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In today's newsletter:

  • Pleasanton middle schools unveil $20 million in new athletic fields
  • Are Pleasanton's new street-mapping robots quietly collecting more than sidewalk data?
  • What changes are coming for Pleasanton's classified school staff and superintendent?

Also on today's calendar: Blue Valley Band Live @ LPV! and 21 more events.

Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Near-record temperatures, with a high of 98 and low of 58 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Friday: Partly sunny and not as hot, temps: high: 85, low: 57.
  • Saturday: Mostly sunny and breezy, with a high of 71 and low of 50 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Harvest Park, Hart Middle Schools Welcome $20M New Athletic Fields (patch.com) — Pleasanton students at Harvest Park and Hart middle schools now have access to new $20.7 million athletic fields with synthetic turf, all-weather tracks, and expanded activity spaces funded by Measure I. District leaders say the upgrades complete a vision for top-tier middle school facilities that benefit both students and the broader Pleasanton community, while a separate Measure I project is transforming the Educational Options Center.
   

2. Group of Pleasanton residents seek stronger data privacy restrictions for fleet of robots (pleasantonweekly.com) — Pleasanton residents are pressing the city for stronger data privacy rules on Daxbot robots now surveying local streets and sidewalks for ADA planning. After a robot lingered outside his home, engineer Brent Werder raised concerns about how much public data is collected, how long it's stored, and who can access it, prompting a petition and detailed responses from the robot company defending its privacy practices.
   

3. Pleasanton school board to vote on contract updates for classified employees (pleasantonweekly.com) — Pleasanton Unified's school board is set to vote on a new contract for classified employees that revises work-year calendars, overtime rules, leave policies, and vacation accrual, while pausing a professional-growth program for a year. Trustees will also consider restoring degree stipends and waiving a teacher credential requirement so incoming superintendent Ed Diolazo can officially assume the role on January 1.
   

4. Tri-Valley Leaders Tackle Local Homelessness Issue (independentnews.com) — Pleasanton is lagging badly on its state-required affordable housing goals, with only about 7% of its affordable target permitted so far and most new units serving higher incomes. At a recent Tri-Valley homelessness forum in Dublin, speakers tied such shortfalls in Pleasanton, Dublin, and Livermore to rising local homelessness and stressed the need for deeply affordable housing plus ongoing support services after people are housed.
   

5. Pleasanton Man Pleads No Contest In Fatal 150 MPH San Ramon Crash (patch.com) — A Pleasanton man has pleaded no contest to three felony charges, including voluntary manslaughter and DUI causing injury, after a high-speed San Ramon crash that killed a Castro Valley nurse last November. He remains in custody on $1.2 million bail and faces sentencing Oct. 15, a case many Pleasanton residents have followed closely given his local ties.
   

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