It’s Our Money, What Can We Do?



The Pope-Chaucer Bridge replacement project is locally-funded and locally-controlled.  
Let our elected representatives know that you do not want them to further develop either of the initial two alternatives and instead want alternatives to solve the problem without the need for future floodwalls.


Express your opinion at public meetings and more critically, put them on public record.
Letters to the City Council are powerful since this project is funded with your money and is therefore locally controlled. Send your thoughts to 
Palo Alto City Council at city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
Menlo Park City Council at city.council@menlopark.org
East Palo Alto City Council ℅ Ruben Abrica at rabrica@cityofepa.org 

 Please copy Jessica Collins, Public Information Representative for the Santa Clara Valley Water District at jcollins@valleywater.org and the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority at jpa@sfcjpa.org with the subject line “Pope-Chaucer Bridge Replacement”  
Letters to the Editor of our local newspapers may also be helpful. Here's one that appeared in the Daily Post.
Send a letter to the Daily Post: Write to us at letters@padailypost.com. Please limit letters to 250 words or less. Shorter letters are printed first and edited least. Include your first and last name along with your address and phone number. Of course your address and phone number will not be printed. Send mail to 385 Forest Ave, Palo Alto CA 94301  
Send a letter to The Daily News: Letters to The Daily News need the author s first and last name, home street address and phone number. The phone number and address are for verification, not publication. Letters of more than 250 words aren't considered. E-mail letters to letters@dailynewsgroup.com. Send mail to 255 Constitution Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025.  
Send a letter to The Palo Alto Weekly: Letters to the Editor: letters@paweekly.com
Letters to the Editor must be no more than 250 words to be considered for publication. Send mail to 450 Cambridge Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306
 Send a letter to The Almanac: Letters to the Editor: letters@AlmanacNews.com. Send mail to 3525 Alameda de las Pulgas, Menlo Park, CA 94025-6558
Send a letter to The San Jose Mercury News: Letters for our editorial page must include the writer's name, address and phone number. Letters of more than 150 words aren't considered. We do not give out letter writers' phone numbers or addresses. E-mail: letters@mercurynews.com Send mail to Letters to the Editor, 750 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95190.

 Read Pope-Chaucer Bridge Replacement letters in the January 2014 Menlo Park Email Archive...
...and continuing in the February 2014 Menlo Park Email Archive

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