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Mayor Nash, Having no response to my May 26 letter to the Council that listed the 2021 payments to the City Attorney for work performed for the City, some of which was reimbursed by property owners that have development projects before the City, I am now turning to you with specific questions. ...
Dear Mayor Nash and Council, Yesterday I received a production of documents in response to my May 4 Public Records Act request regarding payment for legal work performed on behalf of the City By Nira Doherty and her firm Burke Williams & Sorensen. My initial interest expanded once I learned th...
We hope that other members of the council will join Ray Mueller at the event to view the sculpture and meet Lisa Solomon (artist who conceived the project) and Jim Gilandi (who constructed the framework of the redwood Torii gate, upon which the artist has hung some of the over 2000 paper cranes ma...
help with outdoors dining arrangements (no "sealed off" tents - keep the area well ventilated); masks required everywhere unless you are eating; add handwashing "stations" outdoors; more bike racks; more closed off areas where merchandise would be available (not on sidewalk) but like outdoors roofed...
Dear City Council, I want to register my support for the ordinance to safeguard guns, but to express the need for an amendment to the proposed ordinance so that it does not include a criminal penalty, which would penalize low-income, minority or otherwise marginalized members of our community. I as...
Dear City Council, Sister City Committee, Clay Curtin (Public Engagement Mgr.) and Starla Jerome-Robinson (City Mgr): A friend and Menlo Park neighbor of mine, Richard Duda, and I hope to speak tonight during public comment about a global issue that we want to put before the Council members as they...
I applaude the including of a % of affordable/low-imcome apartments, but would like to see 20% and a specific low-income level listed, as "affordable, below market" is usually woefully out of reach for low-income, minimum wage workforce families. I would further add that I would like to see Menlo P...
Dear City Council members, Mayor Mueller , Please help us publicize this important event on Wed. Dec. 11, by the Poor People's Campaign (modeled on the Rev. Martin Luther King's 1968 campaign), and supported by local peace and justice groups. Housing, living wages, healthcare, education, transporta...
Dear City Council members, Thank you for your support of community events to support the Guild Theater. Although we were unable to find a buyer to remodel and continue to offer a full schedule of indie/arts/foreign films and documentaries there, I appreciate the thoughtful and forward-looking respo...
To the City Council: Thank you for your efforts to preserve the Guild as a Menlo Park "institution" these many years. We hope for new life with the new Guild, and film programming there when it opens, as one of the arts public benefits. Here's your invitation to tonight's special "Goodbye Guild" ev...
