francisco film commission, i strongly support the extension of the rebate program. i wanted to start by giving you a little bit of background about the state of the film industry today. gone are the days when productions would shoot wherever the script was written for it. now productions but whoever they can find the best incentives. productions go wherever they can find the best incentives. this is because of videos and on demand services combined with the economy. it has affected their bottom line. so they cannot count on dvd cells or theater tickets as a steady source of revenue, and they re going to were the confine the largest rebate to make the best cost-effective decisions. productions are being taken away from california, and hence san francisco, by large incentives offered on the state level as well as internationally. states like new york, louisiana, new mexico, georgia, and illinois offer large incentives to productions that should there, with incentives as high
we take kids from san francisco school district to angel island for a daylong cams and hikes to the presidio. we have river rafting at the american river, sailing and pie act kayaking in the san francisco bay. we re partners with operation dreamed. all through the year, we have a project that is going on. for instance, during christmas season, we re with the forty- niners for a toy drive. this past year, we had 3000 children participate. during thanksgiving, we have a turkey giveaway. over 700 families benefited from this giveaway. recently, we had our easter egg hunt at garfield park. we re currently working on summer camp programs and field trips. recently, chief suhr had a basketball tournament. he partnered with the university of san francisco. there were 15 teams of boys and girls who participated. we provided lunch for all the kids, and we were treated by the university basketball players during lunch time. they did a three-point shooter out with the chief and several
dealing with the things we are talking about. i run an after-school program. i am rare. most families need summer for their kids to be. now they need somewhere that is safe. they need somewhere to continue to build the strength and they work so hard for during the school year, and they need interesting things that do not already get packed into and and and and and and new school year. they need a place the kids are they do not already get packed into in the school year. they need things that are fun. gooi really want to speak to all the partnerships of make it possible, community-based organizations. we need all of its. we can talk all day about the achievement gap, but it really comes down to what i hear parents say, which is where it will be safe? where is a good program? i can say there are a lot of good programs of support our kids, and we are very lucky for all of that. they are our future, and we need to be supporting all of our students so they have an opportunity to
that it was not your place to consider esthetics. i found a course case where the judge did determine that local governments are allowed to consider esthetics. it is not the health concern. i am not afraid of this technology. but i think about san francisco as a whole and our standard of living. it is not this. if this was happening outside your home, maybe things would be different. people are just starting to see these boxes. but there are a lot of them in the city. pick it back to a department that will make better decisions about how this kicked back to a department that will make better decisions about how this technology is used. i just wanted to consider those things, thank you. i will make one more comment. when the when i asked the department of public works to provide me with that letter that the department of health had a typo. the letter was dated in august. that was the only letter that they provided me. in the department of public works response, there was a
times. that is out of our control. we do not have any flexibility over that because pg an &e has a standard meter. regarding the aesthetics and the underground, that is a longer conversation. in general, you look at what is going on in the neighborhood. this neighborhood is not an underground area. there is equipment, when you are evaluating the impact, you look at the facility. planning has approved a much larger facilities than desperate we have much larger facilities throughout the country. planning has approved a much larger facility. we have much larger facilities to allow the country. sometimes it can be smaller, but for this technology, it needs to be in a box of this size. that is one of the more is one of the smaller ones out there. it is only 2 inches wider than it would be to be a tier one. president garcia: what is the meter that is 6 feet 8 inches off the ground metering? a that is pg &e s meter. that is their standard. it is me during the power. president