City of Menlo Park 701 Laurel St., Menlo Park, CA 94025 tel 650-330-6600 www.menlopark.org City Council
SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA
Date: 10/20/2022
Time: 5:00 p.m.
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City of Menlo Park 701 Laurel St., Menlo Park, CA 94025 tel 650-330-6600 www.menlopark.org City Council Special Meeting Agenda
October 20, 2022
Special Session
A. Call To Order
B. Roll Call
C. Special Business
C1. Interviews of Planning Commission applicants (Attachment) (Note: No action will be taken at this meeting. Appointments are scheduled for the November 1, 2022 City Council meeting.)
D. Adjournment
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Agendas and staff reports may also be obtained by contacting City Clerk at 650-330-6620. (Posted: 10/18/2022) DISTRICT 5
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Descr be your understand ng of the respons b l t es of the adv sory body that you are apply ng for and how your personal commun ty or profess onal exper ence relate to these respons b l t es
Menlo Park’s Planning Commission reviews, analyzes and makes decisions about land use proposals that need a use permit, architectural control, variance, minor subdivision or environmental review. In specific cases, like major subdivisions or BMR housing agreements, the Commission makes recommendations to the City Council. The Planning Commission is accountable to City Council and ensures that proposed developments are consistent with the city’s General Plan and zoning statutes.
Complex decision-making was the consistent theme of my business career. As a management consultant, I learned the importance of listening carefully to clients to understand their challenges and the value of extensive research and analysis to find solutions. For the last 20+ years, I’ve used those skills daily in technology business roles, retiring from Google last year. At Google, my team sat at the intersection of Sales and Product Development. We used market input to decide what products to build, setting quarterly, annual and multi-year product plans.
I want to bring my extensive skills in facilitating decision-making into a new arena, supporting public service and governance for Menlo Park.
Additionally, my expertise in messaging and communicating at scale could help me foster wider public engagement in the city’s planning processes. At Google, my team set the launch strategies for new products. That meant deciding on the right messages to communicate, picking the best communication channels, setting launch timing and defining how to measure success. Through my involvement with Measure V, I came to appreciate that the vast majority of Menlo Park residents are, for valid reasons, not aware of how land use planning is done and even fewer understand how they can participate in the decision making. With Measure V, that lack of awareness and understanding resulted in confusion, frustration and, for some, divisiveness. I will help the Planning Division develop new goals for community education and outreach to key neighborhood stakeholders.
For example, we should be tracking the number of different people who are giving input into our planning processes, per district, and aiming to double or triple that number, each year.
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Number of years as a Menlo Park res dent 17 years, 11 months Current C ty Counc l d str ct District 5
How d d you hear about th s opportun ty (check all that apply) Other: From current members of the Complete Streets and Planning commissions.
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Descr be your understand ng of the respons b l t es of the adv sory body that you are apply ng for and how your personal commun ty or profess onal exper ence relate to these respons b l t es
From November 2019 - January 2021, I was the City Data Lead for the City of San Jose, working in the City Manager's Office. During that time, I also served as the Deputy Director for San Jose's Emergency COVID19 Operations Center in charge of coordinating the response to COVID19 for the entire city. This role required not only coordinating with Santa Clara County on the public health response, but also managing the response to all the downstream repercussions of the pandemic: food insecurity, housing insecurity, economic development, homelessness, renters policy, functioning of parks during the pandemic, and more.
As the person that San Jose entrusted to bring data to bear these important problems, my job was to help bring quantitative rigor to decision making, program design, and policy. I deeply value the perspective that data can bring to city government and being datadriven would be a core philosophy of my service on a commission in Menlo Park.
However, I also know that data is only one part of the puzzle. Data is most useful when paired with clearly defined goals, and in the context of local government, setting goals and priorities is the job of the City Council and City Commissions (engaging constituents in the process).
As a former City staff member in a council-manager form of government, I could best do my job when City Commissioners brought clear-eyed community perspective that shed light on the goals worth focusing on. I loved it even more when commissioners asked great questions about staff and council work that helped ensure we were keeping community priorities front of mind.
Local government presents an amazing opportunity to have a tangible impact, and it is a team sport. I deeply value the different roles that the City council, City staff, and City commissions can play in creating a responsive, effective local government. My goal as part of an advisory body in Menlo Park would be to play my part on the team by engaging the community, asking good questions, looking at data, and helping our city to function well on behalf of everyone who lives here. 2 of 4
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Cellphone: Yes
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Application acknowledgement and submittal
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