And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This is the reminder that under administrative code 67 a 1, the ringing and use of cell phones, pagers and use of sound producing devices is prohibited during Fire Commission meetings. Set all pageers and cell phones and other devices to vibrate or set them off now. The regular meeting of the Fire Commission for wednesday, january 27, 2016, its 5 02. Roll call. President francee covington, pre, Ken Cleaveland, here, stephen nakajo, Michael Hardeman. Joan hayeswhite here. Public comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address their remarks in the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker. The lack of a response by the commissioners
Reduce blind spots people on bicycles maybe be in our blind spot give yourselves plenty of time to react look out stay on the road from building to building not just curve to curve check driveways and behind parked vehicles for people that enter our path turning vehicles are especially dangerous important people walking and collisions often occur when vehicles are making tunnels when you turn remember check for people using the crosswalk before starting youre turn watch for people on bikes traveling in the ongoing direction always check our mirrors and blind spots patience pays off take a moment to make sure youre clear while it might feel youll save time by driving fast or turning without checking you wont save driving only adds a few semiautomatic to our trip a collision can cost you, your job or someones live heres important things to remember all crosswalks are legal and pedestrian have the rightofway people cross the street anywhere children and seniors and people with disabilitie
Meeting on the 10th for possible action. If there is any lingering issues or questions, a special meeting could be called the following week. It happened in the past. That is a possibility in case there are any issues of the advance of the second submissions. Now that the citys budget process is a 2year process, the first 1 fiscal year 20162017 is the first one approved. No major changes from the current year. I want how highlight some items. The main issue on the budget is the annualization in the a lot of issues in the department with regards to mainly positions. Most positions were funded at. 7 and. 5. Those positions are annualized fully for 1617. Originally in the budget we had two fire academies budget for 16, 17 and 18. However given the award last year of the federal safer grant we were able to add an Academy Grant to that. We are going to have three academies, one in june, one in october and one projected for march 17th. I briefly wanted to update the commission on the departm
I hope everyone is clear on that. Probljectsworking on on islam . No. Education reform. We have not ventured into any social stuff or into too much Foreign Policy type things, so nothing on islam currently. Any thoughts on why so many wealthy entrepreneurs are liberal . I do not know. In Silicon Valley, they kind of our commonlaw but i do not know if entrepreneurs are liberal. It seems like many businessmen to come cronies of government. You see many people make the thomas and is in turn where they enter as entrepreneurs and become political entrepreneurs. Uber. Ee that with h six months ago we were cheering them, but they have totally made the turn to go a political entrepreneur. After they go into these cities, they start to cut deals with local governments where they make regulations, and if they them,ford to adhere to you see a lot of these may starturs, they out one way, but they are in it for their business first and foremost. I do not fault them for, but i do not like using gove
Clear, that is something that we can actually implement, and something that when explained to the public its clear. Thats really what im looking for because although i realize when shell was selected they were selected to be the broker, to purchase the clean power on our behalf and our goal was to of course generate the revenue necessary to leverage bonds in order to do the build out and the plan, we understood the plan we knew it was a good plan, we knew that the possibilities exist, we had to make some decisions that we may not have been completely comfortable with but it would have gotten us to where we needed to go and the problem was it was just really hard to articulate a lot of what we were trying to do to the public even though we understood the details of the plan and what im asking or hoping to propose is that we prepare a comprehensive rfp that gets us to a comprehensive plan that has tangible information so that were able to have various options for all the different layers