne,
Sales & Production Coordinators
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and that is now firmly embedded Stanford University, has allowed
DESIGN
Design & Production Manager atop the council’s list of priorities. for new underwater explorations,
Kristin Brown (223-6562) Her accomplishments included including a maiden voyage to
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Online Operations Coordinator Program (a program that other in 1664 off the southern coast
Sabrina Riddle (223-6508) neighborhoods are now hoping to of France. The robo-mermaid is
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Business Associates Audrey Chang (223-6543),
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ADMINISTRATION to reduce the number of solo the depths of the oceans from the
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EMBARCADERO MEDIA Thomas Fehrenbach, the city’s computer science at Stanford, and
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President William S. Johnson (223-6505) economic-development manager. a team of deep-sea archaeologists
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Vice President & CFO Peter Beller (223-6545)
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Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) before joining the city in 2010, told an avatar. Khatib was able to pick
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Director, Information Technology & Webmaster the Weekly he has decided to move up a grapefruit-sized vase spotted
Frank A. Bravo (223-6551)
back to his home state of Michigan. in the wreck and felt its contours
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Shannon Corey (223-6560) His duties included monitoring and weight using OceanOne’s
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Connie Jo Cotton (223-6571)
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Zach Allen (223-6557) for new projects and policies; and haptic feedback to Khatib’s control.
Circulation Assistant Alicia Santillan launching the city’s new Business OceanOne is roughly 5 feet long,
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Upfront
City Hall’s top 10 earners
CITY HALL
Raises help fuel $11.8M jump City Manager James Keene (cid:11)(cid:26)(cid:23)(cid:30)(cid:19)(cid:26)(cid:28)(cid:31)
City Attorney Molly Stump(cid:3) (cid:11)(cid:25)(cid:30)(cid:25)(cid:19)(cid:25)(cid:24)(cid:27)
in payroll at City Hall
Utilities Director Valerie Fong* (cid:11)(cid:25)(cid:28)(cid:30)(cid:19)(cid:27)(cid:24)(cid:25)
Chief Financial Officer Lalo Perez (cid:11)(cid:25)(cid:28)(cid:29)(cid:19)(cid:31)(cid:25)(cid:25)
Salary hikes, additional pay period drive higher expenses
Police Sgt. Adrienne Moore (cid:11)(cid:25)(cid:28)(cid:27)(cid:19)(cid:32)(cid:26)(cid:31)**(cid:3)
for employee compensation in Palo Alto
by Gennady Sheyner Police Chief Dennis Burns (cid:11)(cid:25)(cid:27)(cid:26)(cid:19)(cid:26)(cid:32)(cid:23)
D Assistant Police Chief (cid:11)(cid:25)(cid:27)(cid:25)(cid:19)(cid:26)(cid:26)(cid:26)
espite fewer permanent to the market median level. Much like in the prior few
Robert Beacom
positions in City Hall, In 2014, the City Council ap- years, the city’s top earners are
Palo Alto’s payroll went proved salary raises of 4.5 per- department heads. City Manager Human Resources Director (cid:11)(cid:25)(cid:27)(cid:23)(cid:19)(cid:28)(cid:27)(cid:25)
up by $11.8 million last year, an cent for the city’s largest labor James Keene led the list with
Kathryn Shen*
increase that officials attribute to union, the Services Employees $307,358 in total compensation
a combination of salary increases International Union (SEIU), Lo- (which includes benefits), fol- Public Works Director (cid:11)(cid:25)(cid:25)(cid:29)(cid:19)(cid:29)(cid:24)(cid:25)
and a calendar oddity that cre- cal 521, and for roughly 200 em- lowed by City Attorney Molly
James Sartor
ated an additional pay period in ployees in the managers and pro- Stump ($272,214), recently
2015. fessionals labor group. The raises retired Utilities Director Val- Planning Director (cid:11)(cid:25)(cid:25)(cid:29)(cid:19)(cid:23)(cid:23)(cid:25)
The calendar anomaly occurs were spread out over two years. erie Fong ($257,412) and Chief Hillary Gitelman
every 11 years at organizations In both groups, many workers re- Financial Officer Lalo Perez
that use a two-week pay sched- ceived additional raises to better ($256,822). Police Sgt. Adrienne * resigned
ule. According to David Ram- align their pay with similar posi- Moore was fifth on the list, with ** includes $108,218 in overtime pay
berg, assistant director of the tions in other jurisdictions.
Administrative Services Depart- The trend continued this year, (continued on page 13) Source: City of Palo Alto
ment, a typical year has 26 pay with the council last month ap-
periods; last year had 27. This oc- proving new contracts for the
curs because 26 two-week peri- SEIU and the city’s two largest Who’s earning what at City Hall?
ods account for 364 days and the public-safety unions: the Palo
“unaccounted” days ultimately Alto Peace Officers Association Close to half of all full-time City of Palo Alto employees now earn at least $100,000.
add up to a pay period every de- and the International Associa-
cade or so. Ramberg noted that tion of Fire Fighters, Local 1313.
next year there will be a compen- Under the new terms, employees
1200 1,173
sation decrease because the city in all three labor groups will re- 1,116 1,125
will drop back to 26 pay periods. ceive 7.5 percent raises spread 1,044
According to Ramberg, the out over three years in addition 1000 Earning $100K or less
calendar accounts for about $6 to salary bumps based on marked
million of additional payroll ex- adjustments.
800
penses. The remaining $5.8 mil- The numbers from 2015 also
lion is a result of salary raises show that nearly one-third of all
that were approved in 2015 and workers — and close to a half 600
a related rise in benefit expenses. of all full-time workers — now
494
The rising costs come despite a earn at least $100,000. The total 440 Earning $100K or more
408
decrease in the number of em- number of employees in this cat- 400 372
ployees on the city’s payroll. The egory was 494 last year, up from
head count of city employees 440 in 2014, 408 in 2013 and 372
200
(which includes temporary em- in 2012. And 23 employees last
ployees) dipped from 1,584 in year made more than $200,000, 15 8 19 23Earning $200K or more
2014 to 1,561 in 2016. compared to 19 in 2014. By con- 0
The salary hikes last year were trast, the number of employees 2012 2013 2014 2015
part of the city’s efforts to keep who make less than $100,000
up with the area’s growing cost dropped by 81 between 2014 and Years
of living and to bring salaries up 2015, from 1,125 to 1,044.
adjustments for the workforce, staffing,” he said. “The problems
CITY BUDGET
based on the market median. Even and challenges of our community,
with the recent raises, Keene em- naturally, are playing itself out in
City exec: Palo Alto faces ‘emerging
phasized on Monday that the city our ability to recruit and retain
is going through a retention crisis people ... the housing costs, the
crisis’ in staffing and the city’s workforce is strug- traffic and commute and the de-
gling to keep up with the grow- mands of our environment.
ing workload. In just the past few “The people who work on all
James Keene’s proposed budget for 2017 reflects weeks, Keene’s office lost two these things have to work harder
key staff members, including on more complex issues with
larger payroll, infrastructure costs
the city’s economic-development more public scrutiny than most
by Gennady Sheyner manager. of their peers.”
Even the budget team is re- In the new budget, Keene pro-
F
acing a growing payroll and lion) in fiscal year 2017, which in the current fiscal year. This flective of this trend. Two of the poses to add 10 new positions,
a City Council hungry for begins on July 1. Revenues from includes a proposal to transfer team’s four staff members will bringing the city’s total full-time
new garages, bike boule- property tax and documentary- $22.8 million into the city’s In- be departing in the next month, employees to 1,052. Among them
vards and public-safety facilities, transfer tax are expected to rise frastructure Reserve as part of a while the council’s Finance are four in Public Works (three
City Manager James Keene on by 7.9 percent and 9.9 percent, five-year strategy for construct- Committee is reviewing the bud- related to the ongoing upgrade
Monday unveiled a budget that respectively. Overall, the city’s ing a new public-safety building, get, Keene said. And city Chief of the Regional Water Quality
would raise spending by nearly 7 General Fund, which funds most rebuilding two fire stations, creat- Financial Officer Lalo Perez Control Plant), two-and-a-half in
percent in the coming fiscal year. services (excluding utilities), pre- ing new bike boulevards through- observed that only one member the Department of Planning and
The budget paints a picture that dicts $193.1 million in revenues out the city and building a new of the team who presented the Community Environment; a se-
is at once bright and bleak. On — up from $165.4 million in the bridge over U.S. Highway 101 at budget document last year is still nior librarian; a planning techni-
the one hand, it reflects a local current fiscal year. Adobe Creek. with the city. cian in the Development Center;
economy that continues to thrive, But the budget also mirrors a The biggest component is sala- Given the situation, Keene’s and a senior human-resources
with revenues rising in nearly ev- city with a long list of infrastruc- ries and benefits, which make up budget presentation was less administrator who would manage
ery major category. ture needs, rising pension costs 59 percent of the budget. Spend- a celebration of the booming worker-compensation activities.
The budget predicts that hotel- and a huge traffic headache. The ing in this category is slated to go economy and more an exercise in In recommending the new po-
tax revenues will increase by budget includes $198.1 million up by 4.3 percent, or $6.9 million, managing expectations.
nearly 23 percent (or $4.3 mil- in expenditures, $12.3 more than reflecting the city’s recent salary “We have an emerging crisis in (continued on page 13)
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EDUCATION
Online This Week
District slow to publish decisions
These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online
made at meetings
throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto
Online.com/news.
Unlike other local school boards, Palo Alto Unified’s is a half-year behind Hazmat incident closes Palo Alto Transit Center
by Elena Kadvany Palo Alto’s Transit Center closed on Thursday morning due to a
suspicious substance found on a bus, a Santa Clara Valley Trans-
The Palo Alto school district ute a copy of the “unapproved” one meeting to the next. She re- portation Authority spokeswoman said. (Posted April 28, 10:29 a.m.)
is an outlier when it comes minutes of the previous meeting members “being in a panic” if
Man arrested for package theft on Monroe Drive
to officially documenting or meetings with the agenda for she was more than two meetings
and making public the minutes the next regular meeting. At the behind. A 37-year-old man allegedly found with stolen packages was
from meetings of the Board of next meeting, the board should But at a previous school arrested in Mountain View, near the border of Palo Alto, on Tues-
Education. approve the minutes as presented board’s request, she started tak- day afternoon, Mountain View police said. (Posted April 28, 7:40 a.m.)
While most local school or with any necessary changes, ing lengthier and more “attribu-
boards approve minutes from the bylaw states. tive” minutes, until the board School district’s secondary director to retire
previous meetings in a timely, Why is Palo Alto so far be- reversed that request, she said. Katherine Baker, the Palo Alto Unified School District’s chief
regular manner — typically by hind? Staff say it’s the kind of “Superintendents change, academic officer for secondary education and former Terman
the next meeting — Palo Alto minutes that are being recorded: board members change, pres- Middle School principal, will retire at the end of this school year,
Unified is six months behind. verbatim, rather than the brief, sures and priorities on that job she confirmed Wednesday. (Posted April 27, 3:35 p.m.)
The most recent minutes, ap- high-level summary of actions changed, and I know there was
proved by the board on April 19, required under board bylaw. The one summer when I think I must Surf Air: New flight path will avoid
were for its Oct. 13, 2015 meet- bylaw states that minutes should have done ... 12, 15 sets of min- Midpeninsula
ing. Since then, there have been include “only a brief summary utes over the summer trying to
Surf Air representatives say they have identified an alternative
nine regularly scheduled board of the Board’s discussion, but catch up again,” Ruegsegger
flight path that would put their planes, and the noise of their tur-
meetings and several special shall not include a verbatim re- said.
boprop engines, over the Bay during much of their approach to
board meetings. With no pub- cord of the Board’s discussion Staff from most neighboring
the San Carlos Airport whenever they have clear visibility. (Posted
licly available minutes, members on each agenda topic or the districts described their min-
April 27, 12:37 p.m.)
of the public cannot read a sum- names of Board members who utes as “action minutes.” Only
mary of what transpired at those made specific points during the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High
Man charged for leading deputies on pursuit
meetings. discussion.” School District staff said the
By contrast, district employ- The minutes must include the practice is to “capture any sig- A suspected gang member pleaded not guilty Monday to crash-
ees from 10 other local school specific language for any motion nificant discussion, in addition ing his car and abandoning a pregnant woman and a 13-year-old
districts said it is their policy to made, the names of the members to decisions made by board.” child while fleeing deputies in East Palo Alto on Friday, prosecu-
approve minutes at the board’s who made and seconded the mo- Other local school districts tors said. (Posted April 27, 7:42 a.m.)
next meeting. For example, at the tion and the individual votes also make minutes consistently
Los Gatos woman dies after crash on 280
Los Altos School District Board of each member, unless the ac- and more easily accessible to
of Trustees’ Feb. 8 meeting, the tion was unanimous, the bylaw the public than Palo Alto. Menlo A woman who was killed Monday morning when her car
Jan. 25 minutes were approved, states. When a roll-call vote is Park, for example, has a dedi- flipped over the center divider of Interstate 280 near Palo Alto
according to district documents taken, the names and votes of cated section on its website for was identified Tuesday as 47-year-old Los Gatos resident Gina
posted online. On Feb. 9, the each member must be listed in minutes, with links to documents Whitson, according to the Santa Clara County medical exam-
Menlo Park City School District the minutes. Motions or resolu- broken down by school year, run- iner’s office. (Posted April 25, 10:29 a.m.)
board approved minutes from tions must be recorded as having ning back to 2007. Minutes from
three previous meetings, the passed or failed. all regular and special board VIDEO: On ‘Behind the Headlines’
most recent one being on Jan. 21, Monica Sanchez Lopez, execu- meetings are included. Once On he half-hour webcast, “Behind the Headlines,” Weekly
according to documents posted tive assistant to the superinten- they are approved by the board, Editor-in-Chief Jocelyn Dong leads a discussion with reporter
on the school district’s website. dent, however, has taken verba- minutes are posted online, usu- Gennady Sheyner and photographer Veronica Weber on a pro-
Minutes for the Mountain View- tim notes during board meetings, ally within 72 hours, according posed ban on two-story homes in the Royal Manor neighborhood
Los Altos High School District according to Communications to Lanita Villasenor, executive and local cabbies’ struggle with the rise of rideshare companies.
Board of Trustees’ most recent Coordinator Jorge Quintana. She assistant to the superintendent. (Posted April 23, 8:02 a.m.)
meeting on April 18 are avail- later goes back to a video record- Similarly, the Mountain View-
able on the district’s website. ing of the meeting to “check for Whisman School District website
The Sequoia Union High School accuracy,” and the minutes come has a page that lists the board’s (cid:62)(cid:72)(cid:85)(cid:91)(cid:3)(cid:91)(cid:86)(cid:3)(cid:78)(cid:76)(cid:91)(cid:3)(cid:85)(cid:76)(cid:94)(cid:90)(cid:3)(cid:73)(cid:89)(cid:80)(cid:76)(cid:77)(cid:90)(cid:3)(cid:76)(cid:84)(cid:72)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:76)(cid:75)(cid:3)(cid:91)(cid:86)(cid:3)(cid:96)(cid:86)(cid:92)(cid:3)(cid:76)(cid:93)(cid:76)(cid:89)(cid:96)(cid:3)(cid:94)(cid:76)(cid:76)(cid:82)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:96)(cid:38)(cid:3)
District Board of Trustees ap- back to the board for approval current meeting calendar, with Sign up for Express, our daily e-edition.
Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com to sign up.
proved at its most recent meet- “as soon as they are finished,” links to the agenda, minutes and
ing the minutes from the previ- Quintana wrote in an email. a video recording for each meet-
ous regular meeting. At a January school board re- ing. Minutes are also posted for
The Pleasanton Unified treat, Sanchez Lopez brought an the 2014-15 and 2013-14 school links to minutes. regular board meeting, accord-
School District, which is similar informal proposal to streamline years. The Sequoia Union High When it comes to another ing to Villasenor.
in size to Palo Alto, is not quite this process — and, thus, align School District, too, posts min- public-disclosure practice — In the Piedmont Unified
as current. At a regular March the district with its own board utes on dedicated pages reaching posting emails from the public School District, letters to the
22 meeting, the board approved bylaw. She proposed writing back to 2011. to the board and superintendent, board are read aloud at meetings
minutes from Jan. 12, according succinct summaries of action, as Palo Alto’s practice is to post which are considered public re- but are not printed for public
to documents posted on the dis- most other local school districts the minutes, after they are ap- cords — neither Palo Alto Uni- distribution, according to Sylvia
trict website. provide, and directing anyone in proved, with the corresponding fied nor most other local districts Eggert, administrative assistant
Redwood City School Dis- need of additional details about agenda, Quintana said. Current- make correspondence generally to the superintendent.
trict’s board clerk said minutes a meeting with links to the video ly, on the school board’s main available. Similarly, correspondence be-
there typically come to the board recordings. webpage, there are only minutes In Palo Alto, letters or emails tween members of the board, the
for approval within about three “Staff believes that this pro- posted for three meetings in to the board are not regularly superintendent and others, also
weeks. cess would improve the turn- September 2015, and the archive placed in the board’s agenda a matter of public record, are not
Palo Alto Unified and these around time for the minutes and only reaches back to Aug. 21, packet unless specifically re- routinely made public. However,
other school districts operate that it would be more cost effec- 2015. quested by the people who write they can be made obtained when
under a board bylaw, based on a tive,” Quintana said. The September 2015 minutes them, Quintana said. The super- a citizen files a Public Records
California School Boards Asso- Sanchez Lopez has started were approved five months lat- intendent’s office must receive Act request, a California law de-
ciation sample policy, that stipu- transitioning to the summary- er, at the board’s Feb. 23, 2016, the correspondence by noon one signed to give the public access
lates regular approval of minutes style approach, he said. meeting. week prior to a board meeting to to information held by public
to provide a record of board ac- When Sanchez Lopez’s recent On a separate district web- make it into the packet. agencies. (cid:81)
tions for use by district staff and predecessor, Kathleen Ruegseg- page, which isn’t linked to the Most other districts operate Staff Writer Elena Kadvany
the public — a means to “help ger, served as the Palo Alto Uni- board page that has the Septem- under the same by-request-only can be emailed at ekadvany@
foster public trust that Board ac- fied superintendent’s executive ber 2015 minutes, there are ar- process, save Menlo Park, which paweekly.com.
tions are occurring in public in assistant for 11 years, she mostly chived meeting packets and min- typically submits any correspon- Former Editorial Intern Avi
accordance with law.” recorded summary-style min- utes from the 2003-04 school dence addressed to the entire Salem and current Intern Anna
Under this bylaw, the superin- utes, and said it was “relatively year onward. Most meetings un- board in a “written communi- Medina contributed reporting to
tendent or designee must distrib- easy” to turn minutes over from til 2015 contain corresponding cation” agenda item at the next this story.
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“unduly complicated and vague.” sures of this case, in favor of the
CIVIL RIGHTS The suit alleges that Stanford accuser, despite the evidence that
failed to inform Doe of his rights showed it was not true as it re-
Stanford student accused of sexual under the Alternate Review Pro- lated to John Doe,” Quadra said.
cess, including a right to have a The lawsuit alleges that the
support person, such as an attor- Alternate Review Process
assault fires back at university ney, accompany him throughout (ARP) itself was developed and
the investigative and review pro- implemented “with the intent of
cesses. A university counselor prosecuting successful sexual
Former student files federal lawsuit alleging Title IX violations Doe was referred to (whom he assault disciplinary proceeding
perceived as his “advocate”) against men” and that Stanford
by Elena Kadvany “discouraged” Doe from having “intentionally drafted the ARP
an attorney present throughout in order to increase prosecution
A
male Stanford University date referenced in Doe’s lawsuit, properly. the process, which “materially of successful disciplinary pro-
student found responsible among other details. “It is disappointing that a stu- affected the outcome of the dis- ceedings against men for sexual
for sexual assault in 2014 Doe’s lawsuit alleges that the dent has filed litigation against ciplinary proceeding,” the law- assault and trained the students
has alleged in a lawsuit that Stan- combination of a flawed disci- Stanford,” she wrote, “but we be- suit states. and staff involved in implement-
ford, motivated by gender bias plinary process and a university lieve this matter was handled ap- Doe never obtained legal rep- ing the ARP in a manner that
and a “discriminatory zeal to under public pressure to protect propriately, and we are prepared resentation throughout the uni- targeted men.”
prosecute sexual assault claims,” its “purported prestige and repu- to defend the process.” versity’s internal process, his The lawsuit also argues that
violated his rights under federal tation against criticism” led to At Stanford, the case was lawyer, James Quadra, told the because the alleged assault oc-
gender-equity law Title IX. violations of his right to a fair investigated and adjudicated Weekly Wednesday. curred in a location far off
The lawsuit, filed Monday in process. The suit also maintains through the university’s Alter- Stanford also prevented Doe campus and was unrelated to
the U.S. District Court, Northern that the sexual contact between nate Review Process, a disci- from providing certain pieces any university activity, the uni-
District of California, only iden- Doe and Francis was consensual plinary procedure designed for of evidence relating to Francis’ versity’s review panel “lacked
tifies the man as “John Doe” and and that Stanford wrongly con- serious allegations of miscon- credibility; “heavily” and “im- jurisdiction under its policies
the female Stanford student his cluded that he sexually assaulted duct relating to sexual assault, properly” redacted a statement and procedures” and should
lawyers say falsely accused him her. sexual harassment, relationship he presented to the review panel, have deferred to an investigation
of sexual assault as “Jane Smith,” “In recent years, Stanford has violence or stalking. Under the which would later find him re- conducted by the Juneau district
but the details of the suit mirror faced significant criticism for process, which was replaced this sponsible for sexual assault; re- attorney. The district attorney
a very-public case that sparked failing to properly investigate year, a five-member review panel dacted statements from Francis declined to bring charges in the
a firestorm of publicity and stu- allegations by female students of faculty or staff and students, that “disproved the allegations case.
dent activism around the topic of claiming to be victims of sexual was tasked with adjudicating al- against him”; and allowed for a Doe also filed this week a pe-
sexual violence at Stanford. assault by male students,” the legations of sexual misconduct. flawed appeals process that, too, tition challenging the final con-
This case was made public by lawsuit states. “Stanford’s bi- Students, faculty and adminis- was motivated by gender bias, sequence Stanford imposed on
former student Leah Francis, ased and unfair rush to judgment trators alike have said the Alter- the lawsuit alleges. him: a two-year hold on his un-
who said another Stanford stu- against John Doe was clearly a nate Review Process was cum- “The school, in light of their dergraduate diploma. The five-
dent, her ex-boyfriend, had sexu- response to this criticism.” bersome, time-consuming and previous issues and the fact that member review panel had ini-
ally assaulted her off campus in Stanford spokeswoman Lisa often painful and unsatisfying they were criticized, went in the tially implemented as sanctions
their hometown of Juneau, Alas- Lapin wrote in an email to the for the students involved. opposite direction of fairness a five-quarter suspension, com-
ka, over winter break on Jan. 1, Weekly that the university be- Doe’s lawsuit similarly de- and made sure they looked like
2014 — the same location and lieves the case was addressed scribes the process as flawed, they were responding to the pres- (continued on page 13)
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