Do not call me mr. President. What i do want to acknowledge that we have the honorable mark farrell in our Commission Room and i know he has a very packed schedule and has many important things to do today including budget hearings. I want to acknowledge the bis busty schedule and have him speak on a item before it is called. Supervisor. Thank you commissioner low and i can call you acting president. Commissioners thanksgivings for having me. I have to run we are actually in 5 minutes starting the budget deliberations for the fiscal year including the rec and Park Department this year so have to get back to that. I want to speak on the item with fran cisco park [inaudible] this is an agreement two years in the make and i want to thank the staff. [inaudible] in particular who has been instrumental making this happen so want to thank everyone. They are going to give a generous gilf to our city to construct the park we talked about a few years ago and appreciate all your support for that.
Degrees tonight the blossoms will freeze and it will cause them to turn black and die. Here is the next bud here. Just starting to come up out of the crown. Kevin mild concern at Butlers Orchard in germantown due to forecasted april freeze. Here is one odd ball bloom here that is out too early. Kevin orchard coowner wade butler says the strawberry plant and the cherry trees are the most vulnerable. The good news is less than 1 of the strawberry and the tart cherry yields blossomed. The bad news is freezals have been known to happen may 15. 27 degrees on this one tighter. Even this one. Kevin sporadic weather is why he plants a wide variety of crops. From berry to corn and squ will get by unscathed by it. Kevin it is interesting to note that butler orchard have installed alarms in one of the strawberry farms. The concept is simple. The temperature dip below freezing or a frost level, the alarms send an alert to the farmers cell phone so they will get the word as quickly as possible. Liv
Working on this crime alert that and this posters have been distributed all over the city as well as their business side cards. And again, those handouts were made in three languages. We also facilitate City Wide Community Police Advisory Board Committee monthly meetings and actually a couple of weeks ago we had a really good meeting actually discussion with chief [inaudible] regarding priorities for the Police Department and how the community Advisory Board groups can support the Police Department. And one of the topics was that theft of Electronic Devices and actually too soon to say, but i already talked to the [inaudible] working on finding more and creative ways to addressing this problem. Its our way we will be using apple product iphone and ipads in developing more ways in terms of giving safety presentation and we will be working more with the Police Department in that respect. Do you have questions . Commissioner kingsly. Just a comment and thank you for what youre doing in th
Have to tell you that they know theres a problem. The best security in the city is at an apple store. They know theres a problem and theyre putting the public at risk. Captain. Obviously having technical difficulties. Im captain joe and im the captain of Major Crimes Unit which covers narcotics, Homicide Gang Task force so im very well aware of the robberies and cell phone robberies that happen on a daily basis. I con kupcur with your findings on what we see on these reports everyday. In fact today there was five reports and they were all object iphones and they were all about these thefts of them. I do have some statistics that i will show you about these iphone robberies and get into the bricking that you brought up as the main thing. Always have a back up. These are jus some of the statistics and from february 154 cell phones, january 187, 223 around november which is right around the christmas holidays. In october 176 and september 162. Theres been a slight decrease in em because w
Have an incident where somebody was walking down the street texting and somebody came up and took their iphone. So thats one of the problems we see mainly. So we re doing this by press releases, crime alerts, Public Service announcements, its on our websites. Each morning i personally conduct the Conference Call at 11 oclock and we go over the big 19 an we go over additional robberies in each district. We look for patterns that these suspects are using vehicle description, suspect description, video evidence, Different Things we can see to develop a series. Once it become a series it goes to our cid district. Thats what happened over the weekend is we were able to identify three of the four people involved in upwards to nine of these. And they were very violent shotguns in particular stuck in victims faces and robbed of their iphones and laptops and every other Electronic Device they had. We have an anonymous tipline. We are working with project safe and we are gonna have arena come up