Convene this. I was actually down at their summit calorie florida and los angeles last month speaking about innovation in cities and giving some examples actually in San Franciscos something this thing he has done amazingly well that is resulted in transition to becoming one of the absolutely top model economies not only in the country but in the world. So, after they heard my pitch they asked if they told me was going on and asked if id be willing to can being with them and reach out to mayor lee and his team and they said they be light delighted to do this. Milken institute is apparent spastic asset to have them here in california. They are leaders in leadingedge innovative thinking a whole number of topics and one of the things they delightfully focus on is innovation in cities. What that means to economies and what it means to our country, and we are really proud to be able to partner with the Milken Institute on this event here today. The bear was the counsel and our job was to se
They delightfully focus on is innovation in cities. What that means to economies and what it means to our country, and we are really proud to be able to partner with the Milken Institute on this event here today. The bear was the counsel and our job was to sell this work with our cities and our entire region to support its economy and quality of life for everybody who lives and works in this great place we call home and were very very fortunate to have such great city that make up the bay area and here we are in San Francisco not only a leadingedge economy in the world but certainly one of the most iconic places on our planet. It just i work for the city for a number of years in the Mayors Office and is just a minute amazing and amazing place. San jose, and amazing city the capital of Silicon Valley. Oakland, right across the bay with the new mayor just starting out her term [inaudible] in san jose. These are exciting times in the bay area. Mayor lee, of course running for reelection w
House and publish ourselves about four or five years after that. The index is really an outcome based measure of economic performance. It is a look at traditional business cost warehousing costs were quality of life such as crime rates. We believe that both static measures are certainly important, but they dont cover the true dynamics and they can be very subjective. So, we believe communities that can create jobs and attract Human Capital are the best performance cities over the long haul. The goal to help businesses investors, Industry Associations Economic Development agencies, academics, Public Policy groups, monitor and evaluate performance in where they work, and where they live, relative to the rest of the country. And as weve already noted, its no surprise were releasing this today in San Francisco, so San Francisco is number one this year. Yes. [applause] in a moment youre going to see what a remarkable accomplishment that is as i go through some of these metrics. What i would
So, welcome to the third counsel everyone and those of you were not seated yet, please grab a seat. Im Joe Letterman on the president and ceo of the their account so it is nice to have you all here today. Born excitement and some exciting news that we have. You may be a little anticipatory as to what it is based on the nature of the invitation, were not supposed to give it away. I was a we invited gov. Rick perry to come and he seems to have declined. So that may make more a story about this. As where mating the Us Olympic Committee is about to be meeting or maybe meeting already to determine who is their pick for the us bigcity and of course San Francisco is among those good one without giving again anything away, once we do get this weight we should probably quickly get him some notice what happens here this morning because it should weigh heavily in our favor. So i want to thank very busy fellow mayor ed lee are coming here today. And being with s ls began a moment. I want to thank
All in favor say aye. Opposed . The motion passes. Next item on the agenda is a discussion on possible action regarding a complaint received or initiated by the Ethics Commission. Cost possible close assessment of the comments on item number six is there a onsite can you identify whether the complaint involves Campaign Funding or lobbying or conflict of interest this is in general terms what category does the complaint come under . Whistleblowing . Mr. Minardi we identified in the agenda so there two complaints and we do identify the code sections that are applicable with respect to those complaints if only i knew the code as well as you do. Campaign governmental conduct code 3. 216 receiving a printed gift from a [inaudible] source andand the second one is to thank you. Is a motion to go into closed session . So moved second on favor say aye. Opposed . Hearing on the motion passes. Will move into closed session. To deal with item number one related to San Francisco kaunda codes 3. 216