Good morning. Everyone. Welcome to the october 25th meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. Im ra fell mandelman. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. Commissioner [indiscernible] 37 present. Commissioner dorsey, dorsey excused. Chair mandelman. Present. Commissioner mar. Mar present. Commissioner mel guard. Present. Commissioner present. Present. Commissioner Preston Preston present. Ronen present. Commissioner safai. Safai present. Commissioner stephanie. Stefy absent. Commissioner walton. Walton present. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Im going to be excusing commissioner stephanie and dorsey who reached out to me and asked to be excused and i believe you have a Public Comment announcement. I do. For members of the public interested in participating, we welcome nor presence inperson or you may watch channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider or stream this live. For those wishing to make Public Comment remotely, dial 415 6550001 and when prompted put in the access cod
Lwv board of education. The League Women Voters were a Nonprofit Organization and if you would like to support our work, please become a member or donate on our website. Today im pleased to introduce maxine anderson. Born and raised, and the california criminal justice reform. Respond for travel and readers im really pleased and welcome maxine our moderator for this evening. [applause] thank you allison. And welcome to the candidates for San Francisco board of education. And welcome to all of you who have come out this evening, either via electronic or here in person to hear what they have to say. The candidates will have a chance to present their views on issues affecting the city and to answer questions about those issues that were submitted in advance for tonights forum. First, i would like to remind you of our ground rules. Response to see questions should be on the issues and policies related. Candidates are expected to be respectful of other candidates and ask to not make persona
Cheryl im sorry. A miscommunication on my end. I want you to know we spoke to the chief. One criticism that he had today was the fact that they felt the department was slow in responding to the violence, the chief explained nick we didnt expect the verdict saturday night. We would have been prepared on monday but werent prepared on saturday night. He told me he called for patrols but they were caught off guard. Police bracing for another night of demonstrations after dealing with violence last night. Take a look. A mass emstraightor hit a waiter with a hammer, bottles, rocks were thrown at pleechls now, abc 7 newss Mark Matthews is joining us. A lot of Downtown Business owners dont want to go through this again. You expect to hear a loud outcry but that isnt what we heard today. There was little or nothing said about the third night of vandalism since the verdict delivered saturday night. Again, were focused on moving forward. I think folks that are doing vandalism are not representati
50,000 range that doesnt include lost time. Then, impact of business. So. This is frustrating. Oakland Business Owners assess damage from three nights of violence after the verdict in Trayvon Martins death ask tonight, police are preparing for a fourth. Good evening, im cheryl jengs. Night three ended with more arrests and more vandalism. But unlike over the weekend there were more police on the streets to deal with demonstrators. We have Team Coverage tonight and are going to begin with nick smith you know one thing weve learned this evening after speaking with the Business Owners and Police Department there is a sechbs frustration throughout. Three nights of protests due to thousands of dollars of vandalism across the state. The Police Department is anticipating a fourth night of demonstrations weve learned is that theyre turning to surveillance video. Demonstrating peacefully if you saw someone acting illegally, share that with us. There are tools they can use to catch thes responsi
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