Passed us here on the parkway. See what they were doing as they were using the northbound lanes to go southbound, because of that big sinkhole problem on the southbound lanes of the gw parkway. But before he got here, he passed the beltway at river road. And caused a big closure there. All of the motorcade going through there. And before that, the motorcade passing by old georgetown road, and, of course, that caused a problem in that area. Some of the roads around here shut down for more than a half hour during the heart of rush hour. I understand how motorcades work. I understand the need for them. But that seemed a bit excessive and probably could have been planned better and probably has a lot to do with this, whats going on over here. What we have been telling you about all day. The southbound lanes of the George Washington parkway where work is still continuing to fix that big sinkhole that opened up not long ago. And that work is expected to wrapup later on tonight. The good news
Afternoon against her school in the georgetown synagogue. That is where rabbi barry freundelel is accused of illegally videotaping women as they undressed and went into a ritual bath. The lawsuit claims as a professor at georgetowns law school, he encouraged the student to write a term paper on the ritual bath and told her to research it by immersing herself on two different occasions. The suit says she is one of at least 100 women who might have been videotaped and says the school and the synagogue should have done more to protect the women from the rabbi, because according to court records, he had a longstanding reputation for being, quote, creepy and encouraging young, attractive women to repeatedly use the bath. The lawsuit says one synagogue staffer is even quoted as saying the rabbi treated the mikvah like a car wash, every sunday, six students at a time. The student got the highest grade in the class because of that paper. But says she now feels she was lured to the bath by the
Much more Square Footage so were interested in seeing that the legislation protects space for manufactures like us and with me are two of our employees that live in San Francisco, work in San Francisco, and have for 15 plus years, so they like working in San Francisco. Yeah. And living here and we really like manufacturing in San Francisco so thank you. Thank you. Thank you for running such a great business. Next speaker. Hello. My name is autumn [inaudible] and i have dark garden [inaudible] in San Francisco and [inaudible] who is our production manager. We have been manufacturing in San Francisco since 1995, and have a production staff of 12 people. We also have a retail store in hayes valley where we sell and represent several San Francisco based artists. Were interested in this because one of our one of the people that we represent has recently lost her space and wasnt able to find a suitable space to work in and now is moving her business to the other side of the country because i
Batch. calling speaker names . Those are all the cards i have although i see one more card madam clerk right up there. Go ahead. Thank you supervisors. I am Gabriel Medina and i want to thank everyones work, supervisor cohen, supervisor campos for pushing this so far. We really like the inclusion of a Business Plan working with the workers, disclosure and the pilot plan implementation. Thats very help helpful. I had a aunt that worked at [inaudible] for many years but as you heard from speakers the demand for manufacturing space is great. San francisco only has 6. 8 of the land designated for industrial and manufacturing, the least of any city. I like this legislation and how far its coming except the small enterprise work spaces, sew, and [inaudible] latinos try to get jobs. Its great as a pathway if you dont have a degreer english proproficiency and its active space and four blocks from our office and unfortunately in testimony from sf made and other organizations only two of the uni
Hello. I am david pierce. Thank you for having me. Kate is humbled as mart of sf made and were partnered with them and its like having a second partner. I founded ohio in 97 it was just me. My background is architecture and this is a manufacture design build Furniture Company and we are now 22 people and 7,000 square feet and i dont want to give up on San Francisco and manufacturing. I shouldnt say this but regardless were going to stay here. Were going to figure out a way what we had to give up so far we had a 5,000 square foot Storage Space in oakland and have 10,000 plus in petaluma for storage so we are shuttling trucks and wildly inefficient for us. The people that we serve live and work here. The people that work in the company live and work here as well. I am fortunate to have jesus come with me. Hes my oldest employee. Hes the smallest but the strongest in our workshop as well, but we feel like were making the picks and shovels for the gold rush really. There is another wave. I