Bart safer. Reporter it is, he came up, he is a 22 year veteran of the Bart Police Department and he takes over now at a very important time as the agency works to address increasing crime on the system. Alvarez told me his priority is going to be on keeping riders safe. It is the start of a new Ambassador Program next month were unarmed Police Department employees will be patrolling trains and stations working to deter crime and deescalate potentially violent confrontation. The chief is signing a new team of Armed Police Officers to ride the trains and put anxious riders at ease. That is going to be a 12 person patrol team who is writing trains and that in conjunction with our ambassadors was approved, they will give me 22 additional officers or bodies onto our system that will provide system and the presence we are working to get. We owe it to them. Struggling to deal with crime including two high profile attacks recently, the deadly stabbing of niall wilson at the bart station and t
Follow us on twitter. Announcer military assistance command in vietnam were often small groups of u. S. Army teams does assigned to small areas supported only by South Vietnamese forces. Two recently had a reunion in charleston, south carolina. Up next, drawing upon their own experiences, two Vietnam Veterans get talk about efforts to assist agricultural rita veldman. Officials felt this would draw local support to u. S. Backed forces command away from the communist north. All right, that is a hard act to follow. Im going to be more academic, maybe. Only have the one and . Lide lets see if i can make this thing work. Lets review a little bit of the basic geography. Some of us may have forgotten. That is smack them in the delta. The mequon river, the mainstem of the north, the other river on the south. Headquarters to the delta south. There. Tioned up where the position was was about there. Four districts. , around the city. Wide base area, which was the security problem. Thecenterpiece
Requirement. Chair keane just to add a couple of things to what you said, those friday meetings in the first quarter, the one on january 12th and february 89th would be at 10 00 in the morning. Thats correct. Chair keane and on friday march 16th that would be at 1 00 p. M. Correct. Chair keane all the rest after that a tuesdays at 10 00 a. M. Those would be special meetings and adopted if you took this approach. The bylaw change would refer to a second tuesday meeting that would be as a regular matter a second tuesday at 10 00 going forward. We presume the dates for that would be available into 2019 if the commission were wr to take this approach. Approach. Chair keane commissioners, your thoughts. Im for it. Chair keane commissioner p kopp is for it. Commissioner lee. Thank you mr. Chair and i want to thank the staff for the diligent work in putting the full schedules together. I was one of the commissioners who asked the staff to look into possibly finding other meeting times for fut
Commission is charged to carry out oversights that impact folks who may not be San Francisco residents, but their work impacts San Francisco residents. Their perspectives and engagement for me is also critical so that as we deliberate policies and other action items, its good to have all sides perspectives. I hear folks who want to keep it the way it is. I understand that. But at the same time to really try to broaden up the participatory pull, so to speak, id like for us to try this out as a trial run. Because as a bylaw, we can always change it. But at least make it available for folks who otherwise could not make it in the evening times so that they can attend, they can add their perspective as we engage with the public. So i would like to make a motion to approve this proposal from the staff. Chair keane is there a second . Second. Chair keane i agree completely with commissioner lee in regard to what she said. Id like to add a couple of owe other things. In regard to the commissio
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