State passed this authorizing legislation it would still have to come back to any consider that wanted to consider it for their own local decisionmaking process so there would still be lengthy hearings here or elsewhere. This next recommendation is to direct revenue to accessibility improvements and whats pictured on the screen is an audible pedestrian signal. This is one example of a disability improvement that could be eligible for these funds. The committee felt very strongly that if we were going to be asking people to pay at meters, if we were basically going to be taking something from them in exchange for giving them access to more access ipbl parking places, then that revenue needed to be directed specifically to accessibility improvements. Now in order to decide how those funds should be used, what we would ask the mta or other local jurisdictions and cities do is to actually track the funds separately and to work with the Disability Community to come up with a list of improve
Weeks so you must be doing something more with enforcement and before that id had one in 5 years. But i see more city vehicles taking up spaces that people used to have disabled placards and i dont like that. Thank you, miss hale espinola jackson. Miss jackson. Good afternoon, espinola jackson again. I just learned about this i think about a month ago when there was a meeting i attended and it bothers me where when one of the speakers said a smart phone. I dont own a smart phone. I dont know how to use a smart phone. In fact, its hard for me to even use a cellular phone. Now, the time limit, i been walking the halls of city hall for 55 years. Sometime i come at 9 00 in the morning and dont leave until 2 00 the next morning. Now, i have a placard on my car. I dont have the one you hang in your window. And what it would look like for me to be jumping up, moving my car, 4 hours here and having the disability i do have. I know i may not look like i have a disability but im 80 years of age
I dont go im not a writer who is constantly badgering his publishers to get the sales figures. If the figures are poor, you get to know it sooner or later. People tell you, you know . If theyre good, well, you get your royalty check. So, so long as the second is healthy and the first doesnt happen, im content. Host and finally, paul johnson, what are you currently realizing . Guest currently reading . Guest well, i am reading quite a lot about fdr, franklin roosevelt, because my publishers have suggested that i might like to write a short biography of him. Which is a difficult thing to do because he encompassed a remarkably wideranging life. But its a possibility, so im reading about him. Im also reading about lincoln because i may in the end decide to write a short biography of lincoln. Ive just seen that remarkable film about him, and with daniel day lewis. And that seemed to me to stress some of the wrong things. Id like to give my own version of events. So thats what im reading, to
Also in san jose, the city needs help fighting its rising crime rate. Today the mayor made a key proposal. Chuck reed wants to restore a dedicated burglary unit within the citys police department. But the plan could face steep opposition, especially from the police itself. Kimberly tere joins us in san jose and why the opposition from the pd . Reporter the residents we talked to said they need more police, period. The previous burglary unit was comprised of several Police Officers, sworn detectives, and it was dismantled in 2012 because of budget cuts. They would use cheaper, including retired police and Community Service officers. They would take the nashl report, but the actual investigation would still need to be done by police. Theres other priorities as well. But i think in the short term, it would bring this unit and restore the unit. We would see the decrease of burglaries. Citizens want a Police Officer to respond to their home. It takes a Police Officer to investigate these ty