Conundrum in My Beloved Castro Valley

In the recent meetings I have attended (LAFCO, Cityhood, MAC, Alameda County Planning, Specific Plan, Rotary, and Chamber of Commerce events) I can't help but get the sense from these forums that the pieces do not fit very well together to see a future that might look good to the citizens of Castro Valley and I wonder where the focus has gone to deal with some big issues that need addressing first before all of the other distractions that have been put in the mix.

The last meeting I went to was a LAFCO meeting where the final report and Alameda LAFCO's Initial Feasibility Analysis (IFA) for CV was discussed at a meeting on November 9th in Dublin and approved. Dublin?

Jennifer Stephenson with Policy Consulting laughed when she said she would highlight a few items from the report since the report was 462 pages and of course no one would be reading the whole thing. Our supervisor for CV who does not live in an unincorporated area was not in the room or on zoom. Commissioner Lam was on zoom in place of Nate Miley. He did come onto the zoom call about 1 1/2 hours into the meeting to vote for an item.

Frank Mellon requested to speak at the meeting during the CV portion. Kudos to him for his continual and persistent input into the issues that he has great concern with what is happening in CV and he brought up oath infractions that he sees within LAFCO.

I have concern with our CV Chamber of Commerce. I thought they would be more active in all these forums since they now have 300 members. I have been looking for that pot of coffee and cookies that are supposed to be at a location that now is shuttered.

–Cheryl Uithoven, Castro Valley