We start with pictures from chopper 5 over oakland and walnut creek. In just the last hour protesters in walnut creek made their way onto 680. Kpix 5 is live in walnut creek now with a dramatic confrontation. Ondrea. Reporter alan, as we pan over to 680 northbound on the main street onramp you can still see officers on foot and in cars patrolling that section. That is where protesters made their way onto the freeway here for a short time. Weha some o chopr 5 to sh nfntation betwmeof these otesis wspli oup thoke of about 1000 people gathering inside central civic park. They marched around 5 00. At some point they made their way onto the freeway. We know there are flash bangs deployed by the california Highway Patrol as well as walnut creek police. We have seen officers from orinda and pittsburgh out here this afternoon. We also know that rubber bullets and tear gas were deployed on these protesters to get them off of the freeway. At this point the freeway is clear but they were on at so
Attention. Ask the mayors that are in the room to please be seated and at the table. Others please feel free to sit in chairs along the wall. Were going to go ahead and get started so we can make an attempt to stay on schedule. Welcome, everyone, wish you good morning to the special climate secti section. The staff gave it the title. Todays leadership confronting tomorrows challenges. Ill talk more about that soon. I am jim brainard. Im the mayor of carmel, indiana, and cochair of the Energy Independence and Climate Protection Task force. I want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair, san jose mayor sam liccardo in just a few moments. Let me ask all the mayors who are present here this morning to introduce yourselves that are speakers and others will know who is participating. Start with greg stanton. Good morning. Im greg stanton, mayor of phoenix, i chair the mayors Conference Energy committee. Good morning. My name is Javier Gonzalez. Im the mayor of the city of santa fe, and
Have 9 members show up at every meeting and one of the members is the board of supervisors and we have only just recently gotten a board of supervisors on so that meant we were at 16 so if we ended up at 12 or 13, part is the nature of the fact that we have 5 people who are complinets who go through periods where they Mental Health issues and cant show up to meetings and the other is Family Members so they have a client in the family that goes into the crisis on the day of the meeting. Some of the nature of the board but maybe i emphasize we need quaurm too much. I have actually done very well. Terri, a board member, we havent missed quaurm in a year. My apology maybe just me saying we always need to keep quaurm there is 17 members is there a reason the body has to be so large . If you condense oo 7 or 9 . When i arrived in 1999 it was 17. I believe we are acchel the largest membership in the state and so i donti havent been able to find history that explains why we have 17 members. Th
Amount of leave [inaudible]3 4 f1 election to be held on november 3, 2015 i want to start by saying thank you to all my colleagues, all 11 members of the borebd cosponsored this Charter Amendment so just by way of background, back in 2002 the voters adopt the first paid parental leave in San Francisco and im very proud that we took the lead on that and so under the current paid Parental Leave Program employees received 12 weeks or if employees are disabled by pregnancy they get up to 16 weeks of leave after the first adoption or fostering of the chooild so this supplemented state disability, paid sick leave, compensatory time and orelt types of leave. I would like to thank department of human resources. The Charter Amendment we are proposing today we wish we could have done it via ordinance but we have to go before the voters gaen to amendment. [inaudible] allow 40 times of sick hours on the book. Currently city workers must exhaust all sick and vaiication time before beginning paid ti
Word in about toni. Ue gene has also been coming to meetings quite regularly and i dont know the third candidate but it is tough decision but i encourage you to make one so we can continue to have a quaurm. Thank you mrs. Burkes i have a couple questions. In the last couple years i known you you did a lot of good work. Im curious to know, one thing i know is there seems to be a consistent struggle for quaurm. Is there something we can do to help you meet your quaurm . Are we not selecting the persons with the commitment . Is itim just trying to understand better how i can help you we havent had a consistent struggle. We went flow a period where we were down. We have a total membership of 17 members, which means we have to have 9 members show up at every meeting and one of the members is the board of supervisors and we have only just recently gotten a board of supervisors on so that meant we were at 16 so if we ended up at 12 or 13, part is the nature of the fact that we have 5 people w