The sgrlz the presiding officer is commissioner honda and joined by commissioner fung and commissioner ann lazarus and commissioner swig we expect commissioner bobby wilson to be here tonight to my left is thomas owen for legal advice and gary boards executive director. Were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. We expect Senior Citizen builder inspector joe duffy dbi and Scott Sanchez representing the Planning Department and Planning Commission and joined by from the public works the public works of mapping please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited. Out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. Have up to 3 minutes no rebuttal. To assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or Business Card to the clerk. Speaker cards and p
Here. 67 . At 7 00 p. M. And back into the upper 50s by 9 00 p. M. If going to be out that late. Changes 68 to 74 . , after a sweater morning we are calling for seasonable afternoons and yet, the temperatures are normal and look at warmer and wetter weekend forecast coming up. Catherine parrotta back now with live drive time traffic. Catherine north of the city youre still slow on 128, mostly lexington and waltham so it is not too severe pike moving along okay for the most part just coming down here and stalled vehicle there going northbound but otherwise it is the typical slow spot between quincy and as you make your way into dorchester into the city there. Pike eastbound moving well in brighton, here are live drive times for the pike 495 to mass ave, half hour on the expressway from the split to the pike, 24 minutes, 93 from 495 to leverett connector, not too bad about 28 daniel coast guard has red cross three people from the merrimack river. Sky fox over the scene about 30 minutes a
Adopt the budget. That concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any questions you might have. Thank you tom just commissioners to summarize quickly the heart of Budget Proposal is those in any positions that ac that tom went over and the 40 bucket on page 11 of the slide show so those bucket are dealing with the backlog to deal with new policy initiative to deal with process improvements and to fallout grow our ability to do Better Community outreach those are the issues ive benefit hearing from the board of supervisors and the mayor for the last year we hope those kind of address those issues in an appropriate way im just want to under the influence this is the vast majority of the revenues were seeing going to fund those 14 to 9 positions the next two years with that, weigh close our presentation and anxious to hear our comments as well. Open up for Public Comment if there is any Public Comment on this item. Okay not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore.
Additional Public Comment . Open this item . Okay Public Comment is closed. And opening up to commissioners commissioner antonini. This as a very good project and for my purposes consider sacramento a designation a number of stores and restaurant and other things i will go to sacramento for i dont live neighborhood nor is my business in that neighborhood that in and of itself it sounds like a very good improvement restoring the windows and making that assessable to two different ways it will make a more attractive frontage and potential for quite a few of the jobs and i witnessed this all the time where people i know will drive out of San Francisco for a particular product or service and saving 2 thousand people if driving to palo alto is good in keeping tax revenue in San Francisco so i think this is a very good and their also making street tree improvements and staff has already opined this is a retail are accessory so i think i mean there was one speaker that brought that up if that
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