Onto culture to increase profits he is interviewed at Harvard University craig mankin. After words is a weekly Interview Program with relevant guesthouse interviewing nonfiction authors about their latest work. Welcome and it is a delight tto be here to chat with you congratulations of the book congratulations on finishing in the Great Success ive been watching a fail in the amazon and obviously a lot of people are buying it, that isha great its a great book very interesting and provocative and on a very important topic im delighted to share with you. Before we get to the book. I think your biography shapes the things your writing in this book and one that i honestly did not know the offers many you i also live today, my parents were immigrants from india, by vacuum over the late 70s my mom in the early 80s, i asked my dad why did you come halfway across the world to Cincinnati Ohio of all places and he said his sister came over from india to fort wayne indiana which prompted us to ask
Have 2 minutes to speak today at the for your attention. Im deborah i didnt im a local line procure and ive made my career working in San Francisco over the thirty years. This is a very important program. A few years ago when my son left the nest i decided to stay here and grow San Francisco and, you know, keep everybody working here thats my goal. With the Rebate Program im able to tell folks around the world about this theyre interested because truly even though San Francisco is San Francisco having that extra entitlement makes a huge difference to each year e exceptionally all the people i work with to be gainfully employed and that speaks for myself too thank you. Next speaker, please. If you have are here to speak on item 3 i might have called our name wrong but go ahead and speak im jim im a former San Francisco commissioner and here to speak in favor of the rebate. Im not going to get into the detail. But one of the main things about filmmaking in San Francisco is that it will c
Announcements. Yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Items acted upon today will be on the supervisor agenda unless stated. Mr. Clerk call item number. The Film Rebate Program colleagues that is legislation that i introduced a little while ago. It continues to attract both film and production in the 76 San Francisco. The most recent legislation was to rent space that helped to get a series and its stemmed to have an estimated 12 million no our city. This includes the web series among eligible productions and its through june 30th, 2014, and authorize additional funds into the program. Again, were not going to fund those budget it will be next year but it will put the cap. Were seeing that the web series are 0 popular and we need to continue to make sure that is adopting to the film destroy to capture all the film in our city. In the about jobs and our after the community and continuing to promote the on screen productions pr its a streamline of web tv. And rising in popularity th
Online content makes sense we can draw in the production outfits can i speak to that. Sure. So my understanding from the report that was done by the office what that we had a fund balance of 1 million 4 hundred and to the call of the chair, 80 4 hundred and 12, 80,000 and as of early 2014 we extend to pay anti an additional 775,000 in rebates those are productions theyre not turned in all their paperwork. And that would leaves us with 6,300,000 if we extend it a year. Wed make our appropriations for this not in the middle of the year but during the budget season so we couldnt put any money into the program until july of next year. That is sort of your dog tagging the money is to be potentially used but not actually put into the funds but its a consideration when the budget cycle comes up we have the consideration of a million, but what im 99 percent sure of between now and the next fiscal year 2014 i will have used up that money like that with one production. And i have 3 other feature
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