Good morning and welcome to the wednesday, january 17th, meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. My name is jane kim and im joined by our vice chair, supervisor aaron peskin and acting mayor, london breed. Thank you to our committee clerk, john carol, and i would like to acknowledge Jessie Lawrence who who ensure the meetings are available online. Please make sure to silence cell phones and electronic devices. Items acted upon will appear on the january 23rd, 2018 board of supervisors agenda. Can we call item one. Hearing on shortterm residential rentals registration and any need for a additional resources. I want to acknowledge and thank you supervisor peskin who is the sponsor. I will hand the hearing to you. Supervisor peskin thank you madame chair and colleagues. As you will both remember, in august of 2016, the board of supervisors unanimously passed an amendment to the previous shortterm rental law which held hosting platforms accountable for ensuring that hosts
Of delays. Even though there is fog in san jose it will not affect the planes as much as San Francisco. Because of the runway configuration. I have always want to be a pilot growing up but that is all. I would call it 28 and left. Most of us call it the runway. Welcome to mornings on2. A big win for the warriors but a big loss for the bay area. Amazon announced not one city in the bay area is in the top 20 for the new headquarters. This map gives you a sense of the top 20 cities. Los angeles and denver and then everyone else east of the rockies in the running for the 50,000 highpaying jobs. Are you guys shocked by this . I am not surprised. We have so much technology, im sure they were looking for an area that is growing maybe not as expensive. I do hear that atlanta and nashville are at the top. The marrow san jose said we wont give tax subsidies but when you talk about amazon shouldnt you give them a Little Something . Just get them in. Well, we have apple google and facebook. Steve
And other things that were going to have to do and deal with. But this is a great start. And i am just really concerned about the thing that i mentioned earlier, which of course is until theyre approved, i dont believe that they should be hosting. And then finally, this other issue around the honor system in terms of reporting. I think we need to get a handle on that too. Thank you for those comments and for the compliments too. On that note, i do feel very fortunate to work with the staff i do. They are really incredible and dedicated folks and take their job seriously. So, i thank you for that recognition. Supervisor peskin and just relative to Cost Recovery, the 2,100 plus or minus registered hosts, is that annual fee covering you and your staff . So, the amount of the fee that we assess covers only the cost of processing the application on average. So, it doesnt necessarily account for the enforcement costs. So, were going to see with the surge in applications, once we reach a stat
Items acted upon will appear on the january 23rd, 2018 board of supervisors agenda. Can we call item one. Hearing on shortterm residential rentals registration and any need for a additional resources. I want to acknowledge and thank you supervisor peskin who is the sponsor. I will hand the hearing to you. Supervisor peskin thank you madame chair and colleagues. As you will both remember, in august of 2016, the board of supervisors unanimously passed an amendment to the previous shortterm rental law which held hosting platforms accountable for ensuring that hosts are properly registered and i want to acknowledge the chief sponsor of that legislation, our former college, supervisor david compos, who authored that legislation, which subsequently was subjected to a lawsuit that air bnb brought. I want to acknowledge the City Attorney and the City Attorneys office for settling that lawsuit which happened in may of 2017. This is one of a continuing set of hearings that we have had to look at
Devices. Items acted upon will appear on the january 23rd, 2018 board of supervisors agenda. Can we call item one. Hearing on shortterm residential rentals registration and any need for a additional resources. I want to acknowledge and thank you supervisor peskin who is the sponsor. I will hand the hearing to you. Supervisor peskin thank you madame chair and colleagues. As you will both remember, in august of 2016, the board of supervisors unanimously passed an amendment to the previous shortterm rental law which held hosting platforms accountable for ensuring that hosts are properly registered and i want to acknowledge the chief sponsor of that legislation, our former college, supervisor david compos, who authored that legislation, which subsequently was subjected to a lawsuit that air bnb brought. I want to acknowledge the City Attorney and the City Attorneys office for settling that lawsuit which happened in may of 2017. This is one of a continuing set of hearings that we have had t