Menlo Park Logo

Menlo Park Community Forum

Post a message here for neighbors to read. Email the entire City Council for faster response. Emails will auto-post here and be official public comments.

August 3, 2025: What residents are discussing ahead of next city council meetings. Click Here
12115 results for "-10640063_at_"

Hello, Earlier this summer I sent you an email singing the praises of Burgess Pool. Today I received a flyer from the city of Menlo Park advertising Belle Haven Pool. Just yesterday I saw that after August 18th Burgess will be closed for a portion of the afternoon due to “budgetary constraints”, ...

Subject: Your Stand on the Ceasefire Hi Henry, You were truly the only candidate for the Palo Alto City Council in 2024, out of nine total candidates, who had the courage to unequivocally call for a ceasefire. I attended the council meeting that night and remember your speech very well. ...

Dear Mr. Murphy, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing for the fourth time this week to express my deep and growing concern regarding the incident that occurred at the Belle Haven Community Campus on July 30, 2025. While many seniors believed the situation was part of an emergency drill,...

Dear Menlo Park City Council, I am writing to urge you - specifically, Mayor Coombs and city manager Murphy - to make the topic of operations at the Burgess and Belle Haven pools a study session item at a regular meeting as soon as possible, but no later than September 9, 2025. Due to ongo...

City Council, I just had a troubling conversation with a neighboring business owner downtown. Because of the Citys failure to address overnight parking for work vans under the new rules, other businesses are now asking to use my private, leased parking spaces—on the suggestion of Fran Dehn—jus...

My name is Felix Kolotinsky, and I am a resident of the unincorporated area of Menlo Park, North Fair Oaks. As a daily swimmer and a long-time user of Burgess Pool, I am deeply concerned about the recent dramatic reduction in operating hours implemented by Menlo Swim and Sport, under Tim Sheeper’s m...

The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid https://theintercept.com/2025/07/30/new-york-times-hamas-aid-israel-gaza-famine/

Thank you Aram for your words. In times like this when the whole world is speaking up against the cruelty of the Israeli army and the silence of our leaders and representative, history will not be kind to people who remained silent, or worse, took a stand to support the genocide. Vickie, I ho...

Dear Justin, I hope this message finds you well. Thank you and your team for organizing the emergency drill at the Belle Haven Community Campus today. A few hours after the drill, I was on site and had the opportunity to speak with seome seniors. I would like to share some observations and concerns...