Elated’ by Gay Marriage Rulings by Nick Veronin
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A spirited local business WEEKEND | 16 JUNE 28, 2013 VOLUME 21, NO. XX www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 19 Couple ‘elated’ by gay marriage rulings By Nick Veronin rian Fiorino and Duke Khuu say they are elat- Bed to know that their daughter will be born into a world where her parents have the same legal rights as hetero- sexual married couples. The Mountain View couple expressed excitement over two Supreme Court rulings handed down Wednesday, June 26, which reversed California’s controversial Proposition 8 and overturned a key provision in the federal Defense of Mar- FILE PHOTO MICHELLE LE riage Act that denied certain Duke Khuu and Brian Fiorino John Miguel, a Mountain View firefighter, led the clean-up effort on Frances Stieper’s property, which rights to same-sex married have been waiting for years to get the city has bought and to use as a park. couples. married. “It’s a great day for us,” Khuu, who runs a dermatology New city property a future ‘food forest’? practice on Castro Street, told The decision comes at an the Voice. “We’re very pleased. especially exciting time for the By Daniel DeBolt While the city’s planning process has yet We’ve been waiting for a very couple, who after a number of to begin for the property, its numerous fruit long time.” tries are expecting a baby girl. t may be hard to imagine walking into a park trees may very well be saved if the City Council According to Fiorino, he and Their daughter is being carried in the heart of Silicon Valley and being able decides to stick to its goal this year of maintain- Khuu have considered themselves by a surrogate and is due in Ito eat freely from an abundance of fruit trees ing the city’s tree canopy. Cities around the married for many years, but they December. “Baby girl is going — but that may soon become a reality with the world are beginning to see the value of using haven’t been able to officially and to be born into a world where city’s purchase of a lush, one-acre property on park space to grow orchards, vegetable gardens legally tie the knot. That should her parents can be married,” North Rengstorff Avenue. and berry patches, turning parks into sources change in short order. Fiorino said. When the City Council recently approved the of food free for the taking. The largest example Fiorino, a lawyer, said that he When it’s all said and done, $3 million purchase of the land at 771 North is in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, where expects they may have to wait Fiorino said the ruling won’t Rengstorff, it may have unwittingly set the city residents will soon be able to forage from 7-acres for a bit longer for the official change much about he and on a course to have one of the first “food forests” order to come down and the Khuu’s day-to-day lives. “Per- in the region. See CITY PROPERTY, page 7 marriage licenses to be made available. See GAY MARRIAGE, page 9 Union janitors to return to City Hall, but with less pay By Daniel DeBolt November. After a fallout with felt like “a slap in the face” and Kasperzak was absent. seven bidders said costs for the the previous contractor, GCA, asked members to “correct these The city may hire a union- city would not change to comply he janitors who lost their over the city’s willingness to wrongs that have been to me and organized janitorial service even with a Service Employee’s Inter- jobs cleaning the city’s pay for rising healthcare costs, others that have kept your build- sooner, as city officials mull over national Union contract for Bay Tbuildings this year may be the city had switched tempo- ings clean for 10 years.” seven bids for a new janitorial Area janitors. Six of the seven rehired by a surprisingly cheap rarily to a non-union janitorial “I am proud of my work here,” services contract to be awarded bidders have higher minimum union contractor this summer. services contractor, IMS, which she said. “Please respect our hard in July. Three of the seven bid- wages than the lowest rung on City Council members on Tuesa- significantly cut pay and hours, work.” ding contractors are union and the SEIU’s Bay Area pay scale for day declined to require that their and eliminated healthcare ben- Voting 5-1, council members provide health benefits. janitors, which pays first-year wages and benefits be restored. efits for the five city janitors it passed a motion to hire a janito- At least initially, using a union janitors $8.50 an hour. The council was asked to rehired. rial services contractor within contractor doesn’t cost more Council members declined a weigh in on the issue of pay after One city janitor told the coun- a year or two. Mayor John Inks than a non-union contractor, janitors picketed City Hall in cil on Tuesday that the cuts was opposed and member Mike city officials said. 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