CALENDAR COMMITTEES NUMBERS CITY COUNCIL MEETING FINANCIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE TOWN HALL 2nd Monday D. Paul Regan, Commissioner Administration: (650) 375-7400 6 p.m. - Town Hall Jess “Jay” Benton, Chairman Website: www.hillsborough.net ♦ Al Clark, Josh Cooperman, 2ND QUARTER 2 0 0 7 John Lockton, Larree Renda, Al Royse Town Hall Hours: CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION Mon. – Thurs. 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Study Sessions are held as needed at Town Hall. CITIZENS COMMUNICATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE Fri. 7:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ♦ Catherine U. Mullooly, Commissioner Emergency after hours and weekends: 375-7470 ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN REVIEW Diana Witzel, Chairwoman CREEKS ARE CRUCIAL, NEED CARE BOARD MEETING Marie Chuang, Candace Lyche, City Council: 375-7400 1st and 3rd Monday Janet MacGregor, BeBe Trinkner Main and Finance Department: 375-7400 hether quietly trickling or raging any street, sidewalk, drain, catch basin 4 p.m. - Town Hall ♦ Water (service and billing): Wwith water, Hillsborough’s eight or other drainage conduit, except in law- Mon. – Thurs. 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. ♦ CENTRAL COUNTY FIRE BOARD creeks are performing jobs integral to fully established garbage containers. Fri. 7:30 - 12:30 p.m. 375-7402 DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONERS Catherine U. Mullooly, Chairman, D. Paul Regan drainage and water quality as well as Residents have complained about Building and Planning: 375-7411 John Fannon, Community Services Public Works and City Engineer: 375-7444 erosion control and habitat protection. debris in the creeks and have witnessed D. Paul Regan, Administration HILLSBOROUGH RECREATION Having witnessed increasing abuse gardeners disposing of green waste by Catherine U. Mullooly, Fire Department 342-5439 CITY MANAGER Thomas M. Kasten, Police Department D. Paul Regan, Commissioner Anthony Constantouros: 375-7400 of the important waterways, the Town tossing it over a fence into a creek or Christine Krolik, Public Works Christine Krolik, Commissioner has drafted a creek protection policy to leaving it curbside. Yard waste should Comcast be incorporated into the Municipal Code. be collected and disposed of in a trash ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN REVIEW BOARD HILLSBOROUGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Customer Service: 1-800-945-2288 John Fannon, Commissioner Marilyn Loushin Miller, Superintendent: 342-5193 The ordinance, which comes before City container designated for green waste so Jennifer Werbe, Chairwoman PG&E (24 hrs.) Council for preview this month, affects the waste management company can POLICE DEPARTMENT Charlie Barnett, Mark Heine, Outage Information: 1-800-743-5002 every resident in Town, some far more collect and recycle it. All residents must Business: 375-7470 Walter Heyman, George Jewett Customer Service: 1-800-743-5000 Alarm Specialists: 375-7472 than others. be cognizant of keeping creeks or other Bruce Herman, Alternate Allied Waste Creeks are part of the storm drain bodies of water free of debris and pol- FIRE DEPARTMENT Main Number: (650) 592-2411 system. Storm drains exist on every lutants by properly disposing of refuse Printed on recycled paper Business: 558-7600 Hazardous Material: (650) 363-4718 street. Whatever slides into a storm drain and yard waste. flows into a creek and eventually to the There are about 474 properties PHOTO BISHOP BY DAVE The Hillsborough Newsletter is published on a regular basis by the Town of Hillsborough to keep residents informed of local and Town news. Bay. Therefore, the ordinance prohibits that are considered creek-side proper- Council has passed an ordinance to protect the Editor: Barbara Backer • Design: Larry Zientarski the disposal of garbage, refuse, harmful ties – properties that touch on Easton, Town’s eight creeks, which often fall victim to chemicals, abandoned objects, etc. on continued inside dumping of debris and garbage. PRSRT STD U.S. Postage BE ON THE ALERT PAID Now is the time to sign on to SMCAlert. San Mateo County’s own areas of interest. Hillsborough, new alert system is “hot,” active and in service, according to Hills- SMCAlert grew out of action taken by the San Mateo County CA 94010 borough Police Chief Matt O’Connor. The internet-based, wireless Police Chiefs and Sheriff Association following 9/11. The $500,000 Permit No. 34 text notification service is designed to reach out to residents, via cost is covered by Homeland Security funds. (Chief O’Connor cell phone, pager or email, to warn them of any emergency that sat on the voting authority to determine funding). San Mateo affects health, safety or well-being. Chief O’Connor encourages County is the first county in the Bay Area to roll out the new all residents to register by going to www.SMCAlert.info and notification system. 1600 Floribunda Ave. following the simple directions. The resident notification system is actually part of a larger Hillsborough, CA 94010 One asks, “If you sign on to the system, will you be inun- Bay Area and county notification program begun several years dated with notices ago. The larger pro- about Town or com- gram is designed to munity events?” filter emergency in- No. It is a rare formation from as event that activates high as the California a notice, but it will Attorney General’s be a notice of great Office to the county’s enough importance that you will want to know about it as soon 4,079 “first responders,” i.e. local police and fire personnel, city as possible. Examples are hazardous material conditions, utility managers, public works and health officials. Information for outages, winter storm warnings, flash floods, tsunamis, road emergency personnel would only be sent to the public, however, closures, earthquakes, Amber alerts and crime alerts. if the information affected that person. For instance, a call for a Why would you want to know about an earthquake in Mon- SWAT team in San Mateo would not be a text message received terey or a crime alert on the opposite side of Town? You won’t by a resident, unless the SWAT action was near the residence. know – unless you want the information. SMCAlert allows you SMCAlert is geared to get vital information to you when to specify the city or cities and area(s) of interest. You may want you need to know. Join the Hillsborough residents who have to request information for your residential area and business area already signed on to the program. Log on to www.SMCAlert. WWW.HILLSBOROUGH.NET only, or just your home. You are given the ability to pinpoint your info today. 2ND QUARTER 2007 MORTON ‘PLANS’ GATEWAY TO THE PAST HER RETIREMENT Residents begin When Maureen Morton accepted the restoration pledge drive job as planning director of Hillsborough, While the gatehouse to the Carolands she had a strategy. stands literally at the intersection of Ralston “I promised myself I would stay just Avenue and Eucalyptus Avenue, it finds three years,” she said. “In that amount of itself figuratively at a crossroads in life. The time, I figured I would have accomplished charming, French-style structure is in an all that there was to be done in a small town extreme state of disrepair and a choice needs of only single family residences.” to be made – demolition or restoration. However, on June 1, 2007, the Planning A group of residents, spearheaded by Director will be officially retired, having Sally and Jim Meakin, is interested in bring- remained 11 years past her prediction. “I ing the gatehouse back to life. The gatehouse was amazed. There were always new and is not an official historical landmark but it challenging things, so I stayed,” Morton does have historical value. It was built 77 said. years ago by Lang Real Estate Company of The challenge became obvious with her Burlingame and was used as a sales and pro- first words on the job. “Oh, gee, I think we motion office as Harriet Pullman Carolan need some order here,” Morton said as she began to sell off parcels of the Carolands walked into her new office and found the estate. As people entered the estate grounds, floor strewn with design review plans. The they checked in with the gatekeeper. As Town had never had a full-time planning such, “it may be representative of the West’s director. Morton was recruited from South first gated community,” Sally Meakin said. PHOTO BISHOP BY DAVE San Francisco and had previously worked A group of residents is studying ways to not only restore but make use of the Caro- In the 1960s, a Town employee lived at the in Lodi and Stockton. lands gatehouse, a Hillsborough landmark at the corner of Ralston Avenue and gatehouse for several years. Order is one of a litany of improvements Eucalyptus Avenue. Nostalgia prompted the Meakins to Morton brought to the Planning Depart- initiate the restoration project. Both Sally 1950’s air raid drills. “People have asked tion in the field,” said Chief O’Connor. ment, culminating in what Morton feels and Jim were raised from childhood in about the gatehouse,” Sally said, “and no The Meakins and a group of inter- was the highlight of her career – garnering Hillsborough. In the early 1950s, Jim could one was doing anything, so we thought ested friends launched a pledge drive last state certification of Hillsborough’s Hous- see the gatehouse from the football field at we should.” October to collect the $250,000 needed ing Element. “For Hillsborough to have North School and was struck by its charm. The Meakins feel that with an esti- for restoration. If they are successful in that is a remarkable accomplishment and Sally said she used to walk up the hot, dusty mated restoration cost of $250,000, the obtaining the pledges, they can present the I’m very proud of road to the Jennie Crocker Henderson gatehouse could not only stand as a tribute project to City Council.