san francisco league of women voters and i m here today to discuss proposition a, a proposition that voters will be voting on on november 2nd. this will authorize the city of san francisco to issue general obligation bonds the bonds would be used to finance earthquake retrofitting on affordable housing and some of room occupancy buildings that currently deemed to be at risk during an earthquake, this will allow an increase of property taxes to take the bonds. i have the chairmen of the san francisco republican party and an opponent of proposition a. first of all, generally speaking, bonds are used for government buildings. part of this building is a government owned but part of them are privately owned income- producing buildings. we don t think that the taxpayers should have to pay to retrofit privately-owned buildings. the landlords own knees and they did not have to pay these bonds the landlords own these and they did not have to pay these bonds back. san francisco has
years. what we need to do now is to get prepared. part of that is thinking about the resilience of our city. the ability of our city to rebound quickly. in order to do that, we need to shore up our buildings and our lifelines . we can have buildings here in san francisco. that is why the department of building inspection has been working on a program. they have done a report that is all about buildings. contrary to the name, their buildings that have a seismic vulnerability right on the ground floor because of many window openings were garage door openings. those are the buildings that collapsed or tilted during the last earthquake. we had a lot of those buildings right in san francisco. it is estimated that we have 2800. this proposition provides $46 million worth of financing to retrofit these buildings that house low-income people. these of the most vulnerable. this will allow us to retrofit those buildings so the collapse rate goes from between 11%-33% to between 1%-3%.
and research center. why do you support this measure? the reason that i support the measure is that it is very difficult to think about earthquakes or even talk about them. often, we just want to put our head in the sand and pretend that they are not coming. unfortunately, we know they are coming. there is a 53% chance that we will have a major event here in the bay area in the next 30 years. what we need to do now is to get prepared. part of that is thinking about the resilience of our city. the ability of our city to rebound quickly. in order to do that, we need to shore up our buildings and our lifelines . we can have buildings here in san francisco. that is why the department of building inspection has been working on a program. they have done a report that is all about buildings. contrary to the name, their buildings that have a seismic vulnerability right on the ground floor because of many window openings were garage door openings. those are the buildings that coll
stiff hello, i am with the san francisco league of women voters and i m here today to discuss proposition a, a proposition that voters will be voting on on november 2nd. this will authorize the city of san francisco to issue general obligation bonds the bonds would be used to finance earthquake retrofitting on affordable housing and some of room occupancy buildings that currently deemed to be at risk during an earthquake, this will allow an increase of property taxes to take the bonds. i have the chairmen of the san francisco republican party and an opponent of proposition a. first of all, generally speaking, bonds are used for government buildings. part of this building is a government owned but part of them are privately owned income- producing buildings. we don t think that the taxpayers should have to pay to retrofit privately-owned buildings. the landlords own knees and they did not have to pay these bonds the landlords own these and they did not have to pay these
here san francisco government television and educational access tv, and certainly, our thanks to the candidates for participating and thanks to you for being here tonight, informing yourself, being good citizens of san francisco. good night, everyone. [applause] stiff hello, i am with the san francisco league of women voters and i m here today to discuss proposition a, a proposition that voters will be voting on on november 2nd. this will authorize the city of san francisco to issue general obligation bonds the bonds would be used to finance earthquake retrofitting on affordable housing and some of room occupancy buildings that currently deemed to be at risk during an earthquake, this will allow an increase of property taxes to take the bonds. i have the chairmen of the san francisco republican party and an opponent of proposition a. first of all, generally speaking, bonds are used for government buildings. part of this building is a government owned but part of them ar