A citizen coalition called Fair Share at Stanford is pressuring the Board of Trustees and University officials to intervene in a tax dispute involving one of Stanford’s tenants, alleging that the tenant has unjustly withheld millions of dollars in taxes from Santa Clara County. The University has declined to involve itself in the case.
Stanford University spent $420,000 on lobbying in 2011, according to the quarterly lobbying reports filed by Larry Horton ’62 ’66 M.A., director of government and community relations at Stanford.
San Mateo County supervisors voted 4-1 last Tuesday to postpone the decision of whether to accept Stanford’s proposal to repair a portion of the Alpine Trail, opting instead to ask Stanford to consider three additional alternatives and conduct an environmental review before the next board meeting on Dec. 13.
San Mateo County supervisors vote Nov. 1 on whether to accept Stanford’s $10.2 million offer to repair the 1.8-mile stretch of the Lower Alpine Road Trail and complete a decade-long project detained by conflicting residential opinions.
San Mateo County should accept the University’s $10.2 million offer to upgrade the trail along Alpine Road, according to Assistant County Manager David Holland in Tuesday’s staff report.
A report compiled for Los Altos Hills officials offers the first official data for a contentious debate about Stanford-funded trail construction along Arastradero road.
But a major roadblock to the project’s completion remains.