Community Contacts (assembled for Barron Park Residents)

Index

• Palo Alto City Government
• Palo Alto, other
• Elected Representatives
• Other useful Government sites
• Volunteer and Service Organizations and non-government Policy Organizations
• Childcare
• Other Neighborhood Association and Community Groups
• bottom of page

Palo Alto City Government

• Comparison of Community Services, Public Safety, Environmental Services, Street and Sidewalk Maintenance among Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Clara, and Sunnyvale, and Fremont, City Manager's Report 1838, May 6, 2003
• City of Palo Alto Home Page
• CityPages: quarterly newsletter to residents
• City Manager's weekly memo
• Palo Alto Police Dept
• City of Palo Alto - Family Resources
• Staff E-mail Address Scheme
• Library Catalog:
  • Library Catalog on the Web
  • Telnet access only (Advice)
• Palo Alto | Utilities Block Finder

Palo Alto, other

• Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD)
• Friends of the Palo Alto Library
• Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Associations
  • College Terrace Residents' Association
  • Midtown Residents' Association
    Midtown Bee: An Internet Magazine for the people of Midtown Palo Alto
  • University South Neighborhood Association
• California Avenue, Business and Shopping Area in Palo Alto, includes a visual tour of the latest art
• Wildlife Rescue of Palo Alto (650) 494-SAVE (= 494-7283 )
• Palo Alto Weekly: Current Issue, Back Issues
• Palo Alto Daily News
• Palo Alto Cable Co-op
• Mid-Peninsula Access Corporation (MPAC) - Public Access TV (Cable Coop Channel 6)
• Media Center Channels 27 & 28
• Your Mining Company Guide to Silicon Valley / Palo Alto
• Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce
• California Avenue, Business and Shopping Area in Palo Alto (CAADA)
• Local2Me: localizable interest groups ("match-making meets mailing lists")
• San Francisquito Watershed Council

Elected Representatives

• Santa Clara County, Board of Supervisors
  District 5: Lis Kniss

• Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD)
  • District 5: Greg Zlotnick, Web Page, voicemail: (408) 265-2607 x 2081
  • At-Large, North County: Tony Estremera Web Page

• California State Assembly (Warnings about site access)

• California State Senate

• Voting records: CA State Assembly and Senate from Legislative Counsel office
• U.S. House of Representatives
  • 14th Congressional District: Anna G. Eshoo, Web Page

• U.S. Senate
  • Barbara Boxer, Web Page
  • Dianne Feinstein, Web Page

Other useful Government sites

• Juror Status - Santa Clara County Superior Court
• Assessor's Office, Santa Clara County - provides parcel maps online
• Santa Clara County Vector Control District (Pest control: rats, various insects, ...)
• Portal for Government of State of California
• Dept of Motor Vehicles (DMV) : most popular forms and Driver's Handbook
• Foothill - De Anza District (Community College)
• Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District email: mrosd@openspace.org
• California State Home Page
• California Secretary of State - Official Home Page
• California Water Page
• California Franchise Tax Board (forms)
• California First Amendment Coalition: information on gaining access to meetings or public records
• Freedom of Information Center (located at University of Missouri)
• Integrated Waste Management (recycling, composting, ...) from Solid Waste Commission, Santa Clara County (CA)

Volunteer and Service Organizations and non-government Policy Organizations

• San Francisco Bay Area Volunteer Information Center: very large set of links to these organizations
• Palo Alto Mediation Program: (650) 856-4062
  Alternative dispute resolution for:
  • Tenant/Landlord Issues
  • Consumer Problems
  • Neighborhood Concerns
  • Workplace Conflicts
  • Person-to-Person Issues
• HelpSCC Health and Human Services for Santa Clara County (California)
• Palo Alto Area Chapter, American Red Cross
• Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group
• Peninsula Interfaith Action

Childcare

• California Child Care Links
• Childcare Net: "child care search engine and internet connection" for Silicon Valley.

• Palo Alto Neighborhood Associations from City's web site
  Other not listed there (at time of addition here):
  • College Terrace Residents' Association
• PAN: Palo Alto Neighborhoods
  Other subsets of PAN
  • Palo Alto Neighborhoods
  • Palo Alto Neighborhoods Home at Midtown Residents Association
• United Neighborhoods of Santa Clara County
• Juana Briones Heritage Foundation, a group dedicated to preserving the Juana Briones House
• "Similar Links" Holiday Lakes Estates of Morgan Hill, CA
• North University Neighborhood Association (NUNA) in Austin, Texas
• Creedmoor Civic Association, Bellerose in Queens, New York City. Of special interest: a significant list of other neighborhood associations.