Peninsula Cities Consortium (PCC) Meeting: 8:15 AM
Learn what the PCC is doing on behalf of peninsula communities on issues ranging from High Speed Rail concerns, Caltrain electrification options and other important regional transportation issues. 
 
This public meeting will be held in the Belmont Council Chambers, One Twin Pines Lane, 2nd Floor, Belmont, CA 94002. To obtain best driving directions via GPS, use intersection of Emmett Avenue and Twin Pines Lane. For more information on this group and its recent actions, click here.

Document Shredding Event: 8 AM - Noon
Safely recycle your old paperwork at the Sunnyvale Materials Recovery and Transfer (SMaRT) Station, 301 Carl Road, Sunnyvale.
 
Document shredding events are held to help you safely recycle your personal and financial documents. To participate, gather and box up the materials you’d like to shred, removing all documents from binders and binder clips.You don’t need to worry about paperclips, staples, spiral notebooks and rubber bands, they’re acceptable. You can bring up to 5 banker-sized boxes (or 5 paper bags) to the event. Please recycle all non-confidential documents and paper curbside in your blue recycling cart. Shredding events are for residential customers only; proof of residency will be required. For more information, click here.

Greer Park Community Planting: 9 AM - Noon
Help reforest Greer Park with Canopy and the City of Palo Alto.

Volunteer to help with our tree planting day at Greer Park. A total of 54 new trees will be planted throughout the park. Join the fun and make a difference in your community! To register, visit  http://www.canopy.org/pages/get-involved/volunteer-signup.php or contact Program Assistant Estefani Morales at estefani@canopy.org.

Palo Alto Art Center Holiday Family Day and Cubberley Artists’ Open House: 1 - 5 PM
Meet local Cubberley artists for art demonstrations, studio tours, and a unique holiday shopping opportunity.

Get into the holiday spirit of making and giving! The Palo Alto Art Center will provide food for purchase, music, and creative holiday craft-making from 2-4 PM at Cubberley Community Center (E, F, and U wings at the northern end of the center closest to Piazza’s Market), 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. For more information, call (650) 329-2366, email artcenter@cityofpaloalto.org or click here.

Experienced knitters are invited to attend and help with the beginners. The second hour will be an open knitting circle. Feel free to come for the whole two hours or drop in as you're available to the Downtown Library, 270 Forest Avenue. Refreshments will be provided.For ages 6 through adult. Please click here to register if you need needles and yarn. This class series will continues on December 13 and December 20.

The public is invited to the discussion by the commission on their Draft IBRC Final Report at Lucie Stern Community Room, 1305 Middlefield Road. For more details about this group and the work it has done so far, click here.

Cooking Class - Greek Meze Party: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
How about making something different but still tasty for your next gathering?

Let’s make several mezes or finger food from Greece. Cost for the class is $60 for Palo Alto residents and class will be held at the Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road. For more information on this and other classes, call (650) 463-4900 or click here.

Community Meeting on Charleston/Arastradero Roads Trial Restriping Project (Phase II): 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Attend the meeting to discuss this major project between El Camino Real and Gunn High School. 

At this community meeting, the City will present traffic data collected on and along the Charleston Road-Arastradero Road project area, including adjacent streets. The status of upcoming monitoring activities and new project elements will be also be discussed. The project evaluation period was extended through June 2012 to allow for monitoring of the project against the new modified school bell schedule implemented by Gunn High School starting the 2011-12 school year. The public is invited to attend and provide comment about the project at this community meeting in the Juana Briones Elementary School Cafetorium, 4100 Orme Street. For more information, click here.

The celebration will begin with the unveiling of a dedication plaque recognizing the Friends of Lytton Plaza, a nonprofit group of many downtown business leaders and property owners, who had the idea to renovate the Plaza and then shepherded the project through the City’s planning process. Following the plaza dedication, the holiday tree will come to life as a switch is flipped at approximately 5:30 PM with thousands of multi-colored LED lights illuminating the Plaza. The sights and sounds of the season can be enjoyed by all through special music. Attendees are encouraged to bring along warm coats, blankets and grocery store gift cards to assist those in need through these kind donations. Lytton Plaza is located at 202 University Avenue.

Council will consider closing the City’s Recycling Center in light of the many alternatives that now exist for recycling various materials at its meeting in the City Hall Council Chambers, 1st floor, 250 Hamilton Avenue. The existing recommendation is to permanently close the Recycling Center while keeping the Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off.

Check will be presented at City Hall, Council Chambers, 1st floor, 250 Hamilton Avenue. The Foundation is raising $4 million for the purpose of purchasing furniture, fixtures and other equipment for the bond-funded library building projects. These items cannot be purchased with bond monies. For more information about these fundraising efforts, visit www.palf.org.

Note that this is the last Council meeting of 2011.