Walking to her vehicle in this Shopping Center parking lot on thursday when police say the 14 year old forced her into her minivan holding what turned out to be a fake gun. Investigators say the boy forced the woman to drive to a location a few miles away near i80 and hiddenbrooke parkway where he sexually assaulted her and left her unconscious in a ditch bound with duct tape. Passersby summoned aid for her and provided information that assisted with the arrest. During the ordeal, the boy contacted the womans family and demanded a ransom that was never paid. The boy was known to police prior to the attack and when he later returned to the scene of the abduction in the womans minivan, an officer took him into custody. He was found to be in possession of the victims belongings and a fake handgun. This 80 year old frequents the Shopping Center where the abduction took place and is a retired Police Officer who believes seniors should arm themselves. You wait around for the police and they
Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. We are not out on the ground yet. We are a brand new organization. We are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. I will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how well be working with those with disabilities but i wanted to show a quick video to frame the issue first. We need captioning for that video as well . [inaudible] hold on, please. Denise can we pause for a second. The captioning doesnt seem to be working with the video. Can we put the microphone closer . Lets start again. [inaudible] thats okay. I dont want to log jam the schedule. You can find our video on our website which is a lava may. Org. Basically it just frames the problem. The number that was listed in the video lis
All of those have a very similar nexus reaching the population of the city. After being established for a few years, the office is really has worked in three key areas. Its a Policies Office through programs like our Community Ambassadors program and we do grant making around i am grant immigration initiatives. Thats a snapshot of the offices. The Community Ambassadors is one of our premier programs that started in 2010. Just some background on the program. It started in the bayview on the 10th supervise real district in addition to conflict happening at that time. There were several very high profile crimes against asian americans. I think they were on youtube. They were very high profile events that led to outcry in the chinese immigrant community in the southeast part of the city and they didnt feel they had access to information in their language and they didnt feel safe in their communities and couldnt communicate adequate with the city. In order to address the issue of Community
The program. They keep activity logs of the programs they do as ambassadors and they really bring with them a tremendous wealth of personal experience. A lot of them have experienced homelessness and a lot of them have varied levels of ability and a lot dealt with Substance Abuse and other kinds of personal trauma that allowed them to have that compassion that we work for as community ambassadors. Behind me is the office from the Central Market community team. And two of our other ambassadors are joining us along today and jennifer. In terms of what we see on Market Street and they can speak to this as well if need be, we know that the midmarket area is very high need and there is a lot of negative undesirable street behavior on Market Street particularly in this area that we are looking at. The specific kinds of things that we see has already been stated. There is a lot of illegal activity with drugs and illegal vending of all types and a big social service need. There is a lot of hom
Are there any questions from councilmembers . Identify i have a couple comments. First of all my question is are the buses going to be running on the cables or out of diesel buses . These are diesel buses. So they can go anywhere . Yes. You said, will you have the capability of doing 45 showers per day . It could be more, but depends on how long it takes us to do the pilot program. We want to give people as much time and want to be able to serve as many people as possible. The showers are on 10minute timers. They will be on 10minute timers and another 8 minutes to allow people to do something else. In the shower area and toilet and changing areas and a bench for shoes and socks. 1 2 of those facilities will be ada compliant . Absolutely. Wonderful. Great. Thank you. Absolutely. All right. Any Public Comment on this item . Believe it or not. Larry juicy. I went to city college to shower. When i was homeless, i knew i can be a student and go to cook school and take a shower in the mens l