Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
A job and so far so good out here tonight of course people are here in the castro celebrating halloween but the city is just asking people not to come together in crowds and also have a huge party out here tonight sfpd is standing by and they are suggesting that people should instead stay home. Halloween in the castro unlike any other covid19 forcing people to wear not just the fun, kinds of masks, but the safe ones. The city would rather people not be out at all definitely need to be safe. I need to be protected. I also got to live our lives. Castro resident l visible thinks his community is responsible enough to celebrate safely but understands there are risks we are in a pandemic you know its like the sfpd has been out in the neighborhood on foot keeping an eye on things summerly trick or treaters tell us they experienced a fun and safe time before the sun went down and kind of cool to see everyone right wearing mask develop still celebrating the 5 even though we couldnt go door to
Now its 3 as we approach halloween, the holiday as we know is going to be looking a lot different this year, San Francisco mayor london breed is warning people to stay vigilant about physical distancing. And maskwearing good evening and thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im justine waltman now San Franciscos mayor is saying were starting to see coronavirus numbers spike and she does not want people to relax just because the city and the county is in the least restrictive tier kron fours Maureen Kelly was with the mayor today she joins us live now with the halloween. Warnings that are out there good afternoon maureen. Good afternoon just seen thats right. I mean this halloween was shaping up to be an epic halloween right is on a saturday theres going to be a full moon, its in San Francisco. I mean its really a beloved holiday here with kids and adults with dressing up getting out partying. But and its also the mayors favorite holiday. She says she was really looki
Very latest information good afternoon, theresa. Were out here at the intersection of high street and foot hill im joined with the opd spokesperson with the Oakland Police department tell us and bring us up to date right now as far as what you guys are doing to try and get this hostage or that to get the man out. What we can share with you is the starting 1115 this morning. So weve been out here since 1115, 1600 block of high street. What we do know is that we had an armed barricaded, individual who had taken hostage from this particular business where the incident is occurring. In a lot about the last half an hour the hostage was safely released unharmed. Our Tactical Negotiations Team continues communication as communication is on and off. But this has the release of the hostage and thats really the goal is the safe release of the hostage in a safe surrender. Of the armed gunman that is our primary focus im going to share with you where we are right now our tactical Team Continues th