Facebook funds city police officer for Menlo Park
FOX NEWS | 2014-03-06 18:03

A Silicon Valley city has approved a plan to let Facebook pay for a full-time sworn police officer to work out of a substation near the social media giant's new campus.

The San Jose Mercury News says the Menlo Park City Council unanimously agreed to the public-private partnership on Tuesday.

Police Chief Robert Jonsen says the officer will patrol the Belle Haven neighborhood, an area that has a lower socioeconomic status than the rest of the city and a higher crime rate.

The newspaper says Facebook would fund the officer for three years, with an option to extend the agreement for another two.

Tuesday's vote accepted the company's offer of $200,000 a year but added a stipulation that there may be a need to ask for more should costs rise due to pension issues.

Twitter installing log cabins at headquarters


 Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.

The Marin Independent Journal reports the high-tech giant is installing a pair of low-tech log cabins from the late 1800s to serve as dining rooms.

The cabins were salvaged from ranches in Montana by a Marin County contractor and sold to the owner of an architectural firm helping to refurbish Twitter, Inc.'s headquarters.

They should be in place within a few weeks. The plan is to build booths inside them for company employees to sit in while they eat.

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