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The Storied Career of Sally Lieber Local Trust Indo-American bank opens in Mountain View IN BUSINESS | P.21 FEBRUARY 6, 2009 VOLUME 17, NO. 5 INSIDE: WEEKEND | PAGE 15 650.964.6300 MountainViewOnline.com Leagues abuzz over field fee CITY CONSIDERS CHARGING TEAMS BY THE HOUR TO DEFRAY MAINTENANCE COSTS By Daniel DeBolt s it faces a $6 million budget deficit, Mountain View may soon start MICHELLE LE Acharging local sports leagues a fee for the use of its playing fields throughout the city. The city’s Parks and Recreation Depart- ment surveyed several nearby cities and The storied career of Sally Lieber found that many already charge sports organizations a fee to help offset the costs LOCAL-GROWN POLITICIAN TELLS OF HER EXPLOITS IN STATE AND CITY GOVERNMENT of field maintenance. The average hourly fee is $6 an hour, said recreation manager By Daniel DeBolt Even though the final term of her six- It’s a big statement from someone who Dave Muela. year run in the Assembly ended in Decem- never graduated from high school (she Letting leagues use the fields for free has t’s arguable that Mountain View has ber, Lieber isn’t done with politics. She says earned a GED instead) and learned about “been a longstanding practice in the city,” never given rise to a more improbable she will run for Elaine Alquist’s state senate politics by listening to NPR all day while Muela said. “But the financial landscape Ipolitical success story than that of Sally seat in 2012. hanging wallpaper for a living. “I still listen has changed significantly. There are many Lieber, the wallpaper hanger from Detroit Meanwhile, there’s another issue on to NPR all the time,” she laughs. municipalities doing this.” who surprised everyone in her election her agenda: reforming the state budget “I think people do underestimate her,” to City Council in 1998 and to the state process. Last weekend she was at the down- says council member Mike Kasperzak, See FIELDS, page 11 Assembly in 2002. who served on the council with Lieber Lieber was recognized by the council from 1998 to 2002. last month for her accomplishments But as many politicians from over the decade. In just the last two “If a congressional seat opens here to Sacramento have found out over Danger in debits years, she saw 58 of her bills pass the the years, they do so at their peril. state Legislature. Her proudest achieve- up, I would run for it.” ‘SKIMMING’ SCAM AT ATMS ment was raising the state’s minimum SALLY LIEBER School and politics wage, but her myriad other bills include Lieber was apparently interested CAN KNOCK A HOLE IN YOUR third rail issues that other legislators in politics from an early age, wearing BANK ACCOUNT wouldn’t touch, like improving condi- glasses to look like feminist icon Gloria tions for pregnant women in prisons and town farmers market with her trademark Steinem in junior high. Before moving to By Casey Weiss criminalizing human trafficking. ironing board, passing out information Mountain View she worked as a wallpaper Her blunt style ruffled plenty of feathers about her plan for a bipartisan budget hanger for 10 years in Michigan and in San ick Elvitsky had his debit card in Mountain View, and she even faced a reform group called California Forward. Francisco. She attended City College of San with him all last week. And he recall campaign while on the council, but “I feel like I have a responsibility to not Francisco, and later Foothill Community Ncertainly never shared his pin election results would indicate that she just walk away from the crisis,” she said. College, where she served on the student number with anyone. made more friends than enemies. Her Campaigning is Lieber’s passion, and government. That’s why it came as a surprise to local accomplishments include fending off she can’t seem to stop. She’s walked up and She had trouble with school in her the Mountain View resident when commercial flights at Moffett in the 1990s down Caltrain cars and knocked on doors younger years, and has said that upon her $500 was deducted from his account as a resident — and that was before she was with a sprained ankle in the final days of a return to college as an adult, she broke into at the Washington Mutual ATM on El elected to City Hall. While on the council, race. tears when she finished her first course Camino Real on Monday, Jan. 26. she helped build Avenidas Senior Day Care “If a congressional seat opens up, I would with a B+. “I did not take that money out,” Center and pushed for a child care center run for it,” she said last week in an inter- at Rengstorff Park. view at Books Inc. on Castro Street. See LIEBER, page 8 See SKIMMING, page 6 INSIDE GOINGS ON 19 | MARKETPLACE 25 | MOVIES 18 | REAL ESTATE 29 | VIEWPOINT 13 2 ■ MOUNTAIN VIEW VOICE ■ FEBRUARY 6, 2009 Voic es AROUND TOWN Asked in Downtown Mountain View. Pictures and interviews by Andrea Nott. Are you skeptical about global warming or do you believe it exists? 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