State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, will hold his annual “sidewalk office hours” this weekend, stopping at farmers’ markets in Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Redwood City to meet people and hear their questions and comments about state legislative issues.
He will be in Menlo Park on Sunday, August 6, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the market on Chestnut Street between Santa Cruz and Menlo avenues.
On Saturday, August 5, he will be at the Palo Alto market, behind the downtown post office at Hamilton and Gilman, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; and at the Kiwanis Redwood City market in the downtown parking lot at Hamilton and Winslow streets, from 11 a.m. to noon.
For more information, call the senator’s district office at 688-6384.
State hearing on charter schools
Charter schools — “what’s working, what’s not and where do we go from here?” — is the topic of a series of state Senate hearings that begin Tuesday, August 1, at 1:30 p.m. in Sacramento.State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto is among eight panelists who will provide information about students in charter schools, research findings and a roadmap for the future. A follow-up hearing will be held in Sen. Simitian’s district in October.
Local residents can view a live telecast on California Channel 28, beginning at 1:30 p.m. People can listen to the hearing on the state Senate’s Web site — www.sen.ca.gov — by clicking the “Audio/TV” link and then clicking “Listen” on the upper left-hand side of the screen.
Helping steelhead in McGarvey Gulch
Plans to replace a decaying culvert in Huddart Park to allow steelhead trout to get through will be presented to the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Commission on Thursday, August 3, at 2:30 p.m. in the supervisors chambers, 400 County Center, at the corner of Bradford and Hamilton streets in Redwood City.The county will replace the culvert in the park where Richards Road crosses McGarvey Gulch. Steelhead cannot make it through the decrepit culvert when they come upstream to spawn from San Francisquito Creek via West Union Creek.
The project will use grant funds from the San Francisco Bay Salmonid Habitat Foundation.
