MOU Extended 2 Years on Dublin Crossings School
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Thursday, May 12, 2016 VOLUME LIII, NUMBER 19 Your Local News Source Since 1963 SERVING DUBLIN, LIVERMORE, PLEASANTON, SUNOL MOU Extended 2 Years on Dublin Crossings School By Ron McNicoll be a delay in the developer's ability second time in order to help the park use. The Dublin City Council ex- to give the city control over phas- district build a school.The first With a fast growth rate for two tended by two years its memoran- ing of the site, according to a city involved a ground lease for Jordan years, and the lack of any money See Inside Section A dum of understanding (MOU) with staff report. Ranch, which was executed by the in the state school construction the Dublin Unified School District The MOU does not bind either council March 1, 2016. That site is fund, the City Council agreed to Section A is filled with for a 12-acre joint park/elementary party at this point. Neither party designated as the fifth elementary the $1 ground lease arrangement. information about arts, people, school use in Dublin Crossings in will have any legal obligation to school (E5). The district is expected to save an entertainment and special events. former Camp Parks. grant any approvals, until they sign Construction will be starting on estimated $66 million. There are education stories, a The council voted unanimously a definitive agreement. The project the Jordan Ranch K-8 school this However, the district still must variety of features, and the arts at its meeting May 2 to extend the would provide the district's sixth summer, with opening expected in come up with money to build the and entertainment and MOU until Dec. 31, 2018. The elementary school (E6). the fall of 2018. A joint city-school school. The current level of devel- bulletin board. MOU originally was due to expire With the E6 school develop- use soccer field will be located oper fees falls short of covering the on May 15, 2016. The extension ment, the city will be offering a on the property, which formerly whole cost. was necessary because there will $1 annual ground lease for the had been designated entirely for (See DUBLIN, page 2) Task Force Favors Bernal Site for New Civic Buildings A Pleasanton Civic Center/ library and police station. The li- Library Task Force has recom- brary size would increase from just mended moving the city buildings over 36,000 square fee to 70,000 to the Bernal property. They would square feet; the police department be placed on the site designated would go from 21,130 square feet for a performing arts theater in the to 35,000 square feet. The com- master plan. munity center, as a new use, would Because the proposal represents be 20,000 square feet and include a change in the voter approved the park and recreation department. Bernal master plan, a ballot mea- Moving the department allowed sure would be required to gain the task force to reduce the size of voter endorsement of the new plan. city hall from 45,560 square feet Last week the Pleasanton City to 40,000 square feet. A parking Council received an update on structure would be part of the plan. the planning process. Assistant As envisioned, the buildings City Manager Brian Dolan told would be constructed in a curvi- the council that after looking at linear shape around a meadow. An several options, including using amphitheater is also planned. A the current property, the decision water feature in the meadow would was to concentrate on the Bernal be used for drainage and water property. More land would be treatment, not just for aesthetics. available on the Bernal site. The A second road from Bernal Avenue civic center complex consists of would help with circulation. 13 acres, while the Bernal location The public is invited to attend would provide 27 acres. upcoming workshops to provide Photo - Doug Jorgensen Proposed uses on the Bernal input on the planning. They will site include city hall and council be held May 21 and June 25 at the Dublin celebrated its farming heritage during last weekend's Spring Faire. Melina Hillier tries her hand chambers, a community center, at milking (See BERNAL, page 5) Los Alamos Contract Supervisors Uphold Altamont Repowering Permit An appeal by two Altamont turbines would cause more bird tific Review Committee in the residents against the East County deaths. More conditions should Altamont, and now works in the Extended By One Year Zoning Board's approval of Sand be attached to the project to try to industry, told supervisors that The contract for operating Los Hill Wind LLC application was protect raptors. he sympathizes with the Muel- that the federal agency had added rejected by the Alameda County Alamos National Laboratory is another year to current operations. Their basic argument states that lers. However, based on data, it still headed for competition, but Board of Supervisors. the longer blades reach out farther, is evident that bird deaths have In an internal memorandum, he The vote at the board's May 10 it has been extended to September told Laboratory staff that his goal and kill more birds. Also, they say declined greatly over the years in 2018 in order to allow time for planning meeting was 4-0, with that the county should require a the Altamont. for the coming year “is for the Supervisor Nate Miley absent. additional environmental cleanup Laboratory to be in the strongest much bigger search area for finding Responding to Meuller's as- and for potential new contractors Darryl and Sharon Mueller ap- dead birds as part of its monitoring sertion that there has been a sig- possible position through contract pealed the approval, saying that to prepare bids for the huge New transition and into the future,” program. nificant downward change in the Mexico nuclear weapons facility. the 12 new wind turbines replacing Shawn Smallwood, who was golden eagle population in recent according to an article in the Al- 433 smaller, old-technology wing The Laboratory’s federal spon- buquerque Journal. a member of the county's Scien- (See PERMIT, page 4) sor, the National Nuclear Security Los Alamos and Lawrence Administration, decided late last Livermore National Laboratories year that it would not renew the share national responsibility for Experiences Inspired Interfaith Interconnect current contract after 2017 fol- designing nuclear weapons, along lowing a series of disappointing with Sandia National Laboratory, By Carol Graham performance reviews of safety and which has engineering responsi- Ruth Gasten remembers how it security operations. bility. felt to be called, "Nazi." Laboratory director Charles The two laboratories are man- At 5 years old, she didn't know McMillan announced last week (See CONTRACT, page 2) what it meant, only that it was bad. The children who taunted her didn't comprehend the terrible irony that Public Invited to Help Sandia Ruth and her parents had had to flee their home in Germany to escape the Nazis in 1939. Celebrate 60th Anniversary Years later, when 9/11 occurred, Sixty years ago, Livermore’s theater, Sandia President and Labs Gasten was teaching parenting population was about 5,000, the Director Jill Hruby and Walck classes at the Lawrence Livermore Giants played baseball in New York will speak about the history and National Laboratory. and the Athletics in Kansas City, continued impact of Sandia and "One of my Muslim students, Dwight Eisenhower was president the California site. The theater Abdul Awwal, and I had become and Sandia National Laboratories program will also feature remarks friends. Through him, I met kind, opened its Livermore site. by Rep. Eric Swalwell, Democrat- hard-working Muslim families Sandia’s California site will Calif., State Sen. Steve Glazer, who lived in our valley," says commemorate the anniversary with Assemblywoman Catharine Baker, Gasten. "I was pained to see them a community event in downtown Alameda County Supervisor Scott Livermore on Saturday, May 21, Haggerty, Livermore Mayor John being harassed and insulted be- from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Held at Marchand and Lawrence Liver- cause community members, most the Bankhead Theater, 2400 First more National Laboratory Deputy of whom didn't know any Muslims, Street, the event will feature tech- Director Thomas Gioconda. The were afraid." nology displays and demonstra- theater program will conclude with That shared experience, some tions, national security speakers, two national security speeches: six decades apart, inspired the hands-on science activities and Jarret Lafleur, “The Perfect Heist,” start of Interfaith Interconnect, a recruiting. and Levi Lloyd, “Cybersecurity: Tri-Valley group of community “We take great pride in all that Challenges and Opportunities in members and clergy whose mis- has been accomplished at this site the Digital Age.” sion is "To enrich, inform and over the last 60 years and want to Sandia/California’s work will educate ourselves and others about share this with the community,” be on display in the theater lobby. the great diversity of faiths and said Marianne Walck, vice presi- Highlights include: cultures in our valley." dent of Sandia’s California site and • An additive manufacturing "When people of different faiths the Energy and Climate program. display with 3-D printed memora- come in contact with each other, “This event is a chance to showcase bilia giveaways. their fears are dissipated. They some of the important work that • Visualizations of the Combus- Photo - Doug Jorgensen become comfortable with each happens here.” tion Research Facility (CRF)’s Ruth Gasten converses with Alicia Shaik during Pleasanton 1st other," says Gasten. "We are all Inside the Bankhead’s 500-seat (See SANDIA, page 10) Wednesday Street Party.