Economic Development Committee im scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my left is Supervisor Malia Cohen and our vice chair is supervisor kim will be joining us momentary. Our clerk is andrea and i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting todays hearing. Madam clerk, any announcements . Yes please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, implemented copies the documents should be submitted 90 to the clerk and it will be on the august agenda. Thank you. I want to not something before we start that also meeting today starting at 2 oclock and cohen and i each have a items and if land use if this Committee Hearing is still going when those items supervisor cohens item gets called we will take a brief recess and resume when theyre done i dont think either item will take long. Madam clerk call number one its a resolution of the president to permit the issuance the qualified Revenue Bonds for the presidio avenue. Okay. And supervisor breed is the author of this item and unders
Department confirms they responded to a possible gunshot victim but that victim had been taken to a local er. Its leindicated at east 14th street. We will bring you more details as soon as they come in. The city of oakland is getting a new infusion of cash to reduce crime. As kpix 5 reporter mark kelly tells us its designed to help people before they fall back into trouble. Reporter in the eyes of oakland mayorquan, the citys crime rate is turning a corn are and its time to throw more money at successful programs. It allows us to double down on some strategies that are clearly beginning to work. Reporter the grant invests money in programs like drug treatment, mental health, and job placement. Helping prisoners get on their feet again and into society instead of back behind bars. This 2 million grant comes from the state. The grant is designed, as i mentioned, to assist positive momentum in oakland, which oakland has achieved in reducing crime and to continue this reversal of those tre
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Remarks from the parents of the third american executed by isis. That man is peter kassig, a former army ranger turned aid worker. Kassig was captured doing humanitarian work trying to help the needy. He converted to islam before his abduction. One of his friends spoke about this loss. Obviously i will miss him quite a bit and there is a lot of other people too. Good people like him who have been lost too. The main message of this is he didnt step down. He didnt give up. They didnt give in to the fear and intimidation that these thugs such as isis thrive off of. Kassigs parents said this. We are incredibly proud of our son for living his life according to his humanitarian calling. Our thoughts are with that family right now. We expect his parents to speak at about 3 30 eastern today. We will bring you that. Over in washington, president obama is back at the white house after his week overseas in asia. There is one thing everybody in the beltway is talking about right now. Immigration r
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