And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This is the reminder that under administrative code 67 a 1, the ringing and use of cell phones, pagers and use of sound producing devices is prohibited during Fire Commission meetings. Set all pageers and cell phones and other devices to vibrate or set them off now. The regular meeting of the Fire Commission for wednesday, january 27, 2016, its 5 02. Roll call. President francee covington, pre, Ken Cleaveland, here, stephen nakajo, Michael Hardeman. Joan hayeswhite here. Public comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address their remarks in the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker. The lack of a response by the commissioners
Reduce blind spots people on bicycles maybe be in our blind spot give yourselves plenty of time to react look out stay on the road from building to building not just curve to curve check driveways and behind parked vehicles for people that enter our path turning vehicles are especially dangerous important people walking and collisions often occur when vehicles are making tunnels when you turn remember check for people using the crosswalk before starting youre turn watch for people on bikes traveling in the ongoing direction always check our mirrors and blind spots patience pays off take a moment to make sure youre clear while it might feel youll save time by driving fast or turning without checking you wont save driving only adds a few semiautomatic to our trip a collision can cost you, your job or someones live heres important things to remember all crosswalks are legal and pedestrian have the rightofway people cross the street anywhere children and seniors and people with disabilitie
Meeting on the 10th for possible action. If there is any lingering issues or questions, a special meeting could be called the following week. It happened in the past. That is a possibility in case there are any issues of the advance of the second submissions. Now that the citys budget process is a 2year process, the first 1 fiscal year 20162017 is the first one approved. No major changes from the current year. I want how highlight some items. The main issue on the budget is the annualization in the a lot of issues in the department with regards to mainly positions. Most positions were funded at. 7 and. 5. Those positions are annualized fully for 1617. Originally in the budget we had two fire academies budget for 16, 17 and 18. However given the award last year of the federal safer grant we were able to add an Academy Grant to that. We are going to have three academies, one in june, one in october and one projected for march 17th. I briefly wanted to update the commission on the departm
In this court, judge manlee has seen a trend that discourages him. More and more defendants who should be talking to a Mental Health professional or a doctor, not a judge. The court system has been the place to send people who are mentally ill as opposed to keeping them in treatment in the community. Is santa clara doing enough to address the mental ill in our society . No, theyre not. I dont think any people are. According to court records, manlee sentence tied rhd tyree, appeared in front of him at least three other times, for three years. They were trying to find a bed for him while he sat in jail. While the judge would not talk specifically about his case, he did tell me he had 500 other people who he had released from jail but who are now being kept in the jail waiting for a bed in a Mental Health facility. We have waiting lists of individuals i have ordered released from jail to go into treatment. Its not an issue of punishment, the punishment is over. The question now is what tr
Training for someone who is going to take that training and go to another department. We know this has been an ongoing problem. And we know with even new recruits were always at risk of losing them to other departments that are paying better and Getting Better benefits and disability. Reporter this councilman says hes disappointed but not shocked by the news. You may now pin the badge on your officers. Reporter past efforts to encourage if not force ka detss to stay on the force for a few years after graduation have been unsuccessful. The mayor hopes to include some language to address the issue in the current labor negotiations with the police union. A mechanism that ensures that officers we train will serve. Reporter serve in the city that pays roughly 70,000 in taxpayer money to train each cadet. And here is part of the statement by the Hayward Police chief. It says quote, the Hayward Police department does not specifically reach out to any San Jose Academy trainees. Singh was previ