Menlo Park Community Forum

To the city Council, and City Manager Ahead of the September 30th meeting, please review this summary of the MOU assessment and actual execution delays from City in completing this project. Changing the MOU is actually creates worse outcome at this point because the City is understaffed to c...

Hi Justin, I hope you are doing well. Thank you for hosting a City Clerk’s Office Open House at Belle Haven Community Campus. I wanted to follow up on a couple of concerns. First, I noticed that important events such as the City Clerk’s Office Open House were not announced during the senio...

Dear City Council and City Manager, My name is Eduardo L. Hernandez, and I am writing to bring to your attention a serious concern regarding an incident that occurred on Wednesday, July 30, 2025. Although we were informed that there was no real emergency, I want to share a firsthand account from a...

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,...

Hi Nikki, Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed response. I appreciate the clarity you provided regarding the safety features of the BHCC building and the City’s investment in emergency preparedness. It’s reassuring to know the facility was designed with resilience in mind, particularly to ser...

Dear City Council Members, As you are likely aware I am a co-founder and current Chair of Menlo Spark, am a former two-term Environmental Quality Commissioner (and two-time Chair), and one of the leaders of the Menlo Park Green Ribbon Citizens’ Committee in 2007. I am a 29-year resident of the Wi...

Dear members of the Menlo Park City Council, I have looked over the 846 pages included with the attached email and I would respectfully suggest that multiple unbiased opinions be obtained to determine if the “All Electric/No Gas” rules should be temporarily waived so that the grid that supplies ele...

Dear Esteemed City Council Members and Senior Staff, In an effort to be kind, empathetic and enthusiastic with our youth, I'd like to suggest that Menlo Park police cars carry bike helmets. So that when they encounter youth who are riding without helmets they can provide a solution in addition t...

Thanks, Betsy. I have a couple of thoughts about the gas-powered blower ban. While it would be great to ban all blowers to eliminate the dust they generate, that isn't practical. Even I use a small, battery-powered blower on my gravel where a rake doesn't cut it. I use a broom everywhere else...

Hi Betsy and city council, Thank you so much for the summary, busy week. We are so eager to see Gas Leaf Blowers (item C2) banned, that it is frustrating to us that there's a 21 page report, for which the recommendation is merely "prepare another report". Cannot the city council vote prompt...