Municipality collect a dollar per Business Registration or license to go towards inspection or inspectors, mostly with the Municipality Department of department of building inspection and also for ongoing outreach education, helping businesses in compliance with their constructionrelated accessibility improvements. Of the dollar, 0. 70 is to stay in the local municipality. 0. 30 goes to the state. 5 of that 0. 70 goes to administering and processing of collecting the dollar and the rest of the 65 comes back to working on inspectors and helping get inspectors become inspectors with the department of building inspection and our outreach education ongoing and helping businesses comply with the constructionrelated accessibility requirements. So dbi and i have started a conversation just about how were going to be constructing working with the funds. Obviously right now there is not going to be much money. Well probably see what after may, when the Business Registration is due from business
George gets lost in the story of others, even in my own. And we gift him back to the city and to the people, to his friends and to his colleagues and to the citizens who are the fabric and texture and color of San Francisco. So, all of us can stop looking at the death of George Moscone and start to put him firmly in our hearts so we can see the likes of him in new community leaders, young artists, queer and colorful, innovators and students, all inside our magnificently and uniquely diverse and neverchanging city. San francisco will never be what it was, nothing in life will be. But as i heard recently, we are always nostalgic for a time that never was and often wanting to avoid a future that is inevitable. Will change in San Francisco as in everywhere is inevitable. And change can be beautiful. We are all of us the agents of change. As george and harvey were. Each one of us is the story teller of our lives and the lives of the people weve lost. And that wasnt always the case, as willi
Asked if we should build a campus, and i said its something that we should do and there was certainly overwhelming support for the campus, but characteristic of his style and his principles he was never afraid to question power, or to question the popular way, and he had many good points, and that was very typical of what i have known him to be as a servant at city college. It was very difficult in his position, often being the one vote out of seven, often finding rubber stamping of a decision, fighting the way we were spending our money for ten years. Ten years he was in a position most of the time alone trying to speak up and say why are we doing this . Were running the college into the ground. This shouldnt be the way things should be, and when i got into the board and i concluded the same thing and i said milton god bless you. I couldnt have been here for ten years and put up with this stuff. And he just laughed and smiled and thank god he had been there for the people of San Franc
I believe in evolution, not revolution. Katrina, did you read the Foreign Affairs article that backs up the occupy movement . There was a recent article about the new progressive movement. There is more coming out about the occupy agenda and what they want. You have articulated some of the agenda. Geoffrey sax talked about three regulating the market regulating the market. It is all there. Why is it not been articulated by the media . I think it is. It is not up to different occupys have different demands. It is up to people like the nation and other groups like rebuild the dream, National Peoples action, the progressive caucus. Occupy wall street is a spirit. Theyre committed at the moment to not having concrete demands. We have six ideas. One would be the robin hood tax. The other would be to change the way our tax structure is organized, how to get money out of politics, hold corporations responsible, support attorney generals fighting for for closure relief. There are six of 10. Ha
To a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadnt done anything there and the mayor thought the same. If an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. It sat there vacant for quite a while. The city decided to buy the building in 1999 for 2. We worked and looked at ways that we can utilize the building for an Office Building. To build an icon i can building that will house a lot of city departments. The San Francisco Public Utilities commission has an important job. We provide clean, pristine public Drinking Water to 2. 6 Million People in the San Francisco bay area from the hetch hetchy Regional Water system. With also generate Clean Renewable Energy for City Services like public buses, hospitals, schools, and much more. And finally, we collect and treat al