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I want to express my concern about the Nextdoor social platform that Cupertino !J ~l
City recommends to its residents. COVV\Vv'\.
I jumped on the band wagon in 2014 and actively recruited many neighbors
because I saw what I believed was a great opportunity to foster communication.
Since that time I have seen how communication can be inhibited by
Nextdoor. Nextdoor publishes guidelines for posting, but the guidelines are -enforced in a manner that indicates favoritism among the leads.
Nextdoor administrators control a number of significant policies, none of which
are published:
Which posts are removed
Which accounts are closed
Which threads are deprecated
The "policies,, of Nextdoor administrators seem to favor certain political views.
The result of favoritism among leads and among Nextdoor administrators yields a
platform that permits certain kinds of communication and certain views but
suppresses others.
I ask that you verify that Nextdoor is worthy of Cupertino City's continued
endorsement: ,. ..
What transparency and accountabl!!!Y. does Cupertino City require of
Nextdoor in exchange for the City's endorsement of Nextdoor?
How does Cupertino City verify that Nextdoor promotes balanced
discussions among neighbors?
How does Cupertino City verify that Nextdoor does not promote
Nextdoor's interests over the interests of the City and its residents?
Thank you for your consideration .
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County Creeks Coalition ·
Advocates for living streams
February 5 , 2018
The Honorable Mayor Darcy Paul and Members of the Council
City of Cupertino
By email
Re: Next Steps in Improving Fish Passage on Stevens Creek
Dear Mayor Paul and Members of the Council,
It has been slightly over 2 years since we began our conversations about a community partnership to
improve fish passage on Stevens Creek, building on the excellent work done by the City in
partnership with the Water District and others.
Since that time, your city has been instrumental in encouraging the Water District to include
planning projects in their grant program and then supporting the application of Friends of Stevens
Creek Trail to secure a grant to do an engineering evaluation of 8 barriers to fish migration on
Stevens Creek.
A workshop was held on January 22, 2018 to discuss next steps in moving forward on the
recommendations of the report which was previously distributed to you .
• Moffett Blvd Fish Ladder in Mountain View: The Santa Clara Valley Water District has
recently released a request for proposal for bids to complete a 10% design evaluation of
replacing the Moffett Boulevard Fish Ladder with a more self-cleansing and effective ladder.
This is a major change for the better in the approach by the Water District to this facility and
we believe that our report had an impact on the timing of the release of this RFP.
• SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Pipeline Crossing in Mountain View: NOAA Fisheries, the federal
agency in charge of restoring the steelhead trout population in local streams and the San
Francisco Public Utilities Commission have agreed to meet soon to discuss the fish migration
barrier at the Hetch Hetchy Pipeline crossing of Stevens Creek in Mountain View . The PUC
staff thanked us for bringing this barrier to their attention and indicated that if action was
needed at this location, they would move forward to take care of the problem .
• Deep Cliff Golf Course in Cupertino: The Deep Cliff Golf Course in Cupertino had
written us granting approval to pursue grants to remove the barrier on their property. This
barrier is a barrier to the movement of juvenile trout during the sensitive rearing period
during their first two years of life.
We are proud of the activity that our work has generated and would like to move forward on
removing the barrier at the Deep Cliff Golf. Unlike the larger barriers owned by the Water District
whose remediation will cost on the order of $1.5 million, the Deep Cliff barrier could be addressed
at more modest cost. Our engineers estimate that the cost for removing Deep Cliff barrier would be
about $140-$160,000. If we could get four agencies to contribute $9900 each, then this would
amount to the 25% match needed to get a 75% grant from the Water District.
We are hoping you could ask staff to agendize a discussion of this opportunity at your next City
Council meeting.
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Richard McMurtry
Program Coordinator
25 below shows a rendering of the design concept for this crossing. Appendix A shows a plan and
profile for the preliminary design .
Figure 25. Rendering of Proposed Rock Baffles
ROCK WEIRS
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Figure 26. Golf Course Rock Baffle Schematic
REMOVE CONCRETE
CROSSING
-FLOW
This site design would include three rock weir structures using rock sized adequately as a base that
will not be washed away , with intermediate sized rocks to fill most of the voids. Because this
feature will replace the existing barrier to flow , no measurable impact to flood flow is anticipated
for this design. With properly sized and placed rock at this location, grouting of the rock will not
be necessary. Maintenance of the weir will likely require annual inspection and replacement of
intermediate sized rocks.
Table 12 provides an opinion of probable costs for the rock weir system at this site.
Santa Clara County Creeks Coalition PAGE 32 DOMEN IC HELLI & ASSOCIATES, I NC.
Pro_ject Site
Deep Cliff Golf
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Rock weir and pool
system
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Estimated
Consti·uction
Costs
$88 ,000
Enginee1ing
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Consbuction
:Management
$30 ,800
Permitting and
Administi·ation
Costs
$26 ,400
TOTAi.
Opinion of
Probable
Project Cost
S145 ,200