Dear DSFNA Members,

Attached are City Council candidate responses to the September 2003 PAN Questionnaire. You will notice that the attachment has been organized to restate a particular question from the questionnaire, followed by the response of each of the candidates in alphabetical order by last name. This will allow voters to compare the candidates with respect to each issue.

We have not yet heard from Edmund Power, and will forward his response to you as soon as we receive it.

Please note: No attempt was made to correct misspellings.

Thank you,

Annette Ashton, Doug Moran, Karen White
Co-Chairs, Palo Alto Neighborhoods

Dear DSFNA Members,

Please be sure to attend a City Council Candidate Forum on Thursday, October 2 from 7:00 - 9:15 p.m. at the Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium, 1313 Newell Road. Neighborhoods co-sponsoring this event include College Terrace, Community Center, Crescent Park, Duveneck/St. Francis, Leland Manor and Old Palo Alto. Jay Thorwaldson, Editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, has graciously agreed to moderate our forum.

To elicit candidate responses on issues of interest and concern to neighborhoods city-wide, leaders of Palo Alto Neighborhoods recently sent City Council candidates a written questionnaire. Candidates' responses will be e-mailed to you, posted on the DSFNA website, and sent to local newspapers early this week. The 10/2 forum will provide a sharper focus, addressing the specific interests/concerns of residents who live in co-sponsoring neighborhoods. So please bring your questions!

I hope to see you all on October 2 at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) at the Art Center Auditorium.

Karen White
494-7026

Continuing Authorities Program (CAP) 205 Project

May 22, 2003 JPA Board Meeting

You may have received or are still receiving strange e-mails from the 'city council', from city staff members, and from people all over Palo Alto. There is no message, but there are various titles, e.g. "Language" or no title at all. I've gotten four so far.

Citycouncilman Bern Beecham has graciously looked into this problem that is mushrooming all over town. He checked with the city's computer experts and found out that:

"It looks as though this is the KLEZ virus.. The KLEZ virus is known for spoofing the sender. Someone who is infected with Klez has the Council email address in their address book. The virus, in this case, has taken an address (city_council) from the infected PC's address book and placed it in the From field. There is nothing we can do to correct this. [note: on the city level]"

The geographical boundaries for the two neighborhoods comprising D/SFNA are:

• Duveneck: Between Newell Road and Embarcadero Road east to "The Creek" and Highway101 (shown in bright green below)
  
  
• St. Francis: Greer Road east to Highway 101 and between Embarcadero Road to the Oregon Expressway (shown in blue-green below)

February 3, 2003 was the fifth anniversary of the terrible flood on San Francisquito Creek that caused so much damage to 1,700 homes in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. Every time we experience a heavy rain many of us have another "anxiety"' attack. We are fearful of another flood.

We came very near to another catastrophe on December 16 of 2002. The level of water in the creek approached flood conditions. If it had rained for another few hours, we would have had a repeat of the 1998 disaster.

Alex: THANK YOU ALL so much for all the work you have done on the Web Site.

My father's home is at 2375 Sierra Ct. His name was Bryson Ahern. My parents bought that house in 1950 & I still remember being evacuated & carried to the back of a dumptruck during the flood of '55. As I recall the Redcross evacuated us either to the gym of Jordan Junior Hi or Paly Hi. My Dad stayed behind to mop the water out of our house. He was building a cabin cruiser in our backyard at the time so he had to make certain it was docked properly lest it float away.