Seeing a response of no response from the council to my March 12 letter regarding obnoxious behavior by local police -- a silence probably recommended by the city attorney -- I have a take-away: this city is being led by a collection of milquetoasts. Theres a word you dont run across very often....
Hi City Councilmembers, Deanna, Tom, and Calvin, Thank you for considering and adopting many of Save The Bay and Nuestra Casas recommendations in the EJ and Safety Element updates at Tuesdays council meeting. I know we got them in at the last minute, so thank you for your quick turnaround! We appre...
City Council: I strongly support the deployment of fixed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) citywide, utilizing Flock technology. The effectiveness and success of Flock ALPRs for catching criminals, solving investigations, and tying suspects to crimes is indisputable. As staff points...
Here here, thank you Brian for sharing this insightful information. I also urge the council to put our communitys safety and security as as a top priority and revisit ALPRs ASAP. I have to believe that 15 other communities have not come to the same conclusion without doing ample research. We are...
To the City of Menlo Park, I was humiliated by one of your department officers while working at Jeffreys Hamburgers as a dishwasher. They hired me without checking my work permit and made me work extra hours. Then, one day, they fired me. When I came to your police station to file a complaint reg...
Dear City Council - I am writing to share my 100% support of Item H1 - Provide direction on a proposal to install Flock fixed Automated License Plate Readers citywide. I live in Sharon Heights and am extremely concerned about the increase in burglaries in our neighborhood. It is my understandi...
REQUEST OF MENLO COUNCIL FOR OBJECTIVES SETTING Dear City Council, Good morning, I am a resident of San Mateo, working with people in Menlo Park and all over the County, using electrification as an immediate, personal response to the climate crisis. I am co-lead of the San Mateo Climate Action...
Dear Councilmembers, I am writing to request that you approve the grant money for MPC Ready. We are a Neighbor Helping Neighbor organization with the emphasis on emergency preparedness and response. The need has been very apparent in these last two winters. The Menlo Park community has experie...
Brian, Thank you for taking the time to further research ALPR technology, and providing us with the results of your research. I had not realized that 13 (!) of our neighbor communities (plus 2 more about to come online) have deployed ALPRs. But I did know that, in those communities where ALPRs...
Good afternoon! Im writing to thank you for soliciting community feedback on setting Menlo Parks priorities for the upcoming fiscal year 2024-25. I have a simple request for an addition to one of the top identified priorities: please add "and resilience" to your Climate Action goal, e.g. "Climate A...
