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Be sufficient fundstalk about revenue over expenses associated with super bowl l come a week may come back in the future after the controllers reports to deal with 50 port tenants, 150 subtenants im in receipt of this letter which you all may have from the merchants of the Ferry Building, who writes, the reality was a regular customers the people who lived here and shop with us frequently stayed away. The reality was that the city did not coordinate well with us and the resulting crowds mostly words of upset people who cannot get into the super bowl village wondered about making the Ferry Buil...

Lasted about a week and we lost the plaza but we had spaces adjacent to it on Market Street. So most of the artists who want to work were able to work right next to it. So we thought that probably could be pretty similar to the january event. But we do not hear details at all from the Arts Commission or our Program Director until really until january. I then, it was kind of too late for people to make other plans and as i said in an el nino year you to work every sunny day you can. Course, this year the super bowl was very lucky that some of the best weather that week while they were setting u...

During my 23 years as a Police Officer from the oldschool you didnt see that but now you do. You see that probably because of social media and more exposures to a bad health can do to you. I think also young officers are more apt to go for psychological help if they need it. Again the oldschool probably not so much. One of the sad things i have seen in my research into ptsd is that when they look up a mortality studies of Police Officers, Police Officers compared to the general population die at a younger age. Some 10 years younger on average than those in the general population. So we are see...

Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have gone up, not down. There are a number of factors that are responsible for that and i have enumerated...

We have one on skype. Well start with chief zachery, the Public Safety director woodway, texas, and immediate past president of the International Association of chiefs of police. Yost, good to have you. Thank you, sir. Thanks for inviting me to testify today. My name is yost zachery, immediate past president of the im sorry i wasnt able to join you in person today. I intended to but my flights were canceled. I began Law Enforcement dispatcher woodway in 1979 and im still there today and currently serve as a chief and a director of the Public Safety department. One of my main duties as a chief ...