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Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the tuesday, november 15, 2016, meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors mr. Clerk call the roll. Thank you madam president supervisor avalos supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor wiener not present supervisor yee, supervisor yee not present madam president we have quorum. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, please join us of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, madam clerk any communications. Yes. Madam president were in resident of two communications the first from supervisor wiener and supervisor yee dated november 1st and 14 con seismically both supervisors will be absent and requests the board excuse them from the meeting and okay. Colleagues a motion to excuse supervisor w
Sponsored that development over and over again and saying we committing to high levels of Affordable Housing im not just depending on a positive optimistic outcome into the future but guarantee with the marketrate. I dont the redevelopment agreement didnt have triggers we stop or pause with the open agreements in the way the agreement was structured tmc hats the infrastructure to move forward in the city to have the obligation to delivery the Affordable Housing subject to 9 financial structure that was included isnt financing plan. Okay. So the plan didnt include any conditions that will stop or reopen the terms of the agreement. If i may add supervisor another schufrn of the funding solution involves the local Share Participation what weve tried dpa make a commitment at that level but allow us opportunity to get a consensus how we should work with the board and the mayor to think through strategic upstairs steps without over burdening the general fund in ways to secure the projects ga
We have copies of frackopoly available for 20 off at the registers in the next room. This discount is how we saying thank you for buying books and your purchases support the author series and insure the future of an independent bookstore. We are pleased have booktv here and when asking questions during the q a please know you will be recorded and wait a moment for the micrmicrophone to come over. As a reminder and thank you for silencing your cellphone for tonights talk. Wenonah hauter is the founder and executive director of food and water watch which focuses on corporate and Government Accountability relating to food, water and fishing. She has worked and written extensively on food, water, energy and Environmental Issues including as director of public Citizens Energy and environment program, and as the environmental policy director for citizen action. Her previous book, foodopoly, the battle over the future of food and farming in america, was publiced in 2012 and been released in p
Dog. All right, what everyone is talking about, a big deal. Google is selling its motorola handset business less than two years after buying it. They agreed to sell it for lenovo for just under 3 billion. Remember, google bought them for 12. 4 billion. Hold on a second. 2. 9s now selling for billion dollars. That sounds like a huge loss. Sold thehas already settop box business but would keep some of the patents, some 2000 patents and the trademark portfolio all going over to lenovo. Ok, there are some numbers over there. Does anybody have an envelope . At of the envelope, this is my personal stationary, and and theyre math, all all sorts of sources for this coming and we have got the 12 number. Take out cash. Take out settop, and there is the value of the patents. Got the taxe losses, carried forward, and here you have got the Cocktail Party in dominoes and all the other expenses, and you come out with actual profit. So what you are saying is that google did not lose money on this. No