2022-03-22 Castro - Zoom Panelist Decision_Redacted1
From:Danny Castro
Sent:Tuesday, March 22, 2022 10:42 AM
To:Nicole Criste (Contract Planner); Cheri Flores; Tania Flores
Cc:Monika Radeva; Consulting Planner
Subject:RE: Regarding Dr. Jay Famiglietti will be on Zoom
Agree, no visibility to screen.
Regards,
Danny
From: Nicole Criste <ncriste@terranovaplanning.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 10:19 AM
To: Cheri Flores <clflores@laquintaca.gov>; Danny Castro <dcastro@laquintaca.gov>; Tania Flores
<tflores@laquintaca.gov>
Cc: Monika Radeva <mradeva@laquintaca.gov>; Consulting Planner <ConsultingPlanner@laquintaca.gov>
Subject: Re: Regarding Dr. Jay Famiglietti will be on Zoom
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I would agree, especially since it’s the City’s practice to just put on the audio. Unless everyone is allowed to be viewed,
no one should be singled out.
Nicole Sauviat Criste
Principal
TERRA NOVA PLANNING & RESEARCH, INC.®
42635 Melanie Place, Ste 101
PALM DESERT, CA. 92211
(760) 341-4800
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E-Mail: ncriste@terranovaplanning.com
From: Cheri Flores <clflores@laquintaca.gov>
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 9:22 AM
To: Danny Castro <dcastro@laquintaca.gov>, Tania Flores <tflores@laquintaca.gov>
Cc: Monika Radeva <mradeva@laquintaca.gov>, Consulting Planner <ConsultingPlanner@laquintaca.gov>
Subject: FW: Regarding Dr. Jay Famiglietti will be on Zoom
I’m inclined to say no on promoting this one person to a panelist to be shown. We don’t
do that for other commentors so we should be consistent. Thoughts?
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Cheri L. Flores | Planning Manager
City of La Quinta
78495 Calle Tampico La Quinta, CA 92253
Ph. 760-777-7067
www.laquintaca.gov
From: Alena Callimanis
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 3:12 AM
To: Cheri Flores <clflores@laquintaca.gov>; Tania Flores <tflores@laquintaca.gov>
Cc: Danny Castro <dcastro@laquintaca.gov>; Monika Radeva <mradeva@laquintaca.gov>
Subject: Regarding Dr. Jay Famiglietti will be on Zoom
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Good day City of La Quinta team. I forwarded to you in a separate note Dr. Jay Famiglietti’s presentation for the March
22 Planning Commission meeting that he will do over Zoom. He will be speaking for 6 minutes. We will have one of the
attendees defer their 3 minutes to Dr. Jay.
I have an important request. Dr. Famiglietti is a hydrologist, a professor and the Executive Director of the Global
Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan, where he holds the Canada 150 Research
Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing. Before moving to Saskatchewan, he served as the Senior Water
Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. From 2013
through 2018, he was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the California State Water Boards.
I don’t know if it is Chair Nieto or Danny Castro that needs to be consulted, but in deference to Dr. Famiglietti’s
position, is it possible to at least promote him so he is visible? I know you will not let him share the
presentation on Zoom. But since I have heard him speak many times over zoom, he is very dynamic and I
would like him to be visible on the screen.
I thank you for your consideration of this matter.
Respectfully,
Alena Callimanis