To the City of Menlo Park

Dear Mayor Combs, Menlo Park CIty Council, City Manager Jerome-Robinson and Sustainability Manager Lucky,

Early this year as the City Council sets priorities, please consider making urgent climate action a top priority for your city. Science is mounting that our efforts to reduce fossil fuel consumption have not happened fast enough to meet global targets and as a result Northern California is increasingly threatened by economy-crushing disasters: wildfires, drought, heat waves, flooding and sea level rise. Menlo Park has not been immune from these disasters and without your decisive leadership, your City’s residents and businesses will be increasingly at risk, both economically and physically.

To turn the tide and keep Menlo Park habitable, we need to act now and all of our actions must be bold. Please see our full comment letter attached with specific actions we ask that you take in 2021.

We stand ready to assist you in identifying and enacting high-impact climate action this year.

Respectfully submitted,

Gladwyn d’Souza, Co-Chair, Conservation Committee, Loma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club
Gita Dev, Co-Chair, Sustainable Land Use Committee, Loma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club
Kristel Wickham, Climate Action Leadership Team, Loma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club
Lauren Weston, Executive Director, Acterra
Cc James Eggers, Executive Director, Loma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club



sent by:
Barbara Kelsey

Chapter Coordinator

Sierra Club, Loma Prieta Chapter

3921 E. Bayshore Rd, Suite 204

Palo Alto, CA 94303

barbara.kelsey@sierraclub.org


Please note that our Chapter office in

Palo Alto is closed at least until

March 1, 2021 so email is the best

way to contact us. Thank you.