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Cities Look to Recycled Water to Save Money by Ron Mcnicoll Its Waste-Water in the Summer, the Maintenance Cost VOLUME XLVII, NUMBER 6 Your Local News Source Since 1963 SERVING LIVERMORE • PLEASANTON • SUNOL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010 Cities Look to Recycled Water to Save Money By Ron McNicoll its waste-water in the summer, the maintenance cost. The figures waste-water recycling is respon- amount was 2823 acre feet. Using Increased recycling of water because it has golf courses and are dramatic. In the past fiscal sible for the differences. that as a measurement, DSRSD’s is already saving Livermore other big landscape users as cus- year (2008/09), DSRSD was re- A further factor that involves recycling would have saved it and Pleasanton some money. tomers for the water. As a result, sponsible for only 20 percent of Pleasanton is that previously that $282,300, according to figures Prospects lie ahead for more DSRSD puts less water into the the total pipeline export. That’s city was included with DSRSD made available by LAVWMA savings. pipeline, and therefore doesn’t a drop of 14 percentage points in the allocation of recycled wa- general manager Ed Cummings. The big saver, though, has have to pay as large a share as it from the 34 percent share in the ter flows, because Pleasanton’s Estimates were not available for been the Dublin San Ramon did before recycling. previous fiscal year. share was not broken out from Livermore’s recycled water use Services District (DSRSD). DSRSD’s recycling means the Livermore went in the other DSRSD’s share. A new agree- savings. The three entities are part- whole content of the pipeline is direction. In fiscal 2007/08, the ment changed that by using STUDY DUE SOON ners in the LAVWMA pipeline, less, so all three entities share city’s share was 32 percent. But separate metering, and mak- IN LIVERMORE which exports treated wastewater in some cost savings. However, the share grew to 41 percent in ing the allocations accordingly. Livermore councilman Doug Find Out What's to the Bay. Each entity pays a DSRSD’s saving is the most the 2008/09 fiscal year. Now, DSRSD gets full credit Horner, the city’s representative proportional share of the cost of dramatic, because the agency re- Pleasanton’s share went up, for its beneficial impact on the to LAVWMA, told The Inde- Happening electricity and chemicals, which ceives full credit in its conserva- too, though not as dramatically pipeline’s overhead. pendent, “As our percentage (of Check out the are the operating costs of the tion in saving its overhead cost. as Livermore’s. The city’s share Figuers for actual export of share) goes up, we pay more for pipeline. Therefore, Livermore and rose from 34 percent to nearly 38 wastewater for DSRSD were not overhead. It behooves us to use second section DSRSD recycles much of Pleasanton pay a higher share in percent. DSRSD’s high level of available. But the total projected (See RECYCLED, page 4) Section II is filled with in- formation about arts, entertain- ment and special events. There are education stories, a variety New Program of features, and the arts and entertainment and bulletin board Would Bring listings. Jobs to Area American Family Open Heart Recovery Project The Tri-Valley Community Kitchen to Move Foundation is working with Su- From Asbury pervisor Scott Haggerty’s office Open Heart Kitchen, which to launch a new economic stimu- last year served a record 181,000 lus program that could bring meals to the needy in the Tri- hundreds of jobs to the Tri-Valley Valley, will move in two weeks area of Alameda County. It is from its Asbury United Methodist called, “The American Family Church location on Livermore’s Recovery Project.” east side to Holy Cross Lutheran The Foundation will be look- Church on Mocho Street, west of ing for potential workers as well Holmes Street. as companies that might be inter- The move, required by reno- Photo - Doug Jorgensen ested in hiring them. vation of the Asbury kitchen The sunrise framed a windmill in North Livermore. The objective of the American and fellowship hall, will affect Family Recovery Project is to only the location of Tuesday and Wednesday meals, typically use federal stimulus funding to served to 200 to 300 people at put family wage earners in the Asbury from noon to 6 p.m. Alameda County cities of Pleas- Linda McKeever, executive Livermore School Board Votes to anton, Dublin, and Livermore director of Open Heart Kitchen, back to work. The program espe- expects the move to last half a cially targets wage earners whose year or more while construction Close Portola Elementary School ability to support their families takes place at Asbury. By Patricia Koning same curriculum as an English- began working in October on Jeff Keller, executive director of has been threatened by the loss The change should cause The Livermore Board of Edu- only class. a plan to combine Portola with curriculum and special projects of a job during the economic minimal disruption beyond the cation voted unanimously to “I’m going to take this as a Junction Avenue. In introducing Cindy Alba, Junction principal downturn. shift in location. “We will offer close Portola Elementary School. symptom,” said Board president the committee’s report at the Susan Sambuceti, executive di- The federal government has full service at Holy Cross, and The elementary students would Stu Gary of the lack of comment board meeting, interim superin- rector of special education Bob provided California with $1.8 it’s on the Wheels bus line,” she be combined with the Junction on the closure. “As someone who tendent Mike Martinez described See, Portola parent Jim Berry, billion for job creation. Alameda said. That means the same hot Avenue Middle School as a K-8 has spent a career in government a “perfect storm” of a budget in and Portola principal Jamal County can draw on this pool of meals, lunches and dinners served school. While a large audience attending many hot meetings, crisis, declining enrollment, and Fields, all members of the com- mittee, took turns presenting their stimulus funding through Sep- noon to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and was present, the meeting was to close an elementary school program improvement status at tember 30, 2010. In partnership Wednesdays. quiet with only one public com- with only one speaker is pretty both Junction and Portola. Both findings to the trustees. ment in support of continuing remarkable. You brought forward schools failed to meet targeted “We felt reconfiguring Portola with the County, the American The charity’s other sites and Family Recovery Project benefits services will not be affected by Portola’s Dual Immersion (DI) a consensus plan.” improvement in test scores un- is the most desirable option for program. A 26-person committee rep- der the No Child Left Behind addressing the requirement for employers by referring job can- the move to Holy Cross. didates who qualify for stimulus Open Heart Kitchen started In the DI program, students resenting teachers, principals, program major restructuring,” said Hayes. in Livermore 15 years ago. It are taught in English and Spanish parents, employee bargaining Portola teacher Jennifer She described other benefits to funding and by subsidizing 80% has expanded to Pleasanton and on alternating days but cover the units, and district office staff Hayes, Marylin Avenue principal (See PORTOLA, page 4) (See PROJECT, page 4) Dublin. It serves both the unem- ployed and the underemployed, the “working poor,” McKeever Zone 7 Learns said. Its mission is to serve nutri- Schools Could Trade tious meals free of charge without About Growing qualifications to the needy people of the Tri-Valley area. Specialists for Class Sizes A Healthier The need is great. The 2000 By Ron McNicoll sets the schedule?” census found well over 6,000 Corporate Culture Pleasanton teachers and par- “If I have to teach an overhand By Ron McNicoll people living below the poverty ents went to one more well-at- throw, I can’t do it. It would be line in the three local cities. By Water agencies face “a new tended meeting to tell the school an insult to women. PE won’t be normal” in these tough economic the end of this year, 2010 cen- board about what to spare and taught,” said Johnson. sus figures will be public, with times. They need to respond with what to cut to close an $8 million Another speaker said that greater vision, smarter work, and new poverty numbers. McK- short-term training of teachers eever would “love to see (the deficit projected for the district. smoother cooperation, a consul- poor economy) turn around,” The board has been meeting for the job would not work. tant told Zone 7 Water Agency but with closure of the NUMMI weekly at Amador Valley High Teachers need to practice and directors. car factory in Fremont and other School in the multi-purpose room obtain plenty of feedback for PE Bill Mathis, who has served signs of economic decline, she to accommodate audiences that to be taught effectively. various water agencies, police would be surprised if things had have topped 100 people. Superintendent John Casey departments and city govern- gotten better. At the board’s meeting Feb. 2, talked about class size reduction ments, met with five of the Open Heart Kitchen serves audience members again spoke (CSR), which many at meetings board’s seven directors Feb. 3 both hot meals and box lunches. of the value of retaining counsel- have said ought to be retained in Directors Sandy Figuers and The hot meals are prepared by ors and the specialists in physical K-3 and in ninth grade.
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