Alvarez said job one is simple, Police Presence in the station and the trains. I finally have the opportunity to use the Additional Police officers to put them out to our system and increase our presence. We know with presence we will be deterring and increase safety in our system. Reporter the agency is able to increase the presence with the 19 new officers hired in the past year. Alvarez says starting monday 12 will be assigned to right trains at various stations, especially at night and on weekends, to stem what has become an increasing problem. Unfortunately, 2019 we had 45 up tick in thefts of electronic devices. Reporter more than half of the Violent Crime on b. A. R. T is related to the theft of electronics. The biggest up tick was at balboa station. He is called a good filth. He is called a good fit. Someone from our b. A. R. T family. Reporter he says pairing officers with the ten unarmed volunteers who walk the trains, gives him 22 sets of eyes and ears to spot trouble, and t
Of San Francisco are clearly in favor of transparency and open government. Its a basic tenant of the legal of women voters to make sure that our democracy is open to all our citizens and that all of our dealings with the government as citizens is transparent. Our candidate, allison wash burn is extremely well qualified. She, like myself, is a past president of the league of women voters and shes worked tirelessly for voter rights and advocacy for over 25 years. Shes also been on this task force, this would be her third term and the task force is in dire need of experience in this area. I commend our nominee, allison wash burn to the committee, and we look forward to you forwarding her name, our nomination to the full board of supervisors. Thank you. Thank you. So for the applicants, would you like to speak, come up and state your name since im calling you up by the order of the agenda. Bow [inaudible], supervisor tang and campos. [inaudible]. [foreign language] my name is chris highlan
Supervisor tang and campos. [inaudible]. [foreign language] my name is chris highland. Thank you for having us appear before you once again and working to fill these very important seats. With my opening greetings in three languages, i want to emphasize my multi racial and diverse background and i appreciate you going through that. I failed to mention three weeks ago but did two years ago when the committee selected me for seat nine. My mother is of turkish descent and my grandmother was of turkey. My grandfather was an an ambassador of the nation and i lived in turkey and yemen. It instilled in my for the appreciate to interact with people from all races of life. It has been a great value of life to deal with the cases brought before us on the task force. We are indeed a diverse city and it takes a Diverse Force to serve our constituents. Thank you chair yee for supporting my reappointment to seat nine three years ago and i would like to say campos and tang to support me for a second
Continue is establishing the small price programs and strengthening the programs and we want have one property but we want to continue and get into that momentum and assisting non profits and insuring that they could possibly own their own property in the future. Thank you for your consideration. Next up is ellen alono. Good afternoon, supervisors. I had to take a deep breath. Sorry. I he wore a new shirt for you guys. Were honored. Excuse the shuffled look right now. My name is allen and first of all, thank you for this opportunity to speak before you. Im a cac member representing the Community Base organizations south of market. Ive been on the Stabilization Fund cac for three and a half years now, so ill confess, it was a learning curve for me, but now ive been seated and i feel my time on the cac, i feel that ive really helped ive learned so much and i feel that i can help the community by continuing my participation in the cac. Ive been living in San Francisco for a total of 28 ye
Disparity and people moving in high and unaffordable rent. Soma is near and dear to my heart because it effects my neighborhood and the people that i see everyday and have lived here for years. And so i want to continue to protect it. Ive worked on Community Driven processes with various groups and i want to insure that thats what we have here at the fund. And in terms of like the in terms of what goals and priorities we want to continue is establishing the small price programs and strengthening the programs and we want have one property but we want to continue and get into that momentum and assisting non profits and insuring that they could possibly own their own property in the future. Thank you for your consideration. Next up is ellen alono. Good afternoon, supervisors. I had to take a deep breath. Sorry. I he wore a new shirt for you guys. Were honored. Excuse the shuffled look right now. My name is allen and first of all, thank you for this opportunity to speak before you. Im a ca