Signal that the cell phones would give off detection. It didnt work. This is just a sample of more than 2 million worth of stolen stuff San Francisco Law Enforcement agents recovered in operation focus lens. It breaks your heart. Reporter heartbreaking because nearly all of it belongs to someone. Just the way rely on digital devices now having a lot of our personal things on there, having that taken away just is devastating. Reporter no el knows the feeling. Shes had her phone stolen twice. Now i just tuck it up in here. It usually works really well. No one can get close enough to me to get my phone and if they do, i will kick them. Reporter operation focus lens is unprecedented in terms of the level of cooperation by Law Enforcement and the dollar amount of what they recovered. What creates the incentive is if you can quickly turn whatever you stole into money. And a fencing operation makes that possible. Reporter 30 search warrants were executed turning up an electronic chop shop of
Having the provisions to shower or, you know, use the rest room. A 200,000 county grant and donated labor and materials went into the homes. Those selected can live here up for up to 18 months while they prepare to lock for permanent housing. Theyll have to have jobs because they have to pay rent. So its going to start at 200, and then for four month, and then go to 400, 600, 800. She runs the churchs homeless assistance programs. She says the church wont profit from the rent. After utilities are covered, whats left over will be put in a savings and returned to the residents to help pay for permanent housing. I love this work. I want people to be housed. I want people to have dignity. In where they live and feel proud of who they are. And so i think this is one step in that direction. Whats worth having is worth waiting for. Now getting these tiny homes here was just the first step. There is still a lot of work to do. They have to finish the insides. You saw the unfinished version. The
How we might uh ease of limitation for everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much. Commissioners questions . I have one quick question. What about when you go to a coffee shop and you get a cup and its already a biodegradable cup. Are you still want to be charged for biodegradable replacement cup . A lot of that stuff we are have ordinances in place. This is my concern. You know, styrofoam is banned in this town. The stuff you are getting already is biodegradable. Im trying to figure out what i am missing here. Right. I think some of this, and i think anybody in the coalition of advocates who are supporting the transition to reusables, even from compostables right now, will admit, you know, i think it was a little bit shortsighted to think because it is compostable means it is being composted. In fact, a lot of this waste, same with recyclables, is not. We want to diverted from landfill. Unfortunately, even if single use items are technically compostable or recyclable, a lot of them are
Members of the public. Okay. It is monday. This is a regular meeting of the Small Business Commission Held on monday october 7, 2019. This meeting is being held called to order 2 01 p. M. Members of the public, please take this opportunity to silence your phones and other electronic devices. Public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presenting office of the meeting. Speakers are requested but not required to state their name. Completion of a speaker card while optional will ensure proper spelling of the speakers names. In lewis of speaker cards if you have not yet filled one to the right. Speaker cards will be called in the order they were placed in the basket. Additionally there is a sign in sheets on the front table. Please show the office of Small Business slide. Welcome. It is our custom to begin and end each of our Small Business Commission Meetings with a reminder that the office of Small Business is the only pla
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