To run below our objective, a mild undershooting of the Unemployment Rate considered to be normal in the longer run could help inflation, could help move inflation back to 2 more quickly. Second, a stronger job market could also support labor market improvement along other dimensions, including greater labor force participation. A third reason relates to the risks associated with the constraint on conventional Monetary Policy when the federal funds rate is near zero. If inflation were to move persistently above 2 , or the economy were to become noticeably overheated, the committee could readily increase the target range for the federal funds rate. However, if inflation were to remain persistently low or the expansion were to falter, the fomc would be able to provide only limited amount of additional stimulus through conventional means. These motivations notwithstanding, i continue to believe that it will be appropriate to gradually reduce the degree of Monetary Policy accommodation, pr
Folks for sfgtv for the broadcast, clerk. Please be sure that all devices are silenced, items acted on today will appear on june 7 board of supervisors agenda. Please read the first item. To discuss the codes for Motor Vehicle tracking systems and all Motor Vehicles by the city. Thank you, this item is brought to us by supervisor yee, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair peskin, morning, everybody, the item we are talking about is telematics, and this is a technology that has gps along with capabilities to collect data on speed, mechanical diagnosis, safety and other information. In other jurisdictions this technology has shown significant benefits early on including increasing safety, substantial cost savings. Has been used to correct, train and coach, to improve driving habits. Decrease inappropriate or unauthorized use of the vehicles and shown to have environmental benefits and reducing emission. Typically San Francisco leads the nation in setting precedence but in this case we are
The commission unanimously voted to accept a stipulation on behalf of respondent George Gascone. Respondent Christine Soto debari and Michael Swart where in they stipulated that they violated section 3. 230 which prohibits any city officer for sulitinging political contributions 23r5u78 any other City Employee directly or indirectly unless the solicitation is a communication targeted to the significant segment of the public which may include city officers. They stipulated at a fundraising event there were solicitations made of City Employees to mr. Gascones campaign, where the bulk if not all of the participants were employees of his office or other City Employees. Mr. Gascone has accepted responsibility and has agreed to pay a fine of 4 thousand for the alleged violation or stipulated violations and mrs. Dubari, agreed to pay a fine of 14,000. I mean, 1, 400 and mr. Swart agreed to pay the fine of 1, 400. I would say i think it is important for the public to understand that all 3 of t
Samantha, lorne, juan torres. Maria navarro. Sam yu. Jesus hernandez. Keith gardner. And sman that, i wanted to highlight samanthas story. Samantha started with good life when she was 17 years old. She started bagging groceries. More than a decade later, she is now the store manager and general operator of the store. Good life is very proud of offering true Career Advancement opportunities for its employees, owners, like samantha. And in addition to presenting this honor to good life, im very excited to announce that well be nominating them shortly to be a legacy business and as was noatd earlier, the legacy business registry ensures the protection of Small Businesses that are as part of critical part of San Francisco as any. It would not be vernal heights without the good life and it wouldnt be San Francisco without so many of these businesses. Supporting historic businesses like good life is really what the business legacy business registry is about. The other thing i would say about
Are we ready good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon my name is supervisor cowen the chair and this is the regular meeting of Land Use Committee to my right is commissioner weiner the vice chair and our clerk clear and thank to charles kremack and others for broadcasting this meeting electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the june 7, 2016, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much call hematemesis one ac. Amending at planning code for the rooftop screening. The Planning Department is the sponsor of this item we have a staff person from the Planning Department to present. Were ready. Good afternoon chair cohen and honorable supervisors tilly Chang Department staff this is the planning code for the controls to two spate areas of planning code the map controls and rooftop park screening with the clean up of applicability of the controls expan