Centre of any in the united states. It is the largest collection of monumental municipal buildings of any city. It is a National Treasure and we need a Strong Organization to help tell that story and get people to come because for the last 50 or 70 years, the area has been misunderstood, it has been neglected, and it has been ignored. The c. B. D. Is one of the biggest steps along with a number of others in the last ten years to try to overcome that but more needs to be done. If case in case you havent seen it, i have written it all up in a book that i have put out recently and i hope that you all have gotten a copy and read it closely because the last chapter underscores a lot of the things that happened to mess things up. So i will leave some of my flyers here to encourage you to get the book. [laughter]. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is susan and i represent the San Francisco conservatory of music. We are enthusiastic supporters of the c. B. D. We have 400 and more students
Francisco opera. I walk every day from the castro neighborhood into the civic centre neighborhood. I have been in San Francisco for over 11 years and i am just amazed by the transformation that i have seen in civic centre we do have more to do and we would appreciate your support in helping us do that. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Patrick mills here representing the bayreuth family of businesses including the by right cafe kiosk on Civic Centre Plaza to enthusiastically support the renewal of the c. B. D. At Civic Centre Plaza and to attest to the astute management of our facilities, your support and opening our business, the safety and cleanliness of the plaza and most importantly, the building of Community Within the Community Benefit district. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. I live at 100 van nuys. I worked with him on ways to improve civic centre and in 2006 , he authorized the creation of a civic centre c. B. D.
Maintaining order in the rightofway. Some of the most beautiful streets of the city are to be found in jackson square. We hope to be underway by 2020. So thats the presentation. Its long in coming, about 12 years in the making, and i think youll see substantial support from all the Property Owners who have returned their ballots to improve this Great Community benefit district. Thank you. President yee thank you. Okay. We will now open public testimony. If youre here to in support of the assessment district, please come up. You have two minutes. Hello. My name is frank collins. Im here representing clint mark landmark properties. This has been a long time coming, as marco said, but nothing worth doing comes easy. We urge you to support the formation of this district. This is both an opportunity and responsibility of all the Business Owners in the district, and were very excited to get going. Thank you very much. Supervisor rodney fong with the San Francisco chamber of commerce. I seek
On the part of all parties private sector Public Sector International Organizations and the parties on the ground and their neighbors the i. M. F. Expects the Palestinian Economy to think by 1. 6 percent this year and says unemployment stands at 30 percent in the occupied west bank and 50 percent in gaza but the palestinian leadership has rejected the plan and was absent in manama it hasnt had any contact with the u. S. Administration since President Donald Trump recognized jerusalem as israels capital a Senior Palestinian official says the whole basis of economic plan is built on the wrong assumptions the most basic ones is that the arabs can deliver palestine the palestinians or that the arabs can sign on behalf of the palestinians or. The arabs will even foot the bill. But of this. Or that the palestinians will substitute freedom and dignity and selfdetermination for a fistful of dollars. People in gaza and the west bank have been protesting against it many wondered if there will be
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