Please call the roll. [roll called] this is a recreation and Park Commission meeting of october 17, 2019. Welcome to everyone here today. We kindly remind you to turn off Electronic Devices and take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed. If you would like to speak on any item, we request you submit a blue card. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time, neither the commission or staff will respond to any questions, but the commission may ask questions of staff after the Public Comment is closed. If there is item not of interest to you, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion with any exit. Our leaders will return to first floor and are not available for use. Please make your way to the closest area of refuge across the hall in the mens restroom. Let them know where you are and they
Any item, we request you submit a blue card. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time, neither the commission or staff will respond to any questions, but the commission may ask questions of staff after the Public Comment is closed. If there is item not of interest to you, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion with any exit. Our leaders will return to first floor and are not available for use. Please make your way to the closest area of refuge across the hall in the mens restroom. Let them know where you are and they will assist you. We are on item 2, president s report. President buell thank you. A couple of things. Even though commissioner low is not here, i would like this express my gratitude that he handled last months meeting when i was out of town and everything went quite well. Secondly, i wanted to read
Policy that was designed to triage the complaints and sort them out into low, medium, or high risk complaints. For example, the medium risk cases involved potential losses of 10,000 to 50,000 or they implicate a mid level manager. The medium and high risk cases are not represented in the whistleblower reports. Instead, we get a preponder remembers of cases of low level employees who use Work Computers for personal business, who leave work early, or show up late, who gamble or sleep on the job, or who smoke in city cars and park them inappropriately. Preventing these abuses is worthwhile, but wheres the beef . We dont hear about the big money violations or mid to high level official misconduct. Why not . If the Whistleblower Program does not receive such complaints, they should know why. If the Whistleblower Program refers such complaints elsewhere, they should know how many involve violations of criminal or ethics law. Since the Whistleblower Program already categorizes complaints acco
Our domestic our department on the status of women, and the staff and all our Community Partners that do the work we do. This is how we survived the Domestic Violence system in the city. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much. As president zawart stated, prevention is a critical part of our work to stop the cycle of violence. For over 20 years, asianPacific Islander legal outreach has engaged youth through its Youth Advisory Council to address genderbased and dating violence in asian and Pacific Islander communities. Please join me in welcoming the Youth Advisory Council at the youth coordinator. Give him a warm welcome. [applause] good evening, everyone. We are the Youth Advisory Council from the legal outreach. We strive for and accepting an equitable future in which everyone is helpfully loved. As youth in our communities, it is important we engage in work against a mystic violence to educate our peers and prevent its occurrence in our everyday lives. Through this work, we believe
Well keep you posted on this. Nearby union city on the Alvarado Niles road onramp to northbound 880, an overturned car they say is lodged between some trees. Thats on the onramp there. Also an earlier crash, 680 in danville has been cleared. One person is dead and five others are injured after a gas pipeline ruptured causing a massive explosion in kentucky. 75 people had to be evacuated overnight. Officials say flames reached about 300 feet in the air and could even be seen on the weather radar. The pipeline stretches for thousands of miles from texas at the mexico border all the way to new york city. Crews have been able to shut off that gas. Developing news this morning, Community Groups are gearing up to provide even more support to survivond those impacted by the gilroy garlic festival shooting. Whether its over the phone or in person, the community is coming together so no one has to go through this healing process alone. Abc 7 News Reporter jobina fortson live in gilroy. Jobina.