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That announcement came less than an hour ago. Jana. Reporter frank, ac transit has nearly 80,000 riders no doubt relieve had the the buses will continue running. And tonight here is what the un president said what the Union President said. Were very satisfied that the riders will get the service theyre used to and they deserve. The atu local 192 represents about 1,600ac transit bus drivers and mechanics, Clerical Workers and other workers who keep this system running. Under this new Contract Union members will receive a pay raise over the three year contract. That is re retro active to october...

Counterparts can do. We have to understand that. We have to understand that in order to maximize the efficiency and efficacious of that resource. This year we did a command of control exercise and we did a communications drill and we did them simultaneously. They were sort of related, sort of not. One was, we brought out the coms people and said, play, we set up 3 points around the city and said play, make this stuff connect. See if we can talk to each other. We had the National Guard above us in a helicopter, even though it was really foggy, they didnt see much, but they demonstrated proof of...

So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned from this one, weve already learned a bunch, theyre going to talk about this shortly then learn what are the next scenarios we can challenge people with. It probably wont be the same ones. We are building the institutional relationships and getting beyond the scenario. Its not just about the heavy equipment operators, its about city of San Francisco staff and departments understanding how the military works and giving the military a chan...

Those chronic patients and you know what, moving stuff is what theyre really good at. Moving patients in particular, they are amazing. So we start to look at things like that. As we look through this and we start to talk, remember its beyond the scenario, its the relationship. This year we decided to test, based on last years lessons, last year the table top on the broad topic of medical surge, generated a top of Lessons Learned. A lot of areas to explore. One of the biggest ones was, heres a surprise for you, interoperatable communications. It always works out that way. The other was command ...

Led to the conclusion we all understand the policy of it, but as was the case in a lot of situations, we dont get past the diagram. We dont get past the policy page and the wire die agrams and if we want to make this meaningful we need to get past the next level and we need to start stretching the boundaries and Start Talking it each other in as close to real world situations as we can so we each understand how the other operates, what the limitations are, what the boundaries are, and from there we can start to grow as institutions and try to make this Institutional Knowledge and not just indi...