Lots more on all of our stories on a website, you can even try the bbc news app, but now lets go to singapore for Asia Business report. Shinzo abe becomes japans longest serving perimeter, has his Economic Programme been a success . How the boss of mozilla, the Company Behind the firefox web browser, is taking on big tech. Its wednesday good morning asia, hello world. Glad you could join us for an action packed edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon, lets kickoff the programme with japan because this morning we had that exports flipped by 9. 2 in the month of october compared to a year ago levels. And this comes on the same day that shinzo abe passes the milestone of becoming the countrys longest serving Prime Minister. His time in office has been marked by his centrepiece Economic Programme called abenomics. For more on this Economic Revival Initiative from the Prime Minister, imjoined now Economic Revival Initiative from the Prime Minister, im joined now by my collea g u es P
Any massivings will offset the costs. Findly, no matter how this goes, a big thank you to michelle and miss shannon for their amazing work and its been a pleasure working with you. Thank you. Thank you, ted olson. Good afternoon, commissioners and president hiland. Im ted olson and im president of the Swedish Society of San Francisco incorporated in 1875 in california, builders and owners of the swedish american hall at 267, also a california resource and they forwarded it to the u. S. Registrar. The hall is located at 216874 Market Street. On behalf of our board and members, i thank the Planning Department and staff for helping us to prepare and for supporting or application for mills act nomination and approval. At the time of the 1906 earthquake, my paternal graph, grandfather was secretary of this society at their Scandinavian Hall across from what is the main library, but which and there was under construction for the new city hall. The earthquake demolished the city hall and our
Adel fung. I am one of four coowners of 275 fullsome street. Most of the major rehabilitation work was done from 2012 to 2014 under the previous owners. But we as the new owners are looking to tackle a number of major scope items on specifically of wood deterioration and the curbed wood te deterioration, the compe reroofing and attention to an overlooked slightly inaccessible patch of land that started to grow vegetation. The rehabilitation needs came on our radar as homeowners, wear and tear of the original curved windows and even the mosaic that revealing, especially the turette was older than it looks from the strateg street view. We readdressed the items over the next three years focusing on the wood rot with the upcoming rainy season and curved windows. We hope that the city is able to support us in this investment. I appreciate the opportunity to introduce myself and to give the vote of confidence that the property tax savings from the mills act contract will truly help offset co
Adel fung. I am one of four coowners of 275 fullsome street. Most of the major rehabilitation work was done from 2012 to 2014 under the previous owners. But we as the new owners are looking to tackle a number of major scope items on specifically of wood deterioration and the curbed wood te deterioration, the compe reroofing and attention to an overlooked slightly inaccessible patch of land that started to grow vegetation. The rehabilitation needs came on our radar as homeowners, wear and tear of the original curved windows and even the mosaic that revealing, especially the turette was older than it looks from the strateg street view. We readdressed the items over the next three years focusing on the wood rot with the upcoming rainy season and curved windows. We hope that the city is able to support us in this investment. I appreciate the opportunity to introduce myself and to give the vote of confidence that the property tax savings from the mills act contract will truly help offset co
Ill have one comment on the mills act in general. Weve had in past, comments from the governor oversight and Audit Committee relative to whether these contracts were necessary or if the applicants needed them financially as it being on a needsbased criteria and in my opinion, as i understand it, these mills acts are incentives, not necessarily based on economic needs. So i just wanted to put that out there so as this gets forwarded on to the goa, maybe theyll remember that. Commissioner johns . I did get the impression from the presentations that were made that there is an economic necessity for this money to be aloallocated so these folk and p up the properties. That was my belief based on the testimony. And in terms of communicating to the board of supervisors, these are structures worthy of preservation and some will be expensive to preserve. So yeah, using this as a tall ti think thats very important to the city. So with have a motion. Do we have a second . Indeed, we do. Son that