History and those policies. We need to atone for this harm. There is no simple solution to undo this pain. This will take continued organizing and work on behalf of our board, working handinhand with our local community. We need to acknowledge and address our past harm for a more hopeful future, and we also need better policies and funding to combat deep disparities in housing, health care, education, transportation, and employment. I hope that we can Work Together to take this first step and pass this legislation thinking. Supervisor walton . Thank you. I want to thank the supervisors and all the cosponsors for working hard to set up this office of racial equity, and as we continue to attempt to address the injustice and inequalities that exist in our city and work to achieve tangible outcomes from recommendations from reports such as the unfinished agenda and the outmigration report, this will finally give us a formal platform to adequately address these recommendations and requires
Picket lines. A new cold tonight to have five Oakland Police officers fired. Good evening. I am elizabeth cook. Ondrea is that Oakland Police headquarters tonight. Reporter the head of the Police Officers Association Says he doesnt know how to respond at this point because he hasnt seen the letters and doesnt know exactly why these officers were terminated. We are in uncharted territory. Reporter after five officers previously thought cleared in shooting received termination letters. This is video for march 13, the night five officers were involved in the shooting of joshua was found unconscious between two cones on 40th street with a gun. The officers had to wake him and claimed he pulled a gun on them as he woke up. They opened fire in response. The Oakland Police Officers Association president says the termination letters are unprecedented. It has been investigated by five different entities. Police department, executive force review board, the chief of police, the Alameda County di
State owned land. The legislation were considering today is a sensible expansion of the planning code that will allow for Farmers Markets to seek authorization to open on other public facilities, such as city and state owned lands. We currently allow intermittent activities like Farmers Market at hospitals and postsecondary institutions and its surprising we dont allow them on other Government Owned Properties like the d. M. V. Parking lot on baker street. The Farmer Market has contracted with the d. M. V. , but it could not make the move under current zoning. Making this change today will allow the market to expand and serve the interests of the residents of district 5. The Pacific Coast Farmers Market association is a good neighbor. And theyve created markets that are accessible to all. Every vendor at this market accepts snap benefits and the market managers are considered members of the community. This move and expansion theyre proposing has the full support of the northern of the
50s, 60s on the temps. Probably not going to cool off too much more than this. To the north, mid50s, upper 50s, but 55 tiburon, 54 lima valley. Some are in the upper 50s to low 60s. Nice day with an onshore breeze. 60s, 70s and 80s through the interior. 4 01 on a friday. Here he is, mr. Sal castaneda. Thank you very much. Anytime. Traffic is doing very well except for a little bit of slowing on 205 as you come up on the commute. Im talking about very little slowing. Off to a good start here and hopefully we will have a lighter than usual commute, driving over to 238, it looks pretty good. And as we look at the east bay map we are off to a nice start here. No major issues on interstate 880. There is roadwork on 880 near the coliseum. They are picking it up but be careful if youre driving there soon and at the bay bridge it is light. Oakland police are busy searching for a gunman blamed for a Liquor Store Shooting where two people were shot. It happened last night at a liquor store on 59
We have a quorum. Thank you. I will proceed with the chairs reports. Colleagues, i would like to begin this meeting with offering our collective deepest condolences to the families of Michael Evans and Benjamin Dean who were hit and killed in horrific crashes on our streets last week, as well as kelly dean who is critically injured and in the hospital. As was noted at the rally on the steps of city hall this morning, commissioner haney organized it, and motorists must slow down. The tenderloin, which is an area that commissioner haney and i share, his not a traffic sewer, it is a neighborhood, and i did not have a chance to say this morning at the rally, but when you drive through there, if you are watching my face, when you drive through there, you drive through there at 25 miles an hour or less. Speed kills. I am going to depart from my remarks and say the following thing, which is we are joined by we were joined by senator weiner this morning who lamented the fact that Law Enforceme