John avalos. Our clerk today is alisa somera. I would like to thank sfgtv who be working with us televising and broadcasting this meeting on sfgtv. Sfgtv madam clerk do we have any announcements today. Yes. Please silence all cell phones. Completed speaker cards submitted to the clerk and items will be on thed. Items acted on today will be on the december 1 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Jd you please call item 1. Item 1 is amending the planning code to establish a citywide Transportation Sustainability fee and apply to citywide Transportation Services and Homeless Services for [inaudible] okay colleagues this is a copy of this sent back to the full board to us so we could memorialize a few Fee Structure for the medical and hospital services. After weeks of conversation i am pleased to report to the full Board Meeting we reached an agreement, the nonprofit hospitals to contribute to the Public Transportation system. In the initial proposal all
Under Public Comment if you would like to make a Public Comment, you can see and hear everything in that room. With that, we have a few other announcements. The first announcement is item 5i which is coit tower will be coming off the Consent Agenda and will be heard separately today. We ask that you turn off any sound producing devices and that you take any secondary conversations outside. If you would to speak on an item today, we ask that you complete a blue card. It is not required but we do call names for Public Comment in the order received by the blue card. Once were through with that, we will ask if theres any additional Public Comment. You will have two minutes to speak on every item on calendar today with the exception of 7 and 8. We will be hearing them together as one. Item 7 and 8 together. You will have three minutes total on a. If theres an item on calendar that falls under the jurisdiction of the commission that is on calendar, that falls under the jurisdiction of the co
The proposed project is a complete on townsend we are built those buildings are brick unreinforced the same owner in filed with the concrete building 5 phase wide bears on the brick walls like the quote we included on the submittal packet if here today a new building weve surveyed the property lines in the wall these 3 buildings are party wall structures the building in the Historic District it is soft story not brimentd under the cutters zoning converted to office use that matter will be heard tomorrow at the Planning Commission we have copies of the origin drawings and comparing to what exists to those drawings if you changes have been made to the interior is Building Codes has changed townsend does not meet codes for the disabled exits our proposal is upgrades in all the areas this is a plan of a typical upper floor the interiors are the industrial in appearance and our proposal to remain this throughout a new core of elevators with that fire escapes as the second means of egress an
Now in terms of rain is off to the north and west ahead of a frontal boundary weve been dealing with, not a whole lot of rain directly from the storm a little bit spinning off through cape may and atlantic county. Not a whole lot right now. As we go into the morning and the afternoon, were looking at the flood watch its still up for south jersey and delaware, because thats where if we get any bands from arthur thats where we would see them. We have an issue with rip currents with the storm off our shore. Remember if you get caught in a rip current. Dont panic, keep your wits, and swim north or south and parallel to the beach, and you will get out of the rip currents and get back to shore. 73 degrees is the current temperature. Cloudy skies, a little bit damp in spots as you just saw. As we roll through the day, its going to be a day of change. Its changing in a good way. 76 by 9 00 a. M. , 79 by noon, once we get past by lunchtime well see drying, 80 is the high by 4 00 p. M. Back to 7
Rate if you are a passable entity and giving half your money back it is hard to grow your business, and equipment, grow jobs when you are giving half of it away. My. Is, your thoughts in terms of if we lower the rates and terms of pastors as well as my. Is your thoughts in seek secor what difference would that have in terms of growing the economy and creating jobs. Professor holtzeakin, could you expand on that . It is a bad tax policy that treats the same Business Activity differently. And that would drive you to organize your business on the basis of tax considerations, not business decisions. That is the hallmark of interference with the economy. In the work i have done on Sole Proprietorships partnerships, relatively small they are disproportionately sensitive to tax considerations, heavily reliant upon tax flow. Lowering taxes gives them greater cash flow. They can invest invest and hire more and so you see strong linkages between tax load toward those entities and capacity to gro