When will continue watching R T International with me becky aaron now our top story this hour doctors from around the world have condemned the British Governments handling of the Julian Assange case they claim the wiki leaks founder is being subjected to psychological torture in prison more than 100. 00 doctors have signed a joint letter urging the u. K. Authorities to take action they also called on the Australian Government to intervene to protect its citizen is the 4th doctors letter since the songs were made his 1st Court Appearance and documented a history of denial of access to health care and prolonged psychological torture it requested that the songs be transferred from beaumont prison to University Teaching hospital for medical assessment and treatment faced with evidence of untreated im only going to watch it also raises the question is dishonest fitness to participate in the u. S. Extradition proceedings. Next to make us face is a herring on his possible extradition to the u
Lets acknowledge from both sides. It wouldnt be a battle without or mascots. From the San Francisco giants lucille. From your oakland as give it out for stomper. [cheers. ] of course, we have Community Partners and we are going to hear from them to speak about the efforts. It is the city of San Francisco and oakland, the two cities facing off right here. It is about the greening competition to take place saturday, september 21st as part of the annual California Coastal cleanup day. There is a cool incentive that we will announce as well. Lucky folks from oakland and San Francisco will win on Alaska Airlines a trip wherever they want to go. Make sure to sign up. Get teams ready, and you might win the tickets to anywhere we fly on Alaska Airlines. It also protects the San Francisco bay. Cleaning, greening neighborhoods. Trash removal, habitat restoration, tree planting, neighborhood beautiful projects. We are going to hear more about the efforts, what the battle for the bay 2019 i is all
Public works prioritize planting in locations that existing empty tree wells. They will take into consideration areas with canopy cover. You can request tree plants by calling 311. Speed radar sign. There is a redarthat will mark the speed your vehicle is going. They can be effective to reduce vehicle speeds but it is just an information piece provided to drivers. The locations are based on community and staff request. As members of the board or public have locations on major thoroughfares with locations with good candidates there is a very principal method for prioritizing the locations. If you have locations to be considered please let me know and i will forward it. The next two requests for application based traffic cal calming. Propped k have the sales tax forms on local residential streets. They are primarily speed humps and traffic cushions. First is the applications accepted into the program. The applications received in june of 2018. This is the annual program. The m. T. A. Rec
Oakland, andys construction, silver Gates Construction donating on behalf of the cyprus training program. I want to thank my sister across the bay, london breed. [applause. ] all right. London, show me what you got. Mayor breed let me start by saying, i have never been this excited since the Oakland Raiders and the 49ers played the last time at candlestick where we won. And we all know that in San Francisco we dont talk big, we just do big stuff. Mayor, my sister from across the bay, i accept your challenge because in San Francisco we already make cleaning up and greening and taking care of our city a regular part of what we do. In fact, every single month mr. Clean, our director of public works, mr. Clean himself, organizations incredible groups like united players and other folks out there taking care of the streets. Here is the thing. We have amazing volunteers. We have amazing people who work for the department of public works and the rec and parks department. Phil ginsburg is here
And the businesses to execute throughout the year. Fiscals. I have already gone over from the oewd. We maintain our budget and exceed our fundraising efforts. And thats 1718 there. Are there any questions . Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Are there any members of the public that wish to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Chairman, i would move that we send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Great. Done. Thank you. [gavel] mr. Clerk, please call item number 5. Resolution receive around approving the annual report for the ocean Avenue Community benefit district for the fiscal year 20172018. Welcome back up, ms. Mar. Thank you. So ocean avenue is an initial assessment budget of 239,578. First established in 2010 and set to expire on june 30th, 2025. Their staff is executive director daniel weaver, the Service Areas are safety and community ambassadors, cleaning program, administration and corporate operations. We reviewed the same ben