Today. Thank you very much. Members of the rules committee, supervisors tang and cohen, im very honored to be here today and to have been nominated by mayor lee to serve as the San Francisco Port Commission, i grew up in Northern California and left my heart in San Francisco bh i was a young girl on a special visit to the city to visit family. My husband marcos who like me is a child of greek immigrant parents was born and raised in San Francisco. We have made our life here for most of the last 16 years, raising our two children and being part of the civic life of this great city. Like many first generation san franciscans, i feel grateful this beautiful, vibrant and ever evolving city is my home. San franciscos waterfront is one of its greatest and most important features, it is a multifaceted gateway to the city, seeped in history, it includes some of the important sites tourism not just in San Francisco but for the whole state of california, its Business Operations are robust, gener
[timer dings] thank you very much speaker please. Good afternoon i am Peter Warfield executive director of library association. This is the National Library week up until april 16 and it includes National Library workers Appreciation Day im certain that we can think of past and present things we have learned from libraries staff and i am one of those and unfortunately there is not much on the website of this and theres one thing that i would like the library to deal with and that is the exclusion from thousands of people in San Francisco of full library service. Normally if you get a ticket or an open violation you can go to a judge and there is a consequence but there are ways that can be handled but in the library theres nothing no policy or nothing written for the public or librarians on how to handle the problematic findings or fees. At the library if you owe more than 10 you are not allowed to borrow any books. [timer dings] the more to the point theres 150,000 cardholders who are
Okay. Just to add precision to the language there because i asked how the stock would be dealt with regarding taxes at the end of the year. What i actually think i said was how the stock would be valg valued for tax purpose. Yes, i will make that change. Okay. While we are making small corrections, page 6. Previous page stated San Francisco doesnt have a present coherent strategy. I would like to amend that that he would like to say commissioner repeat that. Stated he would like p San Francisco to have a coherent transportation strategy. Yes. Im happy with that. Those are good changes that unless there is objection, we would add to the changes for the motion. Any further clarifications if not all those in favor say aye. All those opposed. They are approved. Item three is general Public Comment. I see no one from the public here. We can move on to item four which is the report back to the Planning Committee meeting. So commissioner chung was unable to be with us today. Did i chair the m
Everywhere in america until i joined. The United States navy so it is an honor to have been born and raised in San Francisco having served my country on National Level it is beautiful to be able to serve the Fact Community i live in which is now chinatown i want to thank mayor ed lee, supervisor peskin, sxhaush and definitely the mothers teresa of chinatown annie the fact ceo and selfhelp for the fact elder thank you on behalf of all the ambassadors you made it only to us to serve our community and make a desists not only this community i want to thank you on behalf of all the fact ambassadors to give us the opportunity to change lives and thank you tore listening now speaking foreign language. and if you have any questions, well be happy to answer them afterwards thank you clapping. thank you so much everyone so this ends our Anniversary Event and press conference blood cell foul the ambassadors to the clubhouse. Thank you, everyone and thank you, mayor ed hello, i am with the recreat
Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors steve i want to speak a little bit about the grandfathered july makes sense and people on notice that the ordinance is being introduced at this point i urge you to keep the 50 percent the doctor for projects in the pipeline before that date that is fair the projects could perform their projects and aware of the fee when they made their lands deals the city not to slow down the projects the proposal by the sfmta is feasible and urge you not to void any significant increases maybe were in a bubble now but those fees to make sure make sense in the next busts the reason were in the country now job growth has been since 2010 we need to do better and make sure the housing pencils in when were in the beautify as well now so the projects can be built when the economy is weak this unfair you were burn of fees will be user u unfair the modest of the increases and move the grandfather date up to july 2015 but keep the projects in the