Friday, June 14, 2013

Pacifica School District letter to PH1A


Reprint of the Pacifica School District 5/8/13 reply to Hal Bohner and Ron Makel, HP1A email letter of 5/4/13.  To make this really easy to understand, we have noted comments of interest in large and bold print.

Pacifica School District
275 Reina Del Mar Avenue, Pacifica, A 94044, phone (650) 738-6600,  fax (650) 557-9672, www.pacificasd.org
May 8, 2013
Hal Bohner, Member
Ron Maykel, Member
Pacificans for Highway 1 Alternatives, c/o Hal Bohner, 115 Angelita Avenue, Paifica, CA 94044

Re:  Highway 1 in Pacifica
Dear Mr. Bohner and Mr. Maykel:
On behalf of the Pacifica School District Board of Trustees and ourselves, we are responding to the e-mail correspondence received on Saturday, May 4, 2013.  As shared with you in a meeting held at the District Office on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Pacifica School District has an interest in being an asset to the community at large with a focus on educating the students we serve.  Additionally, I shared that Pacifica School District will not take a position on the widening of highway 1 With these thoughts in mind, we leveraged the opportunity with the Safe Routes to School Grant to hire a consultant, Alta Planning, to audit our schools that would help us to guide our conversations and actions around areas such as drop off/pick up; reducing our carbon footprint; and increasing physical activity (a report that you attached for us).  The grant also supported the hiring of Alta Planning as a consultant to study the Vallemar traffic patterns to determine options to improve drop off and congestion with the same areas of focus in mind.

At this time we are working on the many requested actions to be considered in the correspondence.  Additionally, there are many factors our district must consider in relation to implementation as we focus on partners as well as being fiscally responsible.  We thank you for your thoughts and assure you that Pacifica School District will continue to work as members of the Pacifica Community as a whole.
Respectfully,
Richard Faust, Board of Trustees, President

Submitted by Jim Wagner

Posted by Kathy Meeh

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

In other words, go away rt. 1 widening opponents.
I wonder when ex-PSD board member Kaufman is gonna get trotted out for some proclamation she forget to deliver when she was on the PSD board for 4 years....

todd bray said...

Hum, in the past the Pacifica School district Board of Trustees has voted to support the widening project. it's been reported more than once by the Pacifica Tribune.

Anonymous said...

In other words, they hired a consultant "that would help us to guide our conversations and actions" if you idiots ever again bother us with your bullshit. Beyond that, PSD legal counsel would likely frown upon any PSD statement for or against the highway widening. This was a brilliant use of consultants as insulation from annoying special-interest group. Round goes to PSD.

Steve Sinai said...

Yeah, looks like a brush-off to me.

Anonymous said...

was rrmatscGood to know that "gobbley- gook" and "double- speak' are alive and well.

Anonymous said...

1127 you appear to be a native speaker

Anonymous said...

Thanks 1:05; Been retired from Federal Service more than ten years, but a bit of that "gobbley-gook" still lingers. Actually, the required two words to prove I'm not a robot wound up in front of my message.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if people ignored these people, "the gang of no" will they just go away.

Like if council, the Tribune the blogs everyone just said shut up and go away.

I hope Caltrans and the State goes after them all personally for legal fees, if they do indeed sue the State.

Anonymous said...

"With these thoughts in mind, we leveraged the opportunity with the Safe Routes to School Grant to hire a consultant, Alta Planning, to audit our schools that would help us to guide our conversations and actions around areas such as drop off/pick up; reducing our carbon footprint; and increasing physical activity (a report that you attached for us). The grant also supported the hiring of Alta Planning as a consultant to study the Vallemar traffic patterns to determine options to improve drop off and congestion with the same areas of focus in mind."

It seems the above is more of the operative text to bold and highlight. The school district is participating in the countywide initiative for safe routes to schools. "The San Mateo County Office of Education's (COE's) Safe Routes to Schools (SR2S) project has the goal of making San Mateo County a healthier, safer, more sustainable, environmentally sound community with better air quality, less congestion and more physically fit students and adults. The San Mateo City/County Association of Governments (C/CAG) is funding the project."

The goals are aligned with what many Pacifican's want -- a look at the long term -- healthier kids and adults and protections for our environment. Seems in sync with the publicly vetted approach that is being forwarded by PH1A.

Anonymous said...

I thought Kathy wasn't going to editorialize all over people's LTEs any more.

Kathy Meeh said...

Anonymous 11:02 AM, well again, you thought wrong. And to that illogical assumption, look in the mirror and say "duh" hiding anonymous coward.

Moreover, if you're the father of some unfortunate child, Happy Father's day to you!

Anonymous said...

"The goals are aligned with what many Pacifican's want -- a look at the long term -- healthier kids and adults and protections for our environment. Seems in sync with the publicly vetted approach that is being forwarded by PH1A"

What a ration of fecal matter. Responsible parents want their children safe. Not crossing a highway at commute hour. Bohner takes threads of a report and twists it into some type of dogma to feed to his minions. A rational person would think for two seconds and come to the conclusion that what he is spouting is crap.

Anonymous said...

Trust me, if I write a LTE and Kathy twists my words like she does to everyone else, I will not remain anonymous. Neither will my attorney.

Anonymous said...

11:22

Kathy, The only people who make annon threats to call their attorney are people who are too broke to afford legal aid.

I am sure annon you have your top notch legal staff on speed dial.

Kathy Meeh said...

Twisted Anonymous, 11:22 AM, what words in this article were twisted in you brain? The letter is straight forward, and only words of interest to our community were highlighted.

About your threat: When you publish your Letter to the Editor in the Tribune, it or may not be reprinted here. Framing articles that I post is my choice. So don't flatter yourself too much in advance. Your argument against my "free speech" rights would lose against copyright regulations, and in a counter suit. (And in counter suit, there's a cash penalty award against you for that).

Anonymous said...

Anonymous at 11:21am said...
"The goals are aligned with what many Pacifican's want -- a look at the long term -- healthier kids and adults and protections for our environment. Seems in sync with the publicly vetted approach that is being forwarded by PH1A"

What a ration of fecal matter. Responsible parents want their children safe. Not crossing a highway at commute hour. Bohner takes threads of a report and twists it into some type of dogma to feed to his minions. A rational person would think for two seconds and come to the conclusion that what he is spouting is crap."


Safe children are ones that are healthy and don't live in a community that condones cars whizzing by at +55 miles an hour over vast expanses of paved concrete. They also are surrounded by adults that welcome differences of opinions and civil conversation.

Anonymous said...

@1122 Well, I can't wait. Do it, Kathy, do it!