Everybody has to move. Thank you for coming out. Im ginger, part of the event team. If you will do me a favor and check your cell phones and make sure they are turned to vibrate. We do 300 events around town each year. If you are not on our mailing list you can set up for our mailing list at the front. We send 3 or 4 emails a month. Tonight we welcome four contributors to the anthology appalachian reckoning. Anthony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hutton and ivy brashear. This is a diverse, complex and the management of response to hillbilly elegy a memoir of family and culture in crisis. I will turn the floor over to them. Anthony harkins is professor of history, the author of hillbilly, a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is director of writing and rhetoric, the author of race and film. T. R. C. Hutton teaches american studies at the university of tennessee and is the author of it is i will say this wrong. Blood he blessed. Politics and violence published to t
Road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. I remember years ago on turk street and laguna, when a lot of us were hanging out and just kind of enjoying the weather, it was a really nice hot time, like in the fall and my god son was crossing the street on turk at the intersection of turk and buchanan where theres no stoplight and he was hit by a car. We watched as you flew in the air and thought oh my god, oh my god, just to see it, and had no control over what was going to happen was devastating. And luckily he had minor injuries, luckily he survived, and i just really felt strongly, we have to do better as a city. We have to do better with the vehicles that are speeding on our streets. We have to do better with our infrastructures and when people push back on me about the improvements and bike infrastructure and all of those things we need to do, we have to make our roads safe. Its not abo
The great stars. But your report on i dont know if this is through chief stanoff on ambulance on time. Can you go into a little detail on that. It looks fantastic but just to make sure im reading these right. The first page, the first tab the first ambulance on the scene. Could you go into detail on the numbers. They look pretty good but am i reading it right . You are. 90 all the time. Starting with the first unit on scene, commissioner veronese brought up, the qrvs would help that one. Thats when we get our first unit there to the code three responses. The 90th percentage 5. 18. What they want us to be 4. 50. That would be the goal. Thats why i say the qrvs would help there. Thats where we get the most calls, theyd get there quick. I think it would bring it closer to 4. 5. The second section, the first als unit on scene, including the engines or ambulances or rescue captain. Were mandated to get them 90th percentage under 7 minutes and were at basically 6. 326. Emergency response, th
Can you go into a little detail on that. It looks fantastic but just to make sure im reading these right. The first page, the first tab the first ambulance on the scene. Could you go into detail on the numbers. They look pretty good but am i reading it right . You are. 90 all the time. Starting with the first unit on scene, commissioner veronese brought up, the qrvs would help that one. Thats when we get our first unit there to the code three responses. The 90th percentage 5. 18. What they want us to be 4. 50. That would be the goal. Thats why i say the qrvs would help there. Thats where we get the most calls, theyd get there quick. I think it would bring it closer to 4. 5. The second section, the first als unit on scene, including the engines or ambulances or rescue captain. Were mandated to get them 90th percentage under 7 minutes and were at basically 6. 326. Emergency response, the last one is the first ambulance on scene the goal there, 90th percentage were not meeting it this mon
Interesting position, where incumbents have the position to run for mayor in june. I am asking that this board vote for an interim mayor who is not running for the seat. This will allow the voters the first chance in over a decade to make their own decision on who should represent them. If the board of supervisors can spend over an hour discussing a house in a wealthy neighborhood, they can at least take that much time to discuss the caretaker mayor. Thank you for your comments. Before the next speaker, a gentle reminder, please use your fingers. Next speaker, please. Happy new years, board of supervisors. My favorite Winter Holiday is kwanzaa because its about unity, and if you could show this. Please come out on the 18th, and hopefully, acting mayor breed will be out for this rally, out in front of city hall and supporting rising African American leadership for the fillmore heritage center. Secondly, one of the things that ed lee wanted to see accomplished right before his tragic pas