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Thursday, JANUARY 17, 2019 VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 3 Your Local News Source Since 1963 SERVING DUBLIN, LIVERMORE, PLEASANTON, SUNOL SECTION A Thursday, JANUARY 17, 2019 Robotics Fair to Be Held at the Livermore Library The Livermore Public Library Civic Center will host a free Student Robotics Fair on Saturday, January 26, 2019. The event will begin at 1 p.m. in LLNL Effort Aims to Reduce the Community Rooms, with a special presentation on remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) by Dr. George Matsumoto from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and Jill Zande from the Marine Advanced Technology Education Cen- ter. They will demonstrate how ROVs are used to explore deep water habitats and more. From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Storytime Room, local students will showcase various robotics projects. This event is made possible through a partnership with the Livermore Valley Joint Uni- ﬁed School District. The Civic Center Library is located at 1188 South Livermore Avenue. Livermore Reads Together 2019 is a community reading program sponsored by the Friends of the Livermore Library, featuring the New York Times bestseller Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis. The community of Livermore is invited to read Spare Parts, and join their neighbors by participat- Danger from Space Objects ing in events related to the book during the month of February 2019. Copies of the book and event schedules will be available at all Livermore Public Library locations. About Spare Parts: In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University By Jeff Garberson planet. hit Earth. All these skills and more may of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No Marc Cohn one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much—but two inspiring science teachers had convinced New Shows and Summer Series When a 60-foot meteor explod- To understand and reduce the The partial government shut- be required, since possible govern- these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an underwater robot. Scheduled at the Bankhead Theater And build a robot they did. Their robot wasn't Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center has an- formerly of Boston. A free community concert in April, pretty, especially compared to the rest of the com- nounced new additions to the Bankhead Theater schedule “Ragtime to Jazz: The Music of James Reese Europe,” petition. They were going up against some of the ed 15 miles above the Russian city risks that these can cause, a team down has temporarily grounded mental responses to an impending for 2019. Two shows have been added to the current season will feature the California State Military Reserve Band. best collegiate engineers in the country, including and six shows have been announced for the Summer Series Tickets for all shows are on Member Presale until January a team from MIT backed by a $10,000 grant from at the Bankhead. The shows range from returning favorites, 23, 2019, when tickets go on sale to the public. ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers had scraped including singer-songwriters Marc Cohn and John Waite, Marc Cohn makes a return to the Bankhead in March. together less than $1,000 and built their robot out as well as artists making their ﬁrst appearance in Liver- (continued on page 3) more, such as The Family Stone and guitarist David Victor (continued on page 2) of Chelyabinsk almost exactly six from Lawrence Livermore National some parts of the federal effort, but collision range widely. years ago, the world was reminded Laboratory is taking part in a fed- LLNL research continues. Its team As if to dramatize the dangers of a sobering reality: thousands eral program that aims to identify has some 20 members with diverse lurking in space, the dramatic 2013 See Inside Section A of rocky or metallic objects big the most threatening of these Near skills ranging from materials sci- Chelyabinsk meteor explosion was Section A is filled with enough to damage Earth are speed- Earth Objects and determine how ence to astrophysics, shockwave followed a few hours later by the information about arts, people, ing through space not far from our to respond if they seem likely to physics to computer modeling. (See DEFENSE, page 6) entertainment and special events. There are education stories, a variety of features, and the arts 3000 Units Remain and entertainment and bulletin board. Dublin Can Control Density Bauer-Kahan – Of Housing Who Am I and By Ron McNicoll The Dublin City Council can What Do I affect nearly 3000 units of future growth, or 55% of the residential units still remaining for construc- Stand For? tion, as set out in the city’s General By Bruce Gach Plan. This would control the rapid At the Livermore Indivisible growth that Dublin has had in the monthly meeting on January 13, Re- past three to four years. becca Bauer-Kahan, newly elected The council learned during Assembly member for the 16th its Jan. 8 meeting that 5292 total district, discussed her stances. She units could become a reality if the stated that she was motivated to General Plan were not modified. seek the Assembly seat in large part The estimated total is based on because of her interest in protect- the middle range of the highest ing the environment and offering and lowest densities in a General her expertise in the area of climate Plan zoning district, a staff planner change. She also wanted to have a stated. The inventory provides a voice crafting legislation to repre- snapshot of the General Plan as of sent the needs of all the citizens in Nov. 30, 2018. California, as well as those specifi- The total number of the re- cally in District 16. She noted that maining units are split into two her background as an environmental categories: vested and non-vested. attorney and teacher of appellate African American culture was celebrated with dancing and music by Benjamin Ofori and the Bodac The vested properties are those law would serve her well in dealing Cultural Group on Jan. 12 at the Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center. The event included an for which developers have either with her new position. explanation and presentation of the Kwanzaa holiday, hands-on craft tables, and an African safari a development agreement with Bauer-Kahan has just been booth. For another photo from the celebration, see page 6. (Photo - Doug Jorgensen) the city, or a vested tentative map. named Assistant Speaker Pro-Tem The council cannot touch those, in the Assembly. She was assigned without risking a lawsuit from a to four Assembly committees. developer. They include privacy, public safety The non-vested properties have encompassing the whole penal Newsom Budget Emphasizes no such approvals. Developers code, banking and finance, as well have the right to build on them, as environmental safety and toxics but the densities can be negotiated. -- the protection of our water, soil Education, Housing, Debt Paydown The 2923 non-vested units and natural resources. In addition, By Ron McNicoll with $144 billion of it available in using it for ongoing expenditures. represent 55% of the remaining she said that she will work to ensure homes; the 2359 vested units Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first the General Fund, a 4% increase. He said not allocating it to ongo- that this district will get its fair share The state has an anticipated $21 ing programs will “build a strong amount to 45%. of what is needed to help local small budget shows more money for billion in extra revenue coming in foundation on which everything The biggest segment of the businesses, schools, and especially education, workforce housing for Fiscal Year 2019-20, some $6 else can be built.” non-vested total is located in the transportation in the Tri-Valley. for more Californians, and a con- billion more than forecast earlier Like his predecessor, Newsom Eastern Dublin Specific Plan, at Bauer-Kahan answered a broad tinuation of the state debt-paying 1716 units. In the vested category, spectrum of questions. policy of his predecessor, Gov. by the state Legislative Analyst’s warned that eventually there will Office. be a recession. If it occurs, it likely some 446 units remain to be built. She stated that health issues Jerry Brown. Speaking at a They include 220 at Ashton Station involve the reduction of the cost news conference in Sacramento on Newsom said he will show would be longer than the one in discipline by devoting much of the 2001, but shorter than the 2007 and 105 on the Moller Ranch. of health care and drugs. She is a Jan. 10, Newsom said the budget The second largest area of non- huge believer in health care for all, amounts to a $209 billion total, new revenue to one-time funding Great Recession. for certain programs, instead of (See NEWSOM, page 3) vested units is sited in the Down- but said that it must be done in a town Dublin Specific Plan, with (See BAUER-KAHAN, page 6) 1218 units. The Downtown Dublin Specific Plan shows 499 vested units, all of them in the Bayview Apartments on St. Patrick’s Way. Stroke Campaign Already They were approved last year on a 4-1 vote by the previous City Helping Local Patients (See DENSITY, page 4) Thanks to the community’s for front-line clinical staff mem- investment in the Campaign for bers and Hospital employees; FOLC 2016 Stroke Care, ValleyCare Chari- the addition of key roles to the table Foundation raised an unprec- Stanford Health Care – Valley- Livermore PAC edented amount to bring a much- Care team; the implementation of needed program to the Tri-Valley new care and transfer protocols; To Be Fined for community.

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