staffing are primarily located in two offices. the project office which houses the administration. construction management is located at 821 howard street, which is very near the alignment. the design team is located at 651 brannon street. there are 31 staff members at the project office and 63 at the design office. the remainder of staff that are dedicated to the project are city resources and other sister departments, the city attorney's office. those resources that are supporting the program that we had intended to use city resources for, they are staffed and located in their city offices. just a quick recall of the alignment. if you take a look at the top map and start from right to left, the alignment starts at 4th and king, connecting to the 3rd street

the night time is the right time even though it is not convenient in terms of staffing.applause] >> i just wanted to make another comment about -- thanks, that was good. i wanted to come back to the question about training. one of the things that i think is difficult is to separate out a task-oriented caregiver from a person who approaches somebody as an individual. that is definitely a trading piece that we talked about. -- training piece that we talked about. we have to define, the death of paramount, whether dementia or alzheimer's -- when people have -- we have to define cognitive impairment whether it is dementia or alzheimer's. when somebody has the cognitive impairment, i can tell you that this never came up and our discussion. we look dead blood pressure, heart rate, medication, but never talked about what that might mean when that person goes home. that is one of the things that i think when we talk about a culture of training physicians and families and the community, we have to talk about cognitive impairment in a different way so that we see people as individ

this would not be adding those jobs of making sure that we maintain the level of staffing at the city currently has. >> how many do you have that the station? >> we have 355 on duty for day. they could range from a low of four to a high of 15 depending on the staffing and equipment that is needed at each of the stations. >> thank you for creighton this legislation. we very much supported the commission in favor of it. we see the tremendous cost, the human cost and financial cost of excessive alcohol use. this is going back to 1986 when i was at the emergency room at san francisco. this is a bag of intravenous fluid from which to put in a multi vitamins which turns it yellow. this is because of the chronic malnutrition occurs to heavy drinkers. at any one time, a third of them are there because of their chronic inebriation, withdrawing from alcohol, while having delirium drummond's. others have consequences like the disease or gastrointestinal bleeding due to alcohol. if i got a cut deeper understanding on how much those in resources for transporting people were chronically in the brit

the next issue is commission office staffing. commissioner kingsley: i will explain. commissioner dejesus and i talked with the offices and they gave us an additional arm for commissioner reilly who has worked hard on our docket of cases. basically, weigh want you to review these options and vote on which one you prefer. so for the legal assistance option, and of course, you can vote for neither of them, but this is the proposal here. for the legal assistant, the salary is about the same as the court clerk, so the salary doesn't make much of a difference. the experience this person would have is they have parallel studies, the associates degree, with six months work in a legal setting. their skill they generally have, or tracking system for adjusting claims, cornedse and communicates with attorneys, they analyze depositions, and briefs, affidavits, they conduct legal research, they help with legal research and staff and legislation. that's the qualification for legal assistant. question? president marshall: you can keep reading, but i just want the recommendation. >>

we always appreciate more staffing, but we recognize in these tough times, the choice needs to be made on where the city is putting its resources. currently we have in turn to a are being trained by some permanent staff. we believe we are responding to complaints adequately and efficiently. it does take time away from other activities, and perhaps what the civil grand jury has been most eager to see -- it takes away from the belt region in the community in terms of what we can do the educating folks, what is appropriate to bring as a grievance, what is not. the third finding was to look at the other requirement under the ada that are not totatitle ii. because there are few options for people who experienced discrimination in the private sector with businesses, shops, private employers, private housing, a civil jury expressed a need to expand capacity to handle those grievances as well. while we would love to be helpful in that regard, that would be a significant increase in our offices responsibility and would require major increases in staff and. -- staffing. that was a recommendation

he says it will take $0 million to reinstate firefighters and restore staffing. >> what they've offered is about $4 million. that is not enough to avoid layoffs. it's already happened. it would not be enough to reinstate all of the firefighters that were laid off. >> the closure of engine 33 on communications hill has residents nervous, response time for them going from one to two minutes to as long as eight to 10 minutes. we're worried bit. the response time in a matter of minutes there is dry summer conditions and a number of firefighters sparking up z within 60 seconds they spread across the hill so. we're quite worried about our homes. >> there were two grass fires here yesterday. first test to see how service would be impacted by the layoffs. and six stations were vacant and seven others had to be covered from personnel from other stations. >> and david, thank you. the fate of firefighters an irn yu in palo alto. the stiff meets to consider a measure allowing voters to decide on staffing levels for the fire department. firefighters have gathered more than the required 6,000 signatu

topping our news this noontime, san jose firefighters union is turning up the heat in a staffing dispute with the city. this follows budget cuts that eliminated almost 50 firefighters. ktvu's kraig debro joins us now with more from a news conference that took place during the last hour. good afternoon, kraig. >> reporter: yeah, good afternoon, tori. firefighters released a transcript and a tape, actually a cd, this is the transcript here of what they are calling the smoking gun in this dispute with the city. firefighters are claiming that those budget cuts that they have to take actually are gonna reduce the response times and they challenge the city to prove them otherwise. from the day those laid off turned into their gear, there was a threat to public safety, they say. slower response time. now they say the city knew that to and have an audiotape to prove it. >> when fire extends beyond room of origin, what the data tells us that's in the published materials, you get an eight to ten-fold increase in loss of property. >> reporter: the tape was a recording of a presentation given by kat

do you have enough staffing? do we need to go to a model where we have a police officer standing in front of the park and the school to make our children safe? >> on staffing, it has been reduced somewhat, but less is more, is my theory. we had officers standing on corners this morning. i met with mr. daniels. the one thing we did not have was a safety plan for evacuation. we have that now. it is in the folder. john is the liaison to that school. we moved drugs away from the vietnamese children center. cindy young came to my office and i toured the facility. i spoke with the people at the women's center. it is run by the mary elizabeth society. we are on the same page. we are trying to get the resources. we are trying to compress everything and flatten it out a little bit. the officers understand that and want to be involved, especially in front of that school. it has gotten better. we are not at a 4.0, but we are about a 3.5. are we getting an a? i would like to see it. a lot of people said -- i have not won man

this is an extremely large commitment of time and staffing by the respective departments. we were able to get together with a schedule, with a cooperation of the academy of arts. we inspected all 37 buildings, that includes aack congressmenic buildings, administrative buildings, as well as the residential buildings. we would go into the buildings, and we would meet, and we would start at the top, and we would go floor by floor. the planning department looks at you. since 24 of the buildings that are owned by the academy, 24 of the 37, had use issues, the planning department was concerned about use. so we want to know what activities are taking place in the building. other departments have other concerns. they are looking at respective codes. we had a schedule to essentially finish the inspection of all the buildings by the end of summer. we wanted to do that because we were being very mindful in trying to minimize disruption to the depents students. what we did is that we actually wound up finishing ahead of schedule, which is great. we had to often inspect as many as six

are we short staffed? do you know? >> we're currently hiring parking patrol officers. we have 271 currently, less leaves ten percent of our people out. however at full compliment we dedicate the majority of our officers from 6 am to 7 p.m. monday through friday being we have limited staffing on the weekends and especially during the weekend hours. but as to answer the question like james said we have to talk to you individually and get your situation and talk about that. what our officers do when they determine whether or not a vehicle is parked on the sidewalk, they have to use a visual. they look at the building and where the building ends and honor they're visually trying determine the sidewalks and where the property ends and sidewalk begins. there's different cases and different situations where we have to go to streets and map together get the absolute on whether or not this is sidewalk and there's some cases it looks like private property and it's not. they make those calls based on the property calls and we rely on streets and map together get that information

it is managing the docket and putting out these tables that we have, making sure our hearings are staffed, and that would allow lieutenant reilly or the future lieutenant to focus on the office work and all the commission meeting work. i would prefer a court clerk. commissioner dejesus: and as you said, we would prefer a court clerk. what we do need is we need someone who will work under the secretary of the commissioner. it will be basically his agreement. he issues subpoenas, he issues subpoenas for people to come, issues subpoenas for documents. he actually is the hearing officer. he take care of the evidence, he holds the evidence. so i thought a parallel would be a little more well suit to that so they can work with the subpoenas, and also so the issues that come before us as a commission, sometimes we need legal research, and i thought it might give a parallel legal research on public policy or case law. we would have someone who would have that additional skifment i appreciate yailt a court clerk manage the docket, but i think a parallel can do that as well as well as do lel resear

the budget does fund staffing for six clubhouses to maintain existing after-school enrichment programs. the criteria that we used for deciding to maintain these programs included the fact that they are well attended. they are geographically diverse programs. they were not close to other recreation centers providing similar programs, and the club houses are close to school. a key factor in after school programming. clubhouses that are also exceptions to the rule, those that are near recreation centers that are closed for renovation, like the club houses near the chinese rec center will remain staffed. as of august 16 when we implement our new recreation model, the department will only be providing programming, we will only staff 11 of the 48 club houses. that begs the question, what are we going to do with the remaining clubhouses. nicole was going to walk you through our plan for those. >> thank you, commissioners. as she stated, our model is based on the fact that many of our clubhouses will be leased to community partners to keep them open and vibrant. this is not a new idea. the dep

the actual impact in terms of our staffing costs in terms of additional reporting we haven't totally quantified. but there will be a net impact in terms of staff time to go capture this money and draw it down as we implement that targeted rehabilitation program. >> ok. my concern is -- director beach: my concern is that it doesn't return to the minimum payment on the credit card each month? >> yes. director beach: thank you very much. we appreciate your outstanding leadership at every respect in this. chairman nolan: mr. ford, as you reported, i'd like to take a moment to recognize members of the board, cheryl brinkman, she is the nominee for the board. she's appearing before the rules committee tomorrow. i am not -- we wish you well and we look forward to working with you. thanks for being here this afternoon. >> ok. mr. chairman, members of the board, the next item we need to present to you is related to our capital assets inventory and our state of good repair program. since the last capital improvement program update in june of 2008, the m.t.a. in conjunction with our regional an

union lead he recalls -- leaders says he knows about staffing and has a plan that can save millions ofore. city leaders say the real problem is pensions and the new plans says between $4 to 5 million. what's needed is a $10 million reduction. a homeowner who lives up here drove up and told me when they were selling the homes up here on communications hill, one of the selling points was, hey, you're just a couple blocks from the fire station so you're safer than others. now that safety net is gone. live in san jose, terry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. >> terry, thank you very much. 6:35 now. the palo alto city council meets tonight to consider a measure that would allow voters to decide on staffing levels for that city's fire department. palo alto firefighters have gathered some more than the required 6,000 signatures to qualify their initiative for the november ballot. it would lock in the current number of fire department staff and require voter approval for any future layoffs. opponents say it would require to khan the city charter just to reduce one firefighter. it would cost nearly $200,0

description is they will provide consulting services to support the reorganization and the strategic staffing in the superintendent zones for a quarter of a million dollars. it would be my presumption that they are staff now. what are the needs in those zones, or are those not staff at this time. then you will take the resolution 15, starting on page 126 through to page 139. notice these are the students support resolutions, and you have some strange variancts. you are talking about a cost of $265,000. on page one under 31, you have 627 students for $560,000. keeping in mind as the bouncing ball moves further said you had these students, and when you get to page 134, you find out you serve wanted 38 students for $230, and there seems to be a fairly large disparity of what is being done, and the right of some are very similar -- writeups are very similar. these are items we have been the agenda that we hope you would be able to find answers for that would be clear to us. >> may we have a motion and a second on the consent calendar? >> the item on page 77. the last line should read, it is estim

what we are talking about is not 9922 or the 99 series of staffing, but it includes professional staff, 5642, 5638. chair maxwell: i do not know what that means. >> 5638 requires one year of experience, and 5642 requires three years experience minimum in the field, so we are expecting to attract some high- power folks. in terms of hiring from the jobs now program, they probably will not be those, but the jobs that we may create as a result of running the program, the jobs that are created in the private sector for doing the work, doing the sales were, and that sort of thing, could be. chair maxwell: i think it is important that we start creating, helping to make people ready for these kinds of jobs. experience, and it is not rocket science. a lot of people are able to, once they know what is expected, to be to monitor and look at the report. you need to be trained. if somebody could be hired that could learn from to assist gumpert. the next time we need something like this, they would be able to monitor inside, and we would not have to go through a new hiring. that seems to be from the

new contract guarantees no officers will be laid off for three years, doesn't guarantee minimum staffing levels. the voters have to approve the new deal in november. >>> the battle over furlough fridays hit a new turn tonight. a judge temporarily bard governor schwarzenegger from imposing new 4 lowes. a spokesman said it plans to appeal and will begin furloughs anyway. >> we are seeing dense fog and drizzle coast to the coast line. that continues over night. by 7:00 a.m., close to the coast it will be wet and we will have fog. it pushes back by noon. temperatures are still going to be on the cooler side, upper 50s to the low 80s. we have a warm up in store for this week. i will have detail said in a bit. >>> two earthquakes struck northern california today -- northern california today. 3.9 hit about 5:50 this evening. the other quake shook the new york eastern section, hit about 7:10 tonight. the east bay commute took a leap today, drilling on the 4th bore of the tunnel started with a lot of fanfare. a look at the work ahead plus what you should expect traffic wise -- traffic wise when k

all stations in that area are staffed at peak seasonal levels. tomorrow will be another spare the air day. officials want you to stay out of your car if possible. brown ugly air chose up on hot days with little wind and the main ingredient is car exhaust. this time the east bay and the south bay getting the worst of the pollution. as far as the air goes this has been a relatively healthy summer. >> we have had a good run of air quality this summer. and we are expecting unhealthy air quality today and tomorrow. >> how unusual is this? >> very unusual. by this time a year we have had 10 and we have had two now. >> it's not a good idea to be outside doing exercise in the heat of the day. you should work out early in the morning or after the sun goes down. >>> as we said, the summer up to this point has been unseasonably cool and that's why wine makers started picking grapes this morning. usually they start in early august. expert are protecting the late grape picking will produce a better quality wine. if you want to check the temperature in your ar