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Worth Noting:

Expect extra Council meetings to be called on short notice before Council leaves on Winter Recess. Council Winter recess is December 15, 2021 – January 17, 2022. https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/City_Council/City_Council__Agenda_Index.aspx



December 1, 2021 at 5 pm is the deadline to submit response to the DEIR for the Ashby and North Berkeley BART Station Housing Projects is https://www.cityofberkeley.info/bartplanning/ (395 pages)



Vision 2050 Survey – the City is planning for a major bond measure in 2022 on infrastructure: tinyurl.com/2050survey



Sunday, November 28^th is the Berkeley Equity Summit series at 6 pm provided in collaboration with Friends of Adeline on protecting your home ownership.

Monday the Agenda and Rules Committee at 2:30 pm will be reviewing the agenda for December 14, the last council meeting before winter recess.

Tuesday is the Regular City Council meeting at 6 pm. The agenda is long with 24. Development Agreement and certification of FEIR with Bayer, 26 Commission Reorganization merging the Parks and Waterfront Commission and the Animal Care Commission, 27 The Surveillance Technology Report and 28 the Budget Referral for Automatic License Plate Readers.

Wednesday the FITES Committee meets at 2:30 pm on establishing emergency GHG emission limits ordinance and native plant ordinance referral. The Energy Commission meets at 5 pm, the Independent Redistricting Commission meets at 6 pm and the Planning Commission meets at 7 pm.

Thursday the Land Use Committee meets at 10:30 am and the Landmarks Preservation Commission meets at 7 pm. The Reimagining Public Safety Task Force is scheduled to meet, however, it is not posted. Check after Monday for time and zoom link. https://www.cityofberkeley.info/RIPST.aspx

Saturday, December 4^th is the Native Plant extravaganza from 10 am – 4 pm with a percentage of the proceeds going to support the spring Native Plant Garden Tour. If you are unfamiliar with why native plants our so important to the health of pollinators (bees and butterflies) and birds and us watching one of the many videos with Douglas Tallamy should help here are two to choose from:

Restoring the Little Things that Run the World (60 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN7-jzL40zQ

Nature’s Best Hope Conservation that Starts in Your Yard (90 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAzDP0wQI78



Sunday, November 28, 2021

Berkeley Equity Summit Series 6 at 6 pm

Videoconference: https://bit.ly/3qHQV2H

Teleconference: 1-669-900-6833 or 1-253-215-8782 Meeting ID: 810 7490 9352 Passcode: 692041

AGENDA: Community Conversation about Receivership, Probate, Pitfalls and Deceptive Tactics to steal BIPOC Homeownership. Protect your home and stop BIPOC Displacement. -more-

Coming out of the opera Messalina on Satiurday night, November 20, all I could think to say were two words: Wow! And Whew! Messalina, a Venetian opera by Carlo Pallavicino, may be the wildest and craziest opera I’ve ever seen! Based on the flagrant sexual exploits of the Roman Empress Messalina, who as a teenager was forced to marry the 50 year old Emperor Claudius, this opera explores rampant sexuality, marital infidelity, cross dressing, and the nature of love itself. All this in a decadent Roman social milieu that Ars Minerva’s founder and Artistic Director, Céline Ricci, likens to that of Federico Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita. -more-

Worth Noting:

The only published public city meeting found during the week of the Thanksgiving Holiday is the Mental Health Commission DOJ Santa Rita Jail Subcommittee at 1 pm on Monday. Thursday is Thanksgiving and Friday is listed as City of Berkeley Thanksgiving Holiday – offices will be closed.

The November 30 regular City Council meeting is available for comment. On consent is item 6 the rescinding of the October 26^th council action requirements for sprinklers in fire zones 2 & 3. Action items include 24 - the City and Bayer development agreement, 26 – the reorganization of the Parks and Waterfront Commission, 27 – the Surveillance technology report, and 28 - the budget request for automated license plate readers (ALPR).

Don’t miss the December 1^st deadline to respond to the DEIR for the Ashby and North Berkeley BART Housing projects or forget to complete the surveys.

December 1, 2021 at 5 pm is the deadline to submit response to the DEIR for the Ashby and North Berkeley BART Station Housing Projects is https://www.cityofberkeley.info/bartplanning/ (395 pages)

Complete Streets Survey closes November 28 at 5 pm. It is for the Southside, but this has implications for the rest of the city: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6575124/Berkeley-Southside-Survey-October-2021

Vision 2050 Survey – the City is planning for a major bond measure in 2022 on infrastructure: tinyurl.com/2050survey

At the Reimagining the Public Safety Task Force meeting the task force was informed that history section of the draft final NICJR (National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform) Report and Implementation Plan will be removed at city staff request with the reason given that it was not accurate. The next meeting is December 2, 2021.Reimagining Public Safety Public Meetings – the draft final NICJR Report is available: www.berkeley-rps.org -more-

Though two decades apart in age, and coming from vastly different cultures, Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos and Chinese-born pianist Yuja Wang make great music together, often touring together and even recording together. On Saturday, November 13, they performed four quite different sonatas for violin and piano at Zellerbach Hall under the auspices of Cal Performances. The unifying theme of this concert was the example and influence of Johann Sebastian Bach. Featured here were two Bach sonatas for violin and keyboard plus Ferruccio Busoni’s Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano from 1898 and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Sonata for Violin and Piano from 1968. -more-