THE CHALLENGE AUTHORIZATION? AOTS: GIRLS’, OF HELLSTRIPS GOP LEADER SAYS OBAMA MAY ACT IN IRAQ BOYS’TRACK WITHOUT SIGNOFF SUBURBAN LIVING PAGE 21 WORLD PAGE 8 SPORTS PAGE 11 Leading local news coverage on the Peninsula Thursday • June 19, 2014 • Vol XIII,Edition 262 www.smdailyjournal.com Lawsuit over CSM tree removal thrown out Appeals court states suit was beyond statute of limitations By Angela Swartz Tuesday that the district did notice the pub- ing the large trees from the ridgeline of the activities were within the scope of the proj- DAILY JOURNAL STAFF lic on the December 2010 tree-cutting proj- campus, installing new lights in the park- ect described in the initial study and miti- ect and that the appeal of the project was ing lots and reconfiguring the roads. The gated negative declaration. Even if the chal- A lawsuit over the removal of 201 trees beyond the 180-day statute of limitations. group sought to require an environmental lenged activities did differ substantially from College of San Mateo that upset Back in July 2011, neighbors in impact review before plans moved forward from the project described in the initial neighbors over the loss of the natural barri- Hillsborough joined together under the to cut trees and add new light fixtures, park- study and mitigated negative declaration, er from noise, traffic and buildings was name Citizens For a Green San Mateo and ing lots and roads, which the plaintiff said the lawsuit was filed July 1, 2011, more thrown out of court under a statue of limita- sued the San Mateo County Community affected the adjacent neighborhood. than 180 days after the removal of trees tions clause. College District for failing to conduct an The court’s ruling states the Gateway The California Court of Appeals ruled environmental impact review before remov- Phase I project and related tree removal See CSM, Page 23 San Mateo adds police to schools Middle,high schools hire officers to patrol and educate students By Samantha Weigel DAILY JOURNAL STAFF Protecting and educating children about bullying, crime and how to resist gangs are key responsibilities for San Mateo’s expanded school resource officer program aimed to support middle and high school students. The San Mateo City Council approved an agreement between the city, the San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District and the San Mateo Union High School District Monday night. Each entity will now share the cost ERIK OEVERNDIEK/DAILY JOURNAL to assign three police officers to cover the city’s three mid- Foster City’s closed Harry’s Hofbrau location is adjacent to the former Black Angus steakhouse which is now the site of the dle and high schools. future five-story,121-room TownePlace Suites,Extended Stay Hotel at 1299 Chess Drive. Ensuring children, schools and teachers are kept safe is New proposal for old hofbrau See POLICE, Page 23 Foster City hopes hotel will promote new restaurants California’s budget deal By Samantha Weigel seating, said Community where Foster City begins. Not too DAILY JOURNAL STAFF Development Director Curtis Banks. many people know there’s a boundary means more preschool The Harry’s Hofbrau location is adja- right next door,” Councilman Art With two longtime Foster City cent to the former Black Angus steak- Kiesel said. “A restaurant (at the Education officials would like to have restaurants closed, officials hope a house, now the site of the future five- Harry’s site) will be able to compete seen more early education investment story, 121-room TownePlace Suites, with Bridgepointe better than one on soon-to-be constructed hotel will be By Angela Swartz able to support a proposed restaurant Extended Stay Hotel at 1299 Chess the south side of (State Route) 92 DAILY JOURNAL STAFF center and enable it to compete with Drive. because … with the extended stay The city has long struggled to main- hotel it gives them a place to go eat the neighboring Bridgepointe Compromise is the name of the game with the California tain a successful retail presence with that’s just a short walk. It’d be the Shopping Center. budget’s inclusion of additional preschool programming, San Mateo’s neighboring and popular closest restaurant there so they’d Harry’s Hofbrau, at 1297 Chess which is going to include less transitional kindergarten Bridgepointe Shopping Center near- almost have a captive market.” Drive, closed earlier this year and the than initially anticipated. by. However, councilmembers are On May 2, property owner Solomon developer is proposing to tear down Countywide, it’s still unclear how many more preschool hopeful these two new developments Tsai of 1297 Chess Restaurant Group, the current 9,000-square-foot building slots there will be, but the state surveyed the local Title 5 will serve each other. Inc., turned in a pre-application to the and construct a 11,000- to 12,500- programs, that serve low-income students, to assess how square-foot retail and restaurant space “Nobody would know where with about 600 square feet of outdoor Bridegpointe and San Mateo ends and See PROPOSAL Page 6 See BUDGET, Page 22 2 Thursday • June 19, 2014 FOR THE RECORD THE DAILY JOURNAL Thought for the Day “To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti,Indian author,philosopher (1895-1986) This Day in History The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved by the U.S. Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster. 1964 Hours later, a twin-engine plane car- rying Sens. Edward Kennedy, D- Mass., and Birch Bayh, D-Ind., crashed near Springfield, Massachusetts. Kennedy was serious- ly injured, Bayh and his wife, Marvella, less so, but two people, including the pilot, were killed. In 1764, Jose Gervasio Artigas, considered the father of Uruguayan independence, was born in Montevideo. In 1864, during the Civil War, the Confederate sloop-of- war CSS Alabama was sunk by the USS Kearsarge (also a sloop-of-war) off Cherbourg, France. In 1865, Union troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free, an event celebrated to this day as “Juneteenth.” In 1910, the first-ever Father’s Day was celebrated in REUTERS Spokane, Washington. (The idea for the observance is cred- Humanoid robots dressed in the colors of Germany’s and Brazil’s national soccer team jerseys are seen during a photo ited to Sonora Louise Smart Dodd.) opportunity at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Bonn in Bonn in Germany. In 1934, the Federal Communications Commission was created; it replaced the Federal Radio Commission. In 1938, four dozen people were killed when a railroad In other news ... bridge in Montana collapsed, sending a train known as the Arizona eatery shames Tuesday after a battle with cancer. County say they’ve recovered 1,000 Olympian hurtling into Custer Creek. Micka and Scott opened the Holy Android computer tablets stolen from In 1944, during World War II, the two-day Battle of the art thieves on Facebook Cross Monastery in 1979 to provide an electronics store and arrested two Philippine Sea began, resulting in a decisive victory for the FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Two accom- religious services and ceremonies for store employees. Americans over the Japanese. plices in the theft of a painting at a fellow Orthodox Christians. Building it The Riverside Press-Enterprise says a In 1953, Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, Flagstaff restaurant have come forward had been a decades-old dream, Micka total of 1,400 Zeepad tablets — valued convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the after a shaming campaign on Facebook. said, and so when he was diagnosed with at a total of $90,000 — were taken from Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in The Arizona Daily Sun reported cancer last year, he and Scott pursued an the Norco store on June 6. Ossining, New York. Tuesday that Tyler Christensen, the exemption to state law, which would Sheriff’s deputies learned that tablets In 1964, a groundbreaking ceremony took place in owner of McMillan Bar and Kitchen, have required Micka to be buried in a were being advertised online and posed Concord, California, for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, went to social media instead of police cemetery or cremated. as buyers. Undercover agents met with with President Lyndon B. Johnson presiding. after the painting went missing on June Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill in two men and they were arrested on 9. March. Tuesday. The 1,000 tablets were found Christensen posted an open letter and after a search of a home and a storage Birthdays surveillance photo of a man putting the Dead dog found in freezer facility. painting in his backpack while the two donated to thrift shop Authorities say Nanak Singh and his accomplices acted as lookouts. LOMA LINDA — Southern California cousin, Amrik Singh, both of He says the two accomplices have authorities say a freezer donated to a Riverside, worked at the store. since come forward and given $500 to thrift shop contained an unwelcome sur- They were released from jail on bail cover the cost of the artwork. prise — a dead dog. Wednesday and couldn’t immediately be Christensen’s Facebook post has Jodi Miller of the San Bernardino reached for comment. been shared more than 7,900 times and County Sheriff’s Department says received more than 4,300 likes and investigators were called to the Re:Live Man deported after nearly 770 comments. Thrift in Loma Linda Tuesday night.