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Of the san mateo bridge. A stunning loss for the San Pablo Police department. One of its officers was killed yesterday in an accident as he rode his motorcycle to work. As joe vazquez reports, the death of officer ken zink will be felt deeply at a local school. It was rough. A lot of students in pain. Reporter principal Jessica Petrilli says officer ken zink was one of a kind, the School Resource officer. There wasnt a Single Person who said i just talked to him yesterday. I swear that was the n...

Though with my kids up here. I grew up here being able to walk the neighborhoods. Im not sure i ever feel they are safe walk the neighborhood. Reporter she heard the rumors the fire may have been started by a marijuana farmer. Most of the community is worried since they moved up here that Something Like that would happen. Reporter as for the fire itself, its days are numbered. A cool, moist sea breeze with a steady stream of helicopters making bucket drops meant we didnt see any major flareups a...

and figure out how to maximize the amount of money theyre drawing from the federal government and use that to support programs that are essentially for the neediest people in the city. so were talking about programs for at the general hospital, which is serving people who have no other social safety net, to protect against reductions to our community programs that serve some homeless people. and all of those programs the health department is doing, theyre being very aggressive and were...

look at, for example, what the health department is doing in this years budget, we asked in order to close this gap the health department to find about $68 million of ways to replace general fund spending. and what theyve done is theyve developed a program to go out and figure out how to maximize the amount of money theyre drawing from the federal government and use that to support programs that are essentially for the neediest people in the city. so were talking about programs for at ...

as a city are able to do. as you know, there are certain things we have the option of taxing. we cant do an income tax. we cant do a gas tax. there are constraints what you can do locally but those are legal objections. so i think my best answer is were trying where we can. >> thanks. i think this might be a great time, phil ginsburg, who runs our park and rec creation department i think does an amazing job, has been very innovate niv thinking about these revenue-generating measures ab...

stories about situations where weve been very aggressive at bringing in money from outside the city from the state and federal government and from maximizing our -- our collection of our own revenues that weve been able to have some great management stories about how we can support programs without necessarily going to the voters and saying, please increase your taxes. or else we have to cut these programs. so i dont think that answers sort of philosophical question about what sort of ...

programs at the parks department. the other part of the answer is there are some limits on what we as a city are able to do. as you know, there are certain things we have the option of taxing. we cant do an income tax. we cant do a gas tax. there are constraints what you can do locally but those are legal objections. so i think my best answer is were trying where we can. >> thanks. i think this might be a great time, phil ginsburg, who runs our park and rec creation department i think ...

want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. y...

my position, theres six other commissioners. im also proposing that two each serve on the committees and that i would volunteer to be the third person on the committees but not the chair of any of them. we would expect the other commissioners to take an active role in that. commissioners to role in that. that would not put an undue burden on any one commissioners and i dont think increase the word load but district it differently. the last -- distribute it differently. the last about g...

>> lierse the general manager right here. thank you. it this is a meeting of the recreation and park cobb commission. >> commissioner buell. commissioner harrison. boneniia. >> present. >> lee. >> here. >> martin. i know commissioner lev ton is on her way. >> ill make a couple of general announcements. the ringing of cell phones and electronic devices are prohibited a the the meeting. we may remove anyone responsible for the sound producing devices. in order to have a fass tilt driven...