Remain confident we can find a way to have a strongly bipartisan markup, and ill wrap up by saying my sense is this place cant have enough come mitty thats comity with a t, and i thank you for your efforts to work with us and i look forward to the houring. I look forward to looking with you. We make good team. Well now proceed with our scheduled hearing on taxrelated matters. Every year, the committee holds a hearing own thanks Filing Season, provides us as discussion toing a charged with administering our complicate, convoluted tax code and collect taxes. Taxpayers face new challenges as the file their tax returns. Including but not limited to protecting their private information. Today we will discuss among other things the irss efforts to address these types of challenges and times for progress and modernization. The finance committee has always taken the oversight responsibility with the irs very seriously and for good reason. The irs is the only federal agency that deals with ever
The threat that you face caused by the fear that youve identified and very often its not, particularly when it comes to issues of undocumented immigrants and their impact on the economy. You can watch this event tonight beginning at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Irs commissioner spoke recently about his agencys operations and the impact on taxpayers including stolen identity tax refund fraud, phone and Online Services and tax Assistance Centers. He gave these remarks before the committee. The committee will come to order. We are in a scheduled executive session to consider and hopefully report the nomination for the u. S. Trade representative. Unfortunately due to scheduling conflicts it is apparent we will not obtain a sufficient quorum to vote on this nomination today. This is a nominee who enjoys bipartisan support on this committee. I hope we can move on this matter after the Senate Returns from recess. The executive session will be in recess subject to the call of the chair. Can i make a
Predicts i think we are now the second more dense city in the nation in San Francisco and the Planning Department predicts new 80 new president s and 97 now Housing Units in the next 25 years. It is very nert esting to note that i think since 1994since 20s 0491 percent of all new Housing Units created in San Francisco were 10 units or more. 91 percent of all new Housing Project are 10 units or more, which means no more back yards are built so the parks matter. If we can flip to the presentation and the first slide. I think we are there. Supervisors you may have these slides in front of you. We do. Just some highlights of a rather long story for public land and San Francisco Park Alliance have engaged in the study with our department on the stats relevant to why parks matter in San Francisco. We talked about density. Obviously the goal is to be the most sustainable city in the land and our park system alone absorbs 750 thousand feet of storm water every years and purifys 135 thousand to
Professionals from big cities around the word, 20 Different Countries from every state in the country to a conferencethality happens every 2 or 3 years on urban parks and it is what we talked about for 3 orfore daze. The chalthss with big cities are not unique, but because of San Franciscos growth we find ourselves faces some of the challenges as critically as anyone. 85 percent of america lives in a urban core. 95 percent of california lives in a urban core. Our Planning Department predicts i think we are now the second more dense city in the nation in San Francisco and the Planning Department predicts new 80 new president s and 97 now Housing Units in the next 25 years. It is very nert esting to note that i think since 1994since 20s 0491 percent of all new Housing Units created in San Francisco were 10 units or more. 91 percent of all new Housing Project are 10 units or more, which means no more back yards are built so the parks matter. If we can flip to the presentation and the firs
More serious or responsibilities to manage the land. With new growth and hopefully now families moving in and our growing senior population, the demand for Recreation Services is as intense asench. We want to improve cust mur service and efficiency and accountsability. We should be the most technologically probust Parks Department in america. As some that interfaced with our system probably can attest we are not there yet, but it is where we need to go. Our failing play Ground Campaign presents with a opportunity. A task force following 15 and a half millin in public funds. A Community Task force identified our 13 worst play ground in the city and they are based on old strategies of pressure treated lamentber and cca with traces of arsenic and our mission is replace all of them. Meeting the challenges of growth by acquiring new parks. We have been before you quite a bit in the last year or 2 with great news. A opportunity to aquer nob nub the fran cyst co reservoir and [inaudible] visi