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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 VOLUME 26, NO. 33 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 20 Enthusiasm for homes near Google suddenly stops DEVELOPERS SAY CITY FEES TOO HIGH By Mark Noack even a new school for residents. But for the companies poised ay Area housing advocates to build those homes, those costs were thrilled last year when are becoming a deal breaker, said BMountain View leaders Tim Steele, vice president with pledged to go hard on residential the Sobrato Organization. In growth, transforming the corpo- June, Sobrato pulled plans first rate office park of North Bayshore submitted in 2015 to build 635 into a dense urban neighborhood apartments and a six-story office with 9,850 homes. building on Pear Avenue. That But despite that grand vision, project is reportedly being modi- almost nothing has changed for fied and will be discussed by city North Bayshore. After one year, officials next week. not a single new apartment proj- Steele explained that his com- ect has been pitched to the city for pany needed to amend the plan

NATALIA NAZAROVA review, let alone constructed. In because the city’s park fees had Tiffany Maciel spent years seeking mental health help for her son, exposing serious gaps in Santa Clara fact, city planners say at least one dramatically increased, from County’s services for children and youth. housing proposal already in the $32,000 to $60,000 per apart- pipeline is now being pulled back ment. Basically, the project no by its applicants. longer penciled out, he said. Why has the city’s hottest new “Never in our mind did we Nowhere to turn for kids in crisis neighborhood suddenly gone ice anticipate the fees would double cold? City officials say the culprit over that time,” he said. “Even SERVICES IN COUNTY CAN’T KEEP UP WITH DEMAND FOR MENTAL HEALTH CARE is that housing is too expensive — with the financial influence of By Kevin Forestieri She left her job and turned took four years and a stroke of even for developers to build. offices, these projects can’t over- into a full-time advocate for luck to find the right kind of A line of developers at the come this burden.” or four years, Tiffany her son, trying to find the psy- care. Four years of intensify- Tuesday, Sept. 4, Mountain View The elephant in the room dur- Maciel knew her son chiatric help and therapy he ing problems and deteriora- City Council meeting took aim ing the discussion was Google, Fneeded help. needed to cope with a problem tion that came to a head in at the city’s fees and require- the largest landowner in North Red flags signaling an anxi- that got worse with each pass- third grade, when her son ments, which reportedly would Bayshore, which has enthusias- ety disorder began cropping ing year. climbed onto a roof and said add about $120,000 in costs per tically supported the housing up at the end of preschool, Despite having the will- he wanted to die. apartment unit. These costs were plans. No one from the company made more challenging by a power, the insurance and the intended to help make North Bay- spoke at the meeting or submitted subsequent autism diagnosis. resources to help her child, it See KIDS IN CRISIS, page 10 shore into a vibrant neighborhood with parks, transportation and See NORTH BAYSHORE, page 6

these be addressed before the City Council backs mandatory seismic retrofit program next major earthquake, if at all possible,” said Councilman COSTS A CONCERN, BUT SAFETY FOR RESIDENTS OF SOFT-STORY BUILDINGS IS A TOP PRIORITY Chris Clark. “I think it’s best to By Kevin Forestieri buildings into compliance with seismic upgrades to residential program would likely be ineffec- approach this with a mandatory modern building codes. But buildings that have a “soft-story” tive, according to city staff. Other program.” majority of Mountain council members approached the ground floor deemed structur- Bay Area cities like San Francisco The biggest concern among View City Council mem- idea with a heavy dose of skepti- ally weak and vulnerable to and Berkeley — which have man- council members was wheth- Abers agreed Tuesday night cism over whether landlords collapse in a strong earthquake. datory programs — originally er the retrofit program would that the city should adopt a man- would be able to recoup the cost A recent survey commissioned took a voluntary approach and amount to an unfair burden on datory seismic retrofit program of safety upgrades under the con- by the city found that Mountain found very few landlords willing- property owners who can’t eas- to prevent older, structurally straints of the city’s rent control View is home to an estimated 488 ly pursued the seismic upgrades. ily pass on the costs to tenants weak apartment buildings from law, and concerns that it could soft-story buildings, representing The soft-story survey report under the city’s 2016 rent control collapsing in a major earthquake. lead to more rent-controlled about 16 percent of the city’s total made clear that “substantial city- law. Landlords would need to go The preliminary decision, apartments being torn down. housing stock. wide risk reduction” can only be through a petition process and made in a Sept. 4 study session, Under a mandatory citywide Taking a softer approach to achieved through a mandatory convince a hearing officer that was regarded as the only effec- retrofit program, property own- the problem through a vol- program. tive path to bring aged residential ers would be required to make untary incentive-based retrofit “I think it’s really important See SEISMIC RETROFITS, page 16

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Bullis seeks new school in Mountain View Whisman EARLY PROPOSAL CALLS FOR K-5 CHARTER SCHOOL TO OPEN IN FALL 2019 By Kevin Forestieri a host of reasons including the city’s diverse demographics, ullis Charter School offi- growing enrollment and funding cials announced on Tues- model. Bday a proposal to open a She said the demand certainly new charter school in the Moun- seems to be there, given that 200 tain View Whisman School Mountain View families seek- District, aimed specifically at ing a spot in the charter school serving children of low-income were wait-listed last year, and families. both of Mountain View’s choice Charter school staffers said in programs — Dual Immersion a Sept. 4 statement that they plan at Mistral Elementary and Ste- to submit a charter application venson PACT — are popular to create a small K-5 school with alternative choices to traditional 320 students, set to open next public schools. MAGALI GAUTHIER fall for children in kindergarten Bullis parent Grace Yang, a John Inks, one of six candidates for Mountain View City Council, speaks at a forum held last week. up to second grade. Enrollment longtime member of the team would be tuition-free and open planning for the new school, said to the public, with a preference Bullis Charter School’s expan- given to children in the Moun- sion mindset has been baked into Housing crisis hangs over council race tain View Whisman district who the school’s strategic plan since CANDIDATES PRESENT DIFFERENT VISIONS FOR GROWING CITY qualify for free and reduced- 2012, with the bulk of the plan- price meals. ning occurring over the last three By Mark Noack for the candidates: former plan- to accomplish that. The plan is to submit the appli- years. She said it’s arguably been ner Alison Hicks, Planning Yes, housing is vital, said cation this fall, which should be a long time coming, and that mid expensive housing, Commissioner Lucas Ramirez, Hicks, but she immediately enough of time to open its doors Bullis is somewhat of an anomaly congested roads and ris- Councilwoman Pat Showalter, framed her campaign around for the 2019-20 school year, for sticking to just one campus Aing numbers of people Planning Commissioner Ellen ensuring that growth is accom- according to Jennifer Anderson- for well over a decade. The short living on the streets, Mountain Kamei, former Councilman plished responsibly. Parks, Rosse, a Bullis administrator list of partner agencies included View is experiencing a flurry John Inks and Mayor Lenny trees, safe streets and walkable leading the charter’s Mountain school districts in Santa Clara of challenges. These growing Siegel. Unlike a formal debate, communities all have to be con- View school proposal. and San Mateo counties, she said. pains for the city became the the forum allowed candidates to sidered as the city builds up, she “We really feel confident that Where exactly in Mountain central theme for six candidates take turns answering questions said. we can get it approved and then View the school would be locat- running for the City Council from the audience, and they “We may be the fastest grow- open a school in fall 2019,” she ed remains unclear. Anderson- during their first public policy were restricted from directly ing city in the Bay Area, and said. Rosse said the first step is to put discussion last week. challenging or responding to I’m running to make sure that The announcement caps off together the application and The Aug. 30 candidate forum, each other’s comments. growth is great growth,” she three years of planning among receive approval from the school organized by the Mountain By far, housing issues under- said. “Along with building, we Bullis parents and staffers district before deciding on its View Chamber of Commerce, pinned the discussion, and all need to build it right.” exploring what it would take to facilities. gave citizens a chance to ask candidates agreed that Moun- On the other end of the expand the charter school into Plans for the new Mountain those running about their posi- tain View needs more of it, a new community. The team View school are entirely separate tions. It was a polite, civil event although they differed on how See COUNCIL RACE, page 13 ultimately landed on Mountain View, Anderson-Rosse said, for See BULLIS, page 8 New NASA chief’s moonshot TRUMP APPOINTEE TOUTS MOON’S COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL DURING VISIT TO NASA AMES By Mark Noack human physiology and for our the program called for harvesting technology,” he said to reporters resources, particularly lunar ice, ASA is setting its sights Thursday, Aug. 30. “Do we want and possibly platinum and valu- back on the moon as a to test this out for the first time able rare earth metals. Nstepping stone toward on Mars, or do we want to prove He described it as a race among sending astronauts to Mars some- it first on the moon, which is a the international space communi- day. On his first visit to NASA three-day trip?” ty to claim those lunar materials. Ames last Thursday, Jim Briden- By bringing NASA’s focus away “To the extent they exist, we stine, the space agency’s new from Mars and closer to home, have to be sure that we’re the ones administrator, said that a new Bridenstine was plugging a trio of who are finding them, rather than focus on moon operations would space policy directives signed by someone else,” he said. serve as a test for future explora- President Donald Trump. Those The commercial opportunities tion while opening up immense policies direct NASA to develop also involve plans for a Lunar commercial possibilities. a sustainable lunar program — Orbital Platform-Gateway, a per- “The moon is our proving astronauts would no longer be manent station for future moon MAGALI GAUTHIER grounds; it’s our best opportunity visiting the moon just for “flags Jim Bridenstine, NASA’s new administrator, paid his first visit to NASA to retire risk as it relates to the and footprints,” he said. Instead, See NASA, page 6 Ames last Thursday, where he talked about developing commercial opportunities on the moon. September 7, 2018 Q Mountain View Voice Q MountainViewOnline.com Q 5 LocalNews NORTH BAYSHORE consideration. It is one of the before and assured me there would cost $109 million to build NASA world’s richest companies, and it would be a school. After read- a compact school on a 5-acre plot Continued from page 5 Continued from page 1 already owns significant swaths ing your staff report, I have to in North Bayshore. Superinten- comments in advance. of land in North Bayshore. Plus, say I’m concerned,” said Laura dent Ayinde Rudolph said about missions, which is expected to Reached by the Voice for com- Google has a self-interest in find- Blakely, Mountain View Whis- one-third of that money was launch its first stage in 2022. ment, a source at Google speaking ways to build housing near man’s school board president. expected to come from develop- When ready, the station opens up ing on background said that the its headquarters, said Council- “I support development ... but ment fees. possibility for an array of new ven- company is still committed to man John McAlister. it can’t come at the sacrifice of Joined by McAlister, Coun- tures, Bridenstine said. One such building North Bayshore hous- “What if they don’t want a schools.” cilwoman Margaret Abe-Koga opportunity is growing human ing, but it needs to be built in monetary return but rather an Yet many council members warned that the city was being organs in space using stem cells, an economically feasible and equity return on employment?” signaled they had little choice pushed into a corner where they which grow much faster in micro- affordable manner. The com- he said. “What if their return is but to surrender some fees if could end up subsidizing the gravity conditions compared to pany was reportedly encouraged a reliable workforce?” they wanted housing in North developers’ costs. Earth’s gravity. Low gravity is also that Mountain View would be The reasons for the sudden Bayshore. Mayor Lenny Siegel “We know what the school fees beneficial for producing higher revisiting the fee structure for spike in development costs are started off the discussion by pro- are based on what we’ve heard, quality fiber optics, the lifeline of North Bayshore. complicated. On one hand, land posing a study of cutting school but (the developers) just don’t modern day telecommunications. Previously, Google officials values have nearly doubled since fees by 50 percent. That cut could want to pay it,” Abe-Koga said. Bridenstine, who was approved had signaled that the city was 2016 — going from $5.2 mil- be supplemented by some future “Someone has to subsidize for as NASA administrator in April, overreaching with its fees. Last lion to $10 million an acre in state funding, a bond measure or this, and I don’t know if it should is an unorthodox figure to lead the September, a Google director 2018. The city’s ambitious and money from the city’s Shoreline be us.” nation’s premier space agency. A issued an ultimatum, saying well-publicized housing plans Regional Park Community fund. Siegel and others proposed former Oklahoma congressman that that the company would were surely helping to drive Without giving specifics, he said incentives for housing devel- with a master’s degree in business need 800,000 additional square these dramatic valuations. But the school fees were stopping at opers, including giving credit administration, Bridenstine was feet of office space development as land values went through the least one developer from submit- toward their park fees for pro- criticized during his nomination to compensate for the various roof, that also meant city fees for ting a housing proposal to the viding recreational space, even process for lacking a scientific city requirements, particularly parks and schools were also ris- city. for private gyms and swimming background. The burgeoning com- one for 15 to 20 percent to be set ing to new heights. “We have to come up with a pools not open to the public. mercial space industry was thrilled aside as affordable housing. That Taken together, each apart- compromise,” Siegel said. “The In another idea that was pro- by his nomination, praising him as demand ended up backfiring ment in North Bayshore would only way to get any money to posed, the city could loan the an excellent person to strengthen and becoming a public-relations cost about $645,000 to build, build a school in North Bayshore school district money on the the partnership between NASA misstep for Google. Within a according to city officials, a is to build the housing.” uncertain possibility that it could and the myriad firms now seeking week, company officials were $120,000 increase from roughly It was a controversial com- be paid back through additional business opportunities in space. pledging their ongoing commit- one year earlier. ment, and other council mem- state funding or a bond measure. Critics noted Bridenstine had a ment to North Bayshore housing Anticipating bad news, offi- bers said they were not com- Mountain View city staff record of casting doubt on climate plans in an attempt to undo the cials from the Mountain View fortable with backpedaling on members said they will investi- change, which NASA is actively damage. Whisman School District came the fees, especially given the gate these options and bring involved in researching. Since While many developers need out in force to remind the coun- uncertainty of finding other them to the City Council at a becoming the NASA administra- to balance out their costs, council cil that a future school was not funding sources for schools. future date. V tor, Bridenstine now asserts that members indicated they weren’t optional. The Mountain View Whisman Email Mark Noack at he “fully” believes climate change sure Google should get the same “You’ve looked me in the eye School District has estimated it [email protected] is caused by human activities. V +DYLQJWURXEOHƓQGLQJ WKHULJKWFDUHSURYLGHUIRU\RX" /HWXVWDNHWKHJXHVVZRUNRXWRIƓQGLQJJUHDWFDUH

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E S 2 T 2 AB 19 Santiago Villa, who have been Fenwick & West attorneys provid- case that the CSFRA was never LISHED in seeking limits on rising rents for ing pro-bono legal representation. intended to cover mobile homes, spaces in Mountain View mobile In rejecting the lawsuit, Pierce he said. 47TH ANNUAL home parks. Many mobile home said it wasn’t enough for mobile “If a rental board was to come residents pinned their hopes on home tenants to show that the along in the future and impose this the CSFRA after getting assur- CSFRA could be construed to on park owners, there’s no doubt ances from advocates that the include mobile homes. In order that they would challenge it in MOUNTAIN VIEW rent control law was written so to overturn the decision, tenants court,” Rodriguez said. “There’s a it could also encompass mobile would need to show that the rental big difference here. This is a rent ART & WINE FESTIVAL homes. Voters passed the mea- committee’s decision was “funda- control ordinance, not a mobile ڞڗږژ܉ڟܰڞ¦/ sure in 2016, but city officials mentally flawed,” he wrote. This home ordinance.” V ®/£¼/r r£ڜrܰږڗÃt'æ®ܚr£ڝrܰڗڗsouthbound Interstate Highway scheme,” prosecutor Cherie Bour- ®¼Ã¦'æ CRIME BRIEFS ®¼¦®¼¦//¼ܚ'àt¼àtrÃt¼StßS/à Continued from page 4 280 and deputies gave chase. lard said in a statement. Deputies said the chase ended The two defendants were arrest- ǢĜĪƠƸŏżŲÿŧƣƸŏƫƸƫ/ڌڌڑ -ribs by force and walked out of the with a crash at Delmas Avenue ed on Aug. 9 in Maricopa, Arizo store, according to police spokes- and West Santa Clara Street when na, where they allegedly fled after FÿěǀŧżǀƫFżżģޠ'ƣŏŲŤƫ woman Katie Nelson. the suspect lost control of the car taking money from the victims. ¼ÿƫƸǣ ƣÿǽƸ ĪĪƣ܇£ƣĪŰŏǀŰàŏŲĪƫ The man left in a van, but offi- and hit a pole. Prosecutors said they spent the rÿƣŃÿƣŏƸÿƫ܇rŏŰżƫÿƫ܇®ÿŲŃƣŏÿ cers were able to locate it heading The suspect then fled from the money on Disneyland tickets, car away on San Antonio Road, Nel- vehicle, but was located at 6:11 payments, rent and other personal ®ŏŃŲÿƸǀƣĪ żĜŤƸÿŏŧƫ son said. The man was detained a.m. after officers set up a perim- expenses. and identified as the suspect in eter and used police canines. The couple was extradited to ®r®NStG/t¼/¦¼Str/t¼ܰt®¼G/ޠ®¼¦//¼ ǀƫƸGƣżżǜĪ ܇hŏǜĪǝŏƣĪ܇żƣƸŏŧŧÿ®żǀƠ¼܇ڌڕthe alleged robbery, but had to be Sheriff’s officials are still investi- Santa Clara County this week, ŧǀě taken to a nearby hospital for a gating the crash and the burglary. according to prosecutors, who ¼ŊĪ®ŊÿŲŤƫ܇ żĜŤƸÿŏŧrżŲŤĪǣƫ܇dżŊŲŲǣtĪƣŏÃŲƠŧǀŃŃĪģ medical issue that occurred while —Bay City News Service said more than 30 local custom- ¼ŊĪGƣżǝŏƫĪƣ ÿŲģ܇ żě ǀŧěĪƣƸƫżŲ܇NĪÿƣƸ®ƸƣŏŲŃƫrǀƫŏĜ dżŊŲ ŧÿƣŤĪ܇®ƸĪƠŊĪŲ'ƣĪǣłǀƫƫ܇ŲĜŏĪŲƸàŏŲģƫ he was detained, Nelson said. ers were victims of the couple’s Police have since requested a HOME REMODELING SCAM scheme. The Contractors State Nr /¦rß܏¦GܚrS¦r¦/ß/t¼®܏ r ®t®/Gàæܚ®¼/£tܚڞڝڙڞ܏ڞڜڟ܏ږڛڜ܈warrant for the man’s arrest, Nel- License Board revoked business StF son said. A married couple has been licenses from three businesses —Kevin Forestieri charged with 79 misdemeanor associated with the Gabriels ear- à/®r/ ¼Stܰ£ f/'fS'®£¦f and felony counts after allegedly lier this year. ܒrżǀŲƸÿŏŲßŏĪǝܓƫGżƸ¼ÿŧĪŲƸ żŰŰǀŲŏƸǣ®ƸÿŃĪܷ܇àŏŧģޠàÿĜŤǣàÿƸĪƣěÿŧŧĪƣǭ stealing $800,000 from custom- The Gabriels were arraigned ÃŧƸƣÿܫ¼ŊƣŏŧŧŏŲŃ ǀŲŃĪĪdǀŰƠ܇¦żĜŤ ŧŏŰěŏŲŃàÿŧŧ܇ěƫƸÿĜŧĪ żǀƣƫĪ STOLEN TESLA ARREST ers of a Santa Clara based home last week on charges including ®ÿŲģƣƸ ƣÿǽƸƫ܇rĪĜŊÿŲŏĜÿŧ ǀŧŧ¦ŏģĪ܇NĪŲŲÿ żģǣƣƸ A 20-year-old man was arrested renovation company, Santa Clara grand theft and elder fraud, with ®ǀƠĪƣ żżŧFÿĜĪ£ÿŏŲƸŏŲŃޠGŧŏƸƸĪƣ¼ÿƸƸżżƫ for allegedly stealing a Tesla from County prosecutors said. white collar crime enhancements £¦Ã'hæ£¦/®/t¼/' æ a Los Altos home early Tuesday Constance and William Gabri- due to the large sum of money morning, Santa Clara County el, 50 and 65, who operated Sun- involved. sheriff’s officials said. rooms America Inc., are accused Their plea hearing is scheduled Deputies responded to a resi- of tricking online clients into for Sept. 17 in Santa Clara County dential burglary in unincorpo- paying for construction work that Superior Court. They will be rated Los Altos at 5:10 a.m. and was never completed, or never assigned defense attorneys from learned that several items had started, between 2015 and 2017. the Santa Clara County Public been stolen, including a silver “The victims wanted to beautify Defender’s Office at that time. 2017 Tesla Model X. their homes, but they were taken —Bay City News Service The vehicle was located on advantage of by an ugly criminal Celebrating 47 great years! September 7, 2018 Q Mountain View Voice Q MountainViewOnline.com Q 7 LocalNews

BULLIS School District confirmed it has existing charter school in Los Bullis is among the highest- $5,000 per student per year. Continued from page 5 not received a formal applica- Altos, with a strong emphasis on performing schools in the state By drawing from lower-income tion from Bullis Charter School science, technology, engineer- and popular among families in families in the community, the from the ongoing debate over as of Tuesday, Sept. 4, and had ing, arts and math (STEAM), the county, with close to 1,000 funding may need to instead where the existing Bullis Char- no prior warning about the project-based learning and per- families seeking to enroll chil- come from state, federal and pri- ter School will be housed within announcement. Superintendent sonalized education plans for dren in kindergarten each year. vate grants, and the school would the Los Altos School District Ayinde Rudolph said Bullis students. Of those families who apply, be eligible for more state funding and the effort to secure for it officials had met with him twice One of the big differences only one in 10 are admitted to support “target” students who “permanent” facilities. Bullis is over the past year and a half to proposed in the application is through a lottery process. Bullis are either English learners or currently located in portables discuss their expansion goals that incoming students would board members have expressed come from low-income families. and split between two Los Altos and spoke broadly about their have transitional kindergarten interest in accommodating Anderson-Rosse said the public school campuses. desire for a “partner district,” and full-day kindergarten to more of the demand through a new school would seek to ben- Outreach to Mountain View but did not talk about a direct ensure students without access new school, as well as increasing efit from grant funding made residents on the proposal had partnership with Mountain to high-quality preschool don’t enrollment at its existing school. available to charter schools, but mostly been one-on-one conver- View Whisman. enter the public school system The strategy for financing the would be able to survive solely sations with interested families “Their announcement to you, behind their peers. school’s operations will likely on public dollars provided by up until last week, when the and the subsequent Voice article Yang said lower-income fami- differ significantly from the state and local funding. district held a parent night at (posted Friday), come as a com- lies often struggle to pay the existing charter school, where Upcoming information ses- the Mountain View Senior Cen- plete surprise to me,” Rudolph high cost of preschool and have close to one-third of Bullis’ sions on the charter school pro- ter on Aug. 30. The meeting, said in an email. difficulty working around a annual budget comes from par- posal include a Saturday, Sept. 8, which was posted on a Bullis For the charter school to open half-day kindergarten schedule. ents and community members meeting at 9 a.m. at 102 W. Mountain View Facebook page, in fall 2019, the district would Offering both of these at the new and only 5 percent of students Portola Ave. in Los Altos, fol- was not meant to be widely pub- need to receive the application charter school would be a game- are from low-income families lowed by a Tuesday, Sept. 11, licized, and drew about 20 pre- and provide a response by Feb. changer, Yang said. that qualify for free- or reduced- meeting at 7 p.m. at 1124 Cov- dominantly Spanish-speaking 1, Rudolph said. “What we’re really offering is price lunches. Bullis parents ington Road in Los Altos. V families. The plan is to draw heav- a solid path for their kids,” she are encouraged — though not Email Kevin Forestieri at The Mountain View Whisman ily on the curriculum at Bullis’ said. required — to consider donating [email protected].

COMMUNITY BRIEFS system. The project will also “This is a critical component Continued from page 4 add California Highway Patrol to the modernization of Caltrain, enforcement areas, restripe exist- the spine of our region’s trans- Highway 101/state Highway 85 ing lanes and reconstruct concrete portation system,” she said in a interchange in Mountain View to barriers and metal guard railings. statement. near the San Mateo County line in Upon completion, VTA will In 2017, Caltrain reported an Palo Alto. operate, manage and maintain the average weekday ridership of The VTA was notified on new express lanes. 62,190 people. Aug. 16 that state funding was —Alicia Mies Seven people have died in fatal COUNCIL approved for the Mountain View Caltrain strikes this year. and Palo Alto express lane project —Bay City News Service and two other improvement proj- CALTRAIN RECEIVES NEIGHBORHOODS GRANT FOR SAFETY ects in Santa Clara County. MEDIAN BAY AREA HOME Funding for the project came IMPROVEMENTS COMMITTEE from state Senate Bill 1, the Road PRICE DROPS SLIGHTLY Repair and Accountability Act, The U.S. Department of Trans- which increased the gas tax to portation has given an $18.7 The median sale price for Community Meeting For repair roads and improve public million grant to Caltrain to imple- homes sold in the Bay Area in transit, as well as create state ment advanced technology for July was down 2.9 percent to Mobile Home Park Residents programs aimed to improve local monitoring and controlling train $850,000 from the record high roads, provide congestion relief movements, according to Rep. of $875,000 recorded in May and and improve trade corridors, Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, and Rep. June, according to a report by according to the VTA. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto. CoreLogic Data, a supplier of U.S. Mountain View Senior Center The express lane program was The Peninsula Corridor Joint real estate and business data. 266 Escuela Street spurred by high growth estimates Powers Board, which owns Cal- Still, the median price for July in Santa Clara County, where the train, will use the technology is up 11.4 percent from July population is expected to increase for safety modifications, such as 2017, when the median price was by 38 percent and jobs could automatically stopping trains to $763,000, the report showed. Thursday – September 20, 2018 rise to 62 percent — equivalent prevent accidents like collisions “It is not unusual for a regional 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. to 555,000 new residents and and derailments. median sale price to slip back 445,000 new jobs — between 2010 “I’m glad to see federal funds from a new peak,” CoreLogic and 2040, according to the VTA. put towards improving the safety analyst Andrew LePage said. The City of Mountain View Council Express lanes will presumably of our local rail systems,” Lofgren The region also saw a 10.2 per- alleviate some traffic woes in the said in a statement. “This federal cent drop in the number of home Neighborhoods Committee (CNC) will be coming years. grant will benefit millions of resi- sales in July compared with June. holding a community meeting with mobile The express lane project will dents and many businesses from In July, a total of 7,547 new and likely begin construction in early San Jose to San Francisco.” existing home park residents. 2019 and be completed in sum- Eshoo said the new technology, houses and condos were sold in mer 2021, according to the VTA. known as positive train control, all nine Bay Area counties, down The CNC invites residents to participate in Crews will install express lane is a “game changer” in railway from 8,403 in June. signs, electronic toll readers, a safety. The federal grant will be The number of sales in July was a forum to hear about new projects in the video enforcement system, light- provided under the Consolidated also below the month’s historical community and discuss issues vital to the ing and communication and Rail Infrastructure and Safety average. electrical services for the tolling Improvements Grant Program. “Tight inventory continues to mobile home parks and neighborhoods. constrain sales, but the overall increase in housing costs, exacer- For further information, please call the City’s LET’S DISCUSS: bated by this year’s rise in mort- Read the latest local news gage rates, means more would-be Housing and Neighborhood Division at headlines and talk about the issues buyers are unable or unwilling to (650) 903-6379. at Town Square buy,” LePage said. MountainViewOnline.com —Bay City News Service

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KIDS IN CRISIS or were referred to outside coun- Continued from page 1 seling services as a result, while many more relied on interim “I knew what was happen- check-ins with the district’s sup- ing, but I couldn’t stop the train port team until an outside thera- wreck from coming,” Maciel pist could be found. said. “From first to third grade it District officials have seen the was just the darkest time. It just reliance on this quaint system took everything to deal with it. and its small team of in-house He’s in sixth grade now and we’re mental health counselors explode ‘okay,’ but it’s not perfect. He’s in recent years. About five years still not back in school.” ago the number of annual refer- Maciel is not alone. Families rals tallied up to about 200. By seeking mental health support last year, it had quadrupled to for children are beset on all sides more than 800. by challenges, whether it’s dif- The reality is that the need has ficulty finding the right kind of always been there, but a reduc- help or finding out there is no tion in stigma surrounding men- help within 50 miles. Parents tal health and a growing willing- who are uninsured, on Medi-Cal ness to address a long-neglected or have commercial insurance gap in health care is creating face unique problems getting demand that exceeds capacity. appropriate care at a price they National studies have found that can afford, and must rely on a about one in five children have a MAGALI GAUTHIER shallow pool of local services that mental, emotional or behavioral Halstrom Academy in Cupertino provides one-on-one instruction for Tiffany Maciel’s son after she was threatens to shrink further in the disorder, but only about 20 per- unable to find appropriate support services for him in a traditional school setting. coming years. cent of those children actually Mental health experts, advo- receive care from a mental health 1,500 requests for service BACA insurance company. an uphill battle compared to cates, school leaders and public provider. This leaves tens of receives, about 350 families actu- Maciel said Blue Shield’s men- primary medical care. It can be officials lament that Santa Clara thousands of children and ado- ally admitted for services, and tal health service administrator, tough to get the companies on County, a wealthy region known lescents in Santa Clara County the other 75 percent are effec- Magellan Behavioral Health, the phone, he said, and it can for thinking outside the box, without treatment. When they tively getting turned away. provided her a list of care pro- be difficult to negotiate reim- falls short of meeting the mental do get it, it is frequently delayed Scaling up isn’t easy either, and viders in her area, giving her the bursement rates for services like health needs of children and by years or even decades. for the classic reasons that Bay false hope that she had a menu Intensive Outpatient Programs, teens at a time when they need it Peeling away at that disparity Area residents are all too familiar of options. The problem is that which provide hours of daily most, with deep gaps in services is absolutely the goal, said Susan with. The cost of living makes these lists are notorious for being support as a valuable step-down ranging from education and Flatmo, the clinical services recruiting clinical staff difficult, nearly useless. After crossing from partial hospitalization and early intervention to emergency coordinator at the Mountain facility space is limited and land- off services that no longer exist, residential treatment. psychiatric care. Even with new View-Los Altos High School lords are often reticent to sign a can’t be reached or don’t provide This dynamic adds to an programs in the pipeline, it may District, but she admitted that lease deal for behavioral health appropriate services, families are even larger problem, which is take decades to fix what many the district faces limits on its services due to the pervasive left with few or no options. the shortage of mental health describe as a fragmented and open-door referral approach. stigma of mental health illness. “Most of them did not serve care workers in the Bay Area chronically underfunded system, “If there was no stigma, if every BACA is hiring new therapists, children,” she said. “Many of and throughout the country. with quality and access that dif- student was screened, the truth but they’ll likely have full case the lines were disconnected, and Last year, Santa Clara County fers wildly from one community is we wouldn’t be able to address loads and not be able to accept when they weren’t they didn’t cited data showing there are to another. every student’s needs. That’s just new families for a few months, take insurance. It was a stupid 26.7 psychiatrists per 100,000 And while some say that Sili- a given,” Flatmo said. “We need said Joel Oberstar, co-founder of list.” people in the county, compared con Valley’s bleak situation dif- to work on that, because we are BACA. That isn’t exclusive to Blue to 30.8 in San Mateo and 76.6 in fers little from that of the rest of working on erasing stigma and Part of the unmet need is Shield. Tarshis of BACA said San Francisco counties. Those California and the United States our kids do need care.” simply that mental health care anyone can put in a zip code and figures worsen for psychiatrists — the cost of a broken system Clinics outside of the school takes a long time, Oberstar said, get a list of 60 to 70 clinics and licensed to treat kids and teens, that undervalues mental health environment are similarly inun- and teasing out things like deep- private practices within a 20-mile and the American Academy of — others say that public agen- dated with high demand and not seated trauma doesn’t happen radius and experience the same Child and Adolescent Psychiatry cies and major hospitals have a enough space, staffing or fund- overnight. The fix doesn’t come disappointment on their own, estimates that the county would moral responsibility to step up ing. Bay Area Clinical Associ- as quickly as it does with physical regardless of the insurance pro- need double the number of child and provide services for families ates (BACA) provides outpatient problems, and it’s crucial to be vider or the type of care. and adolescent psychiatrists in that desperately need them. psychiatric and psychological able to provide long-term care. “When you go down the list the order to have a “sufficient” sup- services to children and young “Very few of the cases resolve vast majority of them are either ply for the county’s population. A rising demand adults throughout the Bay Area, quickly, most of them have been not active or don’t really see those San Francisco is the only county including San Jose and Menlo building for a while,” he said. “It particular patients. And the five to reach that benchmark in the For hundreds of teens in Park, and has the rare and can take weeks, months, even people that are? Their next open- state. Mountain View, their first expo- coveted advantage of accepting years to get through their episode ing is in six months, or maybe A recent study done by sure to mental health care comes private insurance plans from five of care. It’s not a high-volume isn’t the quality of provider that researchers at the University not from a hospital or a clinic, different companies. proposition.” you want,” Tarshis said. of California at San Francisco but an anonymous message in a Of the company’s 1,458 clients, Tarshis said the status quo — found that while insurance cov- box. Friends, family and school nearly half are between the ages A false promise too few providers and so much erage for mental health care has staff at both Mountain View of 13 and 18, the vast majority of demand — leaves little reason vastly improved over the last and Los Altos high schools are whom were diagnosed with anxi- In the years before her son’s for psychiatrists and psycholo- two decades, it needs to come encouraged, if they think some- ety (45 percent), depression (46 mental health crisis, Maciel gists to take insurance when with a commensurate boost in one is struggling with problems percent), a learning disorder (20 sought to leave no stone unturned. they can successfully run a cash- behavioral health workers. That’s like anxiety and depression, to percent) or a behavioral disorder She fought to get mental health only business. Anyone who can’t not happening: The number of jot down that person’s name and or family issue (20 percent). services for her son through afford $300 or more per visit psychiatrists in the state is pro- drop it off in designated referral Child psychiatrist and BACA schools — public and private, faces fewer options. jected to decrease by 34 percent boxes. co-founder Tom Tarshis told from San Jose to Palo Alto — It’s tempting for psychiatrists between 2016 and 2028. Each box gets checked multiple the Voice that the clinic doesn’t tried (and failed) to get long-term and psychologists to avoid the The study found that psy- times per day, and referred stu- maintain a waitlist anymore care from Stanford Children’s headache, Tarshis said. Broker- chiatrists are disproportionately dents are called in and asked if because so many families would Hospital after a referral to the ing reimbursement deals for male, white and nearing retire- they need help. A March report queue up so quickly, and that it university’s Anxiety Disorders mental health care with insur- ment. Forty-five percent are over from the district found that just didn’t feel right to dangle hope Clinic, and tangled with what ance companies, as well as Medi- the age of 60, and psychologists under half of the students began in front of families for months. she described as a useless direc- Cal contracts with counties to in the state aren’t far behind, at seeing an on-campus therapist He estimated that for every tory of resources provided by her serve lower-income families, is 37 percent.

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Some agencies, notably Chil- center and earning a master’s to self-harm, suicidal ideation translates to seven therapists — dren’s Health Council in Palo degree in psychology. and eventually an attempt on five hired directly by the district IF YOU NEED HELP Alto, say Santa Clara County Since she was 13, Fox has been her own life. She hung on using — and a half-day of support Any person who is feeling is overdue for a comprehensive a relentless advocate for mental coping mechanisms of her own from a Stanford fellow in clinical depressed, troubled navigation system for families health and suicide prevention in — yoga became a huge part of psychiatry. or suicidal can call This team forms the backbone who don’t know where to go any way she could find, volun- her life — before finally reach- 1-800-784-2433 to speak for mental health services. At teering for the American Federa- ing a child psychiatrist through of clinical support to handle the a meeting with mental health tion for Suicide Prevention, lead- Kaiser. She made the call and set torrent of anonymous referrals with a crisis counselor. leaders and advocates in May, ing school-based mental health up the appointment herself. The of students, and even then it can People in Santa Clara County health council Executive Direc- awareness events and eventually conversation on the phone was be challenging to resolve the can call 1-855-278-4204. tor Rosalie Whitlock announced finding a role helping people who pretty stilted, given Kaiser staff increasing number of complex the nonprofit is seeking to create are fighting drug and alcohol members were expecting a call cases in a timely manner. The Spanish speakers can call a comprehensive wayfinding addiction. from her mother. goal is to try to work with stu- 1-888-628-9454. system for care, which could cast Her current job at a six-bed From eighth grade to her junior dents in the short term, but some a light on where critical services luxury recovery center in Alum year, Fox raised money for a students simply aren’t going to young adults ranging from 12 to — like child psychiatrists who Rock is a little different from her nonprofit called “To Write Love resolve what’s bothering them in 24 years of age represent the criti- accept insurance — are most last gig in Santa Cruz, where she On Her Arms,” giving speech- four to six sessions, said Flatmo, cal point for intervention, and lacking. provided counseling services es during mental health week the district’s clinical services that delays in care can be clearly Maciel said that during her for formerly incarcerated parol- encouraging students to wear coordinator. connected to a host of problems time advocating for youth mental ees seeking substance abuse their hearts on their sleeves and “The services we provide have ranging from poor school per- health care in the county, she’s treatment. It came with its fair open up about mental health. to be short-term so we can see as formance and substance abuse found that parents go looking share of challenges — some of But years went by and no one many students as possible, but to violence and higher chance for help and simply can’t find it, the people coming in had co- seemed worried about her own we’re not going to be clinically of landing in the juvenile justice and that there’s an ugly tendency occuring mental health disorders well-being, or noticed she was irresponsible,” she said. system. Studies have reaffirmed to blame parents for failing to including schizophrenia — and covering up signs of self-harm Some of school districts’ since the early 1990s that an address the high levels of stress, it was purely voluntary, mean- with long sleeves and pants even responsibility to focus on student estimated 70 percent of youth in anxiety and chronic sadness and ing patients were free to go and on scorching summer days. She wellness and suicide prevention the U.S. juvenile justice system hopelessness that surveys show would drop treatment partway said the principal suggested to has been enshrined into state were diagnosed with at least one are affecting close to one-third through. her that mental health rallies law. Earlier this year, Gov. Jerry mental health disorder. of high school students. “If someone came in, I would weren’t necessary because any Brown signed legislation requir- Programs aimed at getting chil- “Looking at the suicide rates, do a urine test, and if they were students going through serious ing the California Department of dren and young adults treatment both Morgan Hill and Palo Alto positive for heroin or something depression and anxiety would be Education to provide grants for could potentially reduce well- are high,” she said. “If you listen I’d have to send them over to a forthcoming and tell her directly. suicide prevention training for all documented, significant delays to the reasoning for why it’s hap- detox center elsewhere and say “My experience in high school public middle and high schools, between when first symptoms pening in Palo Alto, they say the ‘Come back when you’re all dried is nobody noticing that I was adding to laws already requiring appear and when they finally see expectations are too high. And if out,’” Fox recalled. “Nine times wearing long sleeves every day districts to have suicide preven- a doctor and begin treatment. you listen to the reasons for why out of 10 you would never see and that I was eating my lunch tion policies on the books that A 2005 study in the Archives of it’s happening in Morgan Hill, it’s them again.” in the handicap stall of the bath- includes awareness and preven- General Psychiatry found that because they aren’t educated and Still, Fox said doing one-on- room every day. Nobody noticed tion training for staff. delays in what researchers call their expectations are too low. one and group therapy with I wasn’t outside socializing,” she When asked about the role of “treatment contact” typically “It’s bad enough to not have parolees who took extraordinary said. schools in mental health, Fox range from six to eight years for preventative care or promote steps to get help left an impres- Undeterred, Fox worked with emphatically supported a greater mood disorders and nine to 23 mental health wellness in schools. sion on her. Some of the men she a group of 15 kids and made a involvement that should have years for anxiety disorders, with But when parents go looking for treated took up her invitation to poster with a list of important been there to support her dur- higher delays for males, minori- help, it’s just not there.” do yoga. phone numbers and resources ing high school. Teachers have a ties and lower-educated patients. “Working with people trying to ranging from information to strong relationship with students That delay period, the study A role for schools break the cycle of incarceration suicide hotlines and posted it on and came the closest, that she concluded, is a pervasive aspect is the most beautiful experience the wall of her high school. could remember, to finding out of the unmet mental health care Nineteen-year-old Robin Fox, I’ve ever had in my life,” she said. “I got so much flak for that, but she wasn’t okay. Teachers have needs in the U.S., and that some- a South County resident, has “I think recovery and healing is eventually I prevailed,” she said. a moral responsibility to sup- thing ought to be done to make skipped party-filled college possible for anyone, regardless of “I remember putting it up in the port these students regardless of sure youth are able to quickly get nights in favor of packed days their background.” hallway as one of my proudest whether the school district wants an appointment with a mental starting before dawn. Commut- Despite the outgoing person- moments in high school because to pay for it. health care provider at its onset. ing from a small corner of South ality, Fox’s journey through her it was the first mental health “People in education need to “Research consistently shows San Jose where you can still teenage years was fraught with resource we had.” have training on mental health that a high proportion of people find farmland and orchards, her challenges, with a history of School districts throughout issues. It’s the most prominent with prevalent mental disorders schedule juggles Bikram yoga anxiety and depression that Santa Clara County have taken in ages 13 to 17, and if you’re in the United States are untreated instruction, working at a detox had a devastating effect and led on a growing role to directly care going to be a teacher with this age despite their disorders causing for teens and children struggling group you have a responsibility substantial distress and impair- with anxiety, depression and to educate yourself,” she said. “It ment, and despite effective treat- other mental health issues. Many doesn’t matter if you’re great at ments being available,” the study of these programs are adopted by geometry if you want to die.” states. individual districts, meaning the Efforts to address mental quality and extent of care varies Intervention when health at this critical age in the from one region to another, and it matters northern reaches of Santa Clara almost all of it is fueled by gen- County include clinical and in- eral fund dollars rather than any Building more robust mental school services from nonprofits sort of mandate. health services in the schools like Children’s Health Council The Mountain View-Los Altos also lends itself to teasing out and and the Community Health High School District lies in one remedying mental health disor- Awareness Council in Moun- of the wealthiest regions of the ders early on, preventing strug- tain View, as well as separate country and enjoys a healthy mix gling children and teens from the efforts from local school dis- of philanthropic dollars, mental suffering and deterioration that tricts who have poured money health partnerships and a general comes with any untreated illness. into mental health initiatives. fund buoyed by strong property Psychiatric studies estimate that The Bay Area Clinical Associ- tax growth. It spends more than close to half of all mental health ates, similarly, has tailored its $1.3 million annually on a net- conditions begin by the age of 14, services for children, teens and work of on-campus therapists rising to three-fourths by the age young adults, with 90 percent of MAGALI GAUTHIER and ongoing parent and student of 24. its clientele below the age of 26, Robin Fox, who lives at her family’s ranch, has dedicated herself to wellness events, all for a district Studies going back more than helping people in crisis after going through her own serious struggles of about 4,500 students. That a decade have found youth and See KIDS IN CRISIS, page 12 during high school. September 7, 2018 Q Mountain View Voice Q MountainViewOnline.com Q 11 LocalNews

state, is even lower in California uneasiness with government-run We’re Hiring KIDS IN CRISIS as a whole, with only 3.1 per- programs and a perception that Full-Time News Reporter Continued from page 11 cent of Medi-Cal patients under the county-run system doesn’t 21 receiving consistent mental extend into the realm of mental The Almanac, an award-winning community newspaper and Oberstar from BACA said. health services. health, said Elisabet Revilla, a online news source that covers the towns of Menlo Park, “Mental health illnesses start in It’s also an open question clinical supervisor at CHAC who Atherton, Portola Valley and Woodside, is looking for an youth, and there’s a great poten- whether these services are works in the Latinx program. enterprising full-time news reporter with a passion for local tial to alleviate that suffering,” he equally available to all residents “When they have a problem, journalism. said. throughout the county, or if fam- when they have difficulty com- Flatmo said she envisions ilies far from in San Jose aren’t municating or they have PTSD, The ideal candidate will have experience covering education, MVLA’s wellness program as a getting the same access to care. anxiety or depression — they local government and community news, and the skills to dig pyramid, where universal pre- A report released by Santa Clara know about CHAC, through up and write engaging news and feature stories for print and vention and education sit along County last year found that of the schools and through word of online. Our reporters produce monthly cover stories. the bottom as the largest, most the 1,806 residents who received mouth,” Revilla said. We’re seeking someone who is motivated, eager to learn, well-resourced portion. The next mental health services in District Latinx program director able to quickly turn out finished copy, and who lives in or near level, she said, should be target- 5, which encompasses North Camila Rodriguez, a marriage the Almanac coverage area. Social media skills are a plus. ed intervention like short-term County and West Valley cities, and family therapist, said the counseling services and support around 60 percent had to travel program has a waiting list, and This is a fully benefited position with paid vacations, health groups, followed by intensive to San Jose for treatment. Among that the past few years have been and dental benefits, profit sharing and a 401(k) plan. care for teens who need crisis those who were discharged, only particularly rough on the fami- To apply, send a cover letter, resume, and three samples intervention, outpatient care, 36 percent successfully finished lies they serve. She said many of of your journalism work to Editor Renee Batti at editor@ case management and consis- treatment, which Santa Clara the families she works with are AlmanacNews.com. tent one-on-one mental health County Supervisor Joe Simitian dealing with the constant fear of therapy. said could be connected to the immigration enforcement and Given the intense need of stu- long travel times. Just under half are always anticipating the next dents seeking services, the way of those patients were ages 17 or sweep by Immigrations and the health care system is set up younger. Customs Enforcement (ICE). and the number of referrals for “Although northern Santa The result, she said, is pervasive intervention, Flatmo said that Clara County is often regarded anxiety and trauma in the Latino pyramid is upside-down. as an affluent area, with high community over the possibility median incomes and comparably that parents may be separated A struggle for low- high housing costs, there remain from their children. income families residential pockets in the region Free services for many of these that are also experiencing high families may be available in San Theoretically, low-income levels of poverty, being subjected Jose, Rodriguez said, but that families with children in San- to crime, and have poor health doesn’t help when transportation ta Clara County are afforded outcomes,” the report found. time and work schedules make a comprehensive set of men- Some inroads have been made it too difficult to access. Rather tal health services through the to connect hard-to-reach North than take referrals to San Jose county’s behavioral health sys- County families with mental when there are space constraints tem, with the state’s Medi-Cal health services. The nonprofit at CHAC, she said, many would program picking up the costs. Community Health Awareness rather wait for an opening in the That suite of services includes Council provides services at 34 Latinx program, regardless of everything from psychiatric care schools in Sunnyvale, Moun- how long it takes. and psychological therapy, crisis tain View and Los Altos and “I keep calling them and saying BACK TO residential treatment and inpa- therapy at its El Camino clinic we don’t have anybody to serve tient psychiatric hospitalization. on a sliding scale. CHAC pours you and they say, ‘Okay, I’ll just But in many cases, these significant resources into helping stay on the waitlist,’” she said. SCHOOL resources aren’t reaching the lower-income and Latino fami- “There’s always a waiting list of youth who need it, with state data lies who are in these “pockets,” 30 or more people, and those showing only a small portion of silently struggling through men- clients are not going anywhere children and adolescents eligible tal, emotional and behavioral else. I’ve asked them, ‘Did you for the services are receiving health challenges. Perhaps the get services? Were you able to see consistent mental health care. most successful is the nonprofit’s someone?’ and they didn’t.” You can change the life of a student! The latest state data available Latinx program, which provides CHAC’s program offers ser- shows that 187,624 people under hundreds of Spanish-speaking vices on a sliding scale ranging Come learn about volunteering as a the age of 21 are eligible for care families with culturally sensitive from $20 to $130 based on a cli- Tutor or Mentor in our local schools. through the county’s “Specialty psychotherapy, family counsel- ent’s ability to pay — with mostly Mental Health Services,” which ing, parenting classes and sup- philanthropic, private donations are paid for through Medi-Cal port groups. picking up the rest of the cost — but administered by individual CHAC clinical supervisor and many of the families seeking JOIN US counties. Of those children and Rebecca Jedel said a dispropor- services simply don’t have the young adults, only 10,608 — tionate amount of the nonprofit’s means to pay for a private prac- FOR A about 5.7 percent — had at least staff time is devoted to making tice therapist. Many struggle to VOLUNTEER INFORMATION one appointment for mental sure kids from the high-needs pay the lowest $20 fee, and others health care in the 2015-16 year. schools in the region get treat- feel so crushed by the high cost SESSION Among patients who sought ment, particularly Castro and of living that mental health and consistent mental services, mea- Mistral elementary schools in wellness is the last thing on their Sept. 12 • 12:00-1:00 pm sured roughly by children and Mountain View, where a majority minds, Rodriguez said. El Camino YMCA youth with five or more visits in a of families speak Spanish in the “That’s a huge problem right 2400 Grant Road, Mountain View single year, that rate drops to 4.5 home and whose children qualify now in Mountain View and Please allow extra time for parking percent. for free and reduced-price meals Sunnyvale. You can’t deal with Survey data collected by the at school. The patients who rely anything when you don’t have a California Health Interview on the nonprofit aren’t necessari- roof over your head — that’s all V Special thanks to the YMCA for hosting Survey has consistently found ly teens struggling with academic you can worry about,” she said. between 18 to 23 percent of teens pressure, but families dealing RSVP to Audrey: 650-641-2821 or needed help with an emotional with neglect, domestic violence, and mental health problem in child abuse, divorce, financial This article is the first in a two- [email protected] any given year, indicating the stress and even homelessness. part series that was supported majority aren’t being reached Many of these families could by a USC Annenberg Center MentorTutorConnection.org by county services. This low benefit from Medi-Cal, but for Health Journalism “penetration rate,” defined by the there’s an unfamiliarity and California Fellowship.

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What are your thoughts Who should be appointed How would you solve the What should be done on the business license tax to the Rental Housing housing crisis? with RVs on the street? increase (Measure P)? Committee (RHC)? “This is a drop in the bucket “The best way to build affordable whether it's small businesses or large “I’m not going to throw them out just “I'll ask the other candidates: Will you Lenny Siegel housing is to build lots of market-rate businesses ... We're doing it in a way because some people don't like to look at be willing to appoint people who will housing.” that will benefit businesses and the them.” be willing to implement rent control?” rest of Mountain View.”

“This is not just a Mountain View “I'll be looking for someone who will “We need to create a better jobs-housing “We're urbanizing, and when you problem; it's a regional problem ... We uphold the community will and who Alison Hicks balance, and not get ahead of ourselves look at other urban cities, they need should have a conversation with the will listen fairly and with an open by building more and more offices.” some kind of tax system.” county about greater solutions.” mind.”

“When we were looking at our Regional “I think this is a lesson in how to be “It's not a long-term solution to live Needs Housing Assessment, I saw zero transparent and to meet with different out of your RV. How can we (work with “Having different perspectives is key to Ellen Kamei for middle-income housing — that's stakeholder groups when you’re nonoprofits) to help to make sure there's bringing as many voices to the table.” something I hope to create.” putting something together.” an end to that?” “The city has a positive relationship “In Mountain View, being poor is not a “The housing crisis affects everyone. and interacts regularly with (the “People who are on the RHC have crime, that's the issue. But we do need to Pat Showalter We need to have a very large toolbox of business community). That's a good to have a commitment to make this be strict about (those) that live in RVs that things that we use to work on it.” thing and I hope we'll continue to do program work.” are having criminal activity.” that.” “I would emphasize protecting the “Smaller companies that want to start “Julian Pardo de Zela - I think he would housing that's there. The stock of pre- in Mountain View, when they get to “The RVs on the street are a problem for John Inks be a good replacement, and I hope the 1995 housing is under the threat of being 50 employees they might be asking: neighborhoods.” council puts him on.” turned into million-dollar townhouses.” ‘Do we want to stay here?’” “I’d explore opportunities to use public “The solution is to add housing, “We need to be reasonable in our land for RVs and vehicle dwellers. But “I will support people for the RHC who especially in areas where there are plenty approach and that the expenditures Lucas Ramirez long-term we have to move aggressively will support the fair implementation of of jobs and not enough opportunities to benefit not only residents but also the to help people living in those cars to Measure V.” live near your jobs.” businesss community.” relocate into permanent housing.” The top issues from last week’s forum are shown with responses from the six City Council candidates. COUNCIL RACE candidates were also asked about idea. Paid parking is worth indicated general support. Inks on the candidates’ positions can Continued from page 5 the growing homeless popula- testing out as a pilot program, said Measure P would hurt busi- be found online at mv-voice.com. tion, exemplified by the inhab- Kamei said. nesses by disincentivizing them The next candidate forum will spectrum was Mayor Lenny ited vehicles on city streets. The Chamber of Commerce from growing beyond certain be hosted by the League of Wom- Siegel, who indicated he was Mountain View is funding three moderator also made sure to thresholds. Siegel was the only en Voters on Wednesday, Sept. less concerned with the quali- full-time workers who are trying ask about the city’s proposed champion for the proposed tax, 26, at Charlie’s Cafe on the ties of housing, rather than the to help people living on the street employee-based tax on busi- describing it as a “drop in the Google campus at 1600 Amphi- quantity. Solving the housing access services, but it a difficult nesses, which some are call- bucket” for most businesses to theatre Way in Mountain View. crisis means new market-rate balancing act, Showalter said. ing the “Google tax.” Kamei pay. The event is scheduled for 4 p.m. housing and lots of it, which Poverty isn’t a crime, but the city and Ramirez both said the city The candidates spoke about a to 5:15 p.m. with a reception to would provide fees to pay for new needs to enforce rules against any could have done better in draft- variety of issues, including trans- follow. V subsidized housing, he said. criminal activity stemming from ing the tax increase with the portation, teacher housing and Email Mark Noack at Housing is the “existential those vehicles, she said. business community, but they sustainability. More information [email protected]. crisis” of Mountain View, said Many other candidates touted Ramirez. The best way to solve Mountain View as a “compas- the crisis is to build high-density sionate” city. Hicks and Ramirez housing near job centers, he said. both said that public land should He plugged long-term planning be repurposed as some kind to encourage more duplexes, of temporary parking area for triplexes and transit systems. vehicle dwellers. Inks, who said “Over time as the community he had previously been an “urban evolves ... I think we can retrofit camper,” pointed out that many this community in a way that residents are losing patience with makes transit a viable option for people squatting in their neigh- people,” he said. borhoods, and he suggested the Echoing a theme of her cam- city needed to stop “subsidizing paign, Kamei touted building habits.” more housing priced for the Speaking next, Siegel swiftly “missing middle,” those earning denounced the push to sweep the too much to qualify for afford- homeless out of town. able housing but not enough to “I will not be intimidated by buy a home. A recent Bay Area the intolerant few who think housing assessment reported we can play whack-a-mole and that Mountain View had built knock them out of our commu- zero homes fitting this income nity,” he said. “I’m not going to category, she said. throw them out just because we Inks parted ways with the don’t like to look at them.” group on this issue, saying On another issue, bringing city policies were causing old- paid parking to downtown er affordable apartments to be Mountain View, Siegel was in razed and rebuilt into pricey the minority. He came out condos. He didn’t utter the words against the idea for dispropor- “rent control,” but his implication tionately punishing the poor, was clear. while other candidates indicated Dovetailing with housing, they were open to studying the

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SEISMIC RETROFITS Continued from page 1 Old Middlefield Way they did not receive a “fair rate of return” that year due to invest- ments in seismic improvements. Although a mandatory retrofit Middlefield Rd. program would not necessarily San Antonio Rd. mean property owners would be able to pass the costs on to tenants, a voluntary program would California St. mean landlords would have to eat the costs. Capital improvements that are required to comply with local laws can be included in a petition to increase rents, El Camino Real whereas discretionary upgrades can’t be included. “If it’s a mandatory program, Moffett Blvd. it’s not an absolute guarantee that they can recover (the money) in a S. Rengstorff Avenue Central Expy.

N. Whisman Road rent increase,” City Manager Dan Escuela Ave. Rich said. “But if it’s voluntary, it’s an absolute guarantee that Latham St. they cannot recover it.” N. San Antonio Rd. Councilwoman Margaret Abe- Koga said a mandatory program would need to come with some Shoreline Blvd. kind of support from the city, Church St. whether it be a low- or zero-inter- Castro St. est loan program to carry out the construction work or financial Suspected assistance using affordable housing funds. She suggested that the soft-story money could come from hous- residential ing impact fees from developers, S. El Monte Ave. which could potentially be used buildings to offset the costs to landlords. “We either have to make it vol-

untary and hope for the best or Units Springer Road Springer make it mandatory and ensure 1 150 Grant Rd. that there is funding available 50 for them to do it, and that may 184 100 Miramonte Ave. mean that we just have to fund it Cuesta Dr. ourselves,” Abe-Koga said. Liquefaction zone Taking a similar approach, Councilwoman Lisa Matcihak said the city should explore ways to “100 percent” fund the retrofit work, possibly through grants. Without that kind of Blue dots on the map represent suspected soft-story buildings and the number of housing units they include. financial help, Matichak said members John McAlister and summer, city officials declined majority of the potentially haz- Real represents the most densely she couldn’t back a mandatory Abe-Koga expressed concerns to post the list publicly, calling ardous homes are two- and three- packed region of potentially dan- retrofit program. about the burden on property it a preliminary way to take story rental housing structures gerous buildings, accounting for “I can’t support having a cost owners but did not explicitly stock of buildings that might be built between 1950 and 1980 with roughly half of the units. that we’re placing upon housing oppose the idea, while Matichak at risk rather than a definitive parking on the ground floor and A large portion of the city, providers that they don’t have a said she couldn’t support a ret- roster of vulnerable housing housing units above. While build- encompassing about a quarter way to recover,” she said. rofit program without strong units. Some of the buildings, ing designs vary significantly, of the housing identified in the Councilman Ken Rosenberg financial support from the city. following a detailed inspection, more than half of the 5,123 hous- report, is on ground prone to said he worried many property may be deemed safe. Following ing units have a “long side open,” liquefaction, which increases the owners are going to crunch the Taking stock the Voice’s repeated inquiries, meaning that the structural vul- risk of buildings being damaged numbers and find that bearing building officials, citing an unex- nerability is along the long side of in an earthquake, according to the full cost of the retrofit work Ahead of the Sept. 4 council pected level of public interest, a rectangular building. data from the U.S. Geological simply isn’t worth it, and that meeting, Mountain View city released the list of addresses on Residential buildings identified Survey. The liquefaction zone it would be a better return on staff released a list of hundreds Aug. 30 — albeit with most of the in the study range from having includes nearly all of the city investment to simply tear down of addresses with suspected survey details removed. one single vulnerable housing north of Central Expressway, these older buildings and replace soft-story residential buildings, The survey, conducted by struc- unit to as many as 184 units on along with portions of the Old them with units not constrained encompassing more than 5,000 tural engineer David Bonowitz, a property. In the Shoreline West Mountain View and Shoreline by rent control. rental units across the city. identified 488 suspected soft- neighborhood, for example, the West neighborhoods. “There was a reason I didn’t The list, which the Voice story buildings that have at least study found 53 small multi- Building officials cautioned support rent control all these acquired through a state Public three residential units, a total of unit rental properties totaling that the study is preliminary and years,” Rosenberg said. “This is Records Act request, was put 5,123 housing units representing just under 200 housing units subject to change, and that not all just unintended consequences together by a consultant tasked about 16 percent of the city’s total are potentially at risk. Larger of the units on each identified coming back to bite people in the with figuring out which prop- housing stock. buildings with more than 40 property may be at risk. Moun- butt.” erties in Mountain View could The data shattered older esti- units, primarily along Latham tain View is also on fairly stable A majority of the council — be subject to a seismic retrofit mates compiled in a San Jose Street and Escuela and Montecito ground compared to places like Mayor Lenny Siegel and council program. An interactive map of State University study, which avenues, account for 1,700 of the Foster City, meaning the lique- members Pat Showalter, Clark, the properties is available on the identified 111 buildings and 1,129 soft-story units listed. faction zone is not a significant and Rosenberg — said they Voice’s website or at tinyurl.com/ housing units at risk of collapse The area bounded by Shoreline factor in terms of public safety, supported the idea of a manda- MVVmap2018. in a sizable earthquake. Boulevard, Showers Drive, Cen- according to Shellie Woodworth, tory retrofit program. Council For several months this The survey shows that the vast tral Expressway and El Camino the city’s chief building official. V

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Keep it civil: Don’t vandalize campaign signs Founding Editor, Kate Wakerly By Pat Showalter And of course, that is likely to translate into everywhere. At our council meetings, people QSTAFF more people voting for John Inks. Somehow, are treated cordially. Whether you are speak- EDITOR have always loved the political signs that I doubt that was the desired outcome of the ing during public comment, testifying about Andrea Gemmet (223-6537) come out before elections. Colorful signs tagger. a specific item or one of the council members, with upbeat messages illustrate how many I want this election to be about the major you get to have your say without anyone call- EDITORIAL I people are willing to step up to run for public issues that are facing our community, like ing you names or making fun of you. On the Assistant Editor Julia Brown (223-6531) office. That’s a positive thing in our democ- housing in the North Bayshore, traffic reduc- rare occasions when people break our custom Arts & Entertainment Editor racy. When I was a kid in Virginia, most had tion, the best way to solve the RV issue and of civility, they are asked to speak with respect. Karla Kane (223-6517) to do with federal elections. how we are going to meet It usually works. The payoff of this custom Special Sections Editor Here most signs are about our greenhouse gas emission of civility is all around us. Think of all the Linda Taaffe (223-6511) local elections. Guest Opinion goals. I don’t want it to be things that Mountain View has been able to Staff Writers So seeing the vandalism of about petty things like who accomplish. Kevin Forestieri (223-6535) Mark Noack (223-6536) John Inks’ signs really bothers defaced whose signs. I have asked all the candidates who are run- me. In elections, we are supposed to be able to So tagger, whoever you are, knock it off. ning for City Council to sign this editorial and Contributors Dale Bentson, Peter Canavese, Magali Gauthier, talk civilly about what we care about in our Put your paint can away. Please channel that they all agreed. We condemn the vandalism Natalia Nazarova, Ruth Schecter, community. Perspectives always differ, but energy into positive stuff that you can do in the of campaign signs. They are part of our First Monica Schreiber it’s good to have the issues identified and hear daylight. Write a letter to the editor, precinct Amendment right of free speech. Let’s do DESIGN & PRODUCTION how people feel about them. Having a civil walk for a candidate you do support or volun- what’s right for Mountain View! Let’s make Design and Production Manager dialogue during the election is healthy. There teer for a local charity. this election about the issues. Kristin Brown (223-6562) are many things that intelligent people do not One of the things that has characterized Pat Showalter is a City Council member Designers Linda Atilano, Kaitlyn Khoe, agree on. Mountain View politics over the years is a running for re-election this November Rosanna Kuruppu, Paul Llewellyn, This vandalism is just mean. It turns John high level of civility. As someone who attended along with incumbent Lenny Siegel and Talia Nakhjiri, Doug Young Inks into someone who is being picked on, council meetings and other community candidates Alison Hicks, Ellen Kamai, ADVERTISING someone who isn’t being treated properly. For meetings at a variety of cities in the course of Lucas Ramirez and former council member Vice President Sales and Marketing most of us, that causes us to feel sorry for him. doing my job, I can tell you this is not the case John Inks. Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) Advertising Representative V.K. Moudgalya (223-6586) QLETTERS Real Estate Account Executive VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY Rosemary Lewkowitz (223-6585) Advertising Services Manager PROPOSED NEW SCHOOL Kohl’s would be a significant encampment. And as to team sports, there are Kevin Legarda (223-6597) The new school being planned reduction in shopping options As this is a large transient many others. Published every Friday at by the Los Altos School District for this growing city. population, we cannot let our Years later, the clamoring par- 450 Cambridge Avenue board in Mountain View must I have always believed that kids play in front of our house, ents are back, this time citing Palo Alto, CA 94306 the decisions of the entire we are picking up trash daily in other sports and activities that (650) 964-6300 fax (650) 964-0294 be a school that serves Moun- City Council are in the best our front yard and our property might utilize a lighted stadium. Email news and photos to: tain View residents first. 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In Classified Advertising Sales future enrollment growth” by us who pay rent, mortgage, and fact, the local public high school (650) 964-6490 • (650) 326-8286 the new site in Mountain View. fax (650) 326-0155 I believe that this is a big mis- condemning other commercial property taxes. footballers will play against Email Classified [email protected] take. This plan may allow the properties on the south side of Besides providing once a each other on Oct. 6 at Foothill Email Circulation El Camino Real. month street sweeping, por- College (if healthy players can [email protected] board to move the Bullis school out of town and open up a site, Jim Cochran table toilets and showers, what be found). The Voice is published weekly by Thaddeus Drive is our City Council and police If the school board does decide Embarcadero Media Co. and distributed free but it is against the interests of to residences and businesses in Mountain Mountain View residents. department doing to curb this to impose nighttime stadium View. If you are not currently receiving the I even question the need for growing epidemic and keep our activities on the neighborhoods, paper, you may request free delivery by NOT IN MY FRONT YARD neighborhood safe? there should be expressed limits calling 964-6300. Subscriptions for $60 per the additional school, except I’m proud to live and work year, $100 per 2 years are welcome. for improving convenience Frank Wood — for example, no rap music ©2018 by Embarcadero Media in Mountain View and often Villa Street concerts and no lights after a Company. All rights reserved. for Mountain View residents. brag that I raise my kids in Mountain View is paying a certain hour. 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Don- letters will also appear on the web site, how enrollment can grow in are 40 to 50 RVs bordering the Los Altos with current zoning. football stadiums at Mountain ald Trump is president of the www.MountainViewOnline.com, and well-utilized Rengstorff Park, View and Los Altos high schools United States in no small part occasionally on the Town Square forum. It is clear the school board has a with more spilling over into long-standing conflict with the (“Community divided over high because students have not been Town Square forum our neighboring streets. Many school stadium lights,” Aug. adequately introduced to the Post your views on Town Square at Bullis school and that may color park well over the 72-hour code MountainViewOnline.com their decisions. 17), I suggested in a guest col- importance of participating in Email limit, run generators and dis- your views to The takeover of a section of a umn that the high school board politics — voting and far more. [email protected]. 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FEY’S EXTENSIVE MENU OFFERS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE Story by Ruth Schechter | Photos by Natalia Nazarova ost people heading seafood dishes, from Sichuan out to dinner at a classics such as walnut shrimp, Sichuan restaurant salt-and-pepper squid and fish fall somewhere between two in black bean sauce to more camps: those who want authen- unusual offerings, such as green tic cuisine and those who are onion and ginger sea cucum- looking for the typical Chinese ber, hot stone plate red wine comfort food they know and shrimp and something called crave. At Fey, the two factions dry cook belt fish. The pork can dine happily side by side. section features 30 items and Quality, meet quantity. the vegetable section runs from The 5-year-old restaurant, eggplant and potatoes (#193) located just north of the traffic through spicy a choy, a Taiwan- bottlenecks along El Camino ese lettuce (#210). And there are Real in Menlo Park, made long listings for noodles, soups, waves shortly after it opened by dumplings, appetizers, chicken receiving the Michelin Guide’s and beef. You get the idea. Bib Gourmand distinction, The restaurant is nicely deco- given to restaurants that offer rated, with silvery fish cascad- excellent food at a reasonable ing along one wall and more of price. Things have not changed the same dangling from a ceil- in that respect. ing mobile. Festive ball-shaped Fey has an immense menu light fixtures are incongruously with 12 pages of dishes orga- paired with a crystal chandelier nized by main ingredients, fol- by the front door. Roomy booths lowed by a subsection labeled and large, well-spaced tables can “Family Traditional Private Kitchen.” One section lists 53 See FEY RESTAURANT, page 19

Left: Hong Kong-style crispy egg noodles and mushrooms with grilled vegetables are among Fey’s extensive menu of Chinese dishes. Below, left: Han Ying Wang Gao, owner of Fey Sichuan restaurant in Menlo Park. Below: Sparkling silver fish decorate the wall in Fey’s dining room.

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then $1.50 to $12.95 for anything from sauce to meat and veg- QDININGNOTES etables). It’s a definite must for a Fey Restaurant group. 1368 El Camino Real True to form, Fey also offers an Menlo Park extensive lunch menu (I counted 650-324-8888 38 options, $8.95 to $9.95) of mostly standard fare ranging from feyrestaurant.com curry shrimp to broccoli beef. Hours: Lunch daily Service throughout was exem- 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; plary. Servers were friendly, Dinner, Sunday-Thursday prompt and stopped by often to 5-9:30 p.m., see how we were doing, including Friday-Saturday 5-10 p.m. making suggestions on how best to reheat our massive collection Credit cards of leftovers. Dishes were stag- Reservations gered so that everything didn’t arrive at the table at once, and Catering water glasses were filled con- Takeout stantly and unobtrusively. Outdoor seating Fey’s menu is so extensive that Happy Hour Crunchy fried egg noodles are topped with scallops, shrimp, fish and vegetables. finding the standouts can seem like pure guesswork. It’s amazing Parking Street FEY RESTAURANT mix of scallops, shrimp and fish We noticed heating units built that the kitchen can put out so Alcohol Wine Continued from page 18 with sautéed broccoli, bok choy into the tabletops for another many dishes as well as it does. I Noise level Low and peapods, served on a cluster house specialty, make-your-own plan on working my way through Bathroom handle large parties and, more of crunchy noodles that quickly hot pot, which you pay for by a few more pages until I find my cleanliness Excellent importantly, the gigantic platters sopped up the light, tasty sauce. ingredient ($6.95 for a small base, favorites. V of dishes coming out of the kitch- The fish fillet in black bean sauce en. Each item we ordered arrived ($13.95) was both savory and on plates the size of a medium sweet, and the fish tender and pizza, with enough food for at least flavorful. two additional meals at home. Less successful was the dry After sipping tea and nibbling cooked string bean with pork on complimentary crispy won- ($12.95), which was marked on tons, we got down to business. the menu with a pepper con- Our waiter warned us that we noting that it is a spicy option. were being too ambitious about My craving for spicy knows no our appetites, so we limited limits, so I found this notation ourselves to a few selections. The misleading. The dish lacked Hong Kong style pan-fried crispy verve and the meat was so salty egg noodles ($14.95) was a lovely it was unpalatable.

Shepherd’s purse soup is served with fish at Fey in Menlo Park.

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Klaus (Joe Alwyn), leading opera- — a composite character played QMOVIEOPENINGS tives from Mossad and Shin Bet by Mélanie Laurent— charged to “the architect of the Final Solu- with drugging Eichmann to get tion.” The mission parameters him out of the country unde- are clear: under the top-secret tected). But the film hits its stride direction of Israeli Prime Min- once Malkin and Eichmann ister David Ben-Gurion (British must deal with each other in a master thespian Simon Russell subdued but intriguing mind Beale, in a single-scene walk- game as the team awaits safe on), Malkin and company are to passage and attempts to get “catch and extract” Eichmann, Eichmann to sign all-important rather than put a very satisfying extraction papers. bullet in his head. The end game Wisely, Kingsley doesn’t play is very public justice for the high- Eichmann as a cardboard vil- est-ranking perpetrator of the lain, instead keeping a tight rein Holocaust and, with it, perhaps even on the little tics designed to some healing for the murders of make our skin crawl and priori- 6 million European Jews. tizing the swirl of strategies and But if Ben-Gurion has his eye feelings racing through a captive on the big picture (“For the first who has a pretty good idea how time in history, we will judge our this will end. So do we, so it’s no executioner”), one Mossad agent small feat on the parts of Orton sums up the emotional response and director Chris Weitz (“About to this opportunity: “We should a Boy”) that “Operation Finale”

PHOTO BY VALERIA FLORINI COURTESY OF 2018 METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES INC. be putting him down like a mad carries anything like suspense. Oscar Isaac stars in “Operation Finale.” dog.” Keeping that instinct in Some of the scripting and staging check is no easy feat, a tension proves clunky, and the climax “Operation Finale” consistently gets a slight “improvement”-to- in the film’s opening sequence, dramatizes. Woven throughout history punch-up, but by insist- Cornering evil but he’s still in the game. Eich- the mission are variant visions ing upon the complexity of the mann lives calmly in Buenos of the death of Malkin’s sister human animal and only spar- ‘OPERATION FINALE’ SENDS OSCAR ISAAC’S SPY Aires, with wife and children, a Fruma, some of them incorpo- ingly reaching for action beats AFTER BEN KINGSLEY’S NAZI workaday job, and a secret social rating Eichmann — for Malkin and lyrical notes, the filmmakers life in the embrace of worshipful has only the sketchiest details of largely escape cliché. 000 (Palo Alto Square, is the other. The circumstances Argentinian Nazis. her demise. Rated PG-13 for disturbing the- Century 20) of Eichmann’s capture and trans- In understandably shorthand As the film’s protagonist, Isaac matic content and related violent Not everything works in port to Jerusalem to stand trial fashion, Matthew Orton’s screen- skillfully conveys Malkin’s hurt images, and for some language. “Operation Finale” — the his- for war crimes allow for multiple play notes how a Jewish family intelligence and charm (he has a Two hours, 2 minutes. torical drama about the capture tête-à-tête between two very fine stumbled upon Eichmann’s son romantic history with the doctor — Peter Canavese of fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann thespians, reason enough to — but there’s enough to form revisit the Eichmann affair. a functional spy thriller and, In 1960, when most of the film QNOWSHOWING more importantly, an intrigu- unfolds, each man has sublimat- Alpha (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) ing character study of two men ed his hatred, projecting an ami- Century 20: Fri. - Sun. (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun. shaped by hatred. Eichmann is able demeanor that allows him to one, portrayed to great effect go about his business. Malkin’s Ant-Man and the Wasp (PG-13) +++ Mamma Mia! Here we Go Again (PG-13) by Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley; espionage career has taken a hit Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. legendary Mossad agent Peter from an earlier misfire in the Apartment for Peggy (1948) (Not Rated) The Meg (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Malkin, as played by Oscar Isaac, hunt for Eichmann, depicted Century 20: Fri. - Sun. BlacKkKlansman (R) +++1/2 Mission: Impossible Fallout (PG-13) 1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. +++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Christopher Robin (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Inspirations The Nun (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. a gguideuide to tthehe sspiritualpiritual community Crazy Rich Asians (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Operation Finale (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Eighth Grade (R) +++1/2 Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. To include your Papillon (R) Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. God Bless the Broken Road (PG) Peppermint (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Church in Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (PG) ++ Searching (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Inspirations Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. please email Incredibles 2 (PG) ++1/2 Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Sound of Music (1965) (G) Century 20: Sunday sales@ Juliet, Naked (R) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Three Identical Strangers (PG-13) embarcadero Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Kin (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. publishing.com Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Wife (R) +++ Guild Theatre: Fri. - Sun. The Little Stranger (R) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Ya Veremos (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 327-3241) tinyurl.com/Aquariuspa Sundays at 4pm Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View tinyurl.com/Century16 360 S. 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20 Q Mountain View Voice Q MountainViewOnline.com Q September 7, 2018 VOICE MOUNTAINVIEW QHIGHLIGHT 47TH MOUNTAIN VIEW ART & WINE FESTIVAL The 47th Mountain View Art & Wine Festival will feature live music, over 500 professional artists, the “Mountain View’s Got Talent” community stage, activities for kids and food and wine. Sept. 8, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sept. 9, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Downtown Mountain View, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. bit.ly/mountain-view-art-and-wine-festival

FESTIVALS & FAIRS Gatherers. Sept. 13, 8-10 p.m. $25-$35. an overview of Amazon’s facial recognition exhibition will employ a wide range of media program will include a member-led discussion Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo technology, summarize results of the ACLU’s and demonstrate a variety in style and content. and demonstration of unusual plants, as Train Days Rolls into Los Altos History Alto. paloaltojcc.org report showing false matching, and detail the An opening reception will be held Sept. 7, 5-8 well as a plant sale of diverse plant varieties Museum Train Days will return for two days 100th Anniversary Community concerns of the ACLU and other tech leaders p.m. Exhibit through Sept. 30, times vary. Free. donated by members. Sept. 12, 7:30-9 p.m. of celebration of model railroading. Layouts will Festival The University AME Zion Church about the premature deployment of the Gallery 9, 143 Main St., Los Altos. Free-$10. Los Altos Youth Center, 1 N. San greet visitors of all ages with scaled renditions of will celebrate its 100th anniversary with local technology. Sept. 11, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Free-$22. Antonio Road, Los Altos. westernhort.org/ prototypes, engines and theme cars replete with vendors, games, face painting, bounce houses, Café Baklava Mediterranean Grill, 341 Castro St., OUTDOOR RECREATION speakers-events steam, lights and sound. Sept. 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. food and music. Sept. 8, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Mountain View. tian.greens.org/TASC.shtml Native Plant Gardens and Pollinators Free-$5. Los Altos History Museum, 51 S. San University AME Zion Church, 3549 Middlefield Instructor Juanita Salisbury will explain how VOLUNTEERING Antonio Road, Los Altos. losaltoshistory.org/events Road, Palo Alto. FILM to create a landscape plan, what plants to Coastal Cleanup Day 2018 - Site 11: OPERA Tolkien Musical Performance Celtic and From STEM to STEAM: How an use and why, and how to maintain a habitat Stevens Creek There will be a Coastal medieval music duo Margaret & Kristoph will Engineer Wrote a Play Narrative science over many years. Afterwards, there will be Cleanup Day at Stevens Creek. Volunteers are Bay Area Opera Collaborative perform a program of original musical settings film “Humanity Needs Dreamers: A Visit with a walk-through of Gamble Garden’s native encouraged to bring your own pickup sticks, Presents ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ of songs from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Marie Curie” will have its Bay Area debut plants. Sept. 8, 9:30-11:30 a.m. $25-$35. reuseable water bottles and gloves. All youth Bay Area Opera Collaborative will present a Rings” and “The Hobbit.” Sept. 13, 7-8 p.m. screening. The film will be followed by a keynote Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo under 18 need supervision and transportation gender-swapped production of “The Pirates of Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., presentation and panel discussion exploring Alto. gamblegarden.org/event/native-plant- to cleanup site. Sept. 15, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. 189 Penzance,” a romance between two pirates. Mountain View. mountainview.libcal.com the intersection of STEM and the performing gardens-pollinators Central Ave., Mountain View. Search eventbrite. Sept. 8-9, 15, 16, 22-23, times vary. $13-$26. World Harmony Chorus The Community arts and why STEAM is vital in shaping global Western Horticultural Society, com for more info. Hillview Middle School Performing Arts Center, School of Music and Arts invites singers and opportunities in the 21st century. Sept. 7, Rehydrating US: The Watershed 1100 Elder Ave., Menlo Park. bayop.org non-singers of all ages to the World Harmony 5 p.m. Free. Computer History Museum, Landscape Approach The Western HOME & GARDEN THEATER Chorus rehearsal. Attendees will participate 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. Horticultural Society will host a presentation Silicon Valley Tour De Coop The Silicon in making music. Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m. Free. computerhistory.org/events/upcoming about the watershed approach, which Valley Tour de Coop is a free, self-guided bicycle ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride’ The Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San UNAFF in Libraries: ‘Newtown’ seeks to re-hydrate U.S soils by directing tour of chicken coops, gardens, bee hives, hoop Los Altos Stage Company will present “The Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Search meetup. Filmed over the course of nearly three years, rainwater into healthy living soil and reducing houses and Silicon Valley urban homesteads. Legend of Georgia McBride,” a comedy about com for more info. “Newtown” uses deeply personal, never- dependence upon irrigation water by restoring Sept. 15, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Silicon Valley an Elvis impersonator who is replaced by a before-heard testimonies to tell the story of the naturally regulating water cycles. Each Coops, 4265 Alma St., Palo Alto. tourdecoop.org B-level drag show. Through Sept. 30. $20-$38. LESSONS & CLASSES aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting of Bus Barn Theatre, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Workshop on How to Harvest schoolchildren in American history. Sept. 13, 7-9 losaltosstage/georgia-McBride Rainwater for Your Garden and Our p.m. Free. Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, ‘Northanger Abbey’ Pear Theatre presents Creeks Grassroots Ecology at Gamble Garden Palo Alto. paloalto.bibliocommons.com/events “Northanger Abbey,” adapted by Pear founder will teach the hows and whys of rainwater Diane Tasca from the novel by Jane Austen. capture, give a presentation on sustainable MUSEUMS & EXHIBITS In this play, Northanger Abbey follows several rainwater management and lead tours of the ‘Painting Nature in the American young ladies and gentlemen as they negotiate new rainwater installations at Gamble. Sept. 8, Gilded Age’ The Cantor Arts Center’s newest romances, friendships, betrothals and betrayals. 10-11 a.m. Free. Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley exhibition will consider how nature was depicted Join our team! Through Sept. 23, 8 p.m. $15-$35. The Pear St., Palo Alto. gamblegarden.org/event by American artists from the 1880s to 1910, an Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View. era of unprecedented industrialization and urban We’re looking for talented, Search facebook.com/events for more info. FAMILY development. Through landscapes, portraits Palo Alto Players Presents: Disney’s Mighty Middle Grade: Heidi Lang, Kati and still lifes, the exhibition will delve into the highly-motivated and dynamic people ‘Tarzan’ Theatre company Palo Alto Players Bartkowski, Beth McMullen and Jill importance of nature for artists and the public. Through Aug. 25, times vary. Free. Cantor Arts will present the musical “Tarzan,” based on the Diamond Heidi Lang and Kati Bartkowski, Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Embarcadero Media is an independent multimedia news organization Disney movie. There will also be an opening sisters and co-authors of “A Dash of Dragons,” Stanford. museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions night party on Sept. 8 with a post-show will discuss their books “A Hint of Hydra” and with over 35 years of providing award-winning local news, community champagne reception and a post-show director/ “Beth McMullen for Power Play.” Jill Diamond, Susan Richardson: ‘Enchanted information and entertainment to the Midpeninsula. cast talkback on Sept.13 with director Patrick author of the “Lou Lou and Pea” series, will Conversations and Broken Dreams’ Klein and members of the cast. Sept. 7-23, Art Ventures Gallery will feature a solo exhibit We are always looking for talented and creative people interested in moderate the discussion. Sept. 13, 6-7:30 p.m. joining our efforts to produce outstanding journalism and results for our times vary. $25-$55. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Free. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, of the work of artist Susan Richardson. The Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. paplayers.org Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com for more info. exhibit, called “Enchanted Conversations and advertisers through print and online. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Broken Dreams,” will be showing her current We currently have the following positions open body of work inspired by “The Great Gatsby” Presents ‘Native Gardens’ Award- TALKS & LECTURES for talented and outgoing individuals: winning playwright Karen Zacarías wrote and “Tender is the Night” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Lisa Prince Newman at Books Inc. Palo TheatreWorks’ new play “Native Gardens,” a There will be a closing reception on Sept. 15, 3-5 Alto Local blogger Lisa Prince Newman will • Accounts Receivable - Business Associate Manage client invoicing, suburban comedy about a Latino couple that p.m. Exhibit runs through Sept. 15, times vary. discuss her cookbook “For the Love of Apricots: payments and collections. Communicate with advertisers, work with the moves in next to a prominent Washington, Free. Art Ventures Gallery, 888 Santa Cruz Ave., Recipes and Memories of the Santa Clara sales team to resolve billing questions and aid the accounting staff. D.C., family. Conflicts over fences and flora Menlo Park. artventuresgallery.com Valley.” Sept. 13, 7-9 p.m. Free. Books Inc. Palo escalate into a strong dialogue about race, • Graphic Designer Creation/production of print and online ads, including Alto, 74 Town & Country Village, 855 El Camino Friday Night at the Art Center Friday taste, class and privilege. Through Sept. 16, editorial layout, in a fast-paced environment. Publishing experience and Real, Palo Alto. booksinc.net/event Night at the Palo Alto Art Center will celebrate times vary. $40-$100. Mountain View Center the opening of its new fall exhibition, “Care and video editing a plus, highly-motivated entry-level considered. Book Event with Lucinda Bakken for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Feeding: The Art of Parenthood.” There will be White • Digital Sales Account Representative Prospect and sell local businesses Mountain View. theatreworks.org Local author Lucinda Bakken White artists, food, music and more. Sept. 14, 7-10 p.m. will discuss her new memoir, “Confessions of a in our markets who have needs to brand and promote their businesses ‘Eleanor Roosevelt and The Power Free. Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Bone Woman: Realizing Authentic Wildness in a or events using our full-suite of digital solutions. Responsibilities include of Words’ “Eleanor Roosevelt: The Power Palo Alto. Search eventbrite.com for more info. Civilized World.” Sept. 8, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. East of Words,” a live performance about former excellent sales and closing skills on the phone, preparing proposals, West Bookshop 324 Castro St., Mountain View. Heritage Walks through Historic first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, will have its Bay maintaining a weekly sales pipeline and ability to hit deadlines and work eastwestbooks.org/events Orchard Hosted by the Los Altos History Area debut performance. Scholar and historical Museum, Robin Chapman, author of “California well under pressure. Sales experience is a plus, but we will consider well- Chris Hedges: This is Now with Angie interpreter Susan Marie Frontczak, who created Apricots: The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley,” qualiﬁed candidates with a passion to succeed. Coiro Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges will the play, portrays Eleanor Roosevelt as a mass will lead heritage walks through the Los Altos • Multimedia Visual Journalist Shoot photographs and video in Mountain communications genius. Sept. 9, 2-4 p.m. discuss his most recent book “America: The Civic Center Orchard. Sept. 8, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 View, Menlo Park and nearby communities including general and breaking $12. 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