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26% of Palo Alto’s residential garbage is composed of food that went bad and was thrown away—let's reduce this waste!

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UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis

City budget deficit nears

$40MPalo Alto prepares

for massive cuts due to COVID-19 shutdown

by Gennady Sheyner

W ith the local economy in free fall, the Palo Alto City Council de-

cided on May 4 to cut nearly $40 million from next year’s budget, a move that is expected to put a dent in City Hall’s staffing level and require the elimination of popular programs and services.

Now, it is preparing to tackle a trickier question: What exactly should the city cut?

That painful conversation will begin to unfold on Monday, May 11, when Administrative Services Department staff returns with possible options for achieving the expense reductions. The projected shortfall presumes that social-distancing measures will remain for some time; that people will be reluctant to — or prohibited from — travel and from major events; and that the recovery will take many months.

Staff presented the grim budget scenario to the council as the most dire of the three options, with the most optimistic scenario depicting a speedy recovery and the middle scenario projecting a $21.3 mil-lion revenue drop. But the council agreed that a speedy recovery is at this point an impossible alternative and the more moderate option is a highly unlikely one. Staff’s worst-case scenario, which includes a $38.8-million revenue drop, is actu-ally the most likely one, the council agreed by a unanimous vote.

“Everything is going to be on the cutting floor,” Mayor Adrian

L ike many people who are older, Palo Alto City Coun-cilwoman Liz Kniss wanted

to get tested for COVID-19. But though she tried, she wasn’t eligi-ble for one in Santa Clara County.

She went to one of Stan-ford Health Care’s drive-thru

coronavirus-test sites for help.“I got fairly far. The governor

said that (people like me) can get one because of my age, but they indicated that I did not have suffi-cient symptoms,” said Kniss, who is over 60.

So on Wednesday, Kniss drove

to Alameda County — to the Hay-ward COVID-19 Testing Center at California State University, East Bay, which tested her because she is in a high-risk group, regardless of her county of residency. Kniss didn’t need an appointment, and the nasal swab procedure took about 20 minutes.

“It was easy,” she said of the drive-up procedure. “I’ll have the test results tomorrow morning.”

By 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, she

had her answer: Her test came back negative.

Kniss apparently is far from alone in leaving Santa Clara County to get assessed for the coronavirus. Another Alameda County city, Fremont, began a drive-thru testing program six weeks ago, spearheaded by the fire chief. As many as 40% of the people tested in Fremont have come from Santa Clara County, according to fire Chief Curtis

Jacobson.As Los Angeles County and,

this week, Sacramento County announced coronavirus testing for all of their residents, includ-ing those exhibiting no symptoms, Santa Clara County has lagged behind — to the frustration of lo-cal leaders like Kniss.

The numbers show the shortfall.The county needs to be able to

Concerned local leaders push for greater coordination, problem solvingby Sue Dremann and Gennady Sheyner

Lagging behind, county tries to boost COVID testing

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L iza Kolbasov has been stacking old homework assignments, tests and

notes on a shelf in her closet since her freshman year in an-ticipation of throwing them into the air with her classmates on the last day of school, a trea-sured end-of-year tradition for Gunn High School seniors.

But with school closed, the paper toss won’t be happen-ing this year — nor the senior picnic, baccalaureate, awards night, yearbook signings and

other rites of passage that stu-dents look forward to for much of their educational careers.

Some local high schools have decided to postpone the most significant of those celebra-tions, graduation, in the hopes they will be able to mark that milestone with seniors and their families in person later this year, while other schools are planning virtual commencements.

Schools and students are or-ganizing socially distant re-placements for events, including

virtual awards nights and, in Palo Alto, a “shout out” in resi-dential front yards for seniors on what would have been gradua-tion night for the city’s two pub-lic high schools.

In interviews, Midpeninsula seniors expressed disappoint-ment at how the coronavirus has upended their final chapter of high school and all the tradi-tions that come with it. But the most difficult pill to swallow, they said, is the lost time with friends and classmates. They

left their campuses in March not knowing they wouldn’t return.

“The things I’m the most missing right now aren’t actual-ly the specific traditions but the fact I’m never going to see 95% of my class again,” Kolbasov said. “I didn’t get to say good-bye to them. I’m ... not getting to savor that last bit of time that we’re supposed to have.”

For Paula Sias of Mountain View High School, senior year represented the final chapter of her childhood. There were a lot of tearful FaceTime sessions with friends when they found out they wouldn’t be able to celebrate that time together, in person.

“Senior year is supposed to

‘I didn’t get to say goodbye’Graduating seniors grapple with unexpected ending to their high school careers

by Elena Kadvany

Liza Kolbasov, a senior at Gunn High School, said she has been waiting to celebrate her final rites of passage before heading off to college ever since her freshman year. But what she misses most is not having the opportunity to say goodbye to her classmates.

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LANDMARK DONATION ...Who’s the local business leader who donated 1 million face shields for health care workers this week? Few people know the donor’s identity, except for the fact that he or she is a generous executive in the region, Silicon ValleyLeadership Group CEO Carl Guardino said at a May 6 press conference in Palo Alto. As of Wednesday morning, Guardino confirmed that at least 713,500 of the donated face shields will be used by hospitals in the region. The shields also will be offered to other parts of the country in need of the equipment. “These face shields further protect our front-line workers by making sure that they are completely covered as they treat their patients,” Guardino said from a podium outside of StanfordHealth Care’s Pediatric Ambulatory Care Center next to a large teddy bear sporting the protective gear. “This amazing life-saving gift that we received today on behalf of our caregivers could not come at a better time,” said StanfordChildren’s Health CEO Paul King. He said the equipment will be dispersed throughout Stanford Medicine. “The whole goal we have right now is to figure out how to test as many people as we can in our community and we cannot do that without these face shields,” Board of Supervisors President Cindy Chavez said.

FEEDING THE HUNGRY ...The coronavirus pandemic has given birth to a new community group, Operation ContagiousGenerosity, which is collecting donations of groceries on a weekly basis to distribute to people in need during the health crisis. The effort began six weeks ago with one couple, parishioners at Palo AltoVineyard Church, who gathered eight bags of groceries that they handed out to people living in cars near Mountain View’s Rengstorff Park, SusanVan Riesen, the church’s lead pastor, told the Weekly in an email. The couple invited

other members of the church to join. Less than two months later, the act of kindness has evolved into a volunteer network whose members spend their Fridays collecting more than 210 bags of groceries to give away. The group has volunteer “hub houses” where groceries are gathered before a team of volunteer drivers pick them up and prep them for distribution, Van Riesen said. The operation has connected with Reach Potential Network to handle the distributions. The partnership has led to the distribution of roughly 40 grocery bags to residents at Buena Vista Mobile Home Park on Tuesdays along with lunches for children provided by the Palo Alto Unified SchoolDistrict.

SUPPORT FROM AFAR ... The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is launching a new campaign to support local teachers “as they navigate their new normal” by providing $1.2 million to fund distance learning projects, the nonprofit announced Thursday, May 7. The grant is going to DonorsChoose, a nonprofit that connects teachers in high-need communities with donors. In a DonorsChoose survey, more than 4,000 teachers estimated that 68% of their students lack the resources they need to learn at home. Through the grant program, teachers will be able to request the supplies and equipment needed for distance-learning, such as notebooks, laptops and Wi-Fi hot spots. Teachers also can use the funds to meet students’ basic needs, such as purchasing groceries. In the Bay Area, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is providing donations of up to $300 to teachers in Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin and San Francisco counties who teach at schools where 50% or more of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, for a total of $750,000 going to local teachers. Donations will be applied to projects that cost up to $1,000 while funds last, and limited to one project per teacher.

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Upfront

P alo Alto’s basketball, pick-leball and tennis courts reopened Wednesday af-

ter a monthlong hiatus, as did parking lots near the city’s nature preserves.

City Manager Ed Shikada an-nounced the plan Monday night, one of several signs that the pan-demic freeze that began in March is starting to slowly thaw. The city also planned to resume construc-tion work this week on the Cali-fornia Avenue garage and the new bike bridge over the U.S. Highway 101 — projects that were briefly suspended. The city’s building inspectors also have resumed making appointments with local property owners to visit construc-tion projects, Shikada said.

The city’s moves follow the recent easing of restrictions on the county and state levels. Santa Clara County last week modified its own health order, allowing outdoor recreation facilities to reopen and letting construction projects, landscaping services and real estate showings resume. And on Monday afternoon, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that he

planned to issue guidelines on Thursday that would allow book-stores, clothing stores and other businesses that can accommodate curbside pickup of purchases to reopen as early as this Friday, subject to county approval.

Palo Alto’s decision to reopen parking lots next to two major nature preserves — the Baylands, and Foothills Park — responds to both the county’s guidance and a local outcry over the closures, implemented on March 27. Crit-ics have maintained over the past month that it is foolish to limit access to vast nature preserves where keeping a physical distance is relatively easy. Others argued that closing off parking lots lim-its entrance to these preserves to only the fittest residents.

Michael Zent called the clo-sures of those parking lots “abso-lutely ridiculous.” In Arastradero Preserve, where parking lots re-main closed, it is possible to stay 50 feet away from other people, he wrote to the council Saturday.

“People need to get out in na-ture, and the arbitrary closure of this park is totally and completely

unnecessary! What happened to common sense?” Zent wrote.

Shikada and Mayor Adrian Fine both indicated on May 1 dur-ing their streamed “Table Talk” program that the parking lots near the nature areas will be open only on weekdays. Shikada also said that the city will take measures to ensure social distancing.

“We want to make sure we’re providing an environment in which users can have that main-tained, including one-way trails,” Shikada said.

Palo Alto also is considering reopening the Baylands Golf Links, though the recently reno-vated course may be limited to solitary golfers pulling their own handcarts, said Kristen O’Kane, director of the Community Ser-vices Department, which is per state guidelines. She said her department is trying to deter-mine whether, given these social-distance restrictions, the course would be financially viable.

The use of athletic courts and fields also will be restricted to ensure social distancing. Resi-dents will only be allowed to play

with members of their specific households.

In addition to reopening shut-tered facilities, Palo Alto also aimed to advance later this week its plan to divert cars from three existing bike boulevards. Chief Transportation Official Philip Kamhi said Monday that the pro-gram would be limited to Bryant Street, Ross Road and Park Boule-vard. Drivers won’t be banned so much as discouraged from taking these streets with signage.

“We’re hoping it will end up lowering the volume and speed on those streets and they won’t be used for cut-through,” Kamhi said.

The city chose these streets be-cause they’re already part of the

bike network and, as such, have relatively low car volumes. The approach is modeled after similar efforts in Minneapolis, Denver and Oakland, which restricted cars along 74 miles of bike boule-vards as part of its “slow streets” initiative to help cyclists maintain a safe distance from one another and pedestrians.

Kamhi said the city will not prevent deliveries on these streets, keep residents or visitors from driving on the roadways or issue citations to drivers.

“It’s really to discourage nonlo-cal traffic,” Kamhi said.

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City cautiously opens recreational spacesPalo Alto also prepares to divert cars from bike boulevards

to help cyclists maintain distanceby Gennady Sheyner

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Tim Lieu plays pickleball at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto on May 6. The city reopened the courts on Wednesday.

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In a pre-COVID-19 photo, Valerie Campos is shown in the foreground in the pink shirt and ponytail.

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Small businesses in Palo Alto that have been rattled by the COVID-19 shut-

down could be eligible for grants of up to $10,000 from the city un-der a program that the City Coun-cil approved Monday night.

The council voted 5-2, with council members Alison Cor-mack and Eric Filseth dissenting, to launch the new program with $500,000 in city funds. The grant program also will allow corpora-tions and community members to contribute funding, much like the business-relief effort that Moun-tain View created in late March with Google’s support.

Unlike other business relief programs, including the one in Mountain View, Palo Alto’s will use a lottery to select grant re-cipients rather than a first-come, first-served approach. It will be restricted to businesses that have Palo Alto storefronts, are partici-pating in the city’s business regis-try and employ between one and 50 workers.

In approving the program, council members characterized it as a positive gesture toward the business community, which has been in free fall since the eco-nomic shutdown began on March 17. Some downtown businesses,

including Dan Gordon’s, have permanently closed, while others have reported that they’re barely hanging on.

“It’s really hard to listen to what’s happening in our com-munity,” said Councilwoman Liz Kniss, who participated in three roundtable discussions that included more than 50 business owners in the prior week. “There’s some heartbreak out there. And it’s pretty clear everything is not going to reopen. That’s one of the most difficult things that we’re hearing.”

Kniss said that during these events, business owners talked

about their trouble getting fund-ing from the federal Paycheck Protection Program and sug-gested that the city suspend its Residential Preferential Parking program, which limits how many employees can park in residential neighborhoods.

“They are also looking for guid-ance, looking for support. They are also looking for some hope at this point. It was very difficult to hear this,” Kniss said.

Cormack, who also has been participating in the meetings with business leaders, said some businesses have adjusted their operations to survive, with res-taurants now selling items out of their pantries and dentists talking about how to provide safe space for clients. The hardest hit sector, she said, will be personal services such as physical therapists, hair-dressers and nail salons.

“The changes that will need to occur for these to restart are really significant,” Cormack said.

The downward spiral of the retail industry is reflected in the

city’s grim budget projections, which now estimate a revenue drop of about $38.8 million in fiscal year 2021, which begins on July 1. Sales taxes are expected to plummet by 43%, going from $36.1 million in the current bud-get to $20.5 million next year. Revenues from hotel taxes are expected to plunge by 44%, from $26.6 million to $14.9 million.

The business relief program aims to support cherished com-munity institutions that are on the brink of closing down and stem the loss of revenues. The program will be limited to small business-es that have been in the city for at least 12 months and that have seen their revenues drop by more than 25% since the health emergency began. The city will partner with the Palo Alto Chamber of Com-merce to collect contributions and distribute grants.

While council members gener-ally agreed that the program is worth launching, Filseth pointed

As businesses fight for survival, Palo Alto launches relief programGrants limited to businesses that have been in town for

at least 12 months, have 50 or fewer employeesby Gennady Sheyner


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Mildred Martha Daume Mario, former chair of the Palo Alto Historic Resources Board and past president of the statewide California Preservation Foundation, known to everyone in town as Millie, died April 17th in Key West after a year-long battle with cancer. She was 80.

Born in Brooklyn to German immigrant parents who had fled the collapsing Weimar Republic in 1930, she was educated in New York City public schools, and was awarded a scholarship to Hunter College. Her mother, who did not believe girls should go to college, insisted her youngest daughter join the workforce as her three sisters before her had done, so Millie embarked on a brief career as an executive secretary at CBS and Bristol Myers in Manhattan, jobs for which she freely admitted in later years she was not well suited.

In 1961 she married Ernest Mario of Clifton, NJ, whose best friend, Bob Stier, had married Millie’s elder sister Edith a few years before. The couple relocated to Rhode Island, where Ernie earned his PhD and their sons Christopher and Gregory were born. In 1966 they moved to Rochester, NY, where Ernie began his career in the pharmaceutical industry. Their third son, Jeremy, was born in Rochester.

In 1972 the family returned to Millie’s husband’s native New Jersey. In Princeton, Millie began what would become a life-long devotion to historic preservation with the restoration of a landmark 1934 Tudor Revival house built by a founder of Princeton Hospital, long before historic preservation became fashionable.

Ernie’s career took the couple to North Carolina and then London in the late 1980s and early 1990s, where Ernie was chief executive of Glaxo, then the second-largest pharmaceutical company in the world. In those days, it was customary for the wife of a British CEO to act as an ambassador for her husband’s company, a role Millie adopted with passion and skill, and for which she was paid the princely sum of one pound per year. As she later said, when she was first diagnosed with Stage IV cancer in March, 2019, “I’m a girl from Brooklyn who has traveled the world by private jet and I have been everywhere. I’ve had an amazing life.”

In 1993, famed Palo Alto entrepreneur Alejandro Zaffaroni asked Millie’s husband to head Alza Corporation, then based on Page Mill Road. Looking for a place to live, Millie was convinced by her son Chris, who had attended Stanford a few years before, to look at a very large, very grand, and very dilapidated house on University Avenue. The John Adams Squire House would become Millie’s most ambitious and successful restoration project. A 1904 Classical Revival landmark once owned by the city and the subject of fierce political battles for decades, the house had avoided the wrecking ball more than twice. Millie’s award-winning transformation of the supposed white elephant into one of the city’s most beautiful private residences led to her appointment to the HRB, which she would chair for eight years.

During Millie and her husband’s ownership, the Squire House hosted innumerable public and private events, from fundraisers to charity dinners to concerts to house tours that thousands – including Steve Jobs once – stood in line to see.

Millie loved to tell the story of how the morning after one tour, on a Sunday at 6:30 a.m., her phone rang. “Hi Millie, this is Steve Jobs.” “Hi Steve. What can I do for you?” she responded. Jobs wanted to demolish a house next to his own in Old Palo Alto to plant an orchard. Would the HRB allow him to do so? “Can’t say for sure, Steve,” she said, “but we’ll consider it.” The orchard stands for all to see today. How he knew Millie’s phone number – in the days of land lines – remains a mystery.

Millie was an active participant in the life of the city and state as a board member of Palo Alto/Stanford Heritage, the Palo Alto Historical Association, and the Women’s Club of Palo Alto. She also joined the board of the California Preservation Foundation, a statewide historic preservation advocacy and educational organization, eventually serving as president.

When her husband Ernie sold Alza to Johnson & Johnson in 2001, Palo Alto news reports identified Ernie as “husband of former HRB chair Mildred Mario,”

which both Millie and Ernie found amusing, given his rather more well-known career as an international pharmaceutical executive.

Ernie and Millie returned to the east coast in 2001 to be nearer to their children and grandchildren, eventually settling in Key West. But they maintained close ties to Palo Alto, owning an apartment at The Hamilton, the senior living condominium on Byron Street downtown, until just last year. At The Hamilton the couple befriended a who’s who of Palo Alto in the second half of the 20th century: Sam and Kim Webster, Leonard and Shirley Ely, Frank Roberts, Von and Pat Eshleman, and Emery and Nancy Rogers.

Just prior to the millennium Millie fought tirelessly alongside a group of formidable local preservationists to pass Measure G, an initiative on the ballot in March, 2000, that would have prohibited the demolition of privately owned homes in historic districts in the city. Those fellow preservationists became treasured friends: historic experts Dennis Backlund and Steve Staiger, former mayors Karen Holman and Gail Woolley, builder Laura Ferrell, former

council member Emily Renzel, and Millie’s best friend, lifelong Palo Altan Debbie Nichols.

After Measure G was defeated, ironically on the votes of homeowners who did not live in historic districts, Millie gradually withdrew from Palo Alto politics. She was horrified in later years to see the destruction of so many historic homes, especially those designed by iconic Palo Alto architect Birge Clark.

In addition to her active participation in the life of her beloved Palo Alto, Millie was an exceptional wife and a loving if strict German mother, who doted on her grandchildren. The bacon and French toast breakfasts she made for them is a memory those grandchildren will always treasure, and her loving daughters-in-law Lauren (Greg) and Jennifer (Jeremy) will never be able to replicate.

Millie was uniquely tough, strong, wise, patient, opinionated, and kind. But as anyone who ever appeared before her at the HRB will recall, she had little time for doubletalk or subterfuge. She cut to the point at every opportunity.

Millie saw the best in everyone, was generous with her affection and her time, and would have done absolutely anything for her grandchildren. She loved the beach, the daily New York Times crossword, Scrabble, the gym, her three sisters (Elisabeth Knocklein of Garner, NC; the late Edith Stier of Clifton, NJ, and Anna Daume of Ridgewood, NJ), a tasty Black Russian with lots of ice, and was absolutely insistent the entire family would be together for Christmas and the Fourth of July every year.

Millie is survived by her husband, her three sons, and eight grandchildren: Christopher’s daughter Millicent, of Washington, DC; Gregory’s children Griffin, Chloe, Madeleine, and Brigitte, of Miami; and Jeremy’s children Gretchen, Reid, and Charles, of Durham, NC.

Donations in honor of Millie’s life may be made to the Palo Alto Historical Association, Box 193, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

A memorial is planned in Princeton this fall.P A I D O B I T U A R Y

Mildred Mario(1939 – 2020)

Upfront

T he Palo Alto Weekly Holi-day Fund raised a record-breaking $465,000 in

donations this year to support non-profits serving children and fami-lies on the Midpeninsula. That amount is the most ever raised in the fund’s 27-year history.

The donations were distributed in late April to 63 community or-ganizations through grants rang-ing between $5,000 and $20,000 and through $1,000 college schol-arships for eight high school stu-dents. Since launching in 1993, the fund has given away more

than $7.6 million.“We are especially pleased to

have raised a record amount from the community this year since the needs are so great due to the current COVID-19 crisis,” Weekly Pub-lisher Bill Johnson said this week. “The shelter-in-place orders came

days after our committee finished its review of grant applications, and our only disappointment was the need to cancel the traditional reception for donors and grantees. We are delighted to be able to push almost a half-million dollars to help more than 50 nonprofits at the exact time they need it the most.”

The recipients were selected by the fund’s grant committee, a group of former and current Weekly employees, who reviewed applications for the fund.

A $20,000 grant was awarded to Youth Community Services, which organizes and facilitates service projects for about 1,500 middle and high school students

per year in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Along the way, they develop leadership skills and connect with peers of different backgrounds.

Through exposure to a variety of students, young people walk away with “a sense of their own strength and ... formation of their own opin-ions and points of view,” Executive Director Leif Erickson said.

The San Francisco 49ers Acad-emy plans to utilize its $20,000 grant to continue supporting stu-dents in grades 6-12 by connect-ing them with caring adults as the organization transitions to its new

Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund gifts $465K to local nonprofits

This year’s total surpasses donations in 2019by Palo Alto Weekly staff


COMMUNITY


Upfront

C oncerned that Santa Clara County hasn’t gone far enough in mandating face

coverings for people venturing outside during the pandemic, Palo Alto is considering adopting its own law to make coverings a requirement.

The City Council is preparing to consider the new rule on Monday, May 11. If adopted, the require-ment for face coverings would ap-ply to anyone visiting an essential business or engaging in most ac-tivities outside of the home.

In proposing the new rule, council members said they were inspired by the example of Cu-pertino, which issued an order on April 24 requiring face coverings in most situations in which people leave their homes, including when they are taking public transporta-tion, receiving health care or work-ing on “essential infrastructure.”

The county order has “strongly urged” people to wear face cover-ings but stops short of legally re-quiring them. This is in contrast

to other municipalities, including San Mateo County, where cover-ings are required. These orders, as well as Cupertino’s, exclude from the requirement people who are engaged in outdoor recreation such as walking, hiking, bicycling or running, but those individuals are still encouraged to maintain 6 feet of separation from other people and to carry a covering that they can put on in situations where it’s difficult to maintain the required social distance.

Councilman Greg Tanaka, whose company provides consult-ing services to retailers, said he was inspired by both Cupertino and by Shenzhen, China, which was able to reopen after the pan-demic and which required ev-eryone to wear face masks when going outside. Shenzhen, Tanaka said, is now “90% open.”

“If you look at other cities that have started to reopen their econ-omy, they’ve been able to do so safely by having face masks, hav-ing excessive random testing and

contact tracing,” Tanaka said.Councilwoman Liz Kniss, a

retired nurse, also strongly fa-vored requiring masks, even if the requirement won’t be strictly enforced. There’s no question, Kniss said, that masks should be used by people who are going to restaurants, picking up coffee or visiting businesses. The city, she said, needs to “put some more grit behind that requirement.”

Even if police officers don’t cite residents without masks, the order can be enforced “politically,” she said.

“What I notice now is that peo-ple don’t hesitate to tell somebody else that they ought to have a face mask on,” Kniss said. “I think we’re far more comfortable when we have face masks on. So if we can require this as a city, which is pretty much what the county is doing, people will be more comfortable.”

The issue of whether or not to require face coverings is a rare point of disagreement among Bay

Area public health officials, which have been otherwise operating in virtual lockstep in issuing — and, more recently, relaxing — public health orders. Dr. Sara Cody, San-ta Clara County’s health officer, has strongly recommended that people wear face coverings but stopped short of requiring them.

In a Q&A sponsored by non-profit news outlet San Jose Spot-light on April 24, Cody said she didn’t want to order people to wear face coverings because doing so would take enforcement resources away from other important priori-ties. She also said that she didn’t believe law enforcement officers would go into grocery stores

and issue citations for people not wearing face coverings.

Cody said that she hopes wear-ing a face covering in public will become a “social norm” so that when people go outside with-out the covering it should “feel funny.”

“It shouldn’t feel right,” Cody said. “It should feel OK when you’re in your home, with your household, but when you’re not at your home and out and about, you should feel like something is missing. It’s like not having your glasses on.”


Mandatory masks? In Palo Alto, maybe soCity Council wants to put ‘more grit’ behind Santa Clara County recommendation

by Gennady Sheyner

John Joseph Prendergast quietly passed away Tuesday afternoon at his Palo Alto home. A resident of Palo Alto for over 50 years, Dr. Prendergast was a renowned endocrinologist known for his supportive and gentle manner with patients. Dr. Joe believed that medicine was best practiced when patients understood they had the power to make changes in their lives to improve their health, and regularly told his patients “it is your time.” He was unmistakably charismatic, compassionate, encouraging, and successful.

Born May 4th, 1937 to Francis Elizabeth Whitehead and John Joseph Prendergast II, Joe grew up on a farm in Michigan. He was proud to have attended Cranbrook High School, where he formed lifelong friendships and captained the football and baseball teams. He attended Williams College in Massachusetts and went on to study medicine at both Wayne State in Detroit and UCSF in San Francisco. It was while working on his undergraduate degree that Joe met Marlene Hinze, the Florida high school student who would become his future wife. Undeterred by the distance between them, Joe, an accomplished pilot, would simply fly himself down to Florida in order to court her. They were married in 1961 on July 1st. An extremely dedicated and hard-working physician, Joe practiced medicine in Redwood City and Palo Alto, retiring in 2014.

Joe and his wife Marlene were active in Palo Alto and Northern California (Marlene was President and CEO of the Palo Alto Housing Corporation). He loved the entrepreneurial culture in the Bay Area and was excited to use technological progress in order to reach and help more patients. He was an early advocate of telemedicine for diabetic care and founded a start-up, DiabetesWell, in the 1990’s to serve those whose access to medical care was insufficient. His diagnostic skill was well known, and his colleagues respected him as a doctor with true enthusiasm and a keen drive to improve the medical profession, chronic disease research, and the lives of all people. He enjoyed travel and time with his family, sport of all kinds, and especially cheering on his children from the sidelines. He enjoyed trying new things and it was his rule that you could never return home the same way you left. He was a lifelong bird enthusiast, and duck hunter in the Central Valley, which was a way to connect with the seasons, especially the Autumn harvest of his farming youth.

Joe is survived by Marlene, his wife of 58 years; by his children Patrick (Colette) living in Seattle and his daughter Peggy (Roy) living in San Carlos; by his grandchild Owen; by his sister Mary; and by his brother Robert. He will be greatly missed.

Memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association.

Link: https://www.diabetes.org/donate/donate-memorialP A I D O B I T U A R Y

John Joseph PrendergastMay 4, 1937 – April 21, 2020

to the city’s budget crisis and the council’s imperative to cut $38.8 million in expenses — a painful exercise that the council will be-gin on May 11.

“We’re going to be turning down worthy programs right and left going forward. That’s what I’m struggling with,” Filseth said. “On the one hand, it’s a worthy program. On the other hand, it’s going to make our problem 1% worse.”

Cormack voted against the proposal because it explicitly ex-cluded nonprofit groups. Her col-leagues, however, concluded that including nonprofits would com-plicate the program and make it more difficult to administer.

The council also agreed that a lottery is the best way to deter-mine who gets the funds. A report from Shikada notes that the first-come, first-served method used by Mountain View and by the federal Small Business Administration for loans may be easier to admin-ister but it favors those businesses who are more sophisticated in completing financial applica-tions. A lottery system in which an applicant receives a number and then the city randomly se-lects numbers will eliminate that advantage.

“Giving money away, I think, is not easy because the person who gets the money is delighted and the person who didn’t get the money is not only not delighted but sometimes angry and very puzzled as to why they weren’t selected,” Kniss said. “That’s why I’m so glad to see the lottery

selection here.”Recipients of the city’s grants

also will have broad discretion on how to spend the money. Unlike in other cities, which restrict the use of grant funding to payroll or lease payments, Palo Alto plans to let business owners spend the money however they deem nec-essary to remain in operation. This could mean spending it on operating expenses to sustain the businesses and reopen after the stay-at-home order ends, accord-ing to Shikada’s report.

The council also agreed to set the maximum grant amount at

$10,000, reasoning that this is roughly what will be required to support expenses for a small business for two months. While Mayor Adrian Fine said he’d pre-fer to see more grant recipients, even if it means issuing smaller grants, he voted with the council majority to support the proposal.

“Although this is limited and certainly not enough, I think it’s the right thing to do — to support some of our businesses,” Fine said.


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Springtime in solitudeHow are you spending your springtime? At a time when we’re all missing human interaction, we want to see how Weekly readers are filling their days while staying close to home. Eric Spector sent in this photo of beautiful blooms, remarking, “The cacti in Palo Alto are greeting spring too.” If you post a picture on social media of how you’re passing the time, we’ll print some of our favorites in the newspaper and on PaloAltoOnline.com. Tag Palo Alto Online on Twitter (@paloaltoweekly), Facebook (@paloaltoonline) or Instagram (@paloaltoonline) and use the hashtag #springtimeinsolitude.

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Fine told his colleagues during Monday’s discussion. “I hope you’re ready for that.”

Councilwoman Liz Kniss said the list of potential cuts will in-clude library programs, recreation offerings, public safety services, planning efforts and other things “that we really prize.”

“When we start hearing from police and fire about the protec-tion we provide in the city, that’s going to be tough,” Kniss said. “But that which involves kids and outdoor activities — that’s going to be even harder.”

Budget discussions will begin

on May 11, when City Manager Ed Shikada presents options for reducing expenses, and end on June 22, when the council offi-cially adopts the budget. Unlike in prior years, when the council’s Finance Committee reviewed the budgets of each department, the task will fall to the full council.

Given the deep level of uncer-tainty about the pandemic, Chief Financial Officer Kiely Nose said numbers will almost certainly change in the months ahead.

“We continue to not know the length or depth of this emergency and how it will ripple through our social lives as well as our econom-ic drivers,” Nose said.

She noted, however, that almost half of the city’s revenues come

from sources that are “extraordi-narily impacted by the COVID-19 situation,” including sales- and hotel-tax revenues. Tarun Naray-an, the city’s manager of treasury, debt and investment, said 11 of the hotels in Palo Alto, representing about 30% of total rooms within the city, are completely closed. The rest are either at 5% occupancy or are heading toward that level, he said, citing information from the San Mateo County/Silicon Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Even though the state and San-ta Clara County are now easing some of the shelter-at-home re-strictions that have been in effect since March, the council agreed that the devastating effects of the pandemic will linger for many months even after businesses are allowed to reopen. Some busi-nesses will close down, Coun-cilman Greg Tanaka said. Oth-ers will have restricted capacity

because of physical-distancing rules or find themselves hurting for customers because of the eco-nomic downturn, Tanaka said.

He noted that one of the city’s major revenue generators is Stan-ford Shopping Center, an upscale mall.

“Who’s going to go out and spend $5,000 on a handbag?” Tanaka asked. “It’s probably not going to happen.”

The biggest challenge, he said, will be the persistence of social distancing.

Councilman Eric Filseth called the projections in the most drastic scenario “appalling” — but also re-alistic. Given the precipitous decline of hotel revenues, it’s realistic to see a major drop in transient-occupancy taxes throughout the next year, par-ticularly if traveling doesn’t return to pre-pandemic levels.

To deal with the massive short-fall, Vice Mayor Tom DuBois said

the city will need to take a deep look at its management structure at City Hall, including the ratio of employees per manager. A major portion of the $38.8-million re-duction will have to come through staffing cuts.

“The public needs to under-stand that it’s likely going to be across the board — it’s going to be management, it’s going to be unionized staff,” DuBois said.

Fine suggested that Palo Alto’s land use policies have contributed to the financial pains that the city is now feeling, with its top sources of revenues on a sharp decline. He compared the city’s plight with Redwood City’s and Mountain View’s, which have been more enthusiastic about approving new development.

“One of the reasons those cit-ies aren’t facing such serious bud-get cuts is because they’ve been building commercial and residen-tial space over the past few years and they’ve been expanding their property tax bases. That’s the situ-ation we’re in in Palo Alto, where we haven’t done that,” he said.

The city is gathering public feedback on its budget priorities through an online survey, which can be found at opentownhall.com/portals/5/Issue_8742.

Budget(continued from page 5)

We are heart-broken to announce that Malcolm MacLeod, born November 20, 1933, age 86, died on April 20, 2020, in Palo Alto, California, after a long battle with prostate cancer. Malcolm fought with determination, fortitude, and good grace. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Inglewood, California to Scottish immigrant parents, Annie MacAulay MacLeod and Duncan MacLeod, Malcolm was a first generation American.

Malcolm was a gifted athlete who excelled in sports at Inglewood High School. His senior year he was the starting quarterback on the football team and led his team to a 9-1 record. As a senior, he was elected Class President. Upon graduation, Malcolm attended Stanford University on a football scholarship as a quarterback. Unfortunately, he was only able to play football his freshman year. He had to stop playing afterward because of a bleeding ulcer. At Stanford, Malcolm was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. He loved everything about Stanford and was a lifelong ardent Stanford sports fan and athletic booster.

After graduation from Stanford as part of the Class of ’55 with a B.S in Civil Engineering, Malcolm worked for a variety of construction firms before starting his own construction business in Palo Alto. He worked as a general contractor building remodels, additions, and custom homes until his retirement late in life.

Malcolm’s greatest legacy in life was overcoming an addiction to alcohol that started in his teenage years and continued for the better part of three decades. At age 46 years old, he hit rock bottom and checked himself into a one-month alcohol rehab program at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, CA. Malcolm became a life-long participant in the Alcohol Anonymous program, attending multiple meetings every week of his life. On February 10, 2020, Malcolm received his 40-year medallion for 40 years of sobriety. He was a friend, mentor, and inspiration to countless participants in the AA program.

Malcolm is survived by his 3 children and their spouses, son Ian MacLeod (Beatrice), daughter Wendy MacLeod Stokes (Kevin), and daughter Alexandra MacLeod Olsen (Jonas), his 5 grandchildren, his brother and wife Ian and Marilyn MacLeod and their 3 daughters, his first wife Nancy Anderson, and second wife Lois MacLeod. Malcolm adored his grandchildren and was a big part of their lives. He was a good grandfather and will be deeply missed by his grandchildren.

Malcolm lived for the last couple of years at the Sunrise Senior Residence in Palo Alto. Our family owes a huge debt of gratitude to the Sunrise staff and to the staff of Mission Hospice Care for looking after Malcolm in his final weeks and for making his passage as easy and peaceful as possible. The Sunrise staff and residents cared deeply for Malcolm, saying he was beloved in their community and calling him a ‘gem’ of a resident.

Because Malcolm loved animals and pets, the family asks that any charitable donations in honor of Malcolm’s life be directed to the Palo Alto branch of Pets in Need. www.petsinneed.org/donate

A celebration of Malcolm’s life will occur at a later date.

P A I D O B I T U A R Y

Malcolm MacLeodNovember 20, 1933 – April 20, 2020

Stephen C. Kronick died April 24, 2020 in Tucson,

Arizona at age 66. Steve was born in Los Angeles,

California in 1953, the first son of Professor Bernard

L. Kronick (Santa Clara University) and Roseana

Murphy Kronick. Raised in Palo Alto, California with

a younger brother Geoffrey, Steve graduated from Palo

Alto Senior High School in 1972, thereafter attending

Foothill Jr. College and San Jose State University. Steve

later lived in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington

before settling in Tucson about a decade ago. Happy to

find a place to live that was warmer than the often rainy

Pacific Northwest, Steve enjoyed his life in Tucson,

target shooting, and working for his condominium

association. Steve had a lifelong fascination with cars

of all types. Steve is survived by his brother Geoffrey

of Portland, Oregon. Remembrances can be made

in Steve’s name to the Neptune Society of Tucson,

Arizona.P A I D O B I T U A R Y

Stephen Cushing KronickOctober 10, 1953 – April 24, 2020

City Council (May 4)Budget: The council directed staff to base the fiscal year 2021 budget on a financial scenario that assumes a revenue decline of $38.8 million. Yes: UnanimousBusiness relief: The council approved a $500,000 business-relief program for local businesses with between one and 50 employees. Yes: DuBois, Fine, Kniss, Kou, Tanaka No: Cormack, Filseth Council Finance Committee (May 5)Retire health care: The council committee discussed and recommended approving the 2019 actuarial valuation of the city’s retiree health care plan and the use of a 6.25% discount rate in calculating actuarial defined contributions. Yes: UnanimousCDBG: The committee recommended allocations of $850,271 in funds from the Community Development Block Grant program. Yes: UnanimousElectricity: The committee recommended that staff adopt a “0% increase” option in the Electric Financial Fund. Yes: Kniss, Tanaka No: DuBoisGas: The committee recommended a 3% increase option in the Gas Financial Fund. Yes: DuBois, Kniss No: Tanaka

Architectural Review Board (May 7)Newell Road Bridge: The board recommended approving the demolition and replacement of Newell Road bridge. Yes: Unanimous

CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week

home base: Ravenswood Middle School in East Palo Alto.

Executive Director Michele Sharkey considers the one-on-one relationships students develop with a trusted adult to be the pro-gram’s “secret sauce” in helping youth adapt from a smaller envi-ronment in middle school to the larger, diverse community.

With its $15,000 grant, Heart and Home Collaborative hopes to open the doors of its seasonal shelter for unhoused women, ages 15-19, a month earlier and pos-sibly extend its operations for a month longer until May.

The shelter rotates among Palo Alto religious congregations for 45 days at a time and provides the residents shower facilities, meals, laundry service and a place to sleep overnight, among other amenities.

The Holiday Fund campaign launched in October at the annual Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight Run & Walk at the Baylands, which raised $89,181 with help from the event’s corporate sponsors.

Major Holiday Fund donors in-clude the Peery and Arrillaga foun-dations, which each gave $10,000, and the Hewlett and David and Lucile Packard foundations, which each donated $25,000. Nearly 400 business organizations and com-munity members also made con-tributions to the campaign, which wrapped up in January.

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a longtime partner of the Holiday Fund, handled the community donations and distrib-uted the funds to the beneficiaries.

For more information about the Holiday Fund, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/holiday_fund.

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POLICE CALLSPalo AltoApril 30-May 6Violence related Attempted suicide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Theft relatedAttempted commercial burglary . . . . . . 1Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle relatedAuto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1Alcohol or drug relatedDriving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1MiscellaneousLost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Menlo ParkApril 29-May5Theft relatedBurglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Vehicle relatedAuto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Alcohol or drug relatedDrunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1MiscellaneousCoroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Domestic disturbance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo AltoSan Antonio Road, 2/27, 12:10 p.m.; elder abuse/physical.Ben Lomond Drive, 4/13, 7:52 p.m.; child abuse/physical.Everett Avenue, 4/29, 12:05 p.m.; domestic violence.Cowper Street, 5/4, 5:30 p.m.; elder abuse/physical.Alma Street, 5/5, 4:30 p.m.; attempted adult suicide.

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ACADEMICS

Early Learning Palo Alto

Institute Pleasanton

Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson

School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Courses

this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing and Presentation

Skills.

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Hacienda: (925) 485-5750

Harker Summer Programs San Jose

The Harker School’s summer programs for children K - grade 12

offer the perfect balance of learning and fun! Programs are led by

dedicated facult y and staff who are experts at combining summer

fun and learning. Strong academics and inspiring enrichment

programs are offered in full day, partial and morning only sessions.

harker.org/summer (408) 553-5737

i2 Camp at Castilleja School Palo Alto

i2 Camp offers week-long immersion programs that engage

middle school girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering

and math (STEM). The fun and intimate hands-on activities

of the courses strive to excite and inspire participants about

STEM, creating enthusiasm that will hopefully spill over to their

schoolwork and school choices in future years.

castilleja.org/i2camp (650) 470-7833

STANFORD EXPLORE: A Lecture Series

on Biomedical Research Stanford

EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford. Stanford EXPLORE

offers high school students the unique opportunity to learn from

Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics

in biomedical science, including bioengineering, neurobiology,

immunology and many others.

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Summer@Stratford Palo Alto/Bay Area

Stratford infuses its STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering,

Arts, and Math) curriculum into an innovative and enriching

summer camp experience. Younger campers learn, explore, and

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academic principles and concepts in a fun and engaging way. At

the Middle School level, individual subject-based enrichment

classes are offered and tailored for each grade level.

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ARTS, CULTURE, OTHER CAMPS

Art and Soul Camp Palo Alto

Art, cooking, tinkering, yoga and mindfulness. We celebrate

multiple perspectives and recognize the many ways for our children

to interpret their world. Summer Unplugged! is appropriate for

ages 6-11 years. Located at Walter Hays School.

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ARTS, CULTURE, OTHER CAMPS

Castilleja Summer Camp

for Girls Palo Alto Palo Alto

Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls Palo Alto Casti Camp offers

girls entering grades 2-6 a range of age-appropriate activities

including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking,

drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips.

Leadership program available for girls entering grades 7-9.

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Community School of Music Mountain View

Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) Mountain View

50+ creative camps for grades K-12! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics,

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more! One and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment.

Extended care from 8:30am-5:30pm. Financial aid offered.

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Let’s Go Crafting Palo Alto

Let’s Go Crafting’s Studio is where your child will have fun while

learning many different fiber related arts. We teach sewing,

knitting, crochet, weaving and jewelry making to children ages

8 to 15 years. AM or PM camps $275/week. Full day camps $550/

week. 5 student minimum for all sessions; 10 student maximum.

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Oshman Family JCC Camps Palo Alto

Camps at the OFJCC introduce your child to new experiences

while creating friendships in a fun and safe environment. We

work to build confidence, stretch imaginations and teach new

skills.

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Palo Alto Community

Child Care (PACCC) Palo Alto

PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide

variety of engaging opportunities. We are excited to announce

all of your returning favorites: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.), Camp

YOUnique, F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V.

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paccc.org (650) 493-2361

ATHLETICS

Dance Connection Palo Alto Palo Alto

Share the joy of dance with us! Our studio is an extended family

and a “home away from home” for our community of children

and teens. At Dance Connection, we value the positive energy

and atmosphere that we continuously strive to provide. Summer

Dance Camps include all styles of dance for ages 4 and up and

features our new “This is Me!” Empowerment Camp along with

Teen Jazz and Hip Hop Camps. A Summer Session for ages 3 to

adults will be offered from June 8 – July 31.

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event-calendar/summer-dance-camps

(650) 852-0418 or (650) 322-7032

ATHLETICS

Kim Grant Tennis Palo Alto

Summer Camps Monterey Bay

Fun and specialized Junior Camps for Mini (3-5), Beginner,

Intermediate, Advanced, High Performance and Elite tennis

levels. Weekly programs designed by Kim Grant to improve

player technique, fitness, agility, mental toughness and all

around game. Weekly camps in Palo Alto and Sleep-Away Camps

in Monterey Bay. SO MUCH FUN!

KimGrantTennis.com Text: (650) 690-0678

Call: (650) 752-8061

Nike Tennis Camps Stanford University

Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered

throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June &

Aug). Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head

Women’s Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s

Coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun

and get better this summer!

ussportscamps.com (800) NIKE-CAMP

(800) 645-3226

Run for Fun Camps Bay Area

Run for Fun’s mission is to provide creative and engaging play for

all youth by getting kids active in an inclusive community centered

around outdoor fun! We pride ourselves on hiring an enthusiastic,

highly trained staff who love what they do. Summer 2020 features

four weeks of Adventure Day Camp and two weeks of Overnight

Camp High Five. Adventure Day Camp is a new discovery every

day filled with sports, crafts and nature, including explorations to

Camp Jones Gulch, Capitola Beach, Foothills Park, Shoreline Lake

and Great America. Camp High Five is six days and five nights

of traditional overnight camp mixed with challenge-by-choice

activities, campfires, friendships and lots of laughter.

runforfuncamps.com/summer-camps-and-school-

holiday-camps/camp-overview (650) 823-5167

Spartans Sports Camp Mountain View

Spartans Sports Camp offers a wide variety of sports, performing

arts, and academic enrichment camps for kids entering grades

1-9. Experienced staff ensures everyone has fun. Daily on-site

swimming is offered for all camps. Camps begin June 8th and run

weekly through July 31st at Mountain View High School. The camp

is run by MVHS coaches and student-athletes and all proceeds

benefit the MVHS Athletic Department. Lunch and extended care

are available for your convenience. Flexible cancellation policies.

spartanssportscamp.com (650) 479-5906

YMCA of Silicon Valley

Summer Camps Silicon Valley

At the Y, children and teens of all abilities acquire new skills, make

friends, and feel that they belong. With hundreds of Summer Day

Camps plus Overnight Camps, you will find a camp that’s right for

your family. Sign up today, camps are filling up! Financial assistance

is available.

ymcasv.org/summercamp (408) 351-6473

For more information about these camps visit paloaltoonline.com/camp_connection. To advertise in this weekly directory, call (650) 326-8210.

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S ome say we need to keep sheltering in place until there’s a vaccine or a

cure. Some say we need to re-start everybody’s life, period. I’m describing a much more s e n s i b l e , logical and f o c u s e d middle path that gets people back to t he i r l ives and avoids over-w h e l m i n g health care resources.

For COVID-19 to become his-tory (even in just the U.S.), herd immunity has to be reached, or extensive testing (several mil-lion tests a day) and a potent antiviral medicine have to be-come available, or a vaccine has to become available to hundreds of millions. I’ve excluded track-ing systems that enable targeted quarantines, as I believe Ameri-can civil liberties and our cul-ture of individuality will not al-low those to exist broadly.

Thousands of antivirals have gone through clinical trials over the years, yet only a few dozen have ever been found safe and effective and approved to go to market (most of those tar-get HIV, the result of decades of research and development). Getting huge volumes of a safe and effective antiviral targeting COVID-19 won’t happen soon.

Vaccines are even harder to get to market. They have to be proven both effective and super-safe. If they aren’t, the vaccine and the company that developed it are cooked, and more people will balk and become anti-vaxxers, which leads to horrible health outcomes, mostly for our children. The best-case timeline for a vaccine is the second half of 2021.

Herd immunity arrives when 60-70% of people have had the virus — whether asymptom-atically or with mild to deadly symptoms. I believe that the federal government and state unemployment funding of peo-ple sheltering in place will soon be fatigued. Also, if shelter-in-place is allowed to continue for more months, layoffs will con-tinue accelerating, and before long, many more companies

will join those that have al-ready gone defunct, their jobs not to return. Since neither a potent antiviral nor testing nor a vaccine are going to appear in huge volume soon, and since the financial downsides of further months of sheltering are unten-able, we need a way to get to herd immunity ASAP.

A recent Stanford University study showed that only around 4% of Santa Clara County’s 2 million residents have had CO-VID-19. Other scientists believe the study was done poorly and is wrong. Some think that perhaps 20% or higher is a better num-ber. But with the shelter-in-place and only a few dozen new cases a day being logged by the coun-ty Public Health Department, it will be a looong time before we reach herd immunity — waaay too long to be tolerable.

That said, if a lot more people are to get the virus to achieve herd immunity, we need to be sure that a lot more people don’t die from the virus. If you looked at Santa Clara County’s website on April 27, you’d see that 86% of deaths were people who had “comorbidities,” i.e., hyperten-sion, heart disease, COPD, obe-sity, diabetes, etc. You also see that 63% of deaths were people over 70. Every year’s deaths from flu are concentrated in much the same population.

We take a key step toward nor-malcy by strongly suggesting to people with comorbidities (es-pecially those over 70) that they continue to shelter in place or be majorly cautious when going out. And we have everyone else rejoin their lives. The very vul-nerable will need to exercise this level of self-care or likely end up in the hospital or dead. And everybody else can take mod-est precautions as they see fit. This will result in lots of people getting the virus. But most im-portantly, it will restart people’s lives and income streams.

It’s really the most vulnerable populations who would likely overwhelm health care capacity if they were to exit shelter-in-place. The county does a great job monitoring health care ca-pacity, and models exist that can help the county tell a few weeks ahead of time if there’s going to be a crunch — and to reinstall a higher level of shelter-in-place

for a few weeks if necessary (but we’d still be on the way to herd immunity apace).

Moreover, a lot of the vulner-able older people are retired, so having to shelter in place isn’t different for them economically. And restarting the economy will certainly help vulnerable older people’s investments.

When kids of all ages go back to school and the workforce goes back to work, it will be a boon for almost everyone for ob-vious reasons. Yes, it’s true that some of these people will get a bad case of the virus and be sick for weeks, some even hospital-ized. And a small number will die, just as they have year in and year out from the flu — but we don’t lock down the country for the annual flu season.

Still, it’d be best to avoid large gatherings, just so we don’t overfill doctors’ offices with cases spreading as happens in a bad flu season.

A really useful way to move forward is with pilot implemen-tation. Santa Clara County is the perfect place for this. First of all, because of shelter-in-place, 86% of ventilator capacity and 44% of ICU capacity are avail-able (18% of ICU beds are used by COVID-19 patients and 38% by typical ICU patients).

Second, now we know who is most vulnerable and we can avoid a demand surge on hospi-tals going forward.

Third, the county has excel-lent communication systems to reach residents (by phone, text and/or email). If there’s an un-foreseen need to restart shelter-in-place, the county can com-municate quickly.

The steps for other geogra-phies: free up hospital capacity (through sheltering); safeguard the vulnerable; let others rejoin life and be able to communicate changes quickly.

Even if scientists conclude that there’s no herd immunity to be had for COVID-19, the above is still the best course of action until a safe and effective pharmaceutical solution arrives.

I urge Gov. Gavin Newsom and county Health Officer Dr. Sarah Cody to get this going — and soon. Thanks!

Palo Alto resident Andy Robin likes facts. He can be emailed at [email protected].

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In response to ‘Pandemic offers transportation planners a chance to rethink commuting’

Posted April 29 at 12:27 p.m. by John Guislin, a resident of Crescent Park:

“The pandemic has forced many businesses to embrace tele-commuting like never before. It took a life-threatening disease to get us here, and we should not ignore what we have learned. Let’s require businesses where teleworking has proven to work to maintain a significant percent of employees in teleworking posi-tions. Obviously, this cannot work for every business, but many medium and large companies now know they can implement it with the right push. It would be a win for all of us.”

In response to ‘Local domestic violence experts say pandemic creates conditions ripe for abuse’

Posted April 23 at 12:32 p.m. by Jon Keeling, a resident of Community Center:

“Another resource for emotional support is Crisis Text Line. Text ‘HELLO’ to 741741 to start your confidential conversation with a trained crisis counselor.

In addition to spousal abuse, I am quite certain that child abuse has increased recently as well, unfortunately.”


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A lesson from history: How the yellow fever epidemic changed society

Stanford professor looks at parallels between 19th-century outbreaks and COVID-19by Sue Dremann

HISTORY

A sked how she was fair-ing during the shelter-in-place, Stanford Univer-

sity historian Kathryn Olivarius reflected on being a researcher who studies early American epi-demics during the COVID-19 crisis.

“I write about yellow fever by day and worry about COVID-19 at night,” she said.

Olivarius, an assistant profes-sor of history, was working on her doctoral dissertation on slavery around the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 when she dis-covered voluminous documents on recurrent epidemics of yellow fever in New Orleans. The letters, advertisements and news articles changed her work in profound ways.

Yellow fever killed more than 150,000 people in New Orleans between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, according to Olivarius.

“Once you see it, every single source is covered with references to yellow fever. I could not discard it as background noise. This is re-ally important stuff in the back-ground of this place,” she said. “It put me down the path of think-ing about yellow fever — and not just death — but about life and how it fundamentally shaped institutions.”

She was writing a book, “Ne-cropolis: Disease, Power and Capitalism in the Cotton King-dom,” due out next year, when the coronavirus epidemic broke out. Now she’s seeing parallels be-tween what happened in the South and her own experiences with the coronavirus pandemic.

The earlier viral disease shaped society and the economy, just as COVID-19 is shaping our own, she said. The experience of yel-low fever, much like COVID-19, permeated everything.

New Orleans in the early 19th century was a hub of the cotton, sugar and slave trades, yet it was constantly besieged by yellow fever. Outbreaks roiled the city about every three years, shaping social status, slavery, government and jobs, she said.

If the coronavirus continues to infect populations for months or years, present-day society and

government will be faced with dilemmas similar to those that confronted New Orleans.

“It’s possible we can’t find a vaccine. How are we going to live with this disease?” she asked.

What the world is experienc-ing now as a crisis is something people lived with perpetually in the 19th century, she said.

Without antibiotics, antiviral drugs or even knowledge of the underlying cause of yellow fe-ver, staying healthy was a major concern.

“You had to reconcile yourself to this precarity in the past,” she said.

Yellow fever was fearsome, killing 50% of its victims. The disease started with a fever, aches and pains, a severe headache, weakness, fatigue, nausea and vomiting. Recovery took weeks or months.

After a week and a short remis-sion of a few hours or a day, one in seven people developed severe liver disease with bleeding and jaundice. Shock, organ failure and death could ensue.

Although rare in the U.S. today due to vaccinations and mosquito control, there’s still no cure and no treatment for yellow fever. Be-tween 30% and 60% of people with severe symptoms still die, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Beyond the danger of the viral infection, yellow fever revealed the disparities between rich and poor that existed in the antebel-lum South, Olivarius said.

New Orleans became a strati-fied society of those who were thought to be “acclimated” to yellow fever and those who were “unacclimated,” meaning they ei-ther had or did not have immunity.

Old, white Louisiana families considered themselves “accli-mated” to the disease, either hav-ing survived it — or able to avoid getting it. They had advantages that others did not, however, with respect to the latter.

“The rich in any city have a tendency to separate themselves from poor people,” she said. “We know places such as docks, levees and tenement houses were breed-ing grounds. They knew this too. They had the ability to distance themselves from the most danger-ous spaces.”

When a newspaper story an-nounced a case of yellow fever, wealthy residents fled to a hotel in the country, moved to plantation homes out of the area or traveled overseas to escape, Olivarius said.

Not so for the middle class, poorer newcomers and slaves, who would see their city transformed

Kathryn Olivarius, assistant professor of history at Stanford University who has studied the social impacts of yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans, looks at the similarities of the COVID-19 pandemic in today’s society.

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overnight by a mass exodus. During fever season, from July through November, they heard the constant ringing of church bells for the dead. Loud booms carried throughout the city as officials fired cannons to try to drive away the miasma, Olivarius said.

An immunocapitalist society

A s a result of its culture and its inability to tackle or even understand the

nature of the disease — people didn’t know it was mosquito-borne — New Orleans decided it would not fight yellow fever. The city was at the base of the Missis-sippi River and was a major ex-port hub for the cotton industry. It couldn’t just move, Olivarius said. Instead, people decided they would have to live with the dis-ease and focused on maintaining New Orleans’ economic engine.

A new economic model emerged as a result of the recur-ring yellow fever epidemics: im-munocapitalism, which found many ways to insert privilege and division into the social structure. Newcomers were not considered acclimated and had limited op-portunities for advancement, Oli-varius said. People with immu-nity had more value because they wouldn’t get the disease again and wouldn’t disrupt the economy.

Being “acclimated” meant ac-cess to jobs, credit, housing and improved social status. To be un-acclimated meant lower status and

stagnation. Merchants wouldn’t enter into contracts with someone who couldn’t prove acclimation, she said. Immunity conferred privileges.

“In job ads at the time, the first thing you list is ‘I’m acclimated.’ It was a sign that someone is per-manent,” she said.

“People stayed behind on pur-pose to get the disease. If you get sick and you survive, you go up the ladder of society,” Olivarius said.

Immunity granted other ad-vantages. Wealthy people rarely purchased life insurance on them-selves, but they did take out insur-ance on their slaves as property. Insurance companies targeted middle-class men for policies on themselves as a “smart move” to protect their families if the head of the household died. These poli-cies charged “climate premiums” based on immunity to yellow fe-ver, however, Olivarius said.

“If you were unacclimated, you could be flatly not approved for a policy or charged a very high pre-mium,” she said.

Proving one had yellow fever was another matter. Many of its symptoms, including fever, de-lirium and nausea, were vague and similar to other diseases found in the region — unless a patient vomited blood, a telltale symptom.

“Yellow fever doesn’t leave vi-sual scars. You have to perform your immunity to this disease,” she said.

Affidavits from physicians

and letters from witnesses and business associates to insurance agents attested to the policy ap-plicant’s acclimation: “I cared for him in 1833” or “I’ve never known him to be sick in 12 years” were ways to prove immunity, Ol-ivarius said.

Survival and immunity also conferred a certain sense of moral superiority. It was part of the gen-esis stories of much of the city’s political and economic elite. Tri-umph over yellow fever was God’s will, manliness, morality, sobriety and honor. Those who died were judged dissipated or alcoholic, get-ting what they deserved, she said.

Olivarius acknowledges there are limits to comparing the CO-VID-19 pandemic to yellow fever epidemics in 19th-century New Orleans. For one thing, theirs was a culture of mass mortality, a highly destructive society that was exacerbated by risk-taking and gambling, with betting on the future and on the next cotton price. The city also had a nearly non-existent public health policy to begin with, she said.

Where antebellum New Orleans had a high mortality rate and no medical way to treat the disease, COVID-19 is far less lethal, at about 2% mortality or less.

“We can make decisions that can slow the infection from CO-VID-19 (to prevent) the worst epidemiological effects of this disease,” she said.

Still, Olivarius has some


‘ I’m scared. I worry that with COVID-19, we will radically increase racism.’

– Kathryn Olivarius, assistant history professor


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concerns about the push to reig-nite the economy too soon by lift-ing the sequester-at-home orders.

“You can see a mercenary at-titude. It has icy echoes of the past about the greater good. There’s rhetorical talk about public health versus economic crisis as sepa-rate, but they aren’t,” she said.

People in the past also thought “we can’t let the cure be worse than the disease,” she added.

She thinks that while yellow fever was a persistent and ines-capable part of life in the 19th

century, “We don’t have to make those choices” under COVID-19.

The haves and the have-nots

O livarius finds disturbing certain parallels between attitudes toward yellow

fever and those emerging toward COVID-19: ideas about building herd immunity and valuing cer-tain lives over others.

A March 25 article in the con-servative online magazine The Federalist titled “How Medical ‘Chickenpox Parties’ Could Turn The Tide Of The Wuhan Virus” touted the idea of “controlled

voluntary infection.” People at low risk for severe complications deliberately contract the coronavi-rus so they become immune. (Re-searchers are not yet sure to what degree if any getting COVID-19 will confer immunity.)

The author claims voluntary controlled infections would model “chickenpox parties” that took place before immunizations of childhood diseases such as chickenpox and German measles. Neighborhood children were invit-ed to play with an infected child so “the entire community would get the disease out of the way in one little local epidemic,” according to the article. Immunity obtained at a young age would also prevent people from getting the disease later in life when it would be more dangerous, the article said.

“It so enraged me that I wrote a New York Times op-ed about it,” Olivarius said, noting the suffer-ing and lives lost in New Orleans when people deliberately tried to get yellow fever.

The potential segmenting of the population according to those who have had COVID-19 and those who have not worries Olivarius.

“The problem in the U.S. is we don’t have widespread immunity. We might end up with an immune elite to COVID who can go out to work, restaurants, the movies and parks and the non-immunes without antibodies would be stuck at home,” she said.

That could lead to people de-liberately trying to get sick to get back to work again. She pointed to serious talk about issuing “im-munity passports,” which would allow people who have had CO-VID-19 to travel freely while the movement of the “have nots” would be restricted.

The COVID-19 pandemic also could create a growing justifica-tion for racism, she said.

Antebellum society used yellow fever as a justification for slavery. A persistent myth claimed that since yellow fever was known in Africa, black people had a natural resistance to yellow fever. There is no such thing as inherited immu-nity, however, and slaves who had not contracted the disease in Af-rica had no immunity when they boarded slave ships and were sent in chains to Louisiana, Olivarius said. Slavers, however, used the mythology to justify having black people work in places where the chances of contracting the disease were the highest. Many deaths soon followed.

Slaves who had survived yellow fever were worth more. Advertise-ments showed that an “acclimat-ed” slave could fetch 25% to 50% more, Olivarius said.

Olivarius also sees the United States’ poor people and people of color being the greater victims of the COVID-19 epidemic. There are already racial and geographi-cal disparities in testing and expo-sure to the virus, she said. Those who are in service jobs come into contact with the public and have a greater likelihood of contract-ing the disease: grocery store em-ployees, transportation workers and others. White-collar workers stay protected at home and work remotely from their laptops.

“Pandemics and epidemics ... lay bare the existing inequality and demonstrate fast and painfully who belongs in society and who does not,” she said.

“I’m scared. I worry that with COVID-19, we will radically in-crease racism. Already, there is huge discrimination against Chi-nese individuals who are being blamed” for the disease, which originated in Wuhan, China, she said. “Those are bad signs. What’s going to come in the months and years with this epidemic?”

If there is one lesson from

history that is important during this pandemic, Olivarius said, it’s that the public must have informa-tion that is accurate and truthful.

In 1847, there were many sus-pected cases of yellow fever ear-lier than expected in June. Doc-tors were hesitant to diagnose the disease and made a huge effort not to declare an early case that year. A diagnosis brought fear and upended the economy, she said. When a young Irish immigrant showed symptoms, one doctor first suspected the disease, but he would not issue a definitive diag-nosis and sought a second opin-ion. The second doctor, although noting the symptoms were clearly yellow fever, was also hesitant to label it.

“Both didn’t want to be wrong. The boy died, and many thou-sands of people died. If they had declared it was yellow fever, it would’ve saved many lives,” Oli-varius said.

On a larger scale, misinforma-tion in New Orleans was propa-gated by a board of health, which was responsible for collecting mortality data on a weekly basis.

“Everyone knew the board was a propaganda arm for business,” she said, and the board made a concerted effort to keep the num-bers low.

“People knew they were lying to them,” she said.

“When people live in an epi-demic and the information is not reliable, it erodes trust in many things, and people take things into their own hands,” she said.

“This is hugely disruptive,” she said of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Having trust matters.”

To reduce disruption, a central message from government leaders must be “we’re in this together,” she said.

Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at [email protected].

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I n Hayward and Fremont, city leaders have learned much about testing for the

coronavirus through their drive-thru sites and have been adapt-ing their strategies to match the needs they’ve seen.

Testing began six weeks ago, spearheaded by the fire chiefs in both cities. Hayward began its tests on March 22 to help take pressure off of hospital emer-gency rooms and provide quicker answers for health care workers and first responders with COV-ID-19 symptoms, Chief Garrett Contreras said.

No one who meets the criteria for the illness is turned away re-gardless of where they live, their immigration status or ability to pay. Of the 4,497 people tested during the first five weeks, 1,481 were Hayward residents and 1,666 live elsewhere in Alameda County, according to the city’s website.

About 12% of the roughly 5,500 people tested through May 6 turned out positive, Contreras said. He attributed it to the city’s large population of health care workers, first responders, people who work in congregate work-places such as meat-packing and the wholesale food and beverage industry. Hayward also is home to “tons of long-term-care facili-ties staff” who commute around the Bay Area, he added.

Although the sites first adhered to strict criteria for symptoms as outlined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (fever of 100 degrees or higher, cough and shortness of breath,

high-risk groups such as seniors or people with heart disease, dia-betes, etc.), Contreras said they soon learned that fever was a poor indicator of the illness.

“On the first day, the pa-tient didn’t qualify and now it’s Wednesday and the disease is worse and they have a fever. They come back and they test positive. The patient has lost two days of potential treatment, and we’ve had two more days of spreading the disease,” he said.

Sheltering in place, while im-portant, is also limiting.

“That’s good until you are sheltering in place in an apart-ment with nine residents,” he said.

Hayward expanded its pro-gram, adding a mobile unit on April 22, following up on leads they often discover during the daytime testing. After the testing site closes, staff head out in the van to apartments and other plac-es where people live in crowded conditions.

“Right now they are at an apartment (of) a woman whose parent tested positive. She’s the breadwinner and cohabits with five construction workers. We’re testing her and the five workers,” he said on Wednesday.

The mobile unit spends its time early in the morning at long-term-care facilities. If there’s been an outbreak, they’ll test all of the residents and employees, or they’ll do blanket testing if the county has so requested, he said. Sometimes they will test a wing of patients and staff at the request of a facility if it’s had a

positive case or suspected cases.Contreras noted that although

long-term-care facilities are places where outbreaks occur because they are congregate en-vironments, he hasn’t found the facilities to blame.

“It’s nothing they did,” he said.At one facility, they tested 140

patients and 120 staff members.“Not one tested positive,” he

said.At a food manufacturing site,

after a worker there tested posi-tive, the mobile team assessed 160 employees, but they found no further positive cases and the plant was able to continue its operations.

Contreras said they have also done targeted testing. Two oth-er food-processing companies have asked to have their workers tested.

One place they haven’t found many COVID-19-positive peo-ple: homeless encampments. Contreras said the mobile unit has gone to places where they know homeless people gather and sleep and offer to test them.

Hayward provided $2.3 mil-lion for testing kits, infrastruc-ture, safety equipment, person-nel and temporary housing for staff so they would not have to travel home and risk contami-nating their families. They used eight emergency medical techni-cians from a private ambulance service, which cost less than us-ing firefighters and four hospi-tal staff members who had been furloughed.

Hayward has paid for some of the testing, but Contreras

is looking for other sources of funding and ways to reduce costs to keep the program sustainable.

In the first weeks, Avellino Labs, the Menlo Park-based laboratory conducting the PCR tests, charged the city $150 per test. The cost is now down to $75 each as the company has refined its technology, Contreras said. He hopes that with further re-finements, the tests will cost $40 or $50.

He’s also used volunteers, non-profit organizations, city staff and personnel from the fire de-partment. On May 18, a graduat-ing class of new nurses may be utilized to do swabbing to help sustain the program, he said.

“One site is a drop in the buck-et,” however, he said. Alameda County could use seven more sites; Santa Clara County needs six or seven, he said.

“That’s what will get to the government’s goal to 30,000 a day,” he said.

The city of Fremont decided to learn from Hayward, sending four of its personnel from the fire department to volunteer and learn from the Cal State testing site, Chief Curtis Jacobson said. Fremont did its testing at its fire training center, near an industrial area where there isn’t much traf-fic and an adjacent feeder street could be used to divert traffic if necessary.

“Location, location, location is very important,” he said.

Like Hayward, there was no cost to the public and no one was turned away based on their

immigration status. About 50% to 55% of those who came for testing came from Alameda, Contra Costa and Stanislaus counties; 40% came from Santa Clara County, he said. Among them were firefighters, police and health care workers who weren’t able to access tests in Santa Clara County, he said.

Fremont also targeted its test-ing to these groups and to vul-nerable populations. They also did outreach to residential care facilities and focused on workers in those facilities, he said.

“We’re open to anyone who has symptoms,” he said.

The most people they tested in one day was 181, and they were initially open daily. Cur-rently, they operate Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on an appointment basis as well as through a mobile service.

Fremont is now testing gro-cery store workers and those who work in “big box” stores — groups that will come into con-tact with many people, he said.

The program is expandable, but that’s predicated on receiv-ing additional funding from the federal and state governments and whatever the county public health department provides, he said. He’d like to be involved in a regional program, but that will depend largely on funding.

A large testing program should be mobilized “like mutual aid for wildland fires,” he said, where testing groups can be moved to locations where they are most needed and can strategize, he said.

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Hayward and Fremont: Setting the standard for widespread testingWith six weeks of experience with drive-thru testing, East Bay cities hone their strategies

by Sue Dremann

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test roughly 4,000 people per day before the stay-at-home order can be relaxed, County Executive Jef-frey Smith told the Board of Su-pervisors on Tuesday, May 5. As of last week, it had reached only about 1,000 tests per day.

The 4,000 tests per day are the minimum needed; the county’s goal is to expand to 15,000 to 20,000 tests per day, he said.

Testing is crucial to getting the county’s businesses, schools and other facilities reopened. Without testing, it’s hard to identify who has the disease and to whom they are spreading it, Dr. Sara Cody, the county’s public health officer, has said.

County Supervisor Joe Simitian voiced his frustration with the slow pace of testing.

“We’ve only gotten in the last week or so to 1,000 tests. Our cur-rent level is 25% of where it needs to be by the end of this month,”

when the shutdown order ends, he told this news organization.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Simitian expressed urgency about testing at all long-term-care facilities,

like skilled nursing homes. It’s known that the virus has been in-troduced to residents of these fa-cilities by employees, which high-lights the importance of testing

asymptomatic individuals, he said.“This needs to happen now.

Forty percent of the deaths are in long-term-care facilities,” he said.

Kniss’ and Simitian’s concerns are widely shared among the county’s 15 mayors, who joined together last week to try to spur the county to faster action and greater collaboration with its cities.

In an April 29 letter to county leaders, the mayors specifically requested that the county identify a clear goal “in unambiguous, quantitative terms” for testing frequency that would be suf-ficient to safely reopen schools and businesses; create a compre-hensive list of testing sites; and identify how many people would be needed for contact tracing, the process of identifying — and iso-lating — people who may have been exposed to someone who tested positive.

The letter noted that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Testing Task Force has asked for partnerships and more testing sites but has not offered

specific details. The mayors urged the county to form a county task force devoted to testing.

“Without dramatic scaling of testing from the current levels ... we cannot reopen our county,” the letter states.

At the urging of Kniss, Palo Alto’s council on May 4 unani-mously agreed to hold a full dis-cussion on Monday, May 11, about ways it can help expand testing. Councilman Greg Tanaka noted that Shenzhen, China, which was one of the first cities to experience the pandemic, has been able to re-open about 90% of its economy by offering widespread testing and contact tracing. He also pointed to the free testing run by the cit-ies of Fremont and Hayward (see sidebar).

Testing “lets us know what the spread is,” Tanaka said. “And that’s what other places have done — Seoul, South Korea, and China. They’ve been able to reopen suc-cessfully and without a resurgence

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because of this kind of practice.”Yet council members also rec-

ognize that the city’s ability to of-fer tests and reopen schools and businesses hinges on the county, given its charge of protecting pub-lic health. Mayor Adrian Fine said that anything the city does needs to be “additive to the county pro-cess” and not duplicative or coun-ter to what the county is doing. The city would need the county’s help to figure out what type of tests to do, how to report results and how to maintain residents’ privacy, Fine said.

“We as a city are not profes-sional in those areas,” he said.

The problems with testing

C ounty leaders have offered a variety of reasons for why testing in Santa Clara

County continues to fall short of the need. On April 29, Smith told the Board of Supervisors’ Health and Hospitals Committee that testing is “a priority we have very little control over, locally.”

Smith cited the shortage of re-agents (chemicals that are used for analysis of samples); the length of time to get approval for tests from the FDA, the CDC and CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medic-aid Services); the ineffectiveness of the test developed by the CDC;

and the fact that other parts of the nation are doing far worse than Santa Clara County and, as such, are “sucking up the capacity.”

Ken Dueker, director of Palo Alto’s Office of Emergency Ser-vices, similarly attributed the shortage of tests to inadequate supplies of test kits and uneven distribution of personal protec-tive equipment for the health care workers implementing the tests. In some cases, he said, ability to test is limited by a shortage of the required nasopharyngeal swabs.

“Reagents and chemical com-ponents have been hit and miss in the supply chain. Even the medium to safely transport the samples has been in short sup-ply,” Dueker told the City Council on May 4.

He also noted that while the state has been funneling testing supplies to various parts of Cali-fornia and setting up new testing sites, these resources have not for the most part been directed to Santa Clara County.

“They’ve gone elsewhere,” Dueker said.

All of these reasons do not en-tirely sit well with the county’s su-pervisors, who instead — like the cities’ mayors — point to a lack of coordination as significantly contributing to the problems with testing.

Simitian, who serves on the county’s Health and Hospitals Committee, suggested on April 29

that that the committee take the lead in coordinating the county’s effort to ramp up testing.

“I know for public health pur-poses that the incremental growth in testing that we’ve been able to achieve has significance, but in terms of charting a course back (to normal life), these numbers are pretty modest,” Simitian said at the meeting. “That’s the kindest way I can put it.”

Supervisor Susan Ellenberg, who also serves on the commit-tee, agreed.

“There is such discrepancy in what is happening from state to state and from county to county that I fully believe there is more that we could be and must be do-ing to move this along,” Ellenberg said.

That lack of coordination has been evidenced in Kniss’ expe-rience of trying to get tested for COVID-19 in her home county — one in which she both worked as a public health nurse and served as a county supervisor. Even as Los Angeles and Sacramento coun-ties have partnered with nonprofit groups to provide COVID-19 tests to all their residents, Santa Clara County’s testing network resem-bles a collection of disparate sys-tems, each with its own rules and objectives.

Most health care systems — Kaiser Permanente, El Camino Health, Palo Alto Medical Foun-dation — will test only their

own patients provided they have symptoms that meet the CDC guidelines and receive a doctor’s referral. Stanford Health Care ini-tiated testing with similar restric-tions in March, although now the organization allows non-Stanford patients with symptoms or ex-posure risks to be screened for a possible test. (Stanford Health Care has also focused on testing its 14,000-member workforce and its patients.)

Beyond the private and non-profit health care networks, there has been no clear route to getting tested unless you fit certain lim-ited criteria. (See graphic, “How can I get tested?”)

The Palo Alto VA Health Care System is testing military veter-ans with symptoms. The County Health System is testing those who don’t have insurance.

Verily Life Sciences — a re-search subsidiary of Mountain View’s Alphabet — has been testing persons who are either symptomatic or working in front-line professions, such as first re-sponders or health care or prison employees.

And through a new public-pri-vate partnership between the state of California and health-services company OptumServe, two sites in south county will offer CO-VID testing to all, but with the caveat that priority will be given to a range of groups, including high-risk workers, the elderly,

the chronically ill, those referred by public health, people living or working in group-care facilities and those with symptoms. Those who are asymptomatic are at the bottom of the list.

Where do we go from here?

E ven as local leaders have urged swifter action, the county has made some

progress on boosting its testing numbers. And this week, officials announced new plans to ramp up testing capacity and create a new group to improve coordination.

Between April 1 and April 15, the county reported an average of 511 tests per day, according to Public Health Department statis-tics; in the period between April 16 and May 4, the average num-ber of tests rose to 844; and in the past 10 days, the county reported an average of 1,040 tests per day, with a peak on May 1, when there were 1,383 tests.

The county also formed a new COVID-19 testing task force, to be headed by former county public health officer Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, to move the county toward adequate testing and its longer-term goal of complete contact tracing, which Smith said could require a workforce of 600.

Smith told the Board of Super-visors on May 5 that in order for the county to get closer to testing capacity of 4,000 per day, the tests will come from outside sources.

Stanford Health Care has the capacity to do 2,800 tests per day, Kaiser Permanente 1,500 tests, and Valley Medical Center can 2,000, although it currently can test only 300 a day. It expects to receive new reagent and new ma-chinery at the end of this week.

“We can quickly approach ca-pacity,” he said.

Dr. Scott Boyd, associate pro-fessor of pathology at Stanford School of Medicine, who cre-ated a serology test to identify antibodies to COVID-19 in blood samples, said there are plans to increase the capacity for the PCR swab tests, which identify the vi-rus by its RNA, and the serology test.

Stanford has tested a mix of pa-tients, including some individuals who were asymptomatic, and it has tested samples sent by other medical centers on a small scale. So far, Stanford has had enough

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YES: Make an appointment to see your doctor

NO: Call the County Health System at 1-888-334-1000

YES: If you have symptoms, make an appointment with your doctor

NO: Call 650-498-9000 to see if you qualify anyway based on your symptoms or exposure to people with the coronavirus

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FREMONT & HAYWARD

Do you have a fever that’s over 100 degrees, a cough and shortness of breath?

YES: Go to Cal State East Bay test site at 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., in parking lot A. hayward-ca.gov/COVID-19

NO: If you had a fever but no longer do, and either were exposed to someone with COVID-19 or have respiratory symptoms or other chronic health conditions, you can go to the Fremont site. Call 510-252-6808 for an appointment.

HOW HOW CAN I GET CAN I GET TESTED?TESTED?

Symptoms of COVID-19The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently lists the common symptoms of COVID-19 as:

• Fever• Cough• Shortness of breath• Chills• Muscle pain• New loss of taste or smell• Vomiting or diarrhea• Sore throat


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supplies for the testing, but short-ages have been an ongoing issue in general with tests.

“It’s a moving target all of the time,” he said.

The county also has loosened its criteria a bit for who can be tested by any organization. Depending on test availability, other health care workers, first responders and es-sential employees such as grocery clerks, utility workers, food supply workers and others who have close contact with the public can be test-ed. People who are hospitalized

and undergoing elective proce-dures can also be tested, as can all residents of congregate living fa-cilities, such as senior-care centers. Anyone older than 60 years of age or individuals with chronic medi-cal conditions that increase their risk of severe COVID-19 symp-toms can also be tested.

There is now more testing ca-pacity than there are people be-ing tested, Smith said. Private laboratories, including the Verily site, are underutilized. Smith said he has been told people make ap-pointments but don’t show up. He said he doesn’t know if they have trouble getting to the site or if they aren’t being referred there.

Just about everyone agrees that the county’s communication on testing has been a problem. When Simitian asked on May 5 whether the county should make the criteria for who can get tests less rigorous, Smith pointed to the recent loosening of the county’s guidance and the recent boost in testing capacity.

“Since we currently have ca-pacity for selection, I think for the most part that means anybody,” Smith responded. “But that just points out the fact that we’re still having trouble communicating that message effectively, because private doctors and institutions aren’t necessarily doing it as on

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call, or as needed.”That said, the official guide-

lines that are posted on the Santa Clara County website continue to restrict who can get tested, forc-ing residents to go to other coun-ties. This includes even residents like Kniss, who fit the county’s recently expanded criteria. Smith acknowledged this week that the county needs “to communicate that (testing) is available, that it can be done here.”

Cody said the challenge is matching the capacity to the need and understanding the barriers to getting people to where they need to be tested.

“We are successful in driving down the infection,” she said on

May 5 of the nearly 2-month-old public health effort.

In areas where there are more infections, the county needs to do intensive testing and make them priority areas, she said.

“I’m an eternal optimist,” Cody said. “I feel we can do this.”

Editorial Assistant Lloyd Lee contributed to this article. Staff writers Sue Dremann and Gennady Sheyner can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected] the cover: Eager to reopen its economy, Santa Clara County tries to ramp up its COVID-19 testing. Illustration by Douglas Young.

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be the best year of high school. We go through 12-plus years of schooling awaiting that final year and all the fun things it entails,” she said. “Senior year is the last year you get to spend with your friends ... those everlasting memo-ries of our childhood that we get to to carry on with us throughout our life.”

A member of the track team, Sias had long pictured herself walking down the track field on senior night and proudly an-nouncing where she’s going to college (the University of Ha-waii at Manoa, where she plans to study education). She also was looking forward to a senior trip to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

One anticipated time with

friends — prom night — has al-ready come and gone.

Mountain View High School senior Jonathan Liu said he had an elaborate “promposal” planned — including an original song — before the pandemic struck. He was looking forward to prom as well as graduation.

“These are the events that I feel are the heart of the high school experience, events that everybody remembers long after they have graduated. Not having these once-in-a-lifetime experiences is a real bummer since I can’t help won-dering ‘What if?’” he said.

Menlo-Atherton’s student activ-ities director and student leaders floated the idea of a virtual prom to students, but it wasn’t a popu-lar one, Menlo-Atherton Prin-cipal Simone Rick-Kennel said. Administrators hope to gather the class of 2020 for a prom or

celebration in the future.Some seniors decided to don

their already purchased prom outfits and take socially distant photos, or they got together over Zoom on what would have been prom night. For students who couldn’t attend prom in their ju-nior year or planned to only go se-nior year because of the expense, the cancelation of this event was particularly disappointing.

Seniors also have had to forego other end-of-year competitions and events. Liu has acted in every play and musical the school has put on and to not bring that expe-rience to a close was “dishearten-ing.” Gunn theater students found out their final production was canceled the same day it was set to take place. Others are missing their final debate tournaments, robotics competitions or athletic events.

Paly students and administra-tors have planned a series of re-mote celebrations for what would have been the last week of school, including a virtual paper toss held on Zoom and organizing times to say online goodbyes to teachers and staff. On June 3, for the citywide “shout out,” they’re asking people across Palo Alto to decorate their front yards and go outside at 5:30 p.m. to shout con-gratulations for the Class of 2020.

Frida Rivera, Paly’s senior class president, has been involved in the planning of these events. She acknowledged none of them are adequate replacements for what seniors expected to have in person but said they’re the “best possible outcome.”

Staff at the Madrono, Paly’s yearbook, don’t yet know how or when the yearbook they’ve been working on for months will be safely distributed, but they’ve been adjusting its pages to reflect an unprecedented moment in his-tory. A timeline with local and global events now includes dates of when schools closed and major events related to the coronavirus.

Instead of the usual photos of students together for the “senior superlatives” feature, which hon-ors pairs of seniors in categories like “most likely to become presi-dent” and “most likely to be late to graduation,” the yearbook staff is creating drawings of the win-ners. Clubs that hadn’t yet sub-mitted photos have sent in group Zoom screenshots.

Students at Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos high schools also have used Instagram to high-light seniors’ post-high school plans. Rivera said some students responded to Paly’s Instagram feature in unexpected ways that she appreciated: One senior said his post-high school plans were simply to “be awesome.” Another one? “Write a novel.”

Celebrating post-high school plans amid a cloud of uncertainty

The next chapter for many high school seniors — college — is still hanging in the balance as col-leges and universities across the

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997 All Other LegalsNOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GLORIA L. READE Case No.: 20PR187813 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of GLORIA READE. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: GORDON READE in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: GORDON READE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on May 13, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 13 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

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CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hear an update on the city’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic; consider eliminating a rule banning commercial developers from using in-lieu fees to fulfill parking requirements; and discuss the proposed budget for fiscal year 2021. The virtual meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, May 11. The meeting will be broadcast on Cable TV Channel 26, at youtube.com/c/cityofpaloalto, and midpenmedia.org. Those wishing to participate by Zoom can do so by dialing 669-900-6833 and using Meeting ID: 362 027 238.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will hear updates on distance learning, planning for the next school year and the district’s budget; and will discuss plans for summer school. The virtual meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12. The meeting will be broadcast on Cable TV Channel 28 and and midpenmedia.org. Those wishing to participate by Zoom can do so by going to pausd.zoom.us/j/94997346242 or dialing 669-900-6833 and using Meeting ID: 949 9734 6242.

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to continue its discussion of the proposed fiscal year 2021 budget by reviewing the proposed non-departmental budget as well as the budgets of the Utility and Public Works departments; public-safety services; community programs and library services; the Human Resources and Administrative departments; and the offices of the city attorney, city manager, city clerk and city auditor. The virtual meeting will begin at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12. The meeting will be broadcast on Cable TV Channel 26, at youtube.com/c/cityofpaloalto, and midpenmedia.org. Those wishing to participate by Zoom can do so by dialing 669-900-6833 and using Meeting ID: 362 027 238.

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to continue its discussion of the proposed fiscal year 2021 budget with a focus on the 2021 municipal fee schedule, planning and transportation services and the capital budget in the General Fund, which includes the Cubberley Community Center improvement plan. The virtual meeting will begin at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13. The meeting will be broadcast on Cable TV Channel 26, at youtube.com/c/cityofpaloalto, and midpenmedia.org. Those wishing to participate by Zoom can do so by dialing 669-900-6833 and using Meeting ID: 362 027 238. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss approaches to converting portions of the Palo Alto’s zoning code relating to review standards into objective standards for development. The virtual meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13. The meeting will be broadcast on Cable TV Channel 26, and at midpenmedia.org. Those wishing to participate by Zoom can do so by dialing 669-900-6833 and using Meeting ID: 925 9144 5934.

HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 235 Hamilton Ave., the proposed reclassification of Cardinal Hotel from a Local Historic Resource Category 3 to Category 2; and consider the compliance of proposed modifications to Hotel President at 488 University Ave. with the Secretary of the Interior’s standards. The virtual meeting will be held at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 14. It will be streamed at midpenmedia.org. Those wishing to participate by Zoom can do so by dialing 669-900-6833 and using Meeting ID: 935 2189 4451.

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country figure out what school will look like in the fall. The Uni-versity of California has indicated it could reopen just one-third to one-half of dorm rooms. Other colleges are planning for hybrid models with a mix of virtual and in-person instruction.

It’s top of mind for all seniors.“There are two topics you can

talk about right now: college and coronavirus,” Kolbasov joked.

Many seniors received news about their college admissions during the shelter in place. Some said it was a relief not to be sur-rounded by peers talking about their acceptances on campus and

nervously monitoring their inbox-es for news during class.

Kolbasov is planning to at-tend Brown University in Rhode Island to study English and psy-chology. Brown was her first choice, but she seriously con-sidered attending a California school instead because of the uncertainty around travel due to the virus. She said some friends are considering taking gap years for this reason.

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agonizing decision of what to do with commencement and landed on a plan, either to move it on-line or reschedule it months from now.

Many local seniors over-whelmingly opposed a virtual graduation, which some said would be “anti-climatic” and even “sad.”

Palo Alto High School senior Ben Knopper said he’s glad his school district postponed gradu-ation until December.

“It gives us a chance to cel-ebrate, to meet back up and say goodbye one more time,” he said. “I’m hoping it acts more as a six-month reunion.”

Menlo-Atherton plans to livestream a virtual commence-ment ceremony on June 4 at 4 p.m. Students can also still order caps and gowns, and some have talked about walking down the street in their caps and gowns together.

Kylie Wong, a Menlo-Atherton senior who plans to attend the University of Oregon in the fall, said that while disappointed not to have an in-person ceremony, “I know that the school’s adminis-tration is doing its best with the current conditions.”

She noted that a unique, long-standing tradition at Menlo-Atherton will be lost this year: Seniors choose a teacher or staff member who was important to them to present them with their diploma.

“During the first (fall) semes-ter, there was consideration to remove this process, but students rallied together to keep this spe-cial aspect of graduation,” she wrote in an email. “Ironically, the current situation unraveled gradu-ation plans including the teacher-diploma component.”

The school will keep the pos-sibility of an in-person ceremony open depending on when the school can safely gather large crowds again, Menlo-Atherton principal Rick-Kennel said.

Woodside High School’s vir-tual ceremony will include a pre-recorded rendition of pomp and circumstance; student and principal speeches; announcing each student’s name as their pre-loaded photo in orange cap and gown with their quote appear; and ending with the traditional turning of the tassel.

Despite the disappointment and anxieties about what’s ahead, lo-cal seniors said they have mostly come to terms with what they have no control over — a global pandemic — and are focusing on staying positive.

Suh, the Gunn senior, still plans to decorate her graduation cap re-gardless of when she’ll be able to toss it in the air, surrounded by her classmates.

“I think there’s a new sense that we’re persevering through this to-gether,” she said.

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said. “Ultimately I decided the rest of college, being where I’ve wanted to go for so long, is worth it. I don’t want to regret closing that opportunity once we are hopefully on campus.”

Sias said she’s considering go-ing to Foothill College in Los Al-tos Hills for her freshman year if she can’t attend college in person — for her, the cost of full tuition for online classes wouldn’t be worth it.

Hanna Suh, a Gunn High School senior, has been nervously

monitoring the coronavirus case count in New York City, where she plans to attend New York Uni-versity in the fall.

“I’ve gotten into this new rou-tine of getting up in the morning, picking up The New York Times and seeing their daily coronavirus stats out of anxiety of whether I can go to college in the fall,” she said.

Graduating without the usual pomp or circumstance

With the end of the school year just weeks away, most high schools have wrestled with the

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Embattled nonprofit gets city grantThe Downtown Streets Team, a nonprofit that has faced multiple

allegations of sexual harassment and a hard-partying culture, will receive its full allotment of grant funding from Palo Alto without having to offer documentation that it has addressed these prob-lems, the City Council Finance Committee decided on Tuesday.

In voting to give the nonprofit the full funding allotment with no strings attached, the committee overruled the recommenda-tions of the Human Relations Commission’s Selection Committee, which had conditioned the release of the $336,000 from the federal Community Development Block Grant program on the release of documents.

The Selection Committee also asked the nonprofit for a report on pay equity and for a survey of the current climate at the or-ganization, which provides services to homeless individuals and operates a food closet.

But the Finance Committee was swayed by City Manager Ed Shikada, who made the case for not requiring the nonprofit to provide any of the documents that were requested by the Selection Committee.

Shikada argued that requesting the information would be “out of proportion from the kind of information we request from other organizations.”

— Gennady SheynerElective surgeries ramp up at Stanford

Stanford Health Care is rapidly resuming elective surgeries, diagnostic tests and other procedures, with more than 800 sched-uled for this week at the main Stanford Hospital and outpatient clinics, President and CEO David Entwistle said in a phone call on Monday.

Typically, the hospital and clinics perform 1,200 procedures per week. The regional medical center performed 170 procedures on Monday, May 4.

Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered hospitals to freeze all but essential procedures starting March 13 to free up hospital beds for a pro-jected spike in COVID-19 cases. That spike did not occur, largely due to the state’s and local counties’ early shelter-at-home orders. Newsom lifted the stay on April 22.

Stanford began offering tests to asymptomatic employees who would come into contact with patients two weeks ago and has been testing employees with symptoms since early March. Entwis-tle said the health system’s hospitals have not had any recorded transmissions of the coronavirus between patients and health care workers, and the coronavirus tests showed that only about 0.3% of asymptomatic employees tested positive for COVID-19.

“Stanford Medicine prepared for the worst, and now we’re ready to resume much of what was put on pause during this health crisis. We have planned for this recovery and restoration, and I’m confi-dent that we can hit the ground running,” Entwistle said.

— Sue DremannRavenswood, MayView deal finalized

It’s official: The Ravenswood Family Health Network has acquired the MayView Community Health Center Clinics. The move, announced in December last year, has been finalized. The Ravenswood Family Health Center has become the Ravenswood Family Health Network and expanded its footprint to include five locations: the Ravenswood Family Health Center, the Ravenswood Family Dentistry clinic, and MayView’s current clinics in Palo Alto, Mountain View and Sunnyvale.

The combined sites employ about 300 staff, including more than 50 clinicians, and serve about 27,000 low-income patients, accord-ing to a press release issued Monday.

But visitors to the former MayView clinics aren’t likely to ex-perience any key differences in their experiences at the clinics. The clinics are keeping MayView as part of their name, and all but three MayView staff members were retained, according to Ravenswood Family Health Network CEO Luisa Buada.

The biggest problem the network now faces, however, is that people aren’t coming in for routine visits due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Visits are down to about 40% of the usual patient volume, Buada said. In-person visits remain critical for some patients, especially those needing prenatal care, children under 2 years old needing vaccines and developmental tests, and patients with chronic dis-ease, Buada added.

The clinics continue to offer in-person visits and COVID-19 test-ing to people by appointment. COVID-19 tests are done in the park-ing lot from visitors’ vehicles to reduce exposure. People can also pick up prescriptions curbside at the East Palo Alto pharmacy.

—Kate Bradshaw

News Digest

ATHERTON CITY COUNCIL

Lisa Costa Sanders, Town Planner

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Atherton City Council will hold a public hearing to consider recommending the City Council adopt a Health and Safety Ordinance Amendment to add Chapter 8.56 Regulat-ing the Use of Single-Use Disposable Food Service Ware by Food Facili-ties to the Atherton Municipal Code.

Summary of Ordinance: Adding a new Chapter 8.56 of the Atherton Municipal Code “Disposable Food Service Ware By Food Facilities”. The Ordinance would restrict the use of disposable food service ware that is not compostable, reusable, or recyclable, for commercial food facilities. The goal of the proposed Ordinance is to eliminate disposable food service ware that is not reusable or compostable, improve the health and safety of San Mateo County community members, and help the County meet its regional storm water permit requirements by reducing street litter.

This meeting is being held in compliance with the Governors Executive Order N-25-20 issued on March 4, 2020, and Executive Order N-29-20 issued on March 17, 2020, allowing for deviation of teleconference rules required by the Brown Act. The purpose of this is to provide the safest

-tion. The meeting will be held by tele or video conferencing. The public may participate in the City Council Meeting via: Zoom Meeting.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that said application is set for hearing by the City Council at its regular meeting on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. via teleconference accessible through the above-described information, at which time and place all persons interested may appear and show cause, if they have any, why the Municipal Code Amendment should or should not be approved.

This Ordinance is exempt from the environmental review requirements of CEQA pursuant to Section 15061 (b)(3) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations because it can be seen with certainty that there is

the requirements of CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15307 and 15308 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations as actions taken by regulatory agencies to assure the maintenance, restoration, enhancement of natural resources, or protection of the environment.

IF YOU CHALLENGE the Municipal Code Amendment in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the Public Hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the Public Hearing.

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3 Classic “Muppet Show” song with that “do dooo do do-do” refrain

4 Golden ratio symbol

5 Where some bracelets are worn

6 Steals from, as a fridge

7 Actress Fisher of “The Great Gatsby”

8 East Indian lentil stew

9 Hardly dense

10 Lumber material

11 “Alice’s Restaurant” chronicler Guthrie

12 “Open” sign element

15 Parodies

17 Belly button

21 Blunder

23 Churn

24 Appears menacingly

26 Sketched

27 Ask for support, in a way

28 “___ fun!” (catchphrase from the BBC’s “Miranda”)

29 Ivy extension?

30 Antony who eulogized Caesar

31 Answer, in court

33 Something to look up to

35 Shakespearean compilation

36 Lawn layer

38 Shaq’s former team

39 ___ in comparison

41 Jazz bandleader/drummer and son of Thelonious

42 In a snug manner

44 Less naive

45 Photoshop company

46 More recent

47 Disgusting goo

48 Handle

49 Above, in Augsburg

50 Part of a recipe

53 Craft in videos recently released by the Pentagon

54 Lessen gradually

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290 Gloria Circle, Menlo Park

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5 Bed | 4.5 Bath | Offered at $5,875,000Living: 3,371 Sq Ft* | Lot: 8,598 Sq Ft*

4 Bed | 3 Bath | Offered at $4,250,000Living: 2,868 Sq Ft* | Lot: 14,147 Sq Ft*

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