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BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
A homeless man allegedly broke into former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s pool house in Palo Alto, ate four jars of her homemade ice cream and damaged a $30,000 countertop, court records show. Corey Alexander Stevens, 32, allegedly broke into the pool house on the 500 block of Addison Avenue on March 7.
Mayer’s assistant told Mayer there was someone inside the pool house around 10 a.m. on March 9, according to Officer Eric Dun’s police report.
Mayer told Dun that she found three empty jars of ice cream, in the sink and another empty jar on the coffee table. She said the jars were worth about $15
each. Mayer said her expensive stone countertop, made of onyx baccarat, was chipped and cracked, the police report said.
Mayer’s rug was stained, and dirt was left on her couch, she told Dun.
Mayer estimated that she would spend $2,500 to repair the rug, replace
the couch upholstery and clean the pool house, according to the police report.
Mayer told Dun that she had a locksmith fitting new locks on the pool house to match her main house, but the new locks hadn’t been installed.
Officer Lance Nguyen searched the backyard and found Stevens sitting on a couch inside the pool house, the police report said. Stevens said he was on
[See ICE CREAM, page 22]
GAS FIELD HIT: President Trump yesterday pledged Israel would not attack Iran’s major South Pars gas field again. But, if Iran attacks Qatar again, the U.S. would retaliate and “massively blow up the entirety” of the field.
OIL SANCTIONS EASED: The Treasury Department is easing sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company. It's one way the Trump administration is trying to ease oil prices that have soared during the Iran war.
FIREY HEARING: Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, faced pushback yesterday during a committee meeting chaired by Republican Rand Paul, who said Mullin is a liar with anger management problems and lacks the temperament to lead DHS. Mullin was grilled about his personal character and expertise for the DHS job.
FED RATE UNCHANGED: The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged yesterday and Chair Jerome Powell highlighted the increasingly uncertain outlook for
[See THE UPDATE, page 23]
Many upcoming celebrations and holidays honoring late farmworker labor leader Cesar Chavez are being renamed, postponed or canceled in the wake of allegations that he sexually abused women and girls while at the helm of the United Farm Workers Union.
Some cities and school districts are also evaluating whether to rename schools, parks and buildings named after Chavez, including in East Palo Alto.
Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed yesterday she was among those who say they were abused by Chavez, who died more than three decades ago.
The allegations have prompted swift fallout, including from the United Farm Workers, which announced it would not take part in any events named after the organization’s former leader.
Among those calling for a change is East
[See CHAVEZ, page 22]
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
On a 3-2 vote, the Palo Alto school board has declined to tell high schools to offer Multivariable Calculus — an advanced math class that was rejected by principals and teachers but that students and parents have been fighting for.
Board members Shounak Dharap, Shana Segal and Josh Salcman were worried that overruling educators at each high school would set a bad precedent and go against a policy that allows them to decide whether to offer a course.
“Directing that a specific course be offered at a specific school moves us,
in my opinion, beyond governance and into operational decisions,” Segal said on Tuesday.
Board members Rowena Chiu and Alison Kamhi voted to direct high schools to offer the course.
“I firmly believe that students who wish to accelerate should be given the
[See MATH, page 22]
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San Mateo County Supervisors are losing their $500,000 in district-specific funds as the county is changing how it will spend its Measure K sales tax funds.
Measure K is a 2016 half-cent sales tax approved by voters on the promise that it would be used for housing and public safety. The tax raises $116 million a year, and each of the five supervisors gets $500,000 to award grants to organizations or fund their own projects.
The district-specific funds are going away, along with many of the other programs it funds due to an anticipated lack of money from the state’s Vehicle License Fee Adjustment. The county is anticipating losing out on about $125 million in funding. The county is
eyeing spending Measure K money to fill the gaps left by the lack of state funds.
Spending controversies
Supervisors’ spending of their discretionary Measure K money has sometimes raised eyebrows, such as a $40,000 grant that went to the publisher of the Half Moon Bay Review and Pacifica Tribune in October 2024. Supervisor Ray Mueller said the Coastside News Group Inc. asked his office for the grant to help them recover from the financial impacts of the pandemic.
The board approved the request, but with a “no” vote from then-Supervisor Warren Slocum and an abstention from Supervisor Noelia Corzo, who wondered if the publications could remain unbiased after receiving the money. In May 2024, Mueller’s proposal for a
$30,000 grant to the conservation nonprofit Green Foothills for a meditation program called Healing in Nature was criticized by a resident who said it was Mueller’s way of rewarding Green Foothills' legislative advocate for a campaign endorsement.
But others said the meditation program seemed valuable, and supervisors approved the grant.
In October 2024, Supervisor David Canepa pulled his proposal to spend $750,000 of his Measure K fund to bail out an eight-officer police department in Broadmoor, which is part of northern San Mateo County.
Canepa’s request received multiple questions from his fellow supervisors. He said at the Oct. 17, 2024, meeting that he has always voted for other supervisors’ Measure K requests, so his ought to be approved.
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Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died Sunday in Palo Alto at age 93, was a crusader whose dire predictions about population growth, world hunger and environmental collapse made headlines and sparked controversy for decades.
Sometimes called a “prophet of doom” by his detractors, Ehrlich was among the most public figures of the environmental movement. He was admired and often honored for his prophetic warnings. But he was also excoriated when his worst predictions failed to come true.
Ehrlich founded Stanford’s Center for Nature and Society in 1984 and wrote more than 40 books and over 1,100 scientific articles on ecology, the environment and population dynamics.
He is best known outside of academia for writing “The Population Bomb” in 1968, along with his wife, conservation biologist Anne H. Erhlich, who survives him.
The book became a bestseller that was reprinted more than 20 times and translated into multiple languages. It starkly predicted that population growth would exhaust Earth’s resources, leading to wars and social collapse.
Ultimately, the book both popularized and polarized the U.S. environmental movement.
Handsome and well-spoken, Ehrlich captured the public imagination through news articles, public lectures and television appearances. “The Population Bomb” launched him into the center of a global debate over environment and conservation.
After the catastrophes that Ehrlich predicted in “The Population Bomb” failed to occur, many critics had a laugh at his expense.
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
The Palo Alto Unified School District will pay $346,673 to former Deputy Superintendent Trent Bahadursingh to step down as acting superintendent after 22 days in charge, according to a separation agreement obtained by the Post yesterday.
In exchange for the payment, Bahadursingh agreed not to talk negatively about the school district nor file any lawsuits about his time there.
The district can still use Bahadursingh as a consultant for $188 an hour, and his health benefits
will continue through September, the separation agreement said.
The board voted 3-2 to approve the agreement on Tuesday night. Board members Shana Segal and Rowena Chiu voted no.
Bahadursingh will get $252,763 by April 30, $84,254 by Jan. 31 and $9,656 for his time as acting superintendent.
Austin separation Bahadursingh’s resignation comes a month after the board parted ways with former Superintendent Don Austin.
Austin will get his $35,106 monthly paycheck through June
30, $331,272 on Aug. 1 and $90,000 on Jan. 15, according to his separation agreement.
District turmoil
The district is currently in the middle of at least 11 lawsuits, three student suicides in the last year and tense negotiations with the teachers’ union.
After Bahadursingh was appointed as acting superintendent, the Post reported on a lawsuit alleging that he bullied Assistant to the Superintendent Victoria Maya.
The board is scheduled to pick another acting superintendent today.
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
The Palo Alto school board has received proposals from three search firms to look for a new superintendent, including the firm that found former Superintendent Don Austin.
The firms are McPherson & Jacobson, Leadership Associates and Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, or HYA.
Austin recruiter in running HYA was the firm that found Austin from the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District in 2018. Austin worked in Palo Alto for eight years until resigning on Feb. 20.
Parent Trish Tamrazi said she’s surprised the board will consider the firm that found Austin.
“He was a known bully at his last district, and he did the same here,” Tamrazi said at Tuesday’s meeting, when the board voted to interview all three firms.
Candidate diversity urged Meb Steiner, president of the non-teachers’ union, said the board should think long and hard about whether firms have served the district well in the past. She wants the board to pick a firm with a track record of finding diverse candidates.
“Not just ethnicity or race, but also economic background, educational background, different life experiences — diversity in the broadest sense,” Steiner said on Tuesday.
Board member Josh Salcman said on Feb. 23 that he wants to
hire a permanent superintendent before the next school year.
The board voted 4-1 at the Feb. 23 meeting to have the district reach out to search firms, with board member Rowena Chiu voting no.
Chiu said she wanted to put out a formal “request for proposals,” or RFP, that allows any search firm to bid its services.
But Chief Business Officer Charen Yu said the RFP process would take longer than the district reaching out.
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Each firm will give presentations to the school board at a special meeting, and the board will pick one to look for candidates.
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East Palo Alto officials want to hear from residents about which times are hardest to find parking.
Council voted 3-1 on Tuesday, with Councilman Carlos Romero voting no, to approve the outline of a parking permit program. Vice Mayor Ruben Abrica was absent.
There is no start date for the program since council has to decide on permit costs, citation fees, enforcement hours and the maximum number of permits per household.
Romero voted against the program because the city just entered into a $350,000 contact with LAZ Parking, a third-party parking enforcer. The city of Palo Alto also uses LAZ parking.
Romero said he wanted to see how impactful LAZ would be and if the program would be necessary.
The program has faced pushback from residents at two meetings, who have requested enforcement of the current parking rules and consideration of the program’s impact on low-income households.
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vious meeting that the city should focus on cleaning the streets of abandoned cars before continuing with the parking program.
During the council meeting on Feb. 24, Councilmen Mark Dinan and Abrica said they wanted to hear a report on how many abandoned or illegally parked cars are off the street before looking further into the parking program.
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About 840,000 Covid deaths were reported on death certificates in 2020 and 2021. But a group of researchers — using a form of artificial intelligence — estimate that as many as 155,000 unrecognized additional deaths likely occurred in that time outside of hospitals. That would mean about 16% of Covid deaths went uncounted in those years.
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The overall findings, published yesterday by the journal Science Advances, were close to estimates from other studies of pandemic deaths during that time. But the authors of the new study
tried to determine exactly which deaths were more likely to be missing from the official tallies.
The answer: The undiagnosed dead were more likely to be Hispanic people and other people of color, who had died in the first few months of the pandemic, and who had been in certain states in the South and Southwest — including Alabama, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
Six years after the coronavirus swept through the U.S., barriers remain for many of the same people, said Steven Woolf, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher not involved in the study.
“People on the margins continue to die at disproportionate rates because they can’t access care,” he said in an email.
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Times shown are when a report was made to police. Information is from police department logs. All those named here are innocent until proven guilty in court.
MARCH 11
1:38 p.m. — Manuel Anthony Brionez, 31, of Palo Alto, cited on a warrant and arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia, Arastradero Road and McKellar Lane.
SATURDAY
10:23 a.m. — Tanissia Lucia Ramos, 47, of Vallejo, arrested for petty theft, Stanford Shopping Center.
10:29 a.m. — Lisa Marie Sanchez, 51, of Palo Alto, arrested for battery and elder abuse, Ramona St.
11:08 p.m. — Jeremy Galo Ramirez, 22, of San Jose, cited on a warrant, Lytton Ave. and Florence St.
SUNDAY
2:48 p.m. — Grand theft, Downtown Palo Alto Caltrain Station.
3:56 p.m. — Vehicle accident causes injuries, El Camino Way and W. Meadow Drive.
11:37 p.m. — Gyzelle Guadalupe Barraza, 21, of East Palo Alto, arrested for domestic violence, University Ave. and Guinda St.
MARCH 9
11:31 a.m. — Bicycle stolen, 200 block of Santa Teresa St.
9:39 p.m. — Identity theft, 900 block of Cottrell Way.
10:29 p.m. — Electric scooter stolen, 400 block of Arguello Way.
10:45 p.m. — Bicycle stolen, 300 block of Galvez St.
TUESDAY
12:10 a.m. — Christina Averill, 45, of Redwood City, arrested for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia as well as on two warrants, 900 block of Willow Road.
3:41 a.m. — Michelle Hong, 23, of San Jose, arrested for burglary, possession of burglary tools, resisting police, conspiracy to commit a crime, false impersonation and on a warrant, 500 block of Oak Grove Ave.
11:37 a.m. — Package stolen, Artisan Way.
3:40 p.m. — Catalytic converter stolen from a vehicle, 800 block of Partridge Ave.
4:22 p.m. — Jewelry stolen, 300 block of Arden Road.
6:12 p.m. — Vehicle collision causes injuries, 400 block of Encinal Ave.
AUG. 21
12:55 a.m. — Isaac Perea, 34, of Sunnyvale, cited for being under the influence of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia, 500 block of N. Rengstorff Ave.
AUG. 24
2:30 a.m. — Ronald Royrondeau, 32, transient, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, Ellis St. and National Ave.
SEPT. 1
6:09 p.m. — Timothy Ford, 64, of Mountain View, cited for drug possession, El Camino and Sylvan Ave.
SEPT. 4
4:01 a.m. — Richard Newman, 46, of Sunnyvale, cited for drug possession, 100 block of Castro St.
10:57 a.m. — Alberto Cardenas, 52, of Mountain View, cited for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, San Antonio Road and El Camino.
12:12 p.m. — Timmy Rhodes, 36, cited for narcotics possession, 1600 block of Amphitheater Parkway.
SEPT. 5
7:31 p.m. — Quinn Guerrero, 51, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, Showers Drive and San Antonio Circle.
SEPT. 9
6 p.m. — Edgar Lopez, 35, of Mountain View, cited for possession of more than an ounce of cannabis, 2500 block of Leghorn St.
TUESDAY
2:18 p.m. — Fraud, 1-99 block of Robleda Drive.
FRIDAY
7 a.m. — Vehicle fire reported, 600 block of Warrington Ave.
SATURDAY
12:03 a.m. — Javier Raya
Tapia, 38, of Redwood City, arrested for public drunkenness and on a warrant, 400 block of Dumbarton Ave.
SATURDAY
12:11 a.m. — Scott Raymond Martin, 32, of Crescent City, arrested for parole violation, Middlefield Road and Manzanita Ave.
1:01 a.m. — Men fighting, El Camino.
4:58 a.m. — Three bikes stolen, Roosevelt Ave.
11:58 a.m. — Mailboxes broken into, Marshall St.
12:30 p.m. — Vehicle hits a kid, who suffers minor injuries. Location not disclosed.
5:43 p.m. — Altercation between a tow truck driver and the owner of the vehicle being towed, Ebener St.
7:27 p.m. — Elizabeth Sierra Cibrian, 42, of San Jose, arrested for shoplifting at Target, 2485 El Camino.
9:09 p.m. — Vehicle overturned in an accident, Jefferson Ave.
FRIDAY
12:04 a.m. — Motorcycle cover slashed by a vandal, 3300 block of La Mesa Drive.
9 a.m. — Fraud, 100 block of Torino Lane.
1:30 p.m. — License plate stolen from a vehicle, 500 block of Taylor Way.
2:12 p.m. — Angel Enio Arzate, 26, arrested for trespassing and falsely identifying himself to police, 300 block of Chestnut St.
10:33 p.m. — Cole Peterson, 26, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, 100 block of Old County Road.
MONDAY
2:19 a.m. — Corinne Taylor, 63, arrested for DUI, 1100 block of El Camino.
From the Redwood City office of the CHP, which covers the MidPeninsula.
MARCH 7
Sean W. Lee, 22, arrested for DUI.
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670 San Antonio Road #26, 94306, 3 bedrooms, 1380 square feet, built in 1979, Nanxi Chen to Neeraj Agarwal for $1,737,000, closed Feb. 17 (last sale: $1,140,000, 02-04-16)
200 Sheridan Ave. #306, 94306, 2 bedrooms, 1400 square feet, built in 1997, Sheridan Plaza LLC to Elsa and Alexander Morgan for $1,812,000, closed Feb. 18
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444 S. Shoreline Boulevard, 94041, 1260 square feet, built in 1928, Peterson Family Trust to Story In LLC for $1,825,000, closed Feb. 18
787 San Clemente Way, 94043, 5 bedrooms, 1950 square feet, built in 1964, Di Liu to Xiaoyu and Bosen Li for $3,035,000, closed Feb. 19 (last sale: $2,389,500, 08-26-25)
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11701 Winding Way, 94024, 5 bedrooms, 3586 square feet, built in 1992, Kathleen and David Macfarlane to Alice and Daniel Lee for $4,385,000, closed Feb. 19
255 East Oakwood Blvd., 94061, 3 bedrooms, 1880 square feet, built in 1968, 1995 Cline Fam Bypass Trust to Priyanka and Rahul Moghe for $2,175,000, closed Feb. 3
15 Garden St., 94063, 4 bedrooms, 1110 square feet, built in 1951, Jianping Hu to Cristobal and Sarah Ramirez for $1,529,000, closed Feb. 6 (last sale: $980,000, 05-27-15)
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574 Wellington Drive, 94070, 3 bedrooms, 1640 square feet, built in 1955, Lisa and Kenneth Staton to Loannis and Negar Adeli for $2,350,000, closed Feb. 6
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590 Remillard Drive, 94010, 3 bedrooms, 2830 square feet, built in 1957, Beth and John Ailanjian to Alicia Umphreys for $5,923,500, closed Feb. 4 (last sale: $3,300,000, 0526-16)
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When we last left our new bride, Grace, at the end of 2019’s “Ready or Not,” she was smoking a well-earned cigarette, having survived a night of slaughter. She sat on a stone step as a mansion went up in flames behind her, her wedding dress ripped and caked with blood, dirt and grime (but mostly blood.)
“In-laws,” she’d explained drily, when asked by police what had happened. It was the biggest laugh of the movie — and also well-earned, especially by us, after all that gore.
Now, seven years later, we have “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come,” which takes off from that same moment. But the mood does not remain light. Uttering that last line, Grace (Samara Weaving) then collapses into unconsciousness and is carted away by ambulance. And her troubles, of course, are just beginning.
Murderous Titus
It’s hard to pinpoint why this next level of Grace’s very bad wedding night, again directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, feels darker and heavier — and hence, less enjoyable — than the original, which managed to maintain a bouncy feel, even
with bodies combusting at an absurd rate. But if we have to blame someone, we’re gonna go with the doctor from “The Pitt.”
Yep, that would be Shawn Hatosy, and we’re sorry, dear handsome Dr. Jack Abbott, but we never thought you could be such a downer. There’s a particularly odious scene where Hatosy’s character, Titus, seems to echo the murderous Shakespearean protagonist that he is, come to think of it, probably named after — Titus Andronicus.
But back to the plot: Grace had triumphantly stayed alive ‘til dawn in the first movie, thus winning the
dastardly game she’d been forced to play moments after marrying Alex, her rich boyfriend. Required by family ritual to draw a game card from a deck, she’d unluckily drawn hide-and-seek, which meant she had to hide while the extended family hunted her down with weapons both antique and modern. Only gritty Grace survived.
New characters, new game
The supporting cast of the first movie, including Andie MacDowell and Adam Brody, is not back (duh). In their place is a new group, including Hatosy, Gellar, Elijah Wood as the
attorney who runs the grim proceedings, and Kathryn Newton as Grace’s sister, Faith.
Or should we say estranged sister. Faith shows up at Grace’s hospital bed, having not seen her in years, because she was listed as Grace’s emergency contact. There’s a detective in the room, too. Grace is now, annoyingly, suspected of arson and murder.
But soon none of that matters. Because, it turns out, Grace is being hunted yet again — not by her in-laws, the Le Domas family, which is gone, but by four other families jockeying for the High Seat on the council that rules the world.
While most of the deaths have a cartoonish element, there’s nothing cartoonish when Titus is involved. No, there is little to redeem this truly mendacious character. So fair warning: If you’re still in the middle of the current season of “The Pitt,” where Hatosy’s Abbott is busy being heroic and also taking off his shirt, it might be better to wait a bit before you watch him here, doing the very opposite of saving lives.
Release info
“Ready or Not 2: Here I Come,” a Searchlight Pictures release in theaters tomorrow, has been rated R “for strong bloody violence, gore, pervasive language and brief drug use.” Running time: 148 minutes.
the lease, but Mayer said she had never seen him before.
Stevens allegedly tensed up when Nguyen tried to handcuff him and kept jolting when Nguyen tried to take off his necklace, the police report said.
Previous arrest
Stevens was previously arrested on Jan. 17 for allegedly swinging a stick at someone outside the Palo Alto Medical Foundation at 795 El Camino Real. He is due back at the Palo Alto Courthouse on June 2, court records show.
Mayer’s last name was redacted from the police report, but she is the only “Marissa” who lives on the block, according to voter registration records.
Mayer didn’t respond to emails yesterday, and her spokesman Matthew Hiltzik wouldn’t go on the record because he was concerned for her safety.
Owns homes in area
Mayer and her company Additto LLC own several homes on Addison Avenue and Kingsley Avenue, along with an old funeral home at 980 Middlefield Road.
Mayer does elaborate holiday decorations outside her home at 551 Addison Ave. Yesterday workers were putting giant easter eggs in her front yard.
Mayer has hosted Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for fundraisers at her home, most recently in May 2024. Mayer applied in December 2021 to
tear down three of four townhomes so that she could build a swimming pool next door at 561 Addison Ave. Initially, city planners told Mayer that the pool wasn’t allowed because a new state law said housing that’s demolished must be replaced.
But Mayer’s team and Mayer herself pressured planners to review the application quickly before the law took effect, according to emails obtained from the city using the California Public Records Act.
Home to have a ‘grand hall’
Mayer applied in August 2024 to replace the last remaining townhome with a four-bedroom, five-bathroom house.
The house will have a lounge, elevator, basement, music and media room and two-level “grand hall” that backs up to the pool, the application said.
City planners approved the new house on Jan. 21, records show.
Mayer was an executive at Google for 12 years before taking the top post at Yahoo in 2012.
She left Yahoo in 2017 and started a company called Sunshine, which uses artificial intelligence to automate tasks like managing contacts and sharing photos. Last year she founded another company called Dazzle AI.
opportunity without constraint,” Chiu said.
Chiu and Kamhi were supported by parents and student board representatives, who said there is a lot of demand for Multivariable Calculus. “Do
what is brave and do what is right. All it takes from you is a vote and a little bit of courage,” Palo Alto High School board representative Dylan Chen said.
Math proposal shot down
Paly math teacher Daniel Nguyen wrote a proposal for Multivariable Calculus to follow AP Calculus in the course catalog, starting in the fall.
But the course was opposed by Paly and Gunn Educational Councils, which are made up of teachers, counselors and administrators. The councils set each school’s educational priorities.
Offering the class “risks amplifying the already significant pressures on students to do more, faster, at the expense of balance and wellness,” the Paly Education Council said in an Oct. 3 letter to the school board.
Palo Alto Mayor Webster Lincoln. He sent a letter yesterday to the Ravenswood School District, suggesting changing the name of Cesar Chavez Ravenswood Middle School to Barack Obama Middle School.
“This request is not about erasing the history of the farmworker movement or diminishing the real and lasting gains that movement delivered for working families. This is about the values we affirm each day when we name a school,” Lincoln said in his email to the board yesterday.
Previous renaming
The middle school was renamed Cesar Chavez Ravenswood Middle School in 2019. The name of the late labor leader was nearly dropped after the district consolidated its middle schools onto the campus of Cesar Chavez Academy at 2450 Ralmar Ave.
Lincoln suggested that the board consider replacing Chavez’s name with Obama’s, as it represents “profound historical significance” to the East Palo Alto community.
“Naming our school in his honor would send a powerful and affirming message to every child who walks through those doors about what is possible,” Lincoln said.
Lincoln said the community has the opportunity to reflect on who they want to honor.
The Ravenswood School District Superintendent Gina Sudaria did not respond to the Post’s request for comment yesterday.
Renamings elsewhere
There are multiple streets, schools and parks throughout the Bay Area named after Chavez. San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, told the Chronicle that she will support efforts to remove Chavez’s name in her district. The parade usually held on March 31, Chavez’s birthday, a federal holiday, has been renamed after Huerta in San Francisco.
Dennis Arguelles, the director of the National Parks Conservation Association in Southern California, said renaming the national monument would require an act of Congress.
He said the national park site should continue to honor the farmworker movement and leaders who fought for dignity, better working conditions and fair wages.
The Lubbock Democratic Party in Texas yesterday called on city leaders to rename Casar Chavez Drive to honor Dolores Huerta.
Portland, Ore., city councilor Candace Avalos said she would start a petition to rename a city boulevard after Huerta. City rules require 2,500 signatures to start a renaming effort, Avalos wrote on social media, urging her constituents to stay tuned for ways to help with the effort.
U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, a New Mexico Democrat, issued a statement Wednesday saying abuse of any kind, especially against children, is indefensible and a betrayal of the values that Latino leaders have championed for generations.
“His name should be removed from landmarks, institutions and honors,” Luján said of Chavez. “We cannot celebrate someone who carried out such disturbing harm.”
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan announced the city is canceling its Cesar Chavez celebration.
Mahan said the city would identify ways to honor the legacy of the farmworker movement without celebrating “individuals who caused such profound harm to the community.”
Several states recognize a day on or near Chavez’s March 31 birthday as an annual holiday, including California, Colorado, Minnesota, Texas, Utah and Washington. In 2014, President Barack Obama signed a proclamation designating March 31 as César Chavez Day. The day isn’t a paid holiday for federal workers, however — it’s a commemo-
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The plazas were initially identified as preferred locations for the park project last year.
as the name suggests, includes richly-planted spaces, places for rest and introduced topography-integrated play areas.
a downtown park and instead in support of upgrading existing parks and adding parks where there are none currently.
rative observance. California state Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo, R-Tulare, said she would introduce legislation to rename March 31’s Cesar Chavez Day to Farmworker Day.
States may rename holiday
K arthik Kumar, a Moore, Iacofano, Goltsman, Inc. (MIG) representative, said the concepts were informed by community engagement the planning consultant company and city staff conducted. MIG representative Noé Noyola said the engagement process included “more than 1,000 conversations, roughly” with community members.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced yesterday that his state would not observe the holiday this year, and that he was directing all state agency heads to comply with the change. Abbott also said he would work with legislators to remove the holiday from state law.
The most affordable concept presented was the meadow ($9 million for the park, $27.4 million for parking), followed by the garden ($13.6 million for the park, $32 million for parking), the orchard ($14.4 million for the park, $32.8 million for parking), and the grove ($15.4 million for the park, $62.9 million for underground parking).
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the U.S. economy and inflation in the wake of the Iran war, suggesting the Fed could stand pat for an extended period.
The park would be paid for by funds in the park impact (formerly park in-lieu) budget and potentially a California park grant, Carnesecca said.
“I was told by a council member that the park in-lieu fees must be spent downtown. This is not the case – the fund allows for other park improvement projects that still serve our community,” said Los Altos resident Cindy Andrews. “Think park land north in Los Altos, where none exists. Think rehabbing our historic dilapidated Halsey house in Redwood Grove that’s been waiting since 2008 – do not think downtown, where five parks exist within a five-minute walk.”
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has declined to recognize March 31 as César Chavez Day as she has in the two prior years, said Liliana Soto, a spokesperson for Hobbs.
While it is not a state holiday, some Arizona municipalities recognize it, closing schools or government offices.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday said he was still “processing” the news and wouldn’t commit to making any changes to the state holiday.
Engagement included 48 city-hosted community events, which included pop-ups, meetings and workshops. The majority of the engagement included pop-ups that allowed for connection with residents in different areas of the city, including libraries, coffee shops, the Los Altos Farmers Market, the Arts and Wine Festival, Headwest Market and Los Altos High School. Staff also attended local group meetings, like those put on by the Los Altos Chamber
Response
Council members expressed disinterest in underground parking. Any designs that are created, council members told staff, should provide either netneutral or net-positive parking.
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Questions, including concerns related to outreach and the “why” of why a downtown park is needed if community members didn’t first express interest in one dominated public comment.
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Councilmember Pete Dailey also expressed concern about old Chinese pistache trees –those vibrant, deciduous trees that bring warm hues to downtown Los Altos during the late fall and early winter months – and instructed them to pre-
“The existing environment in downtown Los Altos is priceless. Every year I see hundreds of families come downtown to take their pictures with the old pistache trees and the way they turn color, everything is just priceless.
ing a theater downtown breaks my heart,” said Los Altos resident Juno Szalay. “I do feel that this is a rush to spend the $19 million that you have in park funds, and wish that those would go towards other parks that we have. We have a grove, we have a meadow, we have a pollinator garden. Seems like we have everything. They are in walking distance within town, also all of the outside dining areas that were set up after COVID provide these areas for families to sit and dine outside, if that’s
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