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Birders at Cal and Stanford Face Off April 13
Berkeley City Council Approves 25 Percent Increase in Garbage Collection Fees
Squirrels, Gophers on Berkeley's Waterfront Face Extermination
Cal Remembers Football Player Ted Agu
Berkeley Considers a Soda Tax for November Ballot
No Plans for Valentine's Day? How About a Mass Wedding in Berkeley?
Berkeley in the Rain: A Soggy, Beautiful Weekend
Berkeley Art Museum Pushes the Limits of 'The Possible'
First Big Berkeley Celebration of Black History Month on Saturday
Berkeley's Trailblazing School Garden Program Is on the Chopping Block
Berkeley Schools to Spend $2 Million Updating Safety Plans
BART and Berkeley Police Team Up to Investigate Rash of Robberies
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ilana DeBare, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/10/go-bears-and-while-youre-at-it-spot-that-warbler/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Oak-Titmouse-720x476.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-128941\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Oak-Titmouse-720x476-640x423.jpg\" alt=\"An Oak Titmouse, one of the many species birders hope to spot on the Cal campus during Birding’s Big Game on April 13. (Linda Tanner/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An oak titmouse, one of the many species that birders hope to spot on the Cal campus during Birding’s Big Game on April 13. (Linda Tanner/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Go Bears! Spot that warbler!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a chant you’re unlikely to hear from the packed bleachers of Memorial Stadium during a Cal-Stanford football game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s a chant a certain group of enthusiasts will be mouthing silently to themselves on April 13, when Golden Gate Audubon Society faces off against Santa Clara Valley Audubon in \u003ca href=\"https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/goldengateaudubon/campaign.jsp?campaign=411&fundraiser=2784&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birding’s Big Game \u003c/a>— the first-ever Cal versus Stanford birding competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of Golden Gate Audubon’s annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/donate/birdathon-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birdathon\u003c/a> fundraising month, a team of Cal faculty, staff, students and community members will spend four hours combing the UC Berkeley campus to find as many bird species as possible. Their rivals in Santa Clara Valley Audubon will be doing the same thing on the Stanford campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many will they find — 40? 50? more?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m aiming for 50 species,” said Maureen Lahiff, a lecturer in applied statistics at Cal’s School of Public Health who is leading the Golden Gate Audubon team. “I don’t know if we’ll get there, but we have a good shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mention the UC Berkeley campus to most people, and they’re more likely to picture undergrads tossing Frisbees, or activists gathering signatures, than \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/a-century-of-birds-at-uc-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrens or flycatchers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Nun-of-your-business-720x540.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-128942\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Nun-of-your-business-720x540-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nuns toss a Frisbee on the UC Berkeley campus which be the scene of competitive bird spotting on April 13. (Chandler Fitzsimons/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nuns toss a Frisbee on the UC Berkeley campus, which be the scene of competitive bird spotting on April 13. (Chandler Fitzsimons/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the campus has been part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/13/local-birders-to-flock-to-annual-christmas-count/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GGAS’ Christmas Bird Count circle\u003c/a> for decades. It includes a variety of habitats such as creeks, oak hillsides, and redwood groves. It also has a birding jewel in the form of the UC Botanical Garden — 34 acres of trees, bushes and flowering plants from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the co-leaders of the Cal birding team on April 12 will be Chris Carmichael, associate director of the Botanical Garden, who leads quarterly bird walks there. If anyone can find birds in the garden, it’s him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nice thing about an April date is that we’ll have the end of wintering birds like fox sparrow, while migrants like black-headed grosbeaks and hooded orioles should also be back by then,” Carmichael said. “One of the treasures of the garden is California thrasher, which we find in the upper corner by the roses. … The intersection of natural habitats and the (international) habitats that we create leads to a very rich birding area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining Lahiff and Carmichael as team leaders will be Erica Rutherford and John Colbert, a graduate of the Haas School of Business, who will focus on the parts of campus in Strawberry Canyon, outside the Botanical Garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They will all be birding with students from \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/thewildlifesocietyberkeley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wildlife Society at Berkeley\u003c/a>, a new student group that formed just this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supporting student birders is a big part of this,” Lahiff said. “We all want to get younger people involved in birding, and this is a good way to do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lahiff, a lifelong birder, has been spotting birds at UC Berkeley since she started working there about 20 years ago. When she walks across campus to her classroom, she finds crows, juncos, California towhees and the occasional oak titmouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When students ask to speak with Lahiff after class, she says, “Let’s go outside to my office with the hummingbirds.” As they gather outside Morgan Hall, three or four Anna’s Hummingbirds are also often gathering in the Mexican sage around the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128948\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/wildlifesociety-720x369.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-128948\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/wildlifesociety-720x369-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The recently formed Wildlife Society at UC Berkeley. (Courtesy Golden Gate Birder)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The recently formed Wildlife Society at UC Berkeley. (Courtesy Golden Gate Birder)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But why turn the mellow activity of birding into a competitive intercollegiate rivalry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Lahiff said, part of the goal is to reach out to student birders. Another goal is to inspire all members of the Cal community to notice and appreciate the wildlife around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s supporting Golden Gate Audubon. Birdathon, which takes place throughout April, is GGAS’ biggest fundraiser of the year. Like in a walkathon, Lahiff and her team are asking people to sponsor them with a tax-deductible contribution to Golden Gate Audubon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, of course, there’s fun. And bringing birding glory home to Berkeley!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem unlikely that anyone could beat a Cardinal at birding. But these are Bears who know their birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a competitive person by nature,” said Chris Carmichael. “But … Go Cal!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want to support the Cal team in Birding’s Big Game? Click here to sponsor them with a tax-deductible contribution to Golden Gate Audubon Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post first appeared on \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/go-bears-spot-that-warbler/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden Gate Birder\u003c/a>, the Golden Gate Audubon Society website, which has its headquarters on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ilana DeBare is communications director at Golden Gate Audubon. A former business reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle and a co-founder of the Julia Morgan School for Girls, she is the author of “Where Girls Come First: The Rise, Fall and Surprising Revival of Girls’ Schools.” She writes a personal blog at “Midlife Bat Mitzvah.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many will they find — 40? 50? more?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m aiming for 50 species,” said Maureen Lahiff, a lecturer in applied statistics at Cal’s School of Public Health who is leading the Golden Gate Audubon team. “I don’t know if we’ll get there, but we have a good shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mention the UC Berkeley campus to most people, and they’re more likely to picture undergrads tossing Frisbees, or activists gathering signatures, than \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/a-century-of-birds-at-uc-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrens or flycatchers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Nun-of-your-business-720x540.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-128942\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Nun-of-your-business-720x540-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nuns toss a Frisbee on the UC Berkeley campus which be the scene of competitive bird spotting on April 13. (Chandler Fitzsimons/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nuns toss a Frisbee on the UC Berkeley campus, which be the scene of competitive bird spotting on April 13. (Chandler Fitzsimons/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the campus has been part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/13/local-birders-to-flock-to-annual-christmas-count/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GGAS’ Christmas Bird Count circle\u003c/a> for decades. It includes a variety of habitats such as creeks, oak hillsides, and redwood groves. It also has a birding jewel in the form of the UC Botanical Garden — 34 acres of trees, bushes and flowering plants from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the co-leaders of the Cal birding team on April 12 will be Chris Carmichael, associate director of the Botanical Garden, who leads quarterly bird walks there. If anyone can find birds in the garden, it’s him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nice thing about an April date is that we’ll have the end of wintering birds like fox sparrow, while migrants like black-headed grosbeaks and hooded orioles should also be back by then,” Carmichael said. “One of the treasures of the garden is California thrasher, which we find in the upper corner by the roses. … The intersection of natural habitats and the (international) habitats that we create leads to a very rich birding area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining Lahiff and Carmichael as team leaders will be Erica Rutherford and John Colbert, a graduate of the Haas School of Business, who will focus on the parts of campus in Strawberry Canyon, outside the Botanical Garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They will all be birding with students from \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/thewildlifesocietyberkeley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wildlife Society at Berkeley\u003c/a>, a new student group that formed just this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supporting student birders is a big part of this,” Lahiff said. “We all want to get younger people involved in birding, and this is a good way to do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lahiff, a lifelong birder, has been spotting birds at UC Berkeley since she started working there about 20 years ago. 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But these are Bears who know their birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a competitive person by nature,” said Chris Carmichael. “But … Go Cal!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want to support the Cal team in Birding’s Big Game? Click here to sponsor them with a tax-deductible contribution to Golden Gate Audubon Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post first appeared on \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/go-bears-spot-that-warbler/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden Gate Birder\u003c/a>, the Golden Gate Audubon Society website, which has its headquarters on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ilana DeBare is communications director at Golden Gate Audubon. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Emilie Raguso\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/02/27/berkeley-council-votes-to-increase-garbage-fees-by-25/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SideLoader-Truck-with-Extended-Arm-004.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128070\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SideLoader-Truck-with-Extended-Arm-004-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley began using automated single-operator garbage trucks as a cost-saving measure in late 2012. (City of Berkeley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley began using automated single-operator garbage trucks as a cost-saving measure in late 2012. (City of Berkeley)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Faced with a projected shortfall of nearly $3 million for waste pickup services, Berkeley officials voted unanimously this week to increase residential pickup fees by almost 25 percent, beginning in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers will also see a new description on their tax bills, as “Zero Waste Services” will replace the category previously described as “Refuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says it has not been charging enough to cover costs associated with recycling and organics pickup, which has contributed to the need for a rate increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday night, the City Council was advised either to increase fees by 24.7 percent come July, or phase in a 35.5 percent increase over three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council members voted unanimously to take the former approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council members Max Anderson, Kriss Worthington, Jesse Arreguín and Susan Wengraf had left for the night by the time of the vote, which took place after 11 p.m. Mayor Tom Bates said Wengraf previously told him she would need to leave by 11 p.m. to catch an early flight the next morning. No explanation was provided for the absence of the other council members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Screen-Shot-2014-02-27-at-1.18.23-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128071\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Screen-Shot-2014-02-27-at-1.18.23-PM-640x382.png\" alt=\"Chart: City of Berkeley\" width=\"640\" height=\"382\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart: City of Berkeley\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents using the smallest bin will pay about $3 more, while those using a 20-gallon bin will pay nearly $5 more, and those with a 32-gallon bin will pay more than $7 extra for service. See the chart above for specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rate increase is expected to both fix the deficit and raise money to help rebuild and improve the transfer station, rebuild the Materials Recovery Facility, and conduct an outreach and education campaign about recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Zero Waste Fund also pays for Clean City Program services totaling nearly $3.5 million. The program includes street sweeping ($2.3 million), the cleanup of illegal dumping ($465,000), graffiti abatement ($331,000), and a contract to cover hand sweeping ($321,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial rates will go up 2.5 percent. 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(City of Berkeley)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On March 28, the city will mail notices to residents about the rate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public hearing is scheduled on May 20 about the fee increase. Rates will be adopted at that time if there’s no “majority protest” as defined by \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/1996/120196_prop_218/understanding_prop218_1296.html\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 218\u003c/a>. New rates are slated to go into effect July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City spokesman Matthai Chakko said the key issue is that the city had not previously adopted a rate structure that could cover the costs of the services it provides. This change is meant to fix that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also noted that Berkeley’s pickup fees are still \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/05/residential-garbage-fees-could-rise-25-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">very much in line with the average rates of nearby cities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/05/residential-garbage-fees-could-rise-25-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">work session related to this issue in December\u003c/a>, city staff said Berkeley might in the future look into \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/05/residential-garbage-fees-could-rise-25-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">cutting back some pickup services\u003c/a> to every other week to reduce costs, which has worked in other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Item-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">presentation from Tuesday night’s meeting here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Want to get a digest of all the day’s Berkeley news in your email inbox at the end of your working day? \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a> to Berkeleyside’s free Daily Briefing.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council members voted unanimously to take the former approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council members Max Anderson, Kriss Worthington, Jesse Arreguín and Susan Wengraf had left for the night by the time of the vote, which took place after 11 p.m. Mayor Tom Bates said Wengraf previously told him she would need to leave by 11 p.m. to catch an early flight the next morning. No explanation was provided for the absence of the other council members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Screen-Shot-2014-02-27-at-1.18.23-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128071\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Screen-Shot-2014-02-27-at-1.18.23-PM-640x382.png\" alt=\"Chart: City of Berkeley\" width=\"640\" height=\"382\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart: City of Berkeley\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents using the smallest bin will pay about $3 more, while those using a 20-gallon bin will pay nearly $5 more, and those with a 32-gallon bin will pay more than $7 extra for service. See the chart above for specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rate increase is expected to both fix the deficit and raise money to help rebuild and improve the transfer station, rebuild the Materials Recovery Facility, and conduct an outreach and education campaign about recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Zero Waste Fund also pays for Clean City Program services totaling nearly $3.5 million. The program includes street sweeping ($2.3 million), the cleanup of illegal dumping ($465,000), graffiti abatement ($331,000), and a contract to cover hand sweeping ($321,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial rates will go up 2.5 percent. Officials explained that the smaller increase is due to the fact that those services are already mostly covered by existing resources, so there’s a much smaller gap to fill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Screen-Shot-2014-02-27-at-1.34.31-PM-720x260.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128072\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Screen-Shot-2014-02-27-at-1.34.31-PM-720x260-640x231.png\" alt=\"Commercial rates will go up less because services a mostly covered by existing fees. (City of Berkeley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"231\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commercial rates will go up less because services a mostly covered by existing fees. (City of Berkeley)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On March 28, the city will mail notices to residents about the rate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public hearing is scheduled on May 20 about the fee increase. Rates will be adopted at that time if there’s no “majority protest” as defined by \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/1996/120196_prop_218/understanding_prop218_1296.html\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 218\u003c/a>. New rates are slated to go into effect July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City spokesman Matthai Chakko said the key issue is that the city had not previously adopted a rate structure that could cover the costs of the services it provides. This change is meant to fix that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also noted that Berkeley’s pickup fees are still \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/05/residential-garbage-fees-could-rise-25-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">very much in line with the average rates of nearby cities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/05/residential-garbage-fees-could-rise-25-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">work session related to this issue in December\u003c/a>, city staff said Berkeley might in the future look into \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/05/residential-garbage-fees-could-rise-25-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">cutting back some pickup services\u003c/a> to every other week to reduce costs, which has worked in other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Item-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">presentation from Tuesday night’s meeting here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Want to get a digest of all the day’s Berkeley news in your email inbox at the end of your working day? \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a> to Berkeleyside’s free Daily Briefing.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/38842060@N05/5673938277/in/photolist-9Doqb2-9DooEV-e7mLhL\">Bill Williams/Flickr Creative Commons\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/author/frances/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frances Dinkelspiel\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, squirrels are in the crossfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to make sure no toxins leak out of the old landfill under Cesar Chavez Park and leach into San Francisco Bay, Berkeley is hiring a pest control company to trap and kill hundreds of squirrels and gophers that make their home there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems that when the squirrels and gophers do what comes naturally — digging holes or tunneling in the ground — they are getting perilously close to the clay cap that covers the landfill. If the rodents penetrate that barrier, dangerous toxins like gasoline, lead, iron, herbicides and pesticides could leach into the bay. So the city needs to reduce the animal population to lessen the risk, according to city spokesman Matthai Chakko.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s the overfeeding by people that has caused the overpopulation there.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t had any of the materials inside the landfill escape into the bay and we don’t want that to happen,” said Chakko. “We are trying to solve a problem before it happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city does not plan to eliminate all the squirrels and gophers at the park. It just wants to reduce the population, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of squirrels and gophers in the park is considerable, and the heaviest concentration is along the paths that traverse the perimeter of the park, said Chakko. In these areas, there is a higher concentration of tunnels and holes than in the center of the park, and it is the density that poses a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it turns out well-meaning Berkeley residents are creating the problem. Even though there are signs at the park telling people not to feed the animals, the message is frequently ignored. Many people come to the park and toss birdseed and peanuts around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the overfeeding by people that has caused the overpopulation there,” Chakko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley used the area as a landfill from 1961 to 1983, said Chakko. It was closed in stages between 1981 and 1990. A clay cap lines the bottom, clay dikes act like walls, and a clay layer covers the landfill. There is dirt on top of that, and that soil is what the rodents are disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control District ordered Berkeley to eliminate the squirrels. The city tried various methods to get rid of the rodents. It tried to encourage natural predators to come to the park by building owl boxes and perches for raptors. While spotting burrowing owls has become a favorite Berkeley pastime, their presence has not reduced the overpopulation of squirrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley cannot trap and move the rodents, as that is against state law. It cannot lace the area with poison – which might be quicker and less expensive – because that would affect other species. Its best approach is to trap and abate the squirrels, \u003ca href=\"http://cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/City_Council/2014/02_Feb/Documents/2014-02-11_Item_22_Closed_Landfill_Rodent_Population_Control.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a city report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted last week to hire Animal Damage Control, a pest control company, to run a pilot program. ADC will fence off a a 1-acre area at the northwest corner of Cesar Chavez Park and place 24 mechanical baited traps around, according to a staff report given to council. (The traps are small, so they will not capture other animals.) The company will check the traps twice a day for three weeks. The company will also set up mechanical, non-baited cinch tunnels underground to trap gophers. These traps will be checked every three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the pilot program succeeds, the city will consider expanding it to other areas in the 90-acre park, said Chakko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing our best to protect people, wildlife, pets and the bay ecosystem,” said Chakko. “All of those thing have to be in balance. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Lance Knobel\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/02/12/will-berkeley-be-first-in-nation-to-impose-sugar-tax/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/soda.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126114\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/soda-640x398.png\" alt=\"No U.S. city has yet been successful in passing a sugar-sweetened beverages tax. Will Berkeley be first? (Vox Efx/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No U.S. city has yet been successful in passing a sugar-sweetened beverage tax. Will Berkeley be first? (Vox Efx/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley has embarked on a path that could lead it to becoming the first city in the nation to tax sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday night the City Council agreed to put a sugar tax on a community poll assessing possible ballot measures for the November 2014 election (the poll will also test opinions on a commercial vacancies tax, a business license tax on rental housing, and a bond and tax measure for parks). A broad coalition of local groups, rallying under the banner of \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley vs Big Soda\u003c/a>, turned out a crowd of vocal advocates for a 1 cent-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No city has been able to successfully pass a sugar-sweetened beverages tax. But it will happen here in Berkeley,” said City Councilman Darryl Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, usually measured in his remarks at council meetings, delivered an emotive call to support the tax: “We’re the first community to divest. The first community for same-sex partner benefits. The first community to do curb cuts for our disabled citizens. We’re not going to let Big Soda and Big Sugar tell us that we’re going to continue to pollute our young people. We’re prepared for the battle, we’re prepared for the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community survey results will be available for the City Council meeting on April 1. Final approval on ballot language is scheduled for the July 1 meeting of the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby Richmond had a similar ballot measure in 2012, which was defeated. According to Councilman Laurie Capitelli, tax opponents, led by beverage manufacturers, spent $3.5 million to defeat the Richmond measure. San Francisco also is likely to have a so-called soda tax on the ballot in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The sugar industry … will throw millions and millions of dollars at this. They will try to divide us by race, they will try to divide us by class. They will accuse Berkeley of being a nanny state.’\u003ccite>Laurie Capitelli,\u003cbr>\nBerkeley City Councilman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It will be a daunting task, because the sugar industry if we proceed with this, will throw millions and millions of dollars at this,” Capitelli said. “They will try to divide us by race, they will try to divide us by class. They will accuse Berkeley of being a nanny state. You can count on a piece of mail in your mailbox every three or four days. It scares the pants off me to think about what they’re going to do when they come after us. They will try to buy people. They will accuse Berkeley and the council of trying to dictate what you can buy. We’re going to get all of that, and we’re going to get it in an avalanche. But we’re letting people poison us and we’re letting them get off scot-free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason for such a tax is clear,” said Vicki Alexander, co-chair, Berkeley Health Child Coalition. “Forty percent of Berkeley Unified ninth-graders are overweight. An African-American resident is four times more likely than a white resident to have been diagnosed with diabetes. It is unconscionable to stand by and do nothing. Please be for Berkeley and against Big Soda. The health of our children and our families is at stake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126117\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Big-Soda-council.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-126117\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Big-Soda-council-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Proponents of a soda tax were out in force in neon green at Berkeley City Council. (Lance Knobel/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proponents of a soda tax were out in force in neon green at Berkeley City Council. (Lance Knobel/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexander explained that the tax would be on distributors of drinks that have added caloric sweeteners, including sodas, sports drinks, energy drinks and sweetened iced teas. It would not apply to diet drinks, alcohol, milk products, infant formula or drinks taken for medical reasons. Small businesses would be exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to materials distributed by the Healthy Child Coalition, economists have estimated that a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks would reduce consumption by 10 to 15 percent over a decade. Research by UC San Francisco Professor Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo concluded that over a 10-year span, passage of such a tax nationally would prevent an estimated 95,000 coronary heart events, 8,000 strokes and 26,000 premature deaths, while avoiding more than $17 billion in medical costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Berkeley Voters Are Too Smart’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The power that’s here is huge,” said Xavier Morales, executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California. “Berkeley has been a national leader in improving the quality of nutrition in schools. We know that our presence here makes Berkeley a target for Big Soda. But we know that these tactics won’t work here. Berkeley voters are too smart. We have a campaign manager and we are actively fundraising. Together we’re going to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several councilmembers said there is a difficult choice between placing a special tax — the funds of which could go for a specific purpose, such as nutrition programs in schools — or a general tax — where funds go into the city’s general fund — on the ballot. A special tax requires a two-thirds majority vote, while a general tax requires only 50 percent plus one. Alexander said the campaign estimates a 1-cent tax per ounce in Berkeley would produce $1.5 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizzie Velten, state and national policy coordinator for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, said statewide polling showed two-thirds support for a special tax on sugary drinks. 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They will accuse Berkeley of being a nanny state.’\u003ccite>Laurie Capitelli,\u003cbr>\nBerkeley City Councilman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It will be a daunting task, because the sugar industry if we proceed with this, will throw millions and millions of dollars at this,” Capitelli said. “They will try to divide us by race, they will try to divide us by class. They will accuse Berkeley of being a nanny state. You can count on a piece of mail in your mailbox every three or four days. It scares the pants off me to think about what they’re going to do when they come after us. They will try to buy people. They will accuse Berkeley and the council of trying to dictate what you can buy. We’re going to get all of that, and we’re going to get it in an avalanche. 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It would not apply to diet drinks, alcohol, milk products, infant formula or drinks taken for medical reasons. Small businesses would be exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to materials distributed by the Healthy Child Coalition, economists have estimated that a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks would reduce consumption by 10 to 15 percent over a decade. Research by UC San Francisco Professor Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo concluded that over a 10-year span, passage of such a tax nationally would prevent an estimated 95,000 coronary heart events, 8,000 strokes and 26,000 premature deaths, while avoiding more than $17 billion in medical costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Berkeley Voters Are Too Smart’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The power that’s here is huge,” said Xavier Morales, executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California. “Berkeley has been a national leader in improving the quality of nutrition in schools. We know that our presence here makes Berkeley a target for Big Soda. But we know that these tactics won’t work here. Berkeley voters are too smart. We have a campaign manager and we are actively fundraising. Together we’re going to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several councilmembers said there is a difficult choice between placing a special tax — the funds of which could go for a specific purpose, such as nutrition programs in schools — or a general tax — where funds go into the city’s general fund — on the ballot. A special tax requires a two-thirds majority vote, while a general tax requires only 50 percent plus one. Alexander said the campaign estimates a 1-cent tax per ounce in Berkeley would produce $1.5 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizzie Velten, state and national policy coordinator for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, said statewide polling showed two-thirds support for a special tax on sugary drinks. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Frances Dinkelspiel\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/02/10/berkeley-to-celebrate-valentines-day-with-mass-wedding/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/love.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125921\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/love-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley will hold a mass outdoor wedding downtown on Valentine’s Day. (marie-ll/Creative Commons)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley will hold a mass outdoor wedding downtown on Valentine’s Day. (marie-ll/Creative Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Forget a mere box of chocolates or a bouquet of red roses or a pretty pink heart. 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Everyone who decides to say “I Do” at the 5 p.m. celebration near Berkeley BART also gets the chance to win an instant mini-honeymoon in downtown Berkeley. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What better way to celebrate the first Valentine’s Day since the repeal of DOMA and Prop. 8 than a mass wedding for all?” said John Caner, the CEO of the Downtown Berkeley Association. “Our merchants were thrilled to donate mini-honeymoon packages for three lucky couples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three winning couples — one gay, one lesbian and one straight — will be treated to two nights at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza, a late Friday night dinner at Eureka!, the new hamburger restaurant on Center Street, breakfast in bed at the hotel, Saturday lunch at BUILD Pizzeria Roma, dinner at FIVE restaurant, Saturday night tickets to \"The House that will not Stand\" at the Berkeley Rep, and Sunday matinee tickets to \"Endless Love\" at Landmark Shattuck Cinemas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other downtown merchants are also providing \u003ca href=\"http://www.downtownberkeley.com/is4Lovers\" target=\"_blank\">monthlong specials\u003c/a> during February for all lovers, couples and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three winning couples will be selected by popular vote, said Caner. Every person participating or watching the mass wedding will have the chance to cast one vote for the couple they would like to see win the honeymoon. So the more friends in attendance, the better chance each couple has to win, he said. Ballots will be drawn from three containers, one for gay couples, one for lesbian couples, and one for straight couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the winners are selected, everyone at the ceremony is invited to eat wedding cake and drink champagne (for a small fee) at Hotel Shattuck Plaza. DJ O Aces will spin romantic tunes for the couple’s first dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be three licensed officiates: Berkeley City Councilman Darryl Moore, Berkeley school board member Judy Appel, and Berkeley Chamber of Commerce CEO Polly Armstrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley was the first city to recognize domestic partnerships and the first to include sexual orientation in its anti-discrimination policies,” said Moore. “We still have a long way to go towards equality throughout the U.S., but in this city and state, we have a lot to celebrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Appel: “I am deeply honored to be officiating these weddings in Berkeley on the first Valentine’s Day since we won back marriage equality. “This is a chance to celebrate the love of the committed couples who choose to get married, and what better place than in the heart of Berkeley?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilwoman Susan Wengraf and her husband, Mark Berger, have decided to renew their vows at the ceremony on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Couples who are interested in getting married and winning the honeymoon package must register in BART Plaza between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. on the day of the event, bring valid IDs for both parties, and bring a valid marriage license issued within the last 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the weather forecast is calling for clouds and temperatures in the mid-60s. 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The public can join in braiding additional rings on artist Fritz Haeg’s already expansive rug, work with clay in the ceramics studio or join a song session led by Berkeley Carnatic vocalist Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, the founder of the Sangati Center (which presents regular South Indian classical recitals at the Subterranean Art House downtown).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“It is the antithesis of a typical museum, with different things happening every day, even every minute.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Each Sunday there’s a different combination of offerings,” says Wilson, who’s been convening interdisciplinary gatherings at outdoor locales since he settled in Oakland a decade ago. “This Sunday we’re lucky to have first in a series of song sessions, what Gautam is calling Bhajana, an informal Carnatic gathering and exchange of music. That will set a wonderful tone for the day, starting at 11 a.m. on the giant rug that Fritz has installed. 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Having that kind of adventure right off the bat we developed a tight bond, and I’ve invited him to each project since then, and it always works out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deepa Natarajan, the UC Botanical Garden’s public education program coordinator (and Ganeshan’s wife), is also involved in “The Possible” through her work at Fibershed, which is supplying California-grown indigo for the textile lab’s dye station. Founded by Rebecca Burgess, who’s also deeply involved in “The Possible,” Fibershed supports the development of local, sustainable textile culture. Other artists and artisans participating in the project include Jana Blankenship, Sarah Cahill, Anna Halprin, Alexander Kori Girard, Meara O’Reilly, Brion Nuda Rosch, Rowena Sartin, Amy Trachtenberg and Yoshiko Wada, with new participants added throughout the exhibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of David’s art practice has been convening groups of creative people – musicians, designers, painters, dancers — at gatherings that often happen at natural sites like Angel Island or the Headlands,” says Rinder, who started talking with Wilson about curating a project at the museum about two years ago. “I’ve attended several of his events and been very inspired by his ability to get some of the most creative people around to engage in very genuine way, to coordinate very complex events in a seemingly effortless way, so that artists do their best work in a stress-free way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it might sound like the museum staff is turning over the premises to the artists, part of “The Possible” involves selecting objects created in the workshops for display. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/garden-program.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-124724\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/garden-program-640x542.jpg\" alt=\"Washing off freshly picked asparagus at the Willard Middle School garden. Parents at the school are protesting suggested cuts to the cooking and gardening program. (Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"542\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washing off freshly picked asparagus at the Willard Middle School garden. Parents at the school are protesting suggested cuts to the cooking and gardening program. 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The budget for 2014-15 is just $375,586, which includes a necessary allocation of $300,000 from the BUSD general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson said cooking is a financially heavy piece of the equation, which explains why it is being suggested that it be cut. “It doesn’t have the infrastructure of gardening,” she said. “So we could bring it back in the future. 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It employs 17 instructional specialists, a part-time clerical program coordinator and a three-quarter-time supervisor. (The districtwide program is separate from the internationally acclaimed \u003ca href=\"http://edibleschoolyard.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Edible Schoolyard Project\u003c/a> at King Middle School. That program is integrated with King's curriculum but funded and operated through a nonprofit foundation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to raise significant outside resources to fund the program have not been sufficiently fruitful. Thompson said a grant writer was hired last year but that fundraising was not successful. She said reaching out to donors is complicated by the fact that the program is now part of educational services and requires a commitment by BUSD to provide regular financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program has traditionally been bolstered by significant parent and community support. On hearing about the proposed cuts, parents at Willard Middle School expressed alarm at the idea of doing away with what they say is “at the heart of what they want their children to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They shared a statement with Berkeleyside, part of which read: “We request immediate establishment of a committee to look at the BUSD budget and come up with a solution that avoids program closure. You do not dismantle a national model; it would take at least a decade to rebuild. The short and long-term costs to our children in terms of poor food choices, lack of environmental education, and the scholastic and physical repercussions of greater immobility during the school day are unacceptable.” [\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Willard-statement-re-cooking-and-gardening-program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full statement\u003c/a>.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is urging the community to sign a \u003ca href=\"http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/save-public-school-cooking?source=c.fwd&r_by=1152075\" target=\"_blank\">petition urging the federal government to reinstate funds for the program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, Thompson said the need to act now is imperative. “If we don’t come up with something, this program is going to die next year,” she said. “The proposal helps give us a baseline and we can build from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BUSD board meets Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. at Council Chambers, Old City Hall, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, in downtown Berkeley. \u003cstrong>At press time, the item on the cooking and gardening program is no longer expected to be on the agenda.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But the next campus in the district to go on lockdown may not face the same challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Unified School District will immediately begin to implement a nearly $2 million school safety improvement plan approved by the school board to install new PA systems, increase the use of surveillance cameras, conduct armed-intruder training for staff — and replace classroom locks so that the doors can be bolted from the inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of those improvements were ones we desired,” Deibel said. “I would’ve liked to be able to lock my door from inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by the 2012 mass shooting that killed 20 children at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., the district last year hired two consultants, Edu-Safe Associates and Dimensions Unlimited, to visit all BUSD schools and assess their preparedness for violent intruders. The Board voted 2-1 to adopt some of the consultants’ recommendations Jan. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consultants identified several “obvious weaknesses” in campus safety, said Susan Craig, director of student services. Craig will oversee the staff training program in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We want to enhance our use of surveillance cameras but we want to make sure the privacy of students and staff is not invaded through continual monitoring.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Armed-intruder training, developed shortly after the Columbine High School shooting massacre in 1999, “is nationally accepted and recommended these days,” Craig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BUSD schools already hold lockdown drills to prepare for intruders. “Where the armed intruder training takes it to the next step is preparing for something you hope you never have to use, which is, God forbid, if the armed intruder breaks through the barricade and gets into the room,” Craig said. “It’s training for how to respond to that, how to save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facility improvements recommended in the safety audit reports will begin immediately and will be complete by the end of summer 2015, said Director of Facilities Lew Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both consultants recommended the installation of comprehensive PA systems in all schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every principal at each site visited in BUSD advised that their public address, warning and campuswide communication systems were either nonexistent, not operating or deficient in some way. Administrators demonstrated that they could not cover the entire site with an emergency alert, a warning, or vital response information,” the Dimensions Unlimited report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also approved the increased use of surveillance cameras at the schools and the potential use of a live video feed during an incident, but the district will not move forward with the plan until the board develops a policy to address privacy concerns. Cameras were first installed in Berkeley schools with the caveat that the footage would be used only after an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If an armed intruder gets into Berkeley High School, it’s really an advantage to be able to broadcast to the entire community the exact location of an individual and what they’re doing,” Craig said. “We want to enhance our use of surveillance cameras but we want to make sure the privacy of students and staff is not invaded through continual monitoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the use of a live feed is far from definite, some board members were adamant that there be guidelines in place that prevent its abuse, should schools begin to use the feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the value in the case of an emergency to monitor what’s happening, but we also want to have very clear guidelines for when we’re not going to use that,” said Judy Appel, the BUSD board’s vice president. “Of course, the safety of our students is a paramount concern to the board, and we just want to make sure we’re doing that in the best way that protects our students all around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly $2 million in safety improvements is financed by $15,000 from the general fund, $100,000 in Measure H funds and $1,220,000 from bond measures AA and I. The installation of interior locks in classrooms could add $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $15,000, the armed-intruder training is the least expensive piece of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BUSD did not adopt all the recommendations made by the consultants, including a suggestion to station a police officer at each school. Currently, there is one police officer at Berkeley High but none on other campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s costly and we have safety officers that are Berkeley Unified staff,” Craig said. “They are not armed, they are not police officers, but they have a lot of training around de-escalating incidents. We needed to prioritize what we felt would leverage our dollars to maximize the recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 137 fatal school shootings since 1980, according to the Edu-Safe report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been no reported gun-related incidents within Berkeley schools since there was a rash of them at Berkeley High School in 2011. One day in February \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/02/04/another-gun-incident-at-berkeley-high-today/\" target=\"_blank\">two students brought firearms onto campus\u003c/a>, and on March 11 a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/03/22/gun-shot-fired-at-berkeley-high-school-no-injuries/\" target=\"_blank\">gun was fired in a bathroom\u003c/a>. A bullet went through the wall of a portable classroom but nobody was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BUSD schools are put on lockdown multiple times each year, often in response to violence in the surrounding area. The LeConte lockdown, prompted by gunfire during an attempted robbery in the neighborhood, was the first of 2014. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consultants identified several “obvious weaknesses” in campus safety, said Susan Craig, director of student services. Craig will oversee the staff training program in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We want to enhance our use of surveillance cameras but we want to make sure the privacy of students and staff is not invaded through continual monitoring.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Armed-intruder training, developed shortly after the Columbine High School shooting massacre in 1999, “is nationally accepted and recommended these days,” Craig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BUSD schools already hold lockdown drills to prepare for intruders. “Where the armed intruder training takes it to the next step is preparing for something you hope you never have to use, which is, God forbid, if the armed intruder breaks through the barricade and gets into the room,” Craig said. “It’s training for how to respond to that, how to save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facility improvements recommended in the safety audit reports will begin immediately and will be complete by the end of summer 2015, said Director of Facilities Lew Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both consultants recommended the installation of comprehensive PA systems in all schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every principal at each site visited in BUSD advised that their public address, warning and campuswide communication systems were either nonexistent, not operating or deficient in some way. Administrators demonstrated that they could not cover the entire site with an emergency alert, a warning, or vital response information,” the Dimensions Unlimited report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also approved the increased use of surveillance cameras at the schools and the potential use of a live video feed during an incident, but the district will not move forward with the plan until the board develops a policy to address privacy concerns. Cameras were first installed in Berkeley schools with the caveat that the footage would be used only after an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If an armed intruder gets into Berkeley High School, it’s really an advantage to be able to broadcast to the entire community the exact location of an individual and what they’re doing,” Craig said. “We want to enhance our use of surveillance cameras but we want to make sure the privacy of students and staff is not invaded through continual monitoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the use of a live feed is far from definite, some board members were adamant that there be guidelines in place that prevent its abuse, should schools begin to use the feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the value in the case of an emergency to monitor what’s happening, but we also want to have very clear guidelines for when we’re not going to use that,” said Judy Appel, the BUSD board’s vice president. “Of course, the safety of our students is a paramount concern to the board, and we just want to make sure we’re doing that in the best way that protects our students all around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly $2 million in safety improvements is financed by $15,000 from the general fund, $100,000 in Measure H funds and $1,220,000 from bond measures AA and I. The installation of interior locks in classrooms could add $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $15,000, the armed-intruder training is the least expensive piece of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BUSD did not adopt all the recommendations made by the consultants, including a suggestion to station a police officer at each school. Currently, there is one police officer at Berkeley High but none on other campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s costly and we have safety officers that are Berkeley Unified staff,” Craig said. “They are not armed, they are not police officers, but they have a lot of training around de-escalating incidents. We needed to prioritize what we felt would leverage our dollars to maximize the recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 137 fatal school shootings since 1980, according to the Edu-Safe report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been no reported gun-related incidents within Berkeley schools since there was a rash of them at Berkeley High School in 2011. One day in February \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/02/04/another-gun-incident-at-berkeley-high-today/\" target=\"_blank\">two students brought firearms onto campus\u003c/a>, and on March 11 a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/03/22/gun-shot-fired-at-berkeley-high-school-no-injuries/\" target=\"_blank\">gun was fired in a bathroom\u003c/a>. A bullet went through the wall of a portable classroom but nobody was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BUSD schools are put on lockdown multiple times each year, often in response to violence in the surrounding area. The LeConte lockdown, prompted by gunfire during an attempted robbery in the neighborhood, was the first of 2014. Berkeley High School went on lockdown in 2013 during a Shattuck Avenue robbery attempt, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/12/19/after-newtown-lockdown-drill-wednesday-vigil-thursday/\" target=\"_blank\">held a lockdown safety drill\u003c/a> in 2012 shortly after the Newtown shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as in most school districts, the schools in Berkeley are microcosms of the communities in which they exist. All of the advantages and disadvantages of the community are reflected on the various school campuses,” the Edu-Safe report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/crime-map.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123937 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/crime-map-640x431.png\" alt=\"There have been at least 15 reported robberies near the Ashby BART station in the past 60 days, with several others also nearby. At least eight of the robberies near BART involved firearms. One incident, at Woolsey and Tremont, is too recent to appear on the map. (CrimeMapping/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There have been at least 15 reported robberies near the Ashby BART station in the past 60 days, with several others also nearby. At least eight of the robberies near BART involved firearms. One incident, at Woolsey and Tremont, is too recent to appear on the map. (CrimeMapping/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Emilie Raguso, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/01/17/south-berkeley-robberies-on-the-rise-near-ashby-bart/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed robbers have been targeting the South Berkeley neighborhood east of the Ashby BART station in recent months, with a spike in \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-robberies/\" target=\"_blank\">robbery reports\u003c/a> since mid-November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past 60 days, there have been at least 28 robberies reported in the area between Adeline Street and Telegraph Avenue — between Ashby and Alcatraz avenues — in South Berkeley and North Oakland. (That number includes several reports just outside those borders.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From mid-July to mid-September, there were \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Crime-report-for-7_21_2013-9_18_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">six reports in that area\u003c/a>, according to crime statistics posted online by local police agencies. During the next two months there were \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Crime-report-for-9_19_2013-11_17_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">seven robberies\u003c/a> reported in the vicinity. Most of those incidents, from both periods, took place in Berkeley. Then, from mid-November through mid-January, there were \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Crime-report-for-11_18_2013-1_16_2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">15 reports\u003c/a>, split nearly equally between Berkeley and Oakland. At least eight of those involved firearms. (One of those incidents happened Tuesday and does not yet appear as part of the available data set.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Police Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/11/police-join-forces-to-crack-berkeley-oakland-robbery-series/\" target=\"_blank\">began a joint patrol\u003c/a> with BART Police officers in early December, and is collaborating with the Oakland Police Department to investigate a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/11/police-join-forces-to-crack-berkeley-oakland-robbery-series/\" target=\"_blank\">rash of armed robberies \u003c/a>involving stolen cars that had been concentrated within a few blocks of each other on the North Oakland-South Berkeley border near Ashby BART station. There have been at least five reported incidents in the area since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, a man was robbed at gunpoint while walking home from Ashby BART at the same intersection, at Woolsey and Tremont streets, where a pregnant woman was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/10/pregnant-woman-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-south-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">robbed by men with a gun in December\u003c/a>. At least \u003ca href=\"http://www.crimemapping.com/DetailedReport.aspx?db=7/21/2013+00:00:00&de=1/16/2014+23:59:00&ccs=RO&xmin=-13611169.244246583&ymin=4558541.12210104&xmax=-13610632.990719948&ymax=4558931.070378204\" target=\"_blank\">six of the 28 incidents\u003c/a> reported over the past six months have been listed as having occurred in that same intersection. (As of publication time, this most recent incident had not year \u003ca href=\"http://www.crimemapping.com/DetailedReport.aspx?db=7/21/2013+00:00:00&de=1/16/2014+23:59:00&ccs=RO&xmin=-13611169.244246583&ymin=4558541.12210104&xmax=-13610632.990719948&ymax=4558931.070378204\" target=\"_blank\">appeared on the list\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who was robbed this week said he was walking home from BART at 8 p.m. Tuesday when three men surrounded him, held him at gunpoint, and took his backpack, wallet, cellphone and wedding ring. (Berkeleyside has agreed to identify him only by his first name, Adam, because he was the victim of a crime.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was walking east along Woolsey near Tremont and noticed three men who were huddled together, looking down and whispering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My instinct was to run,” Adam said. “But I thought to myself, ‘You can’t just run every time you see people huddled together.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He quickened his pace and continued up the street. Moments later, Adam said he felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickling. He started to turn around, and two of the men were right there. They each grabbed one of his arms and pulled him toward a nearby fence. A third man pointed a gun at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He put his hands in my pockets and started taking stuff,” said Adam. “The guy behind me took the backpack off me. Then they casually walked away. They didn’t run. It was like it was no big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told him to walk the other way. But one of them said, ‘The ring, too. Don’t forget his ring.” The man with then took his wedding ring off his finger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing he’d have no way to get inside his home, he asked the men to return his keys. They threw them his way and headed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, Adam said, he checked the Find my iPhone app to see if his phone’s signal might appear. Around 11:30 p.m., a signal for the phone suddenly showed up in East Oakland near 85th Avenue and San Leandro Street. An officer later retrieved it for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"When we were having a series of robberies on Prince Street some years back, addressing the lighting issues seemed to have a positive effect.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Better lighting may make a difference, some say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors and officials have said they believe a lack of adequate lighting in the area may be contributing to the robberies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Carleton, co-chair of the Halcyon neighborhood group, said neighbors have been asking for help from the city to improve what she described as “subpar” lighting. She noted that Jim Hynes, from the Berkeley city manager’s office, had visited the neighborhood Friday morning to get a better sense of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carleton said she’s seen better lighting make a difference to improve safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were having a series of robberies on Prince Street some years back, addressing the lighting issues seemed to have a positive effect,” she said, via email. “We hope and trust the City of Berkeley will act quickly to address the subpar lighting on Woolsey Street near the Ed Roberts Campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the president of a nearby neighborhood group, the LeConte Neighborhood Association, encourages residents to walk with flashlights after dark “both to add light and also as a clear signal to potential robbers that you’re paying attention and alert and they won’t be able to escape without being seen and described.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Carleton, “We also do our best to encourage neighbors to leave on porch lights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Kriss Worthington said Thursday that he is working together with Councilman Max Anderson’s office to refer the lighting issue to the city manager’s office and the public works department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a heavily trafficked area with all the people getting off of BART and walking home,” said Worthington. “I’ve gone and walked and ridden my bike around there. It definitely is not very brightly lit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city has struggled to keep up with lighting needs because its streetlight fund “is very limited” and “not in very good shape.” Worthington said he has pushed for LED lighting because it’s cheaper in the long term and could make a big difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The city has applied for a loan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/10/30/berkeley-aims-to-switch-old-streetlights-to-leds/\" target=\"_blank\">install LED lighting throughout Berkeley\u003c/a>. According to city spokesman Matthai Chakko, the city has received a “preliminary award,” and is still discussing the terms of that offer, but “should know more by the end of the month.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, said Worthington, the city needs to take a closer look at whether overgrown trees may be blocking existing lighting, and redouble trimming efforts. He said that, though the city’s resources are limited, firm steps must be taken if there’s an obvious problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to look carefully,” he said. “Anywhere there’s a pattern of negative behavior in terms of robberies, we need to prioritize it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeleyside provides exclusive coverage of many of Berkeley’s most serious crimes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/category/crime/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, a man was robbed at gunpoint while walking home from Ashby BART at the same intersection, at Woolsey and Tremont streets, where a pregnant woman was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/10/pregnant-woman-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-south-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">robbed by men with a gun in December\u003c/a>. At least \u003ca href=\"http://www.crimemapping.com/DetailedReport.aspx?db=7/21/2013+00:00:00&de=1/16/2014+23:59:00&ccs=RO&xmin=-13611169.244246583&ymin=4558541.12210104&xmax=-13610632.990719948&ymax=4558931.070378204\" target=\"_blank\">six of the 28 incidents\u003c/a> reported over the past six months have been listed as having occurred in that same intersection. (As of publication time, this most recent incident had not year \u003ca href=\"http://www.crimemapping.com/DetailedReport.aspx?db=7/21/2013+00:00:00&de=1/16/2014+23:59:00&ccs=RO&xmin=-13611169.244246583&ymin=4558541.12210104&xmax=-13610632.990719948&ymax=4558931.070378204\" target=\"_blank\">appeared on the list\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who was robbed this week said he was walking home from BART at 8 p.m. Tuesday when three men surrounded him, held him at gunpoint, and took his backpack, wallet, cellphone and wedding ring. (Berkeleyside has agreed to identify him only by his first name, Adam, because he was the victim of a crime.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was walking east along Woolsey near Tremont and noticed three men who were huddled together, looking down and whispering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My instinct was to run,” Adam said. “But I thought to myself, ‘You can’t just run every time you see people huddled together.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He quickened his pace and continued up the street. Moments later, Adam said he felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickling. He started to turn around, and two of the men were right there. They each grabbed one of his arms and pulled him toward a nearby fence. A third man pointed a gun at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He put his hands in my pockets and started taking stuff,” said Adam. “The guy behind me took the backpack off me. Then they casually walked away. They didn’t run. It was like it was no big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told him to walk the other way. But one of them said, ‘The ring, too. Don’t forget his ring.” The man with then took his wedding ring off his finger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing he’d have no way to get inside his home, he asked the men to return his keys. They threw them his way and headed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, Adam said, he checked the Find my iPhone app to see if his phone’s signal might appear. Around 11:30 p.m., a signal for the phone suddenly showed up in East Oakland near 85th Avenue and San Leandro Street. An officer later retrieved it for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"When we were having a series of robberies on Prince Street some years back, addressing the lighting issues seemed to have a positive effect.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Better lighting may make a difference, some say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors and officials have said they believe a lack of adequate lighting in the area may be contributing to the robberies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Carleton, co-chair of the Halcyon neighborhood group, said neighbors have been asking for help from the city to improve what she described as “subpar” lighting. She noted that Jim Hynes, from the Berkeley city manager’s office, had visited the neighborhood Friday morning to get a better sense of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carleton said she’s seen better lighting make a difference to improve safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were having a series of robberies on Prince Street some years back, addressing the lighting issues seemed to have a positive effect,” she said, via email. “We hope and trust the City of Berkeley will act quickly to address the subpar lighting on Woolsey Street near the Ed Roberts Campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the president of a nearby neighborhood group, the LeConte Neighborhood Association, encourages residents to walk with flashlights after dark “both to add light and also as a clear signal to potential robbers that you’re paying attention and alert and they won’t be able to escape without being seen and described.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Carleton, “We also do our best to encourage neighbors to leave on porch lights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Kriss Worthington said Thursday that he is working together with Councilman Max Anderson’s office to refer the lighting issue to the city manager’s office and the public works department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a heavily trafficked area with all the people getting off of BART and walking home,” said Worthington. “I’ve gone and walked and ridden my bike around there. It definitely is not very brightly lit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city has struggled to keep up with lighting needs because its streetlight fund “is very limited” and “not in very good shape.” Worthington said he has pushed for LED lighting because it’s cheaper in the long term and could make a big difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The city has applied for a loan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/10/30/berkeley-aims-to-switch-old-streetlights-to-leds/\" target=\"_blank\">install LED lighting throughout Berkeley\u003c/a>. According to city spokesman Matthai Chakko, the city has received a “preliminary award,” and is still discussing the terms of that offer, but “should know more by the end of the month.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, said Worthington, the city needs to take a closer look at whether overgrown trees may be blocking existing lighting, and redouble trimming efforts. He said that, though the city’s resources are limited, firm steps must be taken if there’s an obvious problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to look carefully,” he said. “Anywhere there’s a pattern of negative behavior in terms of robberies, we need to prioritize it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeleyside provides exclusive coverage of many of Berkeley’s most serious crimes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/category/crime/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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