Buena gardens. The outcome was the new Nonprofit Organization with the sole intent to operate the yerba buena gardens. We work in conjunction with commercial tenant and the city and county of San Francisco for the civic and Public Health and enjoyment of visitors and residents. I want to touch on key points. The city will maintain the role as landlord but its a True Public Private Partnership as the owner of the gardens and landlords and city would have the ultimate authority. Leadership and the conservancy made of garden stakeholders by community and civic leaders. It brings the strength of community and the city into one governance structure and from an administrator perspective it the aud audit annually and comply with the standards of hud and have openmeeting compliance. Youll hear from others in the community but its an Important Community asset and we thank you for your support and i have 26 letters of support i want to submit to the official file. Commissioner thank you, well co
Would be workable nominated by the district 6 supervisor and appointed to the board. We have no objection to that amendment. Commissioner okay. Obviously that language will have to be developed between now and tomorrow and made without remany of referral tomorrow on the board of the floor, correct gibner . You can do it tomorrow or right now inserting the word nominated by the district 6 supervisor and appointed by the board. Commissioner already. Then we will do that. Well insert said words in that section without objection leaving us with the issue about increased obligations and liabilities that mr. Gibner and i will work on between now and 2 00 p. M. Tomorrow with the item as thrice amended can we send it to the full board as a committee record, supervisor haney. Thank you to everybody who came out and your work on this. I think theres an incredibly exciting future for the yerba buena and all the folks here maintaining it and making sure its thriving and inclusive and i want to tha
Possible onset for that garage. Aliso ferrell. Well hear a lot from the folks. I recognize a number of faces. I was an operator for a garage that operated a number of years. Weve seen record high occupancies where 500 plus open stalls were sitting vacant. We restriped the lot to allow more selfpark and worked closely with the union to come up with a staffing plan. This included a reduction of fulltime staff in two stages. The Staff Members will provide an opportunity to relocate to other fasts within the portfoliofacilities to relocate to other facilities for zero job loss. Well always have someone onsite and if the cars return, so will the staff Parking Program. Transitioning into safety and security nexus of our conversation. We focus on three Major Concerns when were managing our garage and how to mitigate them. This includes trip and falls, gate arm city and pedestrians and vehicle breakins. You may have noticed theres no mention of violate crimes such as car jacking or fiscal assa
Openmeeting compliance. Youll hear from others in the community but its an Important Community asset and we thank you for your support and i have 26 letters of support i want to submit to the official file. Commissioner thank you, well collect those in a moment. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im the executive director of the yerba buena Community Direct and serve on the gardens conservancy. The neighborhood of yerba buena is an interesting eco system with a variety of uses including a large cultural, residential, you have gardens in the middle and the convention center, etcetera. The gardens serves all the populations as a respite in a concrete jungle of downtown. Its incredibly important to the residents that live in that neighborhood and employees and i dont think we can overstate the importance to the conventioneers. When redevelopment absolved we were surprised that we were meeting regularly for seven years to get to this point. I want to thank the neighborhood. I think you
The committee will come to order. Good morning today. Our committee is honored to welcome the United States trade representative Robert Lighthouser to testify for President Trumps agenda. Thank you for joining us. We look forward to your testimony. This ambassador is a former u. S. Trade representative under president reagan. Is an experienced trade negotiator. You understand the u. S. Leadership and participation in a rulesbased trading system is essential to our nations prosperity. America has led the world in Global Commerce for the better part of the last 100 years. Through our network of strong and forceful trade agreements, weve expanded Economic Freedom so that our business e our workers and consumers can thrive. Through strict enforcement of the rules we created in our leadership and the world trade organization, weve held our competitors accountable and through our steadfast commitment through the principles of free enterprise, open markets and rulesbased international commerc