Our next meeting will be held at SRI International. The address is 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025. Our guest speaker will be Alex Beavers, Executive Director of ventures, licensing and strategic programs. Directions for parking arrangements will be sent via email to all subscribers.
On this date a presentation update of the Grand Boulevard project was made by various consultants with backgrounds in planning and design or publicly elected officials, appointed heads of various local and State governmental agencies representing the 19 cities through which El Camino Real traverses. They included Samceda, Silicon Valley Joint Ventures, Sam Trans and San Mateo County.
As part of the 1st Visioning process for ECR and the Downtown residential and business owner participants were requested to make comments on sticky pads and pin them on boards at discussion locations. This second meeting began with the consultants noting some of the over 1000 comments they received from this process. The comments included interest in.
John Etchemendy Provost and Professor of Philosophy Stanford University
Mr. Michael Casey, Managing Director of the Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel And Mr. Clark Kepler of Kepler’s Books
Mr. Jim Lianides, Assistant Superintendent of Administrative Services for the Sequoia Union High School District made a presentation. Supt. Pat Gemma had to cancel his scheduled appearance as he was called to Sacramento for a meeting with the California Board of Education.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: DUANE BY DIRECTOR OF HOUSING FOR SAN MATEO COUNTY AND CHRIS MOHR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY
Steve Levy, Director of the Continuing Study of the California Economy
The two hour meeting was held at the Menlo Park Library attended by 24 people (6men and 18 women) included Gail Slocom (1 hour late), Kelly Fergusson (first 15 minutes) and Heyward Robinson (last 10 minutes).
Heyward Robinson Vice Mayor of the City of Menlo Park and Cherise Brandell, City of Menlo Park Community Engagement Manager