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News Briefs
City OKs planned daycare center
After much debate Sunnyvale's City Council unanimously approved the use permit for Appleseed Montessori's daycare center. The center, which will have a capacity of 96 children, will be built at the corner of Warner and Fremont avenues.
Public hearings on this issue lasted for over two and a half hours. Sunnyvale's Planning Commission passed the permit by a vote of 3-2 on June 12. On June 27, the city received an appeal on this decision from neighbors who believed that the planning commission was not responsive to their concerns. The appeal was brought before city council during their July 18 meeting.
Many neighbors spoke of their concerns over traffic and the quality of their neighborhood. Child care supporters, many dressed in red to represent Appleseed, voiced their concerns about a shortage of quality day care in Sunnyvale.
City to maintain prevailing wages
The city council voted last week to continue to retain a policy of paying prevailing wages to workers on public works projects. This issue struck a chord with area labor supporters who turned out in large numbers to demand that prevailing wages continue to be enforced. They argued that the people who do the dirty work for Sunnyvale can't afford to live in Sunnyvale. The city also brought in an economics expert from the University of Utah to give them a better perspective on the issue.
Council was impressed with what they had to hear from the experts and the unionists who all spoke in favor of set wages. They voted 5-2 to enforce the prevailing wage. Councilmen Jim Roberts and Tim Risch voted against the measure.
City to spend the Night Out
Tuesday, Aug 1, marks the 17th annual National Night Out. Sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch and co-sponsored locally by Sunnyvale Public Safety, the event is focused on crime and drug prevention and will involve almost 10,000 communities nationwide. For more information, contact Mariana Alvarez at 408.730.7140, or call the National Association of Town Watch at 610.649.7055.
Local worker arrested in FBI online sting
FBI agents in San Francisco arrested Roger Guerrero, a San Joe resident and business manager for Amdahl Corp. in Sunnyvale last Friday on charges of using the Internet to entice a child to engage in sexual activity. Agents arrested Guerrero at the San Francisco Zoo where he was to meet a 14-year-old girl whom he met in an Internet chat room. To Guerrero's surprise, the "girl" turned out to be an undercover FBI agent. Guerrero was released on $50,000 bond after a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Maria-Elena James. He faces up to five years in prison.
FBI officials said the arrest was the first made by the bureau's San Francisco based Internet Child Protection unit.
Boesch heads to Menlo Park
Dave Boesch, director of Community Development in Sunnyvale for four years, will leave the city to become city manager in nearby Menlo Park. He is set to begin work on July 30.
Boesch's responsibilities in Sunnyvale included planning, building, permitting, inspection and neighborhood preservation. He will earn $144,500 per year in Menlo Park, compared to his current $130,000 salary in Sunnyvale.
Boesch's resignation along with that of Human Resources Director David Nieto, who will become director of worldwide compensation at LSI Logic in Milpitas, force the city to appoint several interim replacements. Public Works Director Marvin Rose will temporarily take Boesch's position, Assistant Public Works Director Mark Dettle will take Rose's current position and Deputy City Manger Shuck Schwabe will be the interim director of human resources.
All of these changes officially take place on Aug 1.
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