Back now in open session with a quorum. Commissioner marshall. Lets hear one more time from the council please. John from the department. Inspector frank lee representing myself. Lets start with the continuance no continuance this evening. We will finish the merit tonight. Inspector lee, we have decided to take your responses to the Police Commissioners and fact finding facts in the case, we decided to do it. Lets just put it like that. And we have looked at taking a look at them. Weve taken a look at the changes suggested by departments council and we had a discussion about the findings of fact amongst ourselves as commissioners and we have several proposed changes to miss blitzs document, which she will now read, that i think we have reached agreement on. Im going to ask her to read those. Thank you commissioner marshall. So referring to inspect or lees information youre referring to the two page written document that he brought you this eveninging. Thats correct. You reviewed them b
Gianna. We have a couple of accidents plus some bart delays. Well start off with the bart delays. Word of track maintenance at daly city so its causing delays in the pittsburgbay point, pleasanton dublin direction. 15 to 20minute delays as well at macarthur in the fremont and millbrae directions due to a problem on the tracks. Elsewhere the freeways are doing lane changes at the Golden Gate Bridge. No delays if you work your way into San Francisco. Guadalupe parkway parkway word of an accident northbound at almaden expressway. Californias water rules are in effect and so people in the bay area finally getting the message. More than 80 customers of the dublinsan Ramon Services district have been hit with fines for using too much water. The limit is 640 gallons a day for private homes. Dozens of homeowners were fined for using more. The district hears all kinds of excuses, too. I have to wash my car. [ laughter ] i dont think so but its a porsche. I dont think so go to the professional c
Federal grant money. The 8,000 purchase revealed in document obtained by vice magazines motherboard. The reason . Basically, in a bomb situation, if you are looking at some threats and youre trying to assess the situation, the drone is the perfect vehicle. A perfect device to go ahead and allow to us get to some of those areas that are very, very dangerous. Reporter its cheaper than a bomb robot. Anytime we can look into new technology to help us better do our job more efficiently, more safely, then were going to look into those options. Reporter the department has yet to fly the drone or get faa authorization to do so. The purchase has already made some uncomfortable. The aclu charged that the City Council Approved the Police Chiefs request for the drone last fall, without public debate or Council Discussion. Any member of the public who reads our agenda and they are published a week and a half in advance can come forward and say, this is worth public discussion. In this case, nothing
Representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, lisa wink schultz. The chaplain almighty god, we acknowledge your creativity in the changing of the autumn leaves. We know that theres a time for everything, a season for every activity. As our lawmakers face another election season, may they rest knowing that your purposes will be established. Lord, abide in them as they a abide in you for apart from you we can do nothing. Provide generous grace and peace to all who work in this chamber and to the Capitol Police who protect us day and night. We pray in your powerful name, amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 5 of House Resolution 1396, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. The chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The chair anno
Did you write this book . Mr. Gorbachev everyone is writing books. I sometimes read books about perestroika, and so my name in those books, but the rest was totally false, stupid, silly. A lot of rumors. A lot of speculation. Some other books are quite serious, of course. I dont want to over dramatize it. But i thought that i am the principal witness and the principal person who bears responsibility for what happened, and i believed it was important for me to ask plane my position about how i started reforms and why i came around to the view that reforms were necessary. Why did i decide, and how did that decision about reforms emerge, and how difficult that process was. So i thought it was important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had farreaching consequences for my country and for the world. I could not accept it when people speak of gorbachev. I had to speak out. I had to avoid the temptation of writers to show myself in better light. I tried to keep