Speakers will answer those questions and with that mayor lee. Thank you. Good morning everyone and go giants. Yeah. [applause] well, let me begin by thanking everybody here. When i first began as mayor i said jobs was the most important thing we could do for people to get and i tell you what less than two years later that is still the most important thing that we can be doing and creating jobs, making people have the opportunity to get them and trained and educated and placing them in the newest areas in our Technology Industry and when ron conway. Ron just arrived and got out of at t together. We worked together and had a personal agreement if we were as a city were to help technology we were going to have Technology Help us, so less than two years later when i first started the Unemployment Rate in San Francisco was 9. 6 and last friday we flipd that number in less than two years. [applause] lead my all the industries but most importantly by our Technology Industry. Over 14,000, to 1
Capstone, julie christiansen. Thank you can i get my team up here . I have been fielding all the thanks, but it doesnt really belong to me. It belongs to all of these people. Who else is here from our group . Come on up. Who am i missing . The whole village, come on up. So we have a couple of city folks. Where is greg scott . Gret get up here. Greg, get up here. I want to point out jill, karen. Jill is the deputy chief librarian and karen, these two women are the fairy godmothers of this project. We would not be here without all the people that you heard from, but we would not be here without them. Give thermometer a big round of applause. [ applause ] we have also got on city staff our aquatic director greg scott. [ applause ] and lets see, who else did we get up here . Huh . Mindy. Mindy is on my list. I am the last speaker. They are going to try to limit me to the public hearing three minutes and im going to try to stick to that, probably not. [ [ laughter ] after im finished were g
Congressional Budget Office where he supervised a young economist who did not learn a whole lot from them and that is what i am here rudy has had a distinguished career he has had. I remember those conversations. I hope i can do themjust i can do them justice. Finally, we have david walker, founder and ceo of the comeback america initiative. He is formally the comptroller general of the united states. He was also the head director of the u. S. Government Accountability Office for almost 10 years. He is widely read and has written numerous articles on the debt and deficit. He has a new initiative which makes tremendous sense. His new group is looking at the efficiencies, inefficiencies, duplications in the government to try to find areas where we can save money without cutting. It is a very interesting initiative, one that you ought to look into and see about supporting. I hope we he will mention it briefly in his comments today. I will turn to the panel and sitdown and we will start di
I want to work with democrats and republicans. My favorite president was the first republican president. This is not a statement about partisanship. This is a statement about america and what we are fighting for. Im not going to let gridlock and inaction and willful indifference and greed threaten the hard work of families like yours. We cant afford to wait for congress. I am moving ahead without them wherever i can. [applause] thats why i required federal contractors to pay 10. 10 an hour. That is why i made sure more women had the protections they need to fight for fair pay in the workplace. [applause] that is why we launched more hightech manufacturing jobs. Some of you may have read that when we take these actions and now republicans are mad at me for taking these actions. They are not doing anything. Now they are mad that i am doing something. Im not sure which of the things i have done are most offensive. Theyve decided theyre going to sue me for doing my job. In the heat of the
Learned with Recreational Marijuana sales, giving a series of passes as well. Onst yes, the tax rate Recreational Marijuana in colorado was more than 30 . Certain cities have different tax rates, but marijuana sold in denver can be taxed upwards of 35 . Contrast that to medical marijuana, which only has the state sales tax thats less than three percent. So the price of Recreational Marijuana versus medical is substantially different, mostly because of the tax rate. Is substantially different, mostly because of the tax rate. It is also a supply and de it is also supply and demand. You have a limited amount of stores, a limited amount of supplies, so youre seeing these dramatic price differences. That is one of the reasons medical marijuana is probably not going away. The price is significantly cheaper. Than 20 to keep your medical registration. If you are a happy user of marijuana, it makes a lot of sense to stay in the medical market. That is why, when you step into one of these dispen