Am proud to be a supporter to work to protect their Vital Mission as they work for us. This years ndaa authorizes money for a new base military complex bringing the airlift wing into compliance with the department of defense Antiterrorism Force Protection requirements to support their c130 mission. For all these reasons, i urge my for all these reasons i urge my colleagues to support this bill. For these reasons and many others, this bill keeps faith with our military men and women. It secures our National Defense. It provides the assurance Going Forward that we will remain as strong as we need to be as the worlds only superpower guaranteeing not only our own freedoms but others around the world. As we consider amendments on the floor, i urge my colleagues to reject the new brac proposal introduced by chairman mccain and Ranking Member reed as mccain amendment 933. I say with all due respect and again i want to thank them for all their work on this bill. Its been an extraordinary accom
He is also a contributor to politico magazine. That is why he is here this morning, talking about a piece about how San Francisco overall Public Housing. Good morning. Is a microcosm San Francisco is a microcosm. ,t has some of the most lavish beautiful housing you can find in the country and some of the worst Public Housing in the entire united states. I wanted to show a paradoxical case that showed the extremes of the housing situation here. Host why is San Francisco looking to reform its Public Housing approach . Guest because it has some of the worst in the country. Subjective measurements it was only two out of dozens in the state of california to merit such a bad grade. Host because the rent is typically so high . There was a lot of mismanagement within a Public Housing department in the city of San Francisco. A lot of the necessary repairs werent being made. Because the real estate in the city was so expensive, it would happen cost prohibitive for the city to do all sorts of mai
He is also a contributor to politico magazine. That is why he is here this morning, talking about a piece about how San Francisco overall Public Housing. Good morning. Is a microcosm San Francisco is a microcosm. ,t has some of the most lavish beautiful housing you can find in the country and some of the worst Public Housing in the entire united states. I wanted to show a paradoxical case that showed the extremes of the housing situation here. Host why is San Francisco looking to reform its Public Housing approach . Guest because it has some of the worst in the country. Subjective measurements it was only two out of dozens in the state of california to merit such a bad grade. Host because the rent is typically so high . There was a lot of mismanagement within a Public Housing department in the city of San Francisco. A lot of the necessary repairs werent being made. Because the real estate in the city was so expensive, it would happen cost prohibitive for the city to do all sorts of mai
Welcome to the tuesday february 9there is echo on this. February 9, 2016 meeting of the finance committee of transportation authority. Im eric mar and to my right is london greedbreed and to my left is norman yee. The clerk is steve stomose and being broadcast today by [inaudible] and charles kremenak. Any announce mentds no announcement; breed present. Campos, absent. Commissioner kim, absent. Commissioner mar, present. Commissioner yee, present. We have quorum. I forgot to say [inaudible] happy year the mungy everyone. Please call the next item consent calendar items 2 to 3 are considered row teen. Staff isnt [inaudible] present if desired. If a member objects the items may be removaled and considered separately. Thank you. Lets open up for Public Comment. Anyone want to talk about the minutes . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve the minutes. I have a question. Y r i wasnt at the last meeting so need to rekoos myself from voting on the minutes. It looks like we d
Items on the special committee is related but we will call them separately so please item 1 please. Item 1 is a initiative oar from the mayor for the proposed Initiative Ordinance submitted are by the mayor for the voters for june 7, 2016 for election entitled ordinance mending the planning code to maximize inclusionary or Affordable Housing and Economic Feasibility studies. We have staff here. We will have this presentation and if you get the powerpoint on the screen thank you. I want to be very clear the clear of this Initiative Ordinance is establish a pathway to maximize the amount of Affordable Housing that the city can require of developers. The current requirements are too low. Not only are they too low but theyre a one size fits all rules and acts if a luxury tower downtown has the same economics as a project in another neighborhood. The economics are different and the rules need to be different the mayor directed staff to bring working groups to bring stakeholders together for