larkin street operates the youth program. they have extensive grants and contracts including the mayor office of housing, and also the office of economic and workforce development, oewd. if the commission were to act, we would begin the notice to proceed hopefully in a month and then it will be a four-year contract. next slide please. finally, this is resolution 21-02, which is a request to award contracts to r.j.d. ends and larkin youth services. each contract not to exceed value of $530,000. this will be a contract of four years. i'm available for questions. before i return to that, i like to thank oscar wallace in the maintenance division, and annette for their cricks to the report. oscar wallace is available on the line if you have other questions about the scope. thank you. >> president brandon: thanks, stephanie. great presentation. commissioners, can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> moved. >> second. >> president brandon: we have a motion and a second. i will open up for public comment. we will open phone lines to take

>>to larkin was saying i think the reason why there was a so little damage here was like is this it has been so dry in the mountains soils thin as they are we're just able soak up a lot of that water and as you see here a lot of folks know coming home after out of their homes evacuated many as 5,000 for the past 3 days we'll be talking with some of those folks are coming up for you on kron 4 news at 5 but for now still raining here in the san lorenzo valley but that atmospheric river event is definitely winding down its latest from boulder creek justine back to you. >>thank you so much travel see tonight at 5. several regional parks in the east bay are now back open the east bay regional park district reopen them this morning, the parks were originally scheduled to stay closed until tomorrow morning because of the stormy weather and possible damage cleanup. they're reopened locations include anthony chabot regional park lake chabot regional park tilden regional park and wildcat canyon regional park. you can find a full list of all the parks that are now back open on our website kron 4 d

abc 7 news was at the location on larkin and grove streets earlier today. one of the staff members may have the virus, so the library is being thoroughly cleaned, and contact tracing under way. it also affects the tip line service. other labibrary locations are on this weekend. >>> a soggy start to the first weekend in 2021 in the bay area. whether you were up in the hills or down by the beach, just about every one of our cameras picked up some degree of rain today. more rain could be headed our way over the next few days. let's get a first check of our weather with drew tuma. i like to think of this as a cleansing of the new year. >> we're going to track several storms. today was cloudy, rather wet and we're still tracking showers. it's really in the heart of the bay area where we find that drizzle, light rain from san francisco to oakland, south san francisco up into san rafael, sanford and pretty active ocean current. we have a high surf advisory until tomorrow morning. we are tracking a stronger storm moving in monday morning. we'll have the timeline in

let's speak to frank larkin who is a former sergeant—at—arms of the us senate, where he was responsibledings. what do you make of what happened yesterday? it was a failure of security. simple as that. a failure to protect the campus from an unruly mob that had travelled up there and appeared to be peaceful at first but then engaged in behaviour that obviously became a lot more threatening, and certainly with the behaviour that forcing their way to the capital building, that was unacceptable. but he potentially members of congress, staff and others at risk. expect was how it works, because when it comes to the capital it's very different. dc police have no jurisdiction capital it's very different. dc police have nojurisdiction in the capital, so how did it to work together in order to prevent exactly what we saw yesterday? there's quite a few events where both, well the metropolitan police department of washington, dc but which is the predominant police department for the district, and the us park police, and other agencies depending on the size and scale of the event come together in ad

. >> reporter: i'm here on larkin valley road in aptos. they took down the two large trees. they landed on these power lines. sense this morning, cal fire crews have been fighting a fire that has forced several families to evacuate. a network of wildfire cameras captured some of the pictures of new fires starting in the santa cruz mountains. in some places fires were in the czu area. they are battling the panther ridge fire that charred at least 50 acres and forced 20 homes to evacuate. in aptos, 100 homes were forced to evacuate after two fires broke out. >> i just hope it doesn't just explode like it did recently with the fires we had just a couple months ago, you know. i just hope it doesn't get out. >> reporter: trees fell on these power lines preventing rich savala from checking on a friend in the evacuation zone. >> i hope my friend is okay and her animals. she has quite a few animals. she does a rescue for her rask. ranch. >>> crews battled fires in bonnie doon and in san mateo county. with so many fires burning in the middle of winter, some are wondering if the fire

>> there was a local television show called focus the name was tracy larkin. on the show i was invited because i wrote poetry so i thought that was why i was invited. but i was there and recited my poem and i didn't know my school's reputation was far from that. there was someone in the audience who went on to become one of and when they wrote an article i want a quality education and how the principal has shown a movie about school hours the students wanted to see it because it was a movie we couldn't have seen in montgomery without a parent being present at the time because it was at least r-rated. so from that, we got a call from the organizers and they asked my parents to come and see me and they gave me a copy of this code about education and asked me to read it and told me how to document it. every violation that i saw at my school and that began my active career. >> and then you carried that right into college with your work for alabama state university. and it was an interesting spot and you became active in the effort to help it retain its identity. a

abc 7 news was at the location on larkin and grove earlier today. one of the staff members may have the virus, so the library is being thoroughly cleaned. and contact tracing is under way. temporary closure also affects the library's tip line service. other san francisco public library locations that offer to-go service are open this weekend. >>> the first weekend of 2021 brought some rain to the bay area. as we take a live look at the golden gate bridge, i promise, there is a bridge behind all of that fog and that haze. you can see it is still so thick there tonight. meteorologist drew tuma, tracking the accuweather forecast, and yeah, that murky soupiness kind of what we're seeing. >> yeah, and we're going to see more of that, especially monday morning as we track another storm on its way. live doppler 7 right now, we have light rain out there especially in the north bay. i want to zoom in to marin county where we have light showers from penngrove, san rafael. any wet weather will be out of here before the sun gets up here tomorrow. what will stay

. >> frank larkin blames did on one thing. >> it comes down to a failure of intelligence. if there was intelligence there and that pointed to large crowds in an intent to try to enter the building. >> house speaker nancy pelosi said the house sergeant of arms is resigning. mitch mcconnell asked and received the resignation of the sergeant of arms who advocated extending the capitol perimeter out to the street, that keeps the fight outside and away from the capitol. >> you want to push your confrontation of threats far out as possible. this incident will further amplify the need to redesign the security perimeter for the capitol square. >> what does that mean? even more barricades which perhaps remain up permanently. >> shannon: thank you. there were dozens of arrests reported in the wake of wednesday's storming of the capitol. the fbi is asking the public for help to identify more rioters who entered the building. mike tobin is outside of the capitol tonight. >> good evening. more reckoning. yesterday the people who stormed the capitol building did not make an effort to hi

it was wind damage causing problems, including large trees that fell on power lines, shutting down larkin valley road. jeff ranieri now. jeff, it was so windy. i kept waking up with the winds. it's not windy now. >> we're on a downward spiral from this event, so from this point onward, we'll see the winds relax into tomorrow. there are at least four fires. the good news on the latest check from calfire, they are all 20 acres and under, so it seems like they are getting a handle on this, and winds tomorrow only 10 to 20 miles per hour once again as our wind gusts continue to calm on down. talk about a ferocious wind. up to 86 miles an hour, mt. selena, oakland hill 64, redwood hill, 65. we still have a little bit of wind in the north bay 20 to about 30 miles per hour. but once we hit 11:30, everybody starting to see that wind relax, and i definitely think that's going to be the case as we start off tomorrow morning. now, check this out. we are looking at a colder storm on the way starting on friday. this will bring us some rain chances, even some low snow. i've got lots of looks at this ne

name is tracee larkin and on the show i was invited because i wrote poetry.hought that's why i was invited but anyway i was there and recited my poetry and he started asking questions about my school. i didn't know that my school's reputation had bad reputation, in fact. there was somebody who was in the audience, her name was penny weaver who went onto become founders of the southern poverty law center approached me and asked me would i write an article for a news letter she was doing about my school and i wrote the article and i talked about the fact that i wanted a quality education and how the -- the principal had shown the max, a movie about pimping during school hours and charged us to go and see it. of course, students wanted to see it because the movie was -- i have seen in montgomery in theaters without a parent being present at the time because of rating. it was at least an r rating. so we were -- and from that, we got a call from the two organizers with the american freedom service committee in montgomery and they asked to come, they called my pare

it's now a city council person here in montgomery, but the host's name is tracy larkin.the show i was invited because i wrote poetry. [laughter] so i thought that's why i was invited. but anyway, i went there and recited my poetry and started asking questions about my school. i didn't know that my school's reputation was a bad reputation, in in fact. and there was someone who was in the audience with. her name was pennny who -- penny who went on to become one of the founders of the southern poverty law center and approached me if i would write an article. i wrote the article, and i talked about the fact that i wanted a quality education and how the principal has shown the mac, which is a movie about pimping, during school hours. and and charged us to go and see it. of course, students went to see it. a movie i had seen in. montgomery without a parent being present at the time because of the rating. it was at least an r rating. so we were -- and from that we got a call from the two organizers with the american freedom service community in montgomery. they asked -- called

joe larkin, who is head of our house chair administrative committee had the capitol chief of police callme and he called me and i spent one hour on the telephone with him and i asked him every question that i could think of based on what i knew about security arrangements. i started out by asking him whether or not our plaza was going to be secured and whether or not the so-called protesters would have access to that area is your rounding our capital. he assured me that they would not be on the plaza. he assured me that it would be barricaded. he assured me that i had nothing to worry about. and then i asked him about the grassy area adjacent to the plaza and what if there were going to be opposing groups that would be there. he said don't worry about that, we will have capitol police that will be stationed throughout all of those who are on the grassy area, to ensure that if any confrontation takes place, they will be able to break it up. i asked him about -- to give me the outline of the perimeter that was going to be established to keep away those who would be causing trouble. he did

they donate to the larkin street youth and homeless youth alliance. they must maintain the smoke shop business. all five businesses met the criteria for listing on the legacy business registry and received positive recommendation from historic preservation. we recommend adding to the registry and we drafted five resolutions. the motion in support of the businesses should be a motion in favor of the resolutions. thank you. this concludes my presentation. i am happy to answer any questions. i will bring this to business representatives on the line to speak on behalf of the applications during public comment but i do have comments from two of them to read in case they have difficulty getting online. >> rick, in the interest of time. can you introduce the written comments into the record. we have had a long meeting. if they are able to make it we will hear from them. commissioners any comments? >> seeing none. are there public comments on the line? >> two people in queue. >> thank you. >> good evening. thank you very much for doing this for us. i am the o

they donate to the larkin street youth and homeless youth alliance. they must maintain the smoke shop business. all five businesses met the criteria for listing on the legacy business registry and received positive recommendation from historic preservation. we recommend adding to the registry and we drafted five resolutions. the motion in support of the businesses should be a motion in favor of the resolutions. thank you. this concludes my presentation. i am happy to answer any questions. i will bring this to business representatives on the line to speak on behalf of the applications during public comment but i do have comments from two of them to read in case they have difficulty getting online. >> rick, in the interest of time. can you introduce the written comments into the record. we have had a long meeting. if they are able to make it we will hear from them. commissioners any comments? >> seeing none. are there public comments on the line? >> two people in queue. >> thank you. >> good evening. thank you very much for doing this for us. i am the o

>> thank you, member larkin for the question. you're right. we do see this as a global issue that we need to address to have a unified and consistent response to contractors so we are very much in contact with the city attorney and public works construction management team to have a unified response that addresses similar cost issues that come up from the contractors so we are working closely with city city attorney as well as our internal public works staff to make sure we have the same response, consistent response to for all projects. >> great, that's going to be a large exposure throughout the city and it can wind up being a lot of money one way or the other. can you tell me who in the city attorney's office you're working with? >> sure. most construction related issues we work directly with one of the many city attorneys on the construction team. >> say her first name again. >> y-a-u-r-y-a. >> that's a good response. sounds like you're on top of things. that's all i had. have a good holiday. >> members of the public who wish to provide pu

i live right by larkin street. i like that that was closed down on the weekend. since we heard earlier that we've got this emergency to go on for the rest of this year, it would be great to revisit that. we still have gotten almost nothing as opposed to lots and lots of slow streets in many parts of the city. thank you. >> thank you. just some miscellaneous ideas here. i think about micro mobility a lot. i think we need to continue to be positive advocates for shared mobility. automobiles and electric bicycles. i want more options than less . the scooters are very important and need to stay. i think that we need to really be more tech forward. now we are a system with the legendary cable cars. we kfn can't allow ourselves toe held down by the past. in new york city you can pay your fair -- soon you'll get cards -- i'm looking forward to seeing what that will look like on the rails. i think we need to continue our work. thank you for doing th better wh the technology today. it's time to move off from scratch off tickets. more money for education. i appreciate it.

i work in the tenderloin and i never see these officers where i work which is at post and larkin. and i know myself as an employee and i have my car broken into frequently. i never see anyone patrolling around there with the beat officers and nothing. and is just an ongoing thing there. i know the people at the glass repair and i get my car smashed, the windows smashed constantly. the same thing in another part of the city and live nearly vice plaza and we live there know we can never park our cars on the street below philbert street because they will be smashed again. and once again, countless times, windows are smashed. is there any way to get some security cameras up? is there any way to have something we do to contact business, large buildings down there because it's just such a huge problem to the point and i wonder whether the vehicle will have a window broken even though there's nothing to steal. it is out of control. and just resigned to the fact that i will have the windows smashed a number of times each year. and i am wondering if you have any suggestions. and broken cla