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On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM Aram James > wrote: Dingell. “I heard it was from the Jewish Regents,”—that is, the Jewish members of the University of Michigan Board of Regents—“they forced me to take these cases,” Nessel said at an event this week ca...

Dingell. “I heard it was from the Jewish Regents,”—that is, the Jewish members of the University of Michigan Board of Regents—“they forced me to take these cases,” Nessel said at an event this week called a “Town Hall on Hate Crimes & Extremism” in West Bloomfield Township<https://linkprotect.cud...

Dear council members, I am writing to express concern about the loss of critical parking spaces in the plan to convert Parking Plazas 1, 2, and 3 to low income housing. First, I am in full agreement on the importance of meeting our low income housing unit goals. However, I want to know why we ...

Dear council members and city staff, I attended the session yesterday at Lyle Park to learn more about the citys proposals. Thank you for holding this meeting as I learned a lot more about the project. Im writing to express my preferences. I am NOT in favor of option 1 that removes all parking...

Dear Council Members, Im writing to say that I am in favor of keeping our December tree lighting ceremony and continuing to call it a "Holiday Tree Lighting". I feel December is a "holiday time", no matter what ones faith, and there are multiple December holiday religious celebrations besides Chr...

Hi Ms. Hall (and bcc to others that have emailed similar concerns in the last few days), Thank you for your email about Menlo Park Municipal Water operations and funding. I wanted to provide some information about the financials of the water system in response to these messages. The water system ...

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. Dear City Council members, I recently read Ron Shepherd's letter recommending that you consider selling the city water department. His arguments are compelling and I had the same reaction some months ago when looking at the city's budget. It seems the department is far too small to provide a...

Dear City Council members, I write to encourage you to consider what structural changes could save the city money. 1 - Consider outsourcing our police services to the San Mateo County Sheriff's department. San Carlos, Millbrae, Half Moon Bay, Portola Valley and Woodside have done so. While this may...

Dear City Council, I am concerned that that Menlo Park appears to have a much higher number of staff and payroll expenses (and thus retirement expenses) than other cities our size. I would love to know more specifically where we are out of line. For example, is it because we need more staff in the ...

Dear Council Members, I am encouraged to read that you've had a consultant looking at our permitting processes, and clearly there are major deficiencies in our zoning code and processes. I would like to see the City take the next steps to draft a revised zoning code -- OR hire this consultant to do...