We got something out of it, which was to potentially relocate. They responded by signing the lease and we gave them a six year exemption. We also said that we would have dialogue, continue to discuss with them and other Technology Companies what it is we reading they need to stay in the city. They indicated strongly there were about 30 of us to meet they really had to look at the long term. What could we do to not punished job creation . So we have had a very robust discussion with all the different elements of our business community. We are at the cusp now of making some longterm decisions about replacing our payroll tax with some ideas of hybrids and gross receipts. I want to follow up on that. What surprises did you hear when you met with all those businesses . They wanted to be engaged. That was the numberone thing that they said. The city, if you wanted job creation, innovation, you had to create an ongoing dialogue. We listened carefully and acted on it. We created a whole techno
Certainly provide me support and provide me the motivation to get up and come to work every single day. This is an opportunity to thank and praise the people that call me stop, that email me, find me on facebook, send me a twitter and pick, found me on next door. I tell you, this is your day. Put your hands together. Hang in there, were almost done. But this is the day that we get to celebrate applause im calling it the neners. You know whats interesting . Ive been around city hall long enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. So, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast neighborhoods. Thats bayview, thats potrero hill, visitacion valley, its a little
Were taxing work but barely taxing wealth. The robin hood taxes an idea whose time has come. Radicals light nicholke nicolasy and Angela Merkel have a tax on currency transactions that would bring in 350 billion a year. Some of my heroes are the nurses of this country. National nurses united heal america. Taxloss there are a slew tax on wall street. There are a slew of good things that 1 ers are for. He is not really offering of a lot. He is talking about being taxed less than his assistant. There is a group of patriotic millionaires. It is the belief that you owe backe to a country that has helped to make you what you are. Steve jobs we had a tough column in the last issue. It was tough not about apple labor practices in china. Here you had a man of great wealth was talking about cutting taxes and never really gave of his philanthropic wealth. Poor bill gates, he gets nailed for being so square. You can disagree with some things. But he is out there. All of them out there now came a l
Were taxing work but barely taxing wealth. The robin hood taxes an idea whose time has come. Radicals light nicholke nicolasy and Angela Merkel have a tax on currency transactions that would bring in 350 billion a year. Some of my heroes are the nurses of this country. National nurses united heal america. Taxloss there are a slew tax on wall street. There are a slew of good things that 1 ers are for. He is not really offering of a lot. He is talking about being taxed less than his assistant. There is a group of patriotic millionaires. It is the belief that you owe backe to a country that has helped to make you what you are. Steve jobs we had a tough column in the last issue. It was tough not about apple labor practices in china. Here you had a man of great wealth was talking about cutting taxes and never really gave of his philanthropic wealth. Poor bill gates, he gets nailed for being so square. You can disagree with some things. But he is out there. All of them out there now came a l
Im calling it the neners. You know whats interesting . Ive been around city hall long enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. So, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast neighborhoods. Thats bayview, thats potrero hill, visitacion valley, its a little hollywood, its dogpatch. It used to be the portola, half of it. My heart is still with you, but im glad like the speaker said, it is whole. And that is whats important, is that that neighborhood remains whole so that our city will be whole. You agree . [cheering and applauding] cheers so, a few years back there was this little idea to take back the bayview and really began to rewrite the history and th