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To our Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Councilmembers and city staff, As the Chair of Menlo Parks Environmental Quality Commission I am writing in support of two items on your agenda for this Tuesday: H6 and J1. H6 - Please approve the updated Roles and Responsibilities for the EQC. This new descripti...
Dear Mayor Nash and City Councillors, April 25, 2022 As an observer and public commenter at EQC meetings for several years, I am concerned that the described procedure to fill the four vacancies on the EQC (in particular) may not result in ...
Dear Mayor Combs and Council Members, As a long-time Menlo Park homeowner, and as Founder & Executive Director of the Clean Coalition, I appreciate your environmental leadership and hope you continue to support robust electrification. Given that most existing buildings will be standing for decad...
Hello Rebecca, We began our inquiry regarding the creek's status with the EQC in January of this year, 5 months ago! We are now closing in on a 3 month wait to hear what the new City Attorney has decided regarding the reinstatement of the San Francisquito Creek back onto the Commission's Priorit...
Dear Mayor Combs and Council Members, Thank you for starting the long process of leading on climate preservation! It is a sobering place to be, and a sobering time to be here just as all plausible deniability of the climate problem has gone up in smoke. I can empathize with people who are not...
. Dear Mayor Taylor and Members of the City Council, Tom Kabat and I have read staff’s report for item D-2 and would like share some concerns we have about the term sheet and conceptual design for the Menlo Park Community Campus (community center). They are as follows: 1. We are concerned...
Dear Mayor Taylor and Councilmembers, We, the members of the Environmental Quality Commission’s Climate Action Plan Subcommittee (Josie Gaillard, Tom Kabat, and James Payne), would like to thank you for all the work you’ve done to make Menlo Park a leader on climate change – passing our first Clima...
Hi Judi, The link in the agenda to submit comments for tonight’s meeting didn’t work for me and so I’m wondering if you could read the letter below out loud as my comment for agenda item H tonight? My phone in case you need to reach me: 510-393-5193. Thanks, Josie Dear Council Members, Tonight Coun...
Dear City Council Members, We appreciate that the city has a diverse set of needs. At the same time, the urgency of the climate emergency calls us to act. Shortly after the city declared a climate emergency in December, the EQC’s CAP Subcommittee set out to address the climate crisis and required G...
Dear Council Members, I read several letter writers sharing their theories on how the electric and gas systems work. Based on my 40 years experience as an electric and gas utility planner and energy consultant, I hope to shed light on the interaction of: Reach Codes for new construction, defining wh...
