And palestinian teachers demanding a pay rise refuse to back down despite leaving a Million Students out of school for a month. Now, despite turkey doubling its price the eu is reported to have made Good Progress with ankara in talks about curbing the flow of refugees into europe. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu surprised participants in brussels by demanding another 3. 3 billion from the eu which has already pledged that same amount about turkey also wants visa free travel for its citizens and accelerated eu membership talks. Lets get the latest now from jonah hull, hes following these talks in brussels. And just getting a line dropping about hungary saying it will veto plans to relocate Asylum Seekers directly from turkey. That shows how difficult it will be to get all these eu leaders to agree on a plan. Reporter yes, thats one of the issues, certainly, that will be providing them with difficulties as we go late into the night here in brussels. It is quite difficult to be hon
Estimated 30 million in additional funding to meet our annual operating needs. The citys population is growing, density is increasing, and that means that our parks are being used at an increasing rate. And we are actually adding new parks in order to meet that increased population growth and density. We acquired three new properties in calendar year 2013 and expect to add more parks over the next ten years. As we do so, well need additional gardening, could you have had , we have been able to generate 4. 7 million and . 8 million in each of next with years and leaves wuss approximately 2. 4 million to invest. Our ability to make these investments stems from growth and revenue, as well as ongoing growth in the open space fund. You will note that the general fund, which is the red line on the chart, in most years is higher than the fund and has led us to cultivate various earned Revenue Sources. This is a slide with an overview of our revenue budget in the current fiscal year. It shows
Because i probably create ed more problems than i solved in this matter to let the community weigh in on the best solution. The preponderant number of comments that we got and people that we talked to wanted to see ticketing and limited foodservice away from the tower itself. And so we looked we didnt look, but it was proposed to us, east and west. I appreciate all of the neighbors showing up. I think that is very informative for us to come to conclusion, but the genesis of the debate before us, it would have been easy to approve the temporary food cart and see it hauled in and out and the related problems connected to it, but at the request of the community we didnt do that. So with that, commissioner levitan. When an item come before us at the commission, its our job to be objective and not have an opinion going into that item. And so really weigh the publics concerns, the demands of the department, what is best for the city . So with this, i really kept a completely open mind, a bla
Temporary food cart and see it hauled in and out and the related problems connected to it, but at the request of the community we didnt do that. So with that, commissioner levitan. When an item come before us at the commission, its our job to be objective and not have an opinion going into that item. And so really weigh the publics concerns, the demands of the department, what is best for the city . So with this, i really kept a completely open mind, a blank slate of opinion, and i wont speak for my colleagues, but i know us on the Operations Committee did individually go up to look at the story boards. And you know, at operations we decided to move this forward to today with no recommendation because again we wanted the community to weighin and our entire commission to hear the weight of those opinions. And its very clear from today and a lot of other feedback i have gotten in previous week es how people feel and that is that the west side is preferred and keep hearing about the Publi
Lease and with the soon to be completed renovation project and the restoration project, the Department Anticipates receiving an average of 1. 3 million per year over the fiveyear term of this lease. Thats an increase of 5 63,000 per year, over 2. 2 mill over the fiveyear term,v with that, if there are any question the supervisors have . Supervisor avalos . The hearing we have coming up soon is [speaker not understood] is meeting rlb requirements, business local enterprise will be doing the concessionses in elevator for coit tower, is that correct, for the museum store in the elevator . My understanding of lb requirements those extend predominantly to contracts, not to leases. They are required to meet all of our requirements around nondiscrimination and the like for hiring. But as a lessee, those subcontracting goals do not apply under my understanding to leases. But the question is better directed toward the Contract Monitoring Division. Okay. How about answering in terms of the spiri