TONE 5.6.22 – May Fete, Jeopardy contestant
Saachi Nagar and Jeffrey Tu | May 6, 2022
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Transcript:
Tu: Hey Paly, it’s Jeffrey Tu.
Nagar: And Saachi Nagar, a staff writer on The Paly Voice.
Tu: We’ll be recapping this week’s events in this week’s episode of The Paly Voice’s TONE.
Nagar: Campanile reported that David de Geronimo is going to be Paly’s new head football coach. He previously taught at Greene and Los Altos High School. He’ll be replacing Nelson Gifford.
Tu: The Campanile reported last week that Paly was highly ranked among the top 50 schools in California. According to the US news and world report, the report evaluated 1,600 schools in California, placing Paly at 34.
Nagar: The Paly Voice reported that math teacher Daniel Nguyen is going to be on Jeopardy on May 11. According to Nguyen, appearing on Jeopardy is one of the things on his bucket list that he made after college.
Tu: Palo Alto Online also reported that this week, the week-long strike from nurses at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospitals has ended. The strike aimed to get better staffing measures, wage increases, mental health support, and better measures to retain nurses for a longer time.
Nagar: Palo Alto is set to hold their 98th May Fete Parade. This is the first parade since the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival holds a float building contest where the first place winner can win $500.
Tu: Santa Clara County COVID cases are once again ticking up, total case counts have reached 321.9 thousand, 7-day case averages have reached 481. At Paly, cases are up five for students, bring it up to a total of 201.
Nagar: For this week’s fun fact, this year’s Met Gala raised a record-breaking amount of $17 million.
Tu: This has been the Voice TONE.
Nagar: Thank you for listening.
![Charen Yu (left), the Palo Alto Unified School District chief business officer, presents the updated 2026-2027 budget during Tuesday's board meeting. According to Yu, expenditure changes are the primary reason for the deficit. “[Compared to the adopted budget], certificated salaries are up $18.8 million (which translates to 13.4%), classified salaries are up $11 million (or 17%), benefits are up $5.6 million and all other objects are down $2.9 million,” Yu said. “These are settled agreements with our bargaining partners. They are contractual obligations and they are the primary driver of the change.”](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/budget-presentation-300x225.jpeg)
