The situation under control Marcella Robertson reports from havana. S t been really devastating for the small town of urbana here you can take a look at the massive amount of destruction this fire has left behind nearly half of those years marina is completely destroyed. We know that it took firefighters nearly four hours to get this fire completely under control and weve also been told that two people died as a result of this fire were told they were sleeping in their boat at the time that it started we also know that in more than twenty votes have been completely destroyed the boathouse on site is completely destroyed as well and whats really the most shocking to so many people at this point is that investigators believe that this fire was started intentionally. Coming up tonight on thirteen years now at five oclock well have much more on this arson investigation and also hear from friends of the two people who died in the fire in urbana. Marcella robertson thirteen years now and you
Go out and pursue, air service, from International Destinations . San francisco. And that contract is, you know, it goes to the regular, city process. And for the effort. And do you know what the dollar about is . I can get that for you. Okay. Thank you. Okay and we are having an expansion, beginning in the planning and so i am going to have to appreciate. And kefp carroll and so i have the questions about how you are avoiding the contracts for catering for parking, for janitorial and for concessions and Event Planning and etc. , i know that it is a pretty Broad Spectrum here, but which is why it is important that we hear this answer. So, again, how do you award these types of contractses and then the second follow up, is, is there existing equity based model . For a contract . Yeah. So, just i represent the Hotel Council of San Francisco. Okay. We dont make contracts or provide contracts or negotiate contracts for the hotel industry. Okay. But the hotels handle that themselves and we
Supporting what changes need to be made and how do we hold them accountable, and i am holding it more for the specifics and not necessarily the bigger picture, but, i guess that we will get to that over the course of the conversation, i know that supervisor cohen has been more active and has taken the leadership in this whole issue in the first place, but i still dont necessarily see other than holding this hearing, what i can do as a member of the board of supervisors, to help push legislation, to help push support, or to help make the necessary changes in order for it to be successful. So that is what i am looking for. What i want to get out of the hearing today. The last two items, at the end of october i am due to present the interdepartment report on what the different departments that i am working with will do for the agenda and that is something that i would like to work privately or publicly with your office to get your views on if we are on the right track. Not a legislative b
Recruitment or advertisement or how do you let people know that hey, the membership organizations please, come and join us. We go into, well, first of all when we hear of the leads, and we have a whole staff, that basically is paid to do that and they go and reach out to any business that they see that falls within their area. So, it bohooves them to reach out and on top of that, now, we do, again, look to the leadership of each neighborhood and so your neighborhood merchant associations and so we go out into those, neighborhoods and in the twofold, and again, how the working with them to help to create their neighborhood as a destination but then, also, in that, to let them know about the benefits that they can receive, by being a member of San Francisco, travel association. Got it. So up until recently, we have connected you to the merchant of the bay view Merchants Association that is what i know . I am sorry, up until recently, you have been connected. Exactly. So let me say this b
Join us. We go into, well, first of all when we hear of the leads, and we have a whole staff, that basically is paid to do that and they go and reach out to any business that they see that falls within their area. So, it bohooves them to reach out and on top of that, now, we do, again, look to the leadership of each neighborhood and so your neighborhood merchant associations and so we go out into those, neighborhoods and in the twofold, and again, how the working with them to help to create their neighborhood as a destination but then, also, in that, to let them know about the benefits that they can receive, by being a member of San Francisco, travel association. Got it. So up until recently, we have connected you to the merchant of the bay view Merchants Association that is what i know . I am sorry, up until recently, you have been connected. Exactly. So let me say this because you alluded to having the staff and i assume that you have had the staff and i will just want to express my