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Official resigns in protest BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
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Los Alto School District board trustee Vladimir Ivanovic is resigning in protest over the district’s plan to build a new campus for Bullis charter school, a move he believes will impose a large tax burden on residents and jeopardize future bond measures.
of the San Antonio Shopping Center on 2550 W. El Camino Real. Bullis, which is a free charter The sudden resignation stems school for pre-kindergarden to The long-time trustee announced his decision at the board’s meeting from his disapproval over the dis- eighth grade, currently shares camon Monday, and submitted his res- trict building the Bullis Charter pus space at Egan and Blach junior ignation letter. Ivanovic, whose School on the “10th site,” a 11.7 high schools. Bullis administrators have prefour-year term was set to expire in acre property the district purchased December, will stay in the position for $155 million in 2019 to build a viously opposed plans to relocate, new campus. The area houses part until March 11. [See RESIGNS, page 22]
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Neighbor sues over tall building
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BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
SUIT ALLEGES AFFAIR: Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona had an affair with a member of her security detail that led to the breakup of the man's marriage, his ex-wife alleges in a lawsuit. HEALTH CARE PLAN: President Trump yesterday rolled out the broad outline of a health-care plan. The plan would lock in deals made with pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices, and require insurance companies to pay individuals, who would then pay hospitals and doctors. FED CHAIRMAN: President Trump said yesterday he will keep his top [See THE UPDATE, page 4]
BUILDING RED-TAGGED
Mountain View officials yesterday red-tagged a building after inspectors found illegal and unsafe electrical hookups in a building after a fire, story on PAGE 4. Mountain View Fire photo.
A resident is suing the city of Los Altos for approving what would become the city’s tallest building on El Camino Real, next to Jack in the Box. Anatol Shmelev, who lives next to the site for the eight-story, 85-unit apartment building reaching 110 feet in height, said the city didn’t study the impacts of the development in violation of state environmental laws. “Cars, people, babies in strollers, mothers and so on and so forth — there’s going to be a lot of people there, and it’s going to cause a lot of problems,” Shemelev said at a Planning Commission meeting on Nov. 6. Shemelev is one of about a dozen neighbors [See SUES, page 22]
Sheriff taps insiders for promotion
Frank Dal Porto and Mark Myers sheriff’s office since 1998, will oversee Happy MLK Day. were both critics of former Sheriff the county’s two jails. Last year, the San Mateo County Sheriff Ken Christina Corpus, who served them in jails saw an average daily population The Post returns Binder has promoted two longtime September with Internal Affairs inves- of 1,253, according to sheriff’s spokeswoman Gretchen Spiker. There has not captains to assistant sheriff positions, tigations for alleged misconduct. on Wednesday. he announced yesterday. Dal Porto, who has worked for the [See INSIDERS, page 22] BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Managing Editor
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