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Mayor Combs and City Council, I enthusiastically support the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative. Menlo Park’s downtown, quite simply, depends on the access provided by the parking plazas. A decision to repurpose those lots should be made by the residents who use them - not by outside...
Mayor Combs and City Council Members, I support more affordable housing in Menlo Park. In the right locations, it will strengthen our community. But our community is built around a shared downtown — and the downtown depends on the public parking plazas. Repurposing those plazas would be a once...
*Menlo Park Council and Civic Participants,* This is a follow-up to our earlier WCO communication. Since your council first received our statement, additional border cities have been contacted — Nogales, El Paso, San Diego, Yuma, Tucson, Brownsville, and Calexico. Each has been added to the ci...
Dear Members of the City Council, I am writing to bring your urgent attention to a systemic pattern of electronic intelligence (EI) suppression and misinformation that poses a significant threat to civic transparency, democratic engagement, and public trust — risks that Silicon Valley, as a gl...
Dear Mayor Taylor, Chief Bertani, City Manager Jerome-Robinson, and Menlo Park City Council Members, My name is Elena Fox, and I am a resident of Menlo Park, California. I am writing to you today to demand that you immediately redirect funding from the Menlo Park Police Department towards BIPOC com...
"City Management has offered a wide variety of options to help balance the budget." But notably the City Management has omitted the biggest cost saver of all - contracting with the Sheriff for police services. Why does the Council limit its discussion to the proposals "offered" by City Management? ...
This is a great idea. Thank you to our mayor for bringing it forward. The Battles family Received on Tue May 12 2020 - 13:39:28 PDT
Dear City Council Members, First, I'd like to thank you for the work you've done in Menlo Park to improve bicycle access and pedestrian safety. For example, the Oak Grove Bike Boulevard project is a terrific change and I hope it becomes a permanent one. I visit Oak Grove businesses two-three times ...
Dear City Council, Many of Menlo Park residents are Stanford alumni, supporters, and donors. The university needs to be a good neighbor and a good citizen, in the same way that they expect that of their students and alums. Please negotiate a better deal on behalf of Menlo Park residents on the Stanf...
Good morning Mayor Keith and Council members, I was pleased to see several of you at the school safe routes discussion this week. Thank you for making the time to be there. Following up on my email from last week (below), I'm sharing a couple of photos of the construction traffic I'm talking about a...
