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VOLUME XLIX, NUMBER 39 Your Local News Source Since 1963 SERVING DUBLIN • LIVERMORE • PLEASANTON • SUNOL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 More Parking Needed at BART Station Parking was the main is- environment. tive, a diesel multiple unit, Valley.” tions from throughout the sue raised during a hearing The project selected will and an express bus. Livermore Mayor John Valley. He urged BART to to determine what should extend BART service 4.8 Several speakers stated Marchand stated, “I echo the select the most cost effec- be studied in a project level miles east from the busy that approving the sales tax supervisor’s remarks about tive option, one that would environmental impact report Dublin/Pleasanton Station to called for in Measure B1 B1. This is the project EIR. allow money to be spent on for the BART extension to a new station in the vicinity on the November ballot is The next step is construc- rehabilitating the current Find Out What's Livermore. of the Isabel Avenue/I-580 vital to being able to bring tion. We are getting very system. Other issues were the Interchange. BART to Livermore. The close. The more input we Dexter Vizinau, executive Happening impacts on Collier Canyon The extension would in- measure includes $400 mil- receive, the better project we vice president by CyberTran, Road and the need to study corporate a bus to BART lion for the BART extension will have.” asked that the EIR include Check Out Section A options other than those transfer, express bus services to Livermore. Manolo González-Estay innovative technology. He Section A is filled with proposed by BART. linking inter-regional rail Supervisor Scott Hag- policy director for Trans- pointed out that CyberTran information about arts, is part of i-GATE, where a people, entertainment and This is the first EIR to service and priority devel- gerty noted, “For once the Form, a Bay Area advocacy special events. There are address an actual project for opment areas and offsite Tri-Valley is acknowledged group, suggested that the pilot project is being devel- education stories, a variety Livermore. Previous studies parking facilities. in the measure. There are EIR study bus rapid transit. oped. “Using CyberTran, the of features, and the arts and looked at potential routes Alternatives to be studied over $1 billion in projects It would provide connec- area could become a model entertainment and bulletin and their impacts on the include a no build alterna- that would benefit the Tri- tions to current BART sta- for the world when it comes board. (See BART, page 10) Environmental Long-time Groups Host Independent Candidates Journalist Bob Six candidates are vying Several Dies for two seats on the Dublin Robert Several, who City Council. Hear the can- spent nearly his entire jour- didates describe their views nalism career at The In- on the important environ- dependent, died Sept. 21, mental issues facing Dublin and the Tri-Valley region 2012 at the VA Hospital in next Wednesday, October Martinez. 3rd – 8:00 pm at the Dublin Several had been diag- Heritage Park, Kolb Sunday nosed with pancreatic can- School Barn, 6600 Donlon cer. He was 75. Way, Dublin. Born in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., The session will be mod- Several moved with his par- erated by Carolyn Siegfried, ents, Benjamin and Beatrice, Election Forums Moderator and his younger brother, for Tri-Valley Community Michael, to Southern Cali- Television. It is sponsored fornia. He graduated from by California Native Plant UCLA with a degree in Society East Bay Chapter, history. Friends of the Vineyards, After service in the Army, Greenbelt Alliance, League Several worked for a few of Conservation Voters of the months for a daily newspa- East Bay, Ohlone Audubon per, before he came to The Society, Save Mount Diablo, Independent in time to help and Sierra Club put out its first issue. This Candidates Forum Independent publisher is a free, non-partisan, edu- cational event open to the Joan Seppala stated, "In per- public. The majority of the son, Bob was soft spoken. sponsoring organizations Photo - Doug Jorgensen Behind his typewriter and do not take positions on Families played with bubbles during the first annual "splatter" wine and food festival last Saturday in Dublin. then his computer, he was a candidates. Some of the warrior, passionately fight- sponsoring organizations ing for social justice and the may conduct a candidate environment. When I think endorsement process and of both his compassion and will consider the informa- Livermore School Board Considers his bold, courageous stands, tion presented at the forum I see him as a great leader. In in their deliberations. New Portola Academy Charter Petition his 49 years with the paper, For further information, By Patricia Koning the petition at the Oct. 16 our mutual successes.” demand for LVCS, which he helped to transform the contact Dick Schneider, Si- The Livermore School Board of Education meeting. Portola Academy is pro- has a waiting list of over Valley into a better place erra Club, at richs59354@ Board held a hearing on If denied, TVLC can submit posed as a K-8 charter school 500 students, and to meet to live." aol.com or by phone at 510- Tues., Sept. 17, on a new the petition to the ACBOE at the site of the old Portola the specific needs of the un- He worked to rally resi- 926-0010 (cell). petition for the Portola and SBE. TVLC will also be Elementary School, current- derserved population in the dents around a variety of Academy charter school, submitted the LVCS petition ly the home of the Livermore geographic proximity of the innovative initiatives aimed Local Police submitted by the Tri-Val- for renewal next spring. Valley Charter Preparatory Portola Elementary School at curbing development. ley Learning Corporation “This is a process we High School (LVCP). The site. Students within a one- Because they responded in Take Part in (TVLC) last month. In July, are all familiar with,” said program will be similar to mile radius of the site and support of such measures, the State Board of Education TVLC chief operating of- that of the Livermore Val- students currently attending residents today are able to Drug Drop-Off (SBE) denied the original ficer Bill Batchelor. “How- ley Charter School (LVCS), Junction Avenue K-8 would enjoy open ridge tops, hills Local police departments Portola Academy petition, ever, that doesn’t prescribe with additional support ser- receive a 5:1 preference in and valleys. will partner with the U.S. which was also denied by the same outcome. We want vices including an extended the enrollment lottery. Among the causes, was Department of Justice Drug the Alameda County Board to take a different approach. school day, tutors, and a In the new Portola Acad- We have learned a lot in the learning lab. TVLC operates emy petition, TVLC ad- the effort in 1972 to pass Enforcement Administration of Education (ACBOE) and the Save All Valley Environ- the Livermore School Board last year. Our intention was both LVCS and LVCP. dressed issued raised by (DEA) to host free prescrip- never to divide the commu- According to TVLC, the SBE related to the edu- ment Initiative. Bob sup- tion drug drop-offs in con- earlier in the year. ported initiatives to preserve The trustees will take nity. I hope there will soon Portola Academy was de- cational program, finan- junction with the National be a time when we celebrate veloped in response to high (See CHARTER, page 10) (See BOB SEVERAL, page 9) Take Back Initiative. All of action to approve or deny the drop-offs will take place on Sat., Sept. 29. The Pleasanton Police Pleasanton Department station lobby Six Dublin Candidates will be open from from Planning for 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for Vie for 2 Council Seats residents to drop off unused Dublin will have at least development for Dublin in Bernal Phase II and expired prescription one new councilmember fol- Doolan Canyon. Pleasanton will move drugs. The station is located lowing the November elec- East Bay Regional Park forward with plans to build at 4833 Bernal Avenue (on tion. Six people are running District (EBRPD) has ac- Phase II of the Bernal Park. the back side of the Pleas- for two seats on the Dublin quired land in Doolan Can- Last week, the city coun- anton Public Library). For City council. Kevin Hart has yon, and wants to have a cil directed staff to flesh out (See DROP-OFF, page 5) completed his first term, and park there, and acquire more a funding proposal. The goal is seeking a second. Kasie acreage. Environmentalists will be to have the second Hildenbrand is termed out. in the region do not want phase open to the public by In addition to Hart, the to see development there. the fall of 2015. candidates are Anita Carr, Dublin and Livermore have Phase II is projected to Shawn Costello, Shehu Has- asked LAFCO (llocal agen- cost $15.8 million. Fifteen san, David Haubert and cy formation commission) acres of parkland would be Doreen Wehrenberg. to award them control of the developed. It would include The candidates were canyong by granting them the construction of three all- asked to volunteer informa- sphere of influence designa- weather lighted synthetic tion about themselves and tion. Dublin is considering fields that could be used for what they would bring to the a development proposal soccer, football, rugby or job that no one else would from Pacific Union. Liver- lacrosse; three parking areas bring. more proposes keeping the with 212 total spaces; a food There were questions canyon in open space by concessions building and about whether or not Dublin purchasing the area and giv- restrooms in a central plaza should have an urban growth ing it to EBRPD.