Ours whos decided to retire after mere 39 years of service. Good afternoon. Director nolan and fellow directors good its my honor today to recognize a gentleman that was for this agency for over 39 years. That is paul peterson. He was a superintendent of operator training along with him is a manager of operator training kim anderson. They were together for six years and operator training but much longer within the agency. All began his career as an operator in march 1977. In 1983, he was promoted to transit supervisor in Central Control and then later to operations. In january 20,000 2000 he was superintendent of operator training. Paul petersons 39 years and four months in operator training is marked by core value of supporting people and their job and careers, making sure the Public Transportation needs are met and if you ask any of his colleagues, patience and persistence. Paul success includes restarting the sfmta eight the bus radio in april and peevishly managing all bus rodeo. W
The fire to about 25 firefighters about 35 minutes to get this under control which is the good news here. The fire ant or investigation. There. Seeing. There were involved people inside of that home all of them are able to get out. Without any injuries. As i said there were two family dogs that were also an side of that house. Unfortunately the dog perished the dogs perished in the fire. as we follow that we will tell you about another one. A massive fire burned three buildings to the ground and berkeley on saturday. The Wood Furniture is back Storage Building an addition to joshua tree furniture and a storage warehouse rob destroyed. While youre sleeping man was sitting killed by car on a busy street redwood city. This happened on middlefield road, the dumbarton avenue where police say a man was trying to cross the street when a car hitting killed him. Were told the driversthe driver stayed at the scene and is cooperating with police. Investigators tell us they believe the pedestrian
longer be in d5. this represents the voice of tell us neighbors, some of whom might have made it to me but many have not and on their behalf i deeply hope this singular voice we heard and the redistricting community will help us keep whole. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. hi, i am matt duffy, i am a 12 year district one resident. the current antics of district one will harm both neighborhoods antics of district one will harm both neighborhoods. annex of district one will harm both neighborhoods. it will take areas all these neighborhoods share community of interest with the the make up the bulk of the district. throughout this process, the lines of district 1 were acceptable to the general public. it is, that s at the last it is odd that the last meeting, this change would have been acceptable. we re asking you to correct the most recent change and i want to thank you very much for your service. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. following, our next speakers. i am a
i am a longtime resident of d-5. i appreciate you have worked to maintain a japan-town and a significant parts of the district. i am when it comes to the precincts north of the panhandle. i live just south of the panhandle and i have considered the people just north of me to be very much my neighbors. we have to consider if it had not been for the activism of people a few decades back, we would have an 18-lane highway going through what is the panhandle now. it would not have significantly changed the neighborhood, but the city of course in addition to that. and ever since then, is culturally and politically and the same place. it has been greater let s keep in mind by april you said you d be tweaking. not making major adjustments. the panhandle is not a border site, it is a major artery and the hope that you ll make other adjustments. the portions of the communities can be maintained. thank you, sir. good evening, members. i m fiona raymond cox. i personally self-i
possibilities but the easiest ones are some of the changes you made monday. thank you. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. good evening. i have sat on the board for four years and have been a resident for 10. i want to encourage you to stick with that decision. there are many reasons, most of the neighbors are in overwhelming favor of keeping the area in the-5. i will resonate the same tackling comments. please note in doing all this the neighborhoods of district 1 and 2 did not participate because there were not interested in it. we have spent countless hours working with one supervisor and working with multiple supervisors, twice as much work and many meetings. we are strongly aligned with d5 and splitting us would make us a minority in voicing our opinions. our neighborhood is fragile. andou our advocacy is needed to improve the area. this is a natural boundary that does not divide the community. if you want to go back to the street, our supervisor would no longer be in d5.