This is the recreation and Park Commission meeting of november 19, 2020. Please note that due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the meeting rooms at city hall are closed. However, commissioners are participating in this meeting remotedly at the same extent as if they were physically present. We ask listeners to turn down your televisions and or computers while listening on the phone. We ask for your patience if we experience any technical issues. Public comment will be available for aefp item on the agenda. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 14156550001. The access code today is 1462848651. When you hear the agenda item you would like to comment on dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lined up in the system in the order you dial star 3. While youre waiting t system will be silent. It will
Way to go. Its not designed to handle all of the traffic. On weekends and commute hours theres a large backup there. Plus chain of lake intersects with mlk and jfk and i hate to say this, but not all people who use the roadway obey those stop signs. I had a scary incident, i was on jfk and chain of lake and i had the right of way according to the rule book and this lady on a bicycle just whizzed by, didnt look or stop. Scared the heck out of me. Lucky i stopped. You need to look at the big picture. Also, you need to look at 19th avenue. 19th avenue cannot handle any increase in traffic. Clerk 30 seconds. Caller you need to look at the big picture when you make the decision. Maybe there was an alternative that sounded good, maybe dividing the road into half. Thank you. Bye. Clerk next speaker please. You have five questions remaining. Caller this is barry toronto. I first wanted to say that roberta boomer did this more than christina, announce you have to hit 10 to participate in Public
Board will not take any formal action but looking forward to peoples comments and questions. Any people on the line, moderator . You have seven questions remaining. Chair borden okay, our first speaker, please. Caller hello. My name is joel kamisher, a School Crossing guard and a member of the sfciu 10 to 1 bargaining committee. We have been trying to talk about not outsourcing people to protect the city workers and im hearing that discussion about the flaggers and the pedestrian monitors. I wonder if we could use our own workforce, the parking control people and the crossing guards instead of having the contractors hire private people. I realize that the flaggers might have their own union, so maybe thats a problem. But im hoping that we can do other things to reduce the need of contract people to prevent layoffs . Thank you. Chair borden thank you, next speaker, please. You have six questions remaining. Caller hello, members of the board, my name is Hector Jimenez and im with the loc
Whipping winter winds. Today in the bay starts right now. Good thursday morning to you, thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Well get to mike with a look at the roads but start with the forecast. Another cold start to the day. Another cold start. Take a look at these numbers that were seeing right now in parts of the north bay and inland east bay as well as the south county where we have a lot of 30s as you get ready to head out the door. Youre probably already feeling that right now even just trying to get out of bed. As you make your way to work, were seeing the east bay temperatures in the 30s or low 40s and hold steady for a few hours and then start to warm up with a lot of sunshine as we go into today as we eventually make it into the mid and upper 60s, another nice afternoon. Its been so dry, well talk about that and how much rain we need catch up to normal. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Vianey, how is it looking as early commuters head out the doo
Temperatures even before you get out of bed and head out for work this morning. We will have some upper 30s and low 40s for most of us. But take a look at ukiah. Were just one degree above freezing and only a couple degrees above freezing in morgan hill. So, as we go into the rest of today after this cold start, it is going to warm up. You may have to get through some light, patchy fog. Overall visibility is looking pretty good. For the morning commute, have you seen any problems popping up, vi,aney . Yes, were still seeing a couple areas of concern near the 58 area near flynn. There is debris across the lane seeing traffic hazard from an earlier crash. Notice some slowing there and just as i was coming out to do this report, a new crash that popped up near the sunnyvale area. Ill definitely check in on that. A quick check of your rthbnond times 880 Marina Boulevard to broadway nine minutes. Ill have another look in just a few minutes. Lets go back to marcus. You know what, multiple de