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Kersten, JD 650.725.5524 [email protected] http://pgmed.stanford.edu Page 2ÊUÊÕÞÊ£È]ÊÓä£äÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ 1ST PLACE BEST LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE California Newspaper Publishers Association UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Palo Alto to scrap ‘binding arbitration’ for labor disputes? as a way to prohibit Palo Alto police County Grand Jury, which evaluated gan contract negotiations with Palo City revisits 1978 provision in response to officers and firefighters from strik- employee costs in local cities, criti- Alto Professional Firefighters, Local Santa Clara County Grand Jury report ing if contract negotiations stall. cizes binding-arbitration provisions 1319. Burt said the city still has time Since then, however, court rulings and recommends that San Jose give to place a binding-arbitration repeal by Gennady Sheyner and changes to California’s labor its voters an opportunity to repeal on the November ballot this year if code have made it illegal for public- the provision. The Palo Alto City the council decides to do so. alo Alto officials may soon their contract negotiations collapse, safety workers to strike, prompting Council is scheduled to discuss the The issue of binding arbitration ask city voters to repeal a lo- the Weekly has learned. city and county officials to take a report Monday night. has become more pertinent because P cal law that requires the city The “binding arbitration” provi- fresh look at binding-arbitration Mayor Pat Burt told the Weekly of the firefighters’ own ballot initia- and its police officers and firefight- sion has been in the City Charter provisions in their charters. that the report’s findings are relevant tive, which would require the city to ers to seek third-party arbitration if since 1978, when voters approved it A new report from a Santa Clara to Palo Alto, which last month be- hold a citywide vote any time it wants (continued on page 10) CRIME Trial set for Zumot Palo Alto hookah-shop owner to face jury in September on murder charge by Gennady Sheyner ulos Zumot, owner of the downtown Palo Alto shop BDa Hookah Spot, will go to trial on arson and murder charges in September despite last-minute arguments by his attorney Tuesday morning that evidence implicating Zumot is nonexistent. Zumot, 36, has been held with- out bail since Oct. 19, 2009, when Palo Alto police charged him with strangling his girlfriend, 29-year- old Jennifer Schipsi, and torching Kimihiro Hoshino Kimihiro their shared cottage on Addison Avenue on Oct. 15 to hide the evidence. Zumot’s attorney, Mark Geragos, downplayed the signifi- cance of police evidence — which includes various accounts of the Measures are being taken to protect the small farm at Ohlone Elementary School — with its sheep, goats, chickens and bees fight Schipsi and Zumot had the — during construction of the new two-story classroom building. night before the fire; their history of domestic violence; and the fact trict’s Co-Chief Business Officer Each class spends at least 45 that a trained police dog named EDUCATION Robert Golton said. minutes a week on the farm, Rosie smelled accelerant on sev- “It’s going to be educational which, in addition to animals, eral articles of Zumot’s clothing and sustainable.” contains a gazebo, special teach- — and asked Santa Clara County Ohlone Farm prepares In the meantime, caretakers of ing area, greenhouse, orchard, Judge David Cena to dismiss the the 15 chickens, two sheep, two vegetable garden and “butterfly case. goats and two beehives that oc- garden” planted with lavender, Police arrested Zumot after a for construction cupy the Ohlone Farm are ready cosmos, marigolds and petunias. Santa Clara County medical ex- Sheep, goats and garden will weather building of to take extra steps to protect their The 1-acre vegetable garden aminer determined that a bone in charges, if necessary. currently holds pumpkins, toma- Schipsi’s neck had been broken adjacent, two-story classroom structure “We’re hoping the bees will toes, sunflowers, corn, squash before the fire and that there was by Chris Kenrick live through the construction be- and cucumbers. The orchard is no smoke in her lungs or airways. cause they tend to be quite sen- planted with plum, apricot, apple, Police also found what they be- sitive to construction noise and pear and fig trees. lieved to be a melted gas can near hen kids head back to after-school day care. dirt,” science teacher and farm Families volunteer to visit the the bed where Schipsi’s body was Ohlone Elementary The new eco-friendly building, coordinator Tanya Buxton said. animals each morning and to found and reported a strong smell WSchool Aug. 24, they’ll with 12 classrooms and a plant- Buxton said farm managers take them in and feed them each of gasoline emanating from the encounter their new teachers, the ed roof that will be accessible and volunteers studied the archi- evening, on weekends and holi- victim’s body. pigs, goats and chickens on the to students, should be ready for tect’s daylight and shade analysis days. The coroner concluded Schip- school’s beloved farm — and a occupancy on Valentine’s Day of to make sure the farm’s garden The school holds a weekend si was dead before the fire was major construction site. 2012, school officials said. and orchard area would continue workday each month to take care started. Work will begin on a new, two- “When we’re finished we’re go- to receive maximum sunlight. of more significant chores. After hearing testimony from story classroom building adja- ing to have an exemplary build- The 25-year-old Ohlone Farm “It definitely takes the whole seven police officers on Monday cent to the school’s library and ing. Everybody’s going to love long has been a centerpiece of community to make it run,” said and Tuesday, Cena ruled that there farm on ground that previously the architecture and the green the school’s “developmentally is “sufficient cause” to believe Zu- held portable classrooms used for roof,” the Palo Alto school dis- based” curriculum. 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