Not real front line stuff, but important in terms of back house. We have a lot of skilled professionals within the agency, many of whom are getting close to retirement and we dont necessarily have a lot of folks to come in after them, so we are really happy to be about to launch a partnership with a couple of the Machinist Union recollect local 1414 and Electrician Union local 6 together with the city. Well start apprenticeship programs for a number of our most critical difficult to fill and mission critically important craft positions we need. These are the fonegs maintaining the muneee and traffic and signal systems. We are joining to create these apprenticeship programs modeled an successful programs in place in the sit a such as labors local 261 and in addition we joined a National Partnership of transit agencies that are led by a Organization Called the Transportation Learning Center to develop rail car technician program. A small effort on our part we contribute to a larger effor
That committee that is working to put this on the ballot made one key decision today voting unanimously to put this to the voters as a yes or no question. They hope to read between six to 800 million. This new revenue would help pay for school repairs and maintenance. They say without this investment all high schools and schools will see double sessions. Within five years they say all Elementary Schools will see multitrack schedules. How will they raise this additional money . They are focusing on sales and property tax increases. Its important to understand this isnt funded by another source. This wasnt and Brian Sandovals wonderful investment, this was funded by choices that they make on a periodic basis in the county to fund repair and maintenance of the schools. Coming up tonight at six i will share more what is being considered and the impact to in other news yesterday we told you about the decision by the Public Utilities commission to cut incentives for residential solar users.
Clinton leading the field among democratic voters. She tops her nearest rival, bernie sanders. 52percent to 38 percent. But there are strong signs sanders is moving in. The lead clininn enjoys is now the smalleleit has been since the field of candidates was reduced to three. Tim that same poll then shows donald trump i not just leading in the republican president ial race. He is dominating it. More than four in ten Republican Voters nationwide now say they back the billionaire. Cruz is following right behind him in popularity and both are the only ones receiving double digit numbers in the polls. Senator marco endorsement. George pataki is florida senator for president. The former new york govererr announcement on he dropped his own bid in december. Rubio has the and intelligence for the job. Tim and while actual voters are still 6 days away from caucusing, some local Elementary School students are learning the process of voting and the importance of doing so. State wide Young Students
breaking news on the Johnny Manziel story. harrowing accusationsexgirlfriend. a criminal investigation has been launched. reporter there is a lot going on today. you need a scorecard. Johnny Manziel has lot over the past couple of years. it seems clear he has problems. tonight he has a major one. just tonight Dallas Police announced they are investigation into a Domestic Violence assault complaint filed against him. manziel listed as the suspect . His exgirlfriend, colleen says he struck her several times. manziel threatened to kill her. investigators want to determine what ges, if any, will be filed. you may be asking, didnt they investigation. they reopened iving a complaint. they said, as there are many emotional incidents, its notunusual for victims to delay in pressing charges. Acription has been given to the police of january have respect for her is an unbelievable day. his agent says goodbye. his dad speaks about him. Straining order against him. this has obviously been an event
Determining whether or not this was going to be something that was workable in marin and whether it was something that the customers in marin were interested in. When we launched in may of 2010, we needed 2. 2 million to get off the ground. Today our finances are looking really good. Weve got a budget of 100 million budget and were in net position of 8 million. We are providing service to approximately 125,000 customers in our service area which includes the county of marin but the city of richmond. The city much richmond expressed interest in joining Marin Clean Energy a couple of years ago and we started service to richmond customers last summer, so about exactly one year ago. Were assuming 77 of the customers in our area, so in marin and richmond and the other portion of those customers have decided to opt out and stay with say that again. Were serving 77 of the people in our area. And the other 77 percent opted out and remain with pch services. We have reduced by 131 million towns.