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A SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2017
TODAY IN HISTORY
Outage
1864 FROM PAGE 1
Congress authorized
the use of the phrase In fact, people in the city
In God We Trust on of 850,000 people were gen-
U.S. coins. erally courteous to each an-
other.
1889 The citys iconic cable
cars were taken out of ser-
The Oklahoma Land vice as a precaution since
Rush began at noon as streetlights were not oper-
thousands of home- ating on large parts of their
steaders staked claims. routes.
Tourists werent griping,
1937
though, said spokeswoman
Erica Kato. Everyones very
Thousands of college understanding its not
students in New York us, she said.
City staged a peace The outage initially
strike opposing Ameri- closed the Bay Area Rapid
can entry into another Transit agencys downtown
possible world conflict. Montgomery Station. Peo-
1952
ple used the lights of their
cellphones to walk through
the darkened station before
An atomic test in service was restored.
Nevada became the Later, people milled on
first nuclear explosion sidewalks, controllers di-
shown on live network rected traffic manually,
television as a 31-kilo- and shops were dark. Some
ton bomb was dropped buildings had power, others
from a B-50 Superfor- did not. ATM screens were
tress. blank and the citys famed
1970
cable cars were shut down
for hours.
People were confused
Millions of Americans about what was going on
concerned about the and what to do, said Pam
environment observed Martinez, a 25-year-old San
the first Earth Day. Francisco resident and soft-
2000
ware engineer who was on
a train when she heard the
announcement that her
In a dramatic pre-dawn destination station was
raid, armed immigra- closed.
tion agents seized Elian Even crossing the street
Gonzalez, the Cuban was chaotic because the
boy at the center of a streetlights dont work and
custody dispute, from theres a few ambulances
his relatives home in trying to go through the
Miami; Elian was re- crowds, Martinez said. Its
united with his father at pretty crazy.
Andrews Air Force Base Patricio Herrera sat
near Washington. glumly in his darkened res-
taurant, Ziggys Burgers, at
what should have been a
Birthdays busy lunch hour full of peo-
Actress Charlotte Rae ple hungry for his freshly
is 91. Actress Estelle ground hamburgers.
Harris is 89. Singer Glen We have lost every-
Campbell is 81. Actor thing today, said Herrera,
Jack Nicholson is 80. the stores consulting chef
Author Janet Evanovich and manager. Six employ-
is 74. Movie direc- ees sat at tables behind him,
tor John Waters is 71.
Singer Peter Frampton
is 67. Actress-talk show
host Sherri Shepherd
is 50. Actress Amber Funding
Heard is 31. FROM PAGE 1
In a news release, the
Star report
Justice Department said
the places were identified
in a May 2016 Justice De-
Ronda Rousey partment Inspector Gener-
announces als Office report as poten-
tially having policies that
engagement to hindered communication
Travis Browne with Immigration and Cus-
Forget the octagon, toms Enforcement.
Ronda Rousey is buzz- In addition to California,
ing about a ring after the letters were addressed
announcing her engage- to officials in New Orleans;
ment to fellow MMA Philadelphia; Chicago; New
fighter Travis Browne. York City; Clark County, Las
Rousey flashed the Vegas; Miami Dade County;
diamond and made the Milwaukee County, and
announcement in a Cook County, Illinois.
paparazzi video shared The Justice Department
by TMZ Sports. Browne wrote in a press release,
says in the video that Additionally, many of these
he popped the ques- jurisdictions are also crum-
tion under a waterfall in bling under the weight of il-
New Zealand last week. legal immigration and vio-
The 30-year-old lent crime, casting asper-
Rousey says they plan sions on New York, Chicago
to get married soon, and the Bay Area in partic-
but that theyre just in ular.
the beginning stages of The release said New
planning a wedding. York, for example, which
The Associated Press has seen significant re-
cent reductions in crime,
continues to see gang
murder after gang mur-
der, the predictable con-
LOTTERY sequence of the citys soft
on crime stance. It said
WINNING NUMBERS crime in Chicago had sky-
Daily 3 Afternoon: 0, rocketed. And it said af-
8, 5 ter a raid on MS-13 mem-
Daily 3 Evening: 7, 8, 3 bers in the Bay Area, city
Daily 4: 2, 7, 0, 2 officials seemed more con-
Fantasy 5: 11, 30, 31, cerned with reassuring il-
37, 39 legal immigrants that the
raid was unrelated to im-
Daily Derby migration than with warn-
1st: 5, California Clas- ing other MS-13 members
sic that they were next.
2nd: 11, Money Bags Several jurisdictions
3rd: 12, Lucky Charms said they believed they al-
Race Time: 1:48.51 ready had been complying
with federal law all along,
SUPER LOTTO PLUS and they disputed Sessions
Wednesdays draw- characterization of what
ing: was happening.
2, 28, 33, 34, 38 Zach Butterworth, the di-
Mega number: 4 rector of federal relations
Todays estimated for the city of New Orleans
jackpot: $31 million and executive counsel to
the mayor, said the city wel-
MEGA MILLIONS comed the letter and would
Fridays drawing: respond next week telling
1, 12, 13, 32, 34 Sessions they were fully
Mega number: 10 complying with federal law.
Tuesdays estimated He said sanctuary city was
jackpot: $45 million an ill-defined term and New
Orleans did not accept the
POWERBALL moniker.
Wednesdays draw- Theres a lot of politi-
ing: cal talk, but theres no le-
1, 19, 37, 40, 52 gal analysis, Butterworth
Powerball: 15 said. We say were not one
Todays estimated because we follow federal
jackpot: $90 million law.
While the city tells its po-
Cable Cars sit idle on California Street during a power
outage in San Francisco Friday.
Kate Davis, from left, Alex Rodriguez, Molly Gasch and
Marissa Osowsky work on steps across from their office
Friday.
chatting or checking their
phones.
Employees at a Starbucks
gave away cups of iced and
hot coffee in the darkened
shop. A worker said that
was better than letting the
coffee go to waste.
Many of those affected
used social media to vent
their frustrations or post
celebratory memes about
getting off work early to working on for six months,
play. Police Chief William
Scott said officers were
working to clear traffic as
quickly as possible, but in
the meantime folks should
just relax.
Take advantage of this
beautiful day. See the city
and enjoy the restaurants,
enjoy the parks and what-
not until we get traffic back
to normalcy, he said.
For some, that was easier
lice officers not to ask peo-
ple they encounter about
their immigration status, it
does not block them from
talking to Immigration
and Customs Enforcement
agents, Butterworth said.
He said the city updated its
policy to better reflect fed-
eral law last year.
If they need one
more letter, were
happy to send
it, and well get
it turned around
quickly.
Zach Butterworth, New
Orleans director of federal
relations
If they need one more
letter, were happy to send
it, and well get it turned
around quickly, Butter-
worth said.
Mike Hernandez, the
communications director
for Miami Dade County,
said Mayor Carlos Gimnez Immigration and Customs
strongly believes that we
are in compliance with the
law, and noted the county
had begun earlier this year
to honor all requests from
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement to detain po-
tential illegal immigrants
taken into custody on local
charges.
Hernandez said the
county had stopped hon-
oring the requests in 2013
because the federal govern-
ment was not providing re-
imbursement for the cost of
detaining suspected ille-
gal immigrants, but, fear-
ing the loss of federal fund-
ing, officials had decided to
change course.
We never proclaimed to
be a sanctuary community
before then, and we havent
since, Hernandez said. We
always have worked with
federal authorities on all
matters, including immi-
gration.
Seth Stein, a spokesman
for City Hall in New York,
said, the administrations
push was nothing new
and the grandstanding
shows how out of touch the
Trump administration is
with reality.
Contrary to their alter-
native facts, New York is
the safest big city in the
country, with crime at re-
cord lows in large part be- gued at a recent hearing
cause we have policies in
place to encourage cooper-
ation between NYPD and
immigrant communities,
he said.
Milwaukee County Ex-
PHOTOS BY JEFF CHIU AP PHOTO
said than done.
Brent Chapman, who
works in billing and report-
ing for First Republic Bank,
told his team to go home af-
ter huddling on a sidewalk
and waiting for word of
when power would be re-
stored.
They had been ready to
send out a finished proj-
ect Friday, one theyd been
ager Todd Cusimano.
after some had pulled an
all-nighter.
Its brutal. This is se-
riously the worst possible
time that this could have
happened, Chapman said.
I do not want to leave. I
want to stay and get this
done.
Anderson said the sub-
station that failed was set to
be part of $100 million up-
grade of the power system.
ecutive Chris Abele said in
a statement officials were
in compliance with the
law and will share the re-
quired legal opinion by the
date requested, though the
Justice Departments com-
ments about illegal immi-
gration and violent crime
were neither accurate nor
productive.
Milwaukee County has
its challenges but they are
not caused by illegal immi-
gration, said Abele. My far
greater concern is the pro-
active dissemination of mis-
information, fear, and intol-
erance.
That law that Sessions
wants enforced is narrow,
and it would not bar any of
the policies that people gen-
erally associate with sanc-
tuary jurisdictions.
When someone is ar-
rested on a local crime,
their fingerprints are run
through the FBI database,
and whether local au-
thorities like it or not
Design silver standard for
Enforcement can tell if
they are in the country ille-
gally. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement will of-
ten then send a request to
local authorities to detain
such people.
Refusing to honor such
a request would not neces-
sarily violate federal law.
But telling local police of-
ficers, for example, that
they could not give infor-
mation to their counter-
parts in Immigration and
C ust oms Enforc ement
might.
The Obama administra-
tion also had considered
compliance with the law a
requirement for receiving
Justice Department grants,
and in response to the In-
spector Generals report,
even issued guidance on
the subject. Cities, though,
have said they are worried
that Sessions threats are
not mere talk.
Seattle, San Francisco
and Santa Clara County
have actually sued over the
matter, asking a federal
judge to block Trumps ex-
ecutive order and stop Ses-
sions from making good
on his threat. The Justice
Department has fought
the cases in court, and
Acting Assistant Attorney
General Chad Readler ar-
Hallemeier said. We didnt
that it was premature for
the judge to consider be-
cause the Justice Depart-
ment had not yet taken
any sort of enforcement
action.
Energy
FROM PAGE 1
In Larkspur, Council-
man Dan Hillmer said he
was surprised by his own
position to encourage
the council to aggressively
move as fast as possible to
Deep Green, and take a very
strong leadership role in en-
couraging every one of our
residents to take similar ac-
tion.
The city and town were
both enrolled in MCEs
Light Green program, in
which half of the agencys
energy is provided by re-
newable energy sources
such as solar, wind, bioen-
ergy, geothermal and small
hydroelectric operations.
Its exciting
that there is a
groundswell of
communities.
J.R. Killigrew, community
development manager of MCE
Its expected that the
switch will reduce the
citys greenhouse gas emis-
sions from 248 metric tons
of carbon pollution to about
158 metric tons, or about
90 metric tons annually. In
Corte Madera, about 190
metric tons of carbon pol-
lution would be reduced an-
nually.
Streetlights, flood-con-
trol pump stations and
sewer pumps are the three
big energy suckers in Corte
Madera, said Town Man-
Corte Maderas MCE bill
totals about $117,000 a year;
Larkspur is paying about
$109,000 a year to MCE.
The Twin Cities join Bel-
vedere, Fairfax, San An-
selmo and Sausalito in
the Deep Green program.
The Marin Municipal Wa-
ter District board last year
voted to also make the
switch. Other agencies in
the county who moved to
the program include the
Marin Agricultural Land
Trust, Point Reyes National
Seashore and the Tamal-
pais Community Services
Rebuild
FROM PAGE 1
The complex is made up
of six buildings, three and
four stories tall. The size of
each unit varies, but the one-
bedroom apartments av-
erage 775 square feet; two-
bedroom apartments are
about 1,090 square feet, and
the three-bedroom, three-
story townhouses average
1,290 square feet. Each unit
will include a washer and
dryer. There are 295 park-
ing spaces, including private
garages on the street level of
the townhouses.
Each unit has either a
balcony or patio deck. The
complex is expected to
meet the Leadership in En-
ergy and Environmental
environmentally friendly
building practices.
Roy noted that six days a
week, some 200-plus work-
ers park on site and crews
receive deliveries daily.
Traffic hasnt been im-
peded on any level, he said.
Near the courtyard pool
there will be a fitness cen-
ter and community room
with pool tables.
A 3,000-square-foot
ground-floor space at the
corner of Tamal Vista Bou-
levard and Wornum Drive
will soon become an An-
dys Market, a grocery
store and cafe.
MacFarlane represen-
tatives wouldnt say what
it would cost to rent the
units, and said leasing
information will be an-
nounced in June, after the
town completes a final
building inspection.
At a Tuesday Town
Council meeting, Dirk Hal-
lemeier, managing director
of MacFarlane Partners,
said it was previously dis-
cussed that rents could be
from the high $2,000 range
for one-bedroom units to
$4,000 for the three-bed-
room townhouses. Eigh-
teen of the units will be
reserved for below-mar-
ket-rate housing.
Weve learned a lot,
becue pit and coveted views
think it was going to take
us a year-plus to get the
thing done ... and then we
started pulling this thread
out of this sweater and we
just didnt stop until we
District.
In June, the county
Board of Supervisors is ex-
pected to consider going
Deep Green when it adopts
its annual budget.
Since 2010, the county
has been enrolled in the
Light Green program. An-
nually the county uses
about 15 million kilowatts
of energy a year. The move
would cost the county
about $150,000 on top of
the $2.5 million it pays for
energy annually, and would
reduce about 2,200 tons of
carbon emissions a year, ac-
cording to Dana Armanino,
the countys sustainability
planner.
MCE is a joint powers
authority made up of the
county of Marin and mu-
nicipalities in the county.
The program, developed
under a state law passed in
2002, allows local govern-
mental agencies in this
case, MCE to buy elec-
tricity wholesale and resell
it to local residents. The
program has placed MCE
in competition with inves-
tor-owned Pacific Gas and
Electric Co.
The Deep Green option
entirely avoids the use of
Renewable Energy Certifi-
cates, and half of the addi-
tional cost of the program
goes into a fund for other
MCE projects, including
the soon-to-be opened So-
lar One facility, a 10.5-mega-
watt project in Richmond.
When communities join
MCE residents are automat-
ically switched to MCE un-
less they opt out.
The Deep Green pro-
gram is expected to be con-
sidered as part of Mill Val-
leys budget at a City Coun-
cil meeting May 15.
The San Rafael City
Council will hear a budget
preview, in which the Deep
Green option will be intro-
duced. The council is ex-
pected to consider the bud-
get for adoption June 5.
Its exciting that there
is a groundswell of com-
munities, said J.R. Killi-
grew, community devel-
opment manager of MCE.
Hopefully it will encour-
age the community to opt
up, because these cities are
showing leadership.
knew everything was fixed
and it took another year,
unfortunately.
T hats because the
owners ... their mission
from day one was we want
you to do what is right for
the project, what is right
for the community and we
want you to spare no cost
in getting this done cor-
rectly, Roy said.
Roy would not disclose
the cost of the project, but
MacFarlane in 2012 ob-
tained a $47 million Bank
of America construction
loan. A $25 million valu-
ation for the project was
recorded on building per-
mits issued in February
and July of 2013.
Two buildings are com-
plete on the inside and
within days the scaffolding
will come down. The two
buildings that face Tamal
Vista Boulevard will be
done next, and the other
buildings will follow.
Its a nice
concept. Its
free-flowing.
Its going to be
beautiful when
its done.
Phil Roy, Tam Ridge project
manager
Corte Madera Mayor Di-
ane Furst said that since Roy
joined, shes noticed a dras-
tic change in the construc-
tion site, and that she is
looking forward to welcom-
ing new residents to town.
It is a very thorough re-
build, she said. They are
not just masking over the
construction mistakes ...
they are literally rebuild-
ing significant portions of
the project.
On a sunny afternoon
this week four stories above
where the grocery store is
planned, Roy stood in a
doorway of what would
soon be an apartment
kitchen with a sliding door
that leads to a communal
balcony. This is where fu-
ture residents would have
access to a deck with a bar-
of the town and Mount Ta-
malpais.
Its a nice concept, Roy
said. Its free-flowing. Its
going to be beautiful when
its done.