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Possibly go into lottery system to get a license here but will increase the supply which should reduce the demand in the overall retail cost of those licenses as they are traded on the open market. The abc act does allow those licenses to be traded on the open market without any price controls on our part. But, what is the future hold there . Its hard to say. I can say at this point that the department itself is not making any specific efforts toward bringing new licenses in, but we are certainly not bringing any barriers to it and when it really comes down to it, we would be very supportive of a broad based legislative effort to work the entire formulas throughout the state so there wouldnt be a bill for every place that wanted new licenses come in including San Francisco. Thank you. And the second part of my question is, im also an educator. I get invited to distillery around the world and which draws a lot of attention for our expertise and spirits and i do a lot of education. Im a
Thanks to congratulations to the bicycle coalitions who are such incredible advocates for this program and we look forward to your help in expanding bike sharing throughout the bay area and as he mentioned, the bay areas single largest source of Greenhouse Gas emissions comes from transportations that represents about 40 percent of the ght in the region. And so in response to this, in 2009, and mtc created, the climate initiatives program, which includes a 33 Million Dollar test bed for Innovative Strategies aimed at reducing transportationrelated Greenhouse Gas emissions. And this amount, and mtc is allocated over 7 million to the bay area Bike Share Pilot Program and is committed to making this program a success. And this pilot not only offers the last Minute Solutions for computers, in San Francisco, san jose and along the cal tran corridor and also provides a fun alternative to driving around town, bicycling is also, incredibly healthy. And the us, and the Surgeon General recommend
We just heard from two of our board of supervisors. As you know there are 11 members but only two supervisors have played on stage in San Francisco in rock bands. So your question no. The are who are the the two supervisors who have been in bands and played on stage. Two supervisors out of 11. We just need their names. Thanks. All right. Next, so we invited the head of the abc here tonight. Jacob apple smith but he wasnt able to make it. Instead we have chrissal brek who is going to make a statement for you guys, if you have questions we are going to open it for q and a. If you have questions please feel free and cmon up and ask them but keep them brief. Good afternoon, everyone. And thanks for having us here. Hes not able to be here. Hes in los angeles today as a special advisor to the governor. I want to thank you folks for having us here today as we plan to be part of the summit in the years to come. We truly recognize the commissions place in this community and within our state. I
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