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Along with City Councilman Kriss Worthington, they also raised questions about Scott’s truthfulness. For many weeks, Scott insisted that only 2,200 books had been weeded. However, after Worthington visited Scott in his office in mid-July and, with a few keystrokes, pulled up a list that showed that 39,000 books had been weeded, Scott acknowledged that the higher number was accurate. His change of tune made many, including members of BOLT, lose confidence in him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of the actual number of books weeded came up again Wednesday night and revealed flaws in the library system that tracks books on its shelves. Alicia Abramson, the library’s manager for information technologies, recently tried to determine how many books had been weeded, she told BOLT. She ran two different tests and came back with two different numbers: one of 17,255 and one of 18,583 books. These were items that had apparently been discarded, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abramson said she tried, but could not reproduce the list of 39,000 items that reportedly had been weeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library hasn’t conducted an audit — where every single book is examined — for 14 years, said Dentan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthington, contacted Thursday, said that the 39,000 number was a figure spewed out of Scott’s computer, and he believes the number is accurate. He said he is mystified why library officials, working with state-of-the-art computers and sophisticated software, cannot get an accurate figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is something wrong with this picture,”he said. “They can allege our numbers are wrong, but our numbers are the library computer’s numbers. According to their own computer system, there are 39,000 deleted items.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthington has emailed Dentan and Abramson offering to show them how the 39,000 number was reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also room for confusion when discussing the Central Library weeding as it involves discarding items other than books, though the term “books” appears to be used when “items” might be more accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of items in the library collection has fluctuated over the past four years, but only by about 10% of the collection, said Dentan. In 2011-12, the library had 452,316 books. In 2012-13, the library had 487,746 books, according to numbers presented to BOLT. In 2013-14, there were 463,916 books. And in 2014-15, the library had 442,243 books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the speakers at the meeting, and at a rally beforehand, called for Dentan to stop the weeding process and to restore the librarians to their former roles as full participants in selecting and weeding out books. Scott had changed the library’s longstanding practice of using 34 librarians for weeding and acquisitions after a consultant said many librarians were overworked. He created a new system with two main librarians and four consulting librarians doing the work that 34 people had once done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The choice is very, very clear,” said Diane Davenport, a former librarian and former board member of the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library. “Return book selection and weeding to them (the group of 34 librarians). They know how to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dentan was not willing to go that far. She did say the library was not actively weeding right now. Then she outlined the many ways library staff can have input into selecting and weeding books. She made no suggestion that the current process implemented by Scott was not working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dentan did tell the board, however, that she wanted to immediately overturn another of Scott’s controversial decisions. He had locked out librarians from accessing a website that was a good source of news about forthcoming books. The Baker & Taylor website also has reviews and stories, and reading it regularly is critical for librarians’ knowledge of current books, said Dentan. They need that information to be responsive to patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armin Arethna testified that she felt “handicapped” working on the public desk without access to the information on the Baker & Taylor website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOLT members said they agreed that the staff should regain access to that site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dentan and other members of the senior staff then told BOLT about how the library goes about deciding which books to get rid of. Dentan also explained how librarians make sure the collection has books of local interest – one of the issues that was brought up in the protests. \u003ca href=\"http://cecilepineda.com/\">Cecile Pineda\u003c/a>, a fiction and non-fiction Berkeley writer who has won numerous awards, including the Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club award, told the board that the weeding process under Scott had removed her work from the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dentan said the acquisitions staff, as well as other librarians, look at books coming from local publishers to find books from Berkeley authors. The library also tries to do programming around local authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the BOLT board seemed pleased by Dentan’s report and thanked her for her presentation. But as soon as the meeting adjourned, a number of librarians came over to her and expressed dismay by the way she and Rachel MacNeilly, who heads up collections management, had characterized the process. Tom Dufour, a librarian, told Dentan there were some “untruths” in the presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It (collection management) looks great on paper,” Dufor told Berkeleyside. “It’s unfortunate it doesn’t happen that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking Ahead for a New Interim Director\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, BOLT formally hired Dentan as acting interim library director and gave her a salary of $137,772. The board does plan on finding an interim director immediately, according to Darryl Moore, a city councilman and BOLT member. Former Library Director Donna Corbeil is not interested in the job, he said. Staff from Berkeley’s Human Resources department will look for a permanent interim head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOLT hired a search firm to conduct a nationwide search after Corbeil retired. While no decision was reached Wednesday night, the board suggested it would follow that process again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the meeting, a group of concerned Berkeley residents and current and past librarians held a rally outside the Central Branch on Kittredge Street. Many of them called for an independent investigation into the weeding process under Scott to see what had gone wrong. Some said he was being made a scapegoat and there were still people employed in the library who were responsible for the way the process was carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Moore said he thought BOLT would be amenable to an investigation.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nUpdate: This article has been corrected to remove a quote that was attributed to Abramson where she said that “no one really knows how many books have been weeded.” The reporter wrote that down in her notebook and later thought it was a direct quote, which it was not. 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Dentan also explained how librarians make sure the collection has books of local interest – one of the issues that was brought up in the protests. \u003ca href=\"http://cecilepineda.com/\">Cecile Pineda\u003c/a>, a fiction and non-fiction Berkeley writer who has won numerous awards, including the Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club award, told the board that the weeding process under Scott had removed her work from the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dentan said the acquisitions staff, as well as other librarians, look at books coming from local publishers to find books from Berkeley authors. The library also tries to do programming around local authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the BOLT board seemed pleased by Dentan’s report and thanked her for her presentation. But as soon as the meeting adjourned, a number of librarians came over to her and expressed dismay by the way she and Rachel MacNeilly, who heads up collections management, had characterized the process. Tom Dufour, a librarian, told Dentan there were some “untruths” in the presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It (collection management) looks great on paper,” Dufor told Berkeleyside. “It’s unfortunate it doesn’t happen that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking Ahead for a New Interim Director\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, BOLT formally hired Dentan as acting interim library director and gave her a salary of $137,772. The board does plan on finding an interim director immediately, according to Darryl Moore, a city councilman and BOLT member. Former Library Director Donna Corbeil is not interested in the job, he said. Staff from Berkeley’s Human Resources department will look for a permanent interim head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOLT hired a search firm to conduct a nationwide search after Corbeil retired. 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"content": "\u003cp>Few things are more painful than watching people we love harm themselves. Most parents go through some iteration of this experience when their children become teenagers, but some families suffer more than others. One mom in Berkeley, Donna, found herself caught in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with her daughter, Cindy, starting in middle school. (To protect the family, we’ve changed the names.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When did the trouble start? The stories differ, depending on how you define trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of ‘Love in the Digital Age’\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Donna recalls the moment she spotted the first sext on her daughter’s phone, while driving with her two girls in the car. Cindy was 13 at the time, and her younger sister was in the back seat, so Donna didn’t say anything out loud, at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked over. My daughter was in the front seat. She was holding her phone. You know, she kind of scrolled through. But well, my first thought was: Why is there a male torso on my child’s phone? And then I thought to myself: Oh gosh, it’s, you know, this is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘My first thought was: Why is there a male torso on my child’s phone? And then I thought to myself: Oh gosh, it’s, you know, this is happening.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s just the sexting. “I would see sometimes text conversations,” Donna says, “between her and someone I didn’t know, and I assume, actually, that she didn’t know. If I could ever really see the whole gist of a conversation, I would gather that the person on the other side was a boy or man, who eventually would lead the discussion to something sexual, and then it seemed like she would kind of stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Donna Ultimately Realized Was Happening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really wanted attention,” Cindy says. At that time, she adds, “I didn’t really care how people thought of me. Like, I’m going to text this guy a million times until he stops replying, and then I’ll find the next one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy was an anxious kid, and a year into middle school, she found herself socially excluded by a group she calls the Abercrombie Girls, in reference to their focus on fashion. Cindy describes it as a “Mean Girls” situation. “I was always at the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_POt2KlfQ]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Cindy sought out boys, and men, consciously aware they were interested in sex, regardless of what she told her mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy, you know?” Cindy says. “Snap the picture and send it. It takes nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy is hardly an anomaly. Sexting is a common practice among teenagers, and grownups everywhere are struggling to catch up. Some law enforcement agencies treat sexting an under-age girl as a criminal offense, but if the sexter is a teenage boy, that can come off as \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031fztz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavy-handed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna warned her daughters about the fact that photos are forever on the Internet, but Cindy was favoring the bad information she got from girlfriends, who told her guys were unlikely to forward her photos if she had sexual photos of them: a kind of mutually assured destruction pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That turned out to be a naive assumption. But even after Cindy knew better, even after she had been publicly embarrassed, she kept sexting. Even after one of the older guys she was chatting with threatened to come find her, she kept looking for new, strange friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parental Surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna never really stalked her daughter. She openly checked Cindy’s phone once a week in middle school. But Cindy was much more careful about what she shared with her mom, regularly deleting incriminating evidence that could get her grounded or, at the very least, forced to endure a lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy wasn’t a big fan of social media, but Donna checked the feeds of her daughter’s Facebook friends nonetheless, looking for clues about her daughter’s life that Cindy wasn’t choosing to share with her. Donna also installed \u003ca href=\"http://www1.k9webprotection.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K9 Web Protection\u003c/a>, filtering software that blocks sites and then emits a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCXUuUKLxE&feature=youtu.be&t=6m23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loud dog bark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cutting was the first clue that Cindy’s anxiety and depression were overwhelming her. Cindy fell in with a couple of girls at school who were also suffering from depression. They were also cutting themselves, and cutting themselves competitively with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy described her first scars as evidence of an encounter with a cat. That excuse worked only once, and her tolerance grew over time, so she needed to cut more often “to get the same relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look like what they are: razor cuts,” says Donna. “So they’re very thin, and precise — but they can get a little deep. I know, it’s horrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the cutting began, Donna lined up a therapist, but Cindy didn’t take to the woman. She was formal, the kind of therapist who likes to review her notes at the end of a session — with a 13-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t more damaging,” Cindy says now, “but it just wasn’t helpful — and that was a critical time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was before high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more of Cindy’s reflections on middle school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, high school didn’t go as well as we had hoped for her,” Donna says. “She started out strong her freshman year, but by her sophomore year, she had gotten again with a group that was kind of fringe — not exactly motivated in school, and they were smoking a lot of pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy to find,” Cindy says. “Everyone had this unlimited supply. I almost always got it for free in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By sophomore year, Cindy was smoking, by her own estimate, eight or nine “blunts” a day — and then drinking on top of that. There was also a one-month flirtation with cocaine, but that wasn’t her main drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, Cindy was still getting A’s and B’s in school. She was taking care of business. “I was the only kid who went to class of the friends that I was with, ’cause I knew that If I started getting bad grades, my parents would notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are kids who are very combative with their parents,” Donna says. “They’re ‘I hate you, Mom,’ and they’re fighting. We were never like that. She would tug at my heartstrings, versus push me away. We tried to rein her in. ‘You can’t go to this party, and you can’t hang out with so-and-so.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Donna found it hard to lay down the law for any length of time. “You become a jailer, which is not fun,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Kfo8j15BfaTtV778Jwzc55k9CalAykEQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t Donna simply take away Cindy’s phone or Internet access? Cindy answers it best. “She really thought that if she punished me, I’d hurt myself.” Also, the phone was a valuable surveillance device for Donna, a way to keep tabs — however limited — on her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Donna recalls following Cindy via GPS down Telegraph Avenue one Halloween night after dropping her off at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was probably trying to score something,” Donna recalls. “I kept texting, ‘Where are you?’ and she kept telling me, ‘Oh, at this other party,’ and I could see the little dot moving around. I said, ‘You know, I’m just coming to get you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things started to go downhill,” Donna continues. “It just went downhill really fast. I realized, again from looking at her phone, that she was financing her pot use by selling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Donna had tried talk therapy, anti-depressants, dialectical behavior therapy — “a common form of therapy used for kids who cut” — which involved a year of classes for Cindy and Donna in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearwaterclinic.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clearwater Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, nothing they could do in Berkeley seemed to be working. “I feel like, at a certain point, I didn’t know who she was,” Donna says. “Someone who’s using drugs and abusing alcohol, there’s a lot they have to hide and a lot of manipulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy agreed to go to North Carolina for 2½ months to attend what’s called a wilderness therapy program. There, Cindy was separated from everything: her friends, her drugs, her makeup and, of course, her iPhone. Such a dramatic intervention doesn’t always work. Some kids are literally dragged to wilderness school, and the therapy doesn’t take. But Cindy says she loved her experience at \u003ca href=\"http://trailscarolina.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trails \u003c/a>in North Carolina, and would even do it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coming Clean\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of her therapy, Cindy had to write letters home cataloging everything she’d done in the previous years. The letters were shocking to Donna. “I probably shouldn’t have trusted her as much as I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna was genuinely surprised at the level of Cindy’s drinking, despite a couple instances in which she vomited in public, and one time when she blacked out in a public park. 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Some law enforcement agencies treat sexting an under-age girl as a criminal offense, but if the sexter is a teenage boy, that can come off as \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031fztz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavy-handed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna warned her daughters about the fact that photos are forever on the Internet, but Cindy was favoring the bad information she got from girlfriends, who told her guys were unlikely to forward her photos if she had sexual photos of them: a kind of mutually assured destruction pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That turned out to be a naive assumption. But even after Cindy knew better, even after she had been publicly embarrassed, she kept sexting. Even after one of the older guys she was chatting with threatened to come find her, she kept looking for new, strange friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parental Surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna never really stalked her daughter. She openly checked Cindy’s phone once a week in middle school. But Cindy was much more careful about what she shared with her mom, regularly deleting incriminating evidence that could get her grounded or, at the very least, forced to endure a lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy wasn’t a big fan of social media, but Donna checked the feeds of her daughter’s Facebook friends nonetheless, looking for clues about her daughter’s life that Cindy wasn’t choosing to share with her. Donna also installed \u003ca href=\"http://www1.k9webprotection.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K9 Web Protection\u003c/a>, filtering software that blocks sites and then emits a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCXUuUKLxE&feature=youtu.be&t=6m23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loud dog bark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cutting was the first clue that Cindy’s anxiety and depression were overwhelming her. Cindy fell in with a couple of girls at school who were also suffering from depression. They were also cutting themselves, and cutting themselves competitively with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy described her first scars as evidence of an encounter with a cat. That excuse worked only once, and her tolerance grew over time, so she needed to cut more often “to get the same relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look like what they are: razor cuts,” says Donna. “So they’re very thin, and precise — but they can get a little deep. I know, it’s horrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the cutting began, Donna lined up a therapist, but Cindy didn’t take to the woman. She was formal, the kind of therapist who likes to review her notes at the end of a session — with a 13-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t more damaging,” Cindy says now, “but it just wasn’t helpful — and that was a critical time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was before high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more of Cindy’s reflections on middle school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”&visual=true&undefined'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, high school didn’t go as well as we had hoped for her,” Donna says. “She started out strong her freshman year, but by her sophomore year, she had gotten again with a group that was kind of fringe — not exactly motivated in school, and they were smoking a lot of pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy to find,” Cindy says. “Everyone had this unlimited supply. I almost always got it for free in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By sophomore year, Cindy was smoking, by her own estimate, eight or nine “blunts” a day — and then drinking on top of that. There was also a one-month flirtation with cocaine, but that wasn’t her main drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, Cindy was still getting A’s and B’s in school. She was taking care of business. “I was the only kid who went to class of the friends that I was with, ’cause I knew that If I started getting bad grades, my parents would notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are kids who are very combative with their parents,” Donna says. “They’re ‘I hate you, Mom,’ and they’re fighting. We were never like that. She would tug at my heartstrings, versus push me away. We tried to rein her in. ‘You can’t go to this party, and you can’t hang out with so-and-so.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Donna found it hard to lay down the law for any length of time. “You become a jailer, which is not fun,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t Donna simply take away Cindy’s phone or Internet access? Cindy answers it best. “She really thought that if she punished me, I’d hurt myself.” Also, the phone was a valuable surveillance device for Donna, a way to keep tabs — however limited — on her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Donna recalls following Cindy via GPS down Telegraph Avenue one Halloween night after dropping her off at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was probably trying to score something,” Donna recalls. “I kept texting, ‘Where are you?’ and she kept telling me, ‘Oh, at this other party,’ and I could see the little dot moving around. I said, ‘You know, I’m just coming to get you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things started to go downhill,” Donna continues. “It just went downhill really fast. I realized, again from looking at her phone, that she was financing her pot use by selling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Donna had tried talk therapy, anti-depressants, dialectical behavior therapy — “a common form of therapy used for kids who cut” — which involved a year of classes for Cindy and Donna in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearwaterclinic.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clearwater Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, nothing they could do in Berkeley seemed to be working. “I feel like, at a certain point, I didn’t know who she was,” Donna says. “Someone who’s using drugs and abusing alcohol, there’s a lot they have to hide and a lot of manipulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy agreed to go to North Carolina for 2½ months to attend what’s called a wilderness therapy program. There, Cindy was separated from everything: her friends, her drugs, her makeup and, of course, her iPhone. Such a dramatic intervention doesn’t always work. Some kids are literally dragged to wilderness school, and the therapy doesn’t take. But Cindy says she loved her experience at \u003ca href=\"http://trailscarolina.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trails \u003c/a>in North Carolina, and would even do it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coming Clean\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of her therapy, Cindy had to write letters home cataloging everything she’d done in the previous years. The letters were shocking to Donna. “I probably shouldn’t have trusted her as much as I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna was genuinely surprised at the level of Cindy’s drinking, despite a couple instances in which she vomited in public, and one time when she blacked out in a public park. 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"content": "\u003cp>The head of the Berkeley Public Library has resigned in the midst of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/08/27/performance-of-berkeleys-library-director-under-fire-at-meeting-of-library-trustees/comment-page-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a controversy\u003c/a> over the weeding of books from the city’s Central Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Scott, who took the job as director of library services just 10 months ago, has been on the defensive as critics questioned his management style and honesty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is with a heavy heart that I tender my resignation as the Director of Library Services of the Berkeley Public Library. I have enjoyed my work here at the library and I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish,” Scott said in a statement Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library’s Board of Trustees will initiate a search to fill the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the public, as well as current and former librarians, have accused Scott of lying about the number of books discarded by the library in the weeding process. They’ve also charged that he removed key library personnel from the process of culling the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just under 1,000 people signed \u003ca href=\"http://www.petitions.moveon.org/sign/librarygate-stop-senseless/?source=search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a MoveOn.org\u003c/a> petition calling for Scott’s suspension or removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott took much of the criticism on at \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/08/27/performance-of-berkeleys-library-director-under-fire-at-meeting-of-library-trustees/comment-page-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a special meeting\u003c/a> of the Board of Library Trustees last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many at the meeting complained about what they said was an overly aggressive book-weeding policy, as well as what they perceived to be a hostile working environment at the libraries and a lack of honesty and trust. 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Some also said they were punished for speaking out against the collections management policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of the speakers called for Scott to be either fired or suspended without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Mullan, a former librarian who was a leader in the campaign against the weeding, told Berkeleyside she was “relieved” at the news of Scott’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community is aghast at what happened,” Mullan said. “I hope the library board now can take the reins and find an interim director who understands the staff and the collection while doing a national search.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullan added that she thought two other staffers in collection management should also leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really happy he is gone. He was the wrong man for the job,” said Bob Baty, who retired as the libraries’ head of maintenance in 2008 after 19 years and who now serves on the board of the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He consistently lied to us about the number of books that were pulped, number one,” Baty said. “And number two, he kept saying they were all going to the Friends, and all we got were five boxes out of 39,000 volumes. So he broke trust with the entire staff, and therefore his ability to lead was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Kriss Worthington, who called last week for an independent investigation into the weeding issue, said he still wants to know more about what happened at the libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody else is responsible for the mistreatment of the librarians and inaccurate information, they shouldn’t be off the hook and have him be the sacrificial lamb,” Worthington said. “We need to see what went wrong. Where did the inaccurate information come from. Did it come from him only? From one person to him? From two people to him? Who made the mistakes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second Berkeley library director who has been forced to resign in recent history. Jackie Griffin resigned in 2006 over union-related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Scott was in his position for only about 10 months, he oversaw the creation of a new strategic plan for the library, one that included creating a larger gathering spot for teens in the Central Library. He was concerned about how to balance the needs of the homeless with other patrons and set up a task force to consider the situation. He was also active on social media, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jdscott50/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting regularly\u003c/a> about library events and issues. 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"content": "\u003cp>The city of Berkeley has announced the closure of its historic municipal fishing pier due to “considerable structural damage” that has made the popular walkway unsafe for the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damage to the concrete decking and support system of the pier was found during an assessment earlier this summer. Signage and fencing have been posted in the area to cut off access pending the repairs, but where the money will come from to fix the problem remains an open question. The city did not respond Thursday to a request for additional information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement, in a memo from the city manager to the Berkeley City Council, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Berkeley-Pier-Closure-072315.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">was posted online\u003c/a> Thursday. It comes after a decision earlier in the month to prohibit heavy trucks on the pier due to the structural issues. As a result, the city paid $7,900 to set off its Fourth of July fireworks from a barge rather than using the historic walkway, which juts out into the San Francisco Bay at the end of University Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city discovered the structural damage prior to July 4, when it began looking into proposed repairs that would have made the pier smoother for wheelchairs, a city staffer told the Parks and Waterfront Commission earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After finding the damage, “the city retained the services of IDA Structural Engineering, Inc. (IDA) to advise the city on the feasibility of using heavy trucks on the Pier for the fireworks show. IDA examined the underside of the pier and found evidence of significant concrete spalling and badly corroded structural rebar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city banned all vehicular access to the pier at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the memo Thursday, “Further clarification and communication with IDA has resulted in the closure of the pier to all pedestrian and vehicular traffic until further testing and repairs can be made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City staff is working with IDA “on possible methods to repair portions of the pier and the potential costs, and will keep council updated on our progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the memo, the city has posted signage and fencing at the pier, and has sent notices to businesses and users at the Berkeley waterfront. Lamps on the pier “will continue to operate at night for boat navigation safety purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the closure has already dealt a blow to regular fishers and waterfront businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael Rosario, of Oakland, said he has been fishing daily at the pier for more than 10 years and often catches halibut, striper, stingrays and sharks there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too dangerous to fish off the pier because there’s cement underneath the pier that is falling apart,” he said. “You can see the rebar. It’s too hazardous to walk and fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamed Muddady, who runs the Eat and Run taco truck near the pier, said he had made just $3 Thursday compared with the usual $40 to $50. He says most of his business typically comes from people fishing at the pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s no more business here. I think it’s no more,” he said, of the pier. “And maybe it costs too much [to fix]. The pier is old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10613459\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/baitshop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10613459\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/baitshop-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Abdul Qasemi said the city did not inform him about the pier’s closure. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/baitshop-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/baitshop.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdul Qasemi said the city did not inform him about the pier’s closure. \u003ccite>(Frances Dinkelspiel/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abdul Qasemi, who has run a bait shop for the past three years at the Berkeley Marina, said his business is down by half. His customer base includes fishers who go out on boats, most before 6 a.m., and those at the pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qasemi said the city did not inform him about the closure, though it is his landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When business dropped off suddenly, he said, he was mystified. He closed his shop and walked down to the pier, about a quarter-mile away, to see what was going on. It was only then he found out that it had been closed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Jim McGrath of the Parks and Waterfront Commission said it is likely to be a challenge to find money for repairs to the pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gradually things are being rebuilt, but that’s going to be a very slow process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-07-06/article/43468?headline=Deteriorating-Berkeley-Pier-May-Need-Major-Costly-Repairs--Steven-Finacom-Special-to-The-Planet\" target=\"_blank\">Posting in the Berkeley Daily Planet\u003c/a> earlier this month, Steve Finacom wrote about the commission meeting where the subject of the pier came up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“City records show that in 1984 the bottoms of the pier slabs were repaired with gunnite sprayed to replace deteriorating concrete and cover the rebar,” Finacom wrote, adding that staff said the half-million-dollar repair “has now flaked off again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks and Recreation Director Scott Ferris told the commission, wrote Finacom, that the city would need to undertake a new engineering study to assess the pier’s stability, but said “the city has no money currently budgeted if major structural repairs to the pier are required.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferris did not respond Thursday to a request from Berkeleyside for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has struggled to find the money to maintain its parks and recreation facilities, as well as other infrastructure. Many of the problems facing Berkeley’s facilities have been exacerbated by years of deferred maintenance, as dealing with significant issues has been put off because the city hasn’t had the money to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferris told the Berkeley City Council in April that \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-03-24-WS-Item-01-Parks-Recreation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the city needs $78 million\u003c/a> to address all of its existing parks facility maintenance demands — at park buildings, city camps, pools and the marina — which have stacked up over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Measure F parks tax, passed by voters last fall, will bring an additional $1.7 million into city coffers each year. Of that, $500,000 will be used to address the department’s structural deficit, $450,000 will be spent on recurring maintenance projects, and $750,000 will be used for major maintenance. Measure WW funds, which must be spent by the end of fiscal year 2017, are also bolstering a number of the projects planned or underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the new influx of parks tax money, however, “less than half of the projected need for high-use parks and park buildings will be addressed,” according to a staff presentation in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10613457\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pierplaque.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10613457\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pierplaque.jpg\" alt=\"The historical plaque at the Berkeley pier. \" width=\"360\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The historical plaque at the Berkeley pier. \u003ccite>(Frances Dinkelspiel/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Ferry Co. built the Berkeley pier in 1926 to handle auto traffic to San Francisco. According to \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyplaques.org/plaque/berkeley-municipal-pier/\" target=\"_blank\">the marker\u003c/a> placed by the Berkeley Historical Plaque Project:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The pier accommodated ferries that carried cars across San Francisco Bay. After big events in Berkeley, such as football games at the University of California, hundreds of cars would back up for hours waiting to board the ferry for the trip back to San Francisco. After the Bay Bridge was completed and opened to automobile traffic in 1936 the pier was converted to recreational use, including fishing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The pier originally extended 3.5 miles toward San Francisco and was made obsolete by the opening of the Bay Bridge in 1936. The state Wildlife Conservation Board voted in 1957 to rehabilitate 2,000 feet of the pier for fishing and recreation. The facility proved so popular after its 1959 opening that the board agreed in 1961 to refurbish another 1,000 feet. The total price tag for those two projects: about $240,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:55 p.m.\u003c/strong> Councilwoman Linda Maio said she had been sad to hear the news about the pier’s closure, particularly because it is so heavily used by the public, but believes the city is approaching the issue correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I am dismayed about the situation, the fact that we are doing professional structural analyses to uncover weaknesses is the right thing,” she said, by email. “Now we await the bill to bring it to structural safety and see where and how we can find the funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Support independent local journalism by \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-berkeleyside/\">\u003cb>becoming a Berkeleyside member\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The city of Berkeley has announced the closure of its historic municipal fishing pier due to “considerable structural damage” that has made the popular walkway unsafe for the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damage to the concrete decking and support system of the pier was found during an assessment earlier this summer. Signage and fencing have been posted in the area to cut off access pending the repairs, but where the money will come from to fix the problem remains an open question. The city did not respond Thursday to a request for additional information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement, in a memo from the city manager to the Berkeley City Council, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Berkeley-Pier-Closure-072315.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">was posted online\u003c/a> Thursday. It comes after a decision earlier in the month to prohibit heavy trucks on the pier due to the structural issues. As a result, the city paid $7,900 to set off its Fourth of July fireworks from a barge rather than using the historic walkway, which juts out into the San Francisco Bay at the end of University Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city discovered the structural damage prior to July 4, when it began looking into proposed repairs that would have made the pier smoother for wheelchairs, a city staffer told the Parks and Waterfront Commission earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After finding the damage, “the city retained the services of IDA Structural Engineering, Inc. (IDA) to advise the city on the feasibility of using heavy trucks on the Pier for the fireworks show. IDA examined the underside of the pier and found evidence of significant concrete spalling and badly corroded structural rebar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city banned all vehicular access to the pier at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the memo Thursday, “Further clarification and communication with IDA has resulted in the closure of the pier to all pedestrian and vehicular traffic until further testing and repairs can be made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City staff is working with IDA “on possible methods to repair portions of the pier and the potential costs, and will keep council updated on our progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the memo, the city has posted signage and fencing at the pier, and has sent notices to businesses and users at the Berkeley waterfront. Lamps on the pier “will continue to operate at night for boat navigation safety purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the closure has already dealt a blow to regular fishers and waterfront businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael Rosario, of Oakland, said he has been fishing daily at the pier for more than 10 years and often catches halibut, striper, stingrays and sharks there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too dangerous to fish off the pier because there’s cement underneath the pier that is falling apart,” he said. “You can see the rebar. It’s too hazardous to walk and fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamed Muddady, who runs the Eat and Run taco truck near the pier, said he had made just $3 Thursday compared with the usual $40 to $50. He says most of his business typically comes from people fishing at the pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s no more business here. I think it’s no more,” he said, of the pier. “And maybe it costs too much [to fix]. The pier is old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10613459\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/baitshop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10613459\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/baitshop-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Abdul Qasemi said the city did not inform him about the pier’s closure. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/baitshop-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/baitshop.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdul Qasemi said the city did not inform him about the pier’s closure. \u003ccite>(Frances Dinkelspiel/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abdul Qasemi, who has run a bait shop for the past three years at the Berkeley Marina, said his business is down by half. His customer base includes fishers who go out on boats, most before 6 a.m., and those at the pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qasemi said the city did not inform him about the closure, though it is his landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When business dropped off suddenly, he said, he was mystified. He closed his shop and walked down to the pier, about a quarter-mile away, to see what was going on. It was only then he found out that it had been closed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Jim McGrath of the Parks and Waterfront Commission said it is likely to be a challenge to find money for repairs to the pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gradually things are being rebuilt, but that’s going to be a very slow process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-07-06/article/43468?headline=Deteriorating-Berkeley-Pier-May-Need-Major-Costly-Repairs--Steven-Finacom-Special-to-The-Planet\" target=\"_blank\">Posting in the Berkeley Daily Planet\u003c/a> earlier this month, Steve Finacom wrote about the commission meeting where the subject of the pier came up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“City records show that in 1984 the bottoms of the pier slabs were repaired with gunnite sprayed to replace deteriorating concrete and cover the rebar,” Finacom wrote, adding that staff said the half-million-dollar repair “has now flaked off again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks and Recreation Director Scott Ferris told the commission, wrote Finacom, that the city would need to undertake a new engineering study to assess the pier’s stability, but said “the city has no money currently budgeted if major structural repairs to the pier are required.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferris did not respond Thursday to a request from Berkeleyside for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has struggled to find the money to maintain its parks and recreation facilities, as well as other infrastructure. Many of the problems facing Berkeley’s facilities have been exacerbated by years of deferred maintenance, as dealing with significant issues has been put off because the city hasn’t had the money to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferris told the Berkeley City Council in April that \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-03-24-WS-Item-01-Parks-Recreation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the city needs $78 million\u003c/a> to address all of its existing parks facility maintenance demands — at park buildings, city camps, pools and the marina — which have stacked up over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Measure F parks tax, passed by voters last fall, will bring an additional $1.7 million into city coffers each year. Of that, $500,000 will be used to address the department’s structural deficit, $450,000 will be spent on recurring maintenance projects, and $750,000 will be used for major maintenance. Measure WW funds, which must be spent by the end of fiscal year 2017, are also bolstering a number of the projects planned or underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the new influx of parks tax money, however, “less than half of the projected need for high-use parks and park buildings will be addressed,” according to a staff presentation in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10613457\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pierplaque.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10613457\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pierplaque.jpg\" alt=\"The historical plaque at the Berkeley pier. \" width=\"360\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The historical plaque at the Berkeley pier. \u003ccite>(Frances Dinkelspiel/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Ferry Co. built the Berkeley pier in 1926 to handle auto traffic to San Francisco. According to \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyplaques.org/plaque/berkeley-municipal-pier/\" target=\"_blank\">the marker\u003c/a> placed by the Berkeley Historical Plaque Project:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The pier accommodated ferries that carried cars across San Francisco Bay. After big events in Berkeley, such as football games at the University of California, hundreds of cars would back up for hours waiting to board the ferry for the trip back to San Francisco. After the Bay Bridge was completed and opened to automobile traffic in 1936 the pier was converted to recreational use, including fishing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The pier originally extended 3.5 miles toward San Francisco and was made obsolete by the opening of the Bay Bridge in 1936. The state Wildlife Conservation Board voted in 1957 to rehabilitate 2,000 feet of the pier for fishing and recreation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The agency that oversees California building contractors says it's investigating the firm that built a Berkeley apartment complex that was the scene of a fatal balcony collapse earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasanton-based Segue Construction has become a central focus of the investigation into the collapse, which killed six people and seriously injured seven others early the morning of June 16. Berkeley building inspection officials found that parts of the wooden framing designed to support the fifth-floor balcony showed signs of extensive dry rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contractors State License Board spokesman Rick Lopes said in an email Friday that the agency is joining with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office and Berkeley building officials to determine whether the Library Gardens apartment complex, completed in 2007, was built to state code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopes said the investigation will include a forensic analysis of the wood used to build the balcony to see \"if it was appropriate for the job.\" The contractors board can take disciplinary action against contractors up to revocation of licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite many media reports that Segue has paid millions of dollars to settle lawsuits alleging construction defects in Bay Area residential projects, the \u003ca href=\"https://www2.cslb.ca.gov/OnlineServices/CheckLicenseII/LicenseDetail.aspx?LicNum=638854\" target=\"_blank\">company's entry\u003c/a> on the contractors board site shows no complaints or civil actions against the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:36 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Berkeley has joined the Alameda County District Attorney's probe into the fatal balcony collapse, after announcing Tuesday that its investigation was complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-joins-criminal-probe-into-balcony-6347588.php\">a report in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, Berkeley officials initially said they weren't trying to determine what led to the dry rot that caused the structure to fail, but changed their position around the same time that Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced that her office planned to look into the matter. O'Malley's office is now leading the investigation, with Berkeley police also taking part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also noted that Berkeley police had retained the collapsed balcony as evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:55 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced Thursday that her office will conduct a criminal investigation into the balcony collapse that killed six in downtown Berkeley on June 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said it will include forensic and laboratory analysis, making it broader in scope than an investigation completed by the city of Berkeley Tuesday. The probe will determine whether there was criminal negligence that led to the deaths. If negligence is found, a possible charge would be involuntary manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The negligence that we'll be evaluating must be aggravated, culpable, gross or reckless,\" she explained, \"and it must be conduct that is such a departure from what could be the conduct of an ordinarily prudent person, or careful person, as to be incompatible with protecting life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of the six people killed were Irish nationals. Speaking to the families of the young people who were killed, O'Malley said, \"Each of you deserves to have this case thoroughly and exhaustively investigated. We will do so, and that is the pledge I make from my office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:10 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City of Berkeley building inspectors are confirming \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/17/experts-suspect-dry-rot-to-blame-for-berkeley-balcony-plunge\" target=\"_blank\">what several independent experts said\u003c/a> in the wake of last week's fatal balcony collapse: The lumber that was supposed to support the structure showed signs of extensive dry rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a press conference Tuesday, the city also said that even though it's not known how water got into the balcony structure and caused it to deteriorate, its investigation into the collapse is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our analysis is complete and we the city are not going to be conducting any further investigations,\" said Eric Angstadt, Berkeley's director of planning and development. City spokesman Matthai Chakko added that the city is not conducting a criminal investigation into the collapse, which killed six people -- apparently the deadliest single incident in Berkeley's nearly 150-year-history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County District Attorney's Office is \"reaching out to the city of Berkeley\" and \"will begin looking at this matter,\" Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick wrote in an email response. The office is not providing any further details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Attorney David Anderson represents plaintiffs pressing personal injury claims against property managers. He said criminal charges are unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's highly unlikely that there was anything deliberate, purposeful or even a conscious disregard of safety,\" he said, adding the building's owner and property management company would likely face civil litigation, though. \"If you're going to accept rent, you've got to use some of that to pay to keep the place safe for people that are using it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disaster occurred last week at the Library Gardens apartment complex, a development on downtown Berkeley's Kittredge Street completed in 2007. The six people who died -- five of them students from Ireland working in the Bay Area for the summer -- plunged to the street when the fifth-floor balcony failed during a party. Seven other students were severely injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balcony, which was roughly 4½ by 8½ feet, was supported by laminated wood joists that projected out from the building's exterior wall in a cantilever -- meaning its support ultimately depended on the joists being securely tied into the structure's framing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those joists immediately became the focus of the investigation into the collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report released by Berkeley officials on Tuesday (and \u003ca href=\"#balconyreport\">embedded below\u003c/a>) details a series of inspections beginning less than two hours after the 12:41 a.m. collapse. Initially, the report says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The inspectors observed from the exterior French doors of Unit 405 that the cantilevered balcony joists had completely sheared off approximately 16-20 inches from the exterior building face. ... The inspectors observed that the deck joist ends protruding from the exterior wall appeared to be severely dry rotted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And subsequent inspections by daylight confirmed that impression. The city's supervising building inspector, Patrick Emmons, was hoisted on a platform to get a close-up look at the collapsed balcony, and observed \"that the joist ends protruding from the exterior wall appeared to be extensively rotted at the failure points.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found dry rot in the balcony immediately below the one that collapsed. They ordered that balcony removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angstadt, the city planning director, cautioned that the inspectors' findings are not a formal determination of the cause of the balcony collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What our observations were is there was severe deterioriation of the wooden structural members,\" Angstadt said. \"The most likely cause of that deterioration was dry rot, and the most likely contributor to dry rot is moisture infiltration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angstadt also said the city is not investigating how the moisture got into the interior of the balcony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know and we're not going to know or determine how the moisture got into the assembly,\" he said. \"What we're going to do is make a set of recommendations that will hopefully deal with any form of moisture infiltration to closed assemblies in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those recommendations for emergency changes to the city's building code include improved ventilation for the enclosed portions of balcony support structures, requiring the use of resistant or specially treated wood and mandatory inspections every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/17/firm-that-built-berkeley-complex-has-been-fined-sued/\" target=\"_blank\">Several media outlets\u003c/a> have reported that the general contractor on Library Gardens, Segue Construction, has faced a series of legal actions connected to water damage and dry rot in several Bay Area apartment projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Balcony-subcontractor-s-waterproofing-work-6339810.php\" target=\"_blank\">reported Sunday\u003c/a> that one of Segue's subcontractors, R. Bros. Inc., was responsible for the waterproofing work on the Library Gardens balconies. The Chronicle said both Segue and R. Bros. were sued after dry rot showed up in balconies at a Millbrae condo development just a year after construction on the project was finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry rot is the product of a fungus that takes hold in saturated wood and causes it to deteriorate. The California Building Code calls for a number of measures -- including waterproofing and drainage -- to prevent wood from getting wet. Berkeley's initial inspection indicated that at least some of the required measures -- for instance, a waterproof membrane designed to protect the wooden joists from exposure -- were in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vinnee Tong of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay City News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated to include a statement from the Alameda County District Attorney's Office and attorney David Anderson.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"balconyreport\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/269503033/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_85268\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced Thursday that her office will conduct a criminal investigation into the balcony collapse that killed six in downtown Berkeley on June 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said it will include forensic and laboratory analysis, making it broader in scope than an investigation completed by the city of Berkeley Tuesday. The probe will determine whether there was criminal negligence that led to the deaths. If negligence is found, a possible charge would be involuntary manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The negligence that we'll be evaluating must be aggravated, culpable, gross or reckless,\" she explained, \"and it must be conduct that is such a departure from what could be the conduct of an ordinarily prudent person, or careful person, as to be incompatible with protecting life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of the six people killed were Irish nationals. Speaking to the families of the young people who were killed, O'Malley said, \"Each of you deserves to have this case thoroughly and exhaustively investigated. We will do so, and that is the pledge I make from my office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:10 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City of Berkeley building inspectors are confirming \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/17/experts-suspect-dry-rot-to-blame-for-berkeley-balcony-plunge\" target=\"_blank\">what several independent experts said\u003c/a> in the wake of last week's fatal balcony collapse: The lumber that was supposed to support the structure showed signs of extensive dry rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a press conference Tuesday, the city also said that even though it's not known how water got into the balcony structure and caused it to deteriorate, its investigation into the collapse is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our analysis is complete and we the city are not going to be conducting any further investigations,\" said Eric Angstadt, Berkeley's director of planning and development. City spokesman Matthai Chakko added that the city is not conducting a criminal investigation into the collapse, which killed six people -- apparently the deadliest single incident in Berkeley's nearly 150-year-history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County District Attorney's Office is \"reaching out to the city of Berkeley\" and \"will begin looking at this matter,\" Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick wrote in an email response. The office is not providing any further details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Attorney David Anderson represents plaintiffs pressing personal injury claims against property managers. He said criminal charges are unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's highly unlikely that there was anything deliberate, purposeful or even a conscious disregard of safety,\" he said, adding the building's owner and property management company would likely face civil litigation, though. \"If you're going to accept rent, you've got to use some of that to pay to keep the place safe for people that are using it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disaster occurred last week at the Library Gardens apartment complex, a development on downtown Berkeley's Kittredge Street completed in 2007. The six people who died -- five of them students from Ireland working in the Bay Area for the summer -- plunged to the street when the fifth-floor balcony failed during a party. Seven other students were severely injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balcony, which was roughly 4½ by 8½ feet, was supported by laminated wood joists that projected out from the building's exterior wall in a cantilever -- meaning its support ultimately depended on the joists being securely tied into the structure's framing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those joists immediately became the focus of the investigation into the collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report released by Berkeley officials on Tuesday (and \u003ca href=\"#balconyreport\">embedded below\u003c/a>) details a series of inspections beginning less than two hours after the 12:41 a.m. collapse. Initially, the report says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The inspectors observed from the exterior French doors of Unit 405 that the cantilevered balcony joists had completely sheared off approximately 16-20 inches from the exterior building face. ... The inspectors observed that the deck joist ends protruding from the exterior wall appeared to be severely dry rotted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And subsequent inspections by daylight confirmed that impression. The city's supervising building inspector, Patrick Emmons, was hoisted on a platform to get a close-up look at the collapsed balcony, and observed \"that the joist ends protruding from the exterior wall appeared to be extensively rotted at the failure points.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found dry rot in the balcony immediately below the one that collapsed. They ordered that balcony removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angstadt, the city planning director, cautioned that the inspectors' findings are not a formal determination of the cause of the balcony collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What our observations were is there was severe deterioriation of the wooden structural members,\" Angstadt said. \"The most likely cause of that deterioration was dry rot, and the most likely contributor to dry rot is moisture infiltration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angstadt also said the city is not investigating how the moisture got into the interior of the balcony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know and we're not going to know or determine how the moisture got into the assembly,\" he said. \"What we're going to do is make a set of recommendations that will hopefully deal with any form of moisture infiltration to closed assemblies in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those recommendations for emergency changes to the city's building code include improved ventilation for the enclosed portions of balcony support structures, requiring the use of resistant or specially treated wood and mandatory inspections every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/17/firm-that-built-berkeley-complex-has-been-fined-sued/\" target=\"_blank\">Several media outlets\u003c/a> have reported that the general contractor on Library Gardens, Segue Construction, has faced a series of legal actions connected to water damage and dry rot in several Bay Area apartment projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Balcony-subcontractor-s-waterproofing-work-6339810.php\" target=\"_blank\">reported Sunday\u003c/a> that one of Segue's subcontractors, R. 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Berkeley's initial inspection indicated that at least some of the required measures -- for instance, a waterproof membrane designed to protect the wooden joists from exposure -- were in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vinnee Tong of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay City News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated to include a statement from the Alameda County District Attorney's Office and attorney David Anderson.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"balconyreport\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A host of experts consulted by media organizations around the Bay Area are pointing to a single likely cause for Tuesday's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/16/5-killed-8-injured-in-berkeley-balcony-collapse\" target=\"_blank\">tragic balcony collapse\u003c/a> in downtown Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wooden supports holding up the small fifth-floor balcony, they suggest, was improperly exposed to water, leading to dry rot. That, in turn, caused the balcony to fail when at least 13 young partygoers crowded onto it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six people -- one Irish-American from Rohnert Park and five students from Ireland -- died when they were ejected from the balcony and fell to the street below. Seven others were seriously injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apartment complex, Library Gardens at 2020 Kittredge St., was completed in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state standards cited by several officials, including city of Berkeley spokesperson Matthai Chakko, the balcony should have been built to support a load of 60 pounds per square inch. The structure was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-mayor-says-water-damage-probably-to-6333561.php\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly 8 feet 8 inches by 4 feet\u003c/a> -- about 35 square feet. That would mean its design load would have been just under 2,100 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All those killed and injured, 13 people in all, are believed to have been standing on the balcony when it collapsed. It's unknown what their total weight was, but Josh Kardon, a structural engineer KQED interviewed Tuesday, said the balcony would have been close to capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did a real quick, off-the-top-of-my-head at what the unit load -- the square-foot load -- on the balcony was with 13 21-year-olds on it, and it was about in the same order of magnitude as the design load the balcony very well may have been designed for,\" Kardon said. \"The balcony shouldn't have collapsed if all it was subjected to was the weight of 13 people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kardon allowed that activity on the balcony -- dancing or jumping with a large load present -- \"would certainly have an effect and an influence on its performance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kardon added that the Berkeley tragedy is \"the kind of incident that affects a practicing engineer's daily operations. ... I'm always aware of, 'How is this thing going to fail, and how do I prevent that?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engineers consulted by other media organizations have declared rather firmly that water exposure and dry rot are the root causes of the balcony collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_28325888/expert-dry-rot-caused-berkeley-balcony-collaprse\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area News Group\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The deck showed a \"deficiency in the design\" said Tony Childress, owner of Texas-based Childress Engineering Services. He questioned the entire deck connection to the residential apartment building at 2020 Kittredge St. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Childress said it was clear that water had reached the wood. \"You can see the rotting,\" he said, after reviewing detailed photos of the damage with others in his failure-analysis firm at the request of the Bay Area News Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a situation where a deficiency in the design allowed for moisture to seep in,\" he said. Childress' conclusion also raises questions about the city's review of the plans and construction.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Gene St. Onge is an Oakland structural engineer who has spoken to several media outlets. Here's his take, as reported by \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/17/as-berkeley-orders-removal-of-second-balcony-questions-over-quality-of-construction-of-library-gardens/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Experts around the state who have looked at photographs of the fallen balcony all point to wood rot as the cause of the collapse. And while their thoughts should be considered speculative, the consensus is that water seeped behind the balcony, rotting the wooden beams holding up the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the sight of what remained of the balcony that sheared off the wall Tuesday morning was shocking: pieces of decaying beam dotted with a white substance that some speculated might be mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gene St. Onge, an Oakland civil and structural engineer, said water seepage appears to have been the cause of the balcony collapse. It was probably caused by improperly applying the waterproofing system, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water should not get in there, that is why the waterproofing system and application is so critical,” St. Onge told Berkeleyside. “If it’s done right, my guess is this wouldn’t have happened at all.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates added his voice to the chorus focusing on water and dry rot. From the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"More than likely it was caused by rain and caused by water damage that was done to the support beams,\" Bates said. He said it was \"obviously a bad idea\" for 13 people to crowd onto such a small balcony but added that he is not blaming the victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the day, however, the mayor said that the water-damage theory was speculation on his part and not an official conclusion, and that the investigation is still underway.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP also reported that the contractor that built Library Gardens has been sued over balcony defects in the past:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Segue Construction, the Library Gardens general contractor, was involved in two San Francisco Bay Area lawsuits in recent years involving allegations of dry rot and substandard balconies at condo and apartment projects in Millbrae and San Jose. 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It's unknown what their total weight was, but Josh Kardon, a structural engineer KQED interviewed Tuesday, said the balcony would have been close to capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did a real quick, off-the-top-of-my-head at what the unit load -- the square-foot load -- on the balcony was with 13 21-year-olds on it, and it was about in the same order of magnitude as the design load the balcony very well may have been designed for,\" Kardon said. \"The balcony shouldn't have collapsed if all it was subjected to was the weight of 13 people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kardon allowed that activity on the balcony -- dancing or jumping with a large load present -- \"would certainly have an effect and an influence on its performance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kardon added that the Berkeley tragedy is \"the kind of incident that affects a practicing engineer's daily operations. ... I'm always aware of, 'How is this thing going to fail, and how do I prevent that?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engineers consulted by other media organizations have declared rather firmly that water exposure and dry rot are the root causes of the balcony collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_28325888/expert-dry-rot-caused-berkeley-balcony-collaprse\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area News Group\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The deck showed a \"deficiency in the design\" said Tony Childress, owner of Texas-based Childress Engineering Services. He questioned the entire deck connection to the residential apartment building at 2020 Kittredge St. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Childress said it was clear that water had reached the wood. \"You can see the rotting,\" he said, after reviewing detailed photos of the damage with others in his failure-analysis firm at the request of the Bay Area News Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a situation where a deficiency in the design allowed for moisture to seep in,\" he said. Childress' conclusion also raises questions about the city's review of the plans and construction.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Gene St. Onge is an Oakland structural engineer who has spoken to several media outlets. Here's his take, as reported by \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/17/as-berkeley-orders-removal-of-second-balcony-questions-over-quality-of-construction-of-library-gardens/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Experts around the state who have looked at photographs of the fallen balcony all point to wood rot as the cause of the collapse. And while their thoughts should be considered speculative, the consensus is that water seeped behind the balcony, rotting the wooden beams holding up the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the sight of what remained of the balcony that sheared off the wall Tuesday morning was shocking: pieces of decaying beam dotted with a white substance that some speculated might be mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gene St. Onge, an Oakland civil and structural engineer, said water seepage appears to have been the cause of the balcony collapse. It was probably caused by improperly applying the waterproofing system, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water should not get in there, that is why the waterproofing system and application is so critical,” St. Onge told Berkeleyside. “If it’s done right, my guess is this wouldn’t have happened at all.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates added his voice to the chorus focusing on water and dry rot. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1:35 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Berkeley police, city officials and the Alameda County Sheriff's Office coroner's bureau held a press conference updating details of Tuesday's fatal balcony collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson said five of the six victims were 21-year-olds from Ireland, all in the Bay Area on a student exchange summer work program. The sixth fatality was a woman from Rohnert Park in Sonoma County. He identified the six victims as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Olivia Burke, 21, Ireland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eoghan Culligan, 21, Ireland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Niccolai Schuster, 21, Ireland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lorcan Miller, 21, Ireland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eimear Walsh, 21, Ireland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ashley Donohoe, 22, Rohnert Park\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Philip Grant, the Republic of Ireland's consul general for the western United States, said the victims were among 700 students in the Bay Area right now as part of the U.S. government's J-1 student exchange visa program. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant noted that the highly popular program is something many Irish students look forward to as a \"wonderful experience, a wonderful time\" and a \"formative experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balcony collapse, which also left seven students seriously injury, \"has left us frozen in shock and disbelief,\" Grant said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the Library Gardens apartment complex on downtown Berkeley's Kittredge Street has been home to \"many Irish students for a large number of years. There are many questions we'd like to know the answer to\" regarding the cause of the collapse. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant said victims' family members would begin arriving in the Bay Area tonight and asked the media to respect their privacy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many questions at the press conference focused on the events leading to the tragedy. Berkeley officials said it's too early in the investigation to comment on the structural integrity of the balcony. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City spokesman Matthai Chakko said the building was likely last inspected in January 2007, upon its completion. Subsequent inspections would have been required if there was significant work done in the building, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As there are tenant improvements and other things, other inspections are done,\" Chakko said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that city inspectors were sent to the building soon after the collapse. Beside ordering the building owner to complete a structural assessment within 48 hours, Chakko said, the city is conducting its own inquiry into the condition of the balcony and three similar structures in the complex. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Michael Meehan was asked about reports that Berkeley dispatchers received a noise complaint from the building in the hour before the incident. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He confirmed a complaint was received at 12:02 a.m., one of several the department received from around town near midnight. But Meehan said that four minutes later, a higher-priority call arrived -- shots fired reported by several callers in South Berkeley -- and officers were dispatched there. Meehan said Berkeley officers were on the site of the collapse, which is two blocks from police headquarters, within two minutes after it was reported. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 noon:\u003c/strong> The Alameda County coroner reports that a sixth person has died of injuries suffered in the early morning Berkeley balcony collapse. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four people, all Irish college students, died at the scene in downtown Berkeley. Nine seriously injured students were rushed to East Bay trauma units after the incident, and two of those have now died. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley officials red-tagged three similar balconies at Library Gardens, the 176-unit downtown apartment building that was the scene of this morning's tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FEvTsUSe7hFbL9sol0jzok9M7n4Kz21D\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Five-dead-8-hurt-in-Berkeley-balcony-collapse-6329902.php\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The reason for the balcony collapse was not known. Berkeley police homicide investigators were among those on the scene, and investigators were in contact with the building’s owner, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gene St. Onge, an Oakland civil and structural engineer, reviewed a picture of the detached balcony at the request of The Chronicle. [Pictures appear to depict wooden supports that snapped or sheared off immediately beneath the doorway onto the fifth-floor balcony.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While stressing that his assessment was preliminary, St. Onge said, “This appears to be a classic case of there being inadequate waterproofing at the point where the deck meets the house. If the waterproofing is substandard, rainwater can enter the building, causing dry rot, which can destroy the wood members within a short time, i.e. only a few years from construction.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10565545\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15499_IMG_1941-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15499_IMG_1941-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A man leaves flowers at an impromptu memorial for victims of Tuesday's balcony collapse in downtown Berkeley. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10565545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15499_IMG_1941-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15499_IMG_1941-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15499_IMG_1941-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15499_IMG_1941-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15499_IMG_1941-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15499_IMG_1941-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man leaves flowers at an impromptu memorial for victims of Tuesday's balcony collapse in downtown Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Erik Neumann/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of Berkeley has ordered the owner of the building, which was completed in January 2007, to inspect the other balconies to determine their structural integrity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 a.m.\u003c/strong>: Five people were killed and eight others seriously injured early Tuesday in a balcony collapse at a decade-old apartment building in downtown Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those killed and injured are Irish nationals, exchange students visiting the Bay Area to work for the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balcony was on the fifth floor of the Library Gardens apartment building, on Kittredge Street next door to the main branch of the Berkeley Public Library and just a few blocks from the campus of the University of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police say the collapse occurred at 12:41 a.m. during what's reported to have been a 21st birthday party for one of the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small balcony suddenly flipped downward, rotating 90 degrees and sending partygoers plunging to the street below. The fallen balcony came to rest upside down on a balcony immediately below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BungerKCBS/status/610808901181665281\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four people died at the scene, officials say. One other died at a local hospital. The eight injured, some of whom suffered life-threatening injuries, were taken to trauma units to Oakland's Highland Hospital, Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley and John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to KCBS, those hospitalized at Highland are two women and one man, reportedly all from Dublin. All three are said to be undergoing emergency surgery for undisclosed injuries. Four of the victims were taken to Eden and two to John Muir. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police say they had received a noise complaint from the Library Gardens building about an hour before the collapse but had not yet responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerald Robinson, a North Berkeley resident who had been at a movie on Shattuck Avenue, told KQED's Julia McEvoy he was sitting in his car nearby when ambulances began racing to the 2000 block of Kittredge Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He encountered students at the scene whom he said asked him to drive them to Highland Hospital in East Oakland, where friends had been taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It must have happened really fast,\" Robinson said. \"The kids who were inside who I was with said they were just gone. There was no warning -- it was just suddenly, boom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a witness account, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/16/balcony-collapse-leaves-five-irish-students-dead-many-injured/\" target=\"_blank\">by way of Berkeleyside\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Owen Buckley, an Irish student who lives in the building but was not at the party, said he heard a loud noise when the accident took place, but had not known what it was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard a massive wallop and lots of people scream,” he said. “We thought someone had been shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buckley estimates that about 50 Irish students with three-month visas live in the building. Many of them work at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buckley said one of the girls at the party is a fellow student of his in Ireland, adding, “She’s in the hospital. I hope she’s OK.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_28321968/berkeley-5-dead-8-injured-balcony-collapse\">the Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dan Sullivan, 21, a student who has been in the country for three weeks, lives on the first floor of the complex. Sullivan wasn't at the party, but knew someone there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just heard a bang in the middle of night and shouting,\" he said. \"It's just a shocker, it's crazy,\" said Sullivan. He is a laborer and said the Irish students at the party were also workers, some in local restaurants.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/abc7newsBayArea/status/610781086772170752\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also from Berkeleyside, here are some details on the owner of the Library Gardens development:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Library Gardens is a relatively new building. It is owned by Greystar, a large apartment developer and manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greystar, a Houston-based developer and real-estate management company that owns or manages more than 400,000 apartments around the country, owns and manages five apartment complexes in Berkeley, including Berkeley Central on Center Street, Hillside Village Apartments at 1797 Shattuck Ave. and Telegraph Commons Apartments at 2490 Channing Way. Greystar also owns The Varsity building at 2024 Durant Ave., which is scheduled to open in July.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's more via the latest Associated Press account of the tragedy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Kristin J. Bender\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BERKELEY — A fourth-floor balcony crammed with partygoers celebrating a 21st birthday collapsed early Tuesday near the University of California's Berkeley campus, killing six people and seriously injuring seven — many if not all of them Irish students visiting the U.S. over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and fire and building officials were investigating the cause of the tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 5-by-10-foot balcony with metal railings and a concrete floor snapped off the side of the stucco apartment building just after 12:30 a.m. It tipped downward and landed on the 3rd-floor balcony below, spilling victims onto the pavement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just heard a bang and a lot of shouting,\" said Dan Sullivan, a 21-year-old student from Ireland who was asleep in the five-story building. Mark Neville, another Irish student in the building, said: \"I walked out and I saw rubble on the street and a bunch of Irish students crying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police had gotten a complaint about a loud party in the apartment about an hour before the accident but had not yet arrived when the balcony gave way, police spokesman Officer Byron White said. Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said police told him 13 people were on the balcony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All least five of the dead were Irish students in the country on so-called J-1 visas that enable young people to work and travel in the U.S. over the summer, Ireland's foreign minister said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government's J-1 program brings 100,000 college students to the U.S. every year, with many of them working at seasonal labor at resorts. The San Francisco Bay area is especially popular with Irish students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinead Loftus, 21, who attends Trinity College Dublin and is living this summer in a different apartment in Berkeley, said a few hundred Irish college students from many schools head to the area to work and travel. Berkeley, she said, is \"the Irish hub.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's student-friendly, it's warm and it's a lot cheaper than San Francisco,\" she said. In fact, she said, \"I've heard people complain there are too many people from Ireland here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Library Gardens apartment complex where the tragedy happened is a couple of blocks from the Berkeley campus and a popular place for students to live. After the accident, city building inspectors barred use of the balconies while they are checked for safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apartments were built in 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported. The complex is managed by Greystar Management, whose website says the company operates more than 400,000 units in the U.S. and abroad. A call to Greystar officials was not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours of the accident, small makeshift memorials with flowers sprang up on the pavement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My heart breaks for the parents who lost children this morning, and I can only imagine the fear in the hearts of other parents whose children are in California this summer as they seek to contact them now,\" Ireland's prime minister told lawmakers in Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is truly terrible to have such a serious and sad incidence take place at the beginning of a summer of adventure and opportunity for so many young people on J1 visas in the U.S.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Robinson, who lives near the apartment complex, told San Francisco news station KGO-TV that he had just gotten out of a movie when two hysterical people flagged down his car asking for a ride to a hospital to check on injured friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were friends of the people who were on the balcony. A couple of the women did not have shoes. One of the women had blood on her knees,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The J-1 program allows foreign college students to spend up to four months living and working in the U.S. It was meant to foster cultural understanding but has become a booming, multimillion-dollar international business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2010 Associated Press investigation found that many participants paid thousands of dollars to come to the U.S., only to learn the jobs they were promised didn't exist. Some had to share beds in crowded houses or filthy apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP found that some of the sponsoring companies used unscrupulous third-party contractors to line up jobs and housing for the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the AP's investigation, the State Department tightened its rules governing participating businesses.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balcony collapse, which also left seven students seriously injury, \"has left us frozen in shock and disbelief,\" Grant said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the Library Gardens apartment complex on downtown Berkeley's Kittredge Street has been home to \"many Irish students for a large number of years. There are many questions we'd like to know the answer to\" regarding the cause of the collapse. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant said victims' family members would begin arriving in the Bay Area tonight and asked the media to respect their privacy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many questions at the press conference focused on the events leading to the tragedy. Berkeley officials said it's too early in the investigation to comment on the structural integrity of the balcony. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City spokesman Matthai Chakko said the building was likely last inspected in January 2007, upon its completion. Subsequent inspections would have been required if there was significant work done in the building, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As there are tenant improvements and other things, other inspections are done,\" Chakko said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that city inspectors were sent to the building soon after the collapse. Beside ordering the building owner to complete a structural assessment within 48 hours, Chakko said, the city is conducting its own inquiry into the condition of the balcony and three similar structures in the complex. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Michael Meehan was asked about reports that Berkeley dispatchers received a noise complaint from the building in the hour before the incident. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He confirmed a complaint was received at 12:02 a.m., one of several the department received from around town near midnight. But Meehan said that four minutes later, a higher-priority call arrived -- shots fired reported by several callers in South Berkeley -- and officers were dispatched there. Meehan said Berkeley officers were on the site of the collapse, which is two blocks from police headquarters, within two minutes after it was reported. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 noon:\u003c/strong> The Alameda County coroner reports that a sixth person has died of injuries suffered in the early morning Berkeley balcony collapse. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four people, all Irish college students, died at the scene in downtown Berkeley. Nine seriously injured students were rushed to East Bay trauma units after the incident, and two of those have now died. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley officials red-tagged three similar balconies at Library Gardens, the 176-unit downtown apartment building that was the scene of this morning's tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Five-dead-8-hurt-in-Berkeley-balcony-collapse-6329902.php\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The reason for the balcony collapse was not known. Berkeley police homicide investigators were among those on the scene, and investigators were in contact with the building’s owner, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gene St. Onge, an Oakland civil and structural engineer, reviewed a picture of the detached balcony at the request of The Chronicle. [Pictures appear to depict wooden supports that snapped or sheared off immediately beneath the doorway onto the fifth-floor balcony.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While stressing that his assessment was preliminary, St. Onge said, “This appears to be a classic case of there being inadequate waterproofing at the point where the deck meets the house. 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