that you can spread things down into subcommittees or volunteers or other organizations but i think my key initiative, the thing i would other than outreach and education and everything else i would focus on making meetings and the committee much more efficient. i have that background. i am a process and procedures geek. that s what i do. i don t like to hear people say, well, we ve never done it this way or this is how we always do it. no, you have to that said, i think you have to stay within we have city charters, we have the constitution for a reason. you have to stay within the rules of the game. i keep hearing supervisor kim and campos and farrell saying, well, you change the rules and you ve changed the voting you know, that s almost a red herring. i m looking at the deeper level of that is ok, you had to change the rules because you didn t have enough people showing up. that s the symptom. let s look at the cause. why aren t people coming to meetings? there
i am a process and procedures geek. that s what i do. i don t like to hear people say, well, we ve never done it this way or this is how we always do it. no, you have to that said, i think you have to stay within we have city charters, we have the constitution for a reason. you have to stay within the rules of the game. i keep hearing supervisor kim and campos and farrell saying, well, you change the rules and you ve changed the voting you know, that s almost a red herring. i m looking at the deeper level of that is ok, you had to change the rules because you didn t have enough people showing up. that s the symptom. let s look at the cause. why aren t people coming to meetings? there s 23 people on this list that want to be on this committee. if you can t get a quorum of people to show up and i will add when i went to the meeting on may 2 that was called at 4:00, it didn t start until 5:20 because there was not a quorum. so let s get people that are active and want to p
also be considered for seats 6 and 7 as a consumer advocate. i came to san francisco in 1973. i ve had a place in glen park since 1992. in terms of local issues. i ve been in small and community business organizations, i ve certainly been involved in tenant issues and i ve been in involved in the other side of things as a property owner in san francisco. i ve been involved in childcare and parent issue, groups that have to do with prenatal health support and nutrition, jury duty and a lot of the other things that come with life in san francisco. my training is that, though i came to san francisco as a high school dropout, i started school at city college and through the master plan i transferred to u.c. berkeley and i was eventualed admitted to stanford university where i earned a ph.d. in anthropological sciences so i m a special in human societies, human culture, diversity and in terms of my doctoral work i took a number of years to examine i focused on the poor, communit
business payroll tax expense due to the city would be reduced by $10,125 if a san francisco business hires an ex-offender. that is per higher, one time that is per hire, one time. similarly, if a san francisco business hires an ex-offender part-time, the business payroll tax expense due to the city would be i should say payroll tax due to the city would be reduced by $5,062. again, per hire, one time. we point out on page 5 of our report that because the city does not have information on the number of san francisco businesses that would participate in the payroll tax exclusion for hiring ex- offenders, we cannot estimate the reduction of payroll tax due to the city and because the number of ex-offenders that would be hired by san francisco businesses in order to be eligible to receive the proposed payroll tax exclusion is not known and a potential reduced sheriff s department cost due to reincarnation of these ex- offenders is not known, we cannot estimate potential co