House of representatives clapping mrs. Van with the fester of the General Services administration clapping. the honorable mayor ed lee at the San Francisco. And from hk architects. clapping. and crystalclear barton artist with the cliff barton studio. Thank you all for joining us the General Services administrations is to deliver the best Technology Services to the government and American People. Critical parts are providing with that,s that preserve the integrity off our historic fats and incorporating the design features all have been integrated. Those of us who work here about work in a historically more than building. The m public works will homicide a place in his. At the history it dates back to 17952 when it was commissions to design is a new this. This Federal Building is within the center complex. After the earthquake of 18906 devastated many buildings it was transformed offering a promise of a now a fundamental humane city. This was designed by before a began in 1933 and was
Elect a president that would make energy a national imperative. It touched me because its the things we do at g s a everyday. Just like apple products convey their products this building is no exception it has solar and open rabble windows and it represents the history in this city. We use an integrated design approach in our project and we manage our building holistically. And indeed we help the workforce because their housed. And where else is the conversion of technology and art more prevalent than here per jobs was an volley ball for workplace and i believed that Successful Companies thrived oneself competition rather than waiting for someone to come up with products their world leadership was for the last 15 years. G s a is leading the transformation for the frig. We were the first agency to help simplify the procurement of the board rage of services and saving Million Dollars discolors for the taxpayer. Were rolling out a program to help with the collaborative workspace and g s a
And i and others in the Technology World in the city likewise our officers to save time and allowing them to use smart phones that are connected no to the system that our attorney general has. We also invested in the Community Ambassador program to get them trained. Those are residents of people that live in the tenderloin south of market in the bay view or vigilance valley theyre walking the streets they can be the additional eyes and areas working with our Police Department having phones that are freely provide bit at t and he greeting passengers on the muni stops weve had some trouble with. You looked at the data and theyve improved drastically so thank you to the ambassadors program. Overall our cities crime data is showing were in the right direction homicides are down over 35 percent and shootings down between 15 and 20 percent. We want to continue that direction as we get towards yearend the police chief and i are making sure this continues. And the shoppers mayor were going to
2013, so after that would have this 10 year prosecution thats the Planning Commissions intention to support this maybe theres been a lot of amendments maybe i have a misunderstanding. If it happened in 2005 the prosecution would run until 2015 maybe im wrong the City Attorney can clarify. Maybe we can talk to germany for a moment but i believe the proposal at the Planning Commission was background looking and after the Planning Commission meeting supervisor avalos proposed this language it was only intended to playing apply for evictions after 2013 because the particular Reason Department is looking at the language and reading it differently i want to make sure we get it right. So so thats evictions that happened after october 24th, 2013, and in 10 years. Right. So evictions before october 24th wouldnt trigger it a thats good to im glad well have a good two weeks continuance to get clarification on that. And where did the october 24th date come from thats the Planning Commission recomm
Legislation, the chiu herrera legislation, where is the city with that . I know that they were revising it. And i am not sure exactly when they intend to. Okay. And that is correct. It does not have the committee schedule, but it actually has not had it the full examination in a public hearing for public comment, but i think that people want to move it forward fairly soon. Okay, thank you. And at some point, i would like to discuss something which i actually saw in or on the materials last time, having to do with the executive directors power to dismiss complaints. And it is on the content calendar and one of us can pull it off if we want and it is nothing to do with your power to do that. It is just the options that are available because i saw one man and i am not going to go into it because it was on last week. And among the options, it talked about that you would exercise that power, if, for example, it was being investigated as a criminal matter, the District Attorney was looking i