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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Adopted this Order on April 19,1994, by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Smith, DeSaulnier, Torlakson and Bishop
NOES: None
ABSENT: Supervisor Powers
ABSTAIN: None
SUBJECT: CORRESPONDENCE
Item No.
1.188 CLAIM received March 29, 1994, Robert Dunn, attorney, 201 California Street, San
Francisco 94111, submitted on behalf of SFPP, L.P., formerly known as Southern
Pacific Pipe Lines Partnership, L.P., for refund of taxes paid for assessment year
1989.
***REFERRED TO TREASURER-TAX COLLECTOR, ASSESSOR, AND
COUNTY COUNSEL
1.189 ,LETTER dated March 25, 1994, from Ann L. Fries, 91 Acacia Drive, Orinda,
proposing the development of recreational facilities and activities for teens.
***REFERRED TO DIRECTOR, GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
1.190 LETTER dated March 28, 1994, from M. Menesini, Mayor, City of Martinez, 525
Henrietta Street, Martinez 94553, requesting the Board of Supervisors to adopt a
countywide moratorium to preclude the placement of a proposed telecommunications
tower and accessory buildings in the Franklin Hills area pending the adoption of
policies for structures such as these within the County.
*** REFERRED TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
1.191 LETTER dated April 5, 1994, from Cletus Gravette, President, Contra Costa/Alameda
County Cattlemen's Association, 5554 Clayton Road, Concord 94521, urging the
Board to amend the recently passed "Tree Preservation Ordinance" to exempt privately
owned rangelands from its regulations.
***REFERRED TO INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR AND COUNTY COUNSEL
1 hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
an action taken and entered on the minutes of the
Board of SUMISots op he e s on
ATTESTED: (tel `1
PHIL BATc ELOR,clerk of the Board
cc: Correspondents �--�of Supervisors and County Administrator
County Administrator B� y ;�,�, ,�vv .Deputy
Internal Operations Committee
Treasurer-Tax Collector
Assessor
County Counsel
Growth Management and Economic Development Agency
Community Development
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CLERK BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
March 25, 1994 CONTRA COSTA CO.
Dear City Council -Sod
What is the matter with politicians and communities who think
.that laws and harshness will change teen-age violence?
Teen-agers have no legitimate place to congregate. They have
no safe bicycle trails while adult trails are opened and
maintained. They have no skate board facilities and are met
with prohibitive signs everywhere they turn. They have no roller
skating or ice skating rinks. They have no " cheap" bowling
alleys nor movie house discount cards catering to limited
allowances of many of them. The buses do. There is no spot
with broken down cars and experienced mechanics on hand to teach
young men and women how to build and repair cars after school
or in school.
Why cannot the financial backers of politicians send their
legislators polite notes and explain their donations in the
future are going to be funneled directly into facilities and
ideas for teen-agers after school with adequate overseers?
Politicians ' laws do not work.
Why not a volunteer organization, perhaps beginning with an
interfaith effort, trying to .change our violent society from
the grass roots by providing teens with sports and worthwhile
projects they like to do and a place to do them? - Where are
the basketball hoops, the open tennis courts? Where are the
dance halls? There is more for teen-agers than football which
seems to have no trouble raising huge sums for their perpetuation
and yet only addresses a few.
Years ago I wrote letters about after school programs for pre-
highschoolers and low and behold they appeared. Not because
of my letters perhaps, but because others also saw the need
and filled it. The program in Orinda is very successful it
seems to me and children are busy, happy and supervised.
Well now surely is the turn of the teen-ager. Not only
teen-agers, schools and parents have responsibilities. The
community has as well as the pamphlet put out by "Parents Without
Partners" so eloquently put it years ago.
Let' s stop dressing up our communities on the outside and work
for the good of all on the inside. where the need to stop
violence and lawlessness is so evident. That random accidental
shot may hit any one of us. Teen-agers need and want to be
busy. doing things they enjoy and there are myriad of ideas if
people start thinking and volunteering.
Yes ice rinks, pool halls, skate board arenas may attract a
crowd. But isn't it the very group we ought .to want to reach?
Not every child has the financial backing or perhaps even the
talent or desire for expensive music or ballet lessons to keep
them off the streets. Why not a teen center in every city with
ping pang table, pool table, card games, dart board, paper back
books and a quiet corner to read them in, a coffee pot, a
non-alcoholic bar, basketball hoops. All staffed at first by
security men maybe, but as years go by and the teens find they
are welcome, they may be able to police themselves. Trips to
the snow, river rafting, foreign travel all might come out of
this setting. But first we must let our young people know that
we are aware they need outlets within their pocketbook range
and desires. Not everyone is going to be that spectacular basket
ball player, football player, doctor or lawyer. Some need more
time to grow up and find their way.
Instead of , anot'her Payless which Orinda doesn ' t need, another
mallwhichno city around here needs, an above parking ground
(whi.ch could .be used for basketball hoops) why not concentrate
on getting the business CEOs, the investors, the philanthropists
to see thebestinvestments with the greatest rewards for this
country right now are in our teen-agers. Forget about backing
politicians. They make laws at a distance that never work.
Invest in Teens NOW. Think about it.
Sincerely
Mrs . Ann L. Fries