[gavel]. Good afternoon. Like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. Roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Very good. Commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. Are there any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes of february 11 . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. At this time, id like to call for a general Public Comment. Clerk madam president , we need to hear oh, im sorry. Thats okay. Clerk its been a long day. Shake the sand out of your shoes. General Public Comment, item 4. Members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the commissions jurisdiction but not on the agenda. Beiokay. I have six speaker cards. Bill collins. Bill collins for pacifica. First, id like to thank the commissioners for serving and particularly you, president caen, for your years
[gavel]. Good afternoon. Like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. Roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Very good. Commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. Are there any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes of february 11 . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. At this time, id like to call for a general Public Comment. Clerk madam president , we need to hear oh, im sorry. Thats okay. Clerk its been a long day. Shake the sand out of your shoes. General Public Comment, item 4. Members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the commissions jurisdiction but not on the agenda. Beiokay. I have six speaker cards. Bill collins. Bill collins for pacifica. First, id like to thank the commissioners for serving and particularly you, president caen, for your years
Was more flexibility. I think to meet those needs. So just so i understand. So the reason that so much, um overtime is used in central is because of the robberies, primarily well robberies. Right now or one of the issues that we have to contend with. There is the other thing we know about the retail staff. Of course, we do still have um, safe shopper depart deployment and union square. Weve cut it down significantly from where it was, you know, a year ago year and a half ago, but its still there. Ah i think we have 10 officers. Now last assistant chief has already come up in a second. But there is a need and then you we hate. We ran tourism deployment for over a year. Ah lot of the spots that people go to when they come to San Francisco or in the Central District union square fishermans war. Embarcadero at least the central part district part of embarcadero lombard street. So what our experiences told us is that theres a lot of victimization in those places. So weve cut that down so we
He cant go on camera, but he said he lives in san ramon. He said he got up before the quake and he said he thought it was bigger than 4 4. 0. He got up. There were people inside of this store stocking shelves. This is 24 hours, so they were stocking the shelves. No damage, no injuries. It was no laughing matter at the time, but they are laughing now. No issues. You work here, tell me your experience. El with, it woke me up in the middle of the night. I thought it was a train coming through the house. It felt like it, but i didnt hear no train. I knew it wasnt a train. I woke up, checked everything and went back to bed. Reporter was it cracking . It kind of sounded like a wall or a train. It went from one side of the room to the other side of the room. Reporter nothing fell from the mantle . Only a picture of my son, a Little League picture, but nothing else. Reporter are you like me, its not the earthquake itself, its the fact that you dont know if its picking up speed. Thats right. I
Portions of city avenue will close near bala cynwyd, thats where the pope is staying overnight. The vine street expressway, 676 will close entirely. These road closures are necessary for Public Safety to effectively move emergency vehicles as well as a large number of buses that are expected. On the bridge, weve learned the historic ben franklin will be shut down to all traffic letting the masses of papal visitors literally walk across from new jersey. Just plan for yourself. Make a plan. Think about it . What do i usually do on friday, saturday, sunday and then kind of adjust, have a plan and then come out and have a good time. Just a quick note on the schuylkill, there will be a tiny sliver of it open from manyunk to conshohocken going westbound. When is this going to get back to normal . They cant know for sure, it could be late sunday possibly even by noontime on monday. If you are planning to get out of the city for the weekend, know you may not be able to get back in until someti