Hi Justin, City council members.
I have reviewed all the documents provided here with regard to Willows/101 Interchange and there has been no further updates since 2024 !!!
A few follow up questions.
1. How did the city staff conclude the landscape contractor assessment if the plan is 10% - 50% or 90% complete. Who is assessing this ? What is the “Formula” and mathematical details to determine % of landscaping plan. I have never in my life seen this kind of planning assessment even for a house or landscaping construction.
2. Why has the city council gone silent ? And why does the City council and city staff agree to new projects if you are short staffed to finish what was started ?
3. What kind of SLAs does the City Council have with the landscaping contractors — how they can go Scott free leaving a so called landscaping plan 90% incomplete for over a year !! Did we already pay for this kind of incomplete work ??
4. What is the next steps to get this project on track and completing in expedited manner ? Who is driving this from the city Council leadership ?
All the residents of Willows, Suburban park, Belle Haven neighborhoods continue to suffer from the noise and air pollution. This is been delayed far too long.
Looking forward to seeing action on this at the earliest.
Savita.
212 Okeefe St.
On Aug 28, 2025, at 5:13 PM, City of Menlo Park Public Records Center wrote:
Attachments:
PLANS_90__0423000286_240628.pdf
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City Clerks Office
August 28, 2025
Savita Kini
212 okeefe St
menlo park CA 94025
Dear Savita,
The City of Menlo Park (“City") is in receipt of your request seeking:
This is regarding the willow road/101 interchange landscaping. This interchange was completed by Caltrans around 2018/19. The city was given responsibility to complete the landscaping. It is now going to be 6 yrs since this so-called landscaping project effort was started for design/consultation. But as of Jul 2025 we dont see any tree / landscaping planting. Infact with the brown grass drying up in summer, it has become a hot-spot for random wildfire
Provide detail project plan, landscaping bids from different vendors, who was selected for the project, when is this project going to start and finish. Need full cost details for the landscaping - cost of trees/plants, labor costs and details to meet the $2M budget offered by Caltrans / San mateo County.
Date Range: 1/1/2019 - 7/23/2025.
Under established California Law, the City is obliged to comply with a request for a public record so long as the requestor makes a specific and focused request for information, that information is maintained by the City in its ordinary course of business, the information is disclosable, and the record can be located with reasonable effort. The Public Records Act provides for the inspection or copying of existing identifiable public records; it does not compel the City to create new records, lists, privilege logs or reports in response to a request.
The City is required to determine whether the request, in whole or in part, seeks copies of disclosable public records. Consistent with that requirement, the City has conducted a search and is providing the document attached and link below:
https://stories.opengov.com/menlopark/ade5a8ed-80f6-42dd-bae7-98d85d32530e/published/BEyK_o5C4?currentPageId=67c7d7d830c875b6db9a0c19
The City considers this request fulfilled. If you require any additional information or have any further questions, you may contact the City Clerks Office at 650-330-6620 or respond to this email.
Sincerely,
Sarah Sandoval
City Clerks Office
701 Laurel St., Menlo Park, CA 94025
tel 650-330-6620 fax 650-328-7935
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