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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 f ....
Lets get going. Good afternoon. Please take your seat. We will get started. Good afternoon and welcome to the december 10th, 2019, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . None to report today, mr. President. Okay. Colleagues, we are approving the minutes from the october 22nd, 2019 and october 29th, 2019 board meetings. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to appro ....
Picking up spilled refuse and generally keeping an eye out for our neighborhood. Frank is one of recologys most reliable drivers, really taking sick days and always showing up on time. His supervisors have nothing but praise for his ability to remain calm and collected no matter what is thrown in his way, sometimes literally, and his precision and attention to detail has made him somebody who is loved by his fellow colleagues and by the community. I want to thank recology drivers ron and bobby for also going along and taking me on a ride along. Thank you for arranging. Thank you for supporting us every day in the community. As i said, our safety could not run without you. It doesnt work without you and your commitment, in particular to an area of our city that faces extraordinary challenges around maintaining cleanliness really means a lot. I just wanted you to know, i appreciate you. I can tell that the members of our community and the residents of the tenderloin appreciate you as wel ....
In isolation. We are working with the Behavioral Health system, and as i said time and time again there is a real issue around equity. Around those 4,000 people that we know we are not serving properly, 35 of them are africanamerican. We need to call out the injustices in these systems and make deliberate investments in targeting the population that continue to get left out when we propose new solutions to support the communities that we know are most vulnerable. So we are going to be making deliberate investments around making sure that africanamericans are supported as we move this process forward. [ applause ]. Mayor breed i want to thank dr. Nigusse bland and dr. Colfax because you have been doing the difficult work of managing the system with the resources that you have and not necessarily getting the support that you need to do it and that change starts today. That change wont happen overnight. We will be working towards ....
Mayor breed hello, everybody. Im london breed. Im mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, and i am so excited to be here today. We all know that there is a real crisis in our city, and i know that we hear that word used on a regular basis. But in this particular case what we see happening with those who are struggling with Mental Illness and Substance Use disorder and chronic homelessness is something that we see every day and we need to take aggressive action to address that issue. I am standing here with supervisor Hillary Ronen and mandelman to announce that even though we have had two competing measures, we have come together to do what is in the best interest of this city to introduce today at the board of supervisors a compromise that is going to help us a ....