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Joseph Thomoson
Date Monday, April 27, 2026 at 07:12 PM PDT
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FYI: AN EXPERT'S OPINION ON THE NEW 2026 "BUSINESS PLAN" FROM CAHSRA HOLLIN Dear Mr. Appleton.
DeMaio;
- Senator Strickland: Supervisors Bredefeld & Magsig: Mr. Maaske: Ms. Grimes FYI. Not the opinion of a country lawyer with a lifetime in transportation: but rather, the opinion of an expert.
Tom' was the expert witness for Santa Clara County Taxpayers Assn in their litigation with VTA, SCC's equal to FAX-FUX-FNO in Fresno.
He co-authored the Reason Foundation's pre-Election analysis of Prop. 1A in 2008.
So, with the governing statute for government approval of rail mergers on the books 49 USC 11324(c), "in the public interest," where is the leadership for diverting the CAHSRA's Supermassive Black Hole to a capitalist railroad, e.g., our Class Ones in California, UPRR. whose merger application is pending at the Surface Transportation Board, and BNSF.
Both the envy of the World when it comes to railroads.
As in "railroads;" not horizontal socialist elevators conceived insolvent, born bankrupt.
Joe Thompson
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Subject: Re: California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors Meeting Agenda for April 29. 2026 - Amended Dear Tom,
One year AST &L awarded me "Best Research Paper," can't remember, but maybe 1993-94.
Anyhow, after accepting the award, I went over to UPRR's HQ, and somehow managed to get an appointment with their top guy for Intermodal. Went into a Conference Room, just the two of us. Table was longer than ones they use in Buckingham Palace. Told him what I thought about restoration of intermodal facilities for the Central California Coast Region.
They had closed them in Salinas Valley and Santa Clara Valley. During the Vietnam War I was graveyard shift supervisor for the one in San Jose. Spent 10 years 1970-1980 with UPRR Traffic in San Jose, tracing, expediting and diverting TOFC produce trailers and PFE Reefers on the "Salad Bowl Express," 7th morning schedule promised to the ag shippers. Went SP-Ogden-UP-Council Bluffs-CNW-Chicago-PC. In hot weather out here, they would load lettuce before they had a buyer for it. Enroute, they would sell.
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14/27/26, 7.27 PM AT&T Yahoo Mail - Fw: California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors Meeting Agenda for April 29, 2026 - Amended and then need to divert one of their "roller cars" to they buyer, e.g., Piggly-Wiggly, Atlanta. So, when they called, I had to find out if it has passed over the hump at North Platte. If not, then I could divert it. If too late for North Platte, then they'd have to call the CNW or PC. All too often unsold lettuce, etc., reached Hunts Point Market in NYC, where it sold cheap.
UP HQ was
Also had a tour of the Harriman Dispatch Center. Looked like SAC HQ with all the displays covering the walls.
All the best my friend.
Caveat viator.
Joe Thompson
On Monday, April 27, 2026 at 06:39:28 PM PDT, •
TAR: There is a statutory requirement for the California High Speed Rail Authority to adopt annual business plans.
So, they do.
There is no statutory requirement for any such plan to have any connection, no matter how remote, with reality, nor make the slightest bit of sense.
So, I recommend that you treat the CaHSRA business plans with every bit of respect it deserves.
No, don't know of any discussion group where they discuss the CaHSRA business plans - that is just to hard to do because it takes so long for everyone to stop laughing.
I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where, for years, I drove up and down Dodge Street more days than I didn't. If Lincoln has listened to Dodge, we'd still be riding horses. ... and I know the story of the instructions that Leland Standard, who was then the California Governor, gave to the State Geologist as to where the Sierra Mountains began.
Tom Rubin
From: Joseph P Thompson|
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2026 O.7 PM
To: Tom Rubin
Subject: Fw: Calfornia High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors Meeting Agenda for April 29, 2026 - Amended
Dear Tom,
On the Agenda: Adopt the 2026 "Business Plan"?
So, WTF. What does this remind you of? Lenin's "business plan" to run Russia with communism? Is their "Business Plan" really an insolvency-kept-running-with-more-laxpayers'-subsidies plan? More insolvency than Amtrak and Caltrain combined?
In 1864 when Granville Dodge told Lincoln that the TC railroad must be government owned.
Lincoln said, No. And why would a transportation attorney say "no" to a government owned railroad? ahout hlank 2/5
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Do you know anyone or any discussion group where they discuss this "Business Plan"? Joe Thompson
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CALIFORNIA High-Speed Rail Authority
Board of Directors Meeting Agenda
(Amended)
April 29, 2026
9:30 a.m.
Main Location
California Environmental Protection Agency
Byron Sher Room
Location
Pacifica Services, Inc.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority's April 29, 2026, board meeting will be conducted in-person and via webinar. Board Members may participate in ahouthlank 3/5
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JOSEPH P. THOMPSON
Attorney at Lav
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SHORT VERSION:
Joe Thompson is a graduate of the Santa Clara University School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, all U.S. District Courts in California, and before the California Supreme Court. He is past-president (twice) of the Gilroy--Morgan Hill Bar Assn.
LONG VERSION:
Joe Thompson was a member of the Transportation Lawyers Assn., and served on TLA's legislation (past Chair), intermodal, arbitration, and freight claims committees. He was a member of Transportation & Logistics Council, Inc.
He has served on the Executive Committee of the Santa Clara County Bar Assn.'s Debtor-Creditor-Commercial Law Section. He was a member of the Association for Transportation Law, Logistics & Policy, and a candidate for the American Society for Transportation and Logistics. He served on the Government Review Councils of the San Benito County and Gilroy Chambers of Commerce, and was a member of the Gavilan Employers Advisory Council. He was appointed to the San Benito County Citizens Rail Advisory Committee, San Benito County Citizens Transit Task Force, and served on the Steering Committee of the Safe Kids Coalition. He was a member of Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways, and the Conference of Freight Counsel. He received the National Directors Award for the best transportation research paper in the U.S. in 1997 from the AST&L. During Governor Pete Wilson's administration, he participated three years in the Regulatory Reform Roundtable. He is a 1966 graduate of the Motor Carrier Fleet Safety Supervisor School at U.C.-Berkeley, and was employed as dispatcher and supervisor by Pacific Motor Trucking (1964-1970), and as clerk by Union Pacific Railroad (1970-1980). His articles have been published by Transportation Law Journal, Western Growers Association Magazine, and Transportation Lawyer Magazine and Salinas Californian.
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JOSEPH THOMPSON
High Speed Rail project
is a giant boondoggle
The following was submitted by email to the unsound, and unsustainable transport policy.
Morgan Hill City Council as public input prior
to the council's scheduled Noo. 15 workshop on Taxing people out of their cars is a public the California High Speed Rail project. policy plunging us down the Road to Serfdom, intended to cripple our state's economy.
am a past President of Gilroy-Morgan We already pay our taxes for many wasteful Hill Bar Association, a member of the
boondoggles like Amtrak, Caltrain, ACE Train,
Transportation Lawyers Association,
BART, Light Rail and county transit, when it
and past Chair of TLA's Legislation would be much cheaper for taxpayers if we just Committee. I have practiced
purchased each transit rider his own BMW, or
transportation law in the South County
paid his taxi fare, or his Uber fare.
for 38 years, and have done post-doctoral
study of transportation law and policy at the
Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for We already pay Surface Transportation Policy Studies, and at
Transportation Research Board, Georgetown our taxes for many University; and at the Library of Congress. 1 wasteful boondoggles like am a graduate of SJSU, and the University of
Santa Clara Law School, and I have 52 years Amtrak, Caltrain, ACE of transportation industry experience dating
back to my junior year at Cupertino High Train, BART, Light Rail School, when I worked for the SPRR, and later
and county transit, when
at UPRR in San Jose (1970-1980).
My comments are personal, and not it would be much cheaper made on behalf of a client or any professiona!
organization to which I belong. for taxpayers if we just For a state that cannot afford adequate
purchased each transit
fire suppression, or water storage, it is bad
public policy to add to the public transit rider his own BMW. boondoggles that the taxpayers (mostly
motorists) already shoulder, under the worst
California's voters voted for self-sufficient
tax/fee burdens among all the states. high speed rail. not a Supermassive Black Hole What the California High Speed Rail added to the already intolerable public sector Authority is doing, which is not what voters
voted for in Prop. 1A in 2008, is contrary transit Black Holes that our lost leadership forces us to subsidize.
to the conclusions of both the President's
Blue Ribbon Commission on Transport This bad public policy is making California into Northern Venezuela. I urge
Funding, and the California Transportation local leaders to support the repeal of Prop. 1A.
Commission. Both of them concluded that we
Caveat viator.
ought to fund transport with "user fees."
Giving away transit rides, by any mode, Joseph Thompson is an attorney whose lare with fares near zero, diverting the costs to offices are in Gilroy. He can be reached at [email protected].
motorists' gas and diesel taxes, is unfair,
Public comment for item 12
on May 4, 2026, City Council
Briana Parra
From: McKencie Perez
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2026 10:34 AN
To: Rebecca Simonian
Cc: Briana Parra
Subiect: FW: Fee Increase
Received
McKencie Perez
Deputy City Planner | MPA
CITY CLOVIS
From: Susan Hopper
Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2026 2:48 PM
To: McKencie Perez
Subject: Fee Increase
I oppose ANY fee increases to the City of Clovis due to I was told I was required to pay for sidewalk repairs -which the City of Clovis OWNS the sidewalk but makes me pay for repairs. A tree that WAS NOT planted by me, but the plans accepted by the City of Clovis from the builder of my neighborhood, caused the damage. I also HAD TO PAY FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE TREE, that I DID NOT PLANT! This cost me $5,350.00 to remove said tree (by Robert Peralta who also broke my sprinkler line, refused to acknowledge fault or offer repair) and remove damaged said sidewalk and repour concrete (American Concrete Specialists did a great job). And yet my neighbor around the corner by the park got her sidewalk and tree removed by the City of Clovis at no cost to her-she got the same service for FREE! How is this fair??? It is discrimination at best.
If this needs to be forwarded to another office at City of Clovis, please do me the courtesy of forwarding it. I don't know who handles what at City of Clovis.
Thank you,
Susan Hopper
Clovis 93611
Public comment for item 12
on May 4, 2026, City Council
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Planning and Development Services
DATE: May 4, 2026
SUBJECT: Consider items associated with approximately 17.41 acres of land located at the northeast corner of North Baron and Perrin Avenues. Frances Ricchiuti and Patrick V. Ricchiuti, owners; Lennar Homes, applicant; Yamabe & Horn Engineering Inc., representative.
a) Consider Approval, Res. 26-_, A resolution recommending that the City Council approve an addendum to the previously adopted environmental finding of a Mitigated Negative Declaration and a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for Vesting Tentative Tract Map 6543 and Planned Development Permit 2025-001. b) Consider Approval, Res. 26-_ TM6543, A resolution
recommending that the City Council approve a Vesting Tentative Tract Map for a 137-lot single-family planned residential development on approximately 17.41 acres of land.
c) Consider Approval, Res. 26-_ PDP2025-001, A resolution recommending that the City Council approve a planned
development permit for a 137-lot single-family planned residential development.
ATTACHMENTS: 1. Updated Tentative Tract Map Exhibit for TM6543 (from the Applicant) (Attachment A to Resolution 26-_TM6543)
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Following Planning Commission review, the applicant submitted a revised Tentative Tract Map exhibit for TM6543 to correct a lot numbering error.
The prior exhibit duplicated lot number six (6) in two (2) separate block areas, resulting in an incorrect total of 136 lots, despite 137 lots being shown.
The revised exhibit, included as Attachment A to Resolution 26- _TM6543, corrects the duplication and accurately reflects the total of 137 lots.
Lay a. 202543, PDP202-001 Memorandum
Staff has reviewed the revision and determined the correction does not alter the project layout, circulation pattern, project design, or density calculations. The recommended conditions of approval and staff recommendation remain unchanged.
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