Thursday, JANUARY 10, 2019 VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 2 Your Local News Source Since 1963 SERVING DUBLIN, LIVERMORE, PLEASANTON, SUNOL SECTION A Thursday, JANUARY 10, 2019 Report Says County Can Festival planners W. Ron Sutton (left) and Ken Mano pose with volunteer greeter Christina Gray. Sutton is founder of the Make A Difference, Today & Always non-profit organization, which produces the event. Mano is vice-president of the board of directors for Pleasanton's Community of Character Collaboration, another sponsoring organization. Visitors to the festival are encouraged to sign the historic banner, or to add the year of their return visit. End Homelessness by 2023 Pleasanton Festival to Provide Information on Making A Difference The homeless problem contin- streets and in shelters by a larger and private sector allies spent $106 500 who are currently able to Saturday, January 19, is the day in Pleasanton to ex- plore the many ways you can volunteer. That’s when the Make A Difference for Pleasanton Festival will be held at the city library from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. (in the Commu- nity Room, to the right just inside the entrance). Dozens ues to worsen in Alameda County, number of new homeless. For ev- million in Fiscal Year 2017-18 on find permanent housing each year of non-profit organizations will have tables set up with information on how you can “Get Connected & Stay Con- nected” with your community through volunteer service for adults, families, and teenagers. Mayor Jerry Thorne will be on hand to open the festival. Would you like to help prepare and serve meals to but it can be turned around and ery homeless person able to find various resources to place people means that 1000 people would go neighbors in need? Drive elderly neighbors to medical (continued on page 7) David Wright greets a visitor to the Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council's booth. solved by 2023 by increasing permanent housing, two people in permanent housing. Raising that into permanent housing annually. spending to $333 million annually. become homeless every year. amount by approximately $227 That would stop the upward trend That is the conclusion of a 46- If the annual increase in home- million would finance sufficient of homelessness, and eliminate See Inside Section A page report from Everyone Home, lessness were to continue, the services, rental assistance and homelessness by 2023. Section A is filled with a non-profit organization founded problem never would be solved. To housing acquisition to change the Asked if homeless people information about arts, people, in 2007 to deal with the county’s address the issue, Everyone Home homeless figure each year. would come to Alameda County entertainment and special events. homeless problem. has come up with a plan to reverse The bigger budget would re- from other areas if the county were There are education stories, a Although homeless people have the numbers, and eliminate home- duce the number of homeless to solve its problem, Everyone variety of features, and the arts been returning to permanent hous- lessness in the county by 2023. by an extra 500 people per year. Home Executive Director Elaine di and entertainment and ing, they have been replaced on the The county and its non-profit Adding those 500 people to the (See HOMELESS, page 2) bulletin board. Dublin School District CityServe Petition Seeks Responded to To Unseat Over 1000 Calls School Trustee CityServe of the Tri-Valley, Residents of Area 4 in the Dub- a non-profit founded in 2009 to lin Unified School District (DUSD) help people who are in crisis, have filed a petition with the has announced accomplishments Alameda County Office of Educa- achieved during 2018. tion (ACOE) to cancel the board’s Executive Director Gloria Dec. 11 appointment of Niranjana Gregory said in a message to “Nini” Natarajan as a trustee. members and interested public that A petition to have the appoint- the organization was able to help ment nullified was turned in Jan. 2 to ACOE Superintendent Karen more than 1000 callers in the Tri- Monroe. She sent it to Tim Dupuis Valley last year in significant ways. with the County Registrar of Voters CityServe disbursed $107,000 so that his department can make in community care expenses, sure the petition has the proper including partial rental assistance number of valid signatures that to prevent eviction, money for es- would require Monroe to declare sential car repairs, and funds for the appointment vacated, and to utility bills to prevent shut-offs for call a special election. Dupuis will low-income families. report back to Monroe within 30 CityServe provided 275 nights days of Jan. 2. in local motels for emergency A rainbow appeared early on Saturday morning before the storm broke out near Tesla Road Under the state education code, shelter for homeless families, of- valid signatures from only 1.5% in East Livermore. (Photo - Doug Jorgensen) ten those with small children. The of the registered voters in Area 4 organization connected volunteers are needed to make the petition to service opportunities, which valid, said ACOE Chief of Staff amounted to more than 33,000 Dan Bellino. hours in community service. Data on the Registrar of Vot- In 2018, the non-profit ad- Valley’s Own Women’s March ers website on Jan. 7 show that opted a new goal of knowing Area 4 has 5012 registered voters. every homeless person in the Val- Website data for all political juris- ley. Gregory said that CityServe To Link With National Turnout dictions throughout the county are helped, and knows by name, some updated daily on the website, stated The Valley will have its first organizing group, stated, “The 2017 Las Positas College student gov- a spokesperson. With 1.5% of the 277 homeless families and individ- Women’s March on Jan. 19 at the Women’s March galvanized this ernment and a member of the LPC total registration needed, there uals, including 176 in Livermore, Amador Valley High School foot- country, and birthed a new wave Black Student Union. People must be at least 75 valid signatures 64 in Pleasanton, and 37 in Dublin. ball field in Pleasanton. of the women’s rights movement. who want to participate in the on the petition for it to nullify the “We are thankful for each re- The march is part of a nation- That wave is taking to the streets, march through downtown Pleasan- appointment, and require Monroe lationship, both clients and com- wide commemoration of the 2017 here in Pleasanton and nationwide, ton will leave the football field at 2 to call a special election. munity partners. We look forward Women’s March in Washington and we’re coming with an agenda.” p.m. and return later to the plaza in Natarajan was appointed to re- to more community spirit and joint D.C. Hundreds of cities are ex- The event will begin with front of the field, where a Women’s place Joe Giannini, who resigned efforts as we address the very ur- pected to turn out for their marches speeches at 1 p.m. New 16th Dis- Expo will be underway for those in October. Giannini cited a long gent human services needs in our on Jan. 19. trict Assemblymember Rebecca who do not march. The Expo will commute, which consumed time Tri-Valley in this new year ahead,” The local sponsoring organiza- Bauer-Kahan is featured. Other run until 4 p.m. that conflicted with some of his said Gregory. tion is Tri-Valley Women’s March confirmed speakers are Marsha More than a dozen non-profits board duties. Board work also CityServe receives support from Action Group. Joining them are McInnis, president of Tri-Valley will have literature tables at the members of Livermore Indivisible, National Alliance on Mental Ill- Expo, and some businesses will be (See TRUSTEE, page 3) other non-profits, local churches, Students for Social Change and ness (NAMI); Jessica Trubowitch, represented. A First-aid station will city governments, school districts, Organizing for Action (OFA) East Director of Public Policy and be available. businesses, and private donors. It Bay Central. Community Building of the Jewish For more information online, go has a website at cityservetrivalley. Pleasanton resident Kathy Ellis, Community Relationships Council; to https://www.indybay.org/news- Former LLNL org. Besides organization news, who is a spokesperson for the march and Lylah Schmedel, president of items/2019/01/03/18820093.php. the website lists volunteer op- Director Dies portunities. Harold Brown, a brilliant nucle- ar physicist who helped shape the modern U.S. nuclear arsenal and then became the second director City Council Norms of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has died at age 91. And Values Updated Brown’s long and highly influ- ential career ranged from ground- By Bruce Gach The Mission statement was breaking scientific research and At the Livermore City Council discussed. The statement currently management locally to high level Means and Norms Workshop on reads, “The City of Livermore pro- academic leadership at the uni- January 7, updates, clarifications vides efficient, attentive and cour- versity level and national security and revisions to the rules of proce- teous service: promotes economic leadership in Washington. dure were discussed by all council viability and innovation; and News reports said the cause of members. They will be incorpo- works to enhance the community his death was pancreatic cancer. rated into a final presentation for and quality of life for Livermore A child prodigy, Brown gradu- a vote at a future council meeting. residents.” Council member Bob ated from Columbia University at The Livermore Mission State- Woerner recommended chang- 17 and earned a physics PhD at 21.