And with that, to the chair i dont know mr. Rus kin if you want to add anything to that. Instructor if i may briefly to the chair i fully agree with you. It was something we recognized in fact, initially we did procure this under a lowbid methodology. And for reasons that may or may not be related to that, we had to reinitiate second procurement. And doing so, we did switch to a cost and qualificationsbased Selection Process for some of the reasons that you said. What we also did was sought and receive board of supervisors approval to extend some of those prevailing wage protections that currently exist in admin code such as custodial to extend that to security personnel for the purposes of this contract. It wasnt a general extension of the admin code. It was specific to this contract. Which allowed us to incorporate some provisions to protect the workers for particularly in terms of retention and in terms of prevailing wage. So it is something that we, i think, were able to do success
Means its necessary or that it makes us safer. But it im not saying it doesnt make us safer either. I just wish we had more options in terms of nonlethal options. And we explored daytime versus nighttime. I get the nighttime obviously. That off the bat i understood immediately. I just wish we had time to explore less guns on the street and other nonlethal options. We werent able to do that in this time. I appreciate they get more training than was initially presented to us last week. Firing range is different from a moving target in a very busy city. I would like to understand that a little more as we move forward. But i certainly think safety is a top issue for our employees. If we look at safety, we have to look at our bus drivers, because theyre the ones where we have a history of demonstration of attacks and assaults on our bus drivers. We havent seen it yet with our fare collectors. This is where the questions come up if our goal is really ut most safety for our what are we doing
Stories are emerging of officer Michael Johnsons warmth and kindness and dedication of service. This womans son was steered away from a life of gangs. Would you say that officer johnson saved your sons life . I would say so. Just like every day he put on that badge. Reporter angela is singing amazing great today during the funeral Amazing Grace today during the funeral. There are going to be a number of rolling street closures as the procession passes through. The motorcade will start at north santa cruz avenue. You can see the procession. 6 15 north santa cruz avenue and expect traffic tieups on the route. The procession will head north on winchester boulevard actually crossing through downtown campbell on its way to the s. A. P. Center in downtown san jose. So mass transit might be your best bet. , the caltrain station diridon station theres also vta, caltrain. Back to you guys. Thank you. We are going to have live coverage of the funeral procession and the Services Starting at 10 a.
One of the epic performances in the sport. 21yearold Jordan Spieth wins his first major. The second youngest masters champion in history. A recordbreaking victory proving the future of golf is already here today. Monday, april 13th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Savannah and natalie have the morning off. Im joined by hoda kotb. Look whos here. Thank you for inviting me back. We appreciate it. We are here on a morning that even nongolf fans are talking about it. You watched the masters. There was something about this kid that was so captivating. How he was able to stay so cool 21 years old on that golf course. To be so talented and to already have a green jacket its a big deal. Well tell you more about spieth coming up. But lets start with our top story. Hillary clintons president ial campaign is off and running. And less than on
Us. Those storms make us up. Lets go to meteorologist, david murphy for the accuweather forecast. David. We did call for those storms last night. We did call for those point. You see the watch boxes to our west but a couple trees down locally. Now we are looking at another unsettled day way cold front getting a little closer to us trying to push through and as that happens there could be more spotty but potentially strong storms through the day. 72 is the current temperature in philadelphia, 73 in wilmington, 72 in Sea Isle City right down in Cape May County you have a couple of showers this morning but theyre moving through pretty quickly. As we head out the door most of us are going to see partly cloudy skies. Warm conditions, 72 by 6 00 and 76 degrees by 8 00 a. M. And as we roll through the days, its another pretty warm fairly sticky one. 79 degrees by 9 oclock, 85 by noon and then 89 by 3 oclock, 85 by 6 00 and your high of 89 does strike at about 3 oclock. Through the afternoon h